Week 68: skeleton wars 2 - (Twitch VOD)
The Story of the Bunny Championships :3 so far
The original Bunny Title :3 from LPFWA
OHPW’s Bunny Title >:3
The first Bunny Title was supposed to be a punishment by the Cosmic Bunnies for a slight offense against Bunnikind on part of Lotus Aura, funnily, because Lotus wanted t oget rid of the Pokeymanz Title because it gave him bad vibes. This is something that everyone who holds this title experiences eventually. The Bunny Title :3, however, turned out fine. The Bunnies soon forgot that it was supposed to make Lotus Fight and it became a fixture of LPFWA by being defended on every show as a kind of title for fighting champions. When Majestic Goat-Man and Link fought for the title in the Season 3 Finale Link, unintentionally or not, threw Goat-Man into the ropes with his throat first, breaking his neck in the process. Goat-Man finished and won that match.
The Cosmic Bunnies were impressed with Goat-Man’s performance and him winning not using any dirty tactics despite an injury sustained in the bout. So they blessed him with a new Bunny Title and if he only promised to officiate the matches of this new Bunny Title in a place outside of LPFWA they would repair his neck. He made the promise, his neck was healed. So he went to a fledging promotion that exists just outside of time to keep his promise. So we got quite a handful of fighters who earned and defended this new Bunny Title, intended as a blessing.
1st Champion: VACANT - 0 SDs - 0 Days
2nd Champion: Canada Alderman - 1 SD - 14 Days
3rd Champion: Mr. Shakedown - 4 SDs - 35 Days
4th Champion: Anna May - 1 SD - 21 Days
5th Champion: Maya Northwind - 0 SDs - 7 Days
6th Champion: Kayu Zakisaka - 0 SDs - 7 Days
7th Champion: Muscle Wizard - 1 SD - 14 Days
8th Champion: Manic Misanthrope - 2 SDs - 21 Days
9th Champion: Black - 2 SDs - 21 Days
10th Champion: Fomore - 1 SD - 14 Days
11th Champion: Guzma - 0 SDs - 7 Days
12th Champion: Roy - 4 SDs - 35 Days
13th Champion: Mr. Shakedown - 3 SDs - 28 Days
14th Champion: Hellranger Flamander - 3 SDs - 28 Days
15th Champion: Roy - 0 SDs - 7 Days
16th Champion: Palpatine - 6 SDs - 49 Days
17th Champion: Black - 7 SDs - 63 Days
18th Champion: Suzan Blades - 3 SDs - 28 Days
19th Champion: Nero Sin - 0 SDs - 7 Days (vacated title due to retirement)
20th Champion: VACANT - 7 SDs - 49 Days
21st Champion: Black - 4 SDs - 28 Days
An impressive lineage. But as it turns out, when the Cosmic Bunnies created this second Bunny Title :3 they accidentally created a Bunny Title >:3 because one of the bunnies slept poorly and was a bit grumpy. It was an accident, but one with consequences. So after That final Bunny Title defense Black had a gainst Mr. Shakedown… the Bunny Title >:3 transformed into the Pokeymanz Title that, ironically, was the reason the original Bunny Title :3 was created in the first place. Because a lot of the Pokeymanz Title’s history is more or less lost to time and only still available in my brain I’ll go over it real quick.
2013: The Pokeymanz is found in a trash can in the LPFWA arena by Referee Joe (before he became widely kown as that). No one knows how it got there. But at first they didn’t give it a name. The ref feels somehow obligated to make sure this title gets a champion and that that title gets defended. He finds two wrestlers backstage, one of which is Black, and makes them fight. Black emerges victorious and holds that title. For a while. Due to the fact that the title has to be defended against basically any challenger at any time people are calling this title the Pokeymanz Title. However, officially, at this point it’s known as Black’s Title due to black being the first and so far only champion. But Black gets some bad vibes from the Title. He choses to lose it on purpose by insisting on being booked in a gauntlet match. And fails to lose. Only in a second Gauntlet Match is he able to get rid of the title. And from here all kinds of different wrestlers held it. Somewhere down the road the title gets discarded by someone.
2024-2025: The Pokeymanz is found in a trash can in the LPFWA arena and a couple wrestlers fight over it Backstage. Dr. Rath wins it and defends it for a bit. It goes back and forth between quite a few wrestlers here, for a long time.
2027-2028: This is where Lotus commited a crime against Bunnikind by forcing Rara who’s very much in tune with her inner Bunny to pin him while she sleeps in an effort to get rid of the Pokeymanz Title that he held at the time. At this point the Title is still officially called Black’s Title, by the way, despite not being around for a long time. So it’s officially renamed to Pokeymanz Title. It’s around now that Konami Kouda discovers that the Pokeymanz Title is evil somehow. If she and her later ally Inspector Jane weren’t so bad about articulating themselves and didn’t come across as crazy people maybe someone would have believed them. Anyway, we don’t know what exactly happens if the Pokeymanz Title evolves again… yet.
The below is a post from my former Patreon which is no longer in use. I’ve appended it to the corresponding update post to preserve it.
Wow. It was a bit over a year ago that we had the first skeleton wars. And now we had a second one. And to think it was all born of the idea YerPalHal posted in our booking doc.
I understand that these two characters are skeletons, but what is a roll dem bones match? What are the stipulations here? Are there even specific rules? Does it just mean there’s skeletons? I DON’T KNOW! And it also doesn’t matter.
As you are able to see, the original idea was different from what ended up happening. Though, at the time the idea was written there IGgy hadn’t turned into a skeleton yet but was still using the broken IGgy persona. For those wondering: I thought turning him into a skeleton would be funny. That’s the entire reason. Now, with that addition, when the time came where we thought we should maybe go through with this idea there would be a modest three skeletons in the match. If you look at the PPV posters for skeleton wars and skeleton wars 2 you’ll see that these three are arranged in the exact same way on both of them. That’s because I just copypasted those three over…
I actually tweaked the designs of all three of those since the original skeleton wars, and I don’t just mean that with the advent of Parts craft we now got actual bone limbs. I generally made a lot of tweaks to a lot of designs over time. Neither I nor some of the people who helped me out had much of an idea of what we were doing. Overall the characters have a more unified look to them now despite still being some kinda weirdo freakshow.
What I want to point out about the poster of skeleton wars 2 is that the dril tweet that named it is still in the background, it’s just obscured by all the wrestlers. What isn’t as obscured is Sans’ dialogue from Undertale. Basically the only hint of him appearing that I ever gave.
But hey, that’s mainly some idle talk about fun facts. The next thing I’ll be talking about actually has an impact on how the show is booked.
The Pokeymanz Title! I posted a little history of the Bunny Titles in the threads so I won’t go too in depth here but basically the second Bunny Title (the one in OHPW) evolved into the Pokeymanz Title. The original Bunny Title was created as a contrast (and in kayfabe as a reaction to) the Pokeymanz Title, so I found it fitting to have it all come full circle here. Basically whe exchanged one title for the other. However, I didn’t do it just to shake things up.
Almost since the start the Bunny Title was defended on every show, and the VACANT Open Challenge also became a thing. There’s also the Jabroni royale. That means out of seven matches that we have on a regular show, three are already occupied by something. Now, for a while this was okay. But eventually I decided to add the Young Devils to matches, one a week, except PPVs until each of them had three matches to “learn from” (except Sexton, he’s special). Now that meant that for a while we only had 3 out of 7 matches to actually work with as we pleased, although that was only a very temporary circumstance with a clear end in sight I took this as a kind of wake-up call.
The Bunny Title is gone, and is replaced with a title defended whenever the champion happens to be booked. There might be more shenanigans but it’s basically a thing adding a layer of fun to whatever match we had lined up anyway. Furthermore, we got one extra match slot we can freely lose. ALSO: I never really announced this in any capacity, but the VACANT Open Challenge will no longer be a thing that happens every week, but once in a while. VACANT has had so many matches (60 to be exact. SIXTY… in 68 episodes!) that I think making them rarer will actually benefit the concept overall.
I’m not sure where this increase in freedom will take us overall, but I’m hoping for a better singles presence in the undercard in particular. Big main event matches are cool and all, but just throwing people together and seeing what happens is something that we haven’t really had a lot of since the early days of OHPW. And if this all turns out to be a mistake the Cosmic Bunnies can just make a third Bunny Title or we can find an excuse to get the one from LPFWA. We can also just bring back VACANT full time. See, it’s fool proof! But especially after the show has run for over a year I think some fresh wind will be welcomed by everyone who still watches it.
Whew, it’s been a while since I wrote one of these. But I kinda felt like it even though there currently are no partrons to read it. Sometimes it’s just nice to talk about something you’re passionate about with no one in particular. Maybe in a few years when I somehow become famous people will read this and think “Man, that IGgy fella sure used to be a lot less weird”