Credibility

This has been a post I've been trying to write for a while, but just haven't found the right words for it, hell I might fail this time, but at the very least I'm going to publish it. To be honest I just started writing this and am re-working it even now

I think wrestlers and the interactions they have are impacted greatly by the credibility of each wrestler. This is both true in real wrestling and in E-Fedding. At Wrestlemania nobody expected Randy Orton to beat Triple H without cheating, as he had not been shown to be capable of such a feat. The same could be said of Edge Vs Big Show Vs John Cena...As John Cena is made of pure Credibilium and couldn't be defeated fairly even if he fought some mutant made out of Austin/Rock/Hogan at their respective primes.

Now there are also matches that establish credibility...Such as HHH/Cena from Mania a couple years ago where going into the fight HHH acted as if he'd just crush Cena like a bug and take his title, and he ended up getting tapped out clean...This truly gave Cena huge credibility since he took out the posterboy of the league.

In E-Fedding, I feel like credibility should effect how a match is written and how it's Rp'ed for. The Rp change mostly effects faces, because heels are full of shit assholes, I am after all the guy who ran Doc Silver who was completely and totally devoid of any credibility.

So let's look at the next EPW card and try to run it through the Credometer and see what we get

LANYE WINTERS VS SHAWN HART

Both guys won their last matches and thusly come into this match with reasonable credibility. I think both guys could win clean, with Hart being more comic/unserious I'd think he'd be the one to go with more high level cheating if it came to it. Winters might grab the tights but I wouldn't think he'd do more then that.

Defining cheating Vs bad cheating is cheating is basically anything that if the ref saw it, he'd say 'knock that off' or wave off the fall, bad cheating is something the ref would call for a DQ if he saw it happening.


WINTERS CLEAN WINS/CHEATING /BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGE: 75%/25%/0%

HART CLEAN WINS/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGE: 70%/20%/10%

TAG SCRAMBLE MATCH

The Tag Scramble has a bunch of new teams and I have no idea what to say for credibility.

OMEGA VS FRANKIE SCOTT

Now is a stip match, with "Barb" being put on a pole and thusly will be used. So I have no real way to measure credibility. Both men are also coming off losses so this match will give the winner (Double so if they win in impressive fashion) some credibility.

CRIMSON CALLING VS ???

And I take a called 3rd strike and sit down as I can't review this match either...But I will guess that whoever wins this will win clean to estabish credibility.

CAMERON CRUISE (C) VS THE FIRST

Now this is a match with two guys who've got a bunch of credibility. First having come off his performance over Stevens where he had the World Champ beat, and Cruise with his clean win over Douglas that chased him from EPW. Either guy getting a clean win here could establish them as one of the most credible wrestlers in EPW. Of course First is amoral and Cruise is a heel with Anthology being around to back his play. But I'd still expect both to be likely to go for a clean finish

FIRST CLEAN WINS/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGE: 70%/20%/10%
CRUISE CLEAN WINS/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGE: 65%/20%/15%

ANARKY VS MARCUS WESTSCOTT

Another Stip match, and a match that'll most likely end with Craig Miles doing something to effect the outcome. The Credmeter is hurting

TACT/WELLS Vs FELIX RED/GOTHO

This is a clear credibility mismatch as Gotho has less then 0 cred, and Barry's Rp's reflect this. Gotho knows he's gonna get maimed here, he's the weak link. Wells and Tact don't need to cheat to win here. Barring a Felix superman session, he and Gotho will.

ANTHOLOGY CLEAN WINS/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING PERCENTAGE: 90%/10%/0%
FELIX/GOTHO CLEAN WINS/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING PERCENTAGE: 10%/20%/70%

"TRIPLE X" SEAN STEVENS (C) Vs ROCKO DAYMON VS JA

JA was coming off a string of losses but got a bunch of credibility back by beating Stevens into running from him on the last show. Rocko returns as a sort of ultra face who having been the champ that never lost the title has a bunch of credibility. Stevens is hurting, having his last two matches including spots where his opponent had him pinned with the ref down. I do enjoy Stevens Rp's as he cherry picks the results he needs to continue to act like he has credibility as any heel should, but unless this is the match where he suddenly gets a boost on the Credometer I'd expect him to cheat his way to retaining the big belt. I can see Rocko going overboard more then JA to get the final title winning fall, because he's come back with a more violent persona that seems to have a 'take no prisoners' feel to it. I can also see such a spot being a defining moment for him, when Rocko 'crosses the line' as it were.

JA CLEAN/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGES: 80%/15%/5%
ROCKO CLEAN/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGES: 70%/10%/20%
STEVENS CLEAN/CHEATING/BAD CHEATING WIN PERCENTAGES: 40%/30%/30%

This concludes what has been a horrible first run for the credometer. Once LVW gets a few more matches under it's belt (And people start Rp'ing!!!) I'll wave the credometer and those shows.