Dave Finlay


Finlay’s been around over 30 years in the ring and can still go pretty well,(Europe/WCW/WWE), is okay on the mic, and he’s great as a trainer.


1 time CWAS IC champ (The Euro version of WWE)
1 time WCW US Champ
1 time WWE US Champ

Mickie James

James is a fantastic in ring wrestler, very good talking, and is pretty good looking. I wanted a female who could work for a long time and she’s got 10 years already and probably will put in at least another 5. (And during my 3 year break from wrestling, the first RAW back was the start of Mickie's WWE career.)


• PWI ranked her # 1 of the best 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2009[89]`
• World Wrestling Entertainment
• WWE Women's Championship (4 times)[13]
• WWE Divas Championship (1 time)

Paul London & Brian Kendrick

Up to this point, my fed has mostly big meaty guys with HBK being the smallest guy by a pretty big margin. With this pick I’m taking some smaller high-energy guys to open up the show and get the crowd pumping with some WCW-cruiser style action. I think this adds some variety to my card and working smaller guys vs. big giants is a built in storyline on its own.

London and Kendrick are both pretty sick in-ring performers who can pull off pretty much every crazy move you can think of. They work great together as a tag-team and have an awesome set of double-team moves. The WWE was obviously trying to re-create The Rockers with them, right down to ripping off their theme music and it worked pretty well as they were quite over for awhile with their weird masks and flippy ring-entrance. One thing I liked about them was that they never had a really set finisher, it would usually just be some thing where they jumped off each others backs and hit a couple high-impact shots in a row to go into the pin. They held the tag-belts for almost an entire year a couple years back, and had a pretty awesome on-going feud with MNM before and during their reign.

As singles guys, they both have had pretty solid success in the indies, and moderate success in the E’. London was the cruiserweight champ for a while and Kendrick got a decent push a while back with his cocky-smarter than you gimmick. Dunno much about London on the mic, but from what I saw Kendrick did the lovable underdog pretty well in his Spanky gimmick and worked the heel role pretty good as well. Kendrick was trained by HBK, so maybe there’s an eventual teacher v. master thing we can work there. I feel like they both has at least decent solo power once we run the inevitable break-up angle.

For lengevity - they're both coming up around a decade of in-ring time right about now and are young enough that I figure I can just assume 20 yrs

Overall, I thought these guys were awesome running wild on SD for a couple years and it’s too bad they got broken up and booted for smiling at Vince before he got blown up and smoking weed.

Roster so far:
HBK
Rick Rude
DDP
Sid!!
Mike Awesome
THE ROCK ….Don Muraco
Ron Simmons
Paul London
Brian Kendrick