Post by Goldash on Jun 3, 2011 18:18:01 GMT -5
(ORCHARD PARK, NY): URWL officials this morning at URWL H.Q. publicly unveiled an unconventional new regulation for URWL programming:championship belts will no longer be allowed on tour. This move comes in light of a few championship belts being mysteriously stolen from URWL wrestlers at house shows, including a theft of Jaime Emo's URWL Championship from a hotel room in Bakersfield, California.
"I don't understand what could drive someone to do this", a confused Jaime Emo proclaimed after the April incident. "That's the life of a public figure, I guess. Shit happens." Emo was later given a duplicate of the Platinum Belt, the most expensive in URWL history, for the following night's show in Irvine. Other URWL wrestlers who experienced similar acts of theft in the past few months included HighFlyer Champion Trent Tail, Womens' Champion Cecilia Rincón and Tag Team Champions the Great White North.
"This move, however strange or unconventional, gives the URWL a temporary reprieve from the constant reimbursement and replacement of our wrestling belts," stated URWL Chairman VinceNeil1981 in response to an interviewer's question. "These thefts have become a financial strain on the company and we're going to do what's best and leave them at our offices from now on."
A proposed "temporary belt replacement" contingency plan was up for negotiation at a recent Board of Directors meeting but was ultimately one vote shy of coming to fruition. "We would've switched to these 'replacements' full time," Vince commented, "but we found they resembled another promotion's designs and we threw the decision out."
This ruling, therefore, suspends all use of URWL championship belts on live URWL programming, yet their use on graphics, overlays or archived footage will be permitted. "We know this is a very unconventional move in today's era of professional wrestling, but it's something we have to do for the time being," Vince concluded. "We can't afford to pick up the costs of these belts any further."
"I don't understand what could drive someone to do this", a confused Jaime Emo proclaimed after the April incident. "That's the life of a public figure, I guess. Shit happens." Emo was later given a duplicate of the Platinum Belt, the most expensive in URWL history, for the following night's show in Irvine. Other URWL wrestlers who experienced similar acts of theft in the past few months included HighFlyer Champion Trent Tail, Womens' Champion Cecilia Rincón and Tag Team Champions the Great White North.
"This move, however strange or unconventional, gives the URWL a temporary reprieve from the constant reimbursement and replacement of our wrestling belts," stated URWL Chairman VinceNeil1981 in response to an interviewer's question. "These thefts have become a financial strain on the company and we're going to do what's best and leave them at our offices from now on."
A proposed "temporary belt replacement" contingency plan was up for negotiation at a recent Board of Directors meeting but was ultimately one vote shy of coming to fruition. "We would've switched to these 'replacements' full time," Vince commented, "but we found they resembled another promotion's designs and we threw the decision out."
This ruling, therefore, suspends all use of URWL championship belts on live URWL programming, yet their use on graphics, overlays or archived footage will be permitted. "We know this is a very unconventional move in today's era of professional wrestling, but it's something we have to do for the time being," Vince concluded. "We can't afford to pick up the costs of these belts any further."
