Post by Donnie on Apr 10, 2021 1:11:07 GMT
Conception and Original History Release
Legendary wrestler and business man Tony Field made a name for himself being ruthless both in the ring and in the office. Tony has accomplished much in the wrestling world, but one thing he's always wanted was something of his own creation to put that permanent mark on the wrestling world.
He first tried to do that with Tremor, but the rights to Tremor were lost to his ex-wife Anne Chantraine, in the divorce. Anne shortly closed shop, opting to sell all rights back to the original owner, Christian Keaton. Tony Field was left with nothing of Tremor outside of the state of the art arena, The Grounds, that he built in St. Louis to house the weekly show.
Shortly after the closing of Tremor, Field made his return to PWA. Not long after his return PWA closed due to reasons unknown to the public at this time. Field issued a press release to all PWA wrestlers within hours of the closing of PWA, stating that he would negotiate a contract with any out of work PWA wrestler that desired a slot in Redemption.
The business model Field used for Tremor proved highly successful so he's repeated it again for Redemption.
Redemption is based out of St. Louis, Missouri, the hometown of Tony Field and the hometown of the old Wrestling at the Chase, that featured guys like Ric Flair, King Kong Bundy, and Harley Race.
Field, not wanting to have to share revenues with venues across the nation and pay rental prices, built a multi-million dollar arena he calls "The Grounds". It's a 19,000 seat state of the art arena that originally hosted all Redemption shows, charging top dollar, nearly triple the typical price for a standard event at a larger "rented arena", thus generating more revenue than larger federations while going cheaper on rental and travelling expenses. Though six months or so into their conception, Redemption began travelling for approximately one show per month.
The goal of Redemption was not to be a small federation. Pumping more money into it than most federations world wide and generating high revenues, rather viewed themselves as an exclusive federation, like that fine restaurant you just can't get a reservation for but you are dying to. Rather than loading up massive rosters, Redemption signed only the elite performers for top dollar, focusing on star power more than girth of roster.
Television wise, Redemption and Tony Field turned down several television offers from major cable channels and even a major network, choosing to maintain all the revenues for Redemption and to present an uncensored product at the same time. Redemption has a weekly show entitled Salvation, which airs exclusively on www.redemptionwrestling.net for paid site members only and was streamable on media devies, charging a monthly subscription of 19.95 a month and charging top dollar for advertising placement.
Not being delusional about gaining new audience however, once every six weeks Redemption will had a free televised show on HBO, commercial free, entitled Unfiltered. Unfiltered was pushed as if it were Pay Per View style card. Redemption will also initially planned to air 3 Pay Per Views a year at 59.95 for standard and 69.99 for the HD airing (New Beginnings, Road to Glory, and Apex), located at major arenas across the world.
Through Field Enterprises, Redemption also put out their own DVDs and music, thus eliminating all third parties, and with the rights also owned to Tradition/TWC and uW/UWA, Redemption was and is the sole provider of their former library.
So it was under this structure that Redemption opened in April of 2012.
First Era
When Redemption initially opened Tony Field had gathered what he viewed as an elite roster of people who he had worked with all around the world throughout his career. Many of these names included: Thomas McGibbons, Samantha Van Ravyn, Ashton Crowley, among many others. Redemption found success out the gate with Tony Field providing the ownership and his former mentor, Derek Daughtery, as the commissioner running Redemption's weekly shows. This relationship proved to a volatile one, however, as Field began to try to push his closest allies over the course of his career to the top of the card, awarding them championships, while Derek wanted to create more fair play. This disagreement in philosophies lead the resignation of Derek Daughtery as commissioner as he chose to instead, climb back into the ring.
This opened the door for a new commissioner, and after many interviews with many prominent wrestling minds, it was ultimately backstage interviewer Teresa LaChance who was chosen as commissioner. It was also around this time that Tony Field had married his lifelong love, Rochelle Robinson, and gave her half of the company and Tony began to phase himself out following the conclusion of his ten year feud with Chase Martelle, with Chase Martelle, Samantha Van Ravyn, and Derek Daughtery as the three "faces" of the company.
New Era
Under Rochelle Robinson, Redemption began to take on a new business model. She helped her husband broker a deal to purchase the rights to Tremor and then began to make changes to the product as a whole. While most shows were still held within the friendly confines of The Grounds, Redemption began to travel around the world more often and became more of a touring brand. They also signed a contract with HBO Sports and begain airing their weekly shows on HBO while airing nine regular Pay Per View's a month.
Together with Teresa LaChance, Rochelle Robinson also started to make changes within the roster. With Derek Daughtery and Samantha Van Ravyn nearing retirement, and much of the old guard signing part time contracts to make appearances, Rochelle and Teresa began signing a new crop of young and unproven stars that she felt had star potential; names such as her stepson, Noah Field, Amber Tate, Eva Broussard, Gwen Massey, and Jeff Wylde (just to name a few), while attempting to build the company around the daughter of Derek Daughtery; Bree van Der Lew. But then after a backstage falling out with Bree that led to her immediate release from the company, Redemption gave surging midcard talent, Mike "Ram" Ramsey a chance and star was born as Ram not only became the face of the company, but perhaps the most important and accomplished star in Redemption's history.
Then, in October of 2014, Redemption closed it's doors. No one knew why, though it was rumored to have been due to tax issue by the Robinson-Fields. It was later disclosed that after the death of Shawn St. James in the ring at the hands of Tony Field, the Field's had lost their license to promote sporting events.
The Derek Daughtery Era
After a five month hiatus, the Rochelle Robinson and Tony Field found a work around in the form of Derek Daughtery. Tony sold his half of the company to his one time mentor, who was able to obtain the much needed license and Redemption reopened with Rochelle Robinson as the silent partner behind the scenes and Derek Daughtery running the everyday operations. It was under Derek Daughtery that a third set of superstars came into Redemption and began to change the landscape, many of which had trained with legendary wrestler and others who were indy darlings. Names such as; Scarlett and Johnny Payne, Destiny Starr, Chris King, Aiden Cross, Conor Crowley, and Max Ramsey just to name a few.
Not long into the run two major things changed the landscape of the company. The first was the return to Rochelle Robinson to daily operations, after months and months of litigation to gain back her license to promote, thus creating a war amongst the front office with Rochelle Robinson and her future daughter in-law Morgan Kennedy on one side, and Derek Daughtery and his niece, commissioner Teresa LaChance on the other side. The other thing that changed the landscape of the company was the announcement that Mike Ramsey was semi-retiring from the ring, leaving a whole for the new face of the company that many were clamoring to claim. It wasn't long before three names emerged from the pack to lead this new charge for Redemption; former Derek Daughtery student Scarlett Payne, Mike Ramsey's younger brother Max Ramsey, and the son of Tony Field himself Noah Field.
Redemption seemed to be running in the right direction but then the behind the scenes of the front office began to get political. Rochelle Robinson and Tony Field wanted to phase out Derek Daughtery to regain full control of their company, and thus quit providing the funds. The high operating costs of Redemption began to take a toll on Daughtery. When he was to the point he could no longer cash the checks of Redemption, Field offered to buy him out a profit, but Derek refused and instead opted to close down Redemption rather than to let the corruption of another Field reign begin again.
Redux
A half a year after the closing of Redemption, the Field's began selling off parts of the property of Redemption piece by piece, projecting that the federation would never return and instead opting to cash out while the memory was still fresh and prices were at a premium. Unable to provide the funds herself, long time commissioner Teresa LaChance, with the aid of her husband Mike Ramsey, began to seek out investors to raise the funds. Eventually she raised the funds, making her investors a board of directors and herself the COO, giving the board of directors a vote in the business operations while the COO is in full control over the wrestling operations with only limited oversight from the board.
Teresa would dub this new era in Redemption, Redemption: Redux. The grounds was converted into a training center and headquarters for Redemption while the brand would take the road on a regular basis. Another big change that was brought about was a second division so as to be able to expand the rosters, with one division being the World Division, signifying the old guard of Redemption, while also providing a new division on equal footing entitled Redemption Division. The big difference in the two divisions is the World Division will work more off of on the fly booking and will be more liberal with title shots, giving shots to those who the front office feels is most deserving while working a slightly lighter schedule (OOC: angle based) while the Redemption Division will work more from structured booking, allowing wrestlers more time to prepare for their opponents and creating more of concrete system were title shots and contenders matches are given based off of formal rankings (OOC: RP Based). To run the two divisions, Zakk Bryce (World) and Art Gable (Redemption).
And thus the Redux era has begun. The Redux era was short lived, but also put out perhaps the best content in the history of Redemption. When money issues hit a silent investor helped out, eventually turning out to be Tony Field, who killed Redemption and took the champions elsewhere.
Travelling Era and 3xW
Coming soon
Payne Project
Coming soon
Redemption: Final Stand
Legendary wrestler and business man Tony Field made a name for himself being ruthless both in the ring and in the office. Tony has accomplished much in the wrestling world, but one thing he's always wanted was something of his own creation to put that permanent mark on the wrestling world.
He first tried to do that with Tremor, but the rights to Tremor were lost to his ex-wife Anne Chantraine, in the divorce. Anne shortly closed shop, opting to sell all rights back to the original owner, Christian Keaton. Tony Field was left with nothing of Tremor outside of the state of the art arena, The Grounds, that he built in St. Louis to house the weekly show.
Shortly after the closing of Tremor, Field made his return to PWA. Not long after his return PWA closed due to reasons unknown to the public at this time. Field issued a press release to all PWA wrestlers within hours of the closing of PWA, stating that he would negotiate a contract with any out of work PWA wrestler that desired a slot in Redemption.
The business model Field used for Tremor proved highly successful so he's repeated it again for Redemption.
Redemption is based out of St. Louis, Missouri, the hometown of Tony Field and the hometown of the old Wrestling at the Chase, that featured guys like Ric Flair, King Kong Bundy, and Harley Race.
Field, not wanting to have to share revenues with venues across the nation and pay rental prices, built a multi-million dollar arena he calls "The Grounds". It's a 19,000 seat state of the art arena that originally hosted all Redemption shows, charging top dollar, nearly triple the typical price for a standard event at a larger "rented arena", thus generating more revenue than larger federations while going cheaper on rental and travelling expenses. Though six months or so into their conception, Redemption began travelling for approximately one show per month.
The goal of Redemption was not to be a small federation. Pumping more money into it than most federations world wide and generating high revenues, rather viewed themselves as an exclusive federation, like that fine restaurant you just can't get a reservation for but you are dying to. Rather than loading up massive rosters, Redemption signed only the elite performers for top dollar, focusing on star power more than girth of roster.
Television wise, Redemption and Tony Field turned down several television offers from major cable channels and even a major network, choosing to maintain all the revenues for Redemption and to present an uncensored product at the same time. Redemption has a weekly show entitled Salvation, which airs exclusively on www.redemptionwrestling.net for paid site members only and was streamable on media devies, charging a monthly subscription of 19.95 a month and charging top dollar for advertising placement.
Not being delusional about gaining new audience however, once every six weeks Redemption will had a free televised show on HBO, commercial free, entitled Unfiltered. Unfiltered was pushed as if it were Pay Per View style card. Redemption will also initially planned to air 3 Pay Per Views a year at 59.95 for standard and 69.99 for the HD airing (New Beginnings, Road to Glory, and Apex), located at major arenas across the world.
Through Field Enterprises, Redemption also put out their own DVDs and music, thus eliminating all third parties, and with the rights also owned to Tradition/TWC and uW/UWA, Redemption was and is the sole provider of their former library.
So it was under this structure that Redemption opened in April of 2012.
First Era
When Redemption initially opened Tony Field had gathered what he viewed as an elite roster of people who he had worked with all around the world throughout his career. Many of these names included: Thomas McGibbons, Samantha Van Ravyn, Ashton Crowley, among many others. Redemption found success out the gate with Tony Field providing the ownership and his former mentor, Derek Daughtery, as the commissioner running Redemption's weekly shows. This relationship proved to a volatile one, however, as Field began to try to push his closest allies over the course of his career to the top of the card, awarding them championships, while Derek wanted to create more fair play. This disagreement in philosophies lead the resignation of Derek Daughtery as commissioner as he chose to instead, climb back into the ring.
This opened the door for a new commissioner, and after many interviews with many prominent wrestling minds, it was ultimately backstage interviewer Teresa LaChance who was chosen as commissioner. It was also around this time that Tony Field had married his lifelong love, Rochelle Robinson, and gave her half of the company and Tony began to phase himself out following the conclusion of his ten year feud with Chase Martelle, with Chase Martelle, Samantha Van Ravyn, and Derek Daughtery as the three "faces" of the company.
New Era
Under Rochelle Robinson, Redemption began to take on a new business model. She helped her husband broker a deal to purchase the rights to Tremor and then began to make changes to the product as a whole. While most shows were still held within the friendly confines of The Grounds, Redemption began to travel around the world more often and became more of a touring brand. They also signed a contract with HBO Sports and begain airing their weekly shows on HBO while airing nine regular Pay Per View's a month.
Together with Teresa LaChance, Rochelle Robinson also started to make changes within the roster. With Derek Daughtery and Samantha Van Ravyn nearing retirement, and much of the old guard signing part time contracts to make appearances, Rochelle and Teresa began signing a new crop of young and unproven stars that she felt had star potential; names such as her stepson, Noah Field, Amber Tate, Eva Broussard, Gwen Massey, and Jeff Wylde (just to name a few), while attempting to build the company around the daughter of Derek Daughtery; Bree van Der Lew. But then after a backstage falling out with Bree that led to her immediate release from the company, Redemption gave surging midcard talent, Mike "Ram" Ramsey a chance and star was born as Ram not only became the face of the company, but perhaps the most important and accomplished star in Redemption's history.
Then, in October of 2014, Redemption closed it's doors. No one knew why, though it was rumored to have been due to tax issue by the Robinson-Fields. It was later disclosed that after the death of Shawn St. James in the ring at the hands of Tony Field, the Field's had lost their license to promote sporting events.
The Derek Daughtery Era
After a five month hiatus, the Rochelle Robinson and Tony Field found a work around in the form of Derek Daughtery. Tony sold his half of the company to his one time mentor, who was able to obtain the much needed license and Redemption reopened with Rochelle Robinson as the silent partner behind the scenes and Derek Daughtery running the everyday operations. It was under Derek Daughtery that a third set of superstars came into Redemption and began to change the landscape, many of which had trained with legendary wrestler and others who were indy darlings. Names such as; Scarlett and Johnny Payne, Destiny Starr, Chris King, Aiden Cross, Conor Crowley, and Max Ramsey just to name a few.
Not long into the run two major things changed the landscape of the company. The first was the return to Rochelle Robinson to daily operations, after months and months of litigation to gain back her license to promote, thus creating a war amongst the front office with Rochelle Robinson and her future daughter in-law Morgan Kennedy on one side, and Derek Daughtery and his niece, commissioner Teresa LaChance on the other side. The other thing that changed the landscape of the company was the announcement that Mike Ramsey was semi-retiring from the ring, leaving a whole for the new face of the company that many were clamoring to claim. It wasn't long before three names emerged from the pack to lead this new charge for Redemption; former Derek Daughtery student Scarlett Payne, Mike Ramsey's younger brother Max Ramsey, and the son of Tony Field himself Noah Field.
Redemption seemed to be running in the right direction but then the behind the scenes of the front office began to get political. Rochelle Robinson and Tony Field wanted to phase out Derek Daughtery to regain full control of their company, and thus quit providing the funds. The high operating costs of Redemption began to take a toll on Daughtery. When he was to the point he could no longer cash the checks of Redemption, Field offered to buy him out a profit, but Derek refused and instead opted to close down Redemption rather than to let the corruption of another Field reign begin again.
Redux
A half a year after the closing of Redemption, the Field's began selling off parts of the property of Redemption piece by piece, projecting that the federation would never return and instead opting to cash out while the memory was still fresh and prices were at a premium. Unable to provide the funds herself, long time commissioner Teresa LaChance, with the aid of her husband Mike Ramsey, began to seek out investors to raise the funds. Eventually she raised the funds, making her investors a board of directors and herself the COO, giving the board of directors a vote in the business operations while the COO is in full control over the wrestling operations with only limited oversight from the board.
Teresa would dub this new era in Redemption, Redemption: Redux. The grounds was converted into a training center and headquarters for Redemption while the brand would take the road on a regular basis. Another big change that was brought about was a second division so as to be able to expand the rosters, with one division being the World Division, signifying the old guard of Redemption, while also providing a new division on equal footing entitled Redemption Division. The big difference in the two divisions is the World Division will work more off of on the fly booking and will be more liberal with title shots, giving shots to those who the front office feels is most deserving while working a slightly lighter schedule (OOC: angle based) while the Redemption Division will work more from structured booking, allowing wrestlers more time to prepare for their opponents and creating more of concrete system were title shots and contenders matches are given based off of formal rankings (OOC: RP Based). To run the two divisions, Zakk Bryce (World) and Art Gable (Redemption).
And thus the Redux era has begun. The Redux era was short lived, but also put out perhaps the best content in the history of Redemption. When money issues hit a silent investor helped out, eventually turning out to be Tony Field, who killed Redemption and took the champions elsewhere.
Travelling Era and 3xW
Coming soon
Payne Project
Coming soon
Redemption: Final Stand