Chapter 11: First Ever Triple Threat Match
Rob waited anxiously at the Control Pit as the time for LWC’s weekly show came around.
Control Pit was the area from where the bookers and important members of LWC directed the live show and issued real-time orders according to the changing situation in the ring.
Say, if a wrestler was injured midway during the match, then there should be prompt decisions made as to how to progress from then on until the end of the allocated time.
Do they cut short and send forth someone else to occupy the time? Or do they ask the veterans coming out later to increase their match length? Or do they simply continue on if the end time was near?
These kinds of on-the-spot decisions were made in Control Pit. Once such decisions were made, proper directions will be issued to carry them out. Hence, being present in the Control Pit when the show was going on meant that the person was high up in power in a promotion.
Rob had never set foot in Control Pit in the past six months. He had always been backstage taking orders and being part of other workers. So, this was the first time he was in such a position.
Because he was the booker of the upcoming segment.
The pressure he faced right now was huge. He had only two days to prepare and direct this segment. If it had been a match, he wouldn’t be that worried. As most of the responsibility for the matches rested with the wrestlers performing inside the ring, his burden would be minimal.
But, the segment he had booked was a promo segment.
His mind went back to two days ago when he had met with the female wrestlers present in LWC for the first time as a booker. When it began, he knew that most of the assembled wrestlers were confused as to why he was given such power.
Anyone who knew the business will understand how unusual it was for Rob to be given such power. His young age and relatively low experience in the industry didn’t help much either. So, he had explained his intentions under the skeptical eyes of female wrestlers.
First and foremost, he had asked them to throw away all their ingrained ideas of how booking should be done. He had stressed that he will be making a lot of changes to how they will be presented and some of them might not like these changes.