Fantasy Booking And How It Plays A Vital Role In Content Creation.

I’m not really a hardcore fantasy wrestling booking fan but I don’t mind witnessing it every once in a while. However, I could understand why people either enjoy reading fantasy booking articles or do it themselves because it’s a lot of fun and it fills up your creative juices that you never had before doing this. The question is, how did fantasy booking come about?

The answer is simply after the internet’s infancy. As the number of people having internet connections increased, so did the number of people participating in fantasy bookings (not a big increase but you get my point). Fantasy booking has been a great conversation starter in forums like Reddit.

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Now, how does it play a vital role in wrestling content creation? Take a look at WhatCulture Wrestling (by that I mean, go to their Youtube channel and just stare at it because why? *repeatedly slapping my head*, Here's why).

They got Adam Blampied (weird saying his name now after what happened to him) to record fantasy booking videos in spring of 2015 and combine that with his personality and you got a recipe of 100k to 1.1 Mil views on YouTube. That’s stupid numbers for fantasy booking.

Not one Youtube channel came CLOSE to those numbers other than one WrestleTalk video that made 109k views about how they should book Royal Rumble 2018. Obviously, those kinds of numbers have influence and ever since then, I’ve seen wrestling I watch on YouTube make that form of content.

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Wrestling Amino, an app specifically for pro wrestling talk, thrives on content like this.
The fans over there even book weekly episodic shows via blog posts and those posts get anywhere from 20 likes to even reaching the 100s, (at least the ones I've looked at) which is impressive for an app with 100k downloads on the Google play store.

WWE has embraced the fantasy element of fantasy booking by partnering up with Boom! Studios along with assembling writers and artists to create intriguing storylines in the printed page.

There's the WWE Then. Now. Forever series that focuses on storylines based on current WWE canon, the NXT series that tells the origins of the yellow brand and a special called "WWE: Forever" where it showcases some of WWE's legends.

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If there's one thing that WWE and comic books have in common is that their storylines, for the most part, are a convoluted mess so this pairing actually makes sense but I digress.

In conclusion, fantasy booking is great for the pro wrestling fandom but like some of the examples I brought up, they play a very big role in wrestling content creation and that’s healthy for fandom.

Originally, this was posted on BrainBusta Original Press but since that site is now gone from the interwebs, I not only reposted this article but as well as I decided to modify the article to make it more interesting so I hope you enjoyed this.

Follow me on Twitter @omartheplayaguy and follow this blog for honest pro wrestling opinions. Anyways, stay safe smarks

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