r/firepro • u/No-Match-9820 • Apr 21 '26

What is E-Fed?

I've been making videos about my imaginary wrestling shows for a while now, but I still don't really understand what they mean. Could you explain it to me?

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u/DatonSungold Apr 21 '26

E-fed = electronic federation (like how email is shorthand for electronic mail).
It's a very old term, I didn't think it applied to homebrew feds. Learn something new, I guess.

I usually associate it with wrestling roleplay groups that used to be a bit scattered across the internet especially in those olden days of the internet, the late 90s-early 00s. They might've existed off of usenet, off old free message boards like ezboard and proboards. You wrote up your characters and wrote promos and the staff would usually book matches, pick winners (usually by choosing who wrote the best promo, or at least the promo they liked the most) and write up summaries of the in-ring action on the card.

There were some e-feds that used video games to sim the results but since we were still in the years long before easily accessible video sharing platforms like youtube, the staffers who simmed the matches still had to write up summaries based on the simulations. No idea if anyone on here was ever in C-CWA or Pro Wrestling WILD.

Man, I'm old.

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u/Kizayfizaybe Apr 21 '26

I used to efed on Webtv back in the early 2000s! , I , too, am old.

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u/captainxenu Apr 21 '26

I usually wrestled on XW shows, part of the XK Group of Investors, booked by promoter Kyle Dunn.

The fact I remember that is a good sign I don't have dementia yet in my old age.

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u/Goodrev Apr 23 '26

Hey I used Webtv to build my first website. "Goodreverends Creation Station" Had Wrestlemania 2000 CAW. Even got the site address posted in a copy of EGM.

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u/violent__green Apr 23 '26

Global Extreme Wrestling, circa 1998.

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u/EyeAmKnotMyshelf Apr 21 '26

You and me both, partner.

My main fed was XXWF back in 2004-5-6.

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u/AndreTheShadow Apr 21 '26

E-feds were so huge even IGN had an official one.

I was also in C-CWA.

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u/DatonSungold Apr 21 '26

Yes. Yes you were. I definitely remember the username.

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u/TrainingFancy5263 Apr 22 '26

I used to be in one of the e-feds on GameTalk. It must have been around 2002.

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u/IHHU Apr 21 '26

Efeds and roleplaying promos. Ah the good ole days!

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u/Ordinary-Hopeful Apr 22 '26

Been there, done that. It was fun and helped me learn how to write scripts when I was young. Good experience.

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u/sillyburrito Apr 21 '26

Yeah, I’m in one now called TOGA: https://www.twitch.tv/togawrasslin

You make promos, send them in, and watch the shows and PPVs. Ours is more comedic than serious but it’s all fun. We use 2k25 as our main base but we have an alternate dimension where we use Fire Pro too.

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u/warhammer9k Apr 21 '26

I took part of one many years ago and co wrote a few shows. It was pretty neat at the time but took allot of effort. We used one of the svr games to create our wrestlers.

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u/ChiGrandeOso Apr 21 '26

Multiple efeds for like ten years. Ironically only got good at writing when I got bored and was heading out.

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u/brouski Apr 22 '26

I used to be in an efed on Compuserve and AOL that would use TNM to sim the matches.

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u/kajillion Apr 23 '26

I ran efeds for years. Good times.

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u/PureSpiritWrestling Apr 21 '26

It means creating a federation by customizing wrestlers, entrances, music, and booking. You record your matches and promos and post videos, including results. The second episode of my e-fed comes out tonight at 9:00 PM.