The Vivianverse

The Vivianverse the term for the shared continuity between the CAW feds WEDF, New-WWE, Jeri-MAX, NAW, RAWR, NESE, WCW, It's Walleh Time, New-TNA, World Wide Championship Wrestling, DCWL, TNE, Barely Regulated Aggressive Wrestling League and Rising Star Wrestling.

The concept has been such a success that it has inspired several knockoffs, such as CAW Wrestling Partnership, CAWverse, and CAW Revolution.

Explanation
The Vivianverse is a shared continuity between several leagues that are primarily run from the Something CAWful forums. The Vivianverse is unique in that events that take place in one league can affect events in the other Vivianverse leagues. Deaths, major physical appearance changes, and important stables/alliances (assuming both members are in another fed) are events that are carried over between feds, though some (like Shawn Dynasty's death in IWT) are not. Face/Heel turns, minor physical appearance changes, and gimmick changes are optional and can be ignored if a fed does not wish to carry them over.

Joining
The Vivianverse is fairly exclusive. Any Vivianverse fed owner is allowed to add feds to the Vivianverse; the only requirements are that you must be a member of the Something CAWful forum and you must have a competent method of recording (no camcorders). While any owner of a Vivianverse CAW fed can add feds to the Vivianverse, this privilege is only for feds that willingly joined; owners of feds such as TNE, WWCW, and DCWL that were inserted without permission are not allowed to add feds to the Vivianverse.

Furthermore, if an owner of an existing Vivianverse fed makes an additional fed, their additional fed will automatically be added into Vivianverse continuity.

History
The beginning of the Vivianverse occured with the working ties between the leagues of RAWR, NAW and New-WWE. The feds allowed the exchangement of talent between the leagues and appear on their shows. It should be noted that while the leagues were linked with each other, they did not have a talent exchange. This was along with Jeri-MAX's relationship to New-WWE, where events that happen in Jeri-MAX directly affect New-WWE; most notably would be Dylan Connell appearing bald in New-WWE following the shaving of his head in Jeri-MAX. Eventually in later Spring, the leagues would acknowledge the fact they were closing tied, and created the Vivianverse. The Vivianverse is named after a certain user (whom I really will not name) claimed that Burb (New-WWE owner's name) was call Vivian in real life (she's called Amy FYI).

When NAW was closed down on the 9th June 2010. The following day, OLW would join the Vivianverse due to OLW formerly being NAW South, making it the first non-original founder league to join. NESE would later become apart of the Vivianverse due to having a talent exchange with RAWR and OLW. On 23rd June 2010, WCW would become the first league to have no connections with any other league and join the Vivianverse.

NAW would once again become apart of the Vivianverse when its owner got new inspiration to make it again. On the same day, NESE would create the first developmental league called SDA, which would last till 14th March 2011. OLW would end going into a crisis mode, as its owner struggled with it creatively. As a result, the owner stopped making OLW and put it on hiatus, creating a developmental league HARDCORE RESSURECTION WRESTLING. By November 2010, the owner of these leagues closed both of them and planned on creating a new league called Zeo Japan Wrestling. However, this suffered from the same problems as OLW, and was closed before it could be considered a Vivianverse league. Around this time, RAWR would also end after an series of unfortunate events caused the owner to decided to move on from CAW. To make up for these losses, IWT would join Vivianverse, its connection to the verse was due to the death of El Jefe, along with the strong ties and working relationship of IWT with NESE and NAW.

In 2011, the Verse would contiune to strengthen itself when URW was allowed into the Vivianverse by Burb, despite not having much of connection with any other of the leagues. The biggest acquistion, however, would be WEDF, which joined in mid February 2011. It was already heavily linked to IWT prior to joining, and WEDF's owner was on good terms with all the other owners in the Vivianverse.

Controversy would be abound in the Vivianverse in late April, when NAW and WEDF were thrown out of the Verse after invloving themselves in a storyline with a league out side of the Vivianverse. This was mostly due to unpopularity of this league within the Vivianverse circles, and the fact that a Vivianverse Icon, Bret Michaels, was used it was deemed unacceptable behaviour. However, once it was apparent that this was a passing of torch style storyline, both NAW and WEDF were welcome back in the Verse. After this, on the April 30th, 2011, New-TNA was allowed to join the Vivianverse. It had several connections to the Vivianverse, primarily through working relationships with WEDF. Other connections include the use of featured Vivianverse talents such as Steven Spriter, The Suspect, and Oshujax.

On July 29th, 2011, DCWL and WWCW were made the first feds to be officially added into the Vivianverse without the consent of their owners. Both leagues were added due to their notorious poor quality, and are mostly considered jokes. DCWL was a league known for ripping off the more successful leagues like New-WWE and Jeri-MAX, whilst WWCW was a terrible camcorder league with no real storylines. CAWllision was also added as the first series of CPV events to be part of the Vivianverse canon. WWCW was also the first posthumous addition to the 'verse.

The second posthumous addition to the Vivianverse, TNE, was added as a direct result of its World Heavyweight Championship being adopted by NESE as their Women's championship.

Following the closer of URW in late January Barely Regulated Aggressive Wrestling League was added in to replace it. Another league in the Vivianverse, WCW, whom had been one of the first leagues to join the Verse in its original expansion, would also close its operations down in February. However, 6 days later, WCW would open its doors once more.

On March 11th, 2012, Rising Star Wrestling and its developmental territory, Developing Futures Wrestling were added to the Vivianverse following an agreement between Burb and Brent Harvanator.

Leagues that have been in Vivianverse Contiunity

 * New-WWE (Inception - Current)
 * RAWR (Inception - March 17th 2011)
 * NAW (Inception - June 9th 2010, July 20th 2010 - April 28th 2011, April 29th 2011 - Current)
 * Jeri-MAX (Inception - Current)
 * JJPW (Inception - Current)
 * OLW (June 10th 2010 - November 2010)
 * NESE (June 10th 2010 - Current)
 * WCW (June 23rd 2010 - February 10th 2012, February 16th 2012 - Current)
 * SDA (July 20th 2010 - 14th March 2011, September 14th 2011 - Current)
 * HRW (October 10th 2010 - November 2010)
 * DCO (October 31st 2010 - Current)
 * IWT (October 23rd 2010 - Current)
 * URW (January 17th 2011 - January 28th, 2012)
 * WEDF (February 13th 2011- April 28th 2011, April 29th 2011 - Current)
 * New-TNA (April 30th 2011 - Current)
 * DJW (June 22nd, 2011 - Current)
 * CAWllision (June 29th, 2011 - Current)
 * DCWL (June 29th, 2011 - Current)
 * WWCW (June 29th, 2011, Posthumous)
 * WFC (October 22nd, 2011 - November 25th, 2011)
 * TNE (January 3rd, 2012, Posthumous)
 * WCDW (January 3rd, 2012, Posthumous)
 * B.R.A.W.L. (January 29th, 2012 - Present)
 * Rising Star Wrestling (March 11th, 2012 - Present)
 * Developing Futures Wrestling (March 11th, 2012 - Present)

Examples of Carried over storylines and events

 * Perhaps the first and most infamous of them all would be, as noted above, Dylan Connell being bald in both New-WWE and Jeri-MAX following his loss to Brutus Beefcake in a "Loser gets their head shaved" match.
 * Eric Young is officially deceased in the Vivianverse following his loss to Daniel Baader at NAW South Timeless Turmoil.
 * El Jefe's death at Jeri-MAX JeriMania was acknowledged by New-WWE and IWT, who both had Jefe signed to their rosters at the time it happened. He eventually returned to New-WWE following his resurrection, slowly followed by an IWT return at a stream.
 * Bret Michaels was on the shelf in both New-WWE and NAW North following his real life brain hemorrhage.
 * Following their teaming in RAWR, Mr. Amazing and Damar began to team in New-WWE as well.
 * Several NAW feuds have been carried over to New-WWE and vice-versa; most notably would be Larry It vs The Crippler, TRS vs Link, and Javori Smart vs Caylen Rogers.
 * Following the event that happened in the RAWR world, DAMAR was out of action for an uncertain amount of time (in RAWR & New-WWE) due to the fact he lost his right arm and right side of his face. He lost them after an explosion caused by faulty bubblegum purchased from Johnny Torrio(ICWO). Damar returned as a cyborg by the name of DamaRJ in both feds.
 * New-WWE, NAW, Jeri-MAX, and RAWR have all had a different promotions superstar as one of their Champions at one point. Examples would be The Crippler (from NAW) being New-WWE ECW Champion and Jeri-MAX World Champion, Damar and Mr Amazing (from New-WWE) being RAWR Tag Team Champions, and TRS (from New-WWE) being the "ACWL" World Heavyweight Champion.
 * The NESE stable Shetty's Horde has been partially carried over to New-WWE and mentioned on WCW.
 * OLW Money In the Bank winner Lance Storm cashed in on NESE World Champion Spoony One.
 * Jason Hawkinz appeared slightly more tanned in his debut in IWT. His appearance from then on has stayed constant with this new tan and has been dubbed Black Jason Hawkinz.
 * Eddie Domainian & Spoony have both been killed by Ricky Ho. Both have since come back to life.
 * After the above happened, Eddie Domainian soon came back to life as a cyborg known as CYBERDOMAINIAN, and competed in several Vivianverse feds and events with that gimmick (specifically IWT and events in the CAWllision series). He was later killed again by The Suspect, and was reborn minutes later as a merman demi-god, Aquadomainian.

Examples of events ignored in some sections of the Vivianverse

 * Shawn Dynasty, who was executed by CYBERDOMAINIAN on an IWT stream, is an active competitor in NAW.
 * This event has also somewhat been written of contunity in IWT, as Shawn Dynasty has reappeared in IWT as "Black Shawn Dynasty".
 * Chris Jericho being Jericho of 2005 in NESE originally compared to the rest of the Vivianverse, which used current day Jericho. This was later corrected when Jericho was moved to NESE East.
 * The Scott Steiner between WCW and NESE. Steiner in WCW is more like the real life Scott Steiner, whilst the NESE Steiner is more like meme-style Steiner, while doing 450s and none-stop suplexes. Steiner in New-TNA is more in between these two characterisations.

Notes & Trivia

 * The name is derived from "Vivian", a false name that Burb was called in a PM from a certain CAW fed owner.
 * Evan O'Shea is the most prominent original CAW in the Vivianverse, signed to; IWT, NAW, NESE, New-TNA, New-WWE, RSW, WEDF, & WCW.
 * Vince Russo is the most prominent authority figure in the Vivianverse. He is the current chairman of New-WWE, and the interim commisioner of WCW.
 * Only two Vivianverse leagues have been UMAD'ed (New Legacy Inc), WCW and DCWL. Both leagues were victims of UMAD before they joined the Vivianverse. It should also be note that DCWL is not considered one of the main promotions of the Vivianverse.

World Champions (and accomplishments) of The Vivianverse
See Also:
 * Vivianverse Hall of Fame
 * List of Vivianverse World Champions
 * List of Vivianverse Midcard Champions
 * List of Vivianverse Women Champions
 * List of Vivianverse Sub-Heavyweight Champions
 * List of Vivianverse World Tag Team Champions
 * The Vivianverse Top 50