Thumb Wrestling Federation

Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF is a sports entertainment television series of live-action shorts on the Nicktoons Network and Kids' WB in the US and YTV in Canada and part of TMi on BBC Two and the CBBC channel in the United Kingdom. It is AbOUT two rival thumb wrestling teams in the fashion of professional wrestling with its colorful characters and over-the-top emotions and antics. The protagonists, the Dexteras, keep their rivals, the Sinistras, from winning the TWF title. The wrestling bouts are hosted by two commentators, Colonel Cossack (a former TWF wrestler) and [...] Thompson (who are also thumbs).

Fictional history

Before its current state, the TWF was an honorable federation that was led by its older "wise thumbs," with TWF legend Newt Knuckle as its president. Everything was "thumbs up" in the TWF until a rookie thumb wrestler named Pageboy Skull came in and demanded a top spot in the TWF without working his way there or showing respect to any of the elder wrestlers, such as Newt Knuckle, Colonel Cossack (who is now a commentator for TWF), and Phineas D. Finger.

President Newt Knuckle swiftly denied Pageboy Skull his request, causing Pageboy Skull to revolt against the TWF. Pageboy Skull, who later rechristened himself Senator Skull, led a revolt against the TWF and formed a group of renegades called the Evil Sinistras, whose plan is to take over the TWF and the world. In response, a group of honorable thumb wrestlers called the Mighty Dexteras formed to defend the TWF from the Sinistras.

As a result of the split, some of the elder thumbs, such as Newt Knuckle and Phineas D. Finger, disappeared while the other elder thumbs, such as Colonel Cossack, simply retired. Now, the Sinistras and the Dexteras do battle on a weekly basis as they compete for the TWF Championship.

Trivia

• It is based on large Professional Wrestling promotions such as the World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly World Wrestling Federation) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (formerly National Wrestling Alliance: TNA).
• According to the final minor match, Senator Skull has a flatulence problem and a mean dog.
• Billy Batboy has a bat friend named Leather Wing.
• In one episode, Colonel Cossack chose baseball over wrestling, but then stayed with wrestling, because in his opinion, baseball has too many lies ("Babe?! Not Baby?!').
• In another episode, Colonel Cossack proposes to [...] Thompson, but [...] turns him down because Cossack "wasn't [his] type."
• Whenever The Big Time performs his Time Bomb maneuver, Colonel Cossack exclaims "He's winding up!" then [...] Thompson corrects, "No, he's counting down!".
• James Flag's middle name is Montgomery.
• The referee has suffered a lot of abuse. He has been mysteriously bound and gagged, drenched in slime, and covered in spiderwebs, and a piano and an anvil have both been dropped on his head.
• The Sinistra wrestler B is a copied gimmick of the TWF Superstar Matt Hardy
• TWF was also the name of the Wrestling Federation founded by Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy and friends as kids, but their TWF stood for 'Trampoline Wrestling Federation'
• In one episode, Corbata used the Konami code.
• According to Senator Skull's biography on the TWF website, he was born in Boca Raton, Florida.
• Pinky has a crush on Wasabi and her poems.
• Senator Skull and N-Fuego both watch sappy soap operas, but get scared when Big Time is around.
• During the Royal Thumble (a pun on the WWE's Royal Rumble) a new character(And Dextera)was introduced, called Face-Of BilL. A IRISH Thumb who claims to know "Every move from E to Q". ("Zed? Who the heck is Zed?!")
• In the semi-finals of the first season, Evil Ira betrays the dexteras and joins the sinistras
• The Symbols for Dextera's and Sinistra's resemble the Autobot and Decepticon Symbols.
• Senator skull has 3 evil cronies: Cheeko Rojo, Laughing Looney, and Snagglefangs( New Season 1 WrAstler)

External links

• Official website - includes character profiles and show archive
• Fan website - TWF Fan Site includes message board, screen caps, video section, fan fiction, fan art, avatars, and more.