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I'm excited to hear what the OP's concept is for the game! I had a ton of fun in the MNW thread back in the day and was sad when the Summer Of Punk thread died before its time.
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Hiram posted:Yes! I actually found a great database that is updated up to June 2019 with over 5,000 workers and from what I've seen so far it looks to be about 50 really fleshed out companies. June 2019, eh... ____ WWE is only a couple of months removed from the success of Wrestlemania 35, where Kofimania Ran Wild, Seth Rollins became The Beastslayer, and Becky Twobelts was crowned through her slightly-botched main event victory over Charlotte Flair AND Ronda Rousey. Since that event they have struggled to capitalize on their momentum - Lacey Evan's push is dying on the vine as they try to make her seem like a threat to Becky, Becky has already lost her second belt to Charlotte who then lost it to Bayley, Baron Corbin's feud with Seth Rollins is a ratings disaster despite the efforts to push Seth and Becky together as Wrestling's ultimate Power Couple, and Kevin Owen's feud with Kofi is derailed by a great big elephant in the room: the upcoming Super Showdown event in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Talent are bitterly divided on wanting to participate in this event after the murder of US Journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents. John Cena and Daniel Bryan refuse to be involved, WWE management pitches the country's first ever women's match and is shot down (a very bad look so soon after their loud self-congratulations on letting women main event Wrestlemania), Aliester Black is denied the chance to participate because of the religious symbolism of his tattoo's, Sami Zayn refuses to be involved because during a prior show he was banned by the Saudi government due to his Syrian heritage, and Kevin Owens refuses in solidarity with his friend, demanding a rapid rewrite of the WWE title feud. The entire card is put into dramatic flux because of this event when it was hardly stable beforehand, and on top of all this the main event match of Goldberg vs The Undertaker would be a disaster in which both men's lives seemed to be at serious risk during certain moves to their ages and physical condition. This event would later be voted Worst Wrestling Event of 2019, and its sudden rewrites and general bad buzz would reverberate into the incredibly milquetoast Stomping Grounds PPV a few weeks later, leaving this to be one of WWE's worst months of content in many years. If some kind of disaster WERE to strike the company, there would never be a worse time than right now... ___ While WWE is coming apart at the seams, its developmental brand NXT is reaching an in-ring zenith, but there are worrying signs on the fringes. While the final climax of the lengthy DIY Breakup Storyline was sadly curtailed by Tomasso Ciampa's need for neck surgery, the substitute feud of NXT Champion Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole is running red hot on the sheer level of in-ring talent. Their first match was rated 5.5 out of 5 Stars by Dave Meltzer, and this month they'll meet again at NXT Takeover XXV, coming up only slightly short of their previous performance's quality. But below the Main Event level, the brand is struggling. North American Champion Velveteen Dream feels directionless despite his fan-favorite status and a feud with returning fan-favorite Tyler Breeze. The Tag Division is in turmoil because of the sudden main roster callup of Tag Champs the War Raiders (now know as The Viking Experience ![]() ___ While Titan Towers foundations and support beams rot before our eyes, US wrestling history is truly being made OUTSIDE of WWE for the first time since the Monday Night Wars: All Elite Wrestling is just over one week removed from their first ever Pay Per View event, Double or Nothing in Las Vegas Nevada, and it was not only a success, but one which destroyed even the most optimistic industry expectations. Ticket demand outstripped all but a handful of live events of ANY kind in RECORDED BOX OFFICE HISTORY. It garnered the highest PPV buyrate in wrestling history outside of WWE since the Monday Night Wars ended. It received universal Critical Praise from top to bottom, being compared to legendary events like WCW/AAA Worlds Collide or ECW Heatwave '98. Cody Rhodes and Tony Khan have fired the first shot of a new Wrestling War, and now the hype is building for the launch of their weekly TV series, AEW Dynamite on TNT, coming in October. With the crowning of GOAT candidate Chris Jericho as their inaugural champion, the surprise reveal of World's Hottest Free Agent Jon Moxley during the event's finale, and the presence of some of the best talent the current generation has to offer from Kenny Omega to the Lucha Brothers in their locker room, the only question now is if they can keep their company hot for five long months until their TV debut. ___ AEW may be soaring, but not everyone can take joy in it, most especially the beleaguered Ring of Honor. Their refusal to be officially involved in Cody Rhode's original "All In," event followed by its subsequent success and the exodus of many top talents to the nascent AEW has made their management look like ignorant fools. This black eye to the company's reputation would only be compounded two months ago, at what should have been their greatest triumph, and the dawn of a new age for ROH: G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden. It was the first wrestling show since the founding of the WWWF to be held there without a McMahon in charge, and it would prove to be an embarrassment. Every ROH angle and match was derided by the live audience and critically panned by the larger industry, squandering the biggest stage the company had ever held. They only looked worse because the presence of brilliant performances and storylines from the top talent of NJPW. The crowning of new champion Matt Taven was met with indifference, and that indifference has led to cratering buyrates, ticket sales and streaming service subscription numbers. Their recently launched Women of Honor division has been plagued with scandal and negative reception. Internal discontent over creative struggles and lack of concern for talent health are only a few months away from boiling over. Even the presence of The Villain Marty Scurll, one of the biggest stars in Indy Wrestling, is hardly a positive because all anyone wants to talk about is when his contract runs out so he can go to AEW. This month's "Best In The World," PPV, headlined by Taven vs Jeff Cobb, and it is a show best described as "forgettable." ___ While life bleeds out of ROH, the cockroach of wrestling, Impact, stubbornly clings to it. Downgraded ( ![]() ___ And while the deathless shambles onward, life finds a way on the Indy Circuit. Major League Wrestling will run its biggest event yet on the 1st of this month, the culmination of two years of steady growth and carefully controlled ambitions. Fury Road 2019 will be headlined by MLW Champion Teddy Hart defending against Jimmy Havoc, and Mance Warner vs Sami Callihan in a Loser Leave MLW Match. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla is one month removed from Mystery Vortex VI, which was heralded as a show on a similar level to a BOLA final and main evented by Joey Janela vs Darby Allin in a Guerrilla Warfare match. And oh-so-quietly, Billy Corgan's National Wrestling Alliance, capitalizing on the success of Nick Aldis' "Aldis Crusade," title defenses, their "Ten Pounds of Gold," webseries, and most importantly the attention they received through their association with the "All In," event, is preparing for next month. In July they deliver the biggest news they've been a part of since Shane Douglas launched ECW off their backs: their reorganization as a formal Wrestling Promotion through the youtube series NWA Powerr. Is American Indy Wrestling doomed with the advent of AEW taking its biggest names mainstream, WWE and NXT's continual vacuuming of talent, Impact's apparent resurgence, ROH's potential death throes and the biggest names on the scene aiming higher than they've ever aimed? Or are they on the cusp of a new golden age the likes of which haven't been seen since CM Punk, Samoa Joe and Brian Danielson ruled the bingo halls? (I could do more of these for Japan, Mexico and the UK but this took a lot of effort, so I'll wait)
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I Before E posted:Unless PWG gets some sort of weekly show, they're playing very differently from every other team because they have like one event a month. I guess that could work, especially if a team is more interested in writing one really good monthly event than doing weeks of promos and build, but it depends on how the team decides to emulate PWG's Twitter-based announcement model. The PWG team dropping in with a bunch of exciting announced matches every few in game weeks would be a really fun touch. I wanted to put more "important," indies like CZW, but finding info on them was hard. ![]()
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karmicknight posted:If PWG were to maintain the regular business model there should be some way of maintaining the "yeah sure, you can work a PWG weekend" deal, which should be relatively do-able if goons control most of the "major" promotions. Hey, they're 4th on the List Of Indies in the Indy thread title!
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Have we? I just did the list of the most obvious US promotions because I didn't want to spend another 2-3 hours on an even longer post. If WWE went completely extinct, one would have to consider New Japan and AAA would probably want to try moving into the power vacuum to challenge AEW and the rest of the american scene for dominance in the American market. CMLL could then in turn try and seize Mexican wrestling by the throat while AAA has its attention and resources divided, just as other big or ambitious promotions like NOAH, All Japan, Wrestle-1 or Dragon Gate might seek to expand in Japan while NJPW is looking to foreign shores. The collapse of WWE would also have a profound impact on the British market and Women's Wrestling. NXT UK decimated the British Indy scene, and that in turn has allowed the strongest survivor, RevPro, to extend virtual dominance over the market through their partnership with New Japan. If WWE died, Progress and ICW would see their de facto subsumation by NXTUK end, and that would be a serious threat to RevPro, not to mention the revived World of Sport could see a flood of talent which might justify them getting a second season of TV. As for women's wrestling, WWE dying AFTER Mania 35 means the possibility of a Women's Wrestling Renaissance, in which an all-women company could rise to dominance through the sudden availability of superstar talent. AEW couldn't afford to vacuum up ALL the major women's talent since they have a lot of other pots on the burners, and that means that some of the biggest women stars would have to ask themselves if they are better off trying to succeed in a division ROH has botched at every turn, a division Impact has occasionally treated well but comes with the price of risking working for Impact, or if they want to take a chance of being the one to spearhead an All Women Company to superstar status. If a Tony Khan-esque Money Mark roll the bones on making Stardom, Shimmer, or Pro Wrestling Eve a Serious Thing, they could take the fight to any other promotion on earth with a star like Becky, Charlotte or Ronda at the head.
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Hiram posted:Yeah, I think we've settled on promotions. I updated the OP with new info. And I hope you don't mind, Sanguinia, but I quoted your write up in the OP. It was really good. No problem! If you want I can do a little something for New Japan and add on to what you put out for Shimmer and AAA to complete the post tomorrow. I have to do Warcraft Things tonight. Also might want to delete the bit about NWA if they're not going to be a playable faction. Poor Nick Aldis. ![]()
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I have created a More-final Draft of my other Effort Post describing the State Of Affairs In Wrestling 2019. Here is a Doc's link so I don't eat up another giant chunk of page. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAMwUo0fa1KGCJD6v5YZv8j46Xj23R0SCvErayHLFyQ/edit?usp=sharing Hiram, feel free to use that in the OP should you so desire. It might also be wise to start a new thread for the actual game once we're done setting everything up here. As for myself, I would be very interested in running World of Stardom and trying to take on everyone else in the race to take WWE's place with an All-Girls Fed. I thought about doing Shimmer, but Stardom has cooler title belt names. ![]()
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RealFoxy posted:This would've been the perfect time to have just merged NJPW and STARDOM since they're owned by the same company now. but too many people have signed up for one or the other and probably don't have much interest in writing for the other brands. Technically Bushiroad didn't buy Stardom until 4 months after the June 2019 starting point. They were probably in negotiations by that point, but still. Anyway if I hadn't volunteered for Stardom it would have been Shimmer or Pro Wrestling EVE. I wanted to do an all-female fed in this Warring States nonsense. See what I can accomplish with one or two of Vince's top women stars and a roster in the scramble to fill the WWE vacuum. That's just an exciting concept to me.
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Taintrunner posted:Is it too late to revive Global Force Wrestling? I just cashed in all of my Global Force Gold I bet Rarity still has your belts by which I mean stickers Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 06:30 on May 24, 2020 |
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For its Second Round Pick, Ring of Wonder STARDOM welcomes you... to the Queendom.![]()
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The Least Forced And Awkward Friendship in all of wrestling comes to Japan!![]()
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Round 5 sees Stardom welcome back one of the hottest stars in Women's Wrestling and former Champion![]() And for Round 6... STARDOM makes the biggest move of the entire Draft! ![]()
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World Wonder Ring STARDOM is proud to announce the results of a sweeping new post-draft Talent Acquisition push:![]() ![]() A Living Legend now wrestling EXCLUSIVELY for our company: ![]() And Last but not Least, in the area of talent management and brand development, STARDOM welcomes one final name into the fold who will change the landscape of the company and Joshi Puro as we know it! ![]()
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Sanguinia posted:
Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 08:00 on May 29, 2020 |
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![]() Sanguinia posted:STARDOM WK match announcement reaction roundup! Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 04:35 on May 31, 2020 |
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I Before E posted:
Remember that one family guy gag when the dog gets brown wrapping for christmas in the shape of a wine bottle and then opens it and somehow its a book inside? That's the feeling I get when I look at that sillouette. Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I5Ryv7Ip4 ![]() For almost 8 years, Adult Swim's been building you a better cartoon show. ![]() But now... things are about to get REAL. ![]() ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR2eGo17yGY Mayu Iwatani is an ordinary Japanese Girl. She likes sweets ![]() She walks her dog every day ![]() And... oh yeah... ![]() ![]() She happens to be the STARDOM World Champion. ![]() In the world of Joshi Puroresu, being the Champ means living with a target on your back ![]() And Momo Watanabe... ![]() and Kagetsu... ![]() would do anything to reach the top of the mountain, and claim Mayu's gold for themselves. Momo: I make sure everyone Bows Down to the Queens! ![]() Kagetsu: Lord Kagetsu knows that if you half-rear end it and win... you still win! ![]() The Squared Circle is a battlefield. And STARS... ![]() Oedo-Tai... ![]() and Queen's Quest are ready for war! ![]() Mayu: Everyone... GOOD EVENING! BELIEVE TODAY!... Crowd: SHINE TOMORROW! ![]() "We Are Stardom." Premiering this Saturday at 9pm ![]() I believe this ring... reflects life. ![]() ONLY TOONAMI. [ADULT SWIM]. Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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# ¿ May 18, 2024 18:46 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ1AYjqq_-0&t=22s![]() Bea Priestly: Mayu Iwatani... ![]() Mayu: Get Ready. ![]() ![]() Bea Priestly: One of the most respected Joshi Wrestlers IN THE WORLD... Bea Priestly: 'The Icon of STARDOM.' ![]() Sanguinia posted:
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