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I did a New Japan update to the "what's going on" topic, so I guess I'll do a TNA one here. Dec 2010 TNA World Heavyweight: Samoa Joe(2), 47 days TNA X-Division: Desmond Wolfe, 47 days TNA Global Heavyweight: Abyss, 159 days TNA World Tag Team: The Young Bucks, 159 days TNA World Six Man: Amazing Red & L.A.X., 47 days TNA Knockout's World: Angelina Love(3), 47 days TNA Knockout's Tag Team: Sarita & Rosita, 47 days Anyone wanna venture how many days it has been since BFG?

I just finished the first year of my NJPW 2010 save. I've always tried to get into a New Japan save, but have usually burned out very quickly due to the touring schedule, so this time I decided to say screw it. I scrapped the touring schedule entirely in favor of having a weekly 2h TV show, 12 PPV's and a second TV show on a 3 month deal twice a year to help get through New Japan Cup, Best Of The Super Juniors, the G1 and World Tag League. There were also two Wrestle Kingdoms in 2010, as after the first one I rescheduled it to be held on new year's evening, here's the card for the second one, also my latest show: NJPW WRESTLE KINGDOM V: Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Shinsuke Nakamura to retain the IWGP Heavyweight Title (99) Brock Lesnar def. Kenta Kobashi (79) G.B.H. (Makabe, Honma and young lion Tama Tonga) def. S.C.U.M. (Steve Corino, Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori) (70) KENTA def. Mistico to retain the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title (84) Tomohiro Ishii def. Hirooki Goto to retain the NEVER Openweight Title (91) Kishin Liger def. Tiger Mask (84) Chris Jericho def. Naomichi Marufuji to become the inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion (78) Team 3D def. Yuji Nagata & Ryouji Sai for the IWGP Tag Team Titles (75) SUWAMA won the Tokyo Dome 20-man Battle Royal (79) What's next for the bastardized... sorry westernized New Japan? Here's what! Maybe... - Lesnar will challenge Tanahashi, but fail. I'll probably never put the belt on Lesnar. New Japan does not forget or forgive. At the moment it really looks like Tanahashi might just hold the belt until WK6. Let's see... - I was building Kazuchika Okada all of 2010. He even had a brief stint as the Heavyweight champion already after winning the New Japan Cup and then defeating Nakamura, but then lost the belt to Tanahashi in his first defense (this will become a plot point in 2012 when they'll meet the next time). His had a bit of a cold war with Nakamura within CHAOS all year, and I'm thinking that the war might turn hot in the following few months. - Togi Makabe and Ishii have been feuding all year, with Ishii being up 4-0 in their singles matches together. The feud will culminate in the summer with Togi finally getting a singles win over Ishii and also winning back the NEVER belt. - KENTA will hold the Jr. Heavyweight title probably basically until I can get him to bulk up a bit so I can move him to Heavyweight. Tough luck for the rest of them, but there's always the Tag belts (held by No Limit atm btw) I guess. - I really don't know what I'm going to do with Jericho or the IC belt to be honest. But WWE didn't offer him an extension, so what was I supposed to do? Not sign him? Pfft. - Minoru Suzuki is coming in a few months. He's already made appearances challenging Nakamura in a multi-company show I held in february and getting a decent 5-4 record in the G1, but this time I'll bring him in for good. Which will mean bad things to everyone, especially the young lions, but perhaps especially to Tanahashi.

It's not exactly a weakness, but more of a game destroying thing I can't stop doing when I'm booking a company that has TV. I book my main storylines in my head for at least a year (often more) in advance, and then get bored after a few months of just organizing the cards without being really able to do any booking, as the storylines in my head need to go a certain way. I try and combat this by actively trying not to book ahead for more then a few PPV's, but can't help myself when I get carried away by some "brilliant" idea. Other then that I have the usual suspect's of not being able to stop my roster from getting bloated (in my current Tiny indy fed I've been extra careful with this, so I have only 47 wrestlers atm...), wanting to push wrestlers too early in their careers in historic RW mods and having all my cards in the same structure (My indy fed's every card is: 8-person car crash scramble; regular match that's usually a tag; comedy match; deathmatch; either a singles steal the show, or a multiman car crash; regular match; car crash; steal the show. With a 4min promo segment every two matches.)

Experience and psychology.

So... Yeah. Morton went through Necro Butcher in the first round, Roadkill in the semi's and Pitbull Gary Wolfe in the final to win. Roadkill got to the semi's by beating the Ultimate Warrior. At KOTD. Gary Wolfe defeated Lenny Lane in the semi's, Lenny Lane got there by beating Kevin Nash. At KOTD.

He did not. It was a regular match, he was just doing a hangman spot on regular ropes, well except they weren't regular, they were a different kind of cable as usual and tightened more then usual. But it was definitely not a barbed wire match, it was not just a regular match, but you could even argue it was a lesser then a normal match as it was a house show and not on TV.

<p>I'm in 2000 on the Cverse1993 DB, with my company Omega FC, now risen from 0 pop to low level national in the States and regional pop in Canada, Mexico and UK.</p><p> </p><p> Jake Keane just won his second FOTY in a row, and is 20-0 and our lightweight champion. He just defended against Philip Ziskie (14-4) who is also one of our most popular fighters, and will probably next face either Sukarno (12-1) in a rematch as he's climbed back to #2 rank, or Sean Morrison (14-4), who's on a 7 match win streak but just can't seem to grow in popularity or rise higher in the rankings, as he's still just at #5 despite the streak.</p><p> </p><p> Julio Regueiro (14-5) is set to defend his welterweight title against Alan Kendall in their fifth (5!) match against each other, after finally managing to beat Kendall in their last match for the title, losing the first three. After Kendall was 3-0 against him I was through with Regueiro getting a shot against him, but he managed to climb back to #2 rank, so I had them do ONE LAST MATCH, but of course then the spaniard finally manages to win one, so I can't give him 3 rematches and not give Kendall at least one. Who ever wins the fifth match (the final one for real, I swear. Maybe...) will probably face Nathan Chambers (10-0) next.</p><p> </p><p> Matthew Dean (15-1) is our middleweight division. He's had a stranglehold on the division (quite literally most of the matches) for a few years now. He's also the company's only person to win a championship in two weight classes so far, as he was the company's first openweight champion back in '93. He's next victim will be Tora Mizwar (12-3-1) who is nowhere near Dean's level, but they have a vicious rivalry going on, so he gets to lose in a main event of a smaller show. His next proper challenger will be decided in a match between Thorbjorn Rekdal (9-1) and Braulio Moura (11-1-1).</p><p> </p><p> At the top of the light heavyweights is Spencer Rubenstein, who's undefeated at 10-0. He's being chased by the man he toppled as champ, Niko Soldo (10-2) at #2, Jin Katou (23-0) at #3 who's only fought for us once at this point, making his career in Japan and Nicolai Mickiewicz (16-2) at #4 who's a boring af decision machine, who I've tried my best to feed to my top fighters so he'd drop in the rankings so that I could better justify to myself of just cutting his boring ass, but he keeps beating them again and again. I can't put him in a title match (what if he won!?), but I can't not use him either, as he has wins over some of my best fighters. Help me Obi-Jin, you're my only hope...</p><p> </p><p> Hassan Fezzik (18-2) is at the top of the heavyweights. He won the title from Matthew Dean when I started to introduce weight limits, but lost it in a bit of a shock to Palmer Lette almost immediately after. Lette then went on to hold the belt for just over three years, also winning FOTY in the process, but then finally dropped the belt back to Fezzik at OFC 50: Lette vs. Fezzik II, one of the biggest shows in the company's history. Like in the light heavy division, there is a japanese fighter that has jumped ship to the US and has gold in his eyes. Hiro Arai is 23-0, and in his latest match defeated the former champ Lette via KO. However before Arai can get a title shot Fezzik has to try and cope with another up and coming machine, the #2 ranked Rav Kapur (10-0).</p><p> </p><p> One mention outside of the title pictures: Jeff Carlton (13-9) has done a HOF worthy career for us, even if he has lost every time it has really counted. At 37 and with two losses to much lesser talent in his latest matches, he's career is winding down, but he's been a true constant for Omega, as he's always been one of our most popular fighters, even though he has literally never won when main eventing, but also in a sense that he's been with the company since OFC 1. He's still popular enough to be main eventing, so I'll probably try and find him one or two jobbers to get a few more wins in, and then let him go out in a blaze of glory losing to the rising young lions of the heavyweight division.</p>

WrestleMania was main evented by the Andre battle royal, which Cena won.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TeemuFoundation" data-cite="TeemuFoundation" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49441" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Subjective. I had not watched wrestling in years, but checked out the PPV where Goldberg returned because, you know, old school fan. He squashed Lesnar in a matter of seconds. It was the best match on the card. Context: it was unexpected, so it got a positive reaction out of me. More than I can for wrestling matches in general these days.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It might have been the best match on the card, but I doubt you think it was a 5* match. I find it difficult to believe anyone's arguing Goldberg vs. Lesnar is in the same category as let's say Hart vs. Hart at WM10. At least in TEW16 you can get decent ratings even in squash matches if you have the right wrestlers and the stars align in your favor, just not a 100, because (at least I believe) no squash match can really be a 100.</p>

I am. Well that would explain it! I guess it's not that I'm blind, it's just that I can't read! Thank you!

I couldn't find this info anywhere, so I'm sorry if it's covered elsewhere and I'm just blind. Can anyone help me out with getting the default skin to work after the latest update? I've deleted the two jpg's and extracted the new one's, but it still gives me the old skin when I start up the game. I've tried it like three times now and have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

<p>One that I have used countless times goes about like this: I have a lower card babyface who I want to get more popular, so I have them going over a upper card heel by a flash pinfall or another "fluky" way, on a weekly or lesser show. Then the heel obviously gets furious, so they'll try to get some of their heat back by sending a lackey or a partner to beat the face, but the face manages another win. After that I set up a rematch between the original face and heel on a PPV or a larger show, and have the heel go over with a tainted win with interference from the lackey/partner. After that I do a angle on the weekly show where the heels try to add insult to injury by attacking the babyface, but have a (usually) more established face come in for a save, creating an opportunity for some tag matches whilst I build up to the blow off final match between the original face and original heel at a major show. At the final match the end result will usually depend on how over I've gotten the face. If everything has gone like it's supposed to they'll have moved up from lower midcard or whatever, to something around a upper mid status, and I can give them the win in the feud.</p><p> </p><p> I also tend to have almost all my debuting wrestlers go through at least a bit of a winning streak, so there is almost always at least one undefeated wrestler on my roster. More often then not I'll have a face and a heel doing the streak simultaneously, so that when I'm ready I can have them face each other in a big streak vs. streak match.</p>

I have a question regarding the new performance centers. The journal says "A company who owns the PC can send existing workers there to sharpen their skills." am I correct in assuming this means I can also send someone there to get rid of ring rust?

Definately Mankind vs. Taker HIAC. When I was a kid I didn't really follow wrestling, as it was not a big deal in Finland and the most I remember seeing it on tv was some heavily edited recap shows of Raw and SmackDown on friday nights, and even those didn't last on the schedule for very long. I thought it was all pretty stupid and fake (and I mean really fake, like bumping doesn't hurt and the blood isn't real kind of fake). But then for some reason or another I stumbled upon a video of Mankind vs. Undertaker inside Hell In A Cell, and I was transfixed by the match. I searched all the info I could on Mick Foley online, and read A Tale Of Blood & Sweatsocks and Foley Is Good, becoming a huge fan of Foley. This lead me down the rabbit hole to becoming a wrestling fan as a whole. Also a lot of credit goes to being able to watch ECW stuff online, as the counterculture feel, the music and the edginess really matched with other stuff I was already into as a teenager. So yeah, tl;dr: If I hadn't happened to watch that one match I might have never become a wrestling fan.

I've had this happen to me, and I just used the editor to make the one I want to delete be "out of the business" and then blackball them. Another tactic could be to sign them to the same company as Matt Hardy Edit. Oh and like BrokenCycle said change their contract/s to only 1 day if they have any.