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Long Way Around - Okada must have won and then lost a singles title and a tag title before he can compete in an IWGP World Heavyweight title match. One Last Run - The next time Tanahashi wins championship gold is the last time he can hold a title in NJPW. Hard Work Never Pays Off - Ishii must win the IWGP World Heavyweight championship before his contract comes up for renewal, but he also has to lose it in his first defense. Get Juiced - Juice Robinson must be the holder or co-holder of championship gold for the majority of 2022. Inoki's Revenge - By the end of 2022, a wrestler with an MMA Crossover style must be recognized as a Star or Major Star in your promotion. (Don't cheat and ask an established star to change styles.) Change or Die - By the end of 2022, a new gaijin must have debuted, taken over the Bullet Club, and overseen a shakeup of its roster OR the Bullet Club must have disbanded. Leaving Your Mark - By the end of your first year as booker you must have introduced one new championship and retired another. Going Big - Pick Oceania or India. This is your new tertiary market, behind Japan and the United States. You must run a minimum of one tour a year each in the United States and in this new market.

Big Boy Season - The first five male wrestlers you sign to full time contracts must be of at least light heavyweight size. Go For The Gold - By the end of 2021, you must introduce either a six man tag belt or women's tag belts. Down South - Pick three of the below names. Hire them, then find onscreen roles for them. - Eric Bischoff - Scott Hudson - Kevin Nash - Scott Steiner Youth In Revolt - Of Jungle Boy, Darby Allin, Sammy Guevara, and MJF, you must apply one of the following rules to each: - One gets to give CM Punk his first loss in an AEW ring - One gets to hold the TNT Championship for an entire year - One gets a vanity belt, but can NEVER hold the world championship - One must leave the company before the end of 2022 Gold Watch - Christopher Daniels must win championship gold before he retires from active competition. The Mothership - By the end of 2022, you must move one of your shows to Saturday and claim the top rating spot in its time slot for an entire month. Good Neighbor - You must agree not to steal talent from Impact, NJPW, NWA, and MLW, then honor those agreements through to the end of 2023.

There weren't a lot of people cheering for MJF during his ascent to the main event. Heel promos, a good gimmick, and a high profile betrayal can go a long way to get someone booed. But the important thing is to keep them protected. When an ascending heel loses, it should mean something. Don't give that up on free TV in the midcard.

Spencer Spade is who I was leaning toward as a kind of Cody equivalent since he's a can't-miss prospect who wasted years of his life getting missed on. If you must have a tag team I'd go with Matthew Keith and Greg Gauge, even if they're not nearly as established as the Bucks. All you really need is four or five guys who could pass as midcarders in SWF, one upper midcarder or main eventer, and you've got the core of a promotion that can put on good shows for a Medium-sized promotion. From there it's a matter of staying alive and on TV until some of those bigger companies start shedding midcarders you can turn into either stars or jobbers to the future stars.

This is looking really, really strong for a 1.1 release. Still, noticed a couple of things that I'm pretty sure are typos and one stat thing I'm going to complain about. 1.) Bar Wrestling is listed as "Bar Wresling." 2.) Eva Marie is listed as "Eva Maire." 3.) Nyla Rose is 28 in your mod when every record I can find suggests she's ten years older than that. 4.) Kenny Omega's Star Quality seems a little low to me, maybe? I'd at least get him into the low seventies.

I'm disappointed in how little response this has gotten so far. This is a really intriguing setup! I look forward to seeing it progress.

Spotted a duplicate. Giant Silva/Gigante Silva appears under both names.

Any chance of a Cornellverse '97-compatible version of this mod in the future?

And you're suggesting they're not?

This is a really excellent, elegant way to reintroduce the old touring contracts. I like it a lot!

With freestyle angles it seems like we're kind of left to use the honor system on whether someone should gain or lose momentum. There doesn't seem to be any real disincentive to just giving everyone a Major Success every time they participate in an angle. In an attempt to correct this I'd like to propose an adjustment: tie the amount of momentum shift in an angle to that angle's rating. If the Syndicate stands around patting themselves on the back for adding a new member (success all around), that should probably lower the angle's rating a little bit because the angle doesn't have any real stakes. If Tyson Baine tears through an army of jobbers (major success for Baine, defeat for the jobbers), that should provide a little bit of a net boost to the angle. This would encourage players to be a little more conscious of the way they book and prevent angles from being a surefire way to load up on momentum for free.

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">Prologue - An Introduction to J.K. Stallings and Hollyweird Grappling Company</span></strong></p><p> <div style="padding: 10px; border: 2px solid #000000; margin:10px;background: #FFFFFF; max-width:40%; ";"><img alt="1032%20-%20JK_Stallings%20jk_stallings_jr.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/4ab4af8f0f29e484e5697a110dd68541/1032%20-%20JK_Stallings%20jk_stallings_jr.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> So are you sick of hearing about J.K. Stallings yet? I sure hope you're not, because I'm about to spend the next very long while talking about him. I know, I know - it's 2021 and we've spent the last couple of years listening to him dominate the news cycle. Some of you might be suffering from Stallings overload, something I should have probably considered before spending the last several months researching this topic for our series. But let's make a deal. Better yet, a list. We're not going to talk about the following J.K.s Stallings:</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li> J.K. Stallings the self-made tech genius who became a billionaire the same year he graduated high school on the strength of nothing but his own God-given talent and the small $20 million loan given to him by his grandfather (and suspected collaborator in 1933's Business Plot) oil baron Ira Stallings (1995)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the island owner, who caused a minor international incident when he said in an interview he was thinking about declaring himself "King of Stallingsland" for tax purposes (2005)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the "entertainment guru" who lost half a billion dollars over three years with a film studio dedicated to wide theatrical releases of subtitled anime movies (2009)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the cryptocurrency baron whose "game changing" mining wall literally caught fire after only nine months of use (2013)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the "billionaire playboy" who put out those promoted tweets making sure we all knew he was dating Amy Roberts (2014)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the "tech trailblazer" who managed to run a streaming platform first into the ground and then into a Reverie buyout (2017)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the sad single dad from those memes (2018)<br /></li><li> J.K. Stallings the failed presidential candidate (2020)</li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p> The one glaring success aside, that two and a half decades of hilarious failure in the public eye is just a stunning display of how much money you can piss away if you start young enough and rich enough. Cable news pundits and nerds on Twitter have already done great work tearing apart most of these (in particular I'm a fan of Trevor Reese's Twitter thread listing better names for Stallingsland, my personal favorite being "Server Fire Island"), so there's no need for me to bother covering any of that stuff. But there's a ten year gap in that CV I just posted. What was little Jimmy Stallings doing between 1995 and 2005? Sure, he was CEO of StallingsSoft from his eighteenth birthday until 2003, but he also had a hobby as a wrestling promoter. Rather than covering any of those money losing business ventures I'll be looking at J.K. Stallings’ only successful business outside of StallingsSoft - the Hollyweird Grappling Company - and get into why, despite its financial success, it still belongs on a list next to all those other failures.</p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">The Hollyweird Grappling Company</span></strong></p><p> <img alt="1031%20-%20HGC.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/cc6cab165301631532087e630d7d4615/1031%20-%20HGC.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> If there's a worse name for a wrestling promotion than Hollyweird Grappling Company then I haven't heard it, and I'm a lifelong wrestling fan. The name itself is even a lie - the company's head offices were in Anaheim, not Los Angeles. And if there's a worse idea than an unproven name sinking millions of dollars into challenging the Supreme Wrestling Federation in 1997 for the spot of top wrestling company in the United States then I don't think I've heard that, either. The Supreme Wrestling Federation was at the top of the world in 1997 and there hadn't been a legitimate challenger in the United States in nearly twenty years.</p><p> </p><p> What happened next was kind of a perfect storm.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="1033%20-%20sam_strong%20strong.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/4af7a2d1feef2bf94eba8730ce5253df/1033%20-%20sam_strong%20strong.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Sam Strong</strong> was still the biggest name in wrestling even if he hadn't set foot in an SWF ring in over two years. The TV pilot he filmed didn't get picked up for the 1996 season, but he'd done a tour with BHOTWG over in Japan the previous year and shown he could be a draw when he wasn't under Richard Eisen's thumb. It was generally understood that if Strong went back to the SWF it'd be to help build new stars, and that was not something he was interested in doing. He was fifty and he was looking for one last payday before he retired from the ring for good.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="1034%20-%20Rip_Chord%20chord.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/4d31807c3b1593c06456ac8e4f6c6592/1034%20-%20Rip_Chord%20chord.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> If Sam Strong was Richard Eisen's top guy during the SWF's ascension, <strong>Rip Chord</strong> was unquestionably his number two. The man was an international wrestling legend who spent the eighties as a villainous foil to Sam Strong, and his willingness to lose cleanly to a rising Bruce the Giant on his way out the door created a new star for Eisen to build his next generation of talent around. Chord had spent a few years away from the ring, in and out of rehab, but a return with Golden Canvas Grappling in 1996 showed that on the right night he could turn back the clock and wrestle like it was still 1983.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="1035%20-%20dusty%20dusty_streets%20streets.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/0437cea67b598902d718df01727a5549/1035%20-%20dusty%20dusty_streets%20streets.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> Son of a hall of famer, <strong>Dusty Streets</strong> spent most of his career as one of the SWF's great utility players. Never a top guy or a world champion, it seemed his ceiling was as a house show contender to the title whenever a heel was on top. After parting ways with the Eisens in 1990 he found new life with BHOTWG in Japan as one of that company's top gaijin. Dusty was nearing the end of his career, but he was a star on two continents and exactly the kind of guy who could bring legitimacy to a company looking to establish itself.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="1037%20-%20coach%20coach_dick_pangrazzio%20dick_pangrazzio%20pangrazzio.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/c674edbc031b2e4c43f8bfc9f2db0cf1/1037%20-%20coach%20coach_dick_pangrazzio%20dick_pangrazzio%20pangrazzio.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="1036%20-%20pangrazzio%20richie_pangrazzio%20richie_pangrazzio_jr.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/e5aed0129bd853646857f1c258a10e5f/1036%20-%20pangrazzio%20richie_pangrazzio%20richie_pangrazzio_jr.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Coach Dick Pangrazzio</strong> and <strong>Richie Pangrazzio Jr.</strong> were a pair of SWF stars from way back, spending the seventies and eighties with the company as it transitioned from an upstart east coast promotion to to the household name it was today. Richie was a perennial midcard threat and his father was his manager. The two stepped away from the SWF to focus on family at the tail end of the nineties. After seven years laying sheetrock as Pangrazzio and Sons (alongside Fiero, Richie's younger brother uninvolved in wrestling), the two started making appearances on the independent scene again near the end of 1996.</p><p> </p><p> It was a first in American wrestling - five guys with this much name value were all looking for work at the same time. And then you had J.K. Stallings himself, a teenage wrestling fan with money to burn who claimed one of his earliest memories was of watching a Sam Strong vs. Richie Pangrazzio Jr. match with one of his uncles.</p><p> </p><p> Sam Strong was the first to receive an offer, and legend has it that Stallings’ opener was a 3x5 index card on which he’d just written “Enough.” With Strong onboard and Chord following shortly after, Stallings’ still unnamed wrestling company signed around three dozen other talents in the following month. Offices opened in Anaheim and Stallings started negotiation with a few different networks.</p><p> </p><p> Three months out from their December 1996 debut the company started its ad blitz. Thirty second TV spots and full page newspaper ads across the United States and Canada advertised the new alternative in North American wrestling: The Hollyweird Grappling Company. As I said before, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a worse name for a wrestling company. Supposedly the name came about because of multiple layers of interference - an early attempt to buy the California Pro Wrestling name from Preston Holt got tied up when another stakeholder objected, then a series of other names were rejected by focus groups. Hollywood Championship Wrestling tested well and was a favorite, but right before orders for promotional material went out Stallings himself stepped in and insisted on a last second change to the inexplicably bad Hollyweird Grappling Company.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="1039%20-%20maple_leaf_sports.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/e542b1fb7be10987c426dd95fe498584/1039%20-%20maple_leaf_sports.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="1038%20-%20nctv.jpg" data-src="https://theo.minuspoint.com/tewbooru/_images/7bd45f405be9b581af94d674a03b29a8/1038%20-%20nctv.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> Pay-per-view providers in the United States and Canada were willing to bite, but without the ad buys from weekly programming the promotion wouldn’t be able to turn a profit. Even with Strong and Chord each signed to a five year commitment it was still difficult to find a network willing to take a gamble on professional wrestling if it didn’t come with the Eisen name. Some backroom dealing eventually led to a one-year agreement with Maple Leaf Sports, contingent on the promotion signing additional Canadian talent. This was shortly followed by a very unfavorable deal with American network NCTV. Not only was NCTV a channel dominated by sci-fi programming - not a demographic known for its wrestling fans, at least in the 1990s - but it came with many, many strings attached: NCTV would keep the ad revenue, and Stallings would need to pay for each episode broadcast. NCTV also demanded that they have final say over who got the still unassigned head booker position in the company. In several ways this was a worse deal than not broadcasting to the United States at all, but Stallings and his team were convinced that if they could survive two years of NCTV they could build an audience and look more appealing to a better network.</p><p> </p><p> Next episode we’ll get into the first month of Hollyweird TV and how NCTV’s say in who got the book for HGC nearly ruined the company just a few weeks in.</p></div><p></p><p></div></p>

A Comedy of Errors - The Hollyweird Grappling Company A podcast series by Jay Armstrong Episode List Prologue - An Introduction to J.K. Stallings and Hollyweird Grappling Company It is December 1996 in Hollyweird Time. Hollyweird Grappling Company #2 in the world Hollywood TV airs on NCTV (USA) and Maple Leaf Sports (Canada), with the announce team of Jason Azaria and Kyle Rhodes <div style="padding: 10px; border: 2px solid #000000; margin:10px;background: #FFFFFF; max-width:40%; ";">Roster Sam Strong Rip Chord Dusty Streets The All-Star Team (Coach Dick Pangrazzio, Richie Pangrazzio Jr., Larry Vessey & Bryan Vessey) Black Serpent Cult (Cobra & Viper) The Blazing Flames (Joey Flame & Teddy Flame) Whistler Charlie Homicide Romeo Heartthrob BLZ Bubb (with Karen Killer) The Demons of Rage (Demon Anger & Demon Spite) Golden Fox Jimmy Power The Danger Kid Liberty Cowboy Ricky Dale Danny Rushmore Dark Eagle Mucha Lucha (Mr Lucha & Electrico) The Nation of Filth (Stink & Grunt) Jack Bruce Jason Jackson Savage Fury (Java & Tribal Warrior) The Untouchables (Eric Tyler, Robert Oxford, Joel Bryant, Paul Steadyfast) Monty Walker Ramon Paez Peter Valentine</div>

VILE's bio says "mange" instead of "manage."

I'd suggested months ago that a future release could allow promotions to have attributes in the same sense workers do to further modify existing products, and this could be a good addition to that. It would make sense that a promotion that sets the expectation it won't have an announce team would maybe suffer a less severe penalty to its matches than a promotion which is expected to have an announce team and then doesn't.

This is interesting and not at all what I had assumed. I'd figured it was closer to the Europa Universalis III government type chart, where there was a "tree" that was invisible to players: Would you consider adding in descriptive text in a future patch that makes this more transparent to players? I'd like to see something that straight up says "As this product is lucha-based and your current product is not, this accounts for an extra three months in the transition process" or "As this product is family friendly like your current product, there are no additional penalties for this transition process."

Realism is not nearly as important as playability. Ideally, finances should remain scary for any promotion that doesn't have a national broadcasting deal, and losing that TV deal should cause even a national promotion to start hemorrhaging money.

oh no

Back in TEW 2013, I had a 2004 TNA game where one of my top tag teams was D'Lo Brown and Josh Barnett. A throwaway TV match revealed their excellent chemistry and they quickly became featured players in my main event scene.

There's been a bunch of complaints on the forums over the last few months about how certain game systems seem to make long-term saves untenable. Workers get better too fast, there's too many stars, nobody seems to run out of money. A few of these problems feel like they could have some (hopefully) simple solutions. Popularity Caps I know there were a couple of complaints about popularity caps which led to popularity restrictions being eased, but I'd like to see an in-game option (maybe on the database level?) to revert to the popularity caps we had on release. Skill Scaling Another potential option that could be incorporated on the database level would be a scaler for skill increases. Personally, I'd like to see skill increases slowed down to about a third of what they are (so workers take a decade or so to hit their peaks rather than only a few years). It would be great if this was an option that would allow mod makers to adjust things to align with their game worlds. The Money Problem I don't have an easy solution for this one, but something needs to be done about the financial situation in the game. It seems borderline impossible for most promotions to lose money and once a promotion gets to the upper end of Medium it's never going to be in any real danger again. Hitting Medium (or Cult) in 2016 used to be a scary time for a promotion, but now it's very easy for a company to hang around indefinitely. I don't know if the answer is as simple as reducing income to a fraction of what it is now, but I once tried using the in-game editor to reduce SWF's popularity by forty points AND putting it ten million dollars in debt and a year later the promotion was back at Medium and had an eight digit bank account again.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="mmaaddict" data-cite="mmaaddict" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47616" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>There’s a lot to go through in this thread, but I’m new to the game and using TCW. Who do you all use as top tier faces outside of Andrews?<p> </p><p> I know there is Bach, but he’s older and the game seems to be pointing towards him declining right now. </p><p> </p><p> It feels like the next level after Andrews are all heel...Chord, Wolf, Huggins, Gauge...</p><p> </p><p> Do you all turn one of them face? I am trying to build T-Bone and plan to give him the TV Title when I want to bump Gauge up a tier. Just feels like I need at least one more guy at the top besides Andrews and a declining Bach.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I really like to push Edd Stone as a comedic foil to Wolf Hawkins, who absolutely refuses to respect Stone even though he's totally incapable of (cleanly) beating him. Outside of him, Mo, and possibly One Man Army you're hurting for top of the card faces, and TCW's structure kind of demands that you bring in new talent and start pushing them in a hurry.</p>

Don't overcomplicate things! Any storyline should revolve around an issue which can be resolved by two or more people having a wrestling match. "You have a title and I want it" and "I disagree with your claim that you are the better wrestler" are the motivating factors for some of the best feuds of all time.

1.) Stick to the plan. Unless injuries dictate otherwise, Daniel Bryan MUST lose his title in a squash match against Brock Lesnar in the main event of Summerslam 2014. 2.) Brock Lesnar may not be pinned or submitted until 2016. 3.) The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal winner MUST appear in the main event of a pay-per-view the same year he wins the trophy. 4.) Before you break up the Shield you must first introduce a fourth member to the group. This fourth member MUST be an NXT callup. 5.) Of Ambrose, Rollins, and Reigns: 5a.) Pick one who will lose to Triple H in a singles match at the next Wrestlemania. 5b.) Pick one who will win the 2016 Royal Rumble and CANNOT win a world title until Wrestlemania 32. 5c.) Pick one whose contract you will not renew under any circumstances. 6.) Before the end of 2014 you must either bring back King of the Ring or introduce a six man tag belt. 7.) By the end of 2014 Adam Rose must be the leader of a stable with no fewer than five members (Rose included). They must all be NXT callups. One must take on the role of "The Bunny." One of them MUST be either Braun Strowman or Becky Lynch. 8.) Don't give up on Cesaro. He's a Paul Heyman Guy and that has to mean something. Cesaro MUST win three pay-per-view matches for every one he loses for as long as he is associated with Paul Heyman, and this relationship must continue until he is a Star. 9.) Cody Rhodes cannot be given the Stardust gimmick and cannot win a non-tag title until after he has retired his brother. 10.) The Women's Revolution starts now. The Divas title must be retired and replaced with a new women's belt by Summerslam and at least four women on the roster must be Stars by Summerslam 2015. 11.) Any new signing who has not held a world-level title in a Medium-sized or greater promotion must spend no less than a year in NXT before being promoted to the main roster. 12.) John Cena cannot win another world title unless he is a heel. 13.) You get one more Wrestlemania out of The Undertaker, and he must lose his match. Make it count.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="tsdm1996" data-cite="tsdm1996" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48209" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I recently started a 2016 WWE save, so can you give me some rules to make it more interesting? Thanks <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You've been sitting without help for a full week. Let me see what I can do to give you the <em>authentic WWE booking experience</em>.</p><p> </p><p> 1.) Any NXT callups may not have their first four matches be four clean wins in a row. While this is typically accomplished by having three wins and then a loss, DQ or count out wins may be employed to maintain a streak.</p><p> </p><p> 2.) Any singles wrestler called up from NXT to the same brand as Dolph Ziggler must have their first main roster feud be against Ziggler. The singles wrestler may ignore this step if Ziggler is already engaged in a feud with another, different NXT callup at the time.</p><p> </p><p> 3.) Any tag team called up from NXT must be broken up within a year of their main roster debut. Once the team has been broken up for a year you may choose to reunite them.</p><p> </p><p> 4.) Brock Lesnar may only wrestle on pay-per-view and must hold a main event championship for two out of four Big 4 pay-per-views every year until his contract expires or he retires.</p><p> </p><p> 5.) Baron Corbin must have a pay-per-view win against a Major Star at a Big 4 pay-per-view before the end of 2016.</p><p> </p><p> 6.) Beat The Elite!</p><p> 6a.) You must re-sign Cody Rhodes, but you may not push him to the level of a Major Star. Cody must remain in the Stardust gimmick until 2018.</p><p> 6b.) If you sign Kenny Omega he must spend his first year on the main roster with a video game-themed comedy gimmick.</p><p> 6c.) If you sign The Young Bucks you must push them strongly for the first six months and then depush them into the midcard. They must break up within a year of signing with WWE.</p><p> 6d.) If you sign Hangman Page he cannot debut on the main roster unless you also sign John Bradshaw Layfield to be his manager. (It can be assumed that Page is coached to use an exaggerated southern accent in all his promos.)</p><p> 6e.) If you sign Marty Scurll he can only appear on NXT and 205 Live until he bulks up to Middleweight, at which point he can be pushed as normal.</p><p> </p><p> 7.) You may not have anyone under the age of 30 win a world title until Triple H has had another world title reign.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kijar" data-cite="Kijar" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48209" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Okay guys, I'm doing TNA at Jan. 4 2010, and am playing as Paul Heyman. Would love some rules that make sense for him vs Hulk Hogan power struggle, that are still challenging. All I mean is I'm going to be bringing in RVD and Sabu for sure, and probably pushing Stevie Richards with Raven, and Rhino in some capacity. I'm an X-Division guy as well, and this is their 2nd golden age. MCMG en route to tag titles. <p> </p><p> Hoping someone can help me out, stop me from being so stubborn. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Listen to some Heyman podcasts from around the time he was offered the book for TNA and you'll find that pushing a bunch of ex-ECW guys is what he WOULDN'T do. Heyman was in favor of a youth movement and advocated firing everyone on the roster over a certain age (I think it might have been 30?).</p><p> </p><p> On the other hand, Hogan.</p><p> </p><p> In light of that, try the following:</p><p> </p><p> 1.) You cannot sign any active wrestlers over the age of 35 <strong>UNLESS</strong> that wrestler has a positive relationship with Hulk Hogan <strong>OR</strong> is a former world champion in WWE, WCW, or ECW.</p><p> </p><p> 2.) You cannot renew the existing contract of any active wrestler over the age of 35 <strong>UNLESS</strong> that wrestler has a positive relationship with Hulk Hogan <strong>OR</strong> is a former world champion in WWE, WCW, or ECW <strong>OR</strong> that wrestler currently holds a TNA championship.</p><p> </p><p> 3.) By the end of 2010 Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, or Scott Hall must have held the TNA tag titles with a partner under the age of 30.</p><p> </p><p> 4.) By the end of 2010 Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, or Scott Hall must have served as manager to an X Division champion for the entirety of his title reign.</p><p> </p><p> 5.) By the end of 2010 Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, or Scott Hall must have served as manager to a Knockouts champion for the entirety of her title reign.</p><p> </p><p> 6.) If Bryan Danielson or CM Punk become free agents you must sign them to multi-year exclusive contracts <strong>EVEN IF</strong> doing so would violate any of the above rules.</p><p> </p><p> 7.) Neither AJ Styles nor Samoa Joe can hold the TNA world title again until they've beaten Hulk Hogan in a pay-per-view singles match.</p>