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MASSACRE 2024 DIW Title: Seth Wish v Dexter Mattell (c) It's time. There's going to be some shenanigans. Tag Titles: Rob Edwards and Wrecker v The Benchmark (c) The Benchmark probably should retain but I just see The Pros changing a lot after this show. Australian Title: Hendrix Hughes v Con McReady (c) Hendrix gets great grades and Con is getting screwed by The Pros. Cage Match: Milton Hittlespitz v Bryant Hall Seth Wish needs a heel challenger. The Barracudas v The Street Stallions At this point the Barracudas are probably in decline. Hack The Hunter v Pat Rigsby I mean...

At some point, relatively early on I stopped keeping up with this dynasty, and it was a huge mistake as it's developing incredibly and I love how frugal you've been in terms of signings. Keep up the great work!

This came to mind because for example when booking lucha libre there is no incentive to not just put the flippy guys against each other all the time, discounting the role of the "base" wrestler. So maybe some stylistical interactions that expand how a match gets bonuses or penalties would be intriguing. Luchadors with 80+ flashiness getting a bonus for facing middleweight+ workers with 80+ safety. High striking workers getting a bonus for facing high selling workers. I know some of these are already there on their own as bonuses, so maybe I'm being redundant.

These DIW To The Extreme shows really just breeze by and are so easy to picture. Not much else to say really. As the company has gotten hotter in-game, you haven't had a real drop in booking, just seamlessly trucked on through poachings and injuries.

@Tiberiousthank you for the predictions! They were a more sensible and crowdpleasing show but my decisions were set in stone due to looking to the Road to Wrestlefestival™. @619thank you so much! Those tornado 6 man tags are harder to write than I first thought, I'm not completely satisfied with the result but I did okay. Just too much variance going on. CGC TITLE BOUT WRESTLING - SUNDAY, WEEK 3 JANUARY 2019 SEGMENT 1: STARTING THINGS OFF HOT The show begins in media res, with Ricky Storm making his entrance and Hugh Ancrie attacking him from behind. However, Ricky has a third eye on his back and dodges the incoming attack, with the two men brawling at ringside and into the ring to begin the match. Rating: 66 MATCH 1: HUGH ANCRIE VS RICKY STORM This could have been the final of the tournament, except thankfully it wasn't because I didn't put an associated storyline and the rating got penalized! A high-speed sprint with a lot of strikes and very pointed matwork, this was a Wrestling match between two guys who are coming into their prime. Ancrie however was clearly angry and unfocused at his ruse not working and he got hit with many stiff kicks that he tried to brush off...eventually just crashing and getting worked over by the martial artist. They got a bit indierrific in the end, with Storm needing two Superkicks to put him away instead of one, but this was a good opening. Rating: 49 SEGMENT 2: AGENT TO THE STARS? CGC Canadian Chaos Champion Curtis Mobstar is backstage, scribbling down on a notebook of potential targets when he's approached by his Elimination opponent, Drake Young. Drake says he's so impressed by the thorough ass kicking Mobstar delivered to him, that he's willing to become his new agent. He lists his accomplishments as "getting Philippe LeGrenier back in the company before being cowardly betrayed" and our champion is very whelmed by that. However, Drake does offer to scout out Mobstar's next challenger since he was having trouble with that, and Curtis reluctantly accepts. Rating: 46 SEGMENT 3: THE REASON LUCK OF THE DRAW WASN'T SCRAPPED We go to Jenny Playmate, who announces there will be a special match held at CGC's next PPV: The Luck of the Draw Scramble! 5 wrestlers will participate, randomly selected through a lottery machine she's standing next to, and one name will be announced on each Title Bout Wrestling until the show, the final Combatant on the night itself. As a scramble match, these competitors will get 30 minutes, and the one to get the most pinfall or submissions wins the ultimate prize: A title shot at the Main Event of the 2019 edition of the CGC DeColt Wrestlefestival! The first participant selected is Sterling Whitlock, who conveniently walks into frame and is absolutely kicking the air and doing drunken master routines, almost breaking the lottery machine. He apologizes but says he'll show what his opponents have to expect from him, next! (Well-timed commercial break) Rating: 58 MATCH 2: GAHTIR SALIM VS STERLING WHITLOCK There's a lot of chops and it's a pretty fun match for the 6 minutes it lasts. But ultimately, I'd be wasting words if I sold it for something more than it was. Whitlock's lariats put an end to it pretty mercilessly. Rating: 52 SEGMENT 4: A SPIRITUAL WARNING The Montreal Mafia are preparing for Marc Raisin's match that is happening shortly, when they're approached by the definitely not vampire EMOe NOTman. He's very concerned for them and asks them if they felt the negative energy on Saturday, being in the ring with a literal hellspawn. They completely no-sell his paraphysical concern while he assures them he'll be by them if there's a time of need dealing with the demonic. Rating: 36 MATCH 3: ALEXANDER ROBINSON VS MARC RAISIN A bit of a return match as the veteran hasn't been seen since his alliance with Sterling Whitlock ended. Established singles guy vs tag guy + return means it's fairly predictable, but also there's a cool factor of bitter veteran throwing a high flier around- and Raisin is a particularly small wrestler. But it's not the world's most exciting contest, and the Canadian Violence running european uppercut ended proceedings in very short fashion, less than 8 minutes in. Rating: 46 SEGMENT 5: WAIT A THING THAT WAS SET UP AN HOUR AGO IS HAPPENING? After the contest, Drake Young comes out and offers Robinson the Canadian Chaos title shot for Luck of the Draw, and the veteran happily takes it. Rating: 60 MAIN EVENT: ROBIN DALAY & SKIP BEAU VS THE CANADIAN BLONDES (C) FOR THE CGC WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS They got the PPV time allocation, and these two teams goddamn delivered by far the best TV match of the year for the company so far. The unusual dynamic of big faces against lightweight heels worked really well in terms of giving us crowdpleasing offense, and the Blondes finally, after spending the first half of their match doing the complacent routine, brought things up a notch and did some incredible work. DaLay held up pretty well as the by far most inexperienced wrestler. Skip bumped like crazy in the heel comeback where their increased workrate combined with Draper's timely interference led to Beau taking a top rope bump to the outside landing (safely) on the guardrail, and it left Robin isolated with the heels. He fought them off real hard with strikes, but when he tried the belly to belly piledriver on Flash, Ozzie Golden chopblocked him and it was the beginning of the end, before tapping out to Flash Savage's Boston Crab finisher. Rating: 68 Show Rating: 65

What's the war down in Mexico looking like? Surprised CILL have been surviving, they're a great company but you'd think with 4 big ones in a war and their one draw working Coastal Zone they're toast AI wise.

Oliveiro! Now that's a good get, and two years in might be one of the highest charisma guys DIW has had. Seth Wish might actually be getting that belt... and you did whatever you possibly could to not bury Kobra Khan in defeat.

Scottsdale Championship Wrestling, with an anthropomorphic cactus in the logo.

Katsuhiko Nakajima is leaving NOAH, handed his 30 day notice and will be departing after the 28th of October show. No one knows where to just yet.

CGC ELIMINATION XVII REPORT Live on U-Demand Canada (23,832 buys) Held at TESA (6,069 attendance) MATCH 1: EMOE NOTMAN & THE MONTREAL MAFIA VS DIABLO DUVAK & THUNDER AND LIGHTNING VS The surprise arrival for this match is ACPW's Diablo Duvak, a renowned luchador-style worker who's been very successful in that company before apparently signing with CGC. Though his name was taken more... literally by the commentary team, and EMOe NOTman who was freaked out by the impish luchador. The match was fine, a bit of a TV match in a PPV setting, until Duvak decided to pull a disappearing act, abandoning his teammates and letting them lose to the Montreal Mafia who got their win back as Ayres got Lightning with the Montreal Crab. The mood wasn't that celebratory however, as the winners were more perplexed by the supernatural sight. Rating: 45 MATCH 2: CLAUSE REED, TEDDY THOMPSON & ZEUS MAXIMILLION VS DAN DALAY AND KILLER KARSON & GAHTIR SALIM VS This match turned out a bit better as Zeus has started 2019 in fine form. A lot of quick back and forths characterize this contest, with the heels really pulling all the classic tricks slowing down a face until they tag a fresher one. This is also one of the bigger contests in recent time, with everyone in the ring being pretty damn beefy. DaLay and Karson hit a double chokeslam on Thompson, I guess establishing a team signature, but this was more solid than great and at some point started to autopilot towards the finish: Maximillion got in the ring with Gahtir Salim, hit him with a beautiful belly throw suplex and worked the back on his way to locking in the Olympian Clutch. He's now starting a little, humble win streak! MATCH 3: BIFF THE BRUISER AND BRETT FRASER & WHIPPY THE CLOWN VS JOEY POISON, RICKY STORM & STERLING WHITLOCK IN A CGC ELIMINATION MATCH VS The first of three CGC Elimination matches on the show, this means tornado tag, falls count anywhere, no disqualifications. This covered up the large amount of...age on display by letting everyone be violent and play to the crowd. Although the biggest amount of it came from Sterling Whitlock who passionately exhibited his knowledge of white guy kung fu for everyone and actually beat the crap out of the heels at some points. There was also a lot of focus on trying to eliminate Joey Poison early on, with all three guys having a burning hatred of him. That however allowed the younger stars to get an advantage and fight them off almost unopposed, until the match scattered as these tend to do. The first elimination was in the ring, as Whitlock did a crane pose before hitting Whippy The Clown with a shoot headbutt. He then did his poses for the crowd, hyping them up for the Whitlock's End, only to be raked in the eyes and rolled up by the clown prince of grappling. Now fighting two on three, Storm and Poison had to work extra hard and together, even including a spot of Storm hauling Joey Poison to the two tough veterans, but the elimination of Biff The Bruiser came off of stoppage, with Ricky Storm knocking him out with a kick. When the match became a two on two, that's when the action condensed again, with Whippy trying to use "clown" props in order to get an elimination but Storm and Poison protecting each other well. The new heel version of Fraser showed a renewed and impressive resilience but when Storm and Poison grabbed weapons of their own it was over for the moose hunter. A twist of fate on the steel steps was enough to secure his elimination. However, what looked like was going to be a cathartic beatdown on Whippy by the babyfaces turned into Whippy blinding them with the ol' water from a flower trick, then getting a backslide on Ricky Storm. The last section of the match was mostly about Whippy taking too much leisure when it came to beating up Joey Poison, working over his back and face at a snail's pace, then putting him on a table and wanting to hit a Moonsault through it for the win. Of course, he paid for his hubris by going through the table as Poison dodged, before Joey grabbed a trash can and a lid, put Whippy's head in the can then hit it with the lid, unnecessarily putting the knocked out clown in the antidote cradle for the win. Rating: 57 MATCH 4: CGC CANADIAN CHAOS CHAMPIONSHIP CHAIR WAR MATCH: DRAKE YOUNG VS CURTIS MOBSTAR (C) Pretty straightforward story and match. Curtis was pissed off that this was his opponent and just beat the crap out of him with a chair for 8 minutes, before pinning him with an Impaler DDT on a chair. After the match, he said that he'll be going after his opponents from now on to avoid situations like this. Rating: 44 MATCH 5: ANT-MAN AND TOPHER SMITH & MARC DUBOIS VS BLOCKBUSTER, HUGH ANCRIE & IAN DECOLT IN A CGC ELIMINATION MATCH VS This match was structured more similarly to a normal 6 man tag, with a lot of team moves and almost clean action early on, until the heels decided they need to take action if they are to make a quick elimination. Ant-Man tried to do one of his signature spots deadlifting Hugh Ancrie for a brainbuster, but Blockbuster came in and punched him to the back of the head, taking advantage of closed fists being allowed in a no dq setting. Ian rolled a chair in that Ancrie blocked Topher Smith's suicide dive with, and Dubois was found in a three on one setting momentarily, being three-man powerbombed on the steel steps. Gopher & The Ant prevented an elimination, but they couldn't fight 3 on 2 for long- a Blockbuster bomb to Ant-Man on Topher Smith caused both men to be eliminated simultaneously. The faces proved to be naive in their strategy to treat this as a normal match, and the rest of the match was a torture with Dubois getting little offense in on the heels, until miscommunication struck, Blockbuster kicked DeColt, Dubois grabbed a chair and hit all three men, getting enough separation to get the Dubious Dubois Pin on Ancrie! This wasn't the opening he was looking for to take charge of the match however, as that only made the two heels more vicious. They handcuffed Dubois to the turnbuckle and just kept hitting shots to all his limbs and asked him if he would quit. Of course, the champion and face of the company wouldn't, so they had to ask the ref if pinning him to the turnbuckle after knocking him out would count as falls count anywhere. Then, an awkward cartoon spot happened with Dubois stealing the key to the handcuffs from Blockbuster without him noticing, freed himself and rolled out the ring to grab a chain. The crowd's roar betrayed what had happened and the heels scrambled to grab anything they could. Dubois hit a top rope double axe handle on Blockbuster with the chain, then an european uppercut on Ian, and managed to pin Blockbuster. However, Ian DeColt never went down, and took very little damage in the rest of the match. This meant that Dubois was still groggily selling and just turned into an Identity Theft. 1...2....3. Simple as. The odds were just too stacked, as they can be sometimes. Rating: 69 SEGMENT: THE FINAL SHOWDOWN After the match, Ian DeColt gloated at pinning the champion, at outmaneuvering him on every turn, and at earning himself a rematch for HIS CGC World Championship. Luck of the Draw. Ian DeColt. Marc Dubois. No Holds Barred. Rating: 67 MATCH 6: ALEX DECOLT, ROBIN DALAY & SKIP BEAU VS THE GOLDEN ELITE IN A CGC ELIMINATION MATCH VS Experts are calling it "the most overbooked match in CGC history". But they're wrong, as the dark days have faded from memory. This was pretty much a 4 on 3, with Danny Draper acting more like a complete nuisance than a mascot. Also there was a TON of smoke and mirrors to distract from the extra 7 months of age on the boss's body. There were a lot of teamwork spots that were planned to have the contestants take a breather or work the fans in between so that they can catch their breaths, especially as we're talking about three brawlers vs three and really four cruiserweights. The first fall was shocking as Ozzie Golden and Robin DaLay eliminated each other by landing awkwardly from a 6 person tower of doom spot, which really helped make the rest of the match more focused. After a break and some weapon shots, we got the start of what was to come, with Alex DeColt and Skip Beau launching Dan Draper over the announce table onto Adrian Garcia. Alex DeColt hit the DeColt Driver on Garcia and Beau the Flow Down on Draper, which even'd the field and got the crowd to really begin roaring. Flash and Atherton had to work really hard to cheat really hard to regain control, but they just couldn't put the faces away. The size difference made things easier for Alex and Skip, as a DeColt Driver on Flash was paired with Skip putting Jamie in a Cobra Twist to not break up the pin. With a numbers' advantage, the two faces planned to put Atherton through the announce table with a Flow Down/Superfly Splash combo, but a masked man threw Alex DeColt off the top rope and allowed Atherton to take advantage, slipping out and hitting Skip with the Dangerous Brainbuster through the announce table, pinning him. The masked man left from the crowd while being chased by security, and led to the final fall: Alex DeColt vs Jamie Atherton. This was a mini match where both men bladed, both men hit their finishers leading to a kickout, and essentially when Alex really started to run out of breath, they decided to go home. Atherton used some extremely painful weapons to lead DeColt to his knees, with shots to the back and the stomach area, then ran the ropes to get to his crucifix bomb, but Alex DeColt powered through, deadlifting him with the back part of his arms and crashing with all his might to an exposed turnbuckle (with Atherton protected as he mostly went between the top and middle buckle). From there, he hit all three finishers of the DeColt Brothers, then George DeColt's Superfly Splash for the win, teaching everyone a lesson: a DeColt would never go out on his back. It's no dignified way to retire in CGC. Rating: 68 Show Rating: 66

1. IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) © vs. Gedo & Jado 2. CHAOS (Takashi Iizuka & Toru Yano & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki & Shelton X Benjamin & TAKA Michinoku) 3. IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Prince Devitt © vs. Kota Ibushi 4. IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) © vs. Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man) 5. NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Masato Tanaka © vs. Tomohiro Ishii 6. TETSUYA NAITO RETURN MATCH: La Sombra vs. Tetsuya Naito 7. IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Shinsuke Nakamura © vs. Lance Archer 8. Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata 9. IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Kazuchika Okada © vs. Togi Makabe Goto challenges next.

Mr. Blitz just shot a pipebomb brother

Not too speculate too hard considering who's in the ring busting their ass is more important but I do think there's like 6-7 AE guys where you'd be lucky if three of those landed in DIW, really excited to see how this shakes out.

CGC GEARING UP #2 RESULTS -Ian De Colt def. Ant-Man (63) -Thunder & Lightning def. The Montreal Mafia (51) -Zeus Maximillion def. Gahtir Salim (47) CGC Weekly Notes: -Luck of the Draw is expected to stay on the PPV rotation for this year and take place in February like usual. -The Card for Elimination comprises of: Alex DeColt, Skip Beau & Robin DaLay vs The Golden Elite in a CGC Elimination Match Blockbuster, Ian DeColt and Hugh Ancrie vs Ant-Man, Marc Dubois & Topher Smith in a CGC Elimination Match Curtis Mobstar vs Whoever steps up in a Chair War match Biff The Bruiser, Brett Fraser & Whippy The Clown vs Joey Poison, Ricky Storm & Sterling Whitlock in a CGC Elimination Match Clause Reed, Teddy Thompson & Zeus Maximillion vs Dan DaLay, Killer Karson & Gahtir Salim EMOe NOTMan & The Montreal Mafia vs ??? and Thunder & Lightning

1. Sho Tanaka vs. Yohei Komatsu 2. BUSHI & Takaaki Watanabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Hiromu Takahashi 3. Suzuki-gun (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Shelton Benjamin) vs. CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura & Yujiro Takahashi & YOSHI-HASHI) 4. Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man) & Captain New Japan vs. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Katsuyori Shibata 5. Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tiger Mask IV & Yuji Nagata 6. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Takashi Iizuka) vs. Togi Makabe & Hirooki Goto 7. NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Masato Tanaka © vs. Tomoaki Honma 8. BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIORS FINAL: Kenny Omega vs. Prince Devitt #GotoIWGP

This episode is really a showcase in good booking. Everything is coming together despite the high turnover of the last couple months. Kudos.

1. Check Shimatani, Galeno Del Mal, Ryuichi Kawakami vs. Gringo Loco, Hartley Jackson, Yutani 2. CIMA, El Lindaman, Junjie, Shigehiro Irie vs. Issei Onituska, Masato Kamino, Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama 3. MICHIKO & Risa Sera vs. DASH Chisako & Yukari Hosokawa 4. Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu vs. Keiichi Sato & Kotaro Suzuki 5. UWF Rules: Minoru Tanaka & Yu Iizuka vs. Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato 6. G-INFINITY Championship Match: Jun Saito & Rei Saito (C) vs. KAZMA Sakamoto & Quiet Storm 7. Special Singles Match: Kota Ibushi vs. Kaito Ishida 8. GLEAT x AJPW Super Generation Struggle: Kaz Hayashi, T-Hawk, Suwama & Kento Miyahara vs. Hayato Tamura, Tetsuya Izuchi, Atsuki Aoyagi & Yuma Aoyagi

CGC TITLE BOUT WRESTLING - SUNDAY WEEK 2 OF JANUARY 2019 SEGMENT 1: FTE This week, the babyfaces open the show. Alex DeColt stands alongside his Elimination teammates of Skip Beau and Robin DaLay, congratulating them for beating the Canadian Blondes on last week's Gearing Up. He says they've earned a title shot for next week's Title Bout Wrestling, and reiterates that the Golden Elite is going to pay in blood on Sunday for being a disruptive force. Skip chimes in to add how this is just the start of a memorable Wrestlefestival journey for him and DaLay, and that he aims to make this the year of the Raging Bull. Robin DaLay is vaguely cool alongside them. Rating: 62 MATCH 1: HUGH ANCRIE VS STERLING WHITLOCK Another first round matchup for the CBN title tournament, two of the brightest stars in the company had a wrestling clinic coupled with Whitlock's martial-arts-weeb character work he's been doing as of late. The mat work is meticulous but happens in short bursts to not bore the crowd, the strikes crisp and the two men fabulous looking. However, as it often has lately, Whitlock's newfound showmanship proved to be his undoing, trying to do a pirouette before hitting a backfist and just finding himself getting trapped in the Crying Game dragon sleeper and tapping out. Ancrie gets some much needed momentum. Rating: 60 MATCH 2: BIFF THE BRUISER & BRETT FRASER VS GENERATION Z You know what you get from this match by just reading it off the sheet and...yep. The kids bumped their asses off for the vets, then got murdered for their troubles. They might be really valuable members of the division by 2022! Brett got the pin with a DDT, not really justifying his heel turn considering the level but it's a start. Rating: 38 SEGMENT 2: POISONED WELL Joey Poison hits the ring after the match, demanding explanations for Fraser's betrayal, but all he gets is steamrolled by the two super heavyweights before he can even articulate a point. Rating: 43 SEGMENT 3: BTGE The Golden Elite boys articulate a response to what they consider "targeted harassment and workplace discrimination", with The Canadian Blondes being forced to defend their tag belts ON FREE TV being the last straw. They are not going to Elimination to win a wrestling match, but to end three careers and finally overcome the oppression of the DeColt regime. Rating: 67 MATCH 3: KILLER KARSON VS RICKY STORM Turns out years of facing these 21CW monsters has made Ricky Storm adept at matching up with bigger opponents. He delivered a virtuoso performance and gave Karson by far his best match so far in his short career, without even bumping too much. Rather, the continuous motion and action drove the contest into a state where every move looked like it took everything out of the opponent because they might not keep up, and Storm dodging the Killer Boot only to hit a knock-out Spinning Wheel Kick was a very memorable match finish. Rating: 64 SEGMENT 4: THE CONTRACT KILLER A short video plays reminding us of the fact Dusty Ducont exists and putting over a prizefighter essence in his character, perhaps to explain his absence from TV. It does kind of work though maybe. Rating: 52 MAIN EVENT: BLOCKBUSTER VS MARC DUBOIS This was a way overbooked main event that reached 15 minutes but maybe 5 of them were "bullshit-free". Every participant in next Saturday's 3v3 match made an appearance, which undermined Blockbuster's attempt to look threatening and only happened to lead to a Marc Dubois roll up win to put over the fact the babyfaces CAN win even with all the chaos factor going on. Maybe the first Dubois match to underdeliver since his CGC debut. After the match all 6 men had a short staredown as we went off the air. Rating: 56 Show Rating: 60

Everything but the ice cream bars: Give CM Punk at least 6 months off like he wanted, then when he's back he finally gets his WM Main Event he always wanted. HARD MODE: No Rumble win but you don't have to do that. NXT IS the Future...for better or worse: Vince takes NXT seriously this time. Whoever wins the NXT title is guaranteed a solid future in the main roster, but whoever doesn't has a very low ceiling if they get called up. Women's Revolution: It actually happens this time, the women get their own PPV too whenever you want it... but Stephanie is uncomfortably involved perhaps as comissioner of the division or something. Sierra Hotel India Echo Loser Delta: One of the three SHIELD members never gets a world title win unless they get a singular reign by winning the fabled "SHIELD triple threat". And two to make use of your guys instead of going on a hiring spree, treat them as optional if you want: 1. No TNA guys 2. No people from the indies the WWE actually signed. Different luchadors, different Japanese guys, your own CAWs. Just make a messed up alternate universe.

Hendrix Hughes vs D.O.A. AUSTRALIAN: Kobra Khan vs Con McReady (c) Rob Edwards vs Seth Wish Bryant Hall vs Wrecker TAG: The Barracudas vs The Benchmark (c) DIW: Milton Hittlespitz vs Dexter Mattell (c) There is face run potential for Seth Wish if he gets his ass kicked enough to get back to his senses. Also, as counter to storyline as it would be, I am not disregarding the possibility of Milton getting the title back.

"G PROWRESTLING Ver. 57" Prediction Key 1. CIMA & Junjie vs. Rising HAYATO & Ryo Inoue 2. Sayaka Unagi & Yukari Hosokawa vs. MICHIKO & Janai Kai 3. Kaz Hayashi & Soma Watanabe vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Yuya Susumu 4. KAZMA Sakamoto & Quiet Storm vs. Zeus & Tigers Mask 5. GAORA TV Championship Match: Minoru Tanaka (C) vs. Jun Tonsho 6. Ryuichi Kawakami, Check Shimatani & Hayato Tamura vs. Takanori Ito, Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama 7. T-Hawk & El Lindaman vs. Tetsuya Izuchi & Yu Iizuka 8. Kota Ibushi, Fuminori Abe, Takuya Nomura vs. Keiichi Sato, Hartley Jackson, Yutani

@619 Interesting that the heel turn was a shock considering I was really rough on Fraser who pretty much did nothing last year. Then again, that also means I didn't give any reason to think he'd get something to do before retirement so, fair enough! Thought it was a fine first show as well, although I appreciate you adding the reasoning and logic to my decisions haha. CGC GEARING UP #2 RESULTS -Skip Beau and Robin DaLay defeated The Canadian Blondes (59) -Brett Fraser squashed Lewis Frey (39) -Zeus Maximillion beat Spencer Edmund (41) CGC Weekly Notes: -Most of the matches at Elimination that aren't being built are going to be thrown together multi-mans, with the belief that some might ignite feuds to lead to Wrestlefestival season. -It's been cutting season for most companies lately, but CGC seem to be showing remarkable restraint in comparison to last year, with only one new permanent name thought to be coming in in the next few weeks. One that is thought to be a "big indie name". -After a lot of internal deliberation, Alex DeColt, Skip Beau and Robin DaLay vs The Golden Elite has been penciled in to main event Elimination. -No decisions made with another company to showcase their talent on Wrestlefestival yet, as the Garcia regime wants to make it a tradition but no one was impressed by the reception the FCW talent got last year.

CEW is such a wholly unlikeable existence that at multiple points I've flirted with starting a diary with them. Like just do a bunch of shows where freaking, idk, Brodie Lachlan is like "we are the toughest Australian wrestling has to offer. We came from nothing and took the world by storm despite people wanting to end us at every step of the way, and we're coming for RAW's spot" just because AE swooped a TV deal from them worse than the one they took in the end. Good to see some loyalty on the roster and nice rationalization of the AI being random.

Ah, Brown Snake is a lovely little wrestler I think, though no clue how he might have developed if at all. I do think you shouldn't be worried about whether your segments or some story beats are suitable to the hardcore company, ECW was melodramatic as hell even if masked in more edginess, and fans always need something to chew into if you don't just give them extra, Onita-esque violence. You've been inventing Aussie hardcore, blokecore even, this whole time.

I really liked Soberano's rudo performance in the irl version of that Dorada match, but it's slightly clipped anyway