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My EX2010 save is still going on but it is a bit of a grind due to adding an American division and booking RISE (developmental) myself so not much has really happened. In the mean time I did start up a ROH 2005 save and I love this time period for independent wrestling. Austin Aries starts as champion in 2005 but I didn't really like him as my champ considering the mod had him as well know. To combat this GenNext set war on AJ Styles ad AJ eventually overcame the numbers disadvantage and won the title at the 3rd anniversary show. AJ then held the bet having successful title defences but there wasn't really a story. This changed when CM Punk defeated him and started the Summer of Punk. It has been similar to the real-life Summer of Punk with his main enemies being a returning Christopher Daniels, James Gibson and Samoa Joe. In this save Samoa Joe has been the MVP of ROH, he won a best of 7 series against Danielson, kicking him out of ROH and consistently putting on the best ratings. KENTA, Roderick Strong and Ricky Reyes have all also been putting on good matches with KENTA winning the Pure title and Roderick Strong winning Tag Wars and later the Tag Team titles from Ricky Reyes. The future of ROH looks strong as Tyler Black (19), Jay Lethal and Roderick Strong (22), KENTA, Claudio Castagnoli and Fergal Devitt (24) are all rising up to World title contention.

Love all the work and effort going into the mod so far, even with just USA, Canada and Mexico it is really enjoyable. Playing as Burning Pro, MAW and OLLIE have all been fun and intriguing in different ways. Made a video giving a quick run down of the mod as it is so far, hope that is ok.

Been playing EX2010 in the Cverse and loving it, becoming my favourite save ever. Just finished the Grand Prix for 2022 and this post ended up longer than I thought it would, sorry for the rant, EXODUS World Junior Heavyweight The title starts on Masao Tsubouchi, one of the companies big three to build around. Tsubouchi started off feuding against Order of the Dragon and beat both Commander Kawagishi and Shimpei Hirose before facing against Orange Tsuchie. The story was that Tsubouchi couldn't beat Tsuchie without help, having a time limit draw and losing to him in the Tag Grand Prix going into Wrestle Kingdom. Right before Wrestle Kingdom I Subarashi was formed as the main heel threat in EXODUS. Tschie lost in the main event but would go on to win the Grand Prix, overcome Subarashi and win the world title. Tsuchi's reign saw he become the true ace of the company, being able to put on great matches against anyone (92 against Hyotaru at Zero Hour 2020 is still in our top 5 best ever matches). He gave rising stars like Motoyuki Miyake and Frankie Perez title opportunities. His reign ended when he lost to Subarashi member Tsuneyo Yanagimoto in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom II. Yanagimoto is the third of the EXODUS big three and has set the record for longest ever title reign. Winning the first ever Eiko no Torofi in 2021 (New Japan Cup style but with the G1 briefcase thing) Yanagimoto earnt a Wrestle Kingdom main event and won the title. His first few months were underwhelming against Mercury, X-Calibre and Art of War. 2022 so far has been the year of Yanagimoto, he kicked out Tsubouchi to become the leader of Subarashi, found a great deputy in Greg Gauge, beat Orange Tsuchie in a rematch and even retained his title in a 98 rated match against 2021 Grand Prix and 2022 Eiko no Torofi winner Tsubouchi. The future looks good for Yanagimoto however the roster is improving greatly, and he failed to beat his deputy Greg Gauge, coming away with a 60-minute time limit draw in a champion vs champion match. EXODUS World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team The tag team division has been a strong element of the company however due to this the belts have changed hands quite frequently. Hyotaru and X-Calibre (H-X) start as champions and reigned until June that year when they had to vacate the titles due to an injury to X-Calibre. The rest of 2020 saw Hustle-X, Kimyama & Kogo, Tsubouchi & Caballero all have reigns before H-X regained their titles. This lasted until The Legion defeated them at Thunder so H-X could split into solo action. The belts continued to change hands often with Perez & Smooth and The Canadian Daredevils becoming champions. Now in 2022 the Galaxy Surfers have held the titles since March and look strong. EXODUS All-Asia Junior Heavyweight Possibly the most overlooked title in the company, the All-Asia title has had few major storylines associated to it and has just been something for mid carders to win further propel themselves. 2020 saw Tobei Sugimura, Jotaro Tanaka and Frankie Perez holding the title, with Perez having it from Wrestle Kingdom I in May to the start of 2021. Edo Phoenix IV is a cult hero of EXODUS, having the best Wrestle Kingdom II match in his defence against Pretty Okakura getting an 88. Edo left to BHOTWG so he dropped the title to Kaoru Shibasawa. Felipe Cabellero won the title at the end of 2021 right before being kicked out from Subarashi with Tsubouchi. Gauge defeated Cabellero at Wrestle Kingdom III due to the Tsubouchi, Tsuchie and friend's vs Subarashi story. GCG World Takayuki 2000 left BHOTWG so I signed him up and had him debut at Wrestle Kingdom I proclaiming himself as the "real" world champion with the GCG belt. He beat EXODUS legend Burning EXILE and had the title until October that year when Commander Kawagishi won it. 2021 saw the debut of Noriyori Sanda and SANDA-GUN, resulting in Sanda winning the title. The build to Wrestle Kingdom II saw SANDA-GUN brutalising Subarashi members, so leader at the Tsubouchi challenged and defeated Sanda. Tsubouchi had the title all the way till New Years Dash 2022 when he lost to X-Calibre and then got kicked from his own stable. X-Calibre had the title for over half the year but lost at Invasion Attack Los Angeles when Yuta Isono beat him. ACPW Junior Heavyweight As of right now the last singles title in EXODUS, the ACPW Junior Heavyweight title arrived with Maple Terror Unit when they invaded the company. The real reason was EXODUS buying out ACPW to improve their popularity in Canada. Ant-Man had the title from the end of 2020 to Wrestle Kingdom II when he lost to Takayuki 2000. Since then the title has been the definition of mid card, Shimpei Hirose won it at Invasion Attack Los Angeles in 2021, Perez then became champion at Pacific Battle 2020 (Hawaii show). David Stone finally graduated form his Young Lion stage and defeated Perez for the title at Thunder 2022 and vows to honour Canada with this title. EXODUS Six-Man Everyone loves some trios titles when booked correctly so EXODUS implemented them to. The inaugural champions were crowned at Wrestle Kingdom II when Art of War (Musashi, Jotaro Tanaka and Japanese Phoenix) won a triple threat match against Order of the Dragon and a Subarashi trio. They then lost to SANDA-GUN (Noriyori Sanda, Motoyuki Miyake and Americana Jr). They lost the titles before 2021 was over to Frankie Perez and The Legion on a tour show. New Years Dash 2022 was a crazy event for Subarashi as Yuta Isono and Hustle-X won the trios title for the stable. They were finally beaten at Wrestle Kingdom III by the trio of Orange Tsuchie and DISCO Boys. EXODUS Grand Prix 2020 saw the Grand Prix become a round robin tournament (in canon every tournament in the Cverse is elimination, idk why) with two blocks of 10 men competing over 18 nights to decide who makes t to the final. Takayuki 2000 drew Block A with Jotaro Tanaka with 15 points, however due to Takayuki having a win against the former he moved on. Block B had Orange Tsuchie win with 14 points after defeating Yanagimoto on the last night who also had 12 points. Tsuchie then defeated Takayuki in the finals to win his 2nd GP. The 2021 addition had the same structure, this time Block A was won by Masao Tsubouchi on 14 points thanks to Yanagimoto drawing his last match with Mercury. Block B was the reigning Grand Prix winner and constant enemy of Subarashi, Orange Tsuchie (15 points). Tsubouchi bested his rival in the finals to win his 3rd GP, his second win in three years. The 2022 edition saw the field doubling in size with the addition of C and D Block. Block A saw former BCG World Champion Razan Okamoto come out on top with 15 points. The B Block saw the ace of Exodus win his Block for the third year in a row, this time with a record 17 points, his only draw coming against Kaiii Hanari. C Block saw the champion struggle as stablemate Pretty Okakura won with 14 points. The final Block was an upset as Motoyuki Miyake was tied on 16 points with Greg Gauge however Miyake already defeat Guage. The semifinals saw A Block winner Razan Okamoto defeat the C Block winner Pretty Okakura and Motoyuki Miyake pull of a miracle win against Orange Tsuchie. The miracle run ended their as the heir to SANDA-GUN lost to Razan Okamoto. EXODUS Tag Grand Prix The tag team version of the main Grand Prix, it originally started two Blocks of 6 teams. Massive Thunder went undefeated the whole tournament winning all 5 Block matches and the final against Kimiyama & Kogo. 2021 saw the new format of 8 team blocks and in the final Block A winner DREAM (Tetsuji Nishimoto and Kiyotaka) lost to the Galaxy Surfers of Block B. 2022 was the best edition of the Tag Grand Prix so far, Block A winner The Revengers defeated The Canadian Daredevils of Block B. All 3 winners of the tournament went on to lose at Wrestle Kingdom, will a team break the curse in 2023? EXODUS Eiko no Torofi The annual 32-man elimination tournament began in 2021 and saw Tsuneyo Yanagimoto defeat Tetsuji Nishimoto in the finals. The 2022 edition had Masao Tsubouchi facing off against the newest signing at the time Greg Gauge in the finals, the Gaijin star couldn't quite get it done. EXODUS Young Lions Cup A tournament designed to showcase the future stars of EXODUS, the Young Lions Cup was originally to Blocks of six competitors. It will soon become the RISE F-1 Festival, the round robin tournament of RISE (more on that later). The first edition in 2020 saw Yuta Isono defeat Dial K for Kotani in the final, with 2021 seeing David Stone beat Nakayama. Both former winners have gone on to great things and time will tell if this tournament will continue to make stars RISE and the American title were announced at the post show press conference. RISE will be a developmental company based up in Hokkaido in order for the dojo graduates of EXODUS and other young stars from around the world to get experience and improve before hitting the main roster. This also means the EXODUS Project will expand, currently there are the Tokyo (January 2021), Los Angeles (January 2021) and Montreal (January 2022) branches. Soon the Auckland (June 2023) and Sapporo (September 2023) will produce graduates for the company. As for the American title, Invasion Attack will become a weekly TV show to improve the popularity of EXODUS in the United States. The show will have a distinct brand and roster to it, mixing in independent talent from America and current wrestlers in EXODUS. Again, sorry this post is so long

Main Event Singles Match FCW Puerto Rican Championship Frederique w/ Clare South vs. Mutant (c) Semi Main Event Singles Match Texas Death Match Kip Keenan vs. Giant Brody Singles Match Future Shot at the Puerto Rican Championship Ox Mastadon vs. Handsome Stranger w/ Clare South Singles Match FCW People's Championship "The Jackhammer" Joffy Laine vs. Xavi Ferrera (c) w/ Clare South Singles Match USAce vs. Hell's Bouncer Opening Match Tag Team Match The Gonzalez Family vs. Young & Wasted

Just finished catching up and I love the diary so far, Lio Rush definitely the most entertaining 1. J Cup Block A Finals: Alex Shelley vs Alex Kane 2. J Cup Block B Finals: Robbie Eagles vs KUSHIDA 3. JCW Tag Team Championship: East West Express (c) vs SubCulture 4. Velocities vs Bang Bros 5. GCW Extreme Championship : Joey Janela (c) vs Satu Jinn 6. Los Parks vs Hughes Bros. vs Kirks 7. Gringo Loco vs LA Park Jr. 8. J Cup Finals: Alex Shelley vs KUSHIDA