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Jushin Lyger - Big time fan, crazy high flier, marked out a lot for him, I think though it won't be clean and Vito will retain The Whole F'N Show Nate Hatred and Chris Hero - balance of the numbers game Sasuke - great wrestler Ultimo Dragon - sounds like we're having a Japanese party tonight Calaway and Rhino - turn the wounds of Raven some more

My need for porn and drugs is gone, my addiction to ECW Worldwide can be once more craved. Jericho bWo Hart Traci (by DQ) Styles Calaway (though Raven will have an excuse no doubt)

Chris Jericho v Sal Thomaselli - I would normally go Jericho here, but I sense Owen Hart will be involved again. I think your segment was brilliant on Hart turning it against Jericho for using his own families tradition, the Sharpshooter. You're right in how you booked that, WWE often uses the opposition finishers, but a good heel takes the loss and makes it into something, and frankly, the Sharpshooter is Hart tradition. Well done. Sal Thomaselli for the W. sWo v bWo - I'm going sWo, loved the Great Susake moment where you had 5 of them. And I think the sWo again will have something up their sleeve. Nate Hatred v The Sandman - I wonder, I just whether Sabu will come down and accidentally KO Sandman, giving Hatred the win. Therefore, I'm going Nate Hatred. I sorta think it's right that the faces should be chasing Nate Hatred for all his demented cheating right now. Traci v Daizy - I think Daizy's going to have support here, Daizy. The Whole F'N Show v The Dudleyz - The Dudleyz are the right full-time to end the Whole F'N Show, but the Whole F'N Show is on such a roll that I can't see it happening until PPV time. CM Punk v Paul Birchill - Birchill does eventually have to lose, and from there I'm sure you have something wicked up your sleeve. But I don't think it's right here, and thus I think he's going to overcome the Nest and prevail.

I re-read your last show word for word like five times mate. I don't know if I've ever done that on a wrestling show. I don't even think I've ever done that with one of my own or a WCW DDTdigest.com episode. But THAT, THAT just held me from start to finish. From the outset what you did was completely and utterly masterful. Your definition of heel versus face is so outstanding. I know there's been a lot of comment about the Raven-Burchill-Vito-Douglas moments, and rightly so. But the part that truly grabbed me? Juventud Guerrera. It reminded me of what WCW did NOT do. WCW made Juvi and Rey lose their heritage, their tradition, their legacy, ... in a way themselves. But you just paid homage to that. WCW did not allow that story to flow, instead, that was the end of it in both those cases. What you did was perfectly logical - if a man loses his soul, doesn't he then start to question everything? Doesn't he become solitary? Doesn't he become confined? What you did with Juventud Guerrera makes him pushable. It makes him someone who can start to scale the card. It makes it interesting. Granted, WCW had some great humour with Chris Jericho post beating Juventud, but they instead of giving Juventud a chance to get over how YOU just did when back to the monotony of the nWo. That, despite having Mike Tenay as a commentator who had done a great job in selling the legacy, the importance, the tradition, the honour, the heritage of the mask and lucha libre. If there is an award for a segment that means so much to someone, that means so much to me because frankly you just showed me the way that wrestling should be done. You just gave Juventud a bone. You just allowed him to become his own man. And you didn't destroy lucha libre doing it, you just polished it up moreso. For that, I give you full marks, mate. Wise men say only fools rush in but I can't help falling in love with ECW Worldwide.

Rhino vs. Masato Tanaka Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. Nate Hatred CM Punk vs. Vito Thomaselli Chris Hero vs. AJ Styles© The Hardcore Innovators vs. The Whole F**kin' Show Paul Burchill vs. Raven

Not in a shy way you did it your way alright. Great card, I particularly liked the Studmuffin segment to open up. Certainly following the ECW traditions of going to the limits my friend, well done.

I would say nevvy's got something unreal - god given, pure, natural talent. This guy is the main event, the icon.

As hard as it is to believe, I truly believe nevvy is just tuning up the band for more and more chaos. This show is going to be stopped for being too good.

nevermore, why do I get the feeling I will one day stumble into some backward English city like Blackburn, with you smoking a pipe wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat, with a great big bushy Haystacks beard, and your living room is nothing but a series of investigation novels and a Raven shrine ... I get the feeling that when we play Cluedo the killer should always be nevermore because frankly no one could pull off a stunt/surprise like you can, with such vibrant yet well disguised clues... (It's all a compliment mate ) In other words, you are the master of ECW and suspense. Listen mate, the wife watches some of those real ****house detective style shows that are populating mainstream TV these days, those blokes could use an idea of how to build suspense and have all the loose ends tie neatly together after a nice slow long deathly build. This continues to blow the mind, what a brilliant, masterful story this is. You are a real credit to these boards my friend, and it's been a real priveledge reading this dynasty. PS: Aside from the tongue in cheek Blackburn comment (down with Rovers), where are you actually from?

Once the master, always the master. Wicked, wicked, wicked stuff my good man. Congratulations on another major coup.

Mate, you are the master of the slow build, and the killer knock out blow. I am sorry to hear you have other issues at the moment, as always, particularly for someone I admire the shyte out of for ingenuity, determination and class from ECW Worldwide, you can always contact me on PM if I can help you at all. If this does become the end, my god, what an ending. Truly diobolical carnage, something you are the king at fo shore.

Good answer, I'll also give another spin on it, to me, in TEW and in dynasty's respectively things tend to get booked and spun very quickly, because by nature, it's rare to find a long standing diary or even save game. I mean, when we all start with a roster, we all make the sacrificial firing of a few lambs. Likewise, we move the belt quickly onto who we want. The dynamics of TEW change quickly too, all of a sudden a player will start improving massively in certain stats and be irresistable to ignore. Adam Ryland points this out that momentum and popularity obviously change quicker in TEW than in real life, I guess to add a bit of playability, so things are likely to mould together or break apart quicker because it's the logistics of how the game is played and organised. Another way of looking at it is if you book a dynasty, and you put a stock standard show up without a lot of 'high heat' moments, IE turns, or interferences, or heated promos, or lo and behold belt changes, people can tend to tire quickly of it and see it as a repetitive, so I think we are all prone somewhat to move towards a more crash TV style product to keep the product moving very quickly and thus stables, and titles tend to change more frequently than they would in a simulated television scripted set up.

One thing I feel when I read that was unfortunately non ECW related. I just thought what if Bischoff had have used similar booking logic to unearth a story where there were hidden clues... Heck, to be honest, even WWE today could use that sort of epic delivery of a storyline. But all in all, I just thought how perfect it could have been to see the nWo, which turned into a cancer, split apart while promoting someone as a mega face or heel due to a story similar to this. That's about the best critique I can give really, I really loved that promotion and when I read this I just wish a man of your learned knowledge was involved to spin the yarn in real life to keep the dream alive.

That was outlandishly well done. Every part of the puzzle waiting eerily to be slotted in, yet no one, but no one picked it apart before it got to the assembly stage. That's the best piece of booking I've witnessed in a very long time. Congratulations.

Mate I completely understand how you are finding it difficult to not only cope with the Benoit situation in real life, but how to deal with it TEW style. Part of me wants to restart the 1998 scenario and do what I always intended to do with him, another part says I just can't do that. I guess it's all part of the grief/shock cycle we are all going through undoubtedly as our industry begins to unravel into a charade again, but moreso when we think about ... Daniel. I just can't get that poor young man out of my mind. Mate, I just want to add that as you are aware I voted for your diary in the Real World DOTM. It has been an absolute honor and privilege to sit back and admire your great storytelling - you have a unique ability to balance the demands of bringing in new stories, but without cutting good stories short. That is a real skill. I also want to pay tribute to you, it's never been said a lot but when I first came on these boards I read four diaries that inspired me to 'ave a go ya mug'. Firstly, the Stallion's work, and I was rapt when I first started up he was constructively critiquing me it meant a shyteload. Secondly, the isalmite's DOTT diatribe, it was so well placed for the time period it was set in. Thirdly, giantgonzalez' WWF Wrestlecrap, some great humor, and let's face it, the events of the pass week show sometimes we need humor to distress us from the pressures we all face... and finally, your own diary. This has been going on forever mate, and it's been classy since day dot. So thanks for serving as the inspiration, you are the legend of these boards mate, you are the legend of whom we are all just mere apprentices to trying to learn every booking technique we can. Now, get back to booking ... mate!

Mate, I'm not too sure what reverence to place in the various polls going around. Firstly, I'm sure much like you, my goal when I started this had nothing to do with accolades. I just wanted to smash the WWF for WCW and put over young talent One thing though you can be sure of is there were three diary writers who I followed for a few months before I penned up my initial diary, WCW '98, that was Stallion, giantgonzalez with WWF Wrestlecr@p (because it was funny) and yours. I distinctly remember reading both of yours and Stallions and thinking wow. So you have no reason to think of any rivalry champ, yours was the benchmark back then, yours still is the benchmark, the likes of keefy and myself we just want to give a diary to people that gives them as much enjoyment as your effort has given us all. What you put together is the...whole....F'N.... show of all shows.

The leader of the bWo versus the leader of the sWo Big Stevie Cool vs. The Great Sasuke - it's Stevie's time to shine 6-Man Tag Team Match under Lucha Libre rules Team Mexico vs. The Canadian Connection ECW International All Action Championship Match CM Punk vs. Michael Shane vs. Christopher Daniels© Match Number Three In The Best-Of-Seven Series Lance Storm vs. Jerry Lynn ECW World Tag Team Title Match The Iron Saints vs. The Whole F**kin' Show© Barbed Wire Match Tommy Dreamer vs. The Sandman ECW World Television Championship Match Paul Burchill vs.Bret Hart© ECW World Heavyweight Championship Match "Superstar" Steve Austin vs. Sabu©