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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Nightshadeex" data-cite="Nightshadeex" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47575" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Oh, oh, oh! And Welcome to the Real World, too! That was pretty damn amazing from what I remember!<p> </p><p> IN 2005, did you just hate UCR and bail on it?</p><p> Man, 2007 went on for a looooong time!</p><p> Did 2008 go away because of the Red River flooding? We've had flooding around Michigan lately because of dams failing. (I immediately typed "damns")</p><p> No 2013 dynasty? I think I spent all my time that cycle making the CVerse 2005 mod and getting burnt out. Same with 2016... Same with now....</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If I just got tired of a dynasty, I would usually say so. The major causes of dynasties ending were either A) hard drive issues/file corruption or B) Chronic depression. If I didn't mention file issues or that I was getting tired of it, then it was probably depression. I didn't start getting treated for it until 2010/2011 or so. I had a lot of ideas I liked that depression just kicked the crap out of, even after treatment (<a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38461" rel="external nofollow">Victorious Kaiju Melee</a> and <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22181" rel="external nofollow">WWE: Aftermath</a> come to mind as two of my favorites). </p><p> </p><p> And I'm pretty sure I still have Welcome to the Real World around here somewhere as well. If I do, I'll put it up with the original Welcome.</p>

<p>I'm not dead. Dynasty is not dead. Since work-from-home ended, I've had to start driving back and forth to the office.</p><p> </p><p> It's an hour each way.</p><p> </p><p> So losing ten hours a week of free time, well... I'm rotating through hobbies, and TEW has gotten the short end of the stick. Hopefully I'll have something posted next week.</p><p> </p><p> ... even if it's just a link to what I was able to salvage of the original Welcome To The Coastal Zone years and years ago.</p>

I vaguely remember having part of it somewhere. I think I posted some of it somewhere... I found a thread pointing to an old website I used to have, but that doesn't exist anymore, so I'll ransack my personal files when I get home and see if I can find it. Until then, here' everything -but- the original: Welcome 2016 Welcome 2010 Welcome 2008 Welcome 2007 Welcome 2005 Fox Mask in a Wrestling Spirit dynasty

"When everyone is a superstar, nobody will be."

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="John Waylon" data-cite="John Waylon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>My question is will running a show that is all tag team matches result in a penalty? Because ideally that's what I'd like. Maybe one singles match a week, but that's it. It's all tag team focused.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> As far as anyone knows, unless your product for some reason is anti-tag-team, tag team matches for every match, every show, every year are not a problem. They just tend to be more expensive.</p>

<p><strong>February 2026</strong> (Now on 1.16)</p><p> </p><p><strong> Coast To Coast #28</strong> (pre-taped)</p><p> Preshow: Max Mayhem def. Miguel Rivera (59)</p><p> Angle: Take last show’s opening. Shake it up a bit. Give Kaldar a script this time. (78)</p><p> Big Men (Sapp & Peloton) def. Minnesota Awesome (55)</p><p> Angle: Hype for Skye Force vs Heartbreak Express (46)</p><p> Angle: Hype for Sean McFly v Bullseye (50)</p><p> Heartbreak Express & Bullseye def. SkyeForce & McFly (54)</p><p> Angle: Hype for Tagg v Cornell (65)</p><p> Angle: Hype for Mercado v Pink (70)</p><p> Maribel Mercado & Kalder Tagg def. Mystery Pink & Tommy Cornell (69)</p><p> </p><p> … Oh… kay… I guess we won’t run variations of that tag team for our main event for the next month. Well, let’s get ready for Vendetta…</p><p> </p><p> … Backstage incident… oh, no, what now… Sean McFly takes War Machine as a protege. Oh. That’s not nearly as bad as we were expecting!</p><p> </p><p><strong> Vendetta 2026 </strong></p><p> Preshow: Masked Men def. Acid III & Topher Smith (58)</p><p> Bullseye def. Sean McFly (50)</p><p> Angle: Bullseye continues to beat down Sean after the match, when… music hits? Sean’s music? Bullseye looks towards the stage, but someone comes out of the crowd and chairs him once, twice, three times… they take down their hoodie… and Lucy offers her father a hand as he gets up from the mat! Lucy Stone-McFly is in the Zone! (60)</p><p> Tag Titles: SkyeForce def. Heartbreak Express (63)</p><p> Kalder Tagg def. Tommy Cornell (53)</p><p> #1 Contendership: Long Grain Rice def. AC Sapp, Max Mayhem, Miguel Rivera, Paradox and Stuntman (58)</p><p> CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado vs Mystery Pink goes 30… 40… 50… 55… 58… 59… MERCADO WINS! (72)</p><p> </p><p> … that’s it? And now we’re getting notes about Fabulous Frank’s road agenting? And announcing? What the hell?</p><p> </p><p> Let’s see. Fallout from Vendetta. Max Mayhem broke his toe. Vendetta is now ‘Above Average’ importance. And CWA is going bankrupt. We were making more in ticket sales than they were in tickets -and- PPV revenue. Our roster costs were also under half theirs. And we had enough in the bank to pay all their debts. But they weren’t interested in selling, so… ah, well.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>On the next Coastal Zone:</strong> Original Zone vs McFly Family? Sounds like a fun little storyline, and not one that could potentially see the entire Zone taking sides by, say, this year’s Welcome...</p>

<p><strong>January 2026</strong> Part 2</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #26</strong> (taped)</p><p> Preshow: Pepper Pelton def. Acid III, Onslaught, and Chet Chavez (45)</p><p> Heartbreak Express def. Minnesota Awesome (50)</p><p> Angle: Heartbreak Express hype their match with SkyeForce (51)</p><p> AC Sapp squashes War Piece (38)</p><p> Angle: Tommy cuts a promo on Kalder (74)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Bowden Snoop def. Miguel Rivera to be the NEW Xtreme Champion (50)</p><p> Angle: Bowden makes it clean he’ll have an open challenge as often as management will let him (46)</p><p> Angle: Mystery Pink gets a pretaped interview hyping up her title shot (71)</p><p> CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. Malik Cash in a 32-minute match (69)</p><p> </p><p> Well, that was a stinker of a show. And dammit, Ralph Liotta of the Heartbreak Express broke his jaw. Maybe we need to rethink that tag match at Vendetta… We were going to give it to MNAwesome, but the whole reason for the broken jaw was Longstaff botching a move. </p><p> </p><p> And dammit, part two. We had been trying to sign Booster Boy, a wrestler from Down Under, and ever managed to convince him to move to the US -- and he still re-signed with ZEN instead of us. Ah, well. At least we had our other signee ready to go… but for reasons of ‘awesome storyline’, we weren’t going to until Vendetta.</p><p> </p><p> Okay. Put it out of your mind. You’ve got two shows before Vendetta. Book the crap out of them.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Coast To Coast #27</strong></p><p> Preshow: Team Paradox (w/Paranoia, Pepper Pelton & Acid III) def. Team Rice (w/Chet Chavez, Hellion & Jack Jackson) (53)</p><p> Angle: We start with dueling promos from Tommy and Kalder, then Pink interrupts, then Maribel, then set up a tag later on (80)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Bowden Snoop def. War Piece (60)</p><p> Angle: Bullseye gets Malik and Onslaught to dedicate themselves to the idea of fighting for the old Zone, “The Original Zone.” And Malik will team with him tonight. (46)</p><p> Original Zone (Bullseye & Malik Cash) def. Sean McFly & Jonnie Perez (56)</p><p> Angle: Sean and Bullseye face off again, and it seems they’re not done with their difference of opinions of how to run things (50)</p><p> Mystery Pink & Kalder Tagg def. Maribel Mercado & Tommy Cornell (75)</p><p> </p><p> Now, that was more like it. Which meant, you guessed it, we’re gonna book another variation on that tag match for the go-home show.</p><p> </p><p> And our merchandising kept growing; the Zone was doing good business. Our top merch seller by far was Tommy Cornell; he was into the six figures for sales. Mercado brought in a quarter of that. Pink and Paradox were both a bit under that, but still in five figures. The rest of the top ten were Remmy, Rice, Stuntman, Sapp, Rivera, and Mayhem. </p><p> </p><p> And that was January. Next stop, Vendetta. Debut our new signee, set up storylines for Welcome to the Coastal Zone, and hope we can start having some good damn shows again.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>On the next Coastal Zone:</strong> Vendetta! Our newest Zoner revealed! And can I resist the urge to hire more people before the next Coastal Resort class graduates?</p>

January 2026 Cost To Coast #26 (taped) Preshow: Masked Men def. Joe Bender & Chet Chavez (43) Xtreme Title: Miguel Rivera def. Onslaught (51) Angle: AC Sapp cuts a promo on Stuntman (79) Bowden Snoop & Pepper Pelton def. Jackpot Jordan & Jonnie Perez (52) Angle: Hype for the title match at Revolution (53) Angle: Just announced for Revolution: Sean McFly vs Bullseye. (47) Long Grain Rice def. War Piece (51) Angle: Gaston cuts a promo on Miguel and shows he can’t work without a script. At all. (34) Tommy Cornell def. Geraldine Big (46) Angle: Hype for Revolution’s main event (59) Kalder Tagg & Sean McFly def. Maribel Mercado & Paradox (63) Now there’s the kind of show we’ve come to expect from Coast To Coast. Perfectly Adequate Wrestling… but not Zone-Caliber. Annnnnnd we got her! Erm, them. Pity it wasn’t in time for Revolution... Revolution 2026 Preshow: Heartbreak Express def. Onslaught & Jackpot and Acid III & War Piece (52) Xtreme Title: Miguel Rivera def. Gaston Bertrand (50) Bullseye def. Sean McFly (55) Tag Titles: SkyeForce def. Tommy & Topher (67) Stuntman def. AC Sapp (53) #1 Contendership: Long Grain Rice def Paradox and Max Mayhem (71) CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. Kalder Tagg… but it takes her 50 minutes. (72) Okay, not a great show, but a decent one. Stuntman dislocated his shoulder, and he and Sapp just didn’t work well together, but other than that… huh? No, Bullseye over Sean wasn’t a mistake, Sean wanted to put him over. And I’m not gonna say ‘No’ to the boss. Revolution was now considered Above Average, which suited us just fine. Always start the year off on a good foot. Along with our newest signing, we made one other offer to… let’s say ‘an import’. Then, in preperation for the upcoming Coastal Resort class, we decided to cut some people loose. Jackpot Jordan, Joe Bender, and Kid San Juan were all gone; War Piece would replace Kid San Juan as Hellion’s partner in Masked Men. And, what the hell, we’ve got the money, and it’s the last thing we can really upgrade at this point… Majestic production values it is! We may be Medium, but we look Big! Coast To Coast #25 PreShow Battle Royal: Bowden Snoop def. Chavez, Gaston, Geraldine, Jackson, Perez, Onslaught, Pepper, Ricochet, and Topher (58) Tommy Cornell def. Kalder Tagg and Max Mayhem (58) Angle: Tommy wants Kalder one-on-one. Kalder replies he was hoping for a longer match. Crowd: “Ooooooooo!” Oh, it’s on... (78) Xtreme Title: Miguel Rivera def. Acid III (53) Angle: Maribel wants to defend against Mystery Pink once she’s healed up. Pink shows up to accept (85) Tag Titles: SkyeForce def. Masked Men (61) Angle: SkyeForce wants challengers. Heartbreak Express comes out to accept (56) CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. AC Sapp (67) On the next Coastal Zone: Hrm. Looks like I need to start playing again... finally. Let's not try to build up a year-long backlog I need to post this time...

Year In Review 2025 Wrestler of the Year: Luke Cool. Who? He’s British, I guess. Company of the Year: USPW Team of the Year: Crouching Storm, Hidden Sifu Match of the Year: Greg Gauge & Wolf Hawkins def. El Mitico Jr & Sonny Wildside, USPW American Wrestling, December Show of the Year: USPW Made In America! Youngster of the Year: Lucy Stone-McFly Veteran of the Year: Angry Gilmore Female of the Year: Alicia Strong Most Improved Company: ZEN Indy Wrestler of the Year: Talia Quinzel Staff of the Year: Troy Tornado (Manager), Duane Fry (Announcer), Armando Caballero (Color), Alejandro Pascual (Ref) Zoners on the Power 500: G-Force (497), AC Sapp (434), Paradox (348), Mystery Pink (343), Remmy Skye (331), Maribel Mercado (329), Max Mayhem (301), Stuntman (263) State of the Zone: What a difference a half-year of TV makes. We dropped slightly in the US, slipping to #14 as APW jumped up a few spots, but world-wide we were now a solid #12, beating out IPW. Financially, we had eight and a half million in the bank, and no worries about problems there. The Coastal Resort was now state-of-the-art; we kept class sizes small, but the training they were getting was major-league quality. As usual, our main roster problem was “Too many Major Stars, not enough Regular Stars, nobody can get out of the undercard.” With the exceptions of G-Force, Long Grain Rice, and AC Sapp, we hadn’t really been able to create any new stars; the second round of the ProAm hadn’t been as successful as the first. Which was troubling, because we had several people -- Geraldine, Pepper, Bowden, Gaston, War Piece -- that we wanted to get over, and so far the closest we were getting to ‘success’ was Kalder Tagg. World-wide, USPW is still Titanic. 21CW has taking the worldwide #2 spot, followed by medium-size MAW leapfrogging over SWF, ACPW, and TCW. APW took a strong #7, with NYCW, EILL, and PSW rounding out the top ten. Only QAW stood between us and breaking that top ten. In the USA, it was the same names in slightly different order, with IPW and GSW pushing us a bit further down the list. By the end of next year we expected TV to have carried us past them. So, what has been happening with some Zone alumni? Platinum James Prudence got accused of cyberbullying fans, got dropped by USPW, and now words for GSW. The Guru was working for IPW and NYCW. Masked Cougar was working for IPW -- or at least he was when he tore his quad earlier this year. He still had another six months before he was able to wrestle again. Waylon Walls was working for IPW and SAW (Simply Awesome Wrestling), and seemed to be doing fairly well for himself; he was on our list to possibly bring back at some point. Kid Fantastic was still with MAW, holding both the Mid Atlantic Title and the COTT Title. Flying Jimmy Foxx was still the star of NYCW, although at 45 he was really feeling his age and was there mainly for name value. The Crippler (aka Lobster Warrior) was still with NYCW as well, along with Aces high, Al Coleman, Carlos Barrera, Lee Bambino, Rob Reynolds, California Love Machine, Pee-Wee Germaine… hell, NYWC was more Zone than we were right now. Kira Lee and Coco Malloy were both still with QAW and doing okay. For that matter, so were Skye Hermosa, Amy St James, Air Raid Syren, and Dylan Sidhe (Although he’d a road agent, not a wrestler). “Speedball” Marc Speed was working for SAW; we’d re-hire him, but Sean doesn’t want anyone in their 40s around. Frankie-Boy Fernandes was in USPW, getting a bit lost in the shuffle but still making good money. Cali Slick, Simon Waves, Frankie Perez, and Hugh de Aske were all there as well, not making big names for themselves but earning a decent living. American Flash is still with OLLIE, along with Storm Spillane, and they were doing very well for themselves there. It was a little sad seeing how many at-the-time “Big losses” were just spinning their wheels. If they came back to the Zone, they wouldn’t even qualify as stars anymore. We wondered how many of them regretted their choices. It’s not like they could know we’d grow the way we did, after all. They took the safe choice. Next time, on the Coastal Zone: 2026! A big get, big spending... and not quite big ratings.

<p>Honestly, bunch of posts has just been me burning through my 'buffer' of stuff... the game's been sitting partway through January 2026 for a couple weeks now so I could focus on work and stuff. Almost at the point where I'll need to play, or I'll have nothing to post, so that'll be fun to get back into it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> December 2025</strong> Part 2</p><p> </p><p> And right off the bat, this show is gonna be one of those shows, because I mis-judged how long G-Force had to recover from his rotator cuff injury. He had five more days...</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Christmas Cage Chaos 2025</strong> (All Matches (except the pre-show and the battle royal) IN A STEEL CAGE!)</p><p> PreShow COTT Tag Title Match: Paratroopers retain over Masked Men (61)</p><p> New Year, New Contender Battle Royal Featuring All 20 People Not Used Elsewhere On The Card (The NYNCBRFA20PNUEOTC): Kalder Tagg throws out Sean McFly for the win (63)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Miguel Rivera def. Bullseye (51)</p><p> G-Force def. Remmy Skye (61)</p><p> Tag Titles: Tommy & Topher def. Minnesota Awesome (66)</p><p> Mystery Pink def. AC Sapp (59)</p><p> CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado retains over Stuntman in a half-hour match(82)</p><p> </p><p> Injury report: Mystery Pink broke her collarbone. That could have been a lot worse, what with the cage and all the bumps we had planned involving it. And it lead to our best show in quite a while, and -almost- broke 600,000 viewers. I wonder how long I could milk Mercado/Stuntman…</p><p> </p><p> Anyways, two more shows to book; the last one of 2025, the first one of 2026, and then we have Revolution. Mercado/Tagg should be good, but what else can we throw together… especially given that Mystery Pink is going to be injured for Revolution.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #23</strong></p><p> Preshow: Geraldine Big & Pepper Pelton def. Chet Chavez & Acid III in a 40-minute match (27)</p><p> Angle: Stuntman comes out to talk, but AC interrupts him and calls him a loser. Despite having lost as well. The two argue and agree to meet at Revolution. (71)</p><p> Gaston Bertrand def. Jonnie Perez (61)</p><p> Angle: Tommy and Topher lay out an open challenge for the new year. Remmy comes out and says he’ll take it, then calls out G-Force to come out and reform SkyeForce for another title run. (66)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Miguel Rivera def. Jack Jackson (69)</p><p> Angle: Rivera declared himself a fighting champion, and calls Gaston back out to the stage, offering him an Xtreme Title shot at Revolution. Gaston accepts (51)</p><p> Kalder Tagg & Max Mayhem def. Maribel Mercado & Remmy Skye (73)</p><p> </p><p> Hey, we end the year on a decent show! </p><p> </p><p> And as the year comes to a close, someone’s contract comes up for renewal, and we immediately make an offer to join the Zone. We miiiight have a bit of an advantage with this one tho… let’s see if we get them… </p><p> </p><p> … really, Sean? They’ve just gotten something that beats our offer, but you still won’t let us offer more? That’s cold, man. Well, we’ll still try… but if we don’t get them, it’s your fault...</p><p> </p><p> <strong>On the next Coastal Zone:</strong> Year In Review 2025 gets it's own post! Why? 'cause I actually did a bit more research and writing for this one.</p>

If only Bullseye were, y'know... slightly better... but that's partially my fault, so... December 2025 We tried to resist the urge to sign more people. We had plenty as it was, and only a few months until the Class of ‘26 was ready in April. Coast To Coast #20 (taped) Angle: Big Men come out, note how Mercado and Mystery seem to be teaming a lot lately, and want to show just how good they are (74) Tommy & Topher & Geraldine def. Minnesota Awesome & Jack Jackson (63) Angle: After the match, Minnesota Awesome challenge T&T to a simple, four-person tag match at Christmas Cage Chaos. “We’ll bring the belts. You bring the cage.” (61) Miguel Rivera def. Long Grain Rice (63) Angle: Hype for Bullseye vs Rivera (51) Angle: Hype for Big Men (44) Mercado & Pink def. Big Men (73) Whoops, we forgot to book a steal-the-show. Which is hard to do when all your matches are over fifteen minutes. I need to remember to throw in something simple for people to go full-tilt during. … now there’s an interesting ‘put someone over’ offer. We'll have to consider that one very strongly... Coast To Coast #21 PreShow: Masked Men def. Heartbreak Express, Jackpot & Jackson, and Joe Bender & War Piece (50) Angle: Mystery Pink makes an open challenge. Out comes… Geraldine Big? (72) Mystery Pink def. Geraldine Big (54) Angle: Hype for the tag match at CCC (48) Angle: Hype for the Xtreme match at CCC (50) Minnesota Awesome def. Malik Cash & Ricochet Ramone (64) Angle: G-Force, with his arm slinged up, comes out to make an open challenge for CCC since he’ll be cleared by then. Remmy comes out to accept (72) AC Sapp def. Paradox and Long Grain Rice (69) Angle: Sapp calls out Pink and says if she wants a challenge, she’ll face him one-on-one at CCC. Pink, naturally, accepts (68) Not an amazing show, but good enough to not be bad… wait, what did I just say? Close enough. Now if we could just have a decent go-home show… … wait, Christmas Cage Chaos is Friday, Week 2? …. Oh, that won’t do, that won’t do at all. Move it back to week 3. So we can actually have a go-home show instead of whatever that was. Coast To Coast #22 (taped) Preshow: Bowden Snoop def. Ricochet Ramone (52) Masked Men & Heartbreak Express def. Acid III, Chet Chavez, Jackpot Jordan & War Piece (52) Angle: AC Sapp gets a live mic and tears into Pink, detailing xactly how he’s going to break her bones and send her home to Mexico in a cast (89) Angle: Mercado gets a pre-taped promo on Stuntman (74) COTT Title: Paratroopers def. McFly’ed Rice to become the NEW champions (64) Angle: Hype video for Remmy vs G-Force (58) Angle: Tommy & Topher hype up their match against Heartbreak Express (60) Stuntman, AC Sapp, and Tommy & Topher def. Maribel Mercado, Mystery Pink, and Minnesota Awesome (66) … well, that wasn’t nearly as good as I had hoped… Sapp cuts a hell of a promo tho. We’d have to see if we can get him a bit better in the ring, or someone was going to sign him away once his contract was up… On the next Coastal Zone: Christmas Cage Chaos! With actual cage matches! And we end the year with a big question: Who are we trying to sign, and is Sean working with us,or against us?

November 2025 Part 2 We now had five shows to do before Christmas Cage Chaos, and we wanted to make sure they were good ones; we wanted to end the month with a bang, not a whimper. We make a few upgrades, since we’re swimming in money right now. Cutting Edge broadcast quality? Check. Major licenses music? Check. Coastal Resort to 100% Training? Check! ‘Must have available picture’ for new workers turned off? Oh hell check! The class of 2026 is gonna be lit. Coast To Coast #17 (Now on patch 1.13) PreShow Battle Royal: Kalder Tagg def. Gaston, Geraldine, Jonnie, Jackson, Cash, Onslaught, Paranoia, Ricochet, and War Piece (59) Angle: Long Grain Rice is out to talk smack about the roster, but when he gets to the topic of the new people, Mystery Pink comes out and vows to shut him up later tonight(71) Tag Team Titles: Tommy Cornell & Topher Smith def. Big Men (59) Angle: Maribel talks about her last title defense, and how either one of the other guys is a worthy opponent; she wants to see them fight, with the winner getting a one-on-one match with her at Christmas Cage Chaos (83) Mystery PInk def. Long Grain Rice (78) Angle: Recovery video for Bullseye Stuntman def. Max Mayhem in a half-hour match (64) … wait, the main event was a 64 but Pink/Rice was a 78? Wow. Color me surpri -- oh, Stuntman hurt his neck? Max botched something? Well, hell. At least he’d only need a week or so to recover. And our first TV show to pass half-a-million viewers, so… yay? Fox decides to join the legion of Pepper Pelton’s fans. I guess he liked what he saw during the taping of next week’s show. And our own Geraldine Big got a news story about how she’s loaded with potential and is ‘the one to watch’. Good for her, that’s a nice ego boost. We should consider giving her a few singles matches and see how she does. Also, we signed someone. Who? You may have to wait a week or two for that, since he’ll be at the next taping. Let’s say he’s an ex-Zoner who’s done well for himself. Coast To Coast #18 (taped) Preshow: Kalder Tagg, Bowden Snoop & Joe Bender def. Paranoia, Jackpot & War Piece (49) Angle: Tommy is out, but AC Sapp interrupts him, wanting his tag titles back. The two argue, insult, and finally Tommy says “Okay, tidal booking. Get your partner out here.” (99) Topher Smith def. Pepper Pelton (56) Angle: Maribel Mercado and Mystery Pink talk backstage, basically letting the audience know that Pink is a bigger deal in Mexico than Maribel, but here in the States she’s the top dog. “For now.” (80) Tommy Cornell def. AC Sapp (59) Angle: Long Grain Rice complains about stuff. His partner. His opponents. The Zone. The fans. The usual. (67) Angle: Hype video for the returning-soon G-Force (58) Mercado & Pink def Rice & Skye in a near-40-minute match (75) Okay, there’s the solution we needed. Pink is getting pushed to the main event a lot faster than I had intended her to. Coast To Coast #19 Preshow: Minnesota Awesome def. Heartbreak Express (61) Angle: We open with Tommy welcoming Pink, not really being sincere, maaaaybe slightly sexist, some arguing, set up the tag main event (89) Geraldine Big & Bowden Snoop def. Masked Men (55) Angle: Hype for Mercado vs Stuntman @ Christmas Cage Chaos (72) Xtreme Title: Bullseye def. Paradox (61) Angle: “I’m back, ese!” Bullseye gets blindsided by Miguel Rivera, who’s gotten quite over with thanks to IPW and GWS. “I hear you don’t like guys who leave and come back here. I figured I’d drop by and remind you of just who you are… a nobody.” (56) Meribel Mercado & Mystery Pink def. Stuntman & Tommy Cornell in a 35-minute match (75) I wonder how bad a team I can put in there with Mystery & Mercado and still get a good main event… Anyway, Bullseye vs Rivera should be fun, since the two don’t like each other. That’ll add some flavor to the cage match. Next time, on the Coastal Zone: Wait, which week is Christmas Cage Chaos again? Um... oops.

November 2025 Coast To Coast #16 (taped before Hardcore Halloween) PreShow: Minnesota Awesome def. Masked Men (58) ProAm: Tommy & Topher def. Rice & Jackson (65) Angle: Recap video for Tommy vs Remmy (67) Angle: Hype video for Big Men (41) ProAm: Remmy & Gaston def. G-Force & Acid III(53) Angle: Remmy & Gaston have, with a perfect record, won the Pro-Am Tournament since nobody else can hit 4-0. They’ll face the Tag Champs at Showdown At Sundown (58) Angle: Recap for Mercado vs Mayhem (69) Max Mayhem def. Paradox in 36 minutes (68) -Still- not doing as good as we want to, -and- G-Force tore a rotator cuff. The kid keeps getting hur-- Remmy caused it? Uh-oh… At least we didn’t have much time before the next big show… which also meant, not much planned for it. Freeform booking! And we had a few surprises we were ready to pull, too. Showdown at Sundown 2025 Minnesota Awesome def. Joe Bender & War Piece (50) Battle Royal: Jackpot Jordan def. Acid III, Bowden Snoop, Geraldine Big, Chet Chavez, Jack Jackson, Jonnie Perez, Kid San Juan, Malik Cash and Topher Smith (61) Paratroopers def. Heartbreak Express (60) Tag Titles: Big Men def. Remmy & Gaston (59) Kalder Tagg def. Ricochet Ramone (57) Tommy Cornell and mystery partner Mystery Pink def. McFly’ed Rice (66) CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. Max Mayhem and ‘Stuntman’ Simon Ice in a half-hour match (79) So, guess what the main event at Christmas Cage Chaos is going to be? Stuntman wasn’t wasting time in making The Zone his own; he was already suggesting I fire Geraldine Big because she couldn’t work a crowd. I don’t think he understands what the ‘rookies here to learn’ part of the Zone is all about. Next time, on the Coastal Zone: The build to Christmas Cage Chaos begins! Will Stuntman and Mystery Pink be cable to help us revive the people's enthusiasm for the Zone?

October 2025 Part 2 Mateo Iglasias retired, and CILL was looking for a new booker. In another life, that might tempt us, but we’re doing pretty well for ourselves. Well, TV not considered. Time for a go-home show! Let’s hope we don’t make it suck… Wow, there’s a first. Johnnie Needham apparently wasn’t quite recovered from his injury and showed up blitzed out on painkillers. We’re kinda surprised it wasn’t Remmy. And honestly, we could understand if he’d had a broken bone or torn muscle, but painkillers and concussions don’t mix well. We didn’t really -need- the Heartbreak Express right now, but still… we give him a warning and tell him to go home, and never show up like that again. Coast To Coast #15 PreShow: Jackpot Jordan & Paranoia def. Masked Men (53) ProAm: Remmy & Gaston def. Sean & Snoop (58) Angle: Hype video for Remmy v Tommy (66) Pepper Pelton def. Jonnie Perez (61) Angle: Hype video for Bullseye vs Chavez (31) Angle: Hype for Big Men vs Kalder & Rico (47) ProAm: Tommy & Topher def. G-Force & Acid (62) Angle: Hype for Mercado vs Mayhem (68) Max Mayhem def. AC Sapp and Paradox (62) Um… so, about hoping we don’t make that suck… whoops. Hardcore Halloween 2025 (yes, all matches are hardcore matches this year!) Preshow: Bowden Snoop, Jack Jackson, Acid III & Topher Smith def. Geraldine Big, Onslaught, War Piece & Jackpot Jordan (49) Paradox def. Sean McFly (66) Gaston Bertrand def. Jonnie Perez (52) Minnesota Awesome def. Masked Men, Heartbreak Express, and G-Force & Long Grain Rice (56) Xtreme Title: Bullseye def. Chet Chavez (49) Tag Titles: Big Men def. Kalder & Rico (53) Tommy Cornell def. Remmy Skye (65) CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. Max Mayhem in a 30-minute match (80) Well, best match (and show) we’ve had in a while. Also the first one to break half a million viewers. Injury list: Bullseye broke his collarbone. We honestly were expecting more than that somehow. Maybe life is going a bit easier on us? On the next Coastal Zone: One pre-taped episode before our next big show? Hope we hadn't planned on pre-booking anything. Time to bust out some surprises.

October 2025 Well… ****. Remmy, after being mad from the pressure of being a figurehead and then mad that we stopped using him as a figure head, was asking for his release. We… kinda needed you around for a while, man. I wish there was a “Think it over for a month” option for this sort of thing. We reject him, and try the old standby that always used to work: Throw a big bonus at him. He’s still angry, but not nearly -as- angry. We think. Coast To Coast #12 (Taped) ProAm: G-Force & Acid III def. Sean McFly & Snoop Bowden (58) Angle: Tommy and Remmy are out to hype up their match at HArdcore Halloween, Max Mayhem comes out to say he should be hyping his match, Maribel is out to say let’s just all fight in a tag match tonight (72) Kalder Tagg def. Hellion (59) Angle: Joe Bender mentions to a stagehand how he’d like a shot at Bullseye. Bullseye attacks from behind and beats him down (30) Ricochet Ramon def. Jonnnie Perez (59) Angle: Kalder comes out and talk up Rico a bit before suggesting that they team up and answer the open challenge for the tag titles (51) Max Mayhem & Tommy Cornell def. Maribel Mercado & Remmy Skye (75) Now there’s the kind of main event we were used to! The show as a whole wasn’t amazing yet, but at least it wasn’t losing us popularity. Now to see if we could do it two or three times in a row… Coast To Coast #13 Preshow Battle Royal: Malik Cash def. Acid III, Bowden Snoop, Chet Chavez, Geraldine Big, Jackpot Jordan, Onslaught, Ralph Liotta, and War Piece (58) Angle: The Paratroopers come out and complain about the ProAm tournament. Tommy and Topher come out and challenge them match (65) ProAm: Remmy & Gaston def. Rice & Jackson (64) Angle: Rico and Kalder hype up their new team and their official accepting of the open challenge (44) Kalder & Rico def. Masked Men (61) Angle: Big Men come out and beat down Kalder & Rico (48) Xtreme Title: Bullseye def. Joe Bender (43) Ange: Chet cuts a promo on Bullseye from backstage (42) Tommy Cornell & Topher Smith def. Paratroopers (64) … so much for trying for a winning streak. Lost popularity in -three- regions. I mean, yay, up in fifty-two, but still. Hrm. And apparently we can’t really do anything with the COTT title because Kid Fantastic doesn’t want to come visit us. So… what’s the point, really? GSW made an offer to Ricochet; we assume it was a handshake thing since they’re still small, but we couldn’t check because he didn’t want to negotiate with us. Still upset about that loss back on C2C #2, apparently. And it didn’t really get Acid over, so maybe we can understand why he’s mad. G-Force’s cheekbone was now healed up; so was Johnny Needham’s whatever-he-did. Coast To Coast #14 (taped) Preshow: Minnesota Awesome def. Onslaught & Ralph Liotta (52) Long Grain Rice def. Geraldine Big (45) Angle: We set up our main event. Kinda like last week, but with Paradox and Sean getting involved too (67) G-Force def. War Piece (50) Angle: Backstage, Big Men and Kalder & Rico are brawling. The rest of the locker room eventually pulls them apart, telling them to save it for the ring tonight. Chet Havez, Kalder & Rico def. Bullseye & Big Men (56) Angle: Hype for Maribel vs Tommy @ HH (67) Maribel, Remmy & Sean def. Mayhem, Paradox & Tommy in a half-hour match (69) … well, better than last show. But still lost popularity somewhere. Dammit. On the next Coastal Zone: A go-home show, Hardcore Halloween, and druuuuuuuuuuuugs.

Eight? Eight votes for Dynasty of the Month? ... you guys are actually reading some of the others, right? I should be getting, like, one vote from a really obsessed fan, and that's it... September 2025 Part 2 Coast To Coast #10 (Taped before Reach For The Sky) Pre-Show: Malik Cash def. Joe Bender (48) Angle: Max Mayhem is backstage talking about how he deserves a title shot. G-Force walks in and says he’s had plenty of shots; time to let the new blood in. COntendership match, tonight. (74) Kalder Tagg def. Chet Chavez and Kid San Juan (63) Angle: Chet Chavez says it’s time to redeem himself, and he wants Bullseye at HArdcore Halloween (40) Heartbreak Express def. Geraldine Big & War Piece (51) Angle: Recap of the CZCW Title Match at Reach For The Sky (71) ProAm: Sean McFly & Bowden Snoop def. Long Grain Rice & Jack Jackson (58) Angle: Next week: Remmy Skye & Gaston Bertrand vs Tommy Cornell & Topher Smith (50) Max Mayhem def. G-Force in 28 minutes (66) Angle: Maribel appears on-screen, taped backstage at Reach For The Sky. She predicts Max wanting a title shot, and she’s sure he’ll have to beat someone tonight for it… and she’s sure he will. So she’ll see him Halloween night. (73) Another disappointing main event. I’m starting to wonder if Max is losing a step, too. Let’s check and find out… nope, seems fine. Maybe we just don’t like TV. Hellion is all healed up; Johnny Needham got hurt at NYCW’s last show. Total change in available tag teams +/- 0. Sigh. Coast To Coast #11: TAG TEAM SPECTACULAR! (now on patch 1.12) Preshow: Jackpot, Onslaught & Chet Chavez def. Jonnie Perez, Geraldine Big & War Piece (55) ProAm: Long Grain Rice & Jack Jackson def. G-Force & Acid III (65) Angle: Hype for Bullseye vs Chavez @ Hardcore Halloween (33) Minnesota Awesome def. Masked Men (Hellion & Kid San Juan) (64) Angle: Hype for Mercade vs Mayhem @ HH (73) Tag Titles: Big Men def. Paratroopers (53) Angle: Big Men make an open challenge for Hardcore Halloween (65) ProAm: Remmy Skye & Gaston def. Tommy Cornell & Topher Smith (64) Angle: Tommy asks Remmy to stick around after the match, and notes how they never had a singles match. And since they’ve gotten their ProAm match out of the way, why not meet at Hardcore Halloween? (75) Annnnd Pepper went and strained his bicep. Hopefully that would get healed up by Halloween. But it was yet another show that went well everywhere but in the Southwest. We’re growing our fanbase at the expense of our existing fans… I believe they call that ‘selling out’. Next time, on the Sellout Zone: Our first "Let me out of my contract" request! Who wants to leave? Who wants to not come back? Why the hell are we so toxic lately?

September 2025 PSW tried to sign G-Force. We had forgotten to offer him a written contract, possibly because he wasn’t a tag champion anymore. We quickly make written offers to him, a few other workers, and our referee and announce teams. Oh, and Fabulous Frank. Because we need our road agents. Frank, however, says he plans to retire soon. Well… crap. Coast To Coast #8 (taped) Pre-Show: Ricochet & Bowden def. Onslaught & Cash (52) Angle: Long Grain Rice is out talking smack again, but this time it’s Remmy who comes out and suggests he shut his mouth at Reach For The Sky (67) Battle Royal for the Xtreme Contendership: Bullseye dominates Acid III, Chet, Gaston, Geraldine, Jackson, Jackpot, Bender, Topher and War Piece (57) Angle: It’s Jonnie with a chair, looking for payback! Bullseye goes down! (51) Pepper Pelton def. Paranoia (45) Angle: Paradox comes out, and the Paratroopers challenge Big Men to a title match. (50) AC Sapp def. Paradox (68) Angle: Backstage, Cash and Onslaught are talking about Bullseye when he walks by, angry. The other two say they’ve got his back. (39) Sean McFly & Maribel Mercado def. Max Mayhem & Tommy Cornell (67) Note to self: Bullseye, Malik and Onslaught need scripts to follow. But why the hell are all my main events a good ten points below where they should be? Coast To Coast #9 Preshow: Acid III, Bowden Snoop & Gaston Bertrand def. Geraldine Big, Joe Bender & Kid San Juan (50) Paratroopers def. Minnesota Awesome and Heartbreak Express (52) Angle: Paratroopers hype their match with Big Men (51) Angle: Bullseye hypes his Xtreme Title match (49) Remmy Skye def. Sean McFly (51) Angle: Remmy cuts a promo on Long Grain Rice (66) Angle: Jonnie Perez response promo on Bullseye. “It’s not my fault nobody else ever wanted you.” (45) Angle: Tommy Cornell mocks Maribel’s injury-prone-ness (85) Maribel Mercado def. G-Force in a half-hour match (76) Okay, now that’s the kind of main event I’m used to seeing. I hate to say it, but I think Sean and Remmy’s days of being singles acts are almost certainly over -- now that Long Grain Rice and G-Force are over, it’s time to give them both new partners and start over. Which means… The CZCW Pro-Am is back! We’ll kick it off after Reach For The Sky. Reach For The Sky 2025 Remmy Skye def. Long Grain Rice (59) G-Force def. Jackpot Jordan (50) Minnesota Awesome def. Heartbreak Express (62) Sean McFly def. War Piece (53) Xtreme Title: Bullseye def. Jonnie Perez (58) Tag Titles: Big Men def. Paratroopers (55) Max Mayhem def. Kalder Tagg (64) CZCW Title: Maribel Mercado def. Tommy Cornell (77) As much as we loved (and had invested in) Tommy, he just wasn’t able to have long enough matches to have the title. For that matter, Remmy wasn’t either -- and was starting to crack under the pressure of being figurehead while declining so much. So, we stopped using him as a figurehead and resigned ourselves to being in a rebuilding period. Half of our main event couldn’t go more than fifteen minutes -- and sometimes, with help. Hopefully the Pro-Am would get us some new starts, and quickly. Next time, on the Coastal Zone: The second ProAm begins, and we set up what would normally be a Zone dream match -- but will age get in the way of Cornell vs Skye?

If they're actually booked on the event, yes.

<p>It's not just Tommy and Sean, a few others have just been hiding it better...</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> August 2025, Part 2</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #6</strong> (Taped)</p><p> PreShow: Acid III & Chet Chavez def. Jackpot & Onslaught (48)</p><p> Angle: Maribel Mercado says she’ll be good to go for Reach For The Sky, and challenges for the CZCW Title (69)</p><p> Malik Cash def. Kalder Tagg (50)</p><p> Angle: We recap Wave of Fury’s Xtreme Title match (53)</p><p> Bullseye def. Jack Jackson (48)</p><p> Angle: Obligatory Bullseye beatdown (25)</p><p> Angle: Recap the tag title match (50)</p><p> Paratroopers def. Minnesota Awesome (64)</p><p> Angle: Recap of the main event (65)</p><p> Remmy Skye def. Max Mayhem (69)</p><p> </p><p> Hrm. This was worrying… Remmy was declining. He was at the ‘Fifteen minutes? Well, if I have to” level. It wasn’t that long ago this man was arguably the man who saved this company, and now… getting old sucks. </p><p> </p><p> We were starting to see a trend of what worked and didn’t work for Coast To Coast. But Wave Of Fury going down like that… we were starting to wonder. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #7</strong></p><p> Pre-show: Heartbreak Express def. Acid III & Bowden Snoop (51)</p><p> Jackpot Jordan def. Chet Chavez (50)</p><p> Angle: Long Grain Rice comes out and rants about hating Sean McFly, and challenges Sean to find a pair of friends “If you can” for the main event tonight… because he’s found two guys looking for a fight. Out come Big Men, looking angry and dangerous. (63)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Kid San Juan (63)</p><p> Angle: It’s Bullseye! He clobbers Jonnie with a chair, hits him a couple more times, then sets up the chair over Jonnie’s head and takes a seat. “What’s wrong, Bullseye, why are you angry lately, Bullseye… glad you asked! For those watching at home, years ago, before we had this show, Jonnie was the Xtreme Champion. And then, he left. Years later, he’s back. And he has the title again. I’VE BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME, JONNIE. Me, and Cash, and Onslaught, WE’RE ALL STILL HERE. WE NEVER LEFT. But you can give up on this company, and come right back, and get the title? Remmy Skye can get his ass fired, and years later, come back and win the Championship? I’ve been here TEN DAMN YEARS! I’ve always done what was asked of me! And you… nah, man, it’s not like this anymore. You don’t get to leave and come back like nothing happened. Everyone else leaves. You, your asshole brother, hell, American Flash left, even friggin’ Fox Mask left for a while. I DIDN’T. From now on, I AM THE ZONE, and I’m going to show you exactly how dangerous it can be around here for people who don’t give a damn about this company. Your title? It’s mine, whenever I want to take it. And that’s just the start.” (55)</p><p> Kalder Tagg def. Topher Smith (62)</p><p> Angle: Tommy Cornell and Maribel Mercado cut dueling promos on each other. (88)</p><p> Sean McFly & SkyeForce def. Long Grain Rice & Big Men (64)</p><p> </p><p> Fabulous Frank is telling me to strap a rocket to Pepper Pelton. I thought that’s what I was doing, but maybe I’m wrong...</p><p> </p><p> <strong>On the next Coastal Zone:</strong> Emergency Written Contracts, and plans are made for the return of a new Zone tradition.</p>

<p>August 2025 (part 1)</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #4</strong> (taped)</p><p> PreShow: Bowden Snoop & Gaston Bertrand def. Joe Bender & War Piece (46)</p><p> Angle: The Paratroopers issue the Para-Open Challenge. Out come Acid III and Jack Jackson (47)</p><p> Paratroopers over Acid III & Jack Jackson (57)</p><p> Angle: Long Grain Rice comes out to badmouth Jonnie, then starts running down SkyeForce for taking ‘his’ tag titles. Tommy comes out and tells the kid “Since you seem to have a problem with everyone…” and sets up the main event (95)</p><p> Bullseye def Kid San Juan (63)</p><p> Angle: Post-match beatdown (29)</p><p> Angle: Hype video for Maribel Mercado, and how she wants to fight even with a broken jaw, but the docs won’t let her (71)</p><p> Kalder Tagg def. Topher Smith (63)</p><p> Hype for Tommy vs Sean at Wave Of Fury (65)</p><p> Tommy Cornell, SkyeForce & Jonnie Perez def. Sean McFly, Big Men & Long Grain Rice (68)</p><p> Sean cheap-shots Tommy afterwards and does the ‘title will be around my waist’ motion (69)</p><p> </p><p> Well, when your worst TV show is only two points below your best TV show, you can’t complain too much, right?</p><p> </p><p> The next taping would be tricky -- we had one more live show before Wave of Fury, and then the taped show would be afterwards. </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Coast To Coast #5</strong></p><p> PreShow: Jack Jackson, Bowden Snoop & Chet Chavez def. Joe Bender, Jackpot & War Piece (49)</p><p> Bullseye def. Perry Longstaff (44)</p><p> Angle: Bullseye beatdown of Perry (33)</p><p> Max Mayhem def. Acid III (47)</p><p> Angle: The Paratroopers issue the Para-Open Challenge (58)</p><p> Paratroopers def. Heartbreak Express (57)</p><p> Angle: Hype for the Xtreme Title match between Jonnie and Rice on Friday (54)</p><p> Big Men def. Minnesota Awesome (50)</p><p> Angle: Big Men bring out their new manager, Grace Harper, who hypes up the title match on Friday (48)</p><p> Sean McFly def. Malik Cash (62)</p><p> Tommy comes out for a promo on Sean to end the show (86)</p><p> </p><p> Having our go-home show for Wave of Fury being our worst show so far, by several points? Not good. Booking TV is a whole different world...</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Wave Of Fury 2025</strong></p><p> Preshow: Jackpot Jordan def. Onslaught and War Piece (41)</p><p> Use The Roster (Except Maribel) Battle Royale: Malik Cash wins (61)</p><p> Tag Titles: Big Men def. SkyeForce (53)</p><p> Kalder Tagg & Minnesota Awesome def. Ricochet & Heartbreak Express (59)</p><p> Bullseye def. Paranoia (47)</p><p> Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Long Grain Rice (63)</p><p> Max Mayhem def. Paradox (68)</p><p> CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Sean McFly (62)</p><p> </p><p> Well, now… that was crap… Our first show to ever lose us popularity in two different regions. Why was it getting so hard to book decent stuff lately?</p><p> </p><p> <strong>On the next Coastal Zone:</strong> Getting old sucks; a road agent makes a suggestion; and a new gimmick means one of the most loyal Zoners has had enough.</p>

July 2025 Sometimes, slow weeks are nice for a change. Surf Slam 2025 Preshow: Heartbreak Express def. Killer Bs (52) Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Malik Cash and Ricochet Ramone (70) Kalder Tagg def. Topher Smith (63) Minnesota Awesome def. Jackpot & War Piece (55) AC Sapp def. Chet Chavez (54) Max Mayhem def. Acid III (52) Angle: Maribel cuts a promo about her injury and about how when she comes back, she’s gunning for Tommy and the CZCW Title (71) CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Paradox (72) Tag Title Cage Match: SkyeForce def. McFly’ed Rice (73) That went well. We finally bit the bullet, did some research, and talked with OnDemand. For the next year, Coast To Coast would be coming at you Mondays, alternating live and taped. 90 minutes of near-pure wrestling goodness. Let’s hope we don’t screw it up… oh, we had a taping tomorrow? Wow, that was fast… Coast To Coast #1 Preshow: AC Sapp, Bowden Snoop & Malik Cash def. Jackpot, Pepper & Gaston (47) Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Ricochet Ramone and Acid III (65) Angle: Long Grain Rice comes out and rants about how being teamed up with an old man has been holding him back and talks smack for a few minutes before Sean comes out and tells him to back up his words in the ring (67) Kalder Tagg def. Onslaught (44) Angle: AC Sapp talks about being a big man in a world of small men, then calls out Pepper Pelton. “I’m sure you can relate. How about you and me go on a path of destruction these shorties have never seen before?” (56) Minnesota Awesome def. Heartbreak Express (65) Angle: Hype video for The Masked Men (35) Sean McFly def. Long Grain Rice (56) Angle: Next week’s main event: SkyeForce vs Paratroopers (55) CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Max Mayhem (73) Coast to Coast #2 (Taped) Preshow: Kid San Juan & Heartbreak Express def. Geraldine, Jackson and Bender (52) Angle: Tommy Cornell offers the Wave Of Fury title shot to… Sean McFly (100) Acid III def. Rod Remus (51) Angle: Long Grain Rice is out to complain about last week, and eventually Jonnie comes out to tell him that, if it’ll shut him up, he’ll give him an Xtreme Title match at Wave of Fury (67) Big Men (Sapp & Pepper) def. Killer Bs (51) Angle: Malik Cash hype video (43) Malik Cash def. War Piece (51) Angle: History of SkyeForce vs Paratroopers (54) Tag Titles: SkyeForce def. Paratroopers (74) Angle: Big Men charge the ring after the match and take down Skye Force, yelling about the titles (59) … great chemistry for the Big Men! Yes! I’d say these shows were a success. And man, I forgot how tough it was to a) book angles and b) write up TV shows. But how about the mic work from Tommy Cornell? That’s why we pay him the big bucks… Nothing happens at all over the next two weeks, so… hrm. Let’s take a look at some other companies… CWA is six million in the hole? Man, if they go under, we need to grab Balconi, Queen, and Modesty back… well, the first two at least. Coast To Coast #3 Preshow: Acid III & Bowden Snoop def. Jackpot Jordan & Jack Jackson (51) Angle: Tommy comes out to talk about why he challenged Sean: Because Sean should retire and stick to owning, not wrestling. Sean comes out, cheap-shots him, and they brawl a bit before being pulled apart (78) Angle: A hype video showcasing the four guys in the next match (44) Ricochet Ramone def. Malik Cash, Topher Smith, and Kid San Juan (65) Hype video for SkyeForce vs Big Men at Wave Of Fury (50) Bullseye def. Chet Chavez (51) Angle: Bullseye continues beating on Chet after the match (37) Big Men def. Heartbreak Express (56) Hype for the main event: Maribel vs Mayhem (67) Maribel Mercado def Max Mayhem (72) … she just got back from one injury, and now she’s got a broken jaw. Jeeze. On the next Coastal Zone: With four shows and an event each month, do we start splitting months up into two posts? ... yes, that's the most exciting thing we have to deal with right now.

June 2025 Okay, no shows until we get an announcer. Luckily, Chris jumps at the chance to make a six-figure annual salary for the next ten years, so we’re all good there. We’re still making money hand-over-foot, so we sink some of it into the Coastal Resort. We don’t want to go too hog-wild because, like I said, we’re trying to get Coast To Coast started up again, and who knows what that’s going to do to our production costs. We make written offers to Remmy, Maribel, Paradox, and Mayhem. We were going to need to make sure they stayed with us for the next few years. Losing any one of them, we might recover from. Losing two of them? We’d be really close to being screwed. Luckily, all of them accept with nobody trying to outbid us. We also, for the heck of it, brought on two more workers, youngsters who hadn’t done a whole lot in the industry but had a great set of skills -- and we could lock them up for three years pretty damn cheaply. Welcome to the Zone, Acid III and War Piece! Let’s see… Jackpot wasn’t here tonight, he was working for NYCW. Same with Johnny Needham, his 30-days wasn’t up yet. And of course, Lee was gone but had been replaced. Surf Slam 2025 PreShow: Onslaught def. Joe Bender and Ralph Liotta (39) Chet Chavez, Kalder Tagg & Ricochet Ramone def. Acid III, War Piece & Pepper Pelton (45) Malik Cash & Topher Smith def. Bullseye & Jack Jackson (45) Minnesota Awesome def. Masked Men (Hellion & Kid San Juan) (52) Snapp & Snoop def. Gaston & Geraldine (40) Tag Titles: Skye Force def. Paratroopers and McFly’ed Rice (62) Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Rod Remus (59) CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Maribel Mercado and Max Mayhem (77) Thank god for that main event, or that would have been a horrible show. Rod Remus sprained his wrist… don’t care… Maribel broke a collarbone… Dammit, Max, be more careful… and Hellion tore his ACL. What -is- it with us and new tag teams? Either there’s no chemistry or someone gets hurt… Hrm. Surf Slam was now Above Average Importance. Well, why not? If Welcome was our season-ender, Surf Slam was our season-opener. For those keeping track, that’s now half of our major stars working injured (Remmy, Sean, and Maribel), although Remmy and Sean should be okay by next month. Hellion, however, was out for a year; we got him the best surgeon we could find, and the doc was amazing -- Hellion now just had to spend three months rehabbing. But with so many injuries, we decided to wait another month before starting up a weekly show again. We’d rather have our big guns all ready to go for the first episode. On the next Coastal Zone: The big guns are ready. Do they misfire?

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May 2025 DAMN YOU, MAW! Apparently we hadn’t gotten Kid Fantastic’s attention as much as we had hoped. I mean, sure, we could still borrow him through the Confederation of the Territories, but it wasn’t the same. And now, OLLIE was moving on American Flash. And we just weren’t able to compete with financepower of that magnitude. We tried. And we failed. Well, at least we had plenty of people to job out at the next show. But this was going to drop us dangerously close to the ‘looks amateure’ roster level. Contract offers went out to Hellion, Jack Jackson, and the Heartbreak Express (Johnny Needham and Ralph Liotta). With all these written contracts, we decided that after this month’s Welcome we’d begin setting up Coast To Coast as a weekly show again. It would have to be in OnDem, but at least it would be something. … and now GSW was going after Rod Remus and Topher Smith. Thankfully, just handshake deals, but they’d probably be prioritized over us if it came down to it. Welcome to the Coastal Zone 2025 Pre-Show: Topher Smith def .AC Sapp, Gaston, Onslaught, and Pepper (53) Pre-Show: Ricochet def. Jackpot (50) Xtreme Title: Jonnie Perez def. Rod Remus and Chet Chavez (75) Minnesota Awesome & Heartbreak Express def. Young & Wasted, Geraldine Big & Jack Jackson (61) Kalder Tagg def. Malik Cash (61) American Flash, Hellion & Kid San Juan def. Joe Bender & The Killer Bs (61) COTT Tag Titles: McFly’ed Rice def. The LA Stars (51) CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Kid Fantastic in a submission match (54) Tag Titles: Skye Force def. Paratroopers (67) Maribel Mercado def. Max Mayhem (81) Where to start… the injuries to Fantastic and Sean really hurt a lot more than we were expecting. We also added some new ones as Ricochet broke his nose and Remmy botched the same move G-Force botched last month, only on Paranoia. And finally, we had hit the point where we needed a third road agent again… or would we, with the number of people we had leaving? And finally, Welcome to the Coastal Zone was now Above-Average Importance. So that was good. Apparently, someone had a better Live Event Experience than us; time to up our game. And that someone was TCW. It was time to bring ourselves to the level of companies that had been major players. Granted, there’s a big ‘had been’ in there, but still… … and now NYCW was going after Lee Bambino. Wrestlers I could find replacements for, easy. An announcer who does good work with Grace and Fox? Not so much. Hopefully this was a bidding war I wouldn’t lose… annnnd now OLLIE was after Rod Remus. So much for getting people on cheap handshake deals… Huh. Kyle Rhodes fired as TCW CEO. Guess someone saw they were the same size as the Coastal Zone and got pissed. Runaway Train was taking over… and a booking position was available… I could apply for it. Then sign the people I most wanted to take with me. Dammit. We lost Remus and Lee. Remus, no big deal. Lee… well, at least we had one more show with him. And we were just about to start up a weekly show, too… we make a ten-year offer to a new kid announcer, Christopher Curran. He seems like a decent announcer, although he’s barely done anything, so we’re taking a major risk. But the guy has Cliff’s image. That has to be a good sign. Speaking of which… aw, crap, Lee is working for NYCW tonight… aw, hell. Time to break my cardinal rule of dynasties. I’m activating myself as an announcer for one show and one show only. I can’t possibly be horrible at it, can I? Cliff Anderson Memorial Show 2025 PreShow: Minnesota Awesome, Heartbreak Express & AC Sapp def. Gaston, Hellion, Pepper, Geraldine & Bender (44) --Announcer Change due to Infinite Avatar being horrible: Remmy S-- wait, I guess nobody, oops... Triangle Tournament: Maribel Mercade def. Max Mayhem and Kalder Tagg (51) --Announcer Change: For real this time, it’s Fabulous Frank! Triangle Tournament: American Flash def. Long Grain Rice and Rod Remus (56) --Announcer Change because Frank is a better color guy: Max Mayhem! Triangle Tournament: Remmy Skye def. Paradox and G-Force (52) Xtreme Title Battle Royal: Jonnie Perez def. Bowden Snoop, Bullseye, Jack Jackson, Jackpot Jordan, Kid San Juan, Malik Cash, Onslaught, Ricochet Ramone, and Topher Smith (48) CZCW Title: Tommy Corndel def. Chet Chavez (53) Triangle Finals: American Flash def. Remmy Skye and Maribel Mercado (62) … we should have just cancelled as soon as we saw Lee wasn’t in the building… and Remmy broke a couple ribs, too. And to top it off… we forgot Flash was leaving us, and probably should have had someone else win the tournament. Um, I mean, we had a feel-good sendoff for Flash. Yeah. On the next Coastal Zone: Do we get our new announcer? The Injury Bug bites! And it's the end of an era...

March 2025 With Coco gone and Jackpot probably going to walk any day now, we needed a couple more names on the roster. Kid San Juan (formerly Super Sonic) was unemployed and an easy choice. The other, following our ‘**** IPW’ strategy, was Zach Rudge, who would be returning to his Paranoia character. And now PSW was trying to sign away Wolfie Tagg. Being so far behind in the rankings was beginning to cost us; people were willing to sign with bigger companies for less money. And while if we had to pick a Tagg we’d pick his brother, we kinda wanted the matched set. Sadly, Sean put some limits on what we could offer, and he chose to sign with PSW. … this was going to be bad for us if it kept happening. Before we relied on being bigger than the competition, but now our competition is other companies the same size again… Uprising 2025 PreShow Xtreme Title Jobber Battle Royal: Jonnie Perez retains (64) CZCW Title: Tommy Cornell def. Sean McFly in a submission match (71) Paratroopers (Paradox & Paranoia) def. The Remnants (56) Minnesota Awesome def. Hot Taggs (57) G-Force and Long Grain Rice get into a ****-talking contest, followed with a challenge for a match (63) Long Grain Rice def. G-Force (43) Young & Wasted def. Killer Bs (58) #1 Contendership: Maribel Mercado def. Max Mayhem and American Flash (81) COTT Title: Kid Fantastic def. Remmy Skye in a half-hour-long match (81) Some great matches, and one stinker. Apparently all that time with Sean isn’t teaching Long Grain Rice any psychology… we had had plans, but now we were rethinking them… User talent point granted! Oh yeah, that’s going into my weakest spot… Negotiation. April 2025 Oh, hey, just in time for us to consider hiring more people, it’s the Coastal Resort Class of 2025! This year we have: Geraldine Big, a technical Puro-style wrestler who’s decent on the mic but not the best when it comes to flying around; Joseph Bender, who has amazing stamina (and oddly enough, booking skill) but is pretty run-of-the-mill otherwise; and Raul Thompson, a mountain of a man who is amazing on the mic but a pretty piss-poor and dangerous wrestler. We take Geraldine and Joseph and team them as “Class of ‘25” and give them Grace as a manager. Raul… yikes. He’s a huge, powerful guy, but he’s gonna hurt someone in the Zone. He’d do better at a slower, less risky company. Annnd here came PSW coming after Kalder Tagg. We really didn’t want that to happen; we had a good feeling about this guy. A bidding war broke out… and wouldn’t resolve itself until after the next show. Spring Break Bash 2025 CZCW Title: Tommy COrnell def. Maribel Mercado (81) Killer Bs & Kid San Juan def. Gaston, AC Sapp & Topher (55) Young & Wasted def. The Remnants (54) Xtreme 6-Pack Challenge: Jonnie Perez def. Chet Chavez, Rod Remus, Onslaught, Cash, and Pepper (66) Minnesota Awesome def. Class of ‘25 (44) Paratroopers def. Hot Taggs (52) Tag Titles: Skye Force def. McFly’ed Rice (70) COTT Title: Kid Fantastic def. Max Mayhem and American Flash (77) … and of course, Class of ‘25 has absolutely zero chemistry together. And somehow, G-Force damn near broke the boss’s back. On top of that, Kid Fantastic strained his rotator cuff. Maaaaybe I should start cutting back on the crazy bumps? As the Kalden Tagg bidding war continued, OLLIE made a move to sign both halves of Young & Wasted. They were our current pick to take over the tag titles once we get tired of using them to get “Main Eventers with a rookie partner” over, so we started the bidding war for them. As a side effect, this would mean ending their handshake deals with the likes of GSW and MAW and whatnot, which wasn’t going to win us any friends there. Fun note: EILL has now overtaken TCW to be the #3 promotion in the USA. USPW has, in the meantime, hit Titanic size. Speaking of MAW and GSW, both jumped into the bidding war over Young & Wasted. If we were going to keep these guys, we were going to pay out the nose. Not Cornell-level money, but still. Success #1: Kalder Tagg would be staying with us, as we managed to offer him enough money to split from his brother Wolfie. Now to show we made the right choice… Failures #1 and #2: Young & Wasted signed with MAW. Well… so much for that whole ‘bringing in new tag teams’ thing we tried to do… And now the big one: OLLIE was after Kid Fantastic. We weren’t going to mess around: He got pretty much the best offer Sean would let us make him. OLLIE counter-offers. We go whole-hog, and it’s still not enough to catch his interest… until we tell him that if we ever start up more than one TV show, he’ll only be on the big ones. That gets us the advantage we needed, for some reason. … then in comes PSW and MAW, with MAW taking the lead in the war. Our negotiating prowess (or lack thereof) was really starting to hurt us. Sean won’t let us throw money at him. Finally, we promise him 75% of his merchandise, a huge event bonus, and a promise he’d be booked as an icon -- something only Cornell had been promised before. That put things in our favor again… or did it? On the next Coastal Zone: Do we retain the services of Kid Fantastic? Does anyone leave? Does anyone come in? Is this even the Coastal Zone anymore?