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September 16

If anything, this is a question of how you interpret the word "Flashiness", not a shortcoming of the stat. Its role in the game is a modifier for Aerial, that's it, so whether The Rock's punches are especially "flashy" is irrelevant to flashiness as the game understands it. It's basically the difference between a high-flyer doing a Top Rope Splash or a Sky Twister Press. That is explicitly what the stat means, and nothing else; so either it's a question or replacing Flashiness with a new "Showmanship" stat, adding Showmanship as an additional stat, or renaming Flashiness to something else.

What you're describing in terms of Shawn Michaels or The Rock having an extra flair in how they wrestle in general, to me that falls somewhere in Charisma and Star Quality.

I agree that I would like to see more uses of Strength as an important stat or modifier; it might not be possible to get this granular, but it could play into the Min/Max weight difference for finishing moves - a wrestler with a very high Strength stat would be able to perform certain moves on someone far heavier than someone with a lower strength stat, and that could affect their ability to perform certain moves, or at least to perform them well.

"Feat Of Strength" could even be a road agent note for a match or angle, to simulate something like Hogan slamming André, or Brock Lesnar hitting the F-5 on Big Show for the first time, or the kind of angles that benjirino mentioned. It could have positive and negative effects - Cesaro bodyslamming Big Show can give the match a higher rating, maybe give him a momentum/popularity boost for how impressive it is, but if someone bodyslams Big Show every week, that positive boost can be slowed or even reversed, and it ceases to be special, and trying to overuse the same spot could hurt the quality of the match.

Aiming for a Feat Of Strength, or a finishing move that requires a high Strength stat to cover the weight difference, with someone who maybe isn't strong enough to achieve it would have negative effects - a worker with a more caring or cautious personality might refuse to do it, a road agent might warn you against it, but a more mercenary or selfish worker might go ahead and try the spot as instructed without trying to talk you out of it (and a poor road agent might not pick up on it), and increase the risk of injury to either worker by botching the spot. While there should be a degree of randomness in whether the spot works or not, it should also scale based on the ration between Strength and weight to replicate how likely it is that the spot would go to plan on those grounds -to keep with the slamming Big Show analogy, Mark Henry doing it would be an almost 100% success rate, while Rey Mysterio Jr. doing it would be closer to 0%, even with a high Safety stat.

September 16

1 hour ago, Bandiusha said:

"El Médico" was the wrestling persona of José Ángel Vargas Sánchez, a professional wrestler who gained popularity in Mexico during the 1970s. He was known for wearing a mask that resembled a doctor's face, hence the name "El Médico," which means "The Doctor" in Spanish.

In that era, masked wrestlers (luchadores enmascarados) were very popular in Mexican wrestling (Lucha Libre), and El Médico was part of that tradition. His character often played the role of a villain (rudo), and he participated in many matches, known for his strength and technical skills.

Although El Médico might not have achieved the global fame of other wrestlers from that time, like El Santo or Mil Máscaras, he remains a memorable figure in the Mexican wrestling scene of the 1970s.

Unless I'm really missing the point here, none of this is true. That isn't El Medico's real name, it's Angel Blanco's name. El Medico wasn't a key memorable figure in lucha in the 1970s, he died in 1960.

I wouldn't trust ChatGPT to write bios for any wrestler but those so famous that you wouldn't need it to help you write them in the first place.

I had a similar thing recently where, out of curiosity, I asked it a question about an early 20th century vaudeville performer, and it got none of the information correct and invented a completely fictitious opera. ChatGPT doesn't actually answer questions, it just produces a response that its algorithms deem looks like an answer to your question, and the more obscure the question, the less likely the answer is to be accurate.

August 29

I had a look through the wrestlers that don't have a nationality listed, and noted the following that I could correct off the top of my head (whether that's for you to edit, or anyone using this as a base for a mod to then manually edit):

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Aleah James - English
Alex Shane - English
Alex Windsor - English
Andy Simmonz - English
Antonino Rocca - Italian/Argentinian
August Smisl - Austrian
Australian Suicide - Australian (unsurprisingly)
Axel Dieter - German
Ayesha Raymond - English
Baron Mikel Scicluna - Maltese
Bas Van Kunder - Dutch
Bernard Van Damme - Belgian
Bhupinder Gujjar - Indian
Bill Dundee - Australian
BT Gunn - Scottish
Bubblegum - English
Carlos Romo - Spanish
Charles Crowley - English
Charli Evans - Australian
Charlie Morgan - English
Charlie Sterling - English
Chris Renfrew - Scottish
Christian Jakobi - German
Chuck Mambo - English
Connor Mills - English
Dalys - Panamanian
Danny Collins - English
Dirtbike Kid - English
Drew McDonald - Scottish
Edouard Carpentier - French
Gene Munny - English
Gianni Valletta - Maltese
Gideon Grey - English
Great Antonio - Croatian
Greg Burridge - English
Hade Vansen - English
Harley Cameron - Australian
Jack Jester - Scottish
Jack Sexsmith - English
James Tighe - English
Jim Breaks - English
Joey Cabray - Irish
Johnny Smith - English
Karl Kramer - English
Kendo Nagasaki - English
Kid Fite - Scottish
Kid Lykos - English
Kris Travis - English
Kurtis Chapman - English
Lana Austin - English
Laura Di Matteo - Italian
Lee Nikkan (presumably this is Nikkan Lee) - Korean
Les Thornton - English
Lion Kid - English
Lizzy Evo - English
LJ Cleary - English
Lord Alfred Hayes - English
Maggot - German
Mark Rocco - English
Mile Zrno - Bosnian
Nina Samuels - English
No Fun Dunne - English
Outback Jack - Australian
Pat O'Connor - New Zealand
Pollyanna - English
Ray - Hong Kong
Rhia O'Reilly - Northern Irish
Roy Johnson - English
Roy Knight - English
Ryan Smile - English
Ryan Tran - Vietnamese
Sadie Gibbs - English
Shazza McKenzie - Australian
Simon Miller - English
Siva Afi - Samoan
Slyck Wagner Brown - Jamaican
Spike Trivet - English
Terry Frazier - English
Tiger Jeet Singh - Indian
TK Cooper - New Zealand
Victor Zangiev - Russian
Wild Boar - Welsh
Zak Knight - English
Zoe Lucas - English
Zumbi - Brazilian

In addition, you have "Spain", "Spanish" and "Spainish" as separate categories, and "India" and "Indian".

August 27

This is in the developers log:

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Because they are part of the Workers section, and therefore have access to the same stats, attributes, etc, as normal characters, there's scope for database makers to simulate all sorts of different celebrities. For example, you can make celebrities who are able to take part in matches (you could even make celebs who will be willing to take part in deathmatches via the attribute system), who are purely there as personalities, who can be used as colour commentators, etc. This should allow pretty much every example where a real world celebrity has been in wrestling - whether that's Raw guest hosts, singers doing the national anthem at WrestleMania, or stars actually getting into the ring - to be simulated.

There are multiple celebrities in the Cornellverse that are active wrestlers, so it's definitely possible.

However, I just ran a quick test with a created Z-list celebrity, and they refused to accept a contract for in-ring roles even though their only role is set to "Wrestler". So it seems like there's something I'm missing.

August 20

On 8/19/2024 at 2:11 AM, ToxicTurtleyTop said:

CELEBS ADDED:
- Conor McGregor (Not Listed as celeb so can wrestler)
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Not Listed as celeb so can wrestler)

Unless I've misunderstood this, this is unnecessary. Someone can be listed as a celebrity, and still be booked as a wrestler if they have the right active roles.

July 30

I've been toying with making some "Plug-In" mods for TEW IX given how much easier it is now to edit data outside of the game, and I've been looking through the latest RWC to get some ideas of where I could expand on, and here's some things that jumped out at me. Apologies if any of these have already been suggested, or are already in hand:

Pro Wrestling EVE:

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- Home venue is currently set as 229 The Venue, this should be removed, they no longer run there. Their current "home" venue is Big Penny Social in Walthamstowe.

- Leah Owens and Jayla Dark can probably be removed from the roster, and removed as default commentators. At most of their recent shows Dann Read has done commentary with whatever wrestlers are around and able to do it.

- Charlie Morgan, Jetta and Rhia O'Reilly should all be removed and set to Retired. Charlie and Jetta had their retirement match in June, and Rhia quietly retired last year.

- Charlie Morgan and Jetta's relationship should be Married, rather than Dating.

- Nina Samuels should be Married to Rocky Mac

- Laura Di Matteo, Kasey, Livvii Grace, Maya Yukihi, Mei Suruga, and Mercedes Blaze should be removed - none of them have wrestled for EVE in 2024, and Livvii and Mercedes not since 2022

- The Uprising stable should be removed, and a tag team of Operation SAS added of Nightshade and Skye Smitson

- Kanji and Emersyn Jayne should be a Tag Team called Top Shagger & Her Donny

- Emersyn Jayne should be Babyface, Millie McKenzie should be Heel, Nightshade should be Babyface, Skye Smitson should be Babyface, Safire Reed should be Heel

- Will Ospreay has been working as a Producer for EVE - potentially add him as a Road Agent

- Emily Read could be changed from Left The Business and back to Active, and given an EVE contract, she is back working with the company and appearing at shows.

- LA Taylor should be added to EVE as a babyface

- Su Yung should be added to EVE as a babyface; she has been booked on multiple shows this year

- Nina Samuels is current EVE Champion, Operation SAS (Nightshade & Skye Smitson) are EVE Tag Team Champions

Misc Stuff:

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- Ben Carter can have Alter-Egos added of CJ Storm (masked and unmasked), which was the name he started out under, and Ben Carson, which he briefly worked as in Tennessee

- Cassius should be Homosexual rather than Bisexual

- Chakara should probably be retired or on hiatus - as far as I'm aware she hasn't worked in at least 3 years

- Greg Burridge should be able to work as a Road Agent, and should have the alter-egos Baxter Burridge and Metallico

- Cara Noir should be able to work as a Road Agent - he has been working as a Producer for PROGRESS since getting injured. He should have the alter-egos El Pavo Real and Pure Britannico.

- Jody Fleisch should be retired, and have the Alter-Ego Jody Flash.

- Kanji's relationship status should be Engaged

- Kira Chimera's relationship status should be Dating

- Little Miss Roxxy is no longer based in the British Isles, she lives in the US. She could possibly also be set to either Retired or On Hiatus, she hasn't wrestled since 2021 as far as I can tell.

- Livvii Grace's bio mentions her previously working as Tennessee Honey, but she doesn't have that gimmick as an Alter Ego. She's also worked as "Liv, Laugh, Love" and "Trash Queen" for FIST Club and Galzilla, respectively.

- Malik should have Marduk Malik as an Alter Ego

- Roy Johnson is Married

- Gene Munny, Clementine and Malik should be graduates of the London School of Lucha Libre.

- Safire Reed, Kanji, Lizzy Evo, Nina Samuels, Nightshade and Mercedes Blaze should be added to RevPro. Reed, Evo, Samuels, Blaze and Alex Windsor should be a heel stable called the Cut Throat Collective.

October 9, 2023

Some things I noticed:

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Arez should be a tecnico in AAA

Argenis should be unmasked in AAA - he lost his mask earlier this year

I think Dalys should be a tecnico in AAA, as she teams with Negro Casas

Addy Star should be Retired or On Hiatus, she hasn't wrestled in over a year

Big Guns Joe is now named Joe Blazr

Cara Noir should be able to work in Japan, he has wrestled for DDT

I think Chakara should be Retired or On Hiatus, I don't think she's wrestled in a couple of years

Charles Crowley should be able to work in Japan, he's about to debut for an indie promotion there

Charlie Morgan and Jetta's relationship should be updated from Dating to Married

Dahlia Black should be Left The Business

LJ Cleary should be signed to NOAH, and able to work Japan

Meiko Satomura should be based in Southern England or Japan - she still lives in London, and divides her time between there and Japan

Mercedes Blaze shouldn't be signed to EVE, she hasn't wrestled for them in over a year. She has been wrestling for RevPro recently, so should be signed to them

July 26, 2023

On 7/16/2023 at 9:10 AM, Fleisch said:

Unsure if this has been discussed so apologies if it has. Cuatrero had been in prison from March for 2 months awaiting a futher hearing for the (alleged) attempted murder of Stephanie Vaquer. Unsure if he has been released since (doesn't seem to be any reports in English) but he hasn't wrestled since March so should probably have a starting absence for legal reasons. He is still recognised as one third of the AAA Trios champions so I'm guessing they are reserving judgement until he is convicted or not (as people should do in a normal society).

Also maybe instead of Split Up, there should now be a Hatred relationship between the two.

Just to add to this that NGD have subsequently lost the belts to Los Vipers - Psicosis, Abismo Negro Jr and Toxin - with El Hijo de Mascara Ano 2000 subbing for Cuatrero. Ano 2000 has been teaming with his cousins pretty regularly since April, so I think it's safe to asssume El Cuatrero is out of the picture for the time being.

July 12, 2023

some random notes based on going through workers on the June mod:

Alexxis Falcon should be able to work in Europe - she's worked France, Germany, Austria and Spain
Alpha Female shouldn't be signed to Stardom, she hasn't appeared for them since last November.
Avery Good should be active as a Personality
Baliyan Akki should be able to work the USA
Cara Noir should be out with a long-term foot/leg injury - unknown recovery time, but it's in the multiple months
Cassandro should be either On Hiatus or have a starting injury; I don't think he's wrestled since early last year.
Charles Crowley should be able to work Canada - he's done some work for Smash
Doug Williams has retired
Drago is now going by Dios del Inframundo and has left AAA. They have debuted a new Drago.
Janai Kai should be able to work the UK, she has wrestled for EVE in London
Jinny and WALTER/Gunther are married
Lana Austin should be able to work Europe
Little Miss Roxxy is based in the US now
Mariah May should be active in Japan
Mei Suruga should be active in the UK

July 4, 2023

Adrian Finch wrestled as one half of the UK Nasty Boys, and in the early '90s as "Macho Man", if that makes it any easier to track down a picture. He also teamed with Scott Conway around '92; I've been looking through Scott's Instagram, and while there's plenty of posters with them as a team, I've yet to find any with a picture of Adrian! Not found anything of either Finch brother on a couple of World of Sport Facebook groups either.

Is it this Mario Milano, or a different wrestler using the same name - Mario Milano - Wikipedia?

This appears to be Greg Stekker - Greg Stekker Greg Smith Australian Wrestling Champion Submission Master AWE Australian Wrestling Entertainment Australian Sports and Entertainment Portal (australiansportsentertainment.com)

April 25, 2023

Some very minor corrections/updates I've noticed when going through the database. Mostly related to the UK scene, with a couple of Mexico and Japan notes too:

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Training Facilities:

EVE Academy doesn't exist any more, can probably be set to closed around the start of the pandemic.

The London School of Lucha Libre no longer exists, so can also be set to be closed around the start of the pandemic. Greg Burridge now runs Burridge Fight Design with many of the same students, so this could just be a case of renaming LSLL, though you may want to keep the London School as a closed school to keep track of graduates (see the next section).

You could create PlayFight as a London-based training facility, run by Cara Noir (https://playfightlondon.com/)

The CHIKARA Wrestle Factory has reopened, as just the Wrestle Factory.

Graduates

If you keep London School of Lucha Libre as a closed Training Facility, its graduates should include Will Ospreay and Cara Noir

Company/Contracts:

I think Big Damo should be babyface in PROGRESS

Lana Austin should be a heel in PROGRESS

Malik should be a heel in PROGRESS

Leon Slater should be a face in PROGRESS

Taonga shouldn't be on PROGRESS' roster, she's not been there since October 2022.

Tom Dawkins should be using the Cara Noir name again in PROGRESS

Clementine shouldn't be working for Pro Wrestling EVE

Debbie Keitel shouldn't be in EVE, she's not been there for a while

Katie Harvey shouldn't be in EVE, she's not worked there since 2020

Argenis should be Rudo in AAA

Gideon Grey should have a contract with NJPW, and should be part of the United Empire

Simon Miller should have a contract with PROGRESS

Tom Scarborough shouldn't be contracted to NXT - he's no longer contracted to WWE, and works UK indie shows again

Alberto El Patron should be contract to AAA - he's booked for every Triplemania show. Up to you whether he still warrants a scandal.

BG James should have a WWE contract

Doug Williams shouldn't have an NWA contract any more, 99% sure he's finished up with them

SoCal Val and Nigel McGuinness should have PPA handshake contracts with PROGRESS

Venues & Locations:

Resistance Gallery has closed down, and should be removed

Workers & Relationships:

Clementine should be retired/possibly left the business

Candy Floss should probably also be retired/left the business - currently she has a "Personal Reasons" absence, but I don't think she intends to return to wrestling

Argenis is now unmasked

Charlie Morgan is set to "currently dating someone outside the wrestling business", but also has a "Dating" relationship with Jetta - only the latter is true

Brady Phillips is set to "dating someone outside the wrestling business" - he should be in a relationship with Ivy

Clementine should be in a relationship with Charles Crowley

Brian Hebner is retired - not easy to reflect for a Referee in-game, so maybe Left The Business?

Brian Kendrick should maybe have a starting scandal?

Cassandro should have a friendship relationship with Greg Burridge, and a dislike of Konnan

Curtis Axel should probably be either retired or on hiatus, as far as I can tell he hasn't wrestled since leaving WWE in 2020, and more recently worked as a producer in 2022

Debbie Malenko is signed to WCPro, but set to Retired, with no active roles. She should be semi-active, she's booked in matches this month.

Donnie Janela and Joey Janela should have a Blood Relatives relationship

Effy should be able to work in the UK

There are a handful of CHIKARA gimmicks - most notably Ice Cream Jr and El Hijo del Ice Cream - that were portrayed by other workers already in the game, and don't exist following the closure of CHIKARA. I don't know if the best course would be to delete them, or set them to "Left The Business" in case anyone wants to edit them back in, or "On Hiatus" to reflect that I guess maybe somebody could bring those gimmicks back? But having them as active workers right off the bat seems odd.

El Hijo del Santo should probably have some negative relationships with Konnan and the Pena/Roldan family, to reflect the fact that he's unlikely to ever work AAA any time soon

Gavin Loudspeaker should probably be set to "Left The Business", I don't think he works in wrestling any more.

I think Hallowicked should be Retired

Mike Tenay should probably be set to "Left The Business"

Negro Casas still has a loyalty to CMLL, despite having left to sign with AAA

NOSAWA Rongai should be Retired - he had his last match on Keiji Mutoh's retirement show

Rayne Leverkusen should be active in Japan, she's currently on tour with DDT

Robert Gibson's overness in the US is currently quite a bit higher than Ricky Morton's - if anything, they should be the other way around, or at least equal

Shane and Stephanie McMahon should probably both be loyal to WWE, and On Hiatus

It's probably one for the RWC+ thread, but if I ever have time, I might look at suggesting stats or making my own importable database for some other British promotions, talent, and particularly supporting roles like refs, announcers and so on, to help flesh things out there.

March 24, 2023

On the discussion of AJW's retirement age, I've never managed to get a clear answer on when that rule was introduced - to the point that I've literally asked people who worked there and they couldn't answer me.

I would be surprised if it was already in play in 1970, though - Miyuki Yanagi, who worked early AJW shows as "Masked Killer", was in her 30s, and I'm sure that a lot of the American talent they were using early on would have been older.

I think it would be perfectly fair to raise their hiring rule to nobody under 40, for this time period. If I had to take an educated guess, I would say that the enforced retirement age didn't come in until around '75/'76 with The Beauty Pair. Unfortunately, there's no narrative to change hiring rules, to allow for that rule being implemented later, as far as I can tell - maybe one for the suggestions thread.

March 1, 2023

On 2/25/2023 at 3:04 PM, Kubikiri Asa said:

Wrestlers Missing Age or Birth Year Details

Jimmy Kung Fu (Eddie Hammill)

Le Ange Blanc (Francesco Pino)

Steve Adonis

Undertaker M.C. White (Shane Stevens)

Kung Fu was born in 1943.

L'Angle Blanc was - according to Wrestling Heritage - born in November 1930.

Also from Wrestling Heritage, there's a mention of Steve Adonis celebrating his 50th birthday in 2013, which would put his birth year in 1963.

Tina St. Clair-Gregory also worked as Tina Starr, if that's any help at pinning down her age.

Shane Stevens I'm assuming is "Psycho" Shane Stevens - I worked with him about 11-12 years ago, unfortunately. The Sunday Mail ran an exposé on his tribute shows, fraud, bounced cheques and other assorted dodgy dealings back in 2001, and I found a newspaper account claiming (using "Shane's" real name) that he was 49 at the time, which would put his birth year at 1952, which sounds about right.

February 17, 2023

Wrestlingdata.com has Kendall working in January '92:

https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bilanzen&wrestler=682&jahr=1992&monat=1

Blackjack, meanwhile, I can't find anything until later in the year. Could it be that Kendall was released earlier, but people have just conflated the two and assumed he got out the same time as Blackjack?

It may be that wrestlingdata is incorrect, but the card seems legit.

November 22, 2022

No intention for it to be daunting, I just know it's impossible to keep tabs on every promotion and where every single wrestler is, so when it's promotions I follow fairly regularly I'll allows check in to see how accurate the data is before starting a new game, even if I'm not playing as that promotion.

November 17, 2022

Some things I've picked up on starting up a new game:

The Wee Man's nationality is set to American, should be Scottish
Brian Kendrick is set to Retired, he should be an active wrestler - he's wrestled this month
Drake Younger is set to Retired, he should be an active wrestler - he's wrestled this month
Alexa Bliss has an Evil gimmick, but is a babyface
Tully Blanchard should be removed from AEW
Lulu Pencil should be On Hiatus, she hasn't wrestled since 2021.
Andrade should probably be removed from AAA - he hasn't wrestled for them in months, and has been very critical of them in interviews.
Deonna Purazzo should be removed from AAA
Konnan should be active as a Personality in AAA
Villano IV should be unmasked
According to Cagematch, the following should also be removed from AAA:
Australian Suicide (hasn't wrestled there since 2020)
Hades (hasn't wrestled there since 2020)
Extreme Tiger (hasn't worked AAA since March, is mostly working NOAH now)
Vanilla Vargas (hasn't worked AAA since 2020)
Jeff Jarrett should be removed from AAA and GCW, Karen Jarrett from AAA
The following should be removed from Pro Wrestling EVE:
Aurora Teves (only worked one match there last year)
Charli Evans (no longer lives in the UK, hasn't worked EVE since March 2022.
Gia Adams (only worked one match, in August 2021)
Heidi Katrina (last worked EVE in December 2021)
Katey Harvey (only worked EVE once in 2020)
Maddison Miles (last worked EVE in August 2021)
Natalie Sykes (last worked EVE in April 2022)
The following should be added to Pro Wrestling EVE:
Jayla Dark (also needs to be made active as colour commentator)
Kanji
Mille McKenzie
Nina Samuels
Yuu (current EVE International Champion)
Miyu Yamashita (current EVE Champion)
Leah Owens should probably be retired - other than a brief spot in a Rumble, she hasn't wrestled since 2018.
Erin Angel should be on hiatus, she's only worked one match this year, one last year, and prior to that not since 2019
Rhio should be babyface in EVE
Jetta & Charlie Morgan should be heels in EVE
Rebel Kinney is retired
EVE should have a working relationship, or at least a positive opinion of, Marvellous

EDIT:

Breezus/Tyler Breeze should be either retired or on hiatus
Rocky Mac is retired
Shane McMahon should be On Hiatus, Retired or Left The Business
Super Parka currently has a relationship with L.A. Park and L.A. Park Jr, but not El Hijo del L.A. Park
I would suggest starting scandals for Ace Steel and CM Punk to reflect the fallout from All Out, for Tessa Blanchard to reflect that no major promotion will touch her, and for The Blood Hunter (Hannibal) based on him assaulting a referee a while back.
Vampiro should be added to AAA, he's been wrestling and doing guest referee spots there regularly this year

August 5, 2022

Is Dreamer still with Impact? I thought they cut him after he made an ass out of himself on that Dark Side episode.

I think he left, and then was quietly brought back more recently, in a backstage role.

December 13, 2021

A few notes:

- Emily Read no longer works with Pro Wrestling EVE, shouldn't be under contract, and status changed to Left The Business

- Sammii Jayne now wrestles as Emersyn Jayne

- PlayFight could be added as a Southern England-based school, owned by Cara Noir

- Hyan's contracts should be removed from EVE and RevPro

- ACH has no active roles - he's out of retirement now, so should be active as a wrestler

- Gabai Ji-Chan is down as using the PSYCHO name in Gatoh Move - while he used it earlier this year, predominantly he wrestles there as Sawasdee Kamen, and occasionally as Gabai Ji-Chan, he only used the PSYCHO gimmick for the Tag League.

- Gisele Shaw should be removed from EVE, she hasn't worked there in almost two years.

- Greg Burridge should probably be an Occasional Wrestler, rather than Wrestler. He hasn't wrestled since 2019, and was only working infrequently for a couple of years before that.

- Hoshitango should have a handshake deal with Gatoh Move, he's a regular there

- Jakob Hammermeier should be able to work as a Colour Commentator

- Jinny and WALTER should be dating, not Jinny and William Eavers. Even if you're not prepared to set the Jinny/WALTER relationship based on what evidence is out there just yet, Jinny and Eavers definitely aren't together any more.

- Johnny Kidd should probably be (yet again) out of retirement and an active wrestler; he was competing for LDN in October

- Joseph Conners is no longer with NXT UK

- Leah Owens should be able to work as a Colour Commentator

- Mei Suruga (and possibly Lulu Pencil?) should be eligible to work in the US

- Mike Knox should have a contract with the NWA

- Molly Holly should have a contract with WWE, where she's working as a producer/road agent

- Mr. Iguana should be active in the USA

- Raven should be signed to the NWA

- Rebel Kinney shouldn't be signed to EVE - she hasn't worked there since March 2020

- Scott Taylor should be out of retirement, and working as Scotty 2 Hotty again

- Skye Smitson should be homosexual, not heterosexual

- Vampiro should be an Occasional Wrestler, he's competed multiple times this year

- Warren Barksdale should probably be Retired or at least On Hiatus - he hasn't wrestled since 2019, per Cagematch

- Wink Vavasseur should probably be Left The Business - as far as I know he's had nothing to do with wrestling since the end of his run with CHIKARA several years ago

October 18, 2021

Another duplicate I just spotted in 1998:

- Emi Motokawa and Emi Sakura

October 12, 2021

Presumably ECW and WWF splitting up would have something to do with the owners' personalities - particularly Vince being opposed to working with other promotions?

It's a bit of received wisdom that Vince is an isolationist, but that's not strictly true in this time period - not only would the WWF be helping bankroll ECW and sending talent there, they were still working with AAA talent on Super Astros, were only a year away from working with OVW, and were doing the NWA invasion stuff.

I might be way off the mark, but I think tweaking owner personalities might be a better solution than going with something like making the WWF own ECW, which I think would probably throw off other aspects of the game, particularly how ECW itself would operate.

September 7, 2021

Some notes from the "unofficial" post-All Out update, mostly AEW:

- Billy, Austin and Colten Gunn should be heels, and removed from the Nightmare Family stable

- Anthony Ogogo is currently stuck in the UK with visa issues, so should have a starting absence of maybe at least a month for AEW?

- Earl Hebner isn't listed on AEW's roster on their website any more, so I'm not sure if he's still with the company

- Emi Sakura should be a heel

- Bad Romance should be an inactive team

- Cage & Starks should be an inactive team

- Cody & Dustin should probably be an inactive team, and should have lower experience than 100

- Kiera Hogan should be signed to AEW

Outside of AEW:

- Acey Romero has left Impact

- AJ Lee should probably be set to “left the business” (though who knows these days?!)

- Cassandro should have a starting absence - he was hospitalised earlier this year after a stroke

- Charli Evans (and, by extension, probably pretty much every Australian wrestler based in Australia, shouldn't be available to work elsewhere at the moment due to Covid restrictions preventing travel. I know that's a tough thing to simulate in-game, though)

- Gia Adams' nationality is set to Saudi, she should be English

- Mikey Whipwreck should be set to Left The Business - he issued a statement a couple of months ago about his poor health preventing him from driving or making public appearances

- Paul London should be an active wrestler - he's competing for Chaotic Wrestling soon

- Steve Austin should be a retired wrestler, rather than a non-wrestler

- Ted DiBiase should be signed to NXT

- Tyler Breeze is being billed as "T Breeze" for his first post-WWE match

August 26, 2021

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sabin357" data-cite="sabin357" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53338" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> I also can't find any record of All-Star Wrestling by Killer Kowalski ever existing. </div></blockquote> According to Wiki, Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation promoted under the name "Killer Kowalski's All Stars", but it sounds like they only started using that name in the '90s. That's the closest I can find.

June 28, 2021

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Fleisch" data-cite="Fleisch" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47565" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ah I see. I don't know what made me think it wasn't on Sky. It is a tricky one to try and get working on TEW. </div></blockquote> Yeah, that kind of arrangement with two channels sharing the same number isn't reflected in TEW, and I think just making it a smaller broadcaster is the closest option. What I haven't been able to find out is if it was always available on Sky; maybe there was a period when it was on Cable and not on Sky, with the Sky channel only launching later? I'm reasonably confident that in 1998 it will have been on both, though.

June 28, 2021

It has Very Small coverage as I believe it was only available on the old Cable & Wireless (now Virgin Media) system after Cartoon Network finished for the day. It wasn't available on Sky from what I can remember.

TNT was definitely available on Sky - I remember Cartoon Network switching over to TNT when it finished broadcasting, and I only ever had Sky TV, not Cable.

The "time-sharing" set-up they had with Cartoon Network - and that it was different in different European countries - makes it quite complicated in TEW terms, though, and I think either Small or Very Small would still probably reflect that both Sky and Cable still weren't available in all homes, and that it was a channel that only aired for a few hours a day.

June 14, 2021

RE: Ophidian
This is the first time I've heard about this, and I can't find anything after a quick search. Do you have any proof, please?

He may have mentioned it on social media at some point, but it's from personal knowledge - I've worked with him several times, so it's come up in conversation. Obviously not a dealbreaker either way, just something I noticed when going through the yet-to-debut workers.

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