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<p>A question which REALLY doesn't deserve its own thread: Are non-rules stipulations separate match types? Like, is a Lower Leaves Town match, or a Mask vs Hair match, a different match type altogether?</p><p> </p><p> It's certainly a gimmick and a unique draw, but on the other hand it's no different than a standard singles match in terms of type, style, etc. The only difference would be, <strong>maybe</strong> Prestige.</p>

<p>So I have a weird issue. I've been putting in decent angles and matches in a 0/0/0/0 game. But for some reason I can't for the life of me elevate any of my workers past 18 popularity.</p><p> </p><p> Nearly my entire roster is 17s, three 18s and I had a 19 for a hot second.</p><p> </p><p> My champ has lost only three matches in two years of weekly and semi weekly shows. He's dominated a few times. But instead of gaining popularity he stays at 18, and my jobbers elevate until they're 18s too, and everyone stays there.</p><p> </p><p> Help!</p>

Is this one of these fancy internet japes I've heard so much about?

He's a user-creation, copied-and-pasted from Vince. And yes, he's written. Edit: Just set it in the editor to Exclusive P.P.A. -- at least then I can check the night of the event, edit his wages down to $0 where I wanted them, and call it good.

I wanted to do a 0/0/0/0 game with owner goals on, but the problem is that my owner keeps increasing his wages to like $14,000. I can edit it with the editor but how do I stop him doing this?

I've had several companies hit Cult as of 1973, but none of them can survive long enough at Cult to make National. Has anyone managed to have a computer-run company hit National, or is this as impossible as it seems?

I'd like to see more kick-outs at one. That's one of my favorite things about Puro that is completely ignored by the US. If they're that tired 2 minutes in that they're almost completely out (2-count) then why can they go on to kick out of 3-4 finishers in a row?

I am surprised to say that I basically agree with the concepts he's referring to. Pro wrestling seems to me to have very few stories, in the long run, for faces. You've got: Comeuppance (cocky youth, bad guy gets his, revenge), Physical Imbalance (overcoming injury, david v goliath, etc), and Going for the Gold. Most motivations I have seen really come back to some interpretation of those 3. There might be some that I've forgotten. But while you always want to have something going on with the title, you don't want that as your Wrestlemania main event, even though the title should be on the line. As I've learned from a lot of people who are much smarter than I am, you want the conflict to build. Maybe you start with a title shot, but then you want to introduce some other elements. Maybe you have someone come in and cost the face his shot. Then you have a different story about Comeuppance, which you then roll into the title shot for WM. The problem being that everyone is about the same size in the WWE right now. You fundamentally can't have, say, Miz-Punk as a David versus Goliath setup. They're the same size. Now, I wouldn't agree that this would cause a slump, it just limits your options slightly.

Theater's not a dead medium. Don't know where you're getting that idea. Also, Smith's not a 'great' actor. Not by comparison to other 'great' actors. He's not Gary Oldman. He's not even Eddie Murphy. He's played his cards right and he's had some success but he's not especially talented and he's not especially memorable as an actor or a musician. He's the Miz of film. Worked hard to get where he is, but in the end he won't be more than a footnote in history.

QFT. It was plain, but it actually played really well to Cena's strengths as a character actor. He was essentially the "serious" Cena everyone likes throughout the whole film.

I'd say he's payed his dues when he doesn't have millions of female fans who don't care that he put his girlfriend in the hospital.

As far as I'm concerned, Punk is the complete package. Is the the BEST worker in the ring? No, I guess not. I'd give the nod to Kurt Angle, probably, as my favorite between-the-ropes worker. But he's got a believable, well-performed arsenal in the ring, he's magic on the mic, he's got a good look, he can chain wrestle, he can brawl, he can do top-rope stuff... Having everything is a major plus.

As I understand it, the championship came essentially out of nowhere, and was a surprise to everyone. There was talk (speculation, obviously) of his being the first person to cash in and lose. So... YMMV.

I find that I don't like anything out of Japan more than the late 80s AJPW matches with Tenryu. :I

Because that's part of the job. You don't get hired at WWE without being willing to make appearances.

Are we still playing the "wait and see" game with Orton's feuds? I forgot. Christian says hi, by the way.

I hate it when they shout that. Maybe I just don't understand about Stone Cold, since I didn't watch wrestling when he was a thing. But I find it frustrating and disrespectful. Can good performers make it work, sure. But they shouldn't have to.

Also, in addition to what eayragt was saying, usually the little bit of delay they DO have is spent pumping the crowd OUT. Why do you think it is that the cheering in a huge, 20,000 person stadium is no louder than it was in RoH's 2003 shows where 300 people attended? Do people care THAT MUCH LESS? No, I think it's that they edit out booing and turn down the crowd in general.

(Bolding is my emphasis; italics is original) But so are cars.

I don't know that I agree with Nedew, above, entirely. The problem is just that he thinks he's disfigured. He's crazy. However, it seems more like he's afraid of being disfigured again, which is why he can take the mask off when it's opportune; he doesn't need to worry about getting clobbered when Orton isn't looking, so he can use it to an advantage.

1. CM Punk. He won't be in crap feuds forever. 2. Wade Barrett. Don't care that he's been crapped on by the storylines since the Nexus. Just don't care. I like his look. 3. Daniel Bryan. 4. Ziggler 5. Beth Phoenix

90 days? I'd have given him 30. Here's my ideal: They spend a week, maybe 2, trying to pretend nothing happened. Have one of the tournament rounds per week from week 3 on. (that way, you can have the finals at PPV). Have Vince come out for all the matches to keep an eye on his title, to ensure that there's no funny business etc etc. Week 3, some time during the matches, have someone (maybe John Laurinitis I guess) come out, whisper in Vince's ear. Vince looks mad; you know how good he is at looking mad. However, he says nothing. Matches continue, but you have the commentators say something about "I wonder what Johnny Ace just told Mr McMahon?" Next week, same thing, except this time he shouts "He said WHAT?!" and walk off. Matches continue. PPV shows up, Cena vs. Mysterio, blah blah blah. Cena wins, and then Cult of Personality hits the speakers and Punk walks out in his ring gear, walks to the ring, and you have a staredown. It can be hard to remember things for months--although to me it was a big wait for South Park to start back up because of how they'd ended the half-season. People CAN remember, but with Vince's booking style there's no REASON to remember.

Well... I don't mind how it is. If you really want to know what I'd like to see changed, though... I really like the style TNA is using right now with the ramp leading directly to the ring. I believe NJPW also uses a similar style for their big show in January, but I could be mistaken. As much as it's not traditional, I feel like it looks really classy, and I absolutely love it. I'd like to see two entrances to the ring, at least for PPVs. This is somewhat counter to my previous point, but I've seen it done. I'd like to see the entrance archways reworked. I don't like the huge video-wall; seeing those giant pixels really bothers me for some reason, and I'd rather see just a wall. Possibly padded. I'd like to see Lawler replaced on commentary. Cole can stay, but I would like him to take a more back-seat role and be more heelish. Maybe Lawler can stick around as a manager, if he can be the serious Lawler we saw in the feuds with Miz and Cole. Put him on a Diva, and have him basically try to be her mentor/bodyguard. But you'd need to make his character a lot less of a pervert to do something like that. It might, possibly, work with JR as lead play-by-play, Cole being a heel color man, and then Booker doing comedy. I'd like to stop seeing John Laurinitis. He makes everyone look short. I'd like to see less space at ringside. Not TOO much less, but trim a foot or two off each side.

It's the same argument as I hear a lot about corporations. Some people say that corporations need to be better, because they're lying, stealing, heartless automatons run by sociopaths. Other people say that corporations have always been thus and you should have learned your lesson. It's an endless debate. Just agree to disagree, you'll get the pettiness over with faster.

I don't know, man. I sat down to finally catch up on RAW yesterday, and what I discovered (aside from that reading a textbook and watching RAW is really hard) was that yeah, they seem to be giving him a lot of time, but it's all stuff that, when explained one-after-another, makes you scratch your head. The question you have to ask is, what's the difference between where he was before this and where he is now, in real terms? The last few months, sure. He's been a little behind the times. But when he was the leader of the New Nexus? He was on TV this much. He's on TV a little more, now? What is it exactly?