Lo-Drew

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Infernalmiko" data-cite="Infernalmiko" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46428" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><span style="color:#4B0082;">If you are going with that, why not Meiji Puroresu Oversight Council. M-POC.</span></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I like this.</p>

Yeah it's the biggest show of the year for TCW.

I signed JOJI with TCW and he's definitely off the drugs, at least in my game. He's a solid hand. Eagle is interesting. I hear you BP. One thing to consider is that he's a protege of Optimus. When I had him on the BHOWTG side of my game, Optimus gave him tips and he turned out better for it. And Eagle would do the same for JOJI. In my game, Kokan mentors Crimson Ghost and Kokan himself is mentored by Elemental I. E2 still gives Kokan tips despite him being on the decline and Kokan obviously give tips to Ghost. There's better options but I think anything that can result in something like the Optimus-Eagle-JOJI chain is something to think about.

<p>Ironically BP, the valet was exactly what I was looking for when I turned Jin Miyamoto into JIN(based off the same influence too!). Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone that was a native. I did, however, settle for Joy Ryder, who has good sex appeal, decent charisma. She debuts in 2017 though so that doesn't help you out. Honestly, I don't know if there's any good options there. Could be wrong and probably am. Like I said, I stumbled with Joy and sh's done well for me and I like the idea of getting her over enough so one of he Joshi companies can sign her(5 Star is at Cult in my game so they are signing girls to Written deals.)</p><p> </p><p> As for junior gaijins, there's so much. I picked up Kamikaze in my game and he's developed well. Ironically his contract is up ad I'm debating whether to keep him, not because of him, but because I have a few SJs with high SQ that need a spot and I'm trying to slowly trend my bloated roster by just a smidge. I don't know who's available in your game, so I'll just throw out Extraordinao Jr. again because he's pretty solid and can develop well. Has a background too in which in his bio,it says that his father wrestled for BHOTWG in the past.</p><p> </p><p> Thrill Seeker from CGC can wrestle in Japan. He's 35 but he has solid skills. B in Aerial. A in Basics, B- in Psych. Wrestling your top juniors could get those skills up. He's a sleeper and can be a good backbone guy, especially in a team setting. So him, Masked Cougar is a solid choice. You can even pair him up with Fox Mask(who famously is longing to wrestle in Japan as his bio always states.) I am curious to know who's available to you in your game and who's being let go, because again, that's how I got someone like Jagged and he's been awesome for me.</p>

<p>I have a unit like that currently, though, again, I'm five years in. Right now the main heel unit is Individual Ten(inspired by Individual Eleven from GITS) which is Yanagimoto as the leader, Seiji Jmbo, TARO, Ieyoshi Shimakage, Rokemon, James Diaz, Crimson Ghost, Demon King, Golden Scorpion and Marhito Masuko. Yanagimoto, after losing again to Okamoto at NOTBH 2020, goes on a three month hiatus. With no leader, Jimbo and TARO assume leader responsibilities. </p><p> </p><p> Jimbo and TARO start getting rid of some of the peeps that had been struggling lately. Shimakage, Scorpion(both of them have been heels since the beginning of my run) and Demon King. Towards the end of the year, Bussho joins(for context, since I bought put PGHW in summer of 2017, KitoGuchi, Jimbo, Kozue and PRDE Kosio regularly teamed with each other. Jimbo turned on the PGHW contingent in March of 2019) iT purely because he didn't want to join the new Sekigun Okamoto is trying to set up, no longer wanted to team with Kitoaji and while he still didn't like Jimbo, he feels he has a better chance to shine with iT.</p><p> </p><p> TARO won the AJES this year, going undefeated. It finally establishes him finally as a main eventer. Yanagimoto just came back and it won't be long until the TARO-Bussho-Jimbo three headed monster turn on him too. They all despise BHOWTG for a reason and they'll eventually rename the unit now that Yanagimoto will be gone. Those three, Ghost, Masuko, Diaz, Masaso Tsubouchi and Steven Parker will probably become Ouroborous, which means "chasing tail". The concept is everyone in the unit didn't come from the Hinote Dojo and are anti-BHOTWG and show it by trying to become superior to them. Makes them different from SUKI's Kowloon, which is the more grimy, sleazy, cheating unit.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41359" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Oh, Super J's moving up is definitely a possibility. Just not set on it. I don't think there will be a lack of quality young heavyweights, either. So it might just be down to who develops and who will move up in weight class. <p> </p><p> <strong>Curious for any other under-the-radar suggestions you might have, Lo-Drew. Always looking to check out talent I may have overlooked</strong>!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> A few that come to mind. I've always loved <strong>Frankie Perez</strong>. He's a SJ, but his style is Puro. I think one of his best qualities is his versatility. You can keep him as a SJ. Starts off with B- brawling, good technical, decent flyer(C in Aerial and B- in flashiness). Has a B in SQ and you can ask him to move up. Unless he ends up flabby, he'll move up a letter grade in that. His selling is hs only downside since it's at a D. If that's a deal breaker to some, that makes sense. Other than that, you can use him in a tag setting, singles, in the Junior division, you can move him up. You can put him under a mask and with his SQ, it wouldn't be the worse move.</p><p> </p><p> For more gaijin options, <strong>Konrad Makinen</strong> is worth taking a chance on. Definitely wold have to let him develop in one of your child feds, but he has a B in SQ and is one of the best at selling in the entire game. He could develop into an intriguing SJ prospects.</p><p> </p><p> I agree with yo that generally, the heavyweight scene is pretty solid. Funding some SJs can be tricky. Luckily, Mexico provide some really interesting options. <strong>Chess Maniac</strong>(in his bio it mentions he's been dong tors in BHOTWG anyways) s a great glue guy. Change of pace as he's a technician(B- in that along with C+ in Aerial) but hs character can be used as a great backbone of a heel unit(like he is for me). <strong>Silver Tiger</strong> too. I'll throw one more since I realized he's available in Japan; <strong>Ant-Man</strong>. Would be a junior, but he has an A in power, which you can use that however. Has a B- in SQ, B- in Charisma. He needs some polish but if he can improve his front row stats a bit, he can definitely be a solid addition.</p>

Interesting that some of you guys keep Okamoto and Tsuneyo as SJs. I immediately put them as heavys. In my current game they're forever linked as generational rivals. They started my game as a team. They co led a generation unit(Jet Set FUTURE) Okamoto kept rising. Tsuneyo grew jealous even though he was Openweight Champion. Led to a title match at NOTBH 2018 for the title to settle things. Okamoto won the title and Tsuneyo turned on him the next day. Since then, Okamoto has actually won every big match since and Tsuneyo is obsessed with beating him. Which has been cool since they're my two biggest stars currently. Okamoto is the Ace, Tsuneyo, Sakai and SUKI are the other three Pillars. Sensational Dragon is someone else I always try to push him to heavy. You have to go to the editor and set his Max size to Middleweight. I always then ask him to move up and generally he does. I think that's fair since there's a 50/50 chance he becomes flabby and lose a letter grade in SQ. But he always ends up muscular and toned. My (good) problem with my SJs is that I might be too stacked. Hiraki, KC, Elemental 3 and Kurata are my Three Pillars. Masuko is still great and hasn't declined, but he's like 39 and so I'm slowly pushing him downward. I got Orange ready to become one of the pillars, then I have my generated A* SJ that will become Optimus Zero. And then underneath, Toju Munkata, Crimson Ghost, Chess Maniac, Jin(turned him heel and now he's simply JIN; combining his default Rock Star gimmick with Dio Brando from JoJo minus the psychotic streak and more egomania and sleaziness. He talks in third person.), Black Flash, Commander from EXODUS, Jagged, Demon King and Extraordino Jr. The last three have B+ SQ. My general thing that I can't help doing is signing peeps who are unemployed for a bit or let go. So those three were all unemployed and I didn't need them but couldn't pass up. Most of the guys on development are people I just said screw it (I signed Russel Nixon of all people. He's actually turning out decent but that's an example of how deep I'll go ha) But that's goes to a larger point I made on the TCW board. The gold mine isn't the obvious can't miss prospects(tho Okamoto, Tsuneyo, Torii, Fujio, Funakoshi are awesome), buys are guys like Demon King, Jagged who have really good SQ but fly under the radar.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41359" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So Sword of Destiny is in the books now. Which means I am almost 3 full weeks into shows. 12 done. But they are booking pretty slick. <p> </p><p> The PPV was pretty solid, though not outstanding. The thing that made me happiest was making $1.6m from PPV buys. I copied Jon and moved up to the bigger PPV provider, also on an Early Evening slot as I wanted to be sure I could . Also drew 23K. Was down almost $2m as I'm slowly losing money on the tour shows, but this put me back up over the $25m mark. I can probably drop the third tour show. Which would be a positive, since I've got 5 workers listed on the Medical screen as being exhausted. </p><p> </p><p> I did somehow manage to mess up the tag title match on the PPV. Meant to have the reunited Rebellion go over and take the belts but that didn't happen. Guess Aggressively Mediocre get another month with those straps.</p><p> </p><p> Avoided having any Grand Prix matches on the PPV. Filled the undercard with a few fun multi-tags that graded okay. The intent is to have the Grand Pix done by the next PPV so the final can be on that card. Almost certain that Nakasawa is going to top Block A and probably win the whole thing. Block B is a bit more open. Nakasawa doesn't really need the cred, but its a nice way to build him up to that big showdown with Kikkawa. Saiki's strong showing means he probably gets the GP win in 2017 and sets up a big showdown with Kikkawa. Long-term view. </p><p> </p><p> Nakasawa and Sakai have both gone up in popularity a decent amount. Elemental III as well. Horri, even in losing to Kikkawa, gained a few points. Lots of the lowest pop workers on the card went up in pop but that's just that mechanic working. Toshusai went down a couple points off of some GP losses and even a PPV win didn't bump it back up. Wondering if he might have the opposite destiny roll as Sakai. </p><p> </p><p> Feels like I've done a lot in this save... but not even really through 3 weeks of the actually booking. Very much enjoying, if you can't tell by the walls of text. The roster is big and a bit bloated, but I feel like I have a reasonable handle on it. I might keep the third weekly tour show for the moment so I can ensure I don't lag behind on the Grand Prix matches, then drop it when I can and instead add a B show to give the lower card folks a platform. </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Meant to mention yesterday... I went into the 2013 Burning Hammer thread that I started and saw an idea that I had forgot about. Mentioned that I'm looking for legacy workers for some of the great Super Juniors, but you can also go with "alt" versions instead of legacy. American Optimus is a alternate version of Optimus, rather than a legacy. But you could have Dark Elemental, Dragon Optimus, and so on. But you still need legit talent to ensure they are "worthy". But that's another approach I will likely take with newer SJs.</strong> </p><p> </p><p> Also a question, which I did ask in the Booking Committee thread. So there is a retired Openweight title as well as the King of Fighters title. I could buy the Hinote Dojo titles (and likely will). But anyone have suggestions for a mid-card title for the heavyweights that is a bit different in name but not necessarily too restrictive in its function? Skywalker suggested a Submission title, which would be neat but rather restrictive. Hashasheen suggested using the Hinote Dojo titles, which I very much intent to do but likely to give the B show a "headline". So any suggestions on titles?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Didn't even think about this. A Dark Elemental sounds pretty crazy but I like the idea. I had settled on Shin Optimus(True Optimus) as my new Optimus name, but I might change that. Inspired by what you were suggesting with Kiyaru, Optimus Zero sounds pretty cool too.</p>

<p>That's fair.</p><p> </p><p> Switching topics a bit, I'm curious as to who are some guys that people pick up that are a bit under the radar?</p><p> </p><p> What I mean is; obviously you got the usual suspects of top prospects(the top EXODUS kids, Okamoto, Funakoshi, Torii in BGC). Free agents like Miyake, Katou, etc. But what are some guys that you take gambles on?</p><p> </p><p> Generally, I prefer very raw prospects to either A) improve them and then let them go and help out the indie scene. Surprisingly, this is actually helpful. Or B) try to see if I can do something with them. </p><p> </p><p> For example, I actually took a flyer on a guy like The Masked Patriot from SWF. He was let go. Saw his stats. He's actually not that bad. I signed him. He spent a few years being the lost post in his unit and he actually improved a lot. He moved up a weight class and got his Star Quality to a B. I sent him to SAISHO for a few months. He came back as the Archangel and I have him kinda like a Jay White role. The idea of the character is that as MP, I envisioned him as a classic, American Sports Entertainer type but since his stats across the board are actually decent, as the Archangel, he's changed to a more dynamic offense. Most importantly, he's become more vicious in his approach, doing anything he can to win. Originally, he was brought back because Haronobu(who I also sent to Hinote for like six months, came back and immediately gave him the Openweight Championship) wanted to win the Trios title and he was there with Archangel as he improved. Those two(and Extraordinario Jr, new signing) won the Trios titles and did reall well. However, as soon as they lost three months later(one defense away from breaking the record), Archangel turns on Kobayashi, aims for the Openweight champions. He wins, by cheating, and thus has begun his road as a mercenary. He's not liked, but he slides his way into matters, making alliances with other units if it means he benefits. Right now he's about an A in Basics, B+ in Psych, B+ in brawling, C+ in Aerial. I've been really surprised at how he's improved.</p>

Got ya. How does that work if you haven't switched to touring? Because, as I mentioned earlier, I actually have grown to like the Western schedule and have kept the company on a weekly schedule.

From August 2020 to now(Jan 2021), about 1.4 mil. October it was 1.8 mil. But that's what I'm looking at right now. EDIT: Actually, that's wrong. Was looking at the tax. Last month I made 1.8 mil. Month before that was 2.1 mil

Yeah it's interesting because right now, he's a B- across the board in technical wrestling and B- in brawling, but a C in Aerial. At first, I debuted whether or not to go with a flashier guy to put under the mask. But I like the idea of the new Optimus being a bit gritter. In my head, I see it as the new Optimus wanting to redefine what you think when you think of an Optimus. Also, seeing how Elemental III(who at point in my game, as I just reached the first day of 2021, is a five time Junior Champion and three time BOSJ champ) is going to win the tourney and the title again this year, the original Optimus uses this as a way to motivate the new Optimus to close the gap; using any means. Can go either way as far as alignment goes. Generally he would be without an unit as a big theme I did in 2020 was some of the best wrestlers(in the main and up and coming) deciding not to side with a unit due to how some of the other units have see betrayals and other stuff you don't have to worry about being alone. Anyways this broadcasting talk is interesting to me. At this point, I have 46 Mil in the bank so I got more than enough to pull it off. I'm not sure as to when and how I want to do it. Seems like the consensus is to start small across the board, yeah? Because right now, my pop in Japan is A so I'm doing really good as far as native popularity goes. And I already have the Hinote Dojo USA opened in the South West. So I'm just wondering how to roll it out.

Funny enough, one of my Juniors came through the dojo I think two years ago with A* star quality. He's been around for a bit, getting experience. His unit is about to disband and I'll send him to dev for how long. When he comes back, he'll be the new Optimus. Just need a name and a pic idea.

I only do four; Yoshifusa Maeda Grand Prix, Trios Tournament, Best of the Super Juniors and the All Japan Elite Series. Maeda Grand Prix I bought earlier in 2020, almost three years after I bought BGC, because Maeda actually died(I took him on as a road agent.) The initial tournament was to determine the first ever Burning Path Champion. Going forward, it'll take place in Feb. 16 man tournament. Winner gets a shot at the Burning Path title at Fire Dream of the Immortals. Trios Tournament is in April. Usually a 16 team tournament. Winning team all earn a contract which grants them any match they want up until a year. So like DDT's anytime, anyplace, anywhere contracts but you have to announce when you're using your contract ahead of time. I've had a lot of fun doing it every year. All Japan Cup is the Elite Series renamed. Started in 2017, but it maintains the history from PGHW's version. It's my G1. I just finished the 2020 version and have the Finals to book. For the first three years, I've done A Block and B Block. This year, I expanded it to four blocks. Wasn't bad. Generally, the winner gets a World title shot at Fire Dream of the Immortals. Also, the World Champion has the option of whether or not they want to compete n the tournament or decide to skip it and take the time to recover. I currently have 7 titles. The World, the Burning Path(the secondary main event title), the Junior, Junior Tag Team, World Tag Team, Openweight(reopened it in 2017)and the Trios Championship. I've definitely experimented with dropping my PPV service and going with Aichi. It was decent, but I found I was actually losing money after I think 9 months. So I dropped it and went with HYBOSO. Things have been great since. I made a mistake. The Toushusai-Ino-Sensational Dragon-MYSTIC-Fugunaga unit didn't make Silver Fleet. Instead, they became NEO-MAX, continuing the legacy. I forgot all the members, but I remember setting up Fugunaga getting upset with his rank, turning on them in spring of 2017 and then recruiting his own unit; Silver Moon. Dragon goes heavy, wins the Openweight, becomes even more arrogant and causes riffs with his unit. Night after Night of the Burning Hammer, he turns on his unit, joins with Sakai and Kasou-Gun. By this time Masuno is kicked out. Anyways Fugunaga-Funakoshi(who was new), Fujio Narahashi(Ai actually signed him before I took over)-Hiraki(who turned on his partner and became his mega push)-Relampago-Yoshinaka Taku-Sojo Sen made up the original formation. People came and went. The real shakeup begins in late 2018 when SUKI, who had been around for a few months but was doing his own thing, joined Silver Moon. He immediately clashed with Taku, the latter being upset that his spot in the AJES was taken by SUKI and then SUKI, true to his asshole persona, quickly challenged Fugunaga on his leadership. This goes on for a few months, leads to a loser leaves the unit match between him and Fugunaga. SUKI wins, Taku is kicked out. SUKI-Fujio-Funakoshi-Yamura-Hiraki-Chess Maniac-MYSTIC become Kowloon Palace(or Kowloon for short.) It's hard to explain everything that I did haha but that's just a small sample. As for teams, the Fujio-Funakoshi team has been one of my favs. They're called Wonderful Destruction. When he turned, Fujio became "The Wonderful"Fujio Narahashi. He still maintains his hard hitting style but now he's more stylish, more flamboyant in his appearance and personality. Funakoshi as a heel is a brutal, hard hitting wrestler who models himself as a samurai. Keith and Toshitala went on an epic 14 month reign from August 2018 to Night of the Burning Hammer 2019. Which was fun. Those are a few that come to mind. I should also clarify Hinote Dojo USA is a dojo, not a child company. I opened it in South West because Cali makes sense to me. In hindsight, Hawaii probably makes better sense since they're the only part of America that gets to see Burning Hammer without doing anything else.

<p>Glad to see this thread alive again. I've been doing a BHOTWG/TCW game and I'm in Dec 2020. I started doing BHOTG in November 2016 because Sakai had beaten Kikkawa for the title a few months ago and that really intrigued me.</p><p> </p><p> Generally, Dragon gate is my favorite promotion so I follow that thread my units. The way I explained what happened with Sakai was that he was rising, Kikkawa had beaten everyone. Sakai ask for a title shot, Kikkawa isn't pleased with him stepping up to him, but eventually accepts. Meanwhile, Masuno and Taira turn on Ino shortly before. Sakai shocks the world and beats Kikkawa, leaves Kikkawa Army and sides with Masuno and Taira, keeping both heel. Sakai reasons for leaving is simple; he's now the champ, he feels he is better than Kikkawa and thus, wants independence. Masuno-Taira-Sakai- are joined by Shimakage, Toju Munkata and Kasoni Yamura and TARO. The unit becomes Kasou-Gun.</p><p> </p><p> Toushsai, who generally was in Sekigun, reunites with Ino. Sensational Dragon helps and with the urging of Optimus, they reform the Silver Fleet; calling it Silver Fleet Rising. So it's those three, Fugunaga, MYSTIC Dragon and a few others I forgot.</p><p> </p><p> I won't go into every unit that I've done but I was surprised that I was able to buy PGHW, GCG and BGC. PGHW first and then in 2018, the other two. I normally don't like buying out companies, but I like the idea of Kaneko being that ruthless and wanting to strengthen his stranglehold of Puro, especially considering the reason he is in ownership is because he successfully staged a coup against Kaniee.</p><p> </p><p> The ones I took from Pride were the usual suspects; Kosio, Kawashima, Jimbo and KitoGuchi. GCG was Kudo(to return as a road agent, which I found fascinating), SUKI, Funakoshi.</p><p> </p><p> At first, I found the Western schedule to be really weird. However, over time, I actually really like it. Definitely helps getting a second show. But I have found more flexibility in having two shows plus the monthly PPV. Sure, you can't do the touring contracts but what I do is for people who I want to trial, I'll sign them to PPAs deals and see how it goes. Then I sign them or let them go for nothing. </p><p> </p><p> For child companies, I also did the Dragon Pro thing(name included) for Juniors and bought SAISHO for the heavys. Opened Hinote Dojo USA as the reasoning would be Kaneko slowly beginning to plan expansion in America.</p>

Need a name for El Heroe Mexicano in my TCW game. Just signed, I plan on making him a cornerstone of my All Action division(he's a face). So I would like a new name for him.

<p>I'm three years into my TCW game and I'm doing fairly well. I'm not sure how I did it, but on my first month, I won the National Battle(by about five points) and generally win every month(there was a good stretch where I was losing to SOTBW but I've managed to start prevailing month by month.)</p><p> </p><p> I found maximizing the top stars to be extremely helpful. Sounds cliche but seriously, Rocky Golden, Wolf Hawkins and even Aaron Andrews is your best friend. I then focused on getting others over using these three as "orbits" if you will. For example, I gave Hawkins his own unit with Youngman and the American Cobras and that's elevated those guys really well. </p><p> </p><p> I think one of the best things I did for this game has been taking chances on guys who aren't that high in popularity but have great SQ. This isn't necessarily talking about unsigned guys(like Mitico Jr, who I do have) but more guys in USPW and SWF that are lower end, who you can easily outbid those companies if you give them a little bit more money and more years. For example, I never really go for the big stars(I did go all in on Champange Lover and managed to get him for 10 years, 125 mil and all the perks), but people like John Greed, Mainstream Hernandez, Scythe, Primus Allen, The Bumfholes, I jump on. And that strategy has really worked for me because you end up getting guys who can develop into stars on the cheap(before they ask for pay raises) and keep them for years and years end. </p><p> </p><p> I echo what everyone else says. You should expect people to leave. But I think that's one of the cool things about playing TCW in 2016. It's a challenge and it requires you to think outside the box a bit in order to compete. Once you find your groove with them, TCW becomes super fun to play as.</p>

<p>I'll throw in someone who I always find a use for, both in the midcard and in the main event(like in my current TCW). </p><p> </p><p> John Greed.</p><p> </p><p> I love Greed. Bit on the older side when you start(around 37 I believe) but he has pretty good entertainment skills. He's fairly decent in the ring, not great, but not bad at all. Plus, he has high SQ, which is great. I've found him to have a nice "utility man" quality to him as I can plug him into any situation and he'll generally produce. Need him in a tag team? That would work. Need him to be paired with a monster and/or a stable with him as the mouthpiece? That would work too. He's one of my favorite guys in the C-Verse due to his versatility.</p>

Need a name for an American-Canadian centric babyface unit for my BHOTWG. The members are Bulldozer Brandon Smith, Red Panther, Kill Switch(Frankie Perez), Mark Griffin, Heliakon and T-BONE(T-Bone Bright)

Need a team name for MYSTIC Dragon and Chess Maniac

This would be awesome. At the moment though, I'm hoping for a GBH Wrestle Kingdom IWGP Tag Title challenge. Might not happen but I really want that to happen.

See the thing with Fale is that J&G are behind him similar to like they were Okada. OK, not exactly like that but he did come up from the dojo and J&G do have big plans for him. They view him as someone who potentially could be a monster heel for them and granted he is being fastracked but being risky is what the J&G/Kidani regime is all about. I mean remember, Okada's first IWGP title win two years ago at New Beginning 2012 was the ultimate risk and lucky for them it panned out. I think for them they're viewing it like this. I assume Okada will beat Tana at Tokyo Dome; officially officially beginning the new era in New Japan. When Okada finally becomes Ace, the others around him are just as important. Tana will be 40 next year. Ishii as well. Shibata technically isn't a full time NJPW as he hasn't signed a full time contract with NJPW(similar to Ibushi, who only works big NJPW shows and Korakuen rather than full tours). Although in Shibata's case, him working the full tour for this upcoming tour is an encouraging sign. Naito obviously will be an inevitable IWGP champion. Goto has always been the guy that's so close, yet so far away. Styles has been a top guy for NJPW but he's 38, a gajiin and nearly kills his body by wrestling everywhere. So even that's short term. So besides Goto, Shibata(maybe), Naito and probably still Naka(he's still 34 although he is a part of the soon to be past Tana era); they really have no one else that could join them from the current era. A big reason why they're so gaijin dependent(especially in the junior division; which hasn't produced native stars from the dojo in a while but Komastu and Tanaka could change that soon.) I do agree Fale needs to improve though as he'll be a key component to the NJPW engine going forward. A wild card could be Takaaki Watanabe, who's in ROH for his excursion, when he comes back to Japan. Either way, New Japan after WK next year should be fascinating.

<p>OK so for the first time in literally five years being on this board....I'm considering doing my own diary.</p><p> </p><p> It would be a BHOTWG one from 2014. I didn't start my current game with them(I actually did with TCW) but I wanted to inherit another promotion and do two at once(because I wanted to challenge myself. Have never ran two promotions at once plus I've come to quickly find out for me it's much easily then I thought.). In my TCW/nowBHOTWG game, BHOTWG fell to Cult, lost their TV deal and I found that to be fascinating. Along with the fact that they dismissed Iesada from the booking right away their last tour of the year, for the first time ever it actually led to me picturing this to be an interesting diary. If I actually go through with this, instead of portraying Kikkawa, the main person throughout the out of the ring writeups would be a journalist responsible for doing BHOTWG magazines and yadda yadda. So it would be his take on things as he observes everything that takes place product wise.</p><p> </p><p> Shows writeups would be simplified because well, I'm a lazy 1 year old. Comes with the territory. To give a visual, shows would be summarized like this <a href="http://iheartdg.com/" rel="external nofollow">http://iheartdg.com/</a></p><p> </p><p> So yeah would anyone be interested in this?</p>

And also Cena didn't go after Ziggler's MITB briefcase. Mr. McMahon forced Vickie Guerrero to make their Ladder Match at TLC for Ziggler's briefcase.

Eh I keep telling you dude, Ziggler has the WORLD Title briefcase. Yeah they're no longer brands, but there are still two World title floating around and considering Cena won the WWE Title briefcase, having Ziggler cash it in on the WWE Champion would be non-linear and WWE has enough of non linear things going on such as no more brand split but still have two World titles around. And he's only been trying to cash it in on Sheamus and Big Show(when they were World Heavyweight Champion).