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you know I’m gonna be in the front row for this one, E-V
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[DICK THE DEVASTATOR has entered the chat]
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duuuuuuuuuuude that TCW/AEW hybrid
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and what has happened to the Internet’s beloved GWS
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Do you need to buy a Windows licence as well for it to work? I read that a limited free version of Windows comes with Parallels but I don’t know if that’s enough to run the game.
From the thread about this in the 2016 forum...
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Get the Windows 10 ISO. You can download it now without needing a Windows computer. Before you had to download a media creation tool to download Windows 10. You'd use the tool to create a ISO for a disc or a bootable flash drive. This downloading the ISO directly is completely new. Windows 10 install through Parallels is flawless. Just skip the product key for Windows. You can use the full version of Windows without using a product key (with preferences and settings not able to be changed). Microsoft allows this on purpose. If they didn't want people to be able to test out the OS, they wouldn't allow you to bypass the product key in the first place or they'd lock the OS after a set amount of time, which they don't do. I own two different Windows computers in my house, which is how I had the ISO file originally.
I just bought this MacBook in late October and I was scrambling to figure out the TEW fix due to Catalina. This isn't a real fix due to the price but its a really nifty program that runs flawlessly and allows you to do much more than TEW on a Mac.
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Can confirm this way works for TEW. You just have to deal with the watermark, the “hey, license this” popups and no settings changes. If you’re just using Parallels to play TEW, installing it and using Parallels’ Coherence feature to play is super smooth. Can just create a link to your desktop or applications folder and, boom, the game pulls up in its own window like you’re running the game on Wine.
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Believe Adam has said it's just Windows. Most of the Mac users on here, including myself, has found that Parallels with a free (and legal) download of Windows is the way to go. It's practically flawless once you get it set up.
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Ryder created his character for Z! True Long Island Story, he'd fit right into AEW from the perspective that he has experience writing and creating content with no direction.
Rusev is made for the Inner Circle. He would fit right in because the man was always on point with his comedy but he has the presence and look to be a killer too.
All in all though, I hope they are careful who they pick up. I hope it doesn't become like TNA who signed every ex-WWE guy they could in a hope that all of them were simply under-utilised.
man, putting Rusev in Hager’s place would be phenomenal
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SPLASH! looks like a lot of fun. I’ve been interested in a DDT-type promotion either in the C-Verse or the T-Verse. Would make for a good dynasty.
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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="SomeLazyMagic" data-cite="SomeLazyMagic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47493" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm so damn excited for the return of the Thunderverse and getting to see how some of my favorite talents and promotions have changed, but my biggest curiosity has to be specifically with the AWF and PWI. The <p> </p><p> AWF was in such a state of limbo after the Dark Days that I'm curious whether that improved or got worse, and if so, who or what caused those further changes. </p><p> </p><p> With PWI on the other hand, I want to know if Shane Allman finally became his own worst enemy and hurt his brand somehow. He's not exactly the nicest man after all!</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>I used to think that Saul was just going to make change after change to CWT until it was anything but its old self, but after the rebirth of the NWA under Billy Corgan, I could definitely see CWT making a bit of a comeback using nostalgia as their vehicle for success</strong>. Alternatively, I could also see Saul & Briscoe having a big split and lead to the creation of a whole new promotion by Saul as a big FU to JD...but that just be me looking for ways to see the EVOLVE promotion as a starting company to play with.</p></div></blockquote><p> I had an idea for a save to have CWT become the flagship of the AWC and run a show like NWA Powerrr, thanks to Saul’s leadership. Would be cool to see CWT go in a nostalgia-based direction.</p>
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<p>I do wonder if DRAGON will continue in their current form, since they usually get raided a decent bit by both American and Japanese promotions. (And, if we’re still talking parallels, Dragon Gate USA is no more.) Maybe PWI bought them out and created a killer Junior/Cruiserweight division.</p><p> </p><p>
If CWT bites the dust and PWI takes a step back, there might be room in the Mid South or South East for an AEW-like promotion, too. Just thinking out loud.</p>
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One of the biggest things for me, and it’s probably not that big of a deal to many, is the consistent style of all the pictures. The renders are awesome.
I also agree with what The Celt said about characters. The Japanese scene in the C-Verse feels really flat to me, especially Burning Hammer. UPJ has been one of my favorite games because of the characters, even if there are very obvious parallels to Tanahashi, Omega, Nakamura, Liger, etc. on the roster.
Speaking of which, if the powers that be want any ideas for UPJ’s expansion — check Dalton’s game updates in the 2016 thread.
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my hype levels are through the dang roof for this game now
Interested in seeing if CWT pulled through and how much Allman being a dick has affected PWI. A resurgent AWF would be fun.
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Never say never...
HELLO
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Had a blast reading this one. Loved a lot of what you did — and hope AEW would consider some of it IRL — and I’ll be following along with whatever dynasties you do in 2020.
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This save is really making me hope Japan in the C-Verse is strong for 2020. Although I’ve never been crazy about the Burning Hammer name, I’d love to take them for a spin when it comes out.
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I can dig it, especially since I've got Hart and Gilmour together now. Mackenzie just hit Time Decline, but I like the idea of a British/European outsider stable. Could also use this to freshen up Deguchi-gun and FEARLESS with some young talent.
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They’ve got Mercury, I believe, but that’s it. PWI has been able to hold onto their dudes. It’s strange.
And the logo is the *American* Puro Society one. Forgot the American in there. It’s not great, but it’s a placeholder and something I can jettison for a name.
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I like the idea of Jung DRAGON winning the Junior Mountain Cup. I was a huuuge fan of him in my DRAGON save awhile back, so I brought him into UPJ, but he went into time decline like a year later and lost all his skills overnight is seemed.
Dragon is No. 2 only to Kinjo in my Show Stoppers tab on the Creative Meeting. I've been fortunate with Time Decline at the moment, only Graham Mackenzie and Ram Diablo have it at the moment. He could have an incredible junior rivalry with Storm in the future.
Yamawaki winning the Summit is always good. So talented. I never used Christian Prophet for whatever reason. Maybe I just saw him as a hardcore guy, but then again he has done very well in DIASPORA and HONOUR. I like that you used the Ozeki Summit event as more of a normal PPV, rather than a one-match show.Since I'm such a big fan of Okada, I find booking Yamawaki so fun. But then I realized he had his title run via UPJ Invitational shot instead of winning the Summit, so getting it here made total sense.
And Prophet is a machine in angles and got insanely over in Japan — A across the board —*despite him being No. 5 among the five stable aces in terms of success and wins.
As for the Summit, me moving back Ascension (my version of NJPW's Dominion) because of the bigger Junior Mountain tournament made me fuse what I would normally do there into the Summit Final.
I like the Hall of Immortals card a lot. Obvious good main event, if Jung DRAGON is still talented then he should have a great match with the ultra-skilled Matsuo. Huge tag title match too. Scott Hart must've cost you a pretty penny to take him away from America. IC match in a steel cage is different, so I am interested to see how you make that puro-friendly. The Fallen is a great name for Cody and Grace. I think they're both Small sized, so putting them in a tag is definitely a good move so they can compete. If you have Yasutake, it may be a disservice to hold him to an Openweight match, unless he just hasn't gotten over yet.- I'll get to this later, but AWF has stuck around at Cult while PWI has stayed steady at National. The wrestling industry and the economy in the U.S. are very low, so I got to broke the bank to go get Hart.
- Excellent chemistry between Grace and Cody have made The Fallen a red-hot tag team for The Brotherhood. Grace is in the Next Big Things for me still, so there might be a single run coming from him down the road, even if he's small.
- The cage match was just an idea, know it's not very puro. I'm trying to figure out a way to get a Juro-EVR match where interferences and all that won't happen. Any suggestions?
- Yasutake just isn't getting over for me yet. Maybe it's a bad roll or something. The Summit helped him some, maybe that can turn things on for him.
-I so badly wish I could've used Deguchi in my game, but when I started the game he was already deep in time decline a 41 years old unfortunately. It was a huge challenge to pull a 90 rated match out of him. I let him go in in January 2020 with a farewell show because I barely used him. No one else has signed him either.This makes me sad. Deguchi has been the centerpiece to my two favorite feuds so far, and Deguchi-gun just freaking owns as a stable name.
I'm happy you signed Eikichi Minamoto back to UPJ. He is 42 years old for me right now and has not started declining at all yet. In this upcoming tour he will be started a new faction named Eikichi-gun (Minamoto-gun is too many syllables lol) with a bunch of other unaligned guys including Magnus Stonebreaker.He's a heck of a comrade for Kinjo in The United Throne. Not going to be an ultra star or even a serious world title contender, but he clicks so well with so many people.
-Junichi Matsuo was a stud in my game, and I gave him the Junior title in Nov. 2017. He lost it two months later, and then in February of 2018 just a month after losing the title he suffered a spinal injury at a LETHAL event and retired. He's a talented manager now and I've thought about bringing him in to lead a small crew (Matsuo-gun).He's starting to take off for me. Perfect in RENEGADES, already has a past connection to TEMPEST, rocks in promos, and just fits the cocky nature of the stable. I hired his girlfriend to be a manager for the stable, and it's worked out quite well. I hate that he had to retire for you, but man, I love the idea of him as a stable leader as a mouthpiece.
-It's cool to see that you used Eli Morton for a match. He was fired by AWF in April 2019 after making racist comments. It took literally two years for that penalty to go away, and so I JUST signed him in April 2021 at 38 years old, which is an off month so now I'm going into May 2021 with him. I'm not sure what to do with him because I have the rest of the year planned out already, but I might give him a world title match against Kinjo in like September before Kinjo faces Oda at HOI.I started an alliance with PWI and GBWF and took the Puro Society logo from the database. It's great to be able to borrow PWI guys for one-offs, especially with Morton's past with UPJ. At some point, he's going to either face off with his old FlatLine partner Eda or team up again.
-I'm sad you let TOKI INK go! He is by no means a stud worker and is definitely a career midcarder, but I like using him in an enforcer role, i.e. Bad Luck Fale to Fergus Storm's Prince Devitt.I might have been too reactionary in just not re-upping with him because he hadn't worked out for me, because I like the character and the idea of him. But man, he just wasn't clicking.
Mr Yamashita still works for me strictly because Honour Katsumoto took him on as a protege, and I really don't want to let Strength & Honour go because they are locker room leaders and I like the idea of having them around as it's realistic. They work like 5 times a year and always lose.I cut bait with Strength and Honour early, and Yamashita never picked up a mentor. Sad, because I thought there was potential there.
Sean Girven is a damn superstar for me, which is hard because he is the third gaijin behind EVR and the extremely fast rise of Seven Brandt. I try to stay at least semi-realistic, so it's tough to find a role for him. I've still been using him in a tag team with Nathan Jordan as Generation Next, but I want to give him a singles run with a title so badly. He had a short IC reign and has had countless world title shots that he always loses. I need a placeholder reign between Yamawaki and EVR in 2022 so those two can battle at HOI a final time (with Oda FINALLY beating him in the main event!), so I might give it to Girven, a la Jay White in 2019.Girven is on the cusp of becoming a big deal for me. I'm thinking that when Deguchi starts to decline, he puts his attention on Girven becoming the next top gaijin in the promotion. The Best Buds trio of Girven-Igelsias-Jordan have been the backbone of Deguchi-gun.
Pain & Torture never really did anything for me. I gave them a reign or two but they sucked in the ring. They were basically placeholder champions while I had other plans for a team or wanted a short singles run for someone in a tag team, which I did with Kato.Yeah, Ignite Zero coming back for a run with the belts is the beginning of the end for P&T. They both have gotten popped for steroids recently and are just alright in the ring now. They were big-time weapons for Deguchi when he turned on Kinjo, but now they're just temperamental gatekeepers.
-Furosuto sucked for me too. It's a shame because every other player I've seen in this thread had good plans for him.Furosoto's performance skills are excellent for me right now, and I loved the idea of Storm being threatened by him as soon as he joined RENEGADES. The switch to being a face and the blue mask was fun, and it gave Iesada something to do — trying to reform him as a "coach" of sorts and taking the junior division back from the clutches of RENEGADES and The Brotherhood.
-Ram Diablo, a good worker who went south in a heartbeat. He works Canadian independents since 2019.Ram had good chemistry with Eda, which made sense for a tag title run. Eda is always going to be a B-tier worker for me, so they helped each other out for a while. But now Diablo is starting to wear down, and I might not keep Eda around forever.
-I like the Young Lions Cup idea, I floated that idea for myself just yesterday, but nixed it altogether. That being said, I am shocked you are using Dragon Prince as a young lion! I know he's young but he is so talented and is loyal to Shikoku Pro (he starts off with loyalty right?) so I just use him as a top junior guy. 96 SQ is nothing to scoff at!I *just* now was able to sign Dragon Prince because he finally met some sort of owner goal — either basics or safety, I think —*but he won't be a young lion for too long. Also "Young Lion" is a loose definition there. It's mostly "tournament for young dudes who haven't gotten out of enhancement/opener status yet."
-I see you signed most of the DRAGON main event scene, as did I, so is your DRAGON similar to mine in that they basically suck now? Most of their starting roster has left and they are stuck with scraps and without a TV deal.DRAGON doesn't have a TV deal either and are basically where they started at, popularity-wise. Naruto, who I let go because he was in time decline and wasn't exclusive to me, is still the head booker and the champion at 43. They've still got Jay Paro and Jarid Hart, but the top real-deal talent is gone and they've signed a bunch of weird indy dudes.
-You said AWF is flailing, which I didn't even think was possible. What are they like right now?Still at Cult (B- across the board in the US and has been stuck there for a while), behind a National PWI (B+ in the US), which is just behind me in the global rankings. Not sure if there was a scandal or something, because I can't figure out how they've plateaued while PWI is decently ahead. They're also strong financially, which makes the Hart poach even weirder, now that I look at it.
-Do you have plans for Sean Girven in the future? And Nathan Jordan? Both of them can run their respective divisions for me if I honestly wanted them to.Jordan hasn't quite caught on as a singles guy yet, but as I mentioned earlier, yes to Girven. Jordan will probably get there soon. I love his work.
-Is Deguchi still giving you high ratings?Hasn't had anything lower than a B+ since the middle of last year. Machine.
-Who do you think will be Eikichi's partners? Older guys or new upstarts?Not sure yet. The United Throne needs more blood outside of being Kinjo + Eikichi + Kozue and HashiWara in the junior division. This might be where a Yasutake push fits in.
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Jumped back into my UPJ save last week because of Dalton’s posts — awesome job with the 100 match, by the way.
Expanded the Junior Mountain Cup to 20 participants like the Ozeki Summit. Fergus Storm came into the tournament with the junior title and having turned on Juro Deguchi to join RENEGADES.
Storm had grown to resent the rest of Deguchi-gun and Juro himself. Deguchi had won the UPJ Invitational over EVR back in February, which had turned into the winner getting the new Intercontinental belt as a twist. Meanwhile, Storm had upset Kintaro Kinjo in a champ vs. champ match earlier in the year but failed to become the first dual-division champion in the rematch. Deguchi’s first title defense against Eikichi Minamoto became the main event at Procession of Champions — Kinjo was in a special showcase match against PWI champ Eli Morton higher on the card — and overshadowed the tie-breaking three-way match between recent champions Storm, Goto and D’Anton Joubert. After Deguchi beat Minamoto, Storm came down to congratulate Deguchi and then nailed him with a low blow like Deguchi had done to Kinjo years earlier. Storm flashed the sign of RENEGADES and escaped before the rest of Deguchi-gun could get him.
In the Junior Mountain Cup, Storm was rolling in Block A until new stablemate Furosoto shocked him with an upset win. Storm would finish second in the block to Furosoto, while Jung Dragon ran away with Block B. In the final, Dragon pulled off the win — he’s absolutely incredible in the ring. After the match, Storm and EVR and the rest of RENEGADES come down to the ring to help up an exhausted Furosoto. Storm pulls him up to his feet and then levels him with a lariat. RENEGADES then pile on Furosoto, with Storm going as far as ripping his mask off. The United Throne, ever the upstanding heroes, swoop in for the save, with the recently retired Thunder Iesada covering Furosoto’s face with his cape.
This leads to the Ozeki Summit — I moved Ascension back in the schedule to make up for the bigger Junior Mountain — where battle lines have been drawn. Deguchi is feuding with EVR over Storm’s turn. TEMPEST is feuding with Ram Diablo over the COBRA title. Goto has moved to the heavyweight division and is butting heads with all of he and Kato’s old rivals. Kinjo is trying to become the first reigning champion to win the Summit. Scott Hart, fresh off a lengthy run with a now-flailing AWF, has finally made his UPJ debut and joined James Gilmour in FEARLESS.
All of those developments, though, don’t quite have the same heat as Oda Yamawaki vs. Christian Prophet. Yamawaki, having lost the world title to Kinjo at HOI 2016 and the rematch at Procession of Champions in 2017, is trying to get his first Ozeki Summit in order to get a shot at the belt again. But he’s been in the crosshairs of Prophet, who claims the Favored Son of UPJ doesn’t have what it takes to survive the onslaught that’s heading his way. Yamawaki overcomes an early loss to Prophet’s right-hand man, Waotaka Eda, and a draw with Kinjo to win a chaotic Block A. Prophet runs the table in Block B, which was mostly headlined by the continuing war between EVR and Deguchi.
At the Ozeki Summit Final:
- Yamawaki beats Prophet to win the Summit for the first time
- Jung Dragon beats Fergus Storm to win the Junior title after Furosoto — back in his old blue mask — causes a distraction
- Erik van Rijn and Juro Deguchi draw in an intercontinental match after all hell breaks loose at ringside between their two stables
- James Gilmour and Scott Hart beat Kintaro Kinjo and Eikichi Minamoto in a special tag match
- Ignite Zero make their debut as a heavyweight tag team and end Pain & Torture’s long run with the World Tag titles
- TEMPEST retains the COBRA Openweight title against Ram Diablo
- The Fallen (Cameron Cody and Derek Grace) retain the Junior tag titles against Kozue and Evan Kuja
- The COBRA Six-Man carousel continues, this time with the RENEGADES team of Seven Brandt, Richie Santana Jr. and Koji Yamada taking it from the Deguchi-fun trio of Sean Girven, Nathan Jordan and Alejandro Iglesias
The fall tour will include a Young Lions Cup and the World Tag Grand Prix, along with a title defense against Girven for Kinjo and a contract defense against Eda for Yamawaki.
Here’s what I’m thinking early for a Hall of Immortals Card:
- UPJ World Heavyweight: Kintaro Kinjo © vs. Oda Yamawaki
- UPJ Junior Heavyweight: Jung Dragon © vs. Junichi Matsuo
- UPJ Intercontinental: Juro Deguchi © vs. Erik van Rijn — Steel Cage Match (no countouts, no DQ, no one can interfere)
- Mask vs. Hair: Furosoto vs. Fergus Storm
- The Brotherhood (Christian Prophet/Waotaka Eda/Ram Diablo) vs. Eikichi Minamoto and Two Friends to Be Named Later
- UPJ World Tag: Ignite Zero © vs. Scott Hart and James Gilmour (penciled in as World Tag Grand Prix winners at the moment)
- UPJ Junior Tag: The Fallen © vs. TBD
- COBRA Openweight: TEMPEST Masato vs. either Sean Girven or Alejandro Iglesias or Nobuhisa Yasutake
- COBRA Six-Man Openweight: Very Much TBD
UPJ has said goodbye to Toki Ink (never could do much of anything with him), Arttu Jensen (thanks for tagging with Joubert for a stretch), Kris Phoenix (another long-term injury), The Prophets (that did not work at all), Sen Masuda (same) and Taka Yamashita (sadly, same) during this time.
I used those departures to bring in some more young talent, here’s what I’ve got now for an eight-man “young lions” cup:
Dragon Prince
Gao Xi
Ichibei
Jon Diamani
Lincoln Nash
Masa Kahaya
Susumu Kimata (good LORD this kid is incredible, even though he’s a teenage deathmatch worker)
Yusuke Amura
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This might be the T-Verse/UPJ/EVR love in me talking, but let’s say Matthew Keith has become a version of Kenny Omega and is the leader of a red-hot gaijin stable that has BHOTWG seriously going after international expansion.
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I decided to keep chugging alone in my UPJ game, now entering the 2021 Ozeki Summit. For anyone familiar with the T-Verse Japanese scene, you know how big of a star Nobuhisa Yasutake can become. Despite starting off in a midcard tag team in HONOUR, he has all the makings of a legitimate Ace, along with a 91 Star Quality rating.
He has worked all across Japan for literally every company worth wrestling for. He was on a PPA deal with HONOUR, and was picked up by IWJ and FKPW in September 2016. As FKPW is technically DIASPORA's developmental and is in the Zodiac Dragons alliance, he was loaned out to DIASPORA six times until May 2020, when he was finally signed to a written deal with HONOUR. He also worked for my UPJ a few times, including a fantastic run in the 2020 Ozeki Summit, which he worked while being FKPW World Champion and (more importantly as they were created as an exodus from UPJ) HONOUR Heavyweight Champion.
In his time as a freelancer, Yasutake took Japan by storm, holding the FKPW World Championship, IWJ Triple Crown, and HONOUR Heavyweight Crown all at the same time! Better yet, his reigns were massive. Here's a breakdown:
IWJ Triple Crown: October 2016-March 2019 (12 defenses, 2 years 5 months)
FKPW World: July 2017-August 2018 (12 defenses, 1 year 1 month)
HONOUR Heavyweight Crown: September 2018-April 2020 (16 defenses, 1 year 7 months)
FKPW World (2): July 2019-May 2020 (10 defenses, 10 months)
The last three reigns coincided with one another. In March 2020, Yasutake took part in UPJ's coveted Ozeki Summit as an outsider, and he shined bright. He was the only participant to have never previously worked for UPJ. He was put into the same block as UPJ Heavyweight Champion Oda Yamawaki, which means that the UPJ champion would battle the champion of the traitorous HONOUR. In 2013, longtime UPJ stalwart Kenta Sonoda took a group of wrestlers loyal to him away from UPJ to form Pro Wrestling HONOUR, and ignited a war. So to have their champion work for UPJ was a huge deal. Better yet, the match between Yasutake and Yamawaki would end up being the best match of the year for UPJ, and perhaps the entire world, as it was rated 99/A+. Of course, Oda would have to be the victor here.
I write all this because in February 2021, Yasutake suffered what looks to be a career-ending injury at only 36 years old (C6 Cervical Spine Cord Compression). It actually made me sad because of how well his career had gone and how I made a point NEVER to sign him exclusively even though I could have because he was doing so well and holding so many titles. It sucks to think that if I had signed him, this would never had happened. UPJ will definitely hold a tribute show once he officially announces his retirement.
I kayfabe'd his career by saying that he was basically the Keiji Mutoh of the T-Verse by working wherever the hell he wanted and would take any gold he wanted to. His injury at that age and at that height of his career basically makes him the T-Verse's Shibata: a star wrestler who would undoubtedly go down as a legend until injury took it all away.
Dang, you’re making me want to go back to my UPJ save. I might still give DRAGON a whirl, but I absolutely love the Japanese scene in the T-Verse.
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Parallels with an unlicensed (but legal) Windows 10 download is the way to go. It’s seamless.
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Should clarify: Buying out The Club for its popularity and having TV deals in the US helped me out a good bit, and I only ran a show a week for four weeks. I should really call it a mini-tour, because it came between the usual spring and summer ones for me. I saved a lot of the PWI guys I used for the supercard show at the end of the month.
It wasn’t financially a good move at all, but I had a ton in the bank and wanted to test out what would happen if I ran shows overseas.
The C-Verse Re/Render Project: Episode IV: A New Hope
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