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Just wrapped up my summer tour with UPJ, and I absolutely love this save. Here's what happened. Junior Mountain 2016 BLOCK A Kozue: 14 Furosoto ©: 12 Aydan Farrell: 8 Kris Phoenix: 6 Paul Crowley: 5 Nathan Jordan: 5 Jin Fujiwara: 4 Akito Nakada: 2 BLOCK B Shingo Hashi: 14 Goto: 12 Hidestugu Genji: 6 Thunder Iesada: 6 Junchi Matsuo: 6 Tiger Singh: 6 Haruko Yamada: 4 Ebi Kadivar: 2 In Block A, Kozue catches fire and runs the table after opening Junior Mountain with a huge win over the champion Furosoto. Kris Phoenix debuts and puts on stellar match after stellar match, snatching three wins in the process. Nathan Jordan also makes a great first impression, while Aydan Farrell continues the good work of tag champs ROYALTY. In Block B, Shingo Hashi and Goto both win each of their first six matches, setting up a winner-take-all showdown on the last night before the final. Furosoto, still trying to avoid Goto after the draw and intentional DQ, distracts Goto enough for Hashi to pull off the upset and punch his ticket to the final. In an all-United Throne final that was also a showdown between two of the best fliers on the planet, Kozue beats Hashi and earns a shot at the Junior Heavyweight title. Ascension 6.13 in Osaka-jo Hall (I like playing with real venues.) Kozue's quest to become only the third man to ever be a three-time UPJ Junior Heavyweight champion comes to a bitter end, though, when Furosoto grabs the win. His stable mates, REVILED and ROYALTY, also defend their tag titles. TEMPEST Masato, who I'm personally loving to book now that he's no longer trying to fight everybody backstage, gets under the skin of Oda Yamawaki enough during the Junior Mountain portion of the tour to set up a heavyweight title shot. Yamawaki retains in the champion vs. champion showdown. Ahead of Ascension, Kintaro Kinjo challenges Ignite Zero to a special tag match for the main event, but he wouldn't reveal his partner until right beforehand. He reveals none other than Ryotaro Naruto, who makes his return to UPJ for the first time in nearly five years. (DRAGON had recently negotiated a new contract that was a regular PPA instead of an exclusive one, which meant I could snag him on a PPA of my own.) After pinning Goto to win the match, Naruto gets a microphone and says that he was only going to return to Japan for a special reason... and while he's won everything the junior division has to offer and even challenged for the heavyweight title, he had never competed in the Ozeki Summit. So the Supreme Warrior is back in UPJ for his greatest test yet — competing in the world's most prestigious and physically demanding heavyweight tournament. Ozeki Summit 27 BLOCK A Oda Yamawaki ©: 16 Ryotaro Naruto: 15 Waotaka Eda: 15 Erik van Rijn: 14 Pain: 8 Sean Girven: 6 Bruiser Cassidy: 4 Takanori Sakurai: 4 Graham Mackenzie: 4 Kahoku Meka: 4 Yamawaki and Naruto open the first night of the Summit by tearing the house down with an incredible main event that Yamawaki wins. Later, Eda knocks off EVR, but EVR snags a win over Yamawaki in the penultimate night of Block A action. (Naruto and Eda drew earlier.) On the final night, Yamawaki beats Girven — another impressive debutant —*but all EVR needs is a win over Naruto to book his ticket to the final. Naruto pulls off a gutsy win, sending Yamawaki to the final. BLOCK B Kintaro Kinjo: 16 Kato: 16 Juro Deguchi: 14 TEMPEST Masato: 10 Torture: 10 Takahide Harada: 8 Ram Diablo: 6 TOKI INK: 4 Koma Kobiashi: 4 Des Miller: 2 Not to be outdone by Block A, Kinjo and Kato put together a fantastic main event in their first night, which Kinjo wins. Deguchi gets revenge for the UPJ Cup semifinal loss by beating Kinjo midway through the tournament. Takahide Harada takes a while to get going, but the legendary veteran pulls off surprising upsets of both Deguchi and Masato. He can't get one over Kinjo, though, who wins Block B. (In a lesser story, Des Miller gets smacked around for eight straight losses but beats Ram Diablo at the end.) Then, in front of more than 30,000 fans at the Saitama Super Arena, Kinjo beats Yamawaki in my first A* match to become only the eighth man to win multiple Ozeki Summit tournaments. So, we'll head into our final September-October-November tour with several things in place. First, EVR will get his title rematch against Yamawaki in the big show in September, since he won their Block A showdown. Second, Kinjo will defend his Hall of Immortals main event contract against Deguchi in the big show in October. There will also be a World Tag Grand Prix in November, with the winner getting a title shot at Hall of Immortals. Meanwhile, TEMPEST will have to defend his COBRA Openweight title against Harada and Kato, thanks to their wins over him in the Summit. I did a pretty good job of loading up the junior tag division for the Grand Prix in January, and I'll have to snag some more talent to do the same for the heavyweight tag division. Outside of Pain/Torture, REVILED and the resurrected Tokyo Underground team, there's not a lot of juice there. I randomly found that Eda and Diablo had great chemistry tagging together, so that'll be a non-stable affiliated team.

One of the things I really like about UPJ (and Japanese wrestling in general) is that I can create in-ring stories and strong characters without sticking strictly to the face/heel dynamic. Deguchi can turn on Kinjo without being a good “heel” and just an iconic veteran who feels like he’s been passed over too many times in the current landscape. And I’ve already eyed Phoenix and MacKenzie — the latter really looks like a ZSJ type. I’m really too much of a NJPW mark not to try to do a bunch of parallels, even further than what the TVerse already sets up.

So I just finished my first tour of UPJ using the tips in this thread, and I’m having a blast. Long post incoming. I made January my Junior Tag Grand Prix, with the winners not only taking home the trophies but the reactivated Junior Tag titles. On the first show, I had Ignite Zero main event with a title defense over Kinjo and Deguchi. Then I had EVR and Furosoto attack Ignite Zero afterwards. That set up a main event at my end of the month show, which I called Ignition 1.26, where Ignite Zero would face EVR/Furosoto. With the junior tag titles now back and Goto/Kato at different weights, I decided that in the story, Ignite Zero would vacate their titles for a shot at EVR and Furosoto’s belts. They win at Ignition, obviously, creating title shots in February. Meanwhile, I put Tiger Singh in RENEGADES and establish a tag team with Aydan Farrell called ROYALTY. They have great chemistry and go on to win the Grand Prix... after helping their own cause on the final night with some interference in another match. In February, the heavyweight tag division beats up on each other during the tour while Ignite Zero gets ready for their matches by joining up with FEARLESS on some nights and The United Throne (I took out The Hall) in some stable warfare with RENEGADES. I also buy the COBRA Openweight title to establish that as a NEVER-type “division.” Over two nights of Rebellion — in Kyoto and Kobe, respectively — Cassidy and Miller (now rebranded as REVILED — sticking with the all caps R theme) win the vacant tag titles, TEMPEST wins the COBRA, ROYALTY defend, Furosoto retains with a time limit draw and EVR retains. Every member of RENEGADES has a belt, making it a clean sweep of the company. They all pose with their gold at the end of Rebellion. In March, since I’ve been running two shows a week, I slide the Summit back to the summer — gonna do a back-to-back with Junior Mountain and Summit on the next tour — and run a 32-man single elimination UPJ Cup, with the winner getting a title shot at the rescheduled Procession of Champions. At this point, Yamawaki is nuclear in terms of overness, and I book him to win it all. He beats Kato in the semis and shakes hands afterwards, officially inviting Ignite Zero to join FEARLESS and take down RENEGADES. (In my head, he’s cutting promos where he vows that FEARLESS will take all their titles by the end of the year, and that he’ll start to kill the snake by going after the head first in EVR.) Deguchi goes through a murderers row in the first three rounds, only to get knocked out by a cruising Kinjo in the semis. After the match, Kinjo shakes Deguchi’s hand and gets hit with a low blow. Sick of being overshadowed, Deguchi stomps out Kinjo, which affects him in the loss to Yamawaki in the final days later. (Also, Ichiro Mishima announces his retirement — I’m playing as Shosuke Ki — and I have a Hall of Fame induction show before Procession.) Deguchi forms Deguchi-gun, recruiting Pain and Torture as elite-level backup because everyone is after him for turning on the Heir to the Throne himself. The new trio beats Kinjo + Harada + Eda at Procession. Everyone in RENEGADES retains — Furosoto gets himself DQed to prevent losing the belt to Goto in a rematch — *except* for EVR, who loses to Yamawaki in an instant classic, A-rated finale to close the tour. (He then pulls an A* celebration angle afterwards.) I had no clue the narrative was in place for UPJ to surge with the emperor’s visit to the Summit — guess he technically did it at Procession now — so now the company is soaring even higher with Yamawaki as new champ and Kinjo getting the massive bump from meeting with the emperor. Beginner’s luck. So now we’re cooling off before the summer, where I’m stepping up to three shows a week to fit a 16-man Junior Mountain and a full 20-man Summit. The Summit is gonna be a ton of fun to set up with the new Deguchi-Kinjo rivalry, EVR having to repeat to get a shot back at his title and Yamawaki competing with a giant target on his back. Have to bolster the roster some, especially the juniors, but I’m enjoying scouting the other companies for people I can pick up since it’s been years since I’ve played this mod or even TEW.

I pulled the trigger on this. Love how fluid going back and forth is on Parallels. It’s not a cheap option, but I like it a lot more than when I had Wine.

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Do you have to do anything special to get it to work in CrossOver? I got the trial but couldn’t ever get the game to actually launch.

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I had been thinking of a game (probably in 2020) in which SCCW or TWL came back as an NWA Powerrr-like show. I’m in.

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YES. Now I can get fully back into TEW again.

All those hyperlinks are dead for me.

It's not that I don't think it's any good...I just never have time to watch it. I'm usually busy during that time. My little brother keeps me updated on it, though...

I was hoping Cena beating Rey like that would signal a possible heel turn. Guess that'll never happen. And I agree...keep Cole on Smackdown, because I never watch that. Just read the spoilers.

I for one love "Cult of Personality" for his new theme. It just clicks with him. Now, the crowd last night sucked it up in terms of reaction, but I was going nuts at home.

Match of the year. Zack Ryder just squashed Michael Cole. There is a God.

Wwwyki!

Not exactly the long guitar note that people were expecting tonight, but a good one nonetheless.

Good ol' JR!

That was an insane product placement plus stupid promo. Do they do this on RAW often?

...or that either.

Well, couldn't say I saw that coming.

Love what I'm reading. Can't wait for RAW.

Seriously??? Daaaaaaaaaang. Was he still wrestling before this?

The point is not whether you know Edwards and Richards or not...it's the fact that you couldn't last through a 30 minute match featuring anyone. If you can't handle that, ROH is probably not for you. When I got into ROH, I had to learn everyone. I knew who Christopher Daniels was, and I knew who Bryan Danielson was. But the more I got into the company, the more I began to like the roster. Now guys like El Generico and The Kings of Wrestling are my favorite wrestlers in the world. But you seem to be that WWE/TNA mainstream fan, not being able to sit through a lengthy, but solid, match. You might not want the same thing out of a product than most ROH fans want. ROH isn't about how popular a guy may be, it's about how great they are in the ring. That's our kind of storytelling and wrestling action, great worked matches. You just seem to be a different type of fan...nothing wrong with that at all...it might just be that ROH won't be your cup of tea. I mean, HDNet broadcasts use to be an hour long show with only two or three matches, with matches taking up 45-50 minutes of the show. And I pray that the new show is like that too.

Just watched The Rise and Fall of WCW on Netflix. Made me wonder: Where is Gregory Helms nowadays?