Long time lurker and former WMMA3 junkie here. First time posting about TEW. Played TEW13 like it was my job and decided to download 16 because I knew I would eventually. I started up a game with CZCW as Jay Chord, which was my go-to for some reason in TEW13. I'm using it to get back in to the swing of things while I wait for a real world mod. I'm about a year in to my game:
-Pretty early on Japan was hit by a big tsunami, and the game ran a headline saying that it's pretty much decimated and to avoid running shows there for a few years. This added some realism to it as I don't ever recall getting this type of news story in '13. However, given my size, I don't think I'll be running shows out there anytime soon.
-Kurt Laramee died thanks to a grenade.
-The big controversy that rocked the Cornellverse was that Champagne Lover had an audio tape leak of him making some pretty risky and controversial statements (brother!) which led to his immediate termination from SOTBPW. He was labeled as someone companies didn't want any part of due to these statements...so they must have been pretty serious!
-As far as my promotion goes, we were raided pretty early on and some of the top guys were scooped up by TCW. Masked Cougar, Donnie J and Frankie Perez were the big losses for us. In fact, Donnie J jumped ship while holding the title and I didn't have a chance to have him formally drop it so the belt just suddenly became vacant. I put it on Jay Chord, who is definitely my best worker, while I tried to establish my roster.
The fast riser up the card was Marvel Malloy. He and Storm got crazy over thanks to their tag title run, so I took the belts off of them to give them more singles attention. I was going to have Chord drop the strap to Malloy over the course of a few matches, but their first meeting didn't really go over well with the fans so I scrapped the idea. At the same time, I decided to give Ernest Youngman the Reigns treatment and pushed him, except the fans took to it and I put the belt on him and he is the current holder. His most recent defense came in a triple threat match against Fox Mask and Air Attack Weasel.
I'm starting to build up Jack Avatar, because in TEW13 I found that he and Jay Chord absolutely crush it every time they work together. Island Boy Apollo is also starting to get a push. Overall, I have a very young roster.
The elder statesmen of the CZCW, Super Ninja, was touring in Japan when he suffered a broken neck and is over for about 14 months, and at 41 years old, his career is probably done with.