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Alex DeColt running a women's promotion for COTT would be interesting. The DeColt Power House did train Zoe Ammis, and that never really got paid off with a women's division in CGC or her making any kind of appearance.

A new territory for the COTT in Canada. Makes some sense, I suppose. Now to see what the starting roster is gonna look like...

Excited to see what the project actually is. I want to think it's a 'spiritual successor' to CGC but I'm struggling to think of who would fit the roster in 2020.

Sounds pretty damn fantastic. Looking to see who you bring in.

Liking this a lot. I can hear Alex DeColt recounting this in my ear like some kind of audio biography.

Mash The Potatoes Championship?

Can't wait for the introduction of the Sleep With The Turkey Championship.

Curious what your spending is looking like with all these gaijin factions.

They're called legitimate businessmen, CGN91. @Historian - Can't comment so far on the booking, but your idea of seperating brawlers and technicians into tigers and dragons respectively is an interesting one, though I'm not sure how much it leaves room for the tag and main event titles. Will you be constructing unique match types for either title?

Interested to see where you go with this. SAISHO's existence and continued survival never made sense to me, not when Hinote Dojo was the one that was more often than not independent of BHOTWG ownership.

Well I'd say I'd try and see if you can make a Bully Ray out of one of them, in that case. Singles matches? Depends on company size. AJPW and NOAH have weight classes but they can be fuzzy and people will work singles all the time. Koji Iwamoto is doing an Openweight gimmick right now in AJPW and NOAH has called up juniors into the heavyweight division as openweights before. Usually you'd need a very over junior heavyweight ala Hiromu Takahashi or Jushin Thunder Liger.

Depends on the talents in question. If they're lifers, I might downgrade him into a Team Dad guy. If they're just in for a cup of coffee, a short singles run to see what I can make out of him before he's on the way out permanently.

Interesting stuff! I did actually wonder whether or not you should have just rebranded your version of the NYCW Empire title as the WCG American / United States title, but I guess that basically happened anyway. A Triple Crown for the sake of a Triple Crown doesn't quite line up for me when you had to reactivate one title and have another one be the outsider title, especially when the World title had such a great lineage going for it. The 'top' cards look pretty good, though you definitely have a pretty established heavyweight scene by this point. Was there anyone you had an eye for pushing hard into the top that wouldn't be reflected in the title scenes? And how did you feel about the junior heavyweight division by the end of the game?

I'm interested to see what you've got planned, yeah. I'm of a mind to reread the dynasty from the start just to see how your booking patterns went.

Well the problems are many. Court might be the asshole whisperer (in that he gets all these assholes together and on the same page), but a lot of people don't want to watch them regardless. A lot of wrestling fans aren't the type to chase down content even if its accessible, because appointment viewing is for television only. And MLW definitely doesn't have a budget, so when Court tapes around a special what you get is a dead crowd and spoilers for the actual matches, plus a lot of wrestlers who aren't very good and are gimmicked up to cover for that. It very much has the feel of a neo-territory, but I just wish Court had more room to play financially and better mediums for airing his product.

Super interested. MLW is an underrated product in the current landscape, and Court Bauer being the ultimate carny worker online makes it all the more lovable. They 'keep kayfabe' better than a lot of other promotions nowadays, which is great too.

Sucks to hear about Black Iron Corps. Always loved picking them up from SAISHO for BCG.

Giovanni is Italian and Ortiz is Hispanic, so maybe play into that Latin connection? Latin Heat, maybe? Been playing older databases and have gotten very into Pistol Pete Hall as a reigning Texas Deathmatch Champion with a lot of Stan Hansen influence, so might I suggest the Death Riders or the Sunset Riders?

Very interesting. Buying SAISHO as a developmental isn't the kind of move I'd expect from the fiercely isolationist BCG, but realistically it makes sense to absorb that kind of prestige. Though I'm not really sure how good the 2020 developmental system is. In 2016 you could set up a touring dev company and have decent midcarders ready in a year.

Very curious to see where you go with it. In previous iterations I always tried to keep the core BCG roster small and focus on a rotation of gaijin to keep things fresh and outlast GCG, but now with GCG dead and most of BCG being a younger generation that doesn't necessarily feel inherently anti-BHOTWG, I almost don't know what to do with them in 2020. The Dread idea you've run with has felt so fresh in contrast.

Sad but fantastic news at the same time. You carved out a lengthy, significant, serially interesting dynasty in C-VERSE that lasted the lifespan of multiple engines. You were writing something interesting from the start and I'm glad that you stuck with it and got the attention and appreciation you deserved. Big kudos, CGN!

I don't know if you realize how many OG C-verse guys you've gotten over as being more than roster filler on the forum.

Nakajima helped train Miyahara under Kensuke Sasaki. Let's just say that Kensuke Sasaki and Nakajima weren't the softest trainers...

How do you let go of CIMA but hire T-HAWK, lol. I approve of Yuji Hino, though. The gaijin, eh.... I don't think AJPW could afford even one of them on a regular basis, given their pick of gaijin in recent years.

I mean, guys on time decline aren't new to AJPW. I might have kept some of the undercard guys around just to job for a little while longer for your new guys, you know? By the way, when is the game actually starting? 2019, when Akiyama was initially replaced? 2020, at the start of the pandemic?