White Dolphin

OOC SHOW NOTES: -As always, love you guys for the predictions and comments. Feel free to vote for this diary in DOTM if you like what you're seeing! I laid down a couple votes for some others I like, such as Self's push of "Surfer Dude" Lucas DeColt. -Loved this show, fairly good booking, two great main events, and two show stealers in the undercard. Strong ratings too on TV, and things are set up well for the next tour. -Gave Synchro Wave a win to sign off the tour. They'll be back. The Sunset Riders probably will not be. -Lethal Strike and Double Pink could've gotten more air-time for a feud but no one on either team can speak Japanese yet. Kinda sucks but w/e. Good match, with a draw to set up future encounters. -I wanted to fit that Ishimura squash on the show but it wasn't happening. Also Ishimura lost overness from being booked Dominant on the pre-show and doing the menace angle with Karube doing an interview, so that pretty much sealed it. Monsters are even worse off than TEW2010, and thats interesting given the new monsters the CVerse added. I wish anyone playing 5-Star luck getting Ishimura over without sacrificing high pop people or cutting out a good match. -Connie Morris was originally brought on to do a job to MAYA, but MAYA's gotten over well enough that she wouldn't benefit from it, so I reshuffled the Triangle contenders and decided to burn off Morris's popularity on Eri Sato instead, which is why that average match made it on the card. -Katsukawa/Saitoh match seems a little weird, but I think it works: I can't job Katsukawa because she needs to start being established and getting up there with the stars, and I can't job Saitoh because I need her strong-ish for the next tour. A draw was a good option that worked out for both of them, even though I'm not sure Japanese feds do as many time limit draws as I do. -I feel like I'm trying a little too hard with Katsukawa, but it probably would work better with a live audience full of people. Japanese babyfaces are probably bland as all hell, which is what works for that audience, and Katsukawa is hot, plus she has the dyed hair short haircut fandom going for her. -Kijmuta got put in the title match just so I could have unique challengers instead of burning through the same people. I'm starting to really dislike the Triangle belt tbh. -Yoshifumi/Sentinel disappointed but I couldn't do much better with it. Sentinel only got to 18 overness and did not break out of Unimportant crowd perception. Sentinel will obviously be back though. -Putting the Hell Raisers over the Uprising was what I wanted under different circumstances, but it wouldn't make sense for the long-term story. God I love the Hell Raisers though, excellent team. -Fuyuko Higa is so easy to write for its ridiculous, and that's probably another reason why she keeps taking over my shows. I feel I did a good job for this match, and I can see it being better than any match 5-Star had in the CVerse since the end of Ogiwara's career. -By contrast, Maruya/Arihyoshi wasn't as good, and Arihyoshi is hard to write for because shes so bland. I like Kita a bit more but shes not nearly as good in ring. Team SUB's gonna be in a bit of limbo going forward, but they'll probably end up being the heel-ish version of the Kanto Express, in that I can cram them in as random teammates in the typical multi-woman tag main events or jobber killings. -Really pleased with the increase in attendance. Profitability isn't going to be a thing any time soon based on test sims. But I got some plans for that as I mentioned already. -Gonna be a character post and some interesting character breakdowns before we kick off the Hall of Fame Tour. Keep an eye out fellas! --- PREDICTION STANDINGS: KyTeran: 56/74 medla: 46/65 El_Ray: 22/29 Mokoa: 37/59 Herrbear: 14/21 Teasenitryn: 19/36 ampulator: 12/17 Wicked Intentions: 12/28 Deamon: 7/8 Element: 5/9 Congrats to KyTeran for winning this chunk of the predictions! KyTeran feel free to post a dream match you'd like to see on the upcoming tour (along with a few backup options in case I need that first choice match for a future tour), and I'll work it into one of the cards. (Outside of 5SSW hires are fine, but try not to go overboard.) Everyone will restart from 0 until JoshiMania I guess. Thanks again to everyone who predicted and commented!

Shogun TV Presents: 5SSW Queendom Parade Saturday/Week 2/March/2020 Osaka East Volleyball Centre Osaka, Japan --- The show opens with a video package narrated by Kaiya Kuwahara (who has a tremendous ojou-sama cosplay going on to fit with the royal theme), breaking down all the big matches on tonight's card. It was superbly produced and was a good opening to the show. Rating: 73 --- vs. Sunset Riders (Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo) vs. Synchro Wave (Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder) An inauspicious opener dragged down by a lack of time and some horrible selling on the part of Asami Okubo, who still isn't getting it yet. Synchro Wave have a bit more name recognition than before and looked good here, showcasing some devestating tandem maneuvers and fluid teamwork. Asami briefly runs wild with a sequence of judo throws, before Anderson reverses positions during one of them and starts kneeing Okubo in the clinch. A running kick puts Okubo down, but she pops up right back into position when Anderson tags in Snyder (showing her inexperience). Synchro Wave then finish Okubo off with the tandem finish called the Wave Motion Cannon (DWI) for the 3-count to end their tour on a high note. Result: Synchro Wave def. Sunset Riders via pinfall (Snyder pins Okubo) at 8:28 Rating: 51 --- vs. Lethal Strike (Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic) vs. Double Pink (Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez) This match ends up getting the crowd on their feet. Both teams have worked an eclectic mix of pre-show and lowercard matches, but they start to gain some real fan buy-in here with a back-and-forth tilt that rages on for a quarter hour. It's a good mix of European-style technical wrestling, followed by Double Pink showing some swag with their high-flying offense, followed by Zofia stuffing the resistance with some brutal striking. Double Pink seems like the superior team at point, but Thea's craftiness and Zofia's brutality keep giving them ways into the match. On a technical level though, Thea's inability to keep up with the action is noticeable, and she eventually gets isolated for an extended period of time towards the end. Double Pink lands their combination Vertical Suplex/Twisting Crossbody, but Zofia makes the save at 2.9 and brutalizes both people to buy Thea time to recover. Thea works the knees and goes up for the elbow drop, but Mystery Pink moves and tags in Perez, who gets a series of quick cradles on the hurt Thea for 2 each time. Perez goes for a backflip twisting cross chop thingy off the top, but crashes and burns, enabling Jankovic to tag back in. Jankovic hits Perez with a striking combo and looks for a Demon's Bane (Go 2 Sleep), but Perez catches the knee and counters with a T-Bone Suplex! 1......2....NO! Perez takes down Jankovic with a couple headscissors and tags in Mystery Pink for the finish with time running out, but as Mystery Pink goes up top, Perez's attempt at a suplex leads to Jankovic escaping and shoving Perez right into Mystery Pink! Jankovic hits the Demon's Bane on Perez, but shes not the legal woman! Jankovic goes to the outside to fetch a fallen Mystery Pink, and hauls her up on her shoulders for the Demon's Ba-No, Mystery Pink slips to the back! O'Connor Roll! 1......2....NO! Zofia and Pink rise up and are about to charge each other before the bell rings for a time limit draw at the 15 minute mark! Result: Match was ruled a time limit draw at 15:00 Rating: 65 --- After the match we get a report from the announcers, where it was revealed that Monster Ishimura was supposed to get interviewed by Umeko Karube before a match today, but in fact just beat up her local competitor opponent all across the interview set in brutal fashion and left her lying so we get no match. Crowd seemed to care more about seeing Karube on screen than anything Ishimura was doing....... Rating: 47 --- vs. Eri Sato vs. Connie Morris This contest had some heat behind it, but was a very mediocre one on a technical level, as Morris is limited and Sato is not great enough to carry bad talent to beyond a subpar match. Sato tries out some new strikes, and her on offense is a positive, but the crowd start getting progressively muted as the match goes on and it becomes clear Morris has nothing to offer. Morris at least sells generously though and helps Sato get over with the crowd, and Sato manages to get the win by nearly beheading Morris with the Buzzsaw Kick (Reverse Spin Roundhouse Kick), pinning her for 3. Result: Eri Sato def. Connie Morris via pinfall at 10:04 Rating: 51 --- vs. Miwako Katsukawa vs. HEART Saitoh Both wrestlers look ready to go in this open challenge, and it starts with a good feeling-out process and some chain wrestling that gets polite applause. The match ramps up a bit, both girls show their athleticism, and things go fine at first..... .....But it becomes obvious that something is missing to make it a great match. It isn't chemistry, it isn't a lack of action, and it is _sort of_ down to a lack of time to draw the match out. But the real problem is that HEART Saitoh seems to struggle against someone not playing an outright heel. The crowd has no reason to hate either person in the match that much, and it comes off as an exhibition of sorts. Although there are supporters for both workers throughout, it doesn't come across like Saitoh's previous best bouts with people like Tomoko Nagatsuka to act as a more natural foil. The duo show some skill and fortitude nonetheless, with Saitoh kicking out of the Katsukawa Bomb at 2, Katsukawa kicking out of the Flying Tiger Knee at 2, and then Katsukawa revving up for a comeback, building and building until finally hitting her Ultraviolet Beam (Handspring Twisting Forearm to a cornered opponent) that gets a fair pop. Katsukawa then follows up with a Super Hurricanrana to a loopy Saitoh, but Saitoh kicks out at 2........ and the time limit expires before Katsukawa can press further for the win. A good-ish match, but not truly great...... Result: The match was ruled a time limit draw after 15:00 Rating: 61 --- Post-match Miwako cuts a quick promo thanking Saitoh for the learning experience and praising her ability and courage, before then shaking her hand to polite applause from the audience. Rating: 56 --- 5SSW Triangle Championship V4 Defense vs. vs. MAYA (Champion) vs. Paige Croft (Challenger) vs. Toku Kijmuta (Challenger) The Triangle title matches tend to follow one of several patterns to start, and this one follows a pattern of MAYA and Croft double-teaming the bigger Kijmuta at first, before Croft eventually turns on MAYA and the match breaks down. Croft and MAYA offer some electric technical wrestling, while Kijmuta injects her power at various points when the team-ups break down. Eventually though Kijmuta tires and the match falls apart a bit, despite the best efforts of cardio freak Paige Croft to keep up the action. Croft's change in disposition is also being noted by the announcers, as she's wearing her chain again and threatens to use it multiple times before being stopped by referee Odaka each time, who confiscates it but keeps losing it in a mildly funny running gag. Eventually the finish comes when a fatigued Kijmuta gets reduced to her knees by a persistent Croft, and nailed with the running Ace Crusher, only for MAYA to bundle her out of the ring, before coming back for Kijmuta, hauling her halfway to her feet, and putting her down with a Shining Wizard to be sure, and that gets 3 to retain MAYA's title. Result: MAYA def. Paige Croft and Toku Kijmuta (MAYA pins Kijmuta) in 14:33 MAYA retains the 5SSW Triangle Championship (V4 Defense) Rating: 58 --- 5SSW All-Asian Championship V2 Defense vs. Maki Yoshifumi (Champion) vs. Simony Sentinel (Challenger) This match had the potential to be more, but the crowd wasn't fully bought into Sentinel as a legit challenger despite her strong tour performance, while Yoshifumi was ever so slightly off her game. Still, a decent match results, but not a great one, following the Yoshifumi story as of late of the striker trying to pin down the elusive high-flyer. With a bit more time and heat maybe it could've worked, but it doesn't get into top gear and the match ends abruptly, with a Flying Cross Chop by Sentinel countered with a vicious body kick followed by the HEAD KICK! Sentinel is out cold and pinned easily as Yoshifumi retains. Result: Maki Yoshifumi def. Simony Sentinel via pinfall at 12:42 Maki Yoshifumi retains the 5SSW All-Asian Championship (V2 Defense) Rating: 56 --- Sae Akutagawa is backstage psyching herself and Romi Yamato up as the announcers hype the tag match. Rating: 44 --- 5SSW Tag Team Championship V3 Defense vs. The Uprising (Talia Quinzel / Selina Svelte)(Champions) vs. The Hell Raisers (Romi Yamato / Sae Akutagawa)(Challengers) This turns out to be better than the previous two title matches, with the Uprising kicking into high gear and the Hell Raisers matching them move-for-move. Romi Yamato looks particularly impressive throughout, at one point reversing a double suplex from the Uprising into one of her own. Yamato and Akutagawa do get turns running rampant over the course of the match, most frequently on Selina, but Talia and the Uprising's general teamwork keeps them on level ground early. The Uprising spend a fair chunk of their offense working the legs and trying to exhaust their opponents, while the Hell Raisers try to use their size, skill, and big moves to beat down their opponents. Slowly but surely the legs of the Hell Raisers get worn down. However, Quinzel has to continually pay the price: Svelte's borderline cowardice and frequent tagging out leads to Talia taking the brunt of the Hell Raisers offensive. Eventually, the Hell Raisers get so worn down that Svelte can finally take control, suplex them at her leisure, and then tag in Quinzel for the Rising Tide (Modified Sky Lift Slam) on Yamato to take the win in a hard-fought title defense. Result: The Uprising def. The Hell Raisers via pinfall (Quinzel pins Yamato) at 15:12 The Uprising retain the 5SSW Tag Team Championship (V3 Defense) Rating: 66 --- A video package airs next for Fuyuko Higa and Megumi Nakajima's match. The package focuses on Higa's threat to reduce 5-Star to cinders, but also points out that Higa has never followed up her solitary big achievement of winning the J Grand Prix in 2016, and shows some clips of Nakajima ad various 5-Star talent on interviews questioning if Higa is what she claims to be...... Rating: 58 --- vs. Fuyuko Higa vs. Megumi Nakajima For all of Higa's faults of character (and she has more than her share), her nickname of Miss Perfection and self-confidence can be justified sometimes. This is certainly one of those times, as these two produce the best match 5-Star has seen in many years. Higa has a ton of heat from the crowd, and despite Nakajima's up-and-down fortunes and morality, there are those in the crowd willing to cheer for the former ANTI member against this even more hateful, disresepctful villain. Higa's contrarian anarchy-loving heel fans make themselves heard too, and the bout has more heat than anything 5-Star has done in quite a while. Despite the somewhat heated nature of this feud, Higa does start with a lockup, and the commentators point out that Higa seems to want to prove a point by outwrestling her opponent instead of just outfighting her. Higa gets the upper hand early, sending Nakajima flying through the ropes and taunting her each time. Of course when Nakajima starts taking the upper hand in these sequences, Higa is quick to bail or claim its a fluke, because of course she does. Higa eventually takes back control though, and starts running through DEVIL Karube's greatest hits to annoy Nakajima, Karube on commentary, and most of the fans, but Nakajima knows these moves well, and manages to counter a double dragon screw with a big enzuigiri and takes back control. The match continues in a slower, technical battle, with both women pacing themselves carefully. Things start to pick up in the back half when Nakajima sends Higa flying through the ropes with an Exploder Suplex, and follows with a Twisting Spaceman Plancha. Nakajima gets back in and looks for the countout win, only for Higa to beat it, only for Nakajima to kick her off the apron and follow with an even crazier dive than the one before! Higa beats the count back in at 19 though, and it becomes clear the dive hurt Nakajima too. Nakajima tries to maintain control and finish Higa off. Exploder Suplex! 1......2......NO! Nakajima Crossface (Modified Arm Trap Crossface)......Higa makes the ropes! Nakajima goes for an Exploder Superplex, but Higa gets enough consciousness back to shove Nakajima off the middle rope and onto the canvas, buying time to recover. Nakajima comes back for a second try and gets shoved down again after a fight in the corner. Nakajima comes back a 3rd time, but Higa jumps off and catches her with a Tornado DDT! 1.......2....NO! Higa then lands the Perfection Sweep (Skull Crushing Finale) 1......2.....NO! Higa can't believe it! Higa spends a lot of time arguing with referee Odaka, before then hauling Nakajima up for the Higa Green Driver (Emerald Flowsion Kai), only for Nakajima to slip out the back and hook Higa from behind..... Nakajima Straight Jacket (Straitjacket Suplex)! 1.......2.....NO! Higa kicks out! Nakajima can't believe it, but goes for the kill with another Nakajima Crossface. Higa's fading, this could be over....... but Higa fights out of it and applies an Anaconda Vice on Nakajima! Nakajima fights hard....... and gets the ropes! Higa and Nakajima get back up and slug it out with a fatigued chop exchange. Nakajima gets the upper hand and goes back to the Nakajima Straight Jacket, only for Higa to gracefully pirouette free into the Perfection Sweep! Higa then follows it up with the Higa Green Driver! 1.......2.........3! Higa takes home a big win in a terrific match! Result: Fuyuko Higa def. Megumi Nakajima via pinfall at 20:22 Rating: 83 --- After that high-quality match, we get a video package for another good match coming up: the World title showdown. The package focuses on recapping Yuma's reign as champion, along with the Big Crush battle royale that Team SUB nearly had won. The video package then shows a montage of Arihyoshi tapping people out, and quotes from Japanese journalists wondering why she never reached her true potential, before implying that this may be the night where Arihyoshi reaches it...... Rating: 64 --- 5SSW World Championship V6 Defense vs. Yuma Maruya (Champion) vs. Etsuko Arihyoshi (Challenger) This match does not quite live up to Higa/Nakajima, but is arguably equal on a technical level. The key difference is the relative lack of heat, due to the fans not totally buying into Arihyoshi as a legitimate challenger..... Arihyoshi controls the match early, keeping it grounded and building things up slowly, working Maruya's arm and neck. Maruya's bursts of lucha-inspired offense have a lid firmly kept on them early, as Arihyoshi tries to build things up for her submission finisher. Arihyoshi threatens with a Kimura Lock and a Buffalo Wing Sleeper at several points, but Yuma makes the ropes, struggling to get into a rhythm early as Arihyoshi keeps shutting down her fast-paced chain wrestling and signature comebacks. Arihyoshi then tries to lock in the Arihyoshi Lockdown (Seated Abdominal Stretch Dragon Sleeper), but MAruya keeps battling out of it. Arihyoshi eventually sinks in a Rear Naked Choke instead, but Maruya makes the ropes again. Arihyoshi looks frustrated as she pounds Maruya into the corner, but strikes aren't her strong suit and Maruya eventually makes her comeback with a string of hurricanranas, followed by a Rube Goldberg bulldog! 1......2.....NO! Arihyoshi desperately manages to take back control, but cannot get the Lockdown, and tries suplexes instead to get the win. German Suplex gets 2. Backdrop Driver gets 2. Tiger Suplex gets 2. Arihyoshi looks visibly rattled, as she's starting to run out of ideas. An attempt at a Back Superplex sees Yuma elbow Arihyoshi off and follow with a crossbody for 2. Yuma then slams Arihyoshi with that weird joshi scoop slam/suplex hybrid move, before going up for the Split-Legged Moonsault! 1.....2....NO! Maruya then uses a few lucha-esque moves followed by a modified Shiranui, before going up for the YUMA Special(Sky Twister Press)...... but Arihyoshi rolls out of the way and Maruya crashes and burns! Arihyoshi goes for the Arihyoshi Lockdown again, Yuma fights hard to prevent the hold from being locked in...... and eventually breaks free courtesy of a desperate back headbutt that Arihyoshi sells big-time, rolling around the mat holding her nose. Yuma then lands the finish of her partner Jippensha, the Execution Day (Scoop Brainbuster), before going up top and hitting the YUMA Special for 3 to retain the World title! It was tough, but Maruya got across the line! Result: Yuma Maruya def. Etsuko Arihyoshi via pinfall at 20:12 Yuma Maruya retains the 5SSW World Championship Rating: 80 --- Post-match an exhausted but happy Yuma Maruya cuts the usual champion victory promo, thanking the fans for their support while confetti and streamers rain down into the ring! Rating: 69 --- OVERALL SHOW GRADE: 77 ATTENDANCE: 852

Shogun TV Presents: 5SSW Queendom Parade Saturday/Week 2/March/2020 --- The final showdown is here for the Queendom Parade Tour, broadcasting on Shogun TV from the Osaka East Volleyball Centre! Opening up the show, we have two teams looking for a win to break up a rough tour for them, as the Sunset Riders take on Synchro Wave! Next up is another tag match, featuring two teams on the winning side of things. Lethal Strike and Double Pink have not tasted defeat as teams since joining 5SSW, and now they face each other. Something has to give here, but which one will it be? Eri Sato is in action next, and she will take on veteran gaijin Connie Morris. Miwako Katsukawa issued an open challenge for this show, and it was answered in the locker room by former world champion HEART Saitoh! Who will prevail? Next up we have a match for the 5SSW Triangle title, as champion MAYA takes on challengers Paige Croft and Toku Kijmuta! An All-Asian title clash follows that, and it will see champion Maki Yoshifumi defend against challenger Simony Sentinel. Sentinel won 4 straight to get here, but can she make it 5 against the MMA skills of the champion? Next up is a tag team title clash featuring the Uprising taking on the Hell Raisers. The recently formed Hell Raisers have been hard to beat since starting their team...... will the champions overcome their size and skill to defend their belts? Our co-main event is sure to be a great one, as it sees Megumi Nakajima take on Fuyuko Higa. Higa has promised to reduce 5-Star to cinders to achieve the dream of her perfection, while Nakajima has been put into the interesting position of defending a company that she spent nearly 10 years trying to fully conquer as part of The ANTI. Will Nakajima turn Higa aside, or will Higa's flame blaze brightest? Finally, our main event sees a critical World title defense, as Yuma Maruya defends against the submission threat of Etsuko Arihyoshi. Team SUB came close to eliminating Maruya during the Big Crush battle royale, and said battle is the only time they've tasted defeat in 2020. Can Maruya turn aside this difficult challenge? --- PREDICTION KEY (LATE NOTE: Forecast is cloudy with a medium chance of time limit draws) Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo vs. Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic vs. Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez Eri Sato vs. Connie Morris Miwako Katsukawa vs. HEART Saitoh 5SSW Triangle Title V4 Defense: MAYA (Champion) vs. Paige Croft (Challenger) vs. Toku Kijmuta (Challenger) 5SSW All-Asian Title V2 Defense: Maki Yoshifumi (Champion) vs. Simony Sentinel (Challenger) 5SSW Tag Team Titles V3 Defense: Talia Quinzel / Selina Svelte (Champion) vs. Romi Yamato / Sae Akutagawa (Challengers) Megumi Nakajima vs. Fuyuko Higa 5SSW World Title V6 Defense: Yuma Maruya (Champion) vs. Etsuko Arihyoshi (Challenger)

(OOC: Thanks for the kind words Historian and Tea, always appreciated! Prediction Key for Queendom Parade Finals up tomorrow. Big card, I'm excited to get to writing it!) ------------------------------------- TEW.com 5SSW News And Notes by "JoshiJosh6" Joshua Prosser --- -The 4th Queendom Parade show did similar TV ratings to the 3rd show, just shy of 20000 viewers. Shogun TV is still said to be happy with the ratings, but there are expectations for better on the final show of the tour. -Some fans reported being unhappy at seeing the stars gathered on the pre-show and not on the main show, but it was still said to be a decent card overall for the return to the Hall of Nagahama. -Simony Sentinel is expected to get some kind of big match on the finale of the tour, and has become a popular presence backstage. -Double Pink are continuing to impress 5SSW with their performances. -Sapporo Wrestling Dojo graduate Sakuko Souda got a dark match tryout, losing to Spider Isako in a poor match. -The other pre-show match on the card was a ten woman tag involving top 5SSW stars not on the card that was said to be a great match. -Monster Ishimura has some heat backstage after some recent botches in her matches have led to opponents almost being severely injured. In particular a bad botch against Erin Marcelin a week ago (where Erin was dropped backwards onto her knees from a powerbomb position) had people backstage not pleased to say the least. -The Triangle title eliminator came off well enough that 5SSW are expected to do it again on future shows. -Higa's promo confirmed the existence of a future trios tournament in the Hall of Fame tour. Higa and Oonishi are expected to be one team with a 3rd member yet to be revealed, but several other teams are expected to be announced either during or after the Queendom Parade finale. Several outsiders are expected to be brought in to fill out the ranks. -5SSW owner Sensational Ogiwara has taken up a position as an agent laying out matches in EXODUS 2010, although 5-Star shows will still be her first priority. Ogiwara took the job as some type of mutual favour to EX2010 owner Yoshi Oshiro, but this move continues to heat speculation over the rumoured reformation of the Modern Japan Alliance. --- OTHER NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: -Mexican icon Alfredo "El Barbaro" Menendez passes away at age of 80...... -21CW star Brickhouse Balder interested in working abroad?...... -Alicia Strong Slams CWA Again In Podcast Interview......

It was another down card for 5-Star, as they decided to run a card without their tippy-top stars to build up others for the big show, and it felt off again. Still, Ted had to admit the lineup set up for Queendom Parade could be 5-Star's best show in a long time. Higa vs Nakajima could be great, Arihyoshi challenging Maruya was interesting, the tag match between the Hell Raisers and the Uprising was fresh and exciting, and Katsukawa vs. Saitoh could be really good. This card had potential, and Ted was looking forward to it. .......If only he could say the same about what Ted had to do next...... Ted took a deep breath, knocked on Ogiwara's door, and was invited in for a talk. --- Ogiwara leaned back in her chair and sighed. She had an inkling when Karube wrote out the pre-show YouTube matches that one might cause her problems, and her fears became realized when the interpreter flunky boy of Alexander's came in with a message. Alexander was worried about her daughter working with people like Monster Ishimura again, and Ted respectfully conveyed his wishes for Ogiwara to be more careful with the selection of Erin's opponents in future. So Ogiwara knew that this really meant "fire Ishimura". To be fair, it wasn't a bad idea. Ishimura was causing booking headaches because of how limited she was and how she needed to be protected all the time, and recently minor injuries kept cropping up in her matches to her opponents. There was hopes when she came in at JoshiMania that she was another Crusher Ichihara, but she lacked the Crushers natural ability, her stamina, and her persona. The botched powerbomb on Erin could've had career-ending consequences, although part of Ogiwara still had the mentality of this not being ballet. Injuries could happen. Tai was out as a monster too because of her attitude and refusal to sell for anyone, but she was at least capable enough in the ring to hold her spot. Ogiwara wished she had pushed Dragon Assassin harder while she had her, but of course she was long gone from the business..... Really, it wasn't a big deal to cut Ishimura loose. Japanese wrestling was starting to run out of patience and run out of room for monsters. Teams like the God Butchers, Kikuchi and Yano, and singles like Taro Shionoya were starting to be really seen through by Japanese crowds and magazines. There were heels leading factions such as NEOS and the Senmatsu-gun, but those men had charisma and personal magnetism too, not just size and strength. A monster needed more these days, and without any woman on the horizon who could match the Crusher for charisma or talent, it was better to just scrap the concept of having a monster girl if that's what it came down to. Ogiwara could give Ishimura one more chance....... but there wasn't a spot on the next big card for her. Every other match involved people who were better than Ishimura and worked harder, and were more deserving of a win in the ring, at least in Ogiwara and Karube's opinion. Ogiwara would give it a month or so, but she was confident she would pull the plug on Ishimura soon. And it had to be done. Given 5-Star's financial situation, Ogiwara knew that when Alexander wanted his money back, she would have nothing to give him, so it would be best to placate him. Everything depended on this next show, on the government's next relief payment, and on the next negotiation with Shogun TV. Things had gotten so bad that Ogiwara pressed herself into service as a backstage agent for EXODUS, helping put together matches. Oshiro got her the gig as a mutual favour, and all of Ogiwara's pay was being sunk back into the emptying 5-Star coffers. Was this gamble of a TV deal truly the mistake that would sink 5-Star forever? ...........No, not yet, there was still time to save this. Ogiwara knew she had to be like the samurai now. Put up a brave front, and go to your fate swinging steel til your last breath. She could turn this around. She HAD to...... --- Erin felt upbeat despite the show being a downer again. She held up her end of a match with Yamato okay, and was starting to get better at wrestling, slowly but surely, bit by bit. The locker room accepted her as a talent, even if she was the youngest and had to job all the time, and she had some actual fans in the audience that would wear wigs of her hair and cheer her on whenever she did moves. THAT was so surreal too. Erin had gone from doing her hair like some people she saw on TV, to being the one that people imitated instead. How awesome was that? Not to mention, she was starting to become friends with Simony Sentinel. The other gaijin girls were nice for the most part, but Erin really did not have anything in common with them. They were mature and didn't really do the whole girl talk thing. A lot were obsessed with the business, and weren't much for idle gossip and chatter about their personal lives. There'd be a few drinks at the end of the tour in celebration (which usually degenerated into drunken *****ing over something Higa did, or the latest demeaning moment in the history of USPW's women's division), but nothing like Erin with high school friends or anything. But Simony was different. She was the cool older sister that Erin never had. Simony liked to party, and to gossip, and liked some of the same music and games Erin did. She had that wild hairstyle that Dad would freak out over if he saw. She was a former gymnast, and cracked up the locker room sometimes when people would walk in on her doing a ridiculous pose from those days that looked like she was trying to strangle herself with her own leg. Simony had asked her before the show if she wanted to hang out at an arcade, and told her to "bring along the cute guy with the glasses who always hangs around, so he can translate for us." It took Erin an insultingly long time to realize she was talking about Ted. Erin packed her bags, and met Simony and Ted at the back door for a night of carousing in Osaka........

OOC SHOW NOTES: -Thanks as always for the predictions and feedback folks, love ya! -Man, now that I look at this card closely it is a fine collection of midcard dreck isn't it. I didn't even realize until looking back that I ran a show without Maruya/Jippensha/Nakajima/Birds/Saitoh in a single main card match! Thats gotta be a first for 5-Star since Higa's debut surely. -But, every match was necessary. Maybe I could've worked in bigger tags, but at least every single winner on this card needed it going into the final show of the tour. -Simony did not get over as hard as expected from beating Angel, which is sorta frustrating but what can ya do. She's still an integral part of this diary though. -Erin had her best match! It was all Yamato though, and part of me wonders if Sentinel/Marcelin was the better pure match, just not rated as such. For those curious Erin's performance peaks around 39 due to momentum taking hold. -Even my best midcard geeks at promo cutting cant do it right for the fans. Overness seems to be a much bigger deal in angles nowadays. -Double Pink keep being awesome and I have to keep relegating them to the background because they haven't had their establishing matches yet. They are getting over quite well though. -Triangle title eliminator was fun to write, expect a couple more matches like that. I liked the whole aspect of Kijmuta playing subtle smart in that match instead of being all brawn, while Lady Lotus's heelish nature just bit her so hard. -The Uprising/Torment deal should've been a lot better than it was, but in hindsight I probably should've switched around some matches. -Kita and Arihyoshi tried hard, but weren't super over, and Kita seems to have regressed in this game. I should've done better building these two up. Luckily I've simmed ahead and the big event turns out great though! -Did some test sims of the cards ahead, and the future looks bright for 5-Star, if they can figure out a way to get out of debt. But they will though, because the company going out of business after 6 months would be a boring and weird diary and we know it. Besides, any plot contrivance I create will still make far more sense than the USPW undercard hires in TEW2020, am I right fellas? --- PREDICTION STANDINGS: KyTeran: 50/65 medla: 46/65 El_Ray: 22/29 Mokoa: 32/50 Herrbear: 14/21 Teasenitryn: 19/36 Wicked Intentions: 12/28 ampulator: 7/8 Deamon: 7/8

Shogun TV Presents: 5SSW Queendom Parade Tour Night 4 Monday/Week 2/March/2020 Hall Of Nagahama Osaka, Japan --- After the announce team spiel, Kaiya Kuwahara opens the show with her usual solid promo breaking down the card and hyping future matches, before thanking the crowd for their continued support of 5SSW. Rating: 64 --- vs. Simony Sentinel vs. Angel Takudome The commentators talk up Sentinel as a possible title threat, nothing that maybe she could fill the empty card slot involving the All-Asian title held by Maki Yoshifumi. Sentinel controls most of the match, and although the veteran Takudome is in much better form than last week's miserable performance, its not nearly enough to hold down the violet-haired punk girl, who takes Takudome down near the end with an old-school headscissors, a running kick, and jams out on the air guitar before going up........ Sentinel Strike (Twisting Top Rope Splash) connects for the 3 count! Result: Simony Sentinel def. Angel Takudome via pinfall in 9:31 Rating: 52 --- Post-match we check in with the Birds of Prey. Gemmei apologizes to the fans for coming up a little short in her match against Megumi Nakajima (with Higa in the background with a clear "damn right you should apologize" attitude'). Gemmei nonetheless says that Nakajima will be in for a fight against Higa, and then the Birds of Prey can get back on path to getting Tag Team gold. Higa then butts in and says that she's after a much bigger prize. Higa has heard word of a tournament in April, and says her and Oonishi are going to enter, and anyone else who believes in Higa's cause should enter too. Oonishi looks confused, then a bit horrified when Higa re-iterates her promise to burn the current iteration of 5-Star that people see into cinders, to make way for Higa's Perfection......... Rating: 56 --- vs. Sae Akutagawa and Lethal Strike (Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic) vs. Asami Okubo / Ochiyo Iijima / Hana Ajibana Aside from occasional suplexes from Ajibana onto The Davis, little else is accomplished from the Okubo / Iijima / Ajibana contingent in this match, with the match being mostly one-way traffic and a showcase of Akutagawa, with Lethal Strike getting their licks in. One particularly brutal sequence sees Okubo try her judo on Jankovic, only to get beaten badly in response and then thrown towards Ajibana in the other corner, with Jankovic making repeated "tag in" motions. Eventually, Ochiyo Iijima is isolated and beaten down by all three of her opponents, before being put away with Akutagawa's middle-rope Northern Lights Suplex for an emphatic 3-count. Result: Team Akutagawa def. Team Jobbers via pinfall (Akutagawa pins Iijima) in 9:31 Rating: 52 --- vs. Romi Yamato vs. Erin Marcelin Akutagawa stays out to support her tag partner in singles action. Marcelin gets in some offense, and tries a few of Quinzel's backbreaker moves, only for all of them to be sneeringly countered by Yamato in an impressive display. Marcelin turns to stiff punches to make headway, but then Yamato eventually weathers the storm and starts outstriking Marcelin in response. Erin swings wildly several times with the Whirling Silver (Discus Left Hook), but Yamato keeps dodging them before eventually countering one attempt with a mid-roundhouse kick to the solar plexus that leaves Erin gasping for breath. Yamato then hits multiple big suplexes before putting Erin away with the Yamatotal (Cross-Arm Bridging German Suplex) for 3 to cap off a pretty decent squash. Result: Romi Yamato def. Erin Marcelin via pinfall at 7:32 Rating: 54 --- Post-match, we see a series of quickfire promos backstage with several different people. Sae Akutagawa says the Hell Raisers have showed what they're capable of and tell the Uprising their reign ends at the next defense, Chiyeko Kita promises a similar outcome to Yuma Maruya regardless of which member of Team SUB she faces. Megumi Nakajima says she has praise for Oonishi's heart, but questions whether or not Higa has what it takes to really climb the mountain and prove that Higa is what she says she is. Nakajima also says that Higa "lacks the kindling" to reduce 5-Star to cinders, and says she'll back her statements up at the end of the Queendom Parade. Unfortunately, some of these promos fell a little flat, and were plagued by minor sound issues with the satellite signal in some households. Rating: 42 --- vs. Double Pink (Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez) vs. Shining Force (Otsune Tsumura / Yukiko Matsumara) Another squash match, but this one gets some pop from the crowd because its not TOTALLY one-sided, and also because Double Pink keep wowing the crowd with their abilities. Perez in particular is just fitting the 5-Star style like a glove, showing all kinds of high-energy offense and solid technique. Double Pink get a nice exhibition of double teams going. Matsumara fights back and has a little crowd backing for a comeback, but it's not enough to stem the tide for long. Mystery Pink sidesteps a double team attempt from Shining Force, shoves Tsumura into Matsumara, and that sends Matsumara out of the ring. Mystery Pink then stuns Tsumura with a spinning back suplex, before tagging in Pinky Perez for the combination Twisting Crossbody/Vertical Suplex combo to finish off Shining Drive right at the 10 minute mark. Result: Double Pink def. Shining Force via pinfall (Perez pins Tsumura) at 10:02 Rating: 62 --- We check in with Miwako Katsukawa next. Katsukawa was inspired by Maruya's open challenge and all the big matches coming up in the Queendom Parade, so she talked to VP Kuwahara and got permission to do her own open challenge. Katsukawa says she wants to fight a strong competitor and learn from them, and she'll get that chance when she faces the woman who accepted her open challenge: HEART Saitoh! Katsukawa says her goal is to push the former World champion hard, and that she wants to learn enough from the experience to eventually join that group of World champions.... Rating: 52 --- vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. TRIANGLE TITLE ELIMINATOR Machiko Matsuda vs. Paige Croft vs. Kaede Sugiyama vs. Connie Morris vs. Toku Kijmuta vs. Lady Lotus The commentators remind us that this is elimination rules, pinfall and submission only, last 2 women remaining both get the title shot. Some alliances are considered, but rejected after the bell rings, and it ultimately breaks down into a 6-way spotfest. Connie Morris makes the mistake of standing out too much, by cleaning house and landing a few Missouri Ploughs (Running Fallaway Slams) on her opponents. This leads to the natural result of everyone ganging up on her and seeing her as a threat. Connie fights hard, but gets taken out with an old school Elitist Plex (Triple Team Front Suplex), followed by a dogpile for the pin. (Elimination #1: Connie Morris) MAchiko Matsuda and Kaede Sugiyama have a sort-of alliance going, but don't get a 3rd one to join in and that leads to them getting ganged up on 3-on-2, with Machiko Matsuda getting pinned via running Ace Crusher by Paige Croft. (Elimination #2: Machiko Matsuda) Lotus then promptly turns on Kijmuta while Croft is getting the pin. Croft stays out of the way while Sugiyama recovers in the corner, and it ends up being Kijmuta getting the upper hand. Lotus screams for help, but Croft seems to revel in her suffering and stays at ringside, slapping the ring steps with that steel chain she's been carrying around during particularly devastating moves by Kijmuta. Suigyama eventually revives and fights with Croft on the outside, while Kijmuta finishes off Lotus with a Spear. (Elimination #3: Lady Lotus) Kijmuta is a bti winded though, and hangs back and watches Croft and Sugiyama fight around ringside and back into the ring, eventually deciding Croft is the better choice to take into the title match and going 2-on-1 against Sugiyama. Eventually Croft whips Sugiyama into a Kijmuta Spear, and Kijmuta pins Sugiyama to punch their ticket to the Triangle title match. (Elimination #4: Kaede Sugiyama) Result: Toku Kijmuta and Paige Croft survive the Triangle Title Eliminator at 12:19 Rating: 55 --- vs. Talia Quinzel / Selina Svelte / Yu Hashimoto / Maki Yoshifumi vs. Kinuye Mushashibo / Eri Sato / Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder With better talent distribution and longer time this match might've worked, but as things stood it wasn't that good, with the winners being obvious from the outset. There were also some blown spots and miscommunication, generally involving Svelte and Mushashibo in some form. Eri Sato tries hard to make up the difference, but fighting wave after wave of fresh bodies gets to her, and things turn for the Uprising-led side when anyone else comes in. Synchro Wave tries hard, but seem to lose a bit of their flow when working with other partners, and in general feel just a shade below their opponents in terms of individual quality anyways. Sato's team holds out well for around 11 minutes, but then when the match breaks down its Anderson alone in the ring with Yoshifumi. Anderson throws hard strikes, but gets rocked with a cross counter, groggily rises back to her feet and-HEAD KICK! That'll end anyone's night, and Yoshifumi gets the pinfall victory off that. Result: Team Tormenting You def. Team Jobbers via pinfall (Yoshifumi pins Anderson) at 11:55 Rating: 54 --- Backstage Yuma Maruya cuts a promo, saying she'll be watching this title eliminator with interest, and says she'll be ready for either winner. Team SUB did come close to beating her at the Big Crush, sure, but Maruya's had close calls before and knows she'll come through for the 5-Star fans in a 1-on-1 match, regardless of the opponent, and regardless of how close it gets. Maruya as always was a glib and confident talker when the red light came on and this was good as a result. Rating: 70 --- vs. WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR Chiyeko Kita vs. Etsuko Arihyoshi The two Team SUB members were both at various points of their career deemed to have championship potential, but for whatever reason it never happened, and the two ended up drifting together into a fearsome tag team that could equal any in the division. Together in ring the two show some signs of achieving that championship potential, with Kita showing a decent all-around game, mixing her old high-flying tendencies with some MMA-inspired offense, while Arihyoshi's superior technique gets shown off really well. The two gel together naturally and have an understanding of the others style, and it makes for a good match. Unfortunately, the heat is less than a typical 5-Star main event contest, and the match does suffer a bit from Kita starting out strong, before fading around the 12-13 minute mark. Kita's strikes and high-flying moves start to miss their mark, while Arihyoshi's persistent working of the legs and arm has a pronounced effect as the match goes longer. Kita still has enough left in the tank to land a Superkick late, but Arihyoshi kicks out at 2. Kita moves into a Arm Triangle Choke, wrenching it tight, but going to the mat with Arihyoshi proves to be a mistake, as Arihyoshi uses her legs to reverse out of it, takes side control, knees Kita in the ribs repeatedly, and when Kita tries to escape Arihyoshi takes her back and secures the Arihyoshi Lockdown (Seated Abdominal Stretch Dragon Sleeper). Kita fights hard, but knows she can't escape and that Arihyoshi WILL mess her life up if this keeps going, so Kita taps to give her partner the win and the title shot! Arihyoshi lets loose a roar of celebration, pumping her fists as the show goes off the air. Result: Etsuko Arihyoshi def. Chiyeko Kita via submission at 15:06 Rating: 64 --- OVERALL SHOW GRADE: 64 ATTENDANCE: 300 SRO(12 papered)

The grades are good cause I'm a cheaty McCheaterson who save scums and reloads to try and min-max things, and I've turned a couple annoying things off like perfect show theory. But hey, as has been debated on the GDS Discord many times, if you buy the game, you can play it how you damn well please, theres no right or wrong way to do it. (Unless you push Marko Stunt and Orange Cassidy in an AEW save) Thanks for following along amp, and thanks for the DOTM nomination! ------------------------------------------------------ Shogun TV Presents: 5SSW Queendom Parade Tour Night 4 Monday/Week 2/March/2020 The semi-final of the Queendom Parade Tour is here! After a tour filled with memorable matches, some title contenders will be determined on this show from the Hall Of Nagahama in Osaka! Opening the show, Simony Sentinel aims to win her 4th straight match, as she takes on veteran Angel Takudome. 6-woman tag action next sees Sae Akutagawa team with Lethal Strike to take on Asami Okubo, Ochiyo Iijima, and Hana Ajibana Romi Yamato makes an appearance in singles action next, as the other half of the Hell Raisers gets a tune-up match against Erin Marcelin before the Hell Raisers get their tag title shot. Next up, the high-flying luchadoras Double Pink take on the veteran duo Shining Force in whats sure to be a good match! A Triangle title eliminator is next. 6 women enter, and 4 women are eliminated by pinfall or submission until 2 remain to claim the Triangle title shots. It'll be Machiko Matsuda vs. Paige Croft vs. Kaede Sugiyama vs. Connie Morris vs. Toku Kijmuta vs. Lady Lotus! Our co-main event sees the Uprising team up with Torment and Sorrow to take on Kinuye Mushashibo, Eri Sato, and Synchro Wave in an 8-woman tag. Finally our main event sees a World title eliminator. Team SUB's only defeat in 2020 has been getting eliminated in the Big Crush battle royal, so now the tag team will face each other in singles action, with the winner getting a crack at Yuma Maruya for the World title! Chiyeko Kita vs. Etsuko Arihyoshi! Who will win? --- PREDICTION KEY Simony Sentinel vs. Angel Takudome Sae Akutagawa / Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic vs. Asami Okubo / Ochiyo Iijima / Hana Ajibana Romi Yamato vs. Erin Marcelin Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez vs. Otsune Tsumura / Yukiko Matsumara TRIANGLE TITLE ELMINATOR (pick 2 winners): Machiko Matsuda vs. Paige Croft vs. Kaede Sugiyama vs. Connie Morris vs. Toku Kijmuta vs. Lady Lotus Talia Quinzel / Selina Svelte / Maki Yoshifumi / Yu Hashimoto vs. Kinuye Mushashibo / Eri Sato / Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR: Chiyeko Kita vs. Etsuko Arihyoshi

And I'm writing this diary as someone who thought Nyla Rose was put into a truly unfair situation in AEW and should've been booked better elsewhere, so it breaks my heart to see Ishimura dog it like this. I admittedly save scum to prevent injuries, but a lot keep cropping up in Ishimura matches even if shes not the one causing them. And actually now that I look at her attribute screen her Safety is high but still, it's convenient to make her the scapegoat for storyline minor niggling injuries that don't actually cause the ladies to miss time. -------------------------------------- TEW.com 5SSW News And Notes by "JoshiJosh6" Joshua Prosser --- -The rating for the 3rd episode of the Queendom Parade tour dipped to just under 20000 viewers, down a couple thousand from last week's highly rated episode. Shogun TV is said to still be happy with the numbers, and are expected to raise TV revenue slightly for 5-Star by the end of the month. -There was a sense of disappointment about the quality of the show, as there were high expectations for the Oonishi/Nakajima bout to carry the card. -Gemmei Oonishi was hurt doing a cannonball plancha to the outside, but walked away from the ring under her own power. -Synchro Wave is getting plaudits for their hard work during the tour so far, and are expected to be brought back later. -Fuyuko Higa got some minor heat backstage for chewing out her opponents during her 6-woman tag for poor in-ring performance. -During the pre-show, The Blackhearts got another tryout, teaming with the Gun Metal Gals in an 8 woman tag loss to Shiori Jippensha, Hana Ajibana, Kinuye Mushashibo, Otsune Tsumura. -There was also another tag feautring Double Pink and the Uprising going to a 15 minute time limit draw with Torment & Sorrow and Lethal Strike that was said to be pretty good. -The pre-show matches going on YouTube are becoming fairly popular in the Japanese wrestling community, encouraging other Japanese companies to do the same. -Theres rumours going about of a newfangled type of contendership match for the Triangle title on the next show. -Independent promoters are furious with 5SSW at the moment for hoovering up talent to work one night deals and booking a show on the same day as a Girl's Festival Day indy (which ended up being headlined by Sakura Sada and Kuniko Matsura). The promoters claimed an agreement by 5-Star to leave the date alone and allow their talent to work the show, a claim denied by 5SSW. The Girl's Festival day indy took place in Tokyo and drew close to 1000 people, but was largely criticized for quality by the Japanese magazines for poor booking, particularly a DQ finish in the main event that fans booed out of the building. -An announcement about the rumoured April trios bracket is expected to air on Shogun TV soon. --- OTHER NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: -USPW poach Rock God Alvarez from EILL in shock signing...... -Chris Caulfield suffers Grade 3 Discombobulation at indy show...... -Alicia Strong goes on Twitter rant over Pariah getting future title shot......

(OOC: Late night update, will aim to do a news post next evening, and Prediction Key will be up on Wednesday!) Thursday/Week 1/March/2020 Marcelin Residence Toronto, Ontario --- Alexander finally had his video finish buffering and got his daughter's most recent match loaded. He was interested in this one, because Alexander had heard through online sources he had read that Fuyuko Higa was one of the best women's wrestlers in the world. Erin would learn a lot from that match right? But then Alexander saw this swaggering butch girl that looked like a punk nigthclub bouncer come out alongside her. She was called Unstoppable Tai, and Alexander just about shat a brick at the sight of her. My daughter's gonna fight THAT!? Calm down boyo, he had to remind himself. Erin was fine as of 10 minutes ago according to her last text, and this show had already happened. Maybe they didn't fight much. It WAS 3 versus 3, although anyone could see that Tai counted as an extra person or 2 in this given situation. And indeed, Erin and Tai weren't together in the ring much. Erin got to wrestle this Higa girl a lot, and that was okay, and then the match noticeably went to hell when literally any other combination was involved. So this was good, Erin was still losing, but still learning, and she didn't seem disheartened to be what they called a "jobber". She could get her hands dirty and learn the ropes before moving onto whatever she wanted to move on to. Afterwards, Alexander toasted some waffles for breakfast, before remembering to check 5-Star's YouTube channel, noticing that they had uploaded a match with Erin a few days ago, a before-the-show match Erin had on the previous show. So Erin was paired with some masked lady and a tall girl, against a decent-looking blonde called Selina Svelte, a really cute Asian girl named Maya who looked like a secretary he used to sleep with, and......... OH GOD ITS ANOTHER ONE! Monster Ishimura. Well, Monster was accurate. She wasn't as tall as Tai, but she was wide, and looked capable of throwing people around if she didn't get distracted by a Japanese donut or something. But unlike the other match, Erin was working this monster a bit more often, who was just shrugging off punches, before clotheslining the bejesus out of Erin. Alexander winced, but it was nothing compared to when Ishimura lifted Erin up on her shoulders, and the dumb broad overbalanced her, dropped Erin backwards, and Erin landed RIGHT on her knees. Ah ****! Who let this big clumsy broad into the company? I mean she looked like a badass but still, isn't the whole point of this wrestling thing to convince people that you're hurting each other without ACTUALLY hurting each other? This was all screwed up. And then of course the broad decided to tag in the blonde girl, who hit Erin with a spinning lifting slam of some sort that was at least done somewhat safely, and that got a pinfall. Ok then. Alexander knew Erin was ok at least, unless she was lying in the text. Alexander made a mental note to send her another one once he was done with the waffles. I mean, Jesus, every athlete in the world should know that if you ruin someone's knee, you're a true asshole, especially in a deal like this where everyone was supposed to work together. If this were a real fight and Ishimura's next meal depended on taking out the knee, well, maybe its justified, but Alexander knew it was a cheapshot to do that. He had played hockey as a kid, followed it on-and-off throughout his life, and knew well the various horror stories in sports about how a tear of a ligament, even with today's surgery, could not be fixed sometimes if it was done hard enough. That could've been Erin, and Alexander hoped to God it wasn't. Alexander quickly fired off a text to double-check on Erin, before ringing up Ted...... --- Ted had just gotten back from a late business meeting punctuated with a drinking session, and Ted felt like his hangover was starting in advance. He wasn't even tipsy yet, but he had a headache of some description. Maybe it was the bright lights in the restaurant bar, who knows. Luckily, that part of his job was done, he had a couple days with nothing going on, a couple days of minor meetings, then another good night of watching cute ladies having good wrestling matches. This was the life. For better or for worse. And then the phone rang. Ted picked it up while barely even checking the caller ID. "Yello?" "What kind of ****ing incompetent freakshow are they running over there in Osaka?" Oh this wasn't going to be a pleasant phonecall. "Ah, Alexander, I take it you had the joy of watching Monster Ishimura wrestle." "Joy my ass, what the hell is this? Don't these people have to go through training?" "Welcome to my world as a wrestling fan boss. Its not like I made the decision to hire Ishimura, but even in Japan, sometimes they want people who look good rather than people who ARE good." "Why didn't you warn me about this? And why didn't you tell me that Erin got hurt!?" "Because she's fine? She left the ring under her own power, laid down and iced the knees for a day, and was ready to go by next show. There was nothing to tell. She didn't get hurt, so it didn't happen." Alexander sighed over the line. "Okay look, next show I need you to go to Ogiwara and tell her very calmly and very politely that if she books Erin against a broad like that ever again, I will sue her ass and pull the investment. Are we clear on this?" "I doubt you'll have to worry about that. Ishimura's starting to lose her luster and I think she'll fall down the pecking order a bit. She lost her last match and hasn't always been on the card, and I think Ogiwara had enough sense to not put her in the ring with Erin after a stunt like that. Besides, is it really sensible to make that kind of threat? Your daughter might like it if the company still existed after she leaves it y'know." "..............Okay, fine, whatever, just make it clear to Ogiwara that this is unacceptable. Anyways, I gotta finish breakfast and get to the office. Tell me if stuff like this ever happens again. -*click*" Well that happened. Looks like the easy part of Ted's job was about to hit a speed bump.....

Man I don't know how that dope-ass intro post escaped my notice before but that was some great stuff. Also interesting to see a generic jim like Franklin Fumier involved in something, well, interesting. Keep up the good work!

Wednesday/Week 1/March/2020 Shohoku Academy Gymnasium Dressing Rooms Kobe, Japan --- Ted could feel the air come out of the room when he saw Oonishi overshoot that dive and the way the match went afterwards. This main event had some expectations and buzz around it after how much the six woman tag last show kicked ass, but this didn't deliver. It really wasn't either girl's fault, it could happen to anyone, but Ted did sorta believe that if there was a pecking order in 5-Star, Nakajima and Oonishi should be just below the top tier. They were good, but not great. Oonishi was luckily okay afterwards, moving gingerly. There was an emotional moment in the locker room afterwards where Oonishi and Nakajima were apologizing to Ogiwara for their match, but Ogiwara was forgiving and just seemed to be glad that Oonishi was ok. Still, it was a depressing atmosphere backstage, and people seemed to be worried that the fans, the magazines, and the TV company would think the company was going backwards. Never mind that this show was still better than 90% of what 5-Star was doing post-tsunami, they knew they needed to step things up every show to be seen on the same level as companies like BCG and EXODUS, let alone the big boys like PGHW or Burning Hammer. It was just one show ladies, lighten up! was what Ted wanted to say. But it wasn't that easy to say..... --- The gaijin section of the locker room also didn't like the show, albeit for slightly different reasons. Sure, they wanted today's show to be better too, but they were also frustrated by the fact that Higa had crapped on another one of their brethren again, this time it was Erin. Erin had problems being accepted by the 5-Star crew at first, but now pretty much everyone liked her. She was nice, she bumped around like a pinball for everyone, she had a clear desire to improve and learn from the veterans, and she wasn't technically the worst wrestler on the roster at this point. Erin was becoming one of 5-Star's carpenters. She worked hard with everyone she was with to build 5-Star a nice house. In the wrestling business, you shouldn't disrespect your carpenters, because then whos gonna build your houses? Who's gonna lose to your future stars to make them current stars that sell tickets? Of course, Fuyuko Higa knew nothing but disrespect. Disrespect was her default attitude towards 95% of the roster. Granted, it suited her current gimmick just fine, but there were limits. Sure Higa was much more talented than the people she worked with in that match, but she didn't have to berate them for trying their best to make Higa look good. Erin, however, convinced the gaijin to back off of another rib. Because honestly, Erin thought Higa was right. She didn't know what was being said at first, but heard it from Kinuye Mushashibo later when Angel and Asami talked about it. And Erin knew that Higa was right to chew out her opponents, because the Sunset Riders were awful in their match, and Erin felt she probably wasn't much better. She stiffed Kijmuta pretty bad and mis-timed a couple things, the usual Erin Marcelin errors. If Erin were truly good, then Higa would have nothing to criticize. It's not like she was going off on Nakajima and Torment and Sorrow last week, right? So Erin had said it would be a career goal to work a match so good with Higa that Higa wouldn't have anything to criticize. It was a noble goal, but her North American friends wondered if it was actually achievable for any woman in the world to be accepted as an equal by that egomaniac.......

In all seriousness though, good luck with the diary man, cool to see more 5-Star in the Dynasty section. I like some of the concepts, but I'ma reel off some bullet point thoughts real quick. -So is this whole "entire tour show is tags" bit the way I was supposed to be doing it with 5SSW all this time? Have I been offending puro heads with every show? (Well, I book like a gaijin with a rough understanding of puro anyways because thats what I am, but thats beside the point.). I had remembered hearing that a 2/3 or a 3/5 ratio of singles to tags was acceptable, but maybe it depends on the fed. -I get why a lot of 2016 diary people (and you) have Jippensha and Maruya doing their own separate things, but honestly I think Jippensha was the only one with the real kayfabe power level to stand with Maruya against the ANTI for so long (Well, the game bios want us to believe Saitoh's great, but she kinda isn't, and would've been busy having that blood feud with Nagatsuka over the years even if she was.) -The Heart Foundation is such a collection of midcard geeks I thought I was at a 21CW show! (ba-dum-tiss!) -So is Nakajima sorta a mellowed out tweener heel in your dynasty too? I'm guessing the Higa/Oonishi bit is meant to be the primary threatening faction, with Yamato/Jippensha/Nakajaima being tweener-ish? -Death Ballet is GREAT, although Matsuda really sticks out in this stable. A couple new renders could fix that. I prefer to re-unite the Kanto Express because it's not like I'd be doing anything super-productive with either gal as singles (MAYA is close to being worthy of a future push but needs to learn how to sell and how to talk, and that seems to be hard in this game). You take the other 6, and if you dress up Oonishi like Higa, that looks like a group that could conceivably hang out together and have something in common. But Matsuda with her flashy 20 year old chic gal at a mall render doesn't fit the group right. Just my opinion. -Watch out for Higa, she has a tendency of taking over your shows without you realizing it. Well, I guess shes the primary threat stable head so that's gonna happen anyways. -Maya and Hashimoto's renders are gonna take some getting used to. -Jippensha's stable looks great, but I really wish there was a way to work Yamato into it. I'm telling you all, Yamato/Akutagawa is a natural pairing. -What kind of low-roll RNG got a 38 promo from Yuma? She should be cutting 50 rated promos out of the gate scripted, shouldn't she? -Just a heads-up in case you haven't played 2020 a ton: Ishimura and Tai will be nearly impossible to get over by traditional monster means. -I get why you wanted the Hatoyama class together, but Spider Isako as a typicalyoung lion is a waste. I see Isako the same way OVW saw Dave Batista: He's not gonna be taking arm drags in the second match, with him its main event or nothing. Isako is the kind of girl with the kind of gimmick that could head a stable like Death Ballet at some point, so honestly I'd put her under a hood or something and let her learn the trade before exposing the Dark Priestess Spider Isako to the world. Maybe it's different in Japan IRL and the fans would sorta accept that Isako sucks at first before becoming awesome, but I think a gimmick like that needs protecting.

OOC SHOW NOTES: -As always, thanks for any predictions/comments you toss my way, it's always nice to have the viewer's perspective, and I hope to hear more about my crappy booking come the end of this tour Please toss this diary or any other diaries you like a DOTM nomination if you like what you've been reading so far, we've got a good crop this month with Self coming back. -So this will come up later, but I've added in the holiday indy shows from the CV97 save to fill out some indy scene bookings, and one of the shows added in was Girl's Festival Day. I haven't read enough manga yet to know what that day is all about IRL, but it was important enough for Derek B to code in an indy show. Anyways, since I had hired some gals on one-night deals to do dark match tryout jobs to reduce the free agent talent pool for the night, the crowd of 1843 people somewhere in Kansai were treated to a main event of Sakura Sada beating Kuniko Matsura by DQ. Hopefully the tickets were free. -Sentinel was good as usual in the opener, but goddamn does she need a new render. Wasn't a fan of the TEW one either. -The Sunset Riders were AWFUL in that six-woman tag, and Erin was legit the best performer on Team Jobbers that night. -I really wish my undercard were better at cutting promos, but I think the scripted stuff might actually hold back max potential promo ratings more than popularity. -Synchro Wave is awesome and all, but it really bugs me how their bonuses sorta disappear in multi-man matches. Its not like the Midnight Express would get less awesome if you paired them with some heel, they'd still perform well as individuals. But then that would porbably lead to even more abuse of the multi-man tag than I already do. Points to ponder. -I'm still not totally sure how Sugiyama v Matsumara made it onto the booking sheet. -Really good showing from Team SUB v. Kanto Express, and thats with neutral chemistry on both teams. I feel for Matsuda because I have to plug Kanto Express into main event tags sometimes and she has to eat the pinfall to protect MAYA and everyone else. But then she's a midcarder for life anyways so w/e. -8-woman tag could've been better, but I'm not really sure if the people I blamed for dragging it down in fact dragged it down. I save scum (cause im a fraud hehe) and couldn't get the match much higher than that. Weird. -Oonishi v Nakajima is one of those classic TEW cases where you build a match in your head that becomes worse than what you envisioned it would be and what it perhaps would be IRL. At this point everything Higa touches turns into heat, so I expected a lot from this. But Nakajima cannot work long matches, she just doesn't have the gas tank for it, and Oonishi is the Jannetty of the Birds of Prey, so it turned into something along the lines of Jeff Jarrett vs Marty Jannetty circa WWF 94-95. Which wouldn't be a bad match, but not a great one because we don't have Shawn Michaels (Higa/Maruya) or Bret Hart (Jippensha) involved. -Show was disappointing considering how awesome the last show was (albeit carried by a strong main event). Next show is also going to be setup. But the "PPV" comes off really really well, at least in-game. -Just curious, do we file the implosion of the SWF under "typical first three months of a save happenings"? They've gotta be able to get more out of that roster than 78-81s. Also they turned Rogue face to finally put a bullet in the Valiant-Rogue feud (and gave away their return tag match on free TV where they did a job because of course they did), and I think thats a turn that could've waited until retirement. Ah well, they deserve to lose anyways so screw em. (Granted, the USPW doesn't deserve to win either, but that's akin to the IRL promotion war we're seeing take place in front of us right now.) --- PREDICTION STANDINGS: KyTeran: 44/57 medla: 41/57 El_Ray: 22/29 Mokoa: 26/42 Herrbear: 14/21 Teasenitryn: 13/28 Wicked Intentions: 12/28

5 Star Supreme Wrestling Queendom Parade Tour Night 3 Wednesday/Week 1/March/2020 Shohoku Academy Gymnasium Kobe, Japan --- The show starts with the usual announcer bit, followed by Kaiya Kuwahara coming outrunning down the card, celebrating Girls Festival Day with a high-quality Shohoku schoolgirl uniform cosplay. One has to wonder just what the hell 5SSW's standards are for office attire these days........ Anyways, Kuwahara was her usual great self here. One nugget of information revealed was that Higa's request for 5 more minutes last show was passionate and understandable, but over the line. Higa will instead get all the minutes she wants, against Megumi Nakajima at the final show of the Queendom Parade, one fall to a finish, no time limit. Kuwahara then tells Higa to be careful what she wishes for, because she just might get it........ Rating: 68 --- vs. Simony Sentinel vs. Ochiyo Iijima Iijima's losing streak continues here, as she looks old, slow, and somewhat clumsy next to the flashy punk girl Sentinel, who controls almost the entire match from the opening bell. Sentinel busts out an old-school flying headscissors (as opposed to the usual hurricanranas you see these days), and gives a peace sign to the crowd in mid-move before taking Iijima down. This is followed up with the Sentinel Strike (Twisting Top Rope Splash) for an academic 3-count and the win. Result: Simony Sentinel def. Ochiyo Iijima via pinfall at 7:33 Rating: 50 --- vs. Fuyuko Higa / Unstoppable Tai / Toku Kijmuta vs. Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo / Erin Marcelin This match proves to mostly be a one-woman show from Fuyuko Higa, to the surprise of absolutely nobody in the know. However, there is a good reason for it, as the opponents are all kinds of screwed up in this match, with Angel botching half her offense, and Okubo still not grasping this whole wrestling thing, despite her legitimate credentials. Higa voluntarily tags out whenever Okubo comes in and the announcers are never quite sure why, but shes more than happy to tag in against Marcelin and Takudome, giving both of them the quality badmouth (and not just because shes a heel). Marcelin is then forced to work more of the back half of the match as things almost completely fall apart to the point where the contest seems like the heel team is wrestling themselves, and while Erin puts in a commendable effort, she's still a green young girl. Toku Kijmuta adds a rare positive contribution to the match with a vicious Spear that almost folds Erin in half, before Higa tags in, shouts at her opponents for being incompetent, and hits the Higa Green Driver (Emerald Flowsion Kai) on Erin for the pinfall. Result: Team Higa def. Team Jobbers via pinfall (Higa pins Marcelin) at 9:34 Rating: 55 --- Sae Akutagawa pops in for a brief backstage promo, saying that the Hell Raisers will show what they can do against gaijin teams in a minute, and the Uprising better be taking notes. Rating: 41 --- vs. The Hell Raisers (Romi Yamato / Sae Akutagawa) vs. Synchro Wave (Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder) Despite the pre-match posturing of Akutagawa, this does not prove to be a walk in the park for the Hell Raisers. Synchro Wave once again come up with a brave effort against a hypothetically stronger opponent. Snyder's technique and Anderson's striking keep their opponents on the back foot, and their teamwork gets them out of any jams they encounter...... ......at first. The Hell Raisers use their size and their own abilities to finally wrest control of the match away from the gaijin duo. Snyder gets isolated for an extended period of time, Anderson gets knocked off the apron towards the end, and the Hell Raisers blast Sndyer with the Kaenhousha (Total Elimination). That gets the pinfall to end a surprisingly good match. Result: The Hell Raisers def. Synchro Wave via pinfall (Yamato pins Snyder) at 10:34 Rating: 60 --- vs. Yukiko Matsumara vs. Kaede Sugiyama A rather muted and basic match in comparison to the good tag match before it, but Matsumara at least has her section of the fanbase into this match. Both wrestlers seem to be mired in the lowercard and see this as a chance to escape, but neither wrestler can kick past second gear and make it anything above a mediocre match. Sugiyama ultimately gets the win, catching Matsumara with a run-up Back Superplex when Matsumara goes to the top rope, then finishing her off with a Springboard Stone-Sault for 3. Result: Kaede Sugiyama def. Yukiko Matsumara via pinfall at 11:42 Rating: 51 --- Chiyeko Kita checks in via backstage promo, and says Team SUB are not stopping their winning ways until they get their crack at Yuma Maruya again. They missed one shot at the champ, but they will not miss a second. Rating: 42 --- vs. Team SUB (Chiyeko Kita / Etsuko Arihyoshi) vs. The Kanto Express (MAYA / Machiko Matsuda) Team SUB certainly wants the shot at Maruya, and come out hard against the Kanto Express. These two teams have been on opposite sides of several multi-woman tags as of late, and the Express fight desperately to avoid defeat. Team SUB have technical superiority by a mile, so the Kanto Express use speed to compensate, and try to isolate one member of Team SUB so MAYA can suplex them. Their opponents know this game well however, and take back control so they can isolate Matsuda right back. Team SUB have it in the bag, until Kita screws up a corner charge that allows MAYA to make the hot tag in and run wild on Team SUB with a storm of suplexes. The crowd wakes up to the possibility of a Kanto Express win, when MAYA tags in Matsuda and they land an alley-oop Frankensteiner on Arihyoshi. The Express try to follow this up with the Last Stop (Magic Killer), but Kita comes flying in to the rescue, fighting off the Kanto Express and brawling to the outside with MAYA, buying Arihyoshi time to recover. Matsuda gets to her feet and tries to finish Arihyoshi off with a Rolling Cutter, only for Arihyoshi to fluidly counter into a Reverse DDT, followed by the Arihyoshi Lockdown (Seated Abdominal Stretch/Dragon Sleeper) Matsuda battles hard to get out of it, but can't escape, and as she starts passing out referee Odaka steps in to save Matsuda and call an end to the bout. A good tag match that could've used just a little more time...... Result: Team SUB def. The Kanto Express via referee stoppage (Arihyoshi submission on Matsuda) at 12:26 Rating: 64 --- Backstage, Yuma Maruya checks in, says she's impressed with Team SUB over the past month, but she won't hand over this title to anyone, and won't hand over victory in her upcoming match to any opponent either. If anyone wants to challenge the 5-Star standard, step up. Rating: 68 --- vs. Yuma Maruya / HEART Saitoh / Miwako Katsukawa / Eri Sato vs. Connie Morris / Paige Croft / Monster Ishimura / Lady Lotus Maruya steps up, but this tag match is limited from its full potential by some subpar performances all-around. Saitoh and Sato surprisingly blow some sequences, Ishimura seems unmotivated, and Morris is just too slow now for the 5-Star style. The enthusiasm from the crowd for the beloved idol Maruya and the enthusiasm shown in-ring by Miwako Katsukawa keeps things flowing. Katsukawa and Lady Lotus also get to renew their prior issue together, with the two being natural opponents to each other. Paige Croft also works a good heat segment, and also keeps banging her chain on the steel steps in between shouting pieces of advices to her eclectic teammates. The match thankfully picks up towards the end and they go to the finisher exchange sequence to finish. Ishimura Powerbombs Saitoh! Sato hits Ishimura with the Buzzsaw Kick (Reverse Spin Roundhouse Kick)! Croft hits a jumping Ace Crusher on Sato! Katsukawa gets the Katsukawa Bomb (Sunset Flip Powerbomb) on Croft! Lady Lotus takes Katsukawa down with a headscissors followed by a Top Rope Senton! Maruya enzuigiris Lotus and hits the YUMA Special (Sky Twister Press)! The last one gets 3, and Maruya's team takes down the heels! Result: Team Maruya def. Team Heels via pinfall (Maruya pins Lotus) at 15:09 Rating: 63 --- We cut backstage to a couple promos, with Nakajima re-iterating that she's ready to take on Higa and is ready for the challenge at the final show of the Queendom Parade. Oonishi says she'll give it her best against Nakajima to get the win, before Higa interjects from off-camera, hogs the shot, and reminds Oonishi and the viewers at home that the purpose of the match is not for Oonishi to win, but to expose Nakajima as a lucky fraud getting in the way of Higa's perfection. Higa also advises Oonishi to put the hurt on Nakajima, even though Higa totally wouldn't need Nakajima to be hurt to beat her or anything. Oonishi stumbles over her lines a bit and appears totally confused by her partner's antics. This was a messy interview segment, but got the point across. Rating: 51 --- vs. Megumi Nakajima vs. Gemmei Oonishi There is a bit of a buzz for the main event, but unfortunately it doesn't deliver. Nakajima and Oonishi come off as a pair of B-plus talents trying to imitate Ogiwara vs Hike, and the match doesn't quite live up to the advance hype. Part of the problem comes from a sequence somewhat early on, where Oonishi overshoots Nakajima on a cannonball plancha to the outside and gets rocked a bit after hitting the steel guardrail. This does give us a future quality Twitter gif meme of Fuyuko Higa howling with laughter on the outside at the spot, but it ends up detracting from the match. Nakajima ends up having to work harder to lead Oonishi back into the match, and runs her notorious low gas tank to empty. Still, the match has enough veteranosity and enough ability involved from the two to be good, just not great. With more time and a better build it could climb the mountain, but today is not that day. Oonishi tries to rally near the end, but misses the Flying Dagger Legdrop (Top Rope Front Flip Rough Ryder) and lands hard, enabling Nakajima to come from behind with the Nakajima Straight Jacket (Straitjacket Suplex) for the 3 count to win the match. Higa looks pissed on the outside, as the show goes off air with Nakajima getting her hand raised....... Result: Megumi Nakajima def. Gemmei Oonishi via pinfall at 15:25 Rating: 63 --- OVERALL SHOW RATING: 64 ATTENDANCE: 283

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="GYUe7nb.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/GYUe7nb.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:12px;">Shogun TV Presents:</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"> 5SSW Queendom Parade Tour Night 3</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"> Wednesday/Week 1/March/2020</span></strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> 5 Star Supreme Wrestling comes at you live for another episode of Showcase TV, featuring the 3rd night of the Queendom Parade Tour on Girls Festival Day, taking place in the Shohoku Academy Gymnasium in Kobe, Japan!</p><p> </p><p> Our opening match sees the violet-haired American Simony Sentinel aim to go 3-0, as she takes on veteran Ochiyo Iijima.</p><p> </p><p> In our second match, Fuyuko Higa will team with two ladies of similar disposition lately, the TermiNation, to take on the Sunset Riders and Erin Marcelin.</p><p> </p><p> The Hell Raisers are clearly gunning for the tag team titles, and they will be in action against the promising American duo known as Synchro Wave.</p><p> </p><p> Next is singles action, and sees two veteran high flyers go at it with Yukiko Matsumara taking on Kaede Sugiyama.</p><p> </p><p> Both members of Team SUB look to be in decent position for a World title shot, and they'll be taking on the young Kanto Express to stake their claim to a match against the champion.</p><p> </p><p> Speaking of the champion, she'll be involved in 8-woman tag action in the co-main, as World champion Yuma Maruya teams with HEART Saitoh, Miwako Katsukawa, and Eri Sato to take on Connie Morris, Paige Croft, Lady Lotus, and Monster Ishimura.</p><p> </p><p> Finally, our main event is an intriguing one, as Megumi Nakajima takes on Gemmei Oonishi. Nakajima has made no secret of her desire to accept any challenge that comes from Fuyuko Higa, but how will she fare against Higa's tag team partner?</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>PREDICTION KEY:</strong></p><p> </p><p> Simony Sentinel vs. Ochiyo Iijima</p><p> </p><p> Fuyuko Higa / Unstoppable Tai / Toku Kijmuta vs. Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo / Erin Marcelin</p><p> </p><p> Romi Yamato / Sae Akutagawa vs. Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder</p><p> </p><p> Yukiko Matsumara vs. Kaede Sugiyama</p><p> </p><p> Chiyeko Kita / Etsuko Arihyoshi vs. MAYA / Machiko Matsuda</p><p> </p><p> Yuma Maruya / HEART Saitoh / Miwako Katsukawa / Eri Sato vs. Connie Morris / Paige Croft / Lady Lotus / Monster Ishimura</p><p> </p><p> Megumi Nakajima vs. Gemmei Oonishi</p></div><p></p><p></p>

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>(OOC: Prediction key up for the 3rd show of the tour tomorrow!)</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> ---</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Wednesday/Week 1/March/2020</em></p><p><em> Shohoku Academy Gymnasium Dressing Rooms</em></p><p><em> Kobe, Japan</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="nr0H7y3.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/nr0H7y3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Erin could tell there was a bit of a sense of excitement after the success of the last few shows, and the feeling that everyone backstage was helping the company turn the corner again, back to an almost Magic Three era. Soon, they wouldn't be dressing in high school gyms like this, they'd be dressing in nice arenas, with more fans waiting to watch them work, and more money involved.....</p><p> </p><p> A lot of people had a little pep in their step, and people were ready to go all out to prove that 5-Star was in the same league as companies like BCG or WLW.</p><p> </p><p> One of the harder workers lately was Miwako Katsukawa, who had taken her trip to Wrestler's Court in January to heart, and had been trying to self-improve since then, showing up early to every show since and working harder for her opportunities. On this particular day, Miwako was seen doing some type of exercise in a doorway, where she hooked the back of her legs over a chinup bar with HEART Saitoh's help, and was doing upside-down sit-ups, tyring to touch her knees.</p><p> </p><p> Erin had seen this exercise once or twice in a gym and in TV shows, but couldn't remember the name. It was yielding some results though, Miwako looked really good and a lot more toned than before.</p><p> </p><p> <em>Rock on girlfriend.</em></p><p> </p><p> Erin gave a thumbs up as she walked past Miwako's workout, en route to a meeting to go over her match. This would be the first time Erin would be working with Fuyuko Higa, so that would be........ interesting........</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="7aqiaVS.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/7aqiaVS.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Simony felt good vibes from the locker room the moment she walked in for her debut back in February, and Simony could tell that she was on a train to someplace special here.</p><p> </p><p> It was nice to get to work with fresh new faces, in a different style, with some room to experiment (instead of running the formula like in AAA, or working more to accomodate being around the larger guys in ACPW). Not to mention the locker room was great. Sure, Simony had heard the stories about people like Fuyuko Higa and Unstoppable Tai, but they hadn't bothered her yet. And if they did, well, the gaijins said they'd get them back. So that was something.</p><p> </p><p> It was good to see Paige and Talia again, although they were just such straight arrows and not real wild fun to hang out with. Their idea of a party night was mixing a scoop of real coffee in with the decaf. Simony didn't really see any party gals on the roster, at least ones that spoke English, but they were nice at least. The European girls, the Mexican girls, the two from QAW in the kick-ass tag team, all of them were civil, and there was a sense of camraderie and togetherness in that part of the locker room.</p><p> </p><p> But out of all of them, Simony noticed she was starting to be REALLY interested by the Canadian rookie, Erin Marcelin.</p><p> </p><p> Erin was better already than a few of the green girls in ACPW and elsewhere that Simony had worked, and they clicked instantly in the ring together. Erin bumped around like a pinball for someone she barely knew, and put in 100% effort and youthful enthusiam into a pretty decent match that made Simony look good. Not to mention Erin was one of the hottest girls Simony had laid eyes on in quite some time. I mean, there were beautiful women in the Japanese side of things too, but Erin had that athletic skater riot grrrrrrrrl look down so cold.</p><p> </p><p> But Simony noticed something besides Erin's looks...... and that was Erin's looks. Specifically, the long looks she seemed to have towards other gaijin sometimes, in the locker room while they were changing from street clothes to ring gear. Simony even noticed Erin looking at her a time or two, before quickly looking away and probably blushing into her locker.......</p><p> </p><p> <em>Heeeehhhh, so that's how it is.......</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="rBQxkob.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/rBQxkob.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Ted was really feeling it at the moment. He had a nice text with Layla pre-show, who was still somehow looking forward to their date, Fuyuko hadn't hit anyone yet, 5-Star was starting to pick up some real steam, and he even managed to be very slightly ahead in the traditional guys poker game this time, instead of just donating his money. Not to mention work on the Japanese side was going well, even if Alexander seemed to not be giving a damn about that part. In their infrequent meetings, you could tell Alexander cared a lot more about his daughter than about the Japanese business contracts that were supposed to be the big reason for Ted being over there in the first place.</p><p> </p><p> But hey, regardless of what was going on, Alexander was content, Ted was getting paid, and he might have a girlfriend soon. What could possibly go wrong?</p>

I bet it'll be in that hot new nightclub that a bunch of indys run shows from: Generic Venue.

<p><em>(OOC: Another character post and a Prediction Key up in a day or two!)</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="nr0H7y3.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/nr0H7y3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Erin felt lucky to have a nice soft bed in the boarding house, because boy did she need it.</p><p> </p><p> Erin got her first ever experience working with Monster Ishimura, and it was...... interesting. Ishimura had seemed to be increasingly unmotivated ever since her big loss to Shiori Jippensha and the realization that she wasn't going to be pushed super-hard, and while the company still tried to protect her in booking, she wasn't going to threaten Crusher Ichihara's status as best monster ever any time soon.</p><p> </p><p> Ishimura was clumsy and a bit botch-prone, and dropped Erin backwards on her knees, due to misjudging her center of gravity for a powerbomb of some description. Erin was lucky she didn't blow out her ACL or something, and Ishimura didn't even apologize afterwards (at least according to Ted or Kinuye). Ishimura also had some clubbing forearms to the spine that landed a little harder than intended, but Erin got in a few punches of her own to the other side that landed a little hard, so maybe it all evened out.</p><p> </p><p> Erin could choose to be a diva about it, but let it pass. She wanted her spot more than anything else, and working like this was just a way of paying your dues. Every good male wrestler under 230 probably had to work early career matches with clumsy people bigger than them, like Erin did with Ishimura, and Erin knew a few girls had to deal with slugs like Mary Beth Chase and Susan Lee on the North American indy scene during their come-up days.</p><p> </p><p> It was fine in the end, she could sleep off the damage, and Erin was learning how to be a better in-ring performer, slowly but surely..........</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="rBQxkob.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/rBQxkob.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Ted grimaced as he watched the replay of Erin's match. He had noticed Erin limping slightly after the pre-show, which Ted had missed while he helped Talia translate for her match. He had just seen the YouTube clip and......eeech.</p><p> </p><p> Ted expected it on Botch Mayhem within the next month or so. Ishimura had picked Erin up over her shoulder for a powerbomb, but didn't lift her properly or something because Erin overbalanced forward, dropped off Ishimura, and landed on her knees. Erin said she was ok and Ted confirmed this later via text that she was just resting, but Jesus.</p><p> </p><p> As a big monster female heel, Ishimura was about as bad as Killer Kass and the two schlubs Alicia Strong was in a stable with (although Ted knew that stable wasn't much longer for the world, given what had been going on with USPW lately.). She had debuted storngly at JoshiMania and the crowd responded to it, but for whatever reason since then she'd been badly exposed despite 5-Star's best efforts, and even though she was still going over it was becoming apparent to Ted that they might need to pull the plug soon if this kept up. That Jippensha match in particular too, that exposed her as just not being ready for primetime.</p><p> </p><p> Ultimately, what mattered is that Erin was ok, so Ted was cool with it. It was time to drink some sake and do the other, significantly more tedious half of his job......</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:12px;">TEW.com</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"> 5SSW News And Notes</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"> by "JoshiJosh6" Joshua Prosser</span></strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> -The second episode of the Queendom Parade Tour on Shogun TV did close to 23,000 viewers, a similar number to the Big Crush finale. Shogun TV executives were said to be thrilled with this.</p><p> </p><p> -While the undercard was middling, the show garnered great praise for the terrific six-woman tag match and some good promo work throughout. Shiori Jippensha and Fuyuko Higa garnered particular praise for keeping the match together story-wise</p><p> </p><p> -Rumoured matches possibly coming up for the final show of the Queendom Parade tour: Yuma Maruya defending against someone from Team SUB, Uprising defending tag titles for sure now against the Hell Raisers, Simony Sentinel to get some type of title shot, and Megumi Nakajima facing Fuyuko Higa.</p><p> </p><p> -Sentinel continues to get backstage praise for her recent good work.</p><p> </p><p> -A young tag team called the Blackhearts got a tryout, with the team consisting of recent Hatoyama Dojo graduates Eiko Yonekura and Kamiyo Uemura. The worked a dark match loss against the Hell Raisers, and were said to be green but with signs of potential.</p><p> </p><p> -Other dark matches included a decent but botchy six woman tag featuring Monster Ishimura, Selina Svelte, and MAYA defeating Erin Marcelin, Lady Lotus, and Rika Tsujimura (who worked a one night deal on short notice due to happening to be in the area). There was also a tag match with Yuma Maruya and HEART Saitoh defeating the TermiNation that was said to be good.</p><p> </p><p> -Theres talk amongst 5-Star brass about wanting to reduce production values to save money, but it's unlikely to happen due to fear over what the various important wrestling magazines in Japan would think.</p><p> </p><p> -Theres talk that several backstage personnel in 5-Star have been offered jobs in EXODUS 2010, fuelling speculation over the return of the Modern Japan alliance that has been dormant since the collapse of WEXXV. It is a widely held belief that some type of talent trading needs to happen for the companies to stay alive in the face of BHOTWG and possible PGHW raids, although 5-Star's contributions would seem to be limited to referee/commentator/agent/production staff loans.</p><p> </p><p> -Shogun TV is said to be interested in renewing their TV deal with 5-Star and several other companies, with a budget increase possibly meaning more of the ad revenue trickles down.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>OTHER NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD:</strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>-SWF headed for trouble after recent bad TV shows?......</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> -WrestleWorld streaming service launches in North America......</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> -Alicia Strong goes 48 hours without criticizing USPW, running joke dead?......</em></p></div><p></p><p></p>

OOC SHOW NOTES: -AS ALWAYS, thanks to everyone for their predictions and comments. Love you guys, and be sure to drop a DOTM nomination if you like what I've been cooking here. -I feel like my match-writing style has changed a bit since the start, like I'm streamlining stuff more. -Simony's doing a fairly good job so far considering her top rows are mediocre. My limited experience with Eve Grunge was telling me that fundamentals matter less in this level of play once you reach a certain point, so this is a bit unexpected. Although maybe Sentinel's different cause she's a high flyer? At any rate, this is good, as mentioned before Sentinel's going to be an important character in this diary (less so in-ring but still a valued piece. More on her later.) -A lot of this lowercard was basically filler, but thats ok! Its tour shows, and I'm assuming by tour show standards IRL this wasn't too unrealistic (If anything giving away a title match last show was a stretch, but it was important to future stories and I have no future big event slot to work Katsukawa into before summer's end.) -Double Pink continue to really impress me (as does Zofia Jankovic), even if they've unfortunately been on the pre-show a lot to make way for others, and because they can't do jobs (yet) so that limits their flexibility. -Synchro Wave lose their chemistry bonus in 6-man tags, so they ended up looking really really good here against Katsukawa and Sato as opposed tot he prior 6-woman (which was a good match but that was because one team was carrying the groceries.) -Predictions for the 8-woman tag were interesting, and it made me realize that I haven't done a great job building up Team SUB as much as I've wanted to. They got left off Reign Supreme, and now I'm thinking they should've found a spot back in. Oh well. -I really like Quinzel, especially because Menace is now basically useless unless you're USPW or SWF it seems, and as mentioned earlier her and her deadweight partner are huge beneficiaries of circumstance in this diary. This match was a bit low though, and I underestimated KatsuSato and Synchro Wave, which could've been in the co-main slot. -The main event is something I hope I did really well with in the write-up. Higa once again keeps taking over my diary, I don't mean to write all the stuff that I write, but my fingers just keep typing hypocritical heel BS for her to do. I feel like the intentionally tagging in a tired partner to make them look bad spot was pretty fresh, and Oonishi's heart and willingness to believe that if she tries harder she can make things work with her long-time partner is what keeps her fighting....... and what Higa exploits to amuse herself or set up Oonishi for the blame in case, heaven forbid, a team with Miss Perfection loses. -Also with Higa (who is now taking over OOC notes instead of just the show itself it seems), I am sort of seeing Birds of Prey as being like a stereotypical domestic abuse scenario. One partner is an utter hypocrite who holds themselves to lower standards than everyone else, who blames the partner for all the failures, and who regularly abuses them as a manipulation tactic, while the other partner has seen the good side of their abuser back when the relationship started, and want to think "well if I just go along with this and do my best, things will work out in the end because everything was fine before the abuse started, right?". Meanwhile, everyone with an outside perspective is doing everything but screaming at the abusee to just up and leave. I think thats a fairly unique dynamic compared to how a usual WWE tag split goes. Both parties are to blame for their losses, and if you combined Higa's talent with Oonishi's heart and desire, you'd have Miss Perfection, but both their flaws of lacking what the other had cause the team to not win everything they fight for. And Higa's ego means its totally not her fault shut up. And Oonishi's heart and desire and lesser talent compared to her partner make her believe it. What a tragedy. -BTW, this Birds of Prey angle would've started in November when the team lost the Tag League and Higa decided "aight, its time for a makeover and attitude change, now wheres my hair dye and skull staff?" switching to the render we all know and love today. Its now March. How many IRL wrestling tag breakup angles go over 4 months these days? Probably not many. -In case you're wondering what Erin was up to, she was jobbing in a six-woman tag alongside Lady Lotus and a one-night bring in of Rika Tsujimura. The winners were.......Monster Ishimura, MAYA, and Selina Svelte I believe. -Also gave a tryout to a couple of game generated graduates of the Hatoyama Dojo that show promise, similar to Spider Isako. Unfortunately like Isako I have no idea how they'd work in a diary context, because they aren't super talented yet and thats a gimmick you want to protect. Oh well. -News and Notes and a backstage segment to come before the next card is revealed! PREDICTION STANDINGS: medla: 38/50 KyTeran: 37/50 El_Ray: 22/29 Mokoa: 22/35 Herrbear: 14/21 Teasenitryn: 9/21 Wicked Intentions: 9/21

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="GYUe7nb.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/GYUe7nb.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> <strong>5 Star Supreme Wrestling</strong></p><p><strong> Queendom Parade Tour Night 2</strong></p><p><strong> Friday/Week 4/February/2020</strong></p><p><strong> Karasuno High School Gymnasium</strong></p><p><strong> Kyoto, Japan</strong></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="38BdHBV.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/38BdHBV.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> We get the traditional lead-in from the announcers, and open with Kaiya Kuwahara cutting a promo running down the card, running down Higa's paranoid accusations, and being her usual charming charismatic self. A good job as always MCing the event from 5-Star's VP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>Rating: 67</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="7aqiaVS.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/7aqiaVS.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="B2DkKXf.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/B2DkKXf.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Simony Sentinel vs. Kaori Mochizuki</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Mochizuki makes her entrance as the local competitor, and is somewhat known by the crowd due to performances on the indy scene at least. However, this match is really not for her benefit and Kaori spends most of it on the back foot.</p><p> </p><p> The crowd continue to learn about the solid fundamentals and athleticism of Simony Sentinel, who makes a strong impression in this match, wrestling circles around her bigger, clumsier opponent. Sentinel works the knee well with all sorts of kicks and running offense and big moves, eventually keeping Mochizuki down long enough for the Sentinel Strike (Twisting Top Rope Splash). That gets 3, and Simony picks up another win to push her and her violet hair to 2-0 in 5-Star.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Simony Sentinel def. Kaori Mochizuki via pinfall at 7:36</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 52</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="4LKURYk.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/4LKURYk.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="mXmc58q.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/mXmc58q.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="Zb8U70Q.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Zb8U70Q.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="EgHhLyR.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/EgHhLyR.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Double Pink (Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez) vs. Ochiyo Iijima and Hana Ajibana</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Double Pink get another good TV bout to show off what they can do, and once again wow the crowd with an impressive showcase of strong lucha offense, flipping their overwhelmed veteran opponents this way and that. Pinky Perez looks particularly impressive, going with the high-intensity, fast-paced flow that 5-Star fans have come to expect from the company, and gets off several impressive spinning suplexes that pop the crowd.</p><p> </p><p> Ajibana gets in some suplexes of her own, but it ends up being for naught, as Double Pink bust out more slick double teams and finish off Ochiyo Iijima with their Vertical Suplex/Twisting Crossbody combo.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Double Pink def. Iijima and Ajibana via pinfall (Perez pins Iijima) at 9:33</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 58</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="aDF3DSi.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/aDF3DSi.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Yuma Maruya's backstage, and says she'll be watching tonight's show closely for contenders to her belt at the final show of the Queendom Parade. Yuma also talks up her match with Miwako Katsukawa, and feels that even if she loses the title, it'll eventually end up back in safe hands with future talents like Katsukawa around.</p><p> </p><p> Maruya did a super job with this promo and everything flowed naturally, as expected from 5-Star's idol.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>Rating: 70</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="gUw5uvp.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/gUw5uvp.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="wQ9Yzya.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/wQ9Yzya.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="7MwvBZE.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/7MwvBZE.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="z9ZE1Vk.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/z9ZE1Vk.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Lethal Strike (Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic) vs. Sunset Riders (Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo)</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> The Sunset Riders get another crack at it, and once again proceed to work hard but show off their deficiencies, with Okubo is particular still having a tough time grasping that whole selling concept.</p><p> </p><p> Okubo and Jankovic do work an interesting, hard-hitting sequence for a while, ending with Jankovic basically battering Okubo with kicks into the corner until Okubo finally starts to sell them a bit.</p><p> </p><p> Takudome and Okubo make a bit of headway against Thea Davis, but she eventually starts countering everything the Riders throw at her before tagging in Jankovic, who hits Takudome with the Demon's Bane (Go 2 Sleep) for the win.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Lethal Strike def. Sunset Riders (Jankovic pins Takudome) at 9:32</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 52</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="kEWkdko.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/kEWkdko.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="mzVF5wy.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/mzVF5wy.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="QPFYrDH.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/QPFYrDH.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="kFF47yY.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/kFF47yY.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Synchro Wave (Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder) vs. Miwako Katsukawa and Eri Sato</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Synchro Wave are up against it her versus a possible future ace and a solid striker, but acquit themselves really well, showing off awesome tag chemistry and slick double teams, and looking better than they did during their debut where Hana Ajibana was getting in the way.</p><p> </p><p> Lily Snyder shows some good technique against Katsukawa, while Anderson engages in some good striking battles with Eri Sato, and Synchro Wave hold their own for a good long while.</p><p> </p><p> However, Katsukawa is getting the crowd more and more on her side in recent matches, and her twisting forearm strike in the corner (now named the Ultraviolet Beam by the announcers) is getting a nice pop in each match.</p><p> </p><p> Synchro try to contain Sato for a good heat segment, but Katsukawa makes the hot tag, runs wild, and finishes off Ava Anderson with the Katsukawa Bomb (Sunset Flip Powerbomb) for the win to cap off a solid match.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Katsukawa and Sato def. Synchro Wave via pinfall (Katsukawa pins Anderson) at 10:30</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 59</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="QPFYrDH.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/QPFYrDH.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> We cut to a pre-tape backstage, where Katsukawa talks about the learning experience she had with Yuma Maruya last week, and how she intends to grow from that as a wrestler and become good enough to someday carry the 5-Star standard herself. Katsukawa was amped up and excited, and delivered a fairly good promo.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>Rating: 61</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="I5FBwBx.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/I5FBwBx.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="zaZg1I3.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zaZg1I3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="63F3YPV.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/63F3YPV.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Ut6aCND.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Ut6aCND.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="iobILVo.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/iobILVo.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="APlokTw.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/APlokTw.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="lL30Zqr.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/lL30Zqr.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="JGHhvtW.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/JGHhvtW.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Chiyeko Kita / Etsuko Arihyoshi / Connie Morris / Paige Croft vs. Otsune Tsumura / Machiko Matsuda / Kaede Sugiyama / Kinuye Mushashibo</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Team SUB make their entrance with a swagger to them, as they've been on fire recently, having not lost a match in 2020 except the Big Crush battle royale, and they seem to be gearing form some type of revenge against the champion Maruya.</p><p> </p><p> Paige Croft makes her entrance with some type of chain tied around her waist, one that she bangs on the steel steps a few times before the match starts before throwing it on the ground with a noticeable thud. The announcers have no idea whats up with that, but note Croft's pissed off demeanour as of late.</p><p> </p><p> The heelish contingent overwhelms the other side throughout, with only Matsuda and Sugiyama offering much in the way of resistance, usually because of a screwup from Morris or Croft getting over confident or playing with their food too much. Team SUB look in their glory here, wrenching limbs and loving the pain their opponents experience.</p><p> </p><p> The match gets drawn out like a blade, before Team SUB eventually put it out of its misery with the Superkick/Tiger Suplex combo on Tsumura, before Arihyoshi locks in the Arihyoshi Lockdown (Seated Abdominal Stretch Dragon Sleeper) until referee Odaka calls for the bell to save Tsumura's hide.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Team SUB+Friends def. Team Jobbers via pinfall (Arihyoshi stoppage via submission on Tsumura) at 11:00</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 53</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="UqJvBag.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/UqJvBag.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="BjC1KJ8.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/BjC1KJ8.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Talia Quinzel vs. Yukiko Matsumara</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Quinzel gets a rare singles match to showcase herself, and the statuesque Amazonian shows off her power with a string of backbreaker-related moves to start.</p><p> </p><p> Matsumara was getting a little momentum going as a singles competitor with a cult fanbase behind her before this co-main, and fights back using crowd support and high speed offense. However, unlike the Sentinel/Mochizuki match, Quinzel has the werewithal and ability to keep a lid on her faster opponent, and finally stops a comeback attempt by lariating Matsumara out of the sky during a springboard attack. Matsumara is left folded on half on the canvas looking like a car crash victim, as Talia plays to the crowd.</p><p> </p><p> Talia then goes to a uranage backbreaker, followed by the Spinal Trauma backbreaker for 3 to claim an impressive win.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Talia Quinzel def. Yukiko Matsumara via pinfall at 11:31</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 56</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="IVupCz6.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/IVupCz6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Tlz7Qa6.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Tlz7Qa6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="S5zYtKU.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/S5zYtKU.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="I5FBwBx.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/I5FBwBx.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="ytBvNDA.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ytBvNDA.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Post-match we hear from a bunch of different people via rapid-fire promo packages backstage. Sae Akutagawa says she's almost impressed by Quinzel, but is confident the Hell Raisers will rise up and get the job done to win the tag team titles. Megumi Nakajima re-iterates her challenge to Higa, and hopes to teach her a lesson in this six-woman tag main event. Gemmei Oonishi still doesn't know why Higa is choosing to be this way, but is obligated to support her partner no matter what. Chiyeko Kita sends a warning to Yuma Maruya that her title reign won't survive past the next defence if Team SUB is her next opponent, and Shiori Jippensha says she'll fight anyone in front of her and its time to make a statement for the future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>Rating: 47</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="ytBvNDA.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ytBvNDA.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="ZoM1wH5.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ZoM1wH5.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="S5zYtKU.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/S5zYtKU.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> vs. <img alt="Tlz7Qa6.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Tlz7Qa6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="K34xbzQ.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/K34xbzQ.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="zUFAzFy.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zUFAzFy.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Shiori Jippensha and the Birds of Prey (Fuyuko Higa / Gemmei Oonishi) vs. Megumi Nakajima and Torment and Sorrow (Maki Yoshifumi / Yu Hashimoto)</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> So after a middling midcard, the 5-Star fans get blessed with one of the best matches the company has seen since the tsunami, a dazzling 6 woman tag with something for everyone and hard work all around.</p><p> </p><p> The fists fly. Mat wrestling goes back and forth, and various wrestlers take to the skies. We get the big early sequence of dives to the break, including a big running no hands cannonball plancha to the outside from Higa that knocks everyone down like bowling pins.</p><p> </p><p> The action swings back and forth, and the crowd get into it right away, knowing this match has the true intrigue of anyone can win.</p><p> </p><p> The big storyline thread in the match is Higa seeming to be more interested in working alongside Jippensha rather than her partner Oonishi, and also makes a habit of clapping on the apron when Jippensha does a thing (while ignoring anything positive Oonishi does). Higa experiments with a few tandem moves, but seems to be more focused on doing moves to Nakajima and Hashimoto, noticeably backing off Yoshifumi whenever possible, even sacrificing a tiring Oonishi to come in and take the abuse instead.</p><p> </p><p> Yoshifumi shows clear threat to all 3 women involved, and despite Nakajima and Torment and Sorrow being the heels, quite a big pop comes for a Yoshifumi blind tag as Nakajima comes off the ropes to get backdropped by Higa. Higa peacocks for the crowd, and turns right around into a <strong>HEAD KICK</strong> that knocks her down and out! 1.....2.....Oonishi saves!</p><p> </p><p> A pier-six ensues off that, buying Higa enough time to recover, and when order is restored, Higa tags in the fatigued Oonishi AGAIN, as Oonishi is just incredulous at that. Oonishi does her best to fight off Nakajima's faction, and finally manages to tag in a well-rested Jippensha to run wild on their opponents!.......</p><p> </p><p> .......Only for Nakajima to cut off the comeback in mid-flow. Jippensha then plays the in-peril role, and weathers a lot of damage. End Game gets 2! German Suplex gets 2! <strong>HEAD KIC</strong>-ducked, and its a tag over to Higa!</p><p> </p><p> Higa runs wild and destroys all three people while needlessly showboating, until getting a time warning from the referee. Higa then picks up Nakajima and tags in a completely spent Oonishi, telling her to go up for the Death From Above (Veg-o-Matic), but Oonishi is slow getting up to the top rope. Higa yells at her to hurry up, but before she gets set for the jump.......WE'RE DESPERATELY OUTTA TIME, as the match is ruled a draw!</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Result: Team Jippensha drew with Team Nakajima after 20:00 when the time limit expired</strong></p><p> <em>Rating: 77 (!)</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="ZoM1wH5.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ZoM1wH5.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Post-match, an absolutely furious Higa browbeats Oonishi, and screams at Kaiya Kuwahara backstage for five more minutes to settle things, before the show goes abruptly off the air as Higa starts unleashing a stream of very naughty words at the camera.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><em>Rating: 57</em></p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:12px;">OVERALL SHOW RATING: 73</span></strong></p><p> <strong>ATTENDANCE: 272</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p>

Good to see you back Self, you've been an inspiration to me for my diary, and I loved 2013 CGC and the Funtime Combat Kingdom (both of which are top 10 or 15 candidates for best dynasty on site.) Australia's a bit of a weird choice, esp since Canada has so many exiled 4C talents and guys from ACPW who could be interesting in a world you create, but there's still a lot of talent there that could eventually tick the wacky Self gimmick boxes.

Shogun TV Presents: 5SSW Queendom Parade Tour Night 2 Friday/Week 4/February/2020 The Queendom Parade Tour continues with more high-level action, live from the Karasuno High School Gymnasium in Kyoto! In our opening match, Simony Sentinel will be in action again, taking on a local competitor. The high-flying luchadora tag team known as Double Pink will take on Hana Ajibana and Ochiyo Iijima, two veterans trying desperately to reverse a losing streak. Our next match will see the European duo of Lethal Strike in action, as they take on the Sunset Riders. Another high quality tag offering comes right after this, with the young American team known as Synchro Wave getting put to a stern test against the duo of Miwako Katsukawa and Eri Sato. An eight-woman tag match is third from the top, with Team SUB allying with Connie Morris and Paige Croft to take on Otsune Tsumura, Machiko Matsuda, and the Stone Soliders. Tag team champion Talia Quinzel is in singles action in the co-main, taking on Yukiko Matsumara. And finally our main event this evening sees some truly high-level stuff, as Shirori Jippensha allies with the Birds of Prey to take on the team of Torment and Sorrow and Megumi Nakajima! Who will prevail? --- PREDICTION KEY: (OOC: Forecast is cloudy with a chance of time limit draws) Simony Sentinel vs local competitor Mystery Pink / Pinky Perez vs Hana Ajibana / Ochiyo Iijima Thea Davis / Zofia Jankovic vs. Angel Takudome / Asami Okubo Ava Anderson / Lily Snyder vs. Miwako Katsukawa / Eri Sato Chiyeko Kita / Etsuko Arihyoshi / Connie Morris / Paige Croft vs. Otsune Tsumura / Machiko Matsuda / Kaede Sugiyama / Kinuye Mushashibo Talia Quinzel vs. Yukiko Matsumara Shiori Jippensha / Fuyuko Higa / Gemmei Oonishi vs. Megumi Nakajima / Yu Hashimoto / Maki Yoshifumi

(OOC: Sorry for the delays, was busy fooling around with my purchases from the Steam Summer Sale, and I've been considering reshuffling some plot stuff. I'll want to take a bit more time to book ahead before releasing the next prediction key. Thanks again to everyone who voted for me in DOTM!) --- TEW.com 5SSW News And Notes by "JoshiJosh6" Joshua Prosser -The Showcase TV episode featuring the opening show of the Queendom Parade Tour did a hair shy of 20,000 viewers. Shogun TV continues to be pleased with the numbers. -Backstage personnel were said to be impressed with the opening match between Simony Sentinel and Erin Marcelin. Sentinel is expected to get a strong push for this tour. -Overall the show was thought to be good, although some 5-Star personnel backstage were vocal about how it could've been better, and how Miwako Katsukawa is not ready for a big-time push yet. -Fuyuko Higa's promo was said to be a veiled inside shot at the company, as Higa suspects various people in positions of power in 5-Star were behind some type of rib at the Big Crush finale. -Dark match tryouts on the show saw Sapporo Wrestling Dojo graduate Tsuna Kamiya team with Young Lightning to do a job for Zofia Jankovic and Double Pink in a six woman tag, and Hoshiko Tagawa also got brought in for a singles job to Paige Croft. -Another dark match saw the Birds of Prey, Talia Quinzel, and Maki Yoshifumi defeat Eri Sato, Thea Davis, and Shining Force in an eight woman tag that was said to be good. -It's still widely believed that a trios tournament will take place on the Hall of Fame tour, with the company bringing in more outside talent for it. -5-Star is rumoured to be losing money hand over fist, but investments and some type of government rebate are keeping the company alive for the forseeable future. It is expected that the company is going to make money back off a restructured deal with Shogun TV in the spring, as well as increased sponsorship revenues. -Despite the money loss, the company is still keen on bringing in new faces to keep up their recent momentum. Ursula Saez and Steph Blake are among the hires being considered. OTHER NEWS AND NOTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD: -Aussie star Loxley Robbins interested in jumping to 21CW?...... -Lauren Easter announces hiatus from CWA due to pregnancy...... -Tensions rising between Alicia Strong and USPW......

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>OOC SHOW NOTES:</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> -Oh man, I should've revealed who ??? was in the main event. I stupidly didn't realize that people would think it was Higa, because she was involved in that 8 woman tag before I reshuffled what I booked.</p><p> </p><p> -I get the feeling Katsukawa would've been a disappointment as the reveal, but I've committed to her as a possible future ace, and it's not like the TEW crowd hates her or anything.</p><p> </p><p> -I think the promo was great, but I might've rambled a bit, and Katsukawa's involvement in-game contaminated the angle.</p><p> </p><p> -Hell Raisers and TermiNation had a good strong match and I expect to see more of the same from the Hell Raisers going forward. What about the other team? What ABOUT the other team.</p><p> </p><p> -8 woman tag would've been better had some anchors not been dragging it down, but at least it gave people something to do.</p><p> </p><p> -Higa keeps doing awesome things on my show, stop iiiiiiiiiiitttttttt.</p><p> </p><p> -Connie is old and past it, but I only need to squeeze one big match out of her.</p><p> </p><p> -Sunset Riders debut wasn't that bad, but yeah the match was carried by the Kanto Express and when you set aside pop it was worse than the opener.</p><p> </p><p> -On that note, the chemistry note helped the opener kick all kinds of ass. BTW, even though Simony's here on a tour shot for now, she'll probably be a Top 5 important character in this diary. I've never used her in a featured role before, and never thought much of her and a lot of the undercard AAA talent, but she fufills an important role that seems to be unique to her, so I made the region edit and brought her in. She'll be getting pushed fairly strongly on camera as well, and seems to work out okay in tests even though she only has 66 aerial.</p><p> </p><p> -And no, I'm not going to test the young lion system and have Erin go over a veteran. I'm simply did that scene with Ogiwara to lay out possibilities in her mind, and to set up a dramatic scene later in the diary that shows the underbelly of the business. 5SSW will not close. How it will sidestep bankruptcy is unknown, even to me. I mean, attendances could turn around and 5-Star could get a better TV deal before they run out of money, who knows. I don't, because I'm only one show ahead and my previous test sims haven't gotten much further. but 5-Star will stay alive, even if I have to make up a plot contrivance to keep it that way <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> -I feel like the Kuwahara improv segments are slipping, and thats slightly concerning. She's gained 1 pop in the role, but I might decide to jack up her entertainment stats because shes cut a promo almost every show and not improved at all (and I know it isn't destiny because no one else has improved, seriously wtf Adam.)</p><p> </p><p> -As always I appreciate all your predictions (Shout-out to KyTeran for getting the first perfect recently), as well as any feedback and comments. Love you guys. Expect a somewhat quick turnaround, maybe prediction key for Show 2 up tomorrow?</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p>---</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>PREDICTION STANDINGS:</strong></p><p> </p><p> medla: 34/43</p><p> KyTeran: 33/43</p><p> El_Ray: 22/29</p><p> Mokoa: 18/28</p><p> Herrbear: 14/21</p><p> Teasenitryn: 7/14</p><p> Wicked Intentions: 9/21</p><p> </p></div><p></p><p></p>