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AWA Backlash (Feb 1993) AWA Heavyweight - Paul Roma (c) def Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns TV - Eddie Guerrero (c) def Greg "The Hammer" (Yoko post match attack on Eddie) Underworld (Sabu & Phantom) def Hardcore Legends (Cactus Jack & Little Brother Jimmy) Womens Heavyweight - Bull Nakano (c) def Wendi Richter Al Snow def La Parka Tag Heavyweight - New Samoan Swat (Yoko & Fatu) (c) def Harris Brothers (Ron & Don Harris) and Bruise Brothers (Mike Awesome & Chris Kanyon) AWA March Madness (Mar 1993) AWA Heavyewight - Paul Roma (c) def Cactus Jack Foley (Yoko & Fatu interfere) March Madness Opening Round: Al Snow def Phantom Sabu def Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns (Kurrgan interfered) Eddie Guerrero def Yokozuna by DQ La Parka def The Killer Bee (Greg "The Hammer" interfered) March Madness Semi Finals Al Snow def Sabu La Parka def Eddie Guerrero March Madness Final Al Snow def La Parka and earns a title shot at Legendary (Apr PPV) AWA Legendary (Apr 1993) AWA Heavyweight - Al Snow def Paul Roma (c) by DQ (no title change) Last Man Standing - The Killer Bee def Greg "The Hammer" (post match, Sabu destroys The Killer Bee) Cactus Jack Foley def Fatu TV Heavyweight - Yokozuna def Eddie Guerrero (c) (Yoko continues the attack after the match with 3 drops from the top rope, kayfabe injuring Eddie) Kurrgan & Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns go to a time limit draw Raven & The Bruise Brothers (Awesome/Kanyon) def Ax & The Harris Bros (Don & Ron Harris) Womens Heavyweight - Ivory def Bull Nakano (c) (during the match, Richter trips Nakano allowing Ivory the rollup victory) Los Dioses De Lucha Libre (Tito Santana & Rey Mysterio Jr) def Royal Ones (Hunter Hearst Helmsley & Prince Lawler) NOTES: Tito Santana is a new signing. He is here to replace Dave Finlay who was signed elsewhere. Finlay was a road agent and Tito also fills this void. There are 3 more guys ready to show up within the next month that should make these upcoming shows a little more interesting.

Well, a lot has happened without even booking an event since this. I moved up to medium in size and have about 3 mil banked and am making around 200k a month. Right after the size increase. WCW announced they were looking to bolster their roster and went after my champion Paul Roma, my #1 contender Al Snow, Horsemen member Buddy Landel and up and coming star La Parka. I said "eh eh, that ain't gonna happen" and signed all of them but Landel to written contracts. I went and signed other top & future stars to written contracts as well - Yoko, Fatu, Sabu, Cactus Jack, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero. A certain top WWF superstar may have been outbid and also joined AWA under a written contract, so look for that debut in the coming months. I also edited Bam Bam's SWS contract to come up in a year so I can bid on him instead of waiting 3 years. Decided my story lines were more important than realism and he will hopefully return to the company a year after Yoko's devastating attacks to him. So, this is a real turning point with my company. Sink or swim. I'll probably be bleeding money for a few months, but hopefully we get on a better network and can get more money. Otherwise, this will be the beginning of the end they talk about in the dvd. 🤣

Also, if I give 1 guy a pay raise, does that trigger other guys to ask for pay raises?

I have a whole year to type out here, so I'm going to try to sum it up as quick as possible and post every month to 2 months so the write ups aren't as big. Started in 1992. I opened AWA back up with Paul Heyman running the show. AWA SuperClash (Week 4 Jan 1992) -Bob Backlund def Paul "Mr Wonderful" Orndorff for the AWA Heavyweight -Vader & Bam Bam Bigelow def Terry Funk & Cactus Jack Foley for the AWA Tag Titles -Wendi Richter def The Fabulous Moolah to win the AWA Women's -Butch Reed def Billy Jack Haynes -Honky Tonk Man def Kevin Von Erich -The Prototypes (Paul Roma & Shane Douglas) def Bad News Allen & Ice Train I started that first show and kind of launched from there with AWA Live! as my only TV show, which is basically just squash matches except for the main event, much like the shows in WWF in 1992. The idea for the promotion was to be a more edgy version of wrestling, but not ECW edgy. Maybe think more Ruthless Aggression era. Solid wrestling, good brawls, and entertaining characters with distinct gimmicks. Core Product - Three Ring Circus Current Product - Classic Balanced There are 3 things that are different from my bookings than other promotions in 1992: there are more multi man matches - triple threats, elimination matches, etc. I choose "wild brawl" more often than not. And my womens matches are "eye candy" matches. So, it's edgier than the other mainstream promotions at the time. After my first show, I quickly realized I was over paying for talent and there was a large turnover. Stables: Heyman's Horsemen - This was Paul Heyman's select 4 to carry the promotion and they were introduced as heels. Paul Roma led, Shane Douglas as the future star, Bam Bam Bigelow and Vader both as enforcers. -Backlash (Feb 1992), Funk & Foley def Vader & Bam Bam for the Tag Championships. Wendi Richter defended successfully against Bull Nakano. -March Madness (Mar 1992) (King of the Ring style PPV) - Backlund retains AWA Champioship over Orndorff again. Paul Roma def Jimmy Snuka in the finals of the March Madness tournament and earned himself (at the time) a #1 contenders match. This ends my "stacked" roster as I had to release a bunch of guys after this to stay in business. Shane Douglas, my future franchise player, is stolen from me by WCW. -AWA Live! (show post March Madness) - Heyman announced that Backlund, Orndorff, Snuka, Vader and others had been release from their contracts. He cuts a promo saying how they were in business for only themselves and holding back the real talent of AWA. He awards the AWA championship to none other than Paul Roma, who won the March Madness tournament. -AWA Legendary! (Apr 1992) - Paul Roma wins the first triple threat match in AWA defeating Bam Bam (who was only in the match to help Roma) and Cactus Jack Foley -AWA Night of Champions (May 1992) - In a Legendary! rematch, Roma retains again. American Heroes (Patriot & La Parka), who won the vacated tag titles on AWA Live!, retain against The Headshrinkers (Fatu & Samu). Al Snow wins the first Fatal 4 Way match against Scott Norton, Raven & Finlay for the newly created midcard TV Championship. -AWA CAGED (May 1992) - Roma def Greg "The Hammer" to retain the AWA Championship. Bam Bam def Cactus Jack Foley in the first AWA cage match. The newly signed tag team of Buddy Landel & Buddy Rose def Patriot & La Parka for the Tag Championships. The New Heyman's Horsemen are formed with Roma, Bam Bam, Buddy Landel & Buddy Rose. -AWA Iconic (July 1992) - Roma retains against Bad News Allen who had announced his retirement in 3 months and wanted a shot at the title. I accidentally had Greg The Hammer & The Killer Bee (Brian B Blair) def Heymans Horsemen on AWA Live! and they retain here. -AWA Victory! (Aug 1992) - Roma retains against Bad News again. -AWA Summer Fever (Sept 1992) - Roma retains in Cactus Jack Foley's first championship match. Bam Bam Bigelow is now the TV Champion and Headshrinkers win the Tag Titles. -AWA In Your House! (Oct 1992) - Nothing really to note of but this is where I start pushing my own talent. I have taken Brad Reignagans (sp?) and packaged him as Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns. Basically a no nonsene Kurt Angle style of wrestler. He defeats Butch Reed who is just hovering around upper midcard. The Killer Bee is also being pushed, with his gimmick being one of a super hero who just gets the crap beat out of him but keeps coming back and usually wins by roll up. Yokozuna has been squashing opponents being built up for the main event. Yoko, Fatu and Samu create the Samoan Swat Team. Harris Brothers, Chris Kanyon and Mike Awesome form a biker gang stable. Jimmy Del Ray debuts going by "Little Brother Jimmy Backlund" essentially getting by as the former AWA Champion Bob Backlund's little brother. I imagine him being what Spike Dudley was to the Dudley Boys, a glorified jobber, but adored by the fans. AWA Cyber Saturday (Nov 1992) - All matches are "voted on" by the fans. Loveable Cactus Jack Foley got a rematch against Roma here, but lost. Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns lost a TV Title match against Bam Bam. The Headshrinkers retain the Tag Titles against The Hammer & Killer Bee. Yokozuna def Al Snow, his first major opponent and this starts his first story line. AWA Soul Survivor (Dec 1992) - This is an original PPV in the sense that it is a gimmick PPV for the #1 contender for January's SuperClash (my WrestleMania). But, instead of the Royal Rumble, we have a 6 man elimination match for the #1 contender, dubbed the "Soul Survivor". Paul Roma successfully defended his title against Brad "The Suplex Machine". Bam Bam Bigelow wins the 6 way Soul Survivor Match against Cactus Jack Foley, Al Snow, Yokozuna, Greg The Hammer and The Killer Bee (so you know who I view as my main guys). AND FINALLY... THIS BRINGS US TO SUPERCLASH II!! -The show starts out with a face turn completed by Bam Bam Bigelow. Paul Heyman calls him out to open the show and says he must vacate the TV Title before he gets to face Paul Roma tonight. Bam Bam says on one condition: no member of the Horsemen can interfere. Heyman agrees. Bam Bam ensures victory much to the delight of the fans and is out of Heyman's Horsemen. -Brad The Suplex Machine def Kurrgan by DQ (Kurrgan debuted a couple months prior. All his matches have ended in DQ to keep him strong and have his gimmick be one where he is just a destroyer that doesn't care about the rules.) - Sabu squashes Little Brother Jimmy Backlund (Sabu debuted a couple months ago and has steadily been putting on great matches for his pop. He is playing a role of a modern Iron Sheik) - Eddie Guerrero def Yokozuna and La Parka in a triple threat match for the vacant TV Title. This match was set up for Yoko to win but Eddie pins La Parka instead. Eddie is a high flying face. La Parka has turned heel and has been feuding with Eddie. - The Harris Brothers defeat The Headshrinkers for the Tag Championships. (Samu got stolen from me by SWS, so I had to get the titles off them) - The Killer Bee def Greg The Hammer -Bull Nakano def Wendi Richter to finally dethrown the year long rein for the Womens Championship. (Storyline was boring so I didnt share to this point. Nobody could beat Wendi until it got back around to Nakano getting her 2nd shot.) - Paul Roma def Bam Bam to retain AWA World Heavyweight. To his word, Heyman has no (current) Horsemen interefere. But, with Samu leaving, Yoko and Fatu align with Heyman to help Roma retain. (This whole build up makes me sad, because the OG idea was for Bam Bam to win and have a nice face run with the title. SWS also steals him on a written contract, so I'm forced to have him lose and push Yoko a little earlier than I wanted as my main monster. Also, this gives the heel the win at the biggest event of the year. Roma's reign of terror continues...) So, now you're caught up. I'll leave with my current roster/story lines for the new season... -Cactus Jack Foley, Al Snow and Little Brother Jimmy Backlund have created the "Hardcore Legends" faction and are faces. Along with occassionally Eddie Guerrero (who refuses to join), they will be going up against Heyman's Horsemen. -Heyman's Horsemen now consists of Paul Roma, Buddy Landel, Yokozuna and Fatu and are heels. Yoko and Fatu are a tag team battling with Cactus Jack Foley & Little Brother Jimmy. Buddy Landel is feuding with Eddie Guerrero over the TV Champioship. And Paul Roma will be feuding with Al Snow for the AWA World Heavyweight. -James Mitchell created "The Underworld" (heel) which consists of Sabu, Phantom (Gangrel) and La Parka. They are being a plug and play faction, really just causing havoc. Sabu and La Parka will be battling over the TV Title with Eddie and Buddy. -Don Harris, Ron Harris, Chris Kanyon and Mike Awesome created "The Renegades" - a face biker faction that went no where the last 6 months. So, I had Kanyon and Awesome turn heel and signed Brian Lee. So now, we have the Harris Brothers & Brian Lee (face) vs Awesome/Kanyon/??? (heel) and am going to have a biker gang war storyline. -Al Snow has started one of those odd couple on screen relationships with Wendi Richter. The idea here was to build Snow up to face Bam Bam who was in a relationship with Luna Vachon and do some mixed tag matches. I'm going to have to find someone else to plug in here. Leaves a bunch of guys left out: Tag Teams: 2 Cold Scorpio/Tony Norris (f) Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Prince Lawler (Brian Lawler) (h) Raven and The Lucky Charm (Finlay) (h) Harlem Heat (h) Other singles: Brad "The Suplex Machine" Reigns (f) The Killer Bee (f) Greg "The Hammer" (h) Hardcore Holly (f) Rey Mysterio Jr (f) Kurrgan (h) Jakob (Kane) (h) Ludvig Borga (h) Michael P.S. Hayes (h), Junkyard Dog (f) and Demolition Ax (f) have been signed to help with roster depth after losing Samu and Bam Bam Bigelow. Women's Division: Wendi Richter (f) Misty Blue (f) Ivory (f) Luna Vachon (h) Bull Nakano (h) Reggie Bennett (h) Leilani Kai (h) Candi Devine (h) If you got this far, thanks for reading! Losing Bam Bam Bigelow really messed up my booking plans which I had laid out for the entire year. He was going to successfully defend the title against Roma in a series of matches until Yoko turned on Roma. Heyman was going to have Yoko be his new guy, beat Roma a couple times then dethrown Bam Bam. Plan scrapped. New plan: DiBiase and Piper are free agents! I figured I could sign them. Planned another year of story lines out. The jist: Piper would debut first to take on Roma. He would lose by intereference of DiBiase. DiBiase is here because he bought into AWA and joins Heyman's Horsemen. He would insert himself into a triple threat with Roma & Piper and pin Roma and win the title for himself. This would lead to Roma's face turn (as well as Heyman's, possibly). DiBiase would now be champion with Yoko as his body guard. Scribbled in plans, I wanted DiBiase vs Piper at SuperClash III but the title be Cactus Jack finally winning against Yokozuna in an ultimate underdog story. Welp, scrap that, too. The moment I tried to sign them both, NJPW gets them. Didn't know about the trigger. So, 3rd times a charm. Don't know what I'm going to do from here but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know! Thanks again for reading!!

I can't figure out for the life of me why this wrestler is getting bad matches. I'm using a promotion that is rated on 50/50 pop/performance.. Its from the 1992 mod, Jimmy Del Ray. His pop in the U.S. is 19-24. He has high psychology - 82, Top wrestling stat is brawling - 57. Consistency is 82. Regular wrestler style. Everyone else I've had thats been this good has been putting on performance ratings of 40 minimum and I'm struggling to get his performance to 30. Could this be a bad destiny roll?

I'd just make the show 1 night and make it run as long as possible

The "0% to company" - what company are we talking about? For example, if this said 20%, does that mean 20% of the revenue goes to me?

I've searched all over for this, but I can't find a quick look at the roster where you can sort by last used. This was really helpful especially in smaller companies that don't have written contracts to see who wasn't being used and basically collecting a free pay day. If it is in the game somewhere, please let me know. If not, it would be a great addition.

Yeah, i didn't want to change it either. But I couldn't even book him to lose the Rumble to Flair. Idk any work around. Flair, Taker and Jake the Snake took him out before the match. Best I could come up with.

I cant get Hogan to lose anything, ever. Even with keep strong/protect on, he won't lose to Warrior or Flair

Does anyone know how far down the line there are wrestlers to debut? Are we able to play this from 1970 all the way to the 2020's or does it stop somewhere before then? If this is as in depth as the first post, I expect this to be the best real world mod of this itteration of TEW. Really sounds like you've done incredible work, @Mammoth

Thank you!!

There were two I played a lot in TEW 16 and they were the 1985 and 1987 mods. I see they were updated but none of the links are working. If anyone has those or know of one that has been updated around this time period, Id appreciate it. Thank you.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="52876" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What? How have you been on this forum for nearly ten years, and have 2,000 posts and not know you could just send a quick email and get your game unlicensed?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Guess I've never ran into a situation where I needed to do it. Thanks for the heads up though.</p>

My computer took a crap and I just ordered a new one. Lost my 3 year almost 4 year save from 1985 and my license to the game. But I guess I will buy it again and start over maybe as WCW this time. Yeah, its an awesome game and I would rather buy it a 2nd time than buy the new one.