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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jameschaos" data-cite="jameschaos" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46243" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>enjoyed most of the show, but that main event was just kinda dull</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Very much agreed. Terrible execution of a match that was so heavily hyped and had such heavy hitting potential. And I wish I could decide what was the fatal flaw. Whether it was the pacing or the underutilization of the arena or whether the match was just doomed due to lack of crowd. </p><p> </p><p> Although I'm not necessarily inclined to believe that last point because MLW just did a barnburner of an empty arena match in the loser leave battle between Mance Warner and MJF. But Mance and Max fought over a wider swath of arena. They fought with greater energy and urgency. They just let it all hang out. </p><p> </p><p> Where Moxley and Hager didn't seem nearly as fussed as they should have been given the stakes. It felt more like Peter Avalon was brawling with Brandon Cutler just because. Had the match not been so heavily hyped, one could easily not have known a title was at stake. Heck if I'm Jericho, I think I might drop Hager and replace him with like a Jeff Cobb or Shane Taylor. Maybe swing a deal with Jake The Snake to bring him and Lance Archer into the Inner Circle. Someone who won't wilt like Hager did when the pressure's on.</p>

Wouldn't surprise me. Bollywood is the only film industry outside of the U.S. I know of to have a one word name it goes by. For there to be a Bollywood Wrestling Alliance that goes wild with the cinematic side of the sport sounds like a natural confluence.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheShabadoo" data-cite="TheShabadoo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47461" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I 100% agree, But I think it be funny if one of them to get signed by SWF, only to find absolutely nothing. It be hilarious so read their bios if Lullaby fails.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The relevant bios could be fun either way. But here's a thought that could be especially fun if Lullaby fails. What if the dirt sheets have been on to them the whole time and the agents weren't quite the sleepers they thought they were? <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have any versions of TEW on this computer. And I don't do a whole lot with the Euro C-Verse to start with. But isn't The Dublin Destroyer getting to an age where he might want to get out of the ring? If a crooked nobody like Mark Carnie can get his own promotion, why couldn't Dublin Destroyer set something up to train the next generation of Irish talent?

How about Big Poppa Plump When You Cook Him being the standardbearer for the Dustin = nepotism complaints? Maybe Sean O'Haire for the storyline with Kevin Nash. Big guy with skills and personality. Credible choice for a Nash given his size. Could get the rub from Nash but still have the goods to go it alone when the old buddy shows up. Maybe have them dominating a team like Styles and Daniels as both would have been on the WCW undercard when the company went under in reality. Maybe Mike Sanders for the six way for the U.S. title. Guy had a great deal of potential but could be said to be shooting over his head against the guys you named already

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="JuanJoseNYC" data-cite="JuanJoseNYC" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47428" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Is that a jab at Brock Lesnar?? If so, well played, sir, well played. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />:D:D</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I would have gone another direction if I were jabbing at Lesnar. Ideally including a bridge reference that only other VA Beach residents would get. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

No. Have him play a guitar with the claws and make him Rock Lobster.

Lots of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on PS Now. Currently trying to complete the Thieves Guild storyline for the first time. Done it in Skyrim but not Oblivion even though I like the Oblivion version better because of The Grey Fox's Robin Hood streak where Skyrim's is more Mafia like.

We are a quirky bunch no doubt about that. Somewhere in his fictional world Richard Eisen has heard about this wish for Lobster Warrior back and smiled.

Right. Maybe he could sell the gimmick to someone who needs it a la Del Wilkes selling Tom Brandi the star spangled identity of The Patriot. There's already one established case of it in the C-Verse with Harrison Hash selling off the Panda Mask gimmick.

My first move every new game release is exactly the same. Start a save with SWF that will serve as my permanent reference file for the game's (or computer's as the case might be) entire life cycle. Then once it's open I'll explore all the new character changes, do some mental booking to get in the flow of the new world and see who grabs my attention. Then once I have the flavor of the new C-Verse, that's when I start deciding where I'm going to base my training fed and who's going to comprise the original roster.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="piccamo" data-cite="piccamo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47396" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I like the idea of it from a worker's perspective, but it doesn't really work with the way TEW sets up storylines as a war between two or more individuals.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Who says it has to be a one storyline deal? I'd see this as more of a wider arc that you apply some of the other seeds in this thread to. Sort of why am I picking these feuds and storylines for this guy? Why the losing streak? Why the issue with the tormentor? The recruitment by the manager sensing weakness? Because of this wider arc you have planned for him.</p>

<p>One that jumped to mind while watching a show earlier this week. Forget whether it was AEW Dynamite or MLW Fusion but the commentator was emphasizing how different tag team wrestling is from singles so I was thinking</p><p> </p><p> Worker who's just left a tag team has to readjust to singles action.</p>

Except for one, these all come from TEW10 although not all were during 10's life cycle. The oldest would go back to World Cup 2010. During that tourney I did a training game grabbing leftovers from every corner of the wrestling world to form my debut roster. Which has since become a common subset of my training fed play. In this save I grabbed the The Minor Annoyance and Wade Orson as my Brits and labelled them The British Bothers. Sort of a personality & bland workrate warrior team combining Annoyance's whole shtick and a name change for Orson. Rebranding him as Orson Heskey as so many were grumbling about British international Emile Heskey at the time. The topicality of that team added an extra dose of fun to them. And yet despite the fun the Bothers gave me, I haven't really done such hot topicality in rebrands since. I'm more likely to do historical topicality like when I made The Big Bad and Boris Kiriyakin into my big Russian tag team, The Soviet Bloc. The Cold War may have been two decades over by the time I booked them. But it didn't stop the big Russians from running amok in my little fed with their proto-Communist ways. They sang the Soviet anthem like Nikolai Volkoff clones and terrorized all those who believed in western style freedom. One of those throwback ideas that can work far better in TEW than it would in today's real world. Wouldn't be as excited to run them now though. Big Bad is one of the guys who has since gotten a pic base revamp that ended up making him far less appealing that he was when this team was running wild circa 2012. Another great one was The Firmament which came in two forms. The original was Oda Yakuta and Haruhiro Tsumemasa as a pair of Buddhist monks who used professional wrestling as a means of channeling their more aggressive energies rather than suppressing and becoming attached to them. This later spun into a hardened spiritual mentor/celebrity client pairing of Tsumemasa with Sozen Ishinomori that got a full life cycle of going from formation to tag team champions to nasty breakup due to Ishinomori's massive celebrity ego. Like the Soviet Bloc though, that latter version wouldn't work nearly as well now thanks to Ishinomori getting remade. The notion of the former Japanese Sid Justice lookalike getting all fat and dumpy is just too hard to swallow. My most recent fun team? That would be Clean Burning. Australian free agent Lance Lott and Xavi from the VWA. The name comes from combining Lott's janitorial backstory with Xavi's youthful Spanish fire. Another personality/dull guy blend. The way they play in my head Lott is the moral center of the team hating cheating because it's just another form of dirt while Xavi fires up the crowd and rallies them to Clean Burning's side. Of these teams, Clean Burning is the only one I've run recently being one of my bigger ideas of the 16 life cycle.

Love hearing that. Glad I could be of service.

Too soon at best. At even at that, I don't know how you'd make that scenario fun and playable for the time things were shut down.

These may be far more than what the OP had in mind but I love both storylines. Great stuff that would be a joy to see unfold.

Some things that I had in the Cappy Pack: Stable member starts romance the leader deems a distraction and tries to break up. Debuting worker tries to rekindle old friendship by shoehorning their buddy's new friend out of the picture. Worker tries to play peacemaker for friends who aren't getting along Authority forces tag team/romance to break up when they don't want to. Authority assigns worker a new partner to form a tag team with Worker's new romance coincides with losing streak. Will it survive? Honorable champ who didn't win title clean feels compelled to prove worth. Stable trying to gain dominance attempts to destroy another stable. Worker held captive by rival. Authority forces worker to be defender of more favored worker

For Rose & Condrey, how's The Garden of Love grab you? You have the floral named Rose and the Loverboy in Condrey. And maybe they could be trying to compensate for not being as relevant as Lane and Eaton by chasing all the skirts they can. Meanwhile, the first thought that comes to mind for Taylor and Keirn is The Taylor Made Men. It's a moniker Terry would use in WCW a few years later that could get moved up in time. Perhaps the long term arc here could be that Taylor's ego gets the better of him. Terry appropriates the name for himself and Steve ends up fighting him over the disrespect. Although at the beginning maybe Keirn plays along and focuses on the last two words because while it is self-centered on Terry's part at least it's strong and manly.

Oh that's easy. My biggest flops have always been my big name free agents. Playing training games mostly populated with reclamation projects and likely never gonnabes, whenever I've tried to bring an Eric The Bull in after he got dropped by USPW or a Cheetah Boy after getting cut from RIPW, that move has always fallen flat on its face. The plan has been sign them on, have them anchor my main event, win my world title and have them lose it to my user avatar when the contract ran out so it could return more easily to my native talent. All the while my guys would be facing these names and seeing how it's really done. Only the big names would play down to their competition and I'd end up ditching them for guys who needed building from the ground up.

Hey guys, had an idea on the Shawn Spears tag team partner thing, But having only watched him in AEW, I need someone to tell me if it's totally out in left field. Is it possible the reason Spears hasn't found that partner yet is that AEW's waiting out someone who used to tag with him elsewhere? Is there a former indie partner or whatnot who has something of a name but isn't as exciting to talk about as a Lance Archer or a Brodie Lee? Maybe not as obvious a choice for AEW if he lacked the ties to Spears. This feels it could be a natural spot for a surprise signing like that.

Yeah. We may have to agree to disagree here. Personally I found this to be the worst episode they've put out since Dynamite debuted. Now to be fair, AEW's worst is still far better than most companies' best. And if this can stay their floor, they will every reason to be happy about that. But given the high bar AEW usually sets, I found myself underwhelmed. I know some may try to convince I don't have a complete picture because by some strange fluke, all my commentary was in Spanish rather than JR, Tony and Excalibur. But even that had its upside in the form of Dasha Gonzalez. I might not have been able to understand everything she was saying but the passion and energy she said it with was undeniable. You could tell she's not just there for the paycheck. That she had real juice for what she was seeing and seeking to share that with the audience Oh no doubt. Jericho will have the crowd ready to riot if and when he ever does that. And thankfully I was able to enjoy the interplay as promos were all in English for me even if commentary was not. Agreed. Colt always puts a smile on my face. Dude really knows how to balance being fun and wacky with getting serious and getting down in the trenches when necessary. Been an SCU guy since Ring of Honor and Dark Order's gotten so much better since the recruitment videos started. This is where the show started not resonating with me. Not losing out on Baker's promo would have been nice but I doubt it would have helped all that much. I just flat out didn't get the whole point of this segment. The best opponent you could find to put Big Swole against for this match was Leva Bates?!! Come on, man. That's a YouTube match for Dark. She couldn't have faced a Penelope Ford to get Sabian some screen/return the favor time? A Bea Priestley? A Sakazawa? Any of a dozen other women? It all felt like a big "Why bother?" In terms of Swole v Nyla, I've heard worse ideas but this was the first women's match I would just as soon done without. And I've come to like Swole. The very definition of a mixed bag segment for me. Loved Cody's parts up, down, left, right, sideways. But this was really all you could come up with for a icon of Jake's stature? Please tell me somebody's joking because this was a complete waste of his considerable talent. So Jake's come to bring The Dark Side to AEW and he wants to use it to "slay" Cody? YAWN!!! I want to know who it is at AEW Creative that's obsessed with dark gimmicks and get them some help. In the past six months we've had The Nightmare Collective. The Butcher & The Blade. The Dark Order. We've been made privy to Darby Allin's worldview to demonstrate that one can be live in darkness but still have honor. And now we have MORE darkness coming? WOW! Either Jake is in-character Chief Quimby clueless about where he is or this needs a whole lot of construction before it's worth buying into. I applaud Jake personally on his performance. It's not his fault he got stuck with such lemons to go out and deliver. And he sure made lemonade with them despite all that was against him. Including the state of his voice. It's just sad nobody could come up with something less cliche' for him to do. The man deserves so much better. Reasonably solid I guess. MAtch was sound. The involvement of Best Friends and Orange Cassidy was pretty much what you'd expect it to be. And yet And yet we had this. I'm sorry. I just don't get the union of the Lucha Bros and PAC. They are all great talent. No doubt about that. But I don't get the bond between them at all and it also seems to kill some of PAC's vibe. I thought the whole point of emphasizing what a bastard PAC is was to show he was a lone wolf by choice and couldn't really be bothered to get along with anybody. Now he's suddenly forming a faction with the Lucha Bros? Um okay I guess. And this name. The Death Triangle. What newly emo middle schooler's lunchbox did they draw that out of? It boggles the mind a company as big as AEW wouldn't send that to a quick death. At least, Jake's concern sounds professional however misguided it might be. I've seen first time e-fedders come up with better names than this. And at least this being on the big show made sense. Hager is the last Inner Circle member to compete. Plus you have the Rhodes ties to QT. So plenty of room for big names to rumble afterward as they did. I don't know I'd say Adam Page stole the segment. His part was pretty muh what you'd expect if you've been following along but not particularly better or worse than usual. I'd just have been satisifed to have listened to the man in peace. Dasha's partner made this promo unlistenable by talking all over it. I tend to believe he was trying to translate for the Spanish speaking audience who needed his help. But I kept wishing I could mute him and keep MJF. The guy is an amazing promo and I kept screaming at the screen for the commentator to shut up so I could enjoy him. Eventually had to fast forward past it because that never happened, Very good match for what it was but I'm of two minds when it comes to Darby being left to get more shine. On the one hand, I get the idea given that it is Darby Allin. We have seen his tenacity before and how well he fights against the odds. Against Jericho no less. If anyone was going to make being on the wrong end of a Guevara/Jericho 2 on 1 work it's Darby. And as things turned out, he did exactly that. However, it kept feeling like somebody ought to run down and stand in for Mox. I couldn't concieve of the idea they'd really leave Darby out there all alone against Sammy and Jericho. With all the faces that have beef with the Inner Circle, surely someone would come to Darby's aid. Cody hadn't wrestled. Maybe Matt Jackson since he was apparently there without Nick. Or heck maybe even a debut. Talk about a perfect moment to have a new signee play the cavalry and get on people's radar right away. Didn't help that I thought I remembered them mentioning last week than Lance Archer was meant to debut this week. So there was someone specific to think that unexpected aid might be. Moxley showing up at the end and saving the day was cool and felt so very him. But yet at the same time, it felt a little short and a little late. I understood he didn't leave Darby alone on purpose but it felt weird that AEW left him to it. Even as good as we know Darby is at fighting odds. All in all, just felt like the company had an off night by their standards.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="adi95" data-cite="adi95" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41263" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I started play as IWA in 1975 and I looking for names for Antonio Inoki/Strong Kobayashi tag team and stable including Waldo Von Erich, Killer Karl Krupp and Kurt Von Hess.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'd be looking to World War 2 and calling them The Axis Powers. I can't imagine Krupp and Von Hess are meant to be faces.</p>

Dear God no. It's painful enough when you get stuck watching a message movie the studio cooked up as an award chasing gimmick. The last thing I'd want to see on my wrestling show is an award bait storyline where there's no award to justify such topicality.

I can agree to a point but that's about it. While it does feel like some of the criticism of the women's division is over the top, it does seem odd that the nation's #2 women's division is so very young. If AEW were at the level of pre-Reverie USPW to use the C-Verse or original recipe ECW in its prime then okay. They'd be at the double maybe triple A level but still be seasoning before hitting the bigs. Being on as primary a cable channel as TNT makes AEW feel like they are "the bigs" despite being quite a young company. So I can see the argument that Japanese members aside, AEW may not necessarily have the best of the best where the women are concerned. Still there are far worse divisions out there. OVW springs immediately to mind. But then someplace like OVW isn't necessarily meant to be a panacea of wrestling. It's Baby's First Promotion in many cases so less of a talent level is expected and more inexperience can be forgiven. Where AEW management is Elite and there are expectations that come with that. Do I find the descriptions of how subpar some of the AEW are excessive? Indeed. The overinflation of Britt Baker's flaws in paticular feel ssilly. To hear some tell it, you'd think Baker was Cali Young during her first OVW's Women's title reign or Valerie Vermin awful. Britt may have room for improvement but she'd still wrestle rings around such women. I will agree that a talent of Britt's caliber probably shouldn't be the face of the division. But given she was the first non-family member to join the division, I also see why she is and look forward to someone else attaining the stature to take that status from her.