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Thanks for all the positive feedback as well as the likes I have received so far. Like @arlovski already mentioned, I never did a diary like this one, but I wanted to do something new out of my "comfort zone" and I'm really looking forward to see how the diary will evolve over the next weeks. I wrote a couple of shows in advance, so I hope I won't fall back behind when I've got no time to write anything due to work or family related stuff.

Great to see Wakabayashi winning the title. I think I predicted him as the Strongest Singles GP winner way too early, but how do we say in Germany: "Besser spät als nie " 😛 Loved the little thing with the new move about Ishinomori's return ann on top of that he was able to win the National title right away. Strong comeback by him. I was super bad at predicting stuff so far, so I'll keep it short. You give us some little breadcrumbs with Takano being the favourite to win it, he would have been my pick too, but I guess that's just a red herring right? 😛 Anyway I have the feeling that it will be someone from Block B. Nakasawa or Takano? We'll find out!

Key for Predictions: Davis Wayne Newton vs Rob Reynolds [1 Pts] Southern Stinger (c) vs Wes Revell in a No DQ match for the LSW Brass Knuckles title [1 Pts] The Hot Taggs vs Nonstop Action [1 Pts] Maliek Chamberlain vs Taheiji Konoe [1 Pts] Al Coleman vs Texas Hangman [1 Pts] The Dynamite Express (c) vs The Wild Cats for the LSW Tag Team titles [1 Pts] Kip Keenan (c) vs Shooter Sean Deeley for the LSW Texas Heavyweight title [1 Pts]

The Pro Wrestling Reporter by Greg Sluchinski Greg here with a new update on The Pro Wrestling Reporter Newsletter. Hear me out Florida, there is a new sheriff in town named Frank Rogers, better known as Fabulous Frank for you folks. The Tallahassee born veteran started a new wrestling company and the older fans will probably recognize the name very well: All-American Florida Wrestling. Yes, you heard that right! Frank did some sort of a deal to get the name rights, and they will start the ride on March 11th on a Wednesday night. The show will be held in Orlando, Florida at The Magic Room and you can get access from home with the brand new wrestling streaming platform WrestleWorld. But what's even more interesting is that a very popular Indy wrestling figure like Marvin Earnest has his hands in there, too. Just weeks ago I first reported about Marvin's departure from Mid Atlantic Wrestling due to his new love he found in South Florida, and it seemed like Earnest is happy to work down there as he said just days ago in Phil Vibert's podcast. Earnest said there that they'll run a typical old school schedule with all shows happening on a Wednesday night every two weeks. They also announced a very old school-ish ruleset with getting fines, being disqualified for throwing the opponent over the top rope and things like that. This approach is truly unique and intriguing. I am uncertain whether if it will make them money, but I sincerely hope they do well. What may be more intriguing to guys is Marvin's announcement of the initial participants for their inaugural show. He said that young and up comer will fight, but also those who have a name value in Indy Wrestling like Conner Threepwood, Barry Kingman, Ricky Turner and Gareth Wayne. One name is fascinating to me and that is James Diaz, the son of Raymond Diaz and one hell of a talent. I think All-American Florida Wrestling will find their niche in Florida and for people outside of the state who are interested in some sort of an old school product. I wish them good luck and time will tell if they will be able to exist longer.

Frank Rogers knows he can't do everything on his own. One of the biggest brains in Independent Pro-Wrestling in the United States is definitely „Marvelous Marv" Marvin Earnest. The 46-year-old Earnest has been in the business for 28 years and worked for Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and New York City Wrestling since 2005. Marvin left NYCW to work primary for MAW in 2009, but after eleven long years he resigned from MAW at the end of last year due to his new partner, a Floridian woman. Rogers contacted Earnest and convinced him to work with him in Florida. With the great mind of Earnest, AAFW could be in great hands. The plan is to held shows every two weeks on a wednesday night, travelling around Florida to get people behind the product. Frank: Good too see you Marv, how's it goin'? Marv: Thanks Frank, I'm fine. What about you? So why do you wanted to see me? Frank: I wanted to talk to you about the rules of the promotion and the TV-Deal. Were you successful? Marv: Uhm.. Yea.. Kind of. Uhm yea we've got a deal. Frank: YES BABY! You're the best Marv. I know why I wanted you to be in my team pal. Frank was fired up while Earnest was a bit concerned. The wrestling media outlets were aware of a deal with online streaming service WrestleWorld, the newest player in the game. Earnest knew that this move was a potential needle mover for the young promotion, but Frank definitely would hate the idea of not being on a traditional channel. Marv: So, you don't know who that broadcaster right? Frank: No son, I don't have a clue. But it sounds good. WrestleWorld TV! What a cracking name that is. Earnest knew that Frank wouldn't understand it. He's so out of touch that even explaining him what online streaming is, would be too hard. What Frank knows better is how to handle rules for his promotion, his idea of pro-wrestling is different to today's promotions. Frank: There will be no attacking the referee, no throws over the top rope, no such things as eye gouging, hair pulling, pulling trunks, mask or straight punches. Contestants who repeatedly violate any of the rules will be disqualified and/or will be fined. We will treat this great sport of professional wrestling as a serious sport. Marv: This sounds great Frank. We should list all rules and put it out on paper for the visiting fans in the venues.

OOC: Hello again folks! After a break of nearly three months I am back with another diary and this time it's something I have never done before. This will be an attempt to do a diary in the United States but with a product to recreate a more old-school feeling. I hope I can do something cool here and entertain some people with the diary. I want to thank @Number Green & @WalterSobchak for their AI render, which I'll use in this diary. I wanted to try something new and both of these guys knocked it out of the park. Great job! Also: Thank you @Dalton for always listening to my stuff as well as @The Blonde Bomber for giving me some advices for the diary.

AAFW Wrestling Night #1 - March 11th, 2020 AAFW Wrestling Night #2 - March 25th, 2020

Florida is a truly unique place on planet Earth. The only location where gators and crocodiles coexist, the most beautiful beaches are situated here and .. Dick The Devastator! Dick fought the best wrestlers of the United States in his own promotion AAFW for years throughout the sixties and seventies. He entertained thousands of people in the Sunshine State and most importantly crowned himself as the champion over a dozen times. Dick The Devastator is long gone now and Florida lacks a solid wrestling product. And this is where Frank Fabulous comes into play. The 61-year-old guy from Tallahassee, Florida, is a fan of things from the past: Typewriter, record player and Classic Southern Rasslin‘. „I absolute despite stuff like social media, food blogging and modern wrestling. People like me are also mad about the current products of the big promotions. I want to bring back the old-fashioned feeling of Pro-Wrestling to a place where I had the best time during my career. When Frank Roberts was a kid, he loved AAFW, he went to shows in the Tallahassee suburb, and he always wanted to get in the ring with all of those wrestlers. But all good things ended and All-American Florida Wrestling closed its door in 1978. And now, forty years later, he's making his dream come true. „Fabulous“ Frank Roberts brings All-American Florida Wrestling back to life!

@The Blonde Bomber

SGM by arlovski @arlovskiis my nomination, in terms of C-Verse Fictional as well as Showcase for his stellar graphics and crisp presentation.

STRONGEST SINGLES GRAND PRIX 2021 - PREDICTION CONTEST Tournament Winner: Haranobu Kobayashi Runner-up: Morgan Murray Most Points (Group Stage): Haranobu Kobayashi Will any wrestler end up with zero points? (Bonus point: If so, who?): Oda Yakuta Biggest Surprise: Hudson beats Avalance and spoils him. Biggest Upset: Matsushita beats Taira

That was fast Joe!

Soooo... We won't talk about my predictions right.. RIGHT? 😛 Anyway Nagasawa as the one to dethrone the inaugral champion was a great choice and I thought about writing down how important he could be in the growth of SGM... he lost the title immediatly to the Destiny Masters again. Avalanche Takano with a big win not only for his faction but also for himself as well.

Stellar graphics as always mate. What AI program are you using? Just randomly predicting though. And btw big thank you for your compliments in one of your lasts posts. I really appreciate it. Tournament Winner: Wakabayashi Runner-Up: Nakasawa Most Points: Nakasawa Nobody will leave the group with zero points. Biggest Surprise: Big Mack Scott eliminates Kobayashi on the final block day. Biggest Upset: Matsumoto beats Taira

Still diggin' your graphics, they look always so "real" and crisp. I have Haranobu still as a young boy in my mind lol Due to the long (and converted TEW 16) game with WCG I never played a fitting company for Haranobu, so he never came on my path in TEW 20. But he's a great fit for you, big and strong guy with a great look.

Missed the last prediction but this time I'm in. Ibushi is a big sign for VANGUARD. I don't know how good he'll perform for you here but in my custom Indy Puro fed (with Shuji Ishikawa as the owner) he was absolutely miserable and he even faced Takuya Nomura on both occasions. Babatunde as Bob Sapp is a cool thing to be honest. Since Barnetto was the first one to beat Sapp in IGF, I'll bet on him here too. Barnett Nakamura Sakuraba Nomura Shibata & ?? - I'm super bad at predicting unknown people but I'll just say it'll be Nagai and Harimao'z will be back here. Suzuki

I've got RIZIN/PRIDE vibes because of the show poster. Great job! SGM MUSCLE DESINTY SERIES - DAY #1 EIGHT MAN TAG TEAM MATCH Haranobu Kobayashi, Avalanche Takano, BISON Yano & BRUTE Kikuchi vs Hiroshi Morisue, Battle Sakata, Koichi Kajiwara & Kimi Kawano SIX MAN TAG TEAM MATCH Kimitada Yanagita, Oda Yakuta & Shuga Amano vs Morimasa Kato, Kuniyoshi Kawamura & Ritsu Ibata SINGLES MATCH Ryobe Uno vs Fuyuhiko Wakabayashi TAG TEAM MATCH Bullet Train (Burt Hudson & Bam Bam Bundy) vs Eikichi Itou & Isoruko Arakaki SIX MAN TAG TEAM MATCH Yasuhide Tayama, Sozen Ishinomori & Big Boss Urayama vs Kyuichi Matsumoto, MUSCLE Serizawa & Taiji Chajima TAG TEAM MATCH Ox Mastadon & King Kong Kennedy vs The Tokyo Mountains (Shogo Awatari & Kanawari Enomoto)

Oh jesus yes he was in the Proving Grounds match, big sorry here pal! Looking forward to the next show.

Love the roster so far (some big[ger] names here and I would love to see some lesser known guys here like for example Jota, Keita Yano or Takahiro Tababa), surprised that I don't see Ironhead Fujita and Hikaru Sato around here though. The first show was pretty decent! Keep it up. Shibata Pancrase Death Squad (althought I am an Astronauts stan) Baby Hash Maeguchi Tanaka Ishikawa Low Ki

I messaged you on discord as well but I really like the mod. I played it last weekend and I loved it.

Fukuda Hayashi & Tanaka Iizuka SAKI, Sayaka, Hosokawa Suzuki & Despy Stronghearts T-Hawk & Eita

2nd year: Sengoku Project Pro Wrestling by Shuji Ishikawa [Real World, 2025/26] We increased the number of shows from 19 to 27, switched from Zaiko to the famous Niconico subscription service, held shows in Sendai, Hiroshima and Hokkaido for the first time and even held our first singles tournament this year. We've got some name value for our shows, guys who quit their home promotions like Suwama, Takashi Sugiura, Tomohiro Ishii and even Kota Ibushi, who just worked two matches for us so far (I treat him as a special attraction) because he was too busy to work for Gatoh Move and more importantly working Choco Pro to wrestle on pillows. To be fair all of them are in time decline and aren't workhorses anymore, with Ibushi being the most dissapointing one with an in-ring performance rating of 50 and 45 in both of his matches against Takuya Nomura. Update factions: Second Anniversary~! In front of a record breaking crowd at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2 in Shibuya, Tokyo (and most viewership on the screens too) the fans saw a good show with some special moments. Takuya Nomura avenged his loss from summer against Kota Ibushi, who had yet another underwhelming performance for us. Could be his last though. The junior heavyweight titles were both defended in a rematch of last year Anniversary when Fujita Hayato defeated El Desperado to "unify" both titles to a Sengoku Junior Double Crown. The titles will be defended simutaneously like the ZERO-1 titles. During the celebration Hayato was attacked by former Dragongate wrestlers YAMATO and Madoka Kikuta! In the main event Sengoku Heavyweight Champion and Idaina Senshi winner Daisuke Sekimoto defeated former NJPW star Tomohiro Ishii and defended the title for the second time after dethroning Naoya Nomura in October. While the main event was slightly better than last years match, this one was also a bit underwhelming with Ishii heavily hitting time decline. Just a month prior to Anniversary we held Kakuto Vol. 1, a shoot-style subsidiary show. We'll held Kakuto a couple of times a year, this will always be non-canon to the other Sengoku shows. We had a couple of guests to this show like Super Tiger, Mitsuya Nagai and Kazuyuki Fujita, all having legit backgrounds. Takanori Ito was signed after the show, he quit GLEAT just two months earlier. Update Top 10 matches:

Sengoku Project Pro Wrestling by Shuji Ishikawa [Real World, 2024/25] Shuji Ishikawa left All Japan Pro Wrestling at the end of January alongside Black Menso~re aka Yohei Nakajima and looked for a new home. He had several chats with different people but ultimately he came to one conclusion: Create a promotion. Sengoku Project Pro Wrestling was born and the launch event (Hataage) was set for February 17th, 2024 at Shin-Kiba 1st RING in Tokyo. At the first press conference Ishikawa was accompanied by Black Menso~re (Vice President) and the first contracted wrestlers Kohei Sato, Masayuki Mitomi, ZONES & Chi Chi. We've had 19 shows in one year, we've got two championships, two factions so far and some hurtful leavings. Freelancer Seiki Yoshioka would have been a focal point of a first big junior heavyweight title program with also freelancing Koji Iwamoto, Yoshioka even won the first Junior tournament to win the Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship against the aforementioned Iwamoto. And just three months into his reign he signed an exclusive contract with NOAH, just like Shigehiro Irie but he only made four appereances. The most hurtful leaving was Fuminori Abe. We featured the Astronauts stars heavily since the start of the promotion and Abe would have been a big star down the line, he signed an exclusive contract with New Japan (!) and made his very last appereance with us in January against his friend and partner Takuya Nomura which would become the best match in the short history of the promotion. The factions: The first anniversary was a historical event, not only because of the anniversary itself but also it marked our first Korakuen Hall visit as well as being on Samurai! TV for the first time. Attentive people (and fans of Puro) may already see names like El Desperado or Dragongate young boy Ryoya Tanaka on the card and yes both of them quit NJPW respective DG and I signed both to a handshake deal. Desperado only had one appereance before this show alongside Yoshinobu Kanemaru (who also quit NJPW) where they lost to the Astronauts. Kanemaru retired just a months after the debut match though. In the main event we crowned our second Sengoku Heavyweight Champion when Naoya Nomura took the title of Takuya Nomura in a underwhelming match due to a little injury. Nevertheless this was good show with crowning a new champ, a special singles match between Despy and Fujita Hayato Jr., a junior title match where the new leader of the REAL KILLERZ wanted to bring the title back to the faction and a special tag match between Yankee Two Kenju and Hikaru Sato & Hideki Suzuki of the Kenka Gundan. And here are our Top 10 fights:

The tensions between Kazuo Yamazaki and Gary Albright are as high as ever. Althought Albright tossed his opponents around in the ring, he wasn't able to knock them out on tonight's show. Other than Yamazaki who shook Albright's partner Mark Fleming, who couldn't get on his legs again. The referee called for the bell and declared Yoji Anjo and Kazuo Yamazaki as the winners. A feel good moment for Yamazaki just before the potential singles match with Gary Albright. Kiyoshi Tamura is on a roll recently. After last months win against Jim Boss, he then moved on to knock out the debuting Ray Lloyd in icecold fashion. Althought Lloyd is much heavier than Tamura, the latter were very fast on his legs and with his takedowns to not give Lloyd any chance to breathe. 『UWF-I Sekai Gannen II』- February 15th, 1992 Korakuen Hall (Tokyo, Japan) 1. Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Masakazu Maeda - Time Limit Draw (15:00) 2. Tatsuo Nakano def. JT Southern (5:51) 3. Yuko Miyato def. Tom Burton (7:34) 4. Kiyoshi Tamura & Masahito Kakihara def. Jim Boss & Ray Lloyd via KO (16:41) 5. Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoji Anjo def. Gary Albright & Mark Fleming via TKO (16:57)