The Dynamite Sid

I think Beast's Lair still had that MMA camp feel to it, too. Lion's Den vibes yknow

Beast Inc. Or how about The Beast's Lair

Test Your Might Challenge right out of Mortal Kombat (breaking boards, slates, bricks, yknow until the dastardly heel inevitably is outdone by the face and instead uses the object to smash them over the noggin)

This is great stuff. These stories are the real high points of this game, more than anything you actually mean to book

Respectful Wrestling fits pretty well

Oh. Well that's interesting

I think Operation Lullaby was a little too far fetched yeah. The idea that the agents would have been successful in actually making it to the SWF is such a massive longshot but then the fact that they remain in the industry and are trusted by the wrestling fraternity is crazy. Honestly would have preferred it if Eisen had just been brought down by the IRS or something

TCW Destructive Energy 2020 The Cali Dragons def. The Elite 72 The debuting Mikey Lau, a huge acquisition for TCW, reunites with his old tag team partner Frankie Perez. In the Syndicate's quest to restore "prestige" to TCW they targeted the "indieriffic" Perez who ultimately laid down the challenge to the Elite for a tag team match. Lau debuted on the episode of Total Wrestling prior to the PPV, saving Perez from a beatdown and revealing himself to be the mystery tag team partner. The addition of the Dragons to the tag division makes things look a lot healthier on that front as I finally have a team worthy of dethroning the Behemoths, approaching 400 days as champions. As an aside on the tag team front, The American Cobras were signed once they'd dropped the COTT tag team championships but their start has been a rocky one. Storm Spillane picked up an injury in their debut match and just a couple of weeks after returning to full fitness he then picked up a 30 day suspension as he's hooked on pain pills. Wolf Hawkins def. Joshua Taylor 80 Match of the night honours and yet again Wolf is the most reliable man on the roster. He can do no wrong. The plan from here is for him to defeat arch-rival Aaron Andrews in the King Of Kings final, before turning face and having what should be a classic series with Jay Chord. I plan on Wolf being the man to beat Chord for the belt and, in all likelihood, drop it back to him again. As for Joshua Taylor, as 2020 winds down so too will his main event run. With some big name acquisitions and some up and comers ascending to main event status, the top of the card is stacked. Taylor has had high profile singles bouts with Aaron Andrews, Jay Chord and Wolf Hawkins and it's become clear that he just doesn't hang with talent like that (Chord did drag him to an 88 rated bout though). Missy Masterson def. Tiffany Jade for the TCW Women's Championship 61 Having failed to lure any other name females from USPW these two will have to carry my women's division for a while longer yet. Missy picks up the win here to make it 1-1 in their series, setting up a rubber match. Fuyuko Higa is killing it night after night but she's still a nobody in the eyes of the fans and, even worse, she and Missy have awful chemistry. Nontheless the plan is to quickly switch the belt from Missy to Higa as it's increasingly clear that's where the future of the division lies Sammy Bach def. "The Centurion" Roderick Remus 70 I'd struggled to click with Roddy. I like him a lot but in a roster filled with up-and-coming arrogant heels I struggled to see what marked him out from Hocking, Gauge and Huggins. Thinking about "Remus" and Rome I hit upon the gimmick of the Centurion - "A once in a century talent". Debuting the brash revamped gimmick by interrupting Sammy Bach is the first direction he's had after treading water all year. Working angles and matches with Sammy has already seen his pop creeping up, even in defeat. The thing that has really sealed Roddy getting a real push is serendipity, however. At the same time that Roddy was beginning his feud with Bach, Emma Chase got fired/let go by SWF after cheating on Eric Eisen. Now, a huge name manager - the best talker in the business - and someone with a ready made history with Sammy Bach was available. She debuted after the bout here, aligning with Roddy in an attack on Sammy. Roddy loses but he gets his heat back and the best manager in the world to boot. Edd Stone def. T-Bone Bright & Killer Shark 74 Filler really just to get these guys on the card. T-Bone has feuded with the Sinner Society off-and-on all year as has Edd Stone. Recently Edd attempted to make the save for T-Bone but accidentally clobbered him with a chair, setting up this match here. Edd picks up the win here as he'll be the next challenger for Jay Chord's world title in a battle of very different second generation talents Aaron Andrews def. Greg Gauge in an I Quit Match 79 A disappointing rating and Greg was "off his game". This is the blow off for Greg's feud with Andrews which was really designed to see him moving up the card and mixing it with the main eventers. The I Quit stip came to me after Andrews first beat Greg by pinfall, with Greg talking up the Proton Lock and claiming that pinning a man for three seconds proves nothing and that Andrews' victory was a fluke. I've actually lost faith in Aaron a little bit over the past few months - Chord and Wolf are just a cut above. His gimmick is getting stale too but he won't let me mess with it and keeps playing his creative control card. He's still very much in my top 3 guys who are untouchable but we'll see if I feel that way a year from now. Jay Chord def. One Man Army 79 to retain the TCW World Heavyweight Title A disappointing number by Jay Chord's exacting standards but still pretty good for a B PPV main event against a 42 year old. Army has been questing all year for one final chance at glory and he received it here. He has gotten super over with his little push, getting into the 70s for pop and becoming a Major Star. He'll live out the rest of his days from here as a gatekeeper and maybe re-enter the tag ranks. He's still over and very capable so he's not getting put out to pasture or anything but this is very much his last hurrah. Chord has defences against Edd Stone and Mighty Mo in his near future. Long term I'm looking at a year-long series against Wolf. Maybe four or five bouts between Psycho Circus 2020 and Psycho Circus 2021 Overall Rating: 76 Not bad for a B PPV In general things are going well. There's been a lot of name talent added (Trent Shaffer, Rick Law, D.C Rayne and Mikey Lau the big names) which has seen the roster looking a little bloated but it means I'm no longer relying on Aaron Andrews and Jay Chord to wrestle on TV every week to save the show ratings. Company pop is hovering around 74 as I've returned a couple of disappointing show ratings for TV as I've been reluctant to "cheese" it and just spam Syndicate (Wolf Hawkins, Rick Law and Trent Shaffer) six man tags but I think that's where it's headed. To combat the roster bloat some guys are seeing their contracts expiring. Tana The Mighty was written off TV after being mauled by Bear Bekowski and is now off to the USPW retirement home (a good fit for him I feel). Chris Flynn was letting me down with his in-ring performance and saw his push stalled after being eclipsed by other guys so he was written out by being "excommumincated" from the Syndicate. He's still a free agent so I might bring him back to feud with them at some point. Triple D has less than a year left and is winding down. Danny Fonzarelli is long gone. I'm toying with the idea of letting Freddy Huggins go when his contract expires in a few months. He's been given a decent little push feuding with Sammy Bach most of the year and his in-ring ratings just aren't cutting it compared to the likes of Gauge, Hocking, Stone, Lau and Shaffer. I feel like he's gone as far as he's ever gonna go in my TCW.

To be clear I don't mean the TV title itself I mean the TV champion. On my save right now it's T-Bone Bright and I need ways to feature him on PPV without booking him in TV title matches or meaningless non-title bouts. Do you guys just have the belt on someone lower down the card who isn't guaranteed a PPV slot? Right now the title is my secondary title and T-Bone is a big hope for the future so leaving him off the card isn't really an option

How do you guys book your TV champion when it comes to PPVs? I'm trying to keep the sanctity of the belt and only defend on TV but other than just having my champion going for other belts or squaring off in nothing tag team matches I'm really struggling. I hate the idea of doing non-title singles matches on PPV, to set up a title match on TV blech

For me it varies. Depends what makes the most sense logically/what is most convenient from a game standpoint at the time. If I've had a big story running with a few participants, I might just end the story if I have enough "hot" storylines active. I just find it less cumbersome than removing and adding lots of workers individually. If it's a smaller list of participants and it makes sense logically I'll micro manage it. E.g in my current game Jay Chord starts in a storyline with Sammy Bach. When that feud was over and it was time to move onto Chord challenging for the world title I just removed Bach and added Aaron Andrews in his place. This makes sense to me because I see Jay Chord's pursuit of the World Title as one continuing story, so keeping that heat on the storyline works in that scenario and it wasn't too much work to swap out one worker for another. Chord has now moved on to defending the belt against Joshua Taylor and again I just removed Andrews and added in Taylor - he's just the latest supporting characters in Jay Chord's story. When the time comes for Aaron Andrews to challenge again he'll be slotted right back in. If I was booking that feud out over that period of time those storylines would definitely have ended and restarted numerous times. It's not really one storyline, it's several that link back into the characters' backstory and history together.

I'm staying away from Ernest cos I'm coming off a PSW save so I don't wanna book the same guys again. Which is a shame cos he, Logan, Ash Campbell and Nelson Callum would fit TCW like a glove (and indeed most of them for stolen by TCW on my older save)

Could always debut them immediately as a "master and student" combo. The fact that they're so similar in age is all part of the gimmick

Honestly I love the anime idea what about having the stoic Japanese stalwart Kamachi with his ultra solid wrestling and striking skills and team him up with "Rising Sun" Donte Dunn. Give Dunn the Karate Kid gimmick, some fun vignettes with him trying to catch a fly with chopsticks, doing the standing on the logs stuff, trying the Crane Kick in matches and it never working. Meanwhile Kamachi is constantly unimpressed and just gets on with being a workhorse with his nose to the grindstone. Eventually Dunn wins him over, they start tagging, Kamachi does all the donkey work in the bouts while Dunn hot dogs, pick up some unlikely wins and actually become a good unit and good friends, Kamachi starts to lighten up yadda yadda. You can even have Kamachi do the "wax on/wax off" on Dunn or something. Gives them a little bit of a story as opposed to just packaging them as a gimmick right out the door

Not a manager per se but I have been toying with the idea of giving Marc Speed his own Team Angle/Blackpool Combat Club style crew. Originally I thought of it as a way of bringing the tough young grapplers Guillotine and Seth Whitehead onto the main roster but I wonder if Roderick could also fit in Speed's camp, having Speed mentor him and give him the competetive edge to take the next step up. Albeit Speed won't gas Roddy's entertainment stats up any but it does at least give me a way into booking him with purpose