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<p>With the Sins they are babies so they wont have the complete skill-sets - Sloth channels elements of the Raven persona and skills but he's still a teenager with those guys it's a matter of developing those skills which is half the fun. </p><p> </p><p> Andrew Boyd vs <strong>Bruiser Boyd</strong></p><p> <strong>Original Sins (G-Forz & K-Punk)</strong> vs The Bonechillers</p><p> The Exterminators vs <strong>Ubersoldaten</strong></p>

Gerald the Lion …. BWAH_HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!

So the WWE is going with big boofy guys with dubious wrestling skills … alrighty then. - Savio Vega vs. Kama - Ron Simmons vs. 1-2-3 Kid - Owen Hart vs. Dude Love

So with the Sins & the Auditor they reference classic wrestling characters Andre ,Raven & Rikidozan, pretty much any of the Samoans & IRS/Lance Storm - the girls less so although their is a sense of classic GLOW about them. The Sins were designed to replicate a cliq in wrestling but also to have a bunch of young workers with a lot of potential, personality wise it was deliberate that their default characters are the opposite of their true personalities because that's classic heel behaviour - George the Animal Steele was a quiet good natured school teacher. The Auditor was the classic guy with minimal natural charisma trying to play into that which is what Rotunda and Storm did during their careers. Enjoying this a lot so far - willr0cks renders are beautiful, the array of characters are over the top & colourful which makes them easy to visualise and the writing has been really fun.

Another solid show

The totally in no way a rip off of Andre - Giant Jewish guy tapped to a guy called Lt Gruder - that's not a good look. Gonzalez & Ginormus vs The Destruction Crew (Sledgehammer & Wrecking Ball) El Chupacabra vs Kurtis Payne Chris Moxley vs John Smith

The way I normally try to get round the storyline thing is just make storylines for the title belts. In general most shows you are going to have some angles at least to drive you towards the next Event. You just take people in and out of the storyline each month rather than try to create new storylines. In reality that what the core storylines are anyway.

Damn you Kyo Kusanagi

Great show.

This just gets better and better

Love the Luchadores

*Randy Savage vs Billy Jack Haynes *Ricky Steamboat vs Dean Malenko *Rock n Roll Express vs Robert Fuller and Michael Hayes

wXw We Love Wrestling - Live In Frankfurt, March 28 2020 Batschkapp (Frankfurt, Hessen) 1. 4-Way Match: Hektor vs. Leon van Gasteren vs. Rust Taylor vs. The Rotation 2. Mike Schwarz & Alpha Kevin vs. Grup Anarşi (Aytac & Abdul) 3. Mixed Tag Match: Alexander James & Killer Kelly vs. Levaniel & Amale 4. wXw Shotgun Championship: Alexander Wolfe © vs. Ilja Dragunov vs. Avalanche 5. Goldenboy Santos vs. Jurn Simmons 6. Shigehiro Irie vs. Marius Al-Ani 7. Julian Pace, Scotty Davis & Jay-AA (Absolute Andy & Jay Skillet) vs. Oliver Carter, Bobby Gunns & Pretty Bastards (Maggot & Prince Ahura)

Gonzalez vs Sledgehammer Apocalypse vs Mikey Malice Andrew Boyd vs Bruiser Boyd vs Chris Moxley The Bonechillers vs The Cro-Mags Übersoldaten vs Original Sin I was tempted to pick Andrew Boyd because he can turn into a really good worker but Moxley is class.

Dominion 6.27 in Osaka-jo Hall Card: 1. Hirai Kawato & Shota Umino vs Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji (Pre-Show). 2. El Lindaman & Tomahawk TT of Dragon Force vs The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe) (Pre-Show). 3. Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi w/Tokyo Latina of Bullet Club vs Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH), Rocky Romero & Mikey Nicholls of CHAOS. 4. Bad Luck Fale, Toa Henare & Hikuleo of Bullet Club vs Lance Archer, Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinobu Kanemaru of Suzuki-gun. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: 5. © Birds of Prey (Will Ospreay & Robbie Eagles) of CHAOS vs Bandido & Ryu Lee. NEVER Openweight Championship Match: 6. © Minoru Suzuki vs Jay White w/Gedo. IWGP Tag Team Championship Match: 7. © Golden Storm Riders (Daisuke Sasaki & Kota Ibushi) of Dragon Force vs EVIL & Shingo Takagi of Los Ingobernables de Japon. 8. Dos Caras Jr., Rush, ???, ??? & ??? vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, SANADA, FinJuice (David Finlay & Juice Robinson) & Ryusuke Taguchi of Taguchi Japan. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: 9. © Hiromu Takahashi vs BUSHI (BOTSJ Winner) IWGP United States Championship Match: 10. © Tomohiro Ishii w/Hirooki Goto (injured) vs KENTA. IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: 11. © Kazuchika Okada vs Tetsuya Naito. 3 bonus points are up for grabs with 1 bonus point awarded per correct "???" in match 8. Feel free to add your predictions by commenting below, I will reveal the results in a later post. The Lucha Brothers & Taurus

Hence me tending to pick them to win.

Chi-town is getting a spin-off. Wow. Good to see the mighty Auditor (who in no way is a rip-off of IRS) get a run.

Sorry for the delay on this. I do Carers and she's been sick so I haven't felt particularly creative or funny this week. She's on the mend so I will get back to this shortly.

Congrats on the bub. Enjoy this special time. WrestleGuide.com's Week One Monday Night War Preview! WCW Nitro Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Kidman Juventud Guerrera vs Dean Malenko Goldberg vs Mortis Steiner Brothers vs The Flock (Hammer and Sick Boy) Scott Hall vs Ric Flair WWF Monday Night RAW Goldust vs Bob Holly Headbangerz vs Nation of Domination (D'Lo and Kama) Savio Vega vs Ahmed Johnson Marc Mero vs Bart Gunn The Rock & Farooq vs Vader & Ken Shamrock

That's both true and false - it's one of those accounting things. A number of costs were put off to try to show it was making more than it was. They back ended deals, deferred costs that sort of thing. That's not uncommon in sport and business as if you can trade and show profits you can often trade out of any short term difficulties. It all started coming to a head in late 1997 and although they were still a success ratings wise they had started to lose traction and Easy E's decision making was starting to become more desperate because he knew that the illusionary financial success couldn't be maintained. Hence the celebrity infested 1998 and the somewhat desperate flailing decisions that attempted to turn things around. It's why they were going to lose about 70M the year they sold up and the contract issues meant they kept paying money for a fair while after too. They were losing around 5M a month at the end. As to why Eric lies - his mouth is moving??? Truthfully he doesn't want to be seen as incompetent and whilst the reasons for the losses are his he'd got out of Dodge before they hit (not uncommon in business). Modern day American business practice is often guided by Randian Objectivist principals where logical self interest is all important and short term gain is more important than long term sustainability. Executives often leave companies before their poor decisions bear bitter fruit and they can then blame their successors. Eric wants to portray himself as a success and blame others for the worst issues with WCW because - well nobody wants to be seen as responsible for that sort of massive failure. The truth is that WCW never made real profits just short term gains whilst offsetting long term losses. Had they not hit a rough patch it's likely that they would eventually have turned a real profit (especially had WWF folded which at one stage was a possibility) and had they maintained their TV presence.

WWF Wrestlemania 12! WWF Title Match: Bret Hart defending vs. Psycho Sid WWF Intercontinental Title Match: The Ringmaster defending vs. Ron Simmons WWF Tag-Team Title Match: The Smoking Gunns defending vs. Owen Hart and Yokozuna Diesel vs. Shawn Michaels Strap Match: Ahmed Johnson vs. Jerry Lawler Casket Match: The Undertaker vs. Goldust Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Dude Love Wrestlemania Battle Royal! Issac Yankem

To me having Adonis as a champ is fun. I'd probably book it so he faces Piper with a stip that the loser leaves WCW (which is how Piper gets written out to go make his movie).

No it was always a myth. They were successful ratings wise but they had a huge bloated roster with some truly enormous contracts and didn't get the sort of house show crowds needed to make it viable. That's why everything went south so fast when the tide turned and they ended up selling to the WWE for chump change. Economically they couldn't afford a downturn. In the real world the only way they were going to make money would have been to have pruned some of the over the top contracts they had to aging and middle of the road talents. Russo for all his faults wanted to do that which is why said aging and overpaid guys were so dead set against him. WCW's success was on TV and had that continued then I am sure that they would have got their finances in order eventually but they had like 200 people on contract many of them on deals that seem ludicrous in retrospect.

Great stuff as always.

Ozaki-Guns insane level of cheating is so perfect for this. They are the spiritual children of Jesse Ventura - sometimes win … sometimes lose but always cheat. Booking wise it's a dream because their wins are all tainted and their losses should be largely dqs. It makes it easy and in the real world crowds will love to hate them. We Are STARD✪M!! Card 1. Death Yama-san vs Mika Iwata vs Saki Kashima. 2. Bea Priestley vs Syuri. 3. Giulia vs Jamie Hayter. Artist of Stardom Championship Match: 4. © AZM, Momo Watanabe & Utami Hayashishita of Queen's Quest vs Bobbi Tyler, Leyla Hirsch & Zoe Lucas of Tokyo Cyber Squad. 5. Riho vs Yumi Ohka. 6. Arisa Hoshiki & Tam Nakano of STARS vs Alex Lee & Maya Yukihi of Ozaki-gun. 7. Arisa Nakajima & Mayumi Ozaki of Ozaki-gun vs Mayu Iwatani & Hikaru Shida. Please feel free to make your predictions, the results will be revealed in a later post.