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Love those info things - it helps immersion.

This is beautiful to look at willr0ck - kudos to you.

Dang you are a clever boy.

*The Guererros vs The Irwins *Kimala vs Denny Brown *Rick Rude vs Jerry Stubbs It's about time the Guererros started to get a few wins

Noms in progress. It takes a while to link things and I like to reread the stuff from that month to judge fairly so my nominations are a work in progress. ROOKIE REAL WORLD The Hitchhiker's Guide to Wrestlemania by MainOffender Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide: ¡La Mejor Lucha Libre del Mundo! by Hollywood Diamonds Are Forever: A Jim Crockett Promotions Diary by Pipers Pit & Kimberly ROOKIE C-VERSE or OTHER FICTIONAL Blazing Sword Of The Immortals: A Tale Of Vengeance by willr0ck King Of Fighters! by Leohunter VETERAN REAL WORLD WWE: Three Brands Part II by The Lloyd WCW: Dangerous Territory by James Casey Someones got nominate the two veteran staples ;-) VETERAN C-VERSE or OTHER FICTIONAL BBW: Anything to Survive! [CVerse97] by Dark Raider [RockVerse] Chi-Town Urban Combat [CVerse97] by Dark Raider SHOWCASE MATCH OF THE MONTH Shingo Takagi, EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi of Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Golden Storm Riders (Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki) of Dragon Force and SANADA. On page 22 of NJPW 2019 - Long Term [CVerse97] by joshbrady91 which has a fantastic ending - loved the pic of SANADA EVENT

Great concept Joshi Royalty Tag Team Summit 2017 Quarterfinals BATTLE BEASTS vs Bilous & Jankovic Birds of Prey vs Crackdown Tex-Mex vs Queens of the Damned Fire & Ice vs Team SUB Semifinals BATTLE BEASTS/Bilous & Jankovic vs Birds of Prey/Crackdown Tex-Mex/Queens of the Damned vs Fire & Ice/Team SUB Finals BATTLE BEASTS/Bilous & Jankovic/Birds of Prey/Crackdown vs Tex-Mex/Queens of the Damned/Fire & Ice/Team SUB Joshi Royalty Summit 2017 Quarterfinals Chitose Ariwara vs Romi Yamato Eri Sato vs Megumi Nakajima Estrella Blanca vs Yu Hashimoto Joanne Rodriguez vs Thea Davis Semifinals Chitose Ariwara/Romi Yamato vs Eri Sato/Megumi Nakajima Estrella Blanca/Yu Hashimoto vs Joanne Rodriguez/Thea Davis Finals Chitose Ariwara/Romi Yamato/Eri Sato/Megumi Nakajima vs Estrella Blanca/Yu Hashimoto/Joanne Rodriguez/Thea Davis

The work itself is actually good - the positioning and the concept is what's off. It would be perfectly acceptable on a bicep.

Look conceptually it's terrible but one thing I will give it - the actual work is good. It looks the way it should - it's just that the idea of putting that on your neck for the rest of your life is idiotic.

I'm not a C-Verse guy but this is just great fun.

Vince is indeed Bugnuts Crazy!!! Thanks guys - I'm trying to mix the more serious narratives with enough comedy and strangeness to make this feel distinct for the other diaries for major feds. It's a lot easier to play a smaller fed for laughs because indy wrestling can be totally ridiculous and still work (CHIKARA) but for something like the WWE you have to actually try to book something that wont destroy the company. I cant write a dead straight fed though - wrestling is too innately silly to me to ever take it too seriously no matter how much I love it.

What the H E L L was he thinking? You would think at this point he would have realised that his whole schtick is reliant on looking professional - he's never going to be a Hard man so why the heck would you compromise your gimmick that way?

joshbrady91 9/14 Aurora 11/14 Anaddeo89 9/14 The next two shows are the go home shows for Fastlane RAW Card – 1: Lucha House Party vs Shooting Party (Brock, Shelton & Haas) 2: Secret Society vs Los Luchas Espectaculares (Zokre & Phoenix Star) 3: The O.C (Gallows & Anderson) vs Brothers of Destruction (Taker & Kane) 4: ShowMiz (Big Show & The Miz) vs The O.C. (A.J Styles & Finn Balor) 5: Kairi Sane vs Katarina Waters 6: Io Shirai vs Awesome Kong 7: RAW Womens: Asuka © vs Melina Perez 8: Rey Mysterio vs R-Truths 9: WWE title: John Cena © vs Ultimo Dragon SMACKDOWN Card - 1: Billie Kay vs Angel Williams 2: Kings of the Bar (Sheamus, Cesaro & Kassius Ohno) vs The Revival (Randy Orton, Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) 3: Peyton Royce vs Velvet Sky 4: Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntyre & Jinder Mahal vs Braun Strowman, Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy 5: The Usos vs Bray Wyatt & The Acolyte 6: Naomi vs Abigail 7: The Shield vs The Family (Harper & Rowan)

Doctor “So Mr McMahon what do you see when I show you this picture” Vince “... Barack Obama” Doctor ‘Not Shelton Benjamin?” Vince “No … not Shelton Benjamin … they look nothing alike” Doctor “And this one?” Vince “Idris … Alba … no Elba” Doctor “Good and this ...” Vince "RuPaul” Doctor “Very good Mr McMahon … very good indeed … how about this one?” Vince “I …. I am sorry I am unfamiliar with that young man” Doctor “His name is ACH he was also known as Jordan Myles. Do you remember him now” Vince “Not really … I think we may have had him in development” Doctor “That’s right … now one last one” Vince “Why that's Shelton Benjamin … he’s one of our workers. Good guy” Doctor “Excellent” Vince “Thanks so … is there any chance… I mean” Doctor “Can you get out of here?” Vince “Yes … Can I get out of here?” Doctor ‘I cant see why not … the medications appear to be working perfectly and you didn’t even flinch when I mentioned Shelton Benjamin” Vince “Why would I?” Doctor “Indeed why would you … we’ll get your stuff together and call your family and you should be released in a few hours” The Doctor left the room leaving Vince alone with his thoughts. The servants of the Evil One were very tricky … the Doctor had showed him 4 of his many faces before revealing the true face of the Dark Lord. Vince was too clever to fall into the trap though he’d learnt to recognise the false faces worn by the Prince of Darkness and soon … very soon he’d save the world from that Evil Monster sent from Hell … soon he’d kill Shelton Benjamin!!!

WWE SMACKDOWN: Royal Farms Arena Baltimore Maryland. 12289 att sell out Pre–Show: The Bar (Cesaro & Sheamus) , The Family (Harper & Rowan), The Usos, The Mavericks, The Revival defeated Local workers The show opens with Matt Hardy cutting one of his rambling semi-coherent stream of consciousness promos about the Band – Drew and Jinder come out and the two teams brawl. Backstage the IIconics are cutting one of their deluded but very funny promos when the Beautiful People get into their face and deliver a number of stinging put downs. Pushing occurs, then shoving, then cat-fighting as Producers try to separate them. The SMACKDOWN Roster seems to be frisky tonight. 1: Jeff Hardy defeated Drew McIntyre – We cut back to the ring where the formerly better member of the Hardy’s is taking on the still much better member of the Band. It was a decent enough match but Hardy’s best years appear behind him. Somewhat surprisingly he won with a Swanton. 2: Beautiful People defeated 2 Local Workers – A solid jiggle-fest saw the Beautiful People triumph over two locals. 3: Matt Hardy defeated Jinder Mahal – The now slightly better Hardy brother took on the nowhere near as bad as he’s often portrayed as member of the Band in a match that was actually better than the earlier Jeff & Drew bout. Hardy picked up the win with the Twist of Fate. Steph & Shane are out hyping Fastlane and Mania – Eric Young, Robert Roode and James Storm come out and say they are being held down and deserve title shots and more big matches. The Shield & Braun Strowman come out and say if they want big matches and title shots they are more than happy to oblige. Shane books Eric Young versus Roman Reigns right now. 4: Roman Reigns defeated Eric Young – Eric Young said he wanted to show people he was deserving of being in big matches and this went a long way to proving that. This was a 4 Star banger where Eric tried every trick in his considerably large book to defeat the Big Dog. There were moments when it really did look like Eric would get the upset win before a Superman Punch was followed up by a Spear and a pin. 5: The IIconics retained the WWE Womens over Southern Belles (Kaci Lennox & Savannah Evans) – Normally these sort of throwaway matches wouldn’t draw anything other than a few snide observances about jiggling from me but Kaci Lennox and Savannah Evans showed enough out there for me to point them out for praise. The two young women clicked like they had been tagging for years and looked fantastic as a team. I’d be shocked if the WWE or some other major fed doesn’t snap them up soon because these two might turn into something special down the track. 6: Braun Strowman retained the Intercontinental over James Storm – Another 4 Star banger with the veteran Storm bringing the very best out of Robert Roode. Looking at this it was clear how badly TNA dropped the ball on Storm all those years ago when he and Roode faced off for the title – Storm was poised to break out, he was the wronged face hell bent on revenge and the crowd wanted him to win and then he … didn’t. Now he’s a 42 year old man getting his first proper run in the biggest fed in the USA and whilst it’s unlikely he will ever win the main belts he showed more than enough here to say he’d be a more than decent choice to hold one of the secondary titles. His style of old-school Southern Brawling fit well with big Braun and he had one comeback spot in particular in this match that showed exactly how smart a worker he’s become. 7: Seth Rollins def Robert Roode - It’s funny I only just realised that they had given a lot of their key guys the night off tv at SMACKDOWN this week. The show certainly didn’t suffer for it though as people like Roode, Storm and Young stepped up tot he plate and put on great displays. They might have lost these bouts but those 3 men did enough tonight to cement them in fans minds as legitimate threats to the top tier guys. This match wasn’t near the recent Beer Money vs Shield match in sheer quality but it was another 4 star showing and a really good capper on what turned out to be a pretty good night for the WWE with the worst bout a 3 and a half to 4 star opener between Drew McIntyre and Jeff Hardy which was still pretty entertaining.

NEWS: In Business news - The TV Coverage of the Network in Mexico and the British Isles was extended this week costing the WWE around 12 Million in upgrade fees. It’s been noted that the WWE has been producing excellent quality Merchandise recently and are apparently optimistically producing plenty in time for Wrestlemania. In Canada SMASH wrestling and IMPACT have significant bad blood between them. PAC has committed full-time to AEW. The WWE were said to have had no interest in bringing him back into the fold. WWE held some tryouts for WWEUK in Cardiff Wales recently and it is believed that Sierra Loxton, Drew Parker & Danny Jones have all been offered development contracts. WWE Main Event : Pre-Show – Meet and Greets with fans Lucha House Party def The Boogeyman, Frightmare & Volgar II DoiYoshi def Last of the Hard Men (Bob Sapp & Tony Kozina) Io Shirai def Melanie Cruise Spacestation Mir (Sin Cara & Frank Mir) def The Rabbit Tribe(Paul London & El Mariachi Loco) - WWE Superstars : Grady Cole Center Charlotte North Carolina Pre-show – Meet & Greets with fans Valhalla (Corbin, Dain, Erik & Ivar), Choosers of the Slain and Eric Young, Robert Roode & James Storm defeated local workers

WWE Raw 17: Tacoma Dome, Washington Pre-Show: Spacestation Mir (Sin Cara & Frank Mir), Ultraflight (Ultramantis Black & Sonjay Dutt), Serena Deeb & Zelina Vega, Mickie James & Taya Valkyrie, Ember Moon & Candice LaRae all defeated local workers The Show starts with hype for the Kevin & Sami versus WGTT and Velocity versus Secret Society 1: Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn retained the RAW Tag titles over WGTT by DQ– We were then treated to a top quality title defence by Owens & Zayn who faced off with veterans Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. Everyone in this match knows how to work and they brought their A games here. Kevin & Sami retained after Paul Heyman was caught interfering. AJ Styles and Conor argue about their Fastlane match for the US title. What McGregor lacks in psychology in ring he more than makes up for on the microphone and this really had the crowd buzzing. We get a short backstage confrontation between the Kabuki Warriors and Io Shirai and her partner for tonight Meiko Satomura Now we get some hype for Fastlane's WWE title match between John Cena and Rey Mysterio. Face versus Face build-ups can be difficult as you cant get into arguments as easily but the story here is pretty simple – Rey wants his title back and Cena is happy to show Rey due respect and accept the challenge. 2: Secret Society defeated Velocity – This was for a chance at the title at Fastlane. Everyone came out of the blocks hard and fast here and this match was full of fast paced action. Ali with a 054 Inverted 450 on Alexander fort he win. The 4 Horsewomen speak saying they are the most dominant force in women's wrestling. Four women from NXT come out China Syndrome (Xia Li & Zeda Zhang) and Scarlett Bordeaux & Seleziya Sparx. Li already has history with the Horsewomen having been teamed with 3 of the MMA Horsewomen at Survivor Series last year. Matches are set for later tonight. 3: Meiko Satomura & Io Shirai defeated Kabuki Warriors by DQ – They gave this match a decent amount of time to allow the women to work. They are all really good in the ring and this was really good although still a tiny bit down reaction wise. Asuka blew Green Mist in Io’s face right in front of the refs face for a DQ to end it. They are doing a pretty good job at ramping up the animosity between Io and Asuka prior to their Mania match. 4: Boss & Hug Connection defeated China Syndrome (Xia Li & Zeda Zhang) – A nice solid bout saw Banks lock in the Banks Statement on Zhang for the victory. The two girls with Chinese heritage both have Martial Arts and MMA style backgrounds and looked pretty good as stand-ins for the MMA Horsewomen. That said they are still a work in progress as a Tag team. Backstage Finn Balor cuts a promo about the Undertaker and says he has hand picked the perfect opponent for tonight … the Boogeyman. Finn says he isn’t afraid of the Boogeyman and at Mania he Undertaker will meet his match in the Demon. I cant imagine tonight’s match will be very good as even in his prime the Boogeyman wasn’t very good in the ring but as a warm-up for the Undertaker he actually makes sense. Undisputed Era cut a promo about how they are the future of wrestling. We get an elaborate entrance for Japanese veterans Ultimo Dragon and Jushin Thunder Liger 5: Thunderdragon (Jushin & Ultimo) defeated Last of the Hard Men (Bob Sapp & Tony Kozina) – Somewhere in Japan there are a bunch of people losing it over having Bob Sapp facing off against Dragon & Liger – in the Pacific North West not so much. Sapp and Kozina have teamed up a few times on pre-shows when the WWE has been in the area and have excellent chemistry as a team and Liger and Dragon are still great workers. That said this was a match between 4 guys who add up to almost 200 years old and aren’t that well known here so the crowd wasn’t that into it. In a just world the crowd would be ecstatic to see the two legends get one last run but right now the American public don’t seem to care. 6: Becky & Charlotte defeated Scarlett Sparx (Bordeaux & Seleziya) – Now onto something the crowd was into – Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Seleziya Sparx and Scarlett Bordeaux in an eye candy match. Becky and Charlotte are good workers and this sort of bout probably isn’t required for them but sometimes it’s just about getting your face on TV. Scarlett is gorgeous and Sparx is pretty too so this worked well for them. Dis-Arm-Her on Sparx by Lynch for the win. 7: Finn Balor defeated Boogeyman – This was nowhere near as bad as I feared. Boogeyman made his elaborate entrance and tried to intimidate Finn but as soon as the bell rang Balor took control and beat-down the Boogeyman. After the pin The Undertaker attacks Finn, The O.C make the save – Kane, Big Show & Miz join Taker side brawling with the O.C. – You know it’s Mania season when people like Taker, Kane and Show are broken out of mothballs. This brawl was really entertaining and the crowd loved it. 8: The O.C (Finn, AJ, Gallows, Anderson) vs Taker, Kane, Big Show & Miz ends in a double count-out as they all brawl outside – Any semblance of a proper match went out the window within 10 minutes as an 8 man brawl started up again spilling to the outside of the ring and Security ran in to keep the men apart to middling results as the 8 men threw them awawy like rag dolls and continued to assault each other. The crowd ate this up with a spoon. Cut to backstage where Paul Heyman and Conor McGregor are watching on the monitor – Conor wants to join the fray but Paul cautions him saying that he needs to let AJ tire himself out with the melee against the big men while he sets back and prepares for Fastlane and Mania. Elsewhere backstage Daniel Cormier and Cain Velasquez talk about wanting a match Wrestlemania Weekend. Dolph Ziggler comes out and rants about how he refuses to become RAW’s forgotten man. Steph & Regal come out and tell him that if he wants a match he can have one right now against Daniel Bryan. 9: Daniel Bryan defeated Dolph Ziggler – In an exceptional match Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler fought for just on half an hour in front of enraptured crowd. Ziggler & Bryan meshed really well and this had wonderful pacing and plenty of great spots. Bryan won with the Yes Lock.

Sadly this may well be true.

I'm trying to be realistic with my booking so they are using some old school guys around Mania but my version of Goldberg is the much more viable CM Punk in the Main Event. I agree joshbrady91 the obvious booking would have been for Goldberg to win either the US or Intercontinental title if they wanted him in a big title match at Mania. Vince is enamoured with big jacked up vets like Goldberg and Brock and the WWE is the worse for it. I will say that Paul Heyman's influence on RAW with Seth's faction of Murphy and the AOP has been really entertaining as has been the Fiend.

WWF World Champion = Adrian Adonis WWF Intercontinental Champion = Randy Savage

Another good show

Great show, nice look, terrible Main Event result

Hated to hear about the laptop - WS_X is still locked away on my old beast grrrrr. Looking forward to more Rockverse when it does happen. I'm not familiar with the C-Verse that much (I know Gauge is good) but I loved the storytelling and the presentation - it was superb. Big thumbs up.

Best Of The Super Juniors - Night 12 Card: 1. Matt Sydal vs Taiji Ishimori (Block A). 2. Bandido vs YOH (Block B). 3. BUSHI vs El Desperado (Block B). 4. BxB Hulk vs Eita Kobayashi (Block B). 5. Masato Yoshino vs Shotaro Ashino (returning from ankle injury) (Block A). 6. Ryu Lee vs SHO (Block A). 7. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & Yoshinobu Kanemaru of Suzuki-gun vs Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Hikuleo of Bullet Club. 8. Dos Caras Jr. & Rush vs Hirooki Goto (injured arm) & Tomohiro Ishii of CHAOS. 9. EVIL, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi of Los Ingobernables de Japon vs CIMA & Golden Storm Riders (Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki) of Dragon Force. Best Of The Super Juniors - Night 13 Card: 1. Dragon Kid vs Matt Sydal (Block A). 2. Robbie Eagles vs Ryo Saito (Block B). 3. Shotaro Ashino vs Taiji Ishimori (Block A). 4. Bandido vs Yujiro Takahashi w/Tokyo Latina (Block B). 5. El Desperado vs Zack Sabre Jr. (Block B). 6. Ryusuke Taguchi vs Will Ospreay (Block A). 7. Naruki Doi vs Ryu Lee (Block A). 8. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Taichi w/Miho Abe & Yoshinobu Kanemaru of Suzuki-gun vs Jay White, Bad Luck Fale, Toa Henare & Hikuleo of Bullet Club. 9. Shingo Takagi vs Daisuke Sasaki. 10. Tetsuya Naito & EVIL of Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii of CHAOS.

My bad.

I assume you just extended to 2 hours. Great show.