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Thank you to everybody who has predicted and I'm really enjoying reading the comments that people have made. Though I will resist the urge to respond for fear of accidentally giving anything away haha This is one thing I forgot to clarify in the prologue, Sara won't be wrestling. She's solely interested in behind the scenes. Anyway this is your 24 hour(ish) reminder on predictions, if anybody else wants to get involved before the show goes up tomorrow

AAA Out Of The Darkness – Predictions International Triple Threat: Bonnie Williams vs La Hija de Phoenix vs Piper Hale Comments: Battle of the Wunderkinds: Ashley Keith vs Spider Isako Comments: Devil’s Daughter Street Fight Open Challenge: Devil’s Daughter vs ??? Comments: AAA World Tag Team Championships: ‘Torment & Sorrow’ Maki Yoshifumi & Yu Hashimoto vs Millie Morgan & Chris Camelot vs Ruby Reece & Sara Wells vs Debbie Rose & Kate Lilly Comments: ‘AAAn Original’ Christy Higgins vs ‘The Bully’ Chris Amerson Comments:

Prologue 6: Here we go! The following is a recap of an announcement video AAA to reopen its doors! Stardust is the first name everybody thinks when they think of AAA, but today it wasn’t Anne that was drawing headlines rather her granddaughter Sara. The third generation Stardust revived the AAA YouTube channel and posted a 10-minute-long video. It started with a highlight package of some of AAA’s best ever wrestlers, though she had to carefully edit out anyone under contract with QAW. Once the highlights finished, the video cuts to Sara sat at a desk in what the viewer would presume is her office. They don’t need to know it belongs to her grandmother. “Hello, my name is Sara Stardust and I wanted to come to you today with a grand and over the top announcement video but considering recent events I think a candid conversation would be best. I am very pleased to announce that the Angel Athletic Association is reopening its doors. Now in return for all the entertainment that my Grandmother and her incredibly talented roster of wrestlers have given you over the years, I want you to do one favour for me. Just one. I want you to forget everything you know about us. I am excited to announce that we will be going in a completely different direction to the road we were headed down before the doors shut. Recent events have made it quite clear that I’m not in a position to promise you the biggest of names, but at its core that isn’t what AAA is about. Instead, what I can promise you is an exciting and modern wrestling promotion with a fast-paced style. Which leads me on to my final point. In the 3rd week of January, we will be hosting our return show in Seattle when we present AAA: Out of the Dark and I want any female wrestler on the planet that is watching to consider this an open challenge. If you have a fire to prove how good you are, then come and show us. If you’re pissed off about how we used to run AAA and that you couldn’t get a booking, come prove us wrong. Any woman out there, If you’re talented enough then we want you on the roster. I want to thank you all for listening and if you want to give us a chance in January, then I promise you won’t be disappointed. If you can’t attend live, our event will be available on Public Access Select.”

Prologue 5: From the Ashes A meeting between Sara and Anne Stardust This is a meeting that Sara has been dreading for the last couple of weeks ever since Cherry Bomb and Suzanne Brazzle decided to screw over her grandmother. Anne had been unusually if understandably quiet since the show, but today she wanted to speak to her granddaughter. “I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise, but I’m cancelling the relaunch of AAA. They made the company look like a joke; they stole any momentum we might have created by killing any sense of surprise but most of all they embarrassed us beyond repair. The talent I had agreements with pretty much all pulled out and – yeah it’s just done. I was excited to share this with you and I think you have a mind for the business, so I’m sorry we aren’t going through with it.” Anne explains in a sombre tone, dreading this conversation as much as the younger Stardust. “We can’t let them win.“ Sara practically growls, clearly the sight of her grandmother this upset has gotten to the 21-year-old. “I’m sorry Sara, but we don’t have a booker or-“ “Well I’ll book!” Sara interrupts before freezing. Did she really just say that? “Sara that is a really nice offer but it’s not a simple job. Cherry Bomb has over 5 years of experience booking along with a long wrestling career; and between us we had carefully planned out the future. It’s not something you can just figure out as you go.” As her grandmother talks, Sara considers how best to answer this diplomatically. “With all due respect, she ran our company out of business. Booking was stale and everybody was unhappy. We need to learn from what has worked, we need to draw on what has made QAW a success and what 5 Star are doing in Japan.” As Sara talks her grandmother is intrigued. She has never seen this side of her usually quite quiet granddaughter and simply gives her a nod as if to say keep talking. “Honestly I think we just need to change everything. Do away with the pun event names, scrap the title that became stale and forget all the washed-up stars that don’t want to work with us without Cherry Bomb, there are so many talented women out there that would kill for a chance to wrestle for us. Let’s pick a couple of people that have been here before and just forget about the rest…” This meeting runs long into the night, the 21-year-old maybe a rookie to the business but having spent her life in and around wrestling she has clearly picked up a lot of information and ideas that she is now calling on to impress the older Stardust. “You really want to do this?” Anne asks as Sara quickly nods. “Alright fine, well I’m giving you the keys to the queendom. I now think you’re right about a new direction, I’ve been in this business for 40 years and I’m incredibly set in my ways. I want you to do anything you think will work and I’ll back you completely.” The pair hug and then Sara leaves. If she is going to relaunch a wrestling promotion, there is a hell of a lot of work to be done.

It's unlikely we see Brazzle get a booking after the headache she has caused to the Stardusts, but who knows maybe one day! Glad I have you intrigued, things are going to soon begin to take shape

Prologue 4: Clipping an Angel’s wings The following is an extract from Women's Wrestling Weekly: Rumoured AAA revival already scrapped!? Typically, when something is lost to time, nostalgia kicks in and the lasting memories are often fonder than they should be. For AAA, it’s legacy is still somehow taking a kicking beyond the grave. It seems that Anne Stardust was unable to take a hint if Suzanne Brazzle’s promo last night is to be believed. There are varying reports about how exactly last night went down and journalists who have sources backstage are arguing about the finer details. It is widely agreed that Farrah Hasketh wasn’t aware of any planned relaunch but when Cherry Bomb came to her with the idea of turning it into an angle, she clearly didn’t object to it. Some are reporting that backstage, Hasketh ‘joked’ that anybody who wanted to go and work for AAA was more than welcome to but she couldn’t promise they’d have a spot with her promotion once it yet again closed it’s doors. Anne Stardust has refused any requests to comment which is hardly a surprise and sources close to her have suggested that the idea is now dead in the water. It seems that this will go down as little more than a footnote in the disappointing. Wrestlers who used to work for AAA were also reluctant to comment officially, many are working for other promotions now and hinted that while they may have had interest in returning home at first they would now no longer feel comfortable risking their employment with other companies after this embarrassing display and the far from subtle message from the QAW owner.

Thank you all for the early support on this, it's very encouraging. There are a few more parts to the prologue before we get into some actual wrestling, hope you enjoy

Prologue 3 Nothing to be thankful for Friday 20th November 2019 It’s a Friday evening and as she often is, Anne Stardust is hard at work in her office. After she got a verbal confirmation from Cherry Bomb to book an AAA revival, Stardust has been putting everything in place to get the promotion going. A lot of the former stars are eager to work with their old boss and booker again and she is optimistic that they can pick up right where they left off as the biggest women’s wrestling promotion in the US. Cherry Bomb is set to finish up with her last QAW show tonight before the two can spend December setting up for a revival show in January. Stardust’s work is interrupted by a text from her Granddaughter, yet again urging her to check out the QAW show tonight. Ever since the meeting, Sara has been urging her to see what is working for their competition and mainly to placate her family member, Anne puts the show on. Like near enough every show this year, QAW have put together an incredibly strong card and the crowd are into all of it. The tag titles match was a show stealer as it often is, The Rage defeating Payback Inc but the whole undercard was incredibly solid. The Semi-main event has had people speculating all week, with LMP defending her Shockwave title in an open challenge. As the commentators hype the match, even Stardust can’t help but find herself intrigued as to who the competitor is, but she never could’ve predicted who it would be… The crowd pop massively for Suzanne Brazzle, she may not be a massive star but people love a surprise debut and QAW have built it up well. Stardust watches her TV in silence as it dawns on her what has happened. Now she and Cherry Bomb will need to find a new star. The match pass Anne by and the result is no surprise as Brazzle stands tall, but then she is presented with the belt by (as she is known here) Commissioner Bomb. Brazzle is then handed a microphone. “Last month I was approached by a former boss of mine, they wanted me to be the new star of an AAA relaunch. They begged and pleaded with me to sign, but you know what I did? I phoned up my old friend and one of the sharpest minds in the business, your amazing Commissioner Bomb and I said that if I was going to come back to wrestling then I wanted to do it in the greatest women’s wrestling promotion in the world.” Brazzle cuts a promo that leaves Stardust completely stunned. “So as I stand here as your new Queen’s of American Wrestling Shockwave champion, consider this a rejection of any other contracts on the table because this is the only place I want to be.” The segment then ends with the former AAA star hugging the former AAA booker. Anne Stardust is stunned into complete silence, she glances down at the paper in front of her in disbelief. No star, no booker, no surprise and to her it feels pretty clear, no revival.

Prologue 2: In the shadows August 2019 Anne Stardust does not do failure. At her peak as a wrestler, she was a five-time world champion and arguably the best wrestler in the United States in the 1980s. Once she retired from in-ring competition, she was a very successful promoter and created a company that became synonymous with the peak of women’s wrestling. Even in the last 5 years that she has been away from the wrestling industry, Stardust has been very successful in the world of business and has enjoyed many successful investments in a myriad of companies. Therefore the 62-year-old cannot simply walk away from the business she loves. As soon as the doors closed on AAA for the final time, Stardust moved straight in to reacquire the rights and has been dreaming of re-opening ever since. Now the veteran is sat in her office alongside former AAA booker and current QAW on-screen commissioner Cherry Bomb (left), long time AAA roster member Suzanne Brazzle (centre) and Stardust’s granddaughter Sara Stardust(right). The younger Stardust sat quietly as the other three talk strategy for a potential reboot. The conversation is dominated by the three experienced women, in particular Anne Stardust and CB discussing how a revival would look. Whilst Brazzle was hardly a star in AAA, Stardust clearly recognises that star power will be an issue and strongly hinted she could be the first champion of the relaunched era. Sara Stardust sat quietly as the meeting went long into the night, she may not be saying anything but internally she is screaming. She is watching her grandmother make the same mistakes that the promotion made just a few years ago, they are talking exclusively about older wrestlers as champions and are far more concerned with perceived star power than they are wrestling. Sara is an almost obsessive student of the sport; in 21 years she has consumed more wrestling than most would in a lifetime, and she is desperate to share those ideas. But Sara knows betters. This is just how AAA has always done business and it seems that the next generation isn’t going to be any different.

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Prologue 1: Setting the scene For years there was nothing more synonymous with women’s wrestling than 3 simple letters, AAA. The Angel Athletic Association. As the name suggests, this was a promotion that stood as a bastion for athleticism in women’s wrestling. But there is nothing in this world less forgiving of our mistakes than time and eventually it caught up with the long-standing promotion. Before the company bowed out in the summer of 2017, the last few years were not a fun ride. Founder and long-time owner Anne Stardust sold the company in 2015 and that only seemed to make the decline faster. The promotion grew stale both with its roster of in ring talent and the actual product they were producing. While wrestling has long been shifting towards faster paced action, the promotion made the short-sighted choice to stick with what had worked in the past. The former stars of AAA have all moved on to pastures new and the previous owners have left the business, meaning that in 3 short years, the Angel Athletic Association has largely been lost to time. Though a small core of diehard fans still long for the day that it makes a return. In contrast to AAA, the other major women’s wrestling promotion in the US, Queens of American Wrestling has gone from strength to strength. Farrah Hesketh’s company has stayed away from all the mistakes made by her former promotion, focusing on in ring work and developing young wrestlers that have helped the company grow massively in recent years. The company runs 12 shows a year and is now seen by many as a top 10 promotion in the world. Entering 2020, Women’s Wrestling is in an interesting place. There is so much new and existing talent out there but many feel, in America at least, a competitive spark is missing.

Fleisch you continue to spoil us, thanks for all your hard work. Downloading now, excited to explore!

glad to hear you're doing better Will

excellent news Fleisch, your 92 mod has been absolutely brilliant fun to play so I'm looking forward to more of the same with this one!

Excitement is building, great first Azteca Underground show!

This looks excellent, I've been an off-and-on fan of MLW for a few years and think this is a great time to book them in TEW. As a long time LU fan, I'll be interested to see what you do with Azteca Underground. The one negative in MLW for me has been the lack of a women's division so I'm really pleased to see they're finally addressing that and I'm curious who you will sign up for it. As for Hammerstone, I absolutely love Fatu but recognise he has to drop the belt at some point so I'm intrigued to see if Hammer is who you choose. Excited to see what you guys can do here, will be following along for sure!

<p>I quite like to cool off and reheat feuds. So like I will have most feuds hot over 1-3 months, massive feuds over 3-6 months and the biggest feuds can last up to a year.</p><p> </p><p> But after that I like to reignite those feuds when their paths cross, quite often it's when they're drawn together in a tournament or Grand Prix since that is easy. Other times it might be their relationships with other wrestlers and other feuds that bring them back together. I hate the idea that a match just ends all animosity between two people, so I always highlight that it's still there unless otherwise stated and is ready to kick off at a moment's notice. </p><p> </p><p> Not quite sure that answers your question, but it's just the way I look at it</p>

Great to see you back at it mate, excited to see what you can achieve! I'm very out of the wrestling bubble these days, so I don't really know what's happening on TV. All I will say is push Yuka Sakazaki to the moon

this looks great and is a really enjoyable read, keep up the good work!

you spoil us Fleisch! As someone who likes the idea of booking WWE but then gets a headache just looking at the roster screen, I'm definitely going to be checking this out.

Aja Kong for first world champion definitely <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

glad to see this get a full release, even though I found the beta to be near enough perfect for me Appreciate all your hard work BP!

I've said this so many times, but not being able to unretire people is the most frustrating thing on this game by far. Especially when we had it on 2016!

co-sign this, Japanese wrestling was in a great place in 2013 and this mod does a brilliant job capturing it

Your work is always greatly appreciated Quest!