Star Building

[jjones1087]

Does anyone else just want to punch their own face when you get a star on a hell of a roll. Book him against one more can before he has his title match. Then watch as he gets busted open in the first round, and the referee stops it?

 

RAWR!

 

Really nothing new there, but I just had Benny Denare on a 11 match win streak, he finally got to where I wanted him before a title match and lost to someone I can't even remember. Really pissed me off lol, went on and lost his title match to Fumiaki Hayashi, who although is really good, didn't seem as good as I had Benny. I blame the stoppage.

[Blackman]

Too bad. But that's the risk of the game.

 

Honestly, I don't really care when this happens. Things don't always work out the way you want to in life.

 

And frankly, building up a title match with 'the one you can't remember', on the ground that he beat the top contender, is not so bad either.

 

 

Unless of course he was a complete nobody who lost a fight in his previous match, in which you were pretty stupid to book Benny against him.

[TheKenwyne]

I agree with Blackman. The random element is what makes the game so much fun. You can put your untested street fighter with a big name into the ring with a world class kickboxer, and watch as said street fighter gets battered for 4 and a half rounds before he lands one hail mary punch and the fight ends. The secret to being a good booker is your ability to roll with such freakish happenings. I'm using a real situation as an example here, with the BCF when Wislon Franklyn KO'd Rav Kapur. Frankyln went on to win the heavyweight title, and despite my company being high level national, to low level national fighters with a grudge to settle sold as a 'Great main event.' Said main event ended as the first one did, with one big Franklyn punch and me needing a new influx of talent into my heavyweight division.

 

This is shocking, since Kapur is usually one of the guys who can beat Fezzik when he matures, and Franklyn, though entertaining, was never a force in any of my games until this one. Still, it means I have to book creatively and live with this new star. It's like getting someone accidently over in TEW, roll with it and make them a headline act.

[jjones1087]

Oh I agree completely. I mean yeah I'm upset that his momentum got crushed like a cornflake under ones shoe.. But I also agree that it was really nice to see something I wasn't expecting. Which indeed makes this game awesome. I was just upset that I had gotten so far with him, just to watch Bunrakuken Abe knock him out..

[brashleyholland]

Does anyone else just want to punch their own face when you get a star on a hell of a roll. Book him against one more can before he has his title match. Then watch as he gets busted open in the first round, and the referee stops it?

 

RAWR!

 

Really nothing new there, but I just had Benny Denare on a 11 match win streak, he finally got to where I wanted him before a title match and lost to someone I can't even remember. Really pissed me off lol, went on and lost his title match to Fumiaki Hayashi, who although is really good, didn't seem as good as I had Benny. I blame the stoppage.

 

I guess the lesson here is don't book a top contender against a can right before you want him to challange for a title.

 

Treat every fight your top contenders are in as a title eliminator - if they are on a streak, only book them in fights where the winner (no matter who it is) can go in against the champ.

[DreamGoddessLindsey]

I've always thought cut stoppages were complete BS in real life. Fedor's one loss came from a controversial and stupid cut stoppage. It's just dumb, really. Unless you're bleeding like Ric Flair in the 80s, you should be taken out of a fight.

[samuricex]

It really depends on the cut. Sometimes it's in a bad place, sometimes it's just too big and could lead to real problems if the fighter was allowed to continue.

[Makhai]

I guess the lesson here is don't book a top contender against a can right before you want him to challenge for a title.

 

Treat every fight your top contenders are in as a title eliminator - if they are on a streak, only book them in fights where the winner (no matter who it is) can go in against the champ.

 

This is good advice on the hole, but so is Preparation H(zing!)

 

Ok, Austin Powers joke aside if your only booking stream of contender-ship fights you'll quickly find yourself with a ton of .500 fighters and a host of "On a Losing Streak" guys. The trick is to make sure you get the young fighters bouts with cans to keep there momentum heading in the right direction, because even the greatest talents will wash out if their momentum isn't closely groomed, also keep an eye on if, and where they get picked up to train, those are the biggest factors to development. If a fighter isn't getting trained by a gym they'll never develop as quickly as someone who is, and they'll quickly get left behind.

 

A good matchmaker is a patient matchmaker. However patient, not timid, 11 fight win streaks dude, get that guy a title shot! what does he need to do win a triple threat match or something?

[brashleyholland]

I've always thought cut stoppages were complete BS in real life. Fedor's one loss came from a controversial and stupid cut stoppage. It's just dumb, really. Unless you're bleeding like Ric Flair in the 80s, you should be taken out of a fight.

 

Dumb? BS? How selfish are you?

 

1) If you get blood in your eye, you cannot see. Thats just great for 'Ric Flair in the 80's' because he's playfighting. If you cannot see, you cannot defend yourself. As much as you want to carry on at the time (because you cant feel or see it), in retrospect it's for your own saftey.

 

2) If your face is cut and you take repeated blows to the skin around the cut, it tears like wet cloth. I have no feeling in the skin on the point of my jaw due to a couple of bad cuts. I also have a lovely split in my eyebrow and across the bridge of my nose. The chin and nose occured in training but the brow was from a fight, which wasn't stopped because I could still see and had it packed with vasaline. Unfortunatelly a tiny cut ended up being torn open as I was hit again in the next round.

 

3) Mats, rings, cages etc aren't disinfected after each fight. If you have an exposed cut on your face and end up having it dragged all over a dirty, sweaty surface, you run the risk of serious infection.

 

4) In the grand scheme of things, very few fights are properly regulated. HIV, AIDS, Hep...personally, I don't want somebody bleeding all over me (especially if I'm cut myself) to add to the risk.

 

To say that cut stoppages are 'dumb' or 'BS'...I don't know what to say to you. It's an entirely selfish point of view usualy held by people who've never had to get parts of their face sewn back together or scrape dirty vasaline out of a cut with a q-tip.

 

How about if someone dislocates a shoulder, or blows their knee out? How about flash knock outs? Are they 'dumb' too? Sorry If I sound like I'm having a go, but as someone who has been on the wrong end of the situation, I find it offensive when people dismiss fighter safey in favour of their own personal entertainment.

[Blackman]

You can do it like the AI from several months ago. They managed to have Arai remain undefeated and surpassing Fezzik in the rankings. After 7 years in the game, they still didn't face each other. They were building towards the greatest main event of all time (30-0 vs 27-0 or somethung). Until Arai got beaten by a midcard fighter and t'was all over.