Dragonmack Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Well, looks like Jaded beat me to the punch a little, but hopefully mine will be different enough from his watcher diary to not be a wasted effort. This is a way for me, and others, to see how the new game develops as I get used to the mechanics of the new game and a way for me to remain involved on the forums until I am ready to do my next regular diary. So without further ado, here is my 2010 watchers' diary. JANUARY 2010 North America USA SWF - International http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/SWF.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: Signed Roger Cage from NYCW Monthly Event: SWF held their January PPV ‘When Hell Freezes Over’ at the Mississippi Bowl in the South East US with a live attendance of 44,311 and a reported buyrate of 3.65. The main event was Eric Eisen successfully defending his title in a fatal four way against Brandon James, Joe Sexy and Steve Frehley. Also, the Russian Powerhouse Marat Khoklov made a serious statement in defeating Rich Money but the match of the night had to be Lobster Warrior surviving the assault of the monster Vengeance to pull out a come from behind victory. Event Rating: B Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: B+ General News: Signed a PPV Deal with Premier UK -TV for PPV coverage in England TCW- National http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/TCW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: TCW held Malice in Wonderland before a sold out audience of 10, 000 in the San Juan Cultural Center in Puerto Rico this month, drawing a 1.59 buyrate. It was main evented by the successful TCW World title defense by Rocky Golden against Wolf Hawkins. However, the match of the night belonged to The Freedom Alliance tag team of Joey Minnesota and Ricky Dale Johnson, who unpended the heel duo of Tommy Cornell and Troy Tornado Event Rating: B Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: A General News : none USPW - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/USPW_alt.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: USPW held its Stars, Stripes and Slams PPV at the Friedman Building in the Mid South region with an audience of 9903 and a PPV buyrate of 0.58. It was a successful show main evented by Enygma retaining his USPW World title against former champion Bruce the Giant. However the match of the night went to the victory of the monster Tyson Baine over James Justice. Event Rating: B- Main Event Rating: B- Match of the Night Rating: B General News: Signed a PPV deal with American Option. AAA- Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/AAA.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: AAA Sold out the 2000 seat Washington State Gynmnasium for their monthly event AAA Pretty Amazing. A solid but not spectacular show was headlined by the successful Suzanne Brazzle Femme Fatale title defense against Nadia Snow, which was also rated the best match of the night. Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News: none CZCW - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/CZCW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: Added charismatic high flyer James ‘Mainstream’ Hernandez, who also works in FCW. Monthly Event: CZCW Revolution 2010 was held in the 2000 seat Grissom Auditorium in the southwest and the sold out audience saw a very good show headlined by the Uneasy Alliance of Donnie J and James Prudence beating the team of Remmy Skye and Mikey James in what was clearly the match of the night. Event Rating: C Main Event Rating: C+ Match of the Night Rating: C+ General News: none PSW - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/PSW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: PSW a Plea for Insanity was held at the sold out Ministry in the Tri-State region before a crowd of 1000 who saw an average show headlined by Frankie Future successfully defending the PSW Championship against Tank Bradley. Match of the night was the semi main event tag team battle of Johnnie Martin and Grandmaster Phunk beating the team of Alex Braun and Teddy Powell Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D Match of the Night Rating: C- General News : none NYCW- Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/NYCW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: Signed Mikey James, who also competes in CZCW and lost Roger Cage to SWF Monthly Event: Rush Hour was held in the 1000 seat Ministry and was a good show headlined by Black Hat Bailey beating Steve Flash to retain the NYCW Empire Championship Event Rating: C- Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: C General News: FCW - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/FCW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: Held in the 1000 seat Gymnasium Aguada in Puerto Rico, FCW FREEDOM Fighters was an excellent show with a fantastic main event of PRP defending the FCW Puerto Rican title against the Handsome Stranger. Event Rating: C+ Main Event Rating: B- Match of the Night Rating: B- General News: none MAW- Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/MAW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: The 5th Rip Chord Invitational , held in the 300 seat Stanley Hall, saw Citizen X capture the RCI Tournament title by defeating the American Patriot in the finals in what was the best match of the night on a solid show. Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News: none RIPW - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/RIPW_alt.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: RIPW Shiny Glory was held in the 300 seat Biker’s Paradise, who witnessed an average show headlined by Lassana Makutsi defending his RIPW Championship against Kentucky Bill in the match of the night. Event Rating: E Main Event Rating: E+ Match of the Night Rating: E+ General News: none BSC - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/BSC.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: BSC held BSC Global Warfare at the 300 seat Piper Casino and put on a decent effort with Tamara McFly retaining her BSC Queen of the Ring title against Jen Neptune in the main event and best match of the night. Event Rating: D- Main Event Rating: D- Match of the Night Rating: D- General News: none Canada NOTBPW - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/NOTBPW_alt1.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: NOTBPW Big City Brawl was held at the 15,000 seat Canadian Air Centre in Ontario Canada who witnessed a fantastic show as Steve DeColt retained the NOTBPW Canadian title against Jeremy Stone. But as good as that match was, it was overshadowed by another fantastic battle between Dan Stone Jr and Johnny Bloodstone in which Dan triumphed. PPV buyrate was estimated at 0.36 Event Rating: A Main Event Rating: A Match of the Night Rating: A* General News: none CGC - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/CGC.jpg Title Changes: Shooter Sean Deeley regains the CGC Canadian Championship from Joey Poison Roster Moves: Added 4C’s high flying and talented Jacob Jett. Monthly Event: CGC Elimination VIII was held at the 15,000 seat Kamloops Royal Athletic Park in Britsh Columbia Canada and witnessed an excellent show headlined by the 6 man tag battle of the Elite with Ryan Powell defeating the 3 DeColt brothers Alex, Jack and Ricky in the match of the night. PPV numbers came in at 0.31 Event Rating: B Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: B General News: none 4C- - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/4C.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 4C Cage Rage was in the 1000 seat Twin Elm Park in Ontario Canada and had a solid show with Frankie Dee retaining the 4C Championship against Jacob Jett in the main event and match of the night. Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News: none ACPW - Local http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/ACPW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 43 people in New Brunswick Hall in Maritimes Region of Canada were witness to an exciting night of action as ACPW All Out Assault was held. Main Event and the clear match of the night was El Diablo successfully defending the ACPW All Junior title against Jason Van Pelt Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D+ Match of the Night Rating: D+ General News: none Mexico SOTBPW - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/SOTBPW.jpg Title Changes: Los Sickness won the Campones de Parejas titles for the 4th time in defeating Velocidad and El Rebelde Loco. Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 2000 people in the Tijuana National Arena witnessed an excellent Batalla de las Mascaras show headlined by the show stealing triple threat title defense where Campeon de Mundo Champion Champagne Lover retained the title against El Fuerza and Tijuana Vampire. Event Rating: B- Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: B General News: none OLLIE- Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/OLLIE.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: OLLIE Alarma Roja was held in the 2000 seat Guadalajara Arena in West Central Mexico and main evented by a good 6 Man tag of Swarm I , Rafael Ruiz and Extraordinario Jr overcoming the trio of El Leon, Phoenix I and Campeon Jr. Match of the Night however , was the successful title defense by Nicolas Lopez as he defended his Campeon de Universal title against Marcos Flores. Event Rating: C+ Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: B General News: none MPWF- Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/MPWF.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: MPWF held it’s Guerra Extrema show in the 2000 seat National Arena in Tijuana and was main evented by Mayan Idol retaining his Campeon de Herencia de Mundo title against former champion Genio Verde. Match of the night however belonged to Soul Taker defeating Spanish Superfly. Event Rating: C+ Main Event Rating: C+ Match of the Night Rating: B- General News: none UK 21CW - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/21CW.jpg Title Changes: Jay B def Harry Wilson for the 21CW UK title. Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 21CW: Steel Cage Challenge was held in the 1000 seat Aston University Sports Hall in the Midlands. Main event was the tag team match which saw Stevie Stoat and Johnathan Faust def the pairing of Buff Martinez and Leo Price. Match of the night was the 21CW World Championship title def of Joss Thompson successfully fending off the challenge of Kevin Jones. Event Rating: C Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: C+ General News: none ROF - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/ROF.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: ROF announced the release of Nigel Svennson, Gob Narfi, Rhys Vali, Jon Micheal Sharp and Martin Heath. The cuts were announced as a necessary move to lower costs for the financially strapped promotion. Monthly Event: 135 people in Norman Blue Athletic Center in the midlands witnessed a good ROF Fight On card headlined by ROF Champion Merle O’Curle retaining his belt against Billy Robinson in the best match of the night. Event Rating: C Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: C+ General News: none MOSC - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/MOSC.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 127 people at Phoenix Nights in Northern UK witnessed MOSC Clash of the Tartans, main evented by MOSC UK Champion Harley Neill retaining his title against The Bruiser in the match of the night. Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News: none Europe UEW - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/UEW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: UEW added big Dutchman Scott Van Den Berg and VWA’s veteran Swede Griffon. Monthly Event: The 300 seat Pireas Sports Hall in the Mediterranean was home to UEW’s We Die Young. An excellent show that was headlined by UEW World Champion Joey Beauchamp beating Stig Svennson in the main event. Event Rating: C- Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: C General News: EWA - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/EWA.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 300 seat Bremen Hall in Central Europe saw EWA European Union Bash, main evented by EWA Universal Champion Byron defeating Poppa Punisher to retain his title in a decent show. Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D Match of the Night Rating: D General News: none VWA - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/VWA_alt.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 155 people in the Bremen Hall saw VWA Ultimate Force, headlined by Sebastian Coller retaining his VWA European title against Walker Van Cleer in the match of the night. Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News : none Japan BHOTWG- National http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/BHOTWG.jpg Title Changes: none, not on tour Roster Moves: Added Thunder Hike to be a color Commentator Monthly Event: none not on tour Event Rating: Main Event Rating: Match of the Night Rating: General News: none PGHW- Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/PGHW.jpg Title Changes: none, not on tour. Roster Moves: PGHW called up Stone Yoshikawa, Torch Neyagawa , Eien Miyamoto and Totoya Munikata from development , but then shockingly released Stone and Torch a few days later. The biggest news though was the release of former Historical and Tag Champion Bryan Holmes, for unexplained reasons. Although rumors do exist of bitter feelings between Holmes and PGHW owner Sadaharu Jimbo. Monthly Event: none, not on tour. Event Rating: Main Event Rating: Match of the Night Rating: General News : none GCG - Cult http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/GCG.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: Added Hell Monkey from WLW Monthly Event: GCG Held the montly event of their Golden Tour, GCG Black Ranks Swell , in front of 1860 people at the Hiroshima Sports Park in the Chugoku Region. Main event saw the tag team of Pistol Pete Hall and Jimmy Cox def the team of Toshiharu Hyobanshi and Namboku Makuda but match of the night belonged to Haruki Kudo def Shingen Miyazaki in an excellent show. Event Rating: B Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: B+ General News; Risen to Cult status. WLW - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/WLW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: The big event of WLW’s Radioactive Tour this month was WLW Fame & Fortune, held at the 1000 seat Ibaraki Community Hall. This excellent show was headlined by the dual main event of Emerald Angel defeating The Great Hisato and Magnum Kobe retaining his WLW Universal title against Koki Ishibashi. Event Rating: B- Main Event Rating: B Match of the Night Rating: B General News: none 5SSW - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/5SSW.jpg Title Changes: The Rainbow Girls ( Kiko Sakakibara & Otsune Tsumura ) won the 5SSW Tag titles for a 2nd time after defeating The Serpents ( Dragon Assassin & Dragon Power ) Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: The 5SSW Ragged Glory tour held its main show , 5SSW Tornado of Spirit, in front of 752 people at the Doshisha Athletic Center in the Kinki region. Main event of a solid show was Yuma Maruya retaining the 5SSW World title against Megumi Nakajima. Event Rating: C- Main Event Rating: C- Match of the Night Rating: C- General News: Rose to Regional Size. WEXXV - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/WEXXV.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: WEXXV Payback Tour’s main show was WEXXV A Great Defense at the 300 seat Matsumoto Hall in the Tohoku region. Main event and match of the night was Ryu Kajahara retaining the WEXXV Warrior’s Heart title against Hiroshi Morisue. Event Rating:C- Main Event Rating: C Match of the Night Rating: C General News: none Hinote Dojo - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/HINOTE.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: Hinote Dojo Championship Excel was held at the 300 seat Hall of Nagahama in the Kinki region and was main evented by MYSTIC Dragon defending the All Japan title against Amane Shunsen. Match of the night belonged to Burning EXILE defeating Jin Miyamoto Event Rating: D+ Main Event Rating: D+ Match of the Night Rating: C+ General News: none SAISHO - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/SAISHO.jpg Title Changes: both main and tag titles vacated when PGHW did call ups at end of month Roster Moves: Added GCG’s Shingen Miyazaki on a ppa deal. Monthly Event: 300 seat Masumoto Hall in the Tohoku Region were witness to the Belief Halted event , main evented by Stone Yoshikawa defending the SAISHO Destiny title against Torajiro Sekozawa. Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D Match of the Night Rating: D General News: none Australia & NZ RAW - Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/RAW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 2000 seat JDM Arena in Eastern Australia was home to The Stars of RAW 11 , main evented by Luke Steele successfully defending the RAW Television title against Captain Wrestling II. Match of the night belonged to Rahmel Goode’s victory over Echo. Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D Match of the Night Rating: D+ General News: APW- Regional http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/APW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: added DIW’s Warmonger to the roster on a ppa deal. Monthly Event: APW’s Ozfest 2010 was held in the 1000 seat Fuster Hall in Eastern Australia. Main event and Match of the night was Swoop McCarthy defending his APW Commonwealth title against Lanny Williams. Event Rating: C Main Event Rating: C+ Match of the Night Rating: C+ General News: none ZEN - Small http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/ZEN.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: ZEN’s Way of the Dreamer was witnessed by 125 people at Marv’s Sports Central in Eastern Australia region. Match of the night and main event was Halloween Knight retaining the ZEN Master title against Lone Shark. Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D+ Match of the Night Rating: D+ General News: none DIW - Local http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/Dragonmack/DIW.jpg Title Changes: none Roster Moves: none Monthly Event: 205 people at Marv’s Sports Central witnessed DIW Proving Grounds, headlined by The Comedian def Mayhem Mulhoney to retain the DIW Championship title. Event Rating: D Main Event Rating: D Match of the Night Rating: D General News: none Wrestling News Items for January 2010: none. Quiet month outside the promotions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaded Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Cool stuff - I think it'll be REALLY interesting to see how the two different games play out. Stone Jr vs Bloodstone sounds awesome, I'd imagine that NOTBPW will churn out a LOT of A/A* matches with their talent at the top of the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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