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1920 Recreating The Wrestling Industry


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So had an idea to start an old day mod. In the old times of wrestling.

 

I will be starting in the year 1920. I am importing most if not all of my stuff from other mods to simplify the creation process. But all the data will be edited to reflect the date they would be at the time of the debut. All promotions are being lowered to nearly no popularity. The big promotions like WWF, WCW, ect will get a bigger boost at the start to help them continue to get bigger but this is going to be all on the user.

 

In terms of TV companies they all will debut their actual debut time.

 

 

Wrestlers will all be dropped to 0 popularity and their skills dropped heavily depending on when they were imported. Personality I most likely wont touch but im not sure yet.

 

I will have to check out the older retired wrestlers and change them back to active workers. Now I will have to improvise on the early timing since im young and not too versed in anything past the attitude era. But importing will help that. Anything before 1970 is going to be hard. To start it off im going to have 2 promotions most likely so the user and the AI can compete for a few years before another promotion opens up.

 

The start wont be high and the workers wont be good. But that will be the point. Wrestling wont get big until the 80s. The point of this will be for wrestling to slowly evolve over decades into something big like the current product.

 

That anyway is what I am hoping to achieve in this mod. Recreation of the wrestling business.

 

I will include more details with questions and when I am further along.

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Well I know the gold dust trio was running I believe in the twenties. It pretty much ran across the country and was the first real promotion. With having several workers under contract and matches being predetermined.Before them it was more or less freelance across the U.S. There was pretty much just matches. No storylines really to follow.
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I did this last year, I entered the wrestlers from 1900 carnival days to about 1960. I then imported the wrestlers from 1960 to 1990 and adjusted the stats to debut. I mostly only imported important workers probably 100 total.

After I ran it a few times from 1900 to 2000, I imported another 100 or so from 1980 to 2010.

 

I simulated the universe about 10 times from 1900 to 2020 in a few different forms. I had adjusted most wrestler down very low in stats just from my personal views that we probably never really seen a national worker in the real world compared to what we see in cverse. Even with stats for the best workers starting in 40's and 50's, I managed to see a few wrestlers top out at 100 for stats and a few that started with 0 pop make it into the 90's.

 

I ran it with injuries high including more custom ones that ended more careers this definitely took a toll where more wrestlers in the db would of helped.

 

The good news the universe ran rather very well even with a low amount of wrestlers.

 

The bad news make sure you have road agents, owners, different skill bookers set up ahead of time.

 

If you set up gimmicks make sure folks skills are set to where they should be when max.

 

Best of luck great way to see interesting alternate universe stories

 

Magnum TA turns heel and beats Hulk Hogan for the championship

 

Great Muta comes over from japan with no pop, in 3 years becomes the face of US wrestling including 29 month reign as champion

 

John Cena debuts, looks like real life will repeat itself but a botched tombstone piledriver puts him on the shelf with broken neck, he retires 9 months later.

 

Harley Races goes on a streak in 1970's and 1980's including a 93 match winning streak, he is later dethroned by Johnny Valentine(who was never in the famous plane crash). Johnny and his son Greg would go on later to be father/son world tag team champions. This also pushed Ric Flair into the undercard instead of marching out in 1983, it would be 1987 before he would win a world title.

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Some things just off the top of my head that might affect how the mod goes:

 

It's true that there were plenty of great shooters in the early days; there were also the classic 'sports entertainers.' A perfect example of this is Wayne Munn, a great looking collegiate football player, who was pushed to a world title by Strangler Ed Lewis, Toots Mondt, and Billy Sandow, and who lost the title in a legitimate doublecross to Stanislaus Zbyszko, who shot on a helpless Munn and walked away with the pin and the title. Other stars who weren't great shooters (though they could and did do well in worked matches) might include Bronco Nagurski, Jim Londos, and Gus Sonnenberg.

 

Prior to the 1940s, you almost never saw a tag match. When they were finally introduced, they were much closer to elimination matches; if I recall correctly, both members of a team had to be pinned in order to win.

 

Television and the NWA both made a huge impact on the business. Together, they led to a short resurgence of interest in wrestling, which had started to become unpopular as fans caught on to the matches being worked. That boost ended in the mid-50s, when the Dumont network, one of the main carriers of national shows, went out of business, while the NWA underwent a congressional investigation of match-fixing and the blackballing of wrestlers.

 

Wrestling began to take off in Japan around this time, first as a sport to entertain American servicemen stationed there after the war, and later as the Japanese themselves began to get interested.

 

By the 50s, traditional tag team wrestling as we know it was becoming widespread, although you would still sometimes see cards advertising the older "Australian Rules" elimination style matches. Tag teams were often brothers or father/son combinations.

 

By the mid-60s, wrestling had begun to look a lot like the traditional southern style programs that you can still see on tapes of Georgia Championship Wrestling and early Memphis. Many local/small promotions had their own television spot on the local station. Since the close of the Dumont network, wrestling wasn't really shown nationwide until Turner began broadcasting GCW shows on WTBS on cable tv.

 

That's what I can recall for now, hope it helps.

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This would be awesome. Good luck!

 

I would love for someone to do a 1980 mod based on the war to settle the score before going all the way back to 1920 though.

 

Theres a 1970 mod being made by Mammoth

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There was an "organic" mod that was kind of like this but it was all game generated workers. It started in the 1900's with two brothers and their "travelling carnival" and then other regions would pop up but all of the workers were completely game generated. Does anyone remember that?

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