ESE: Eternal suffering or just a quick painful crash?

Zergon · November 8, 2015

April 2013

Monday Week 4

2 vs. 2

Remmy Skye & Donnie J vs. Acid II & Bradley Blaze

WINNERS: Remmy Skye & Donnie J by pinfall in 5:09 D

1 vs. 1

Grandmaster Phunk vs. Rockin´ Ryan Turner

WINNER: Grandmaster Phunk by pinfall in 4:46 D+

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ESE POWER

Irvine Hall (Mid South)

Attendance: 3579

2 vs. 2

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Going Coastal (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

The show starts with tag team action between Going Coastal and Coulrophobia. The match starts slow mainly thanks to usual stalling and shenanigan from Coulrophobia but soon picks up the phase when Going Coastal gets into driving seat. At the end, Love Machine picks the win for his team with LAX Departure on Hellech sealing the deal.

WINNERS: Going Coastal by pinfall in 7:52 D-

ANGLE:

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Toma, Black and Ring Generals have some words to Five Star, mainly declaring that they will not only beat them tonight but also in ESE Drop The Bomb. While there was no words changed between teammates, it was quite clear that there was some tension between Toma and Black during this one. D

1 vs. 1

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Jacob Jett vs. Jesus Chavez

Jett tried to take this one up to the air but unsurprisingly, Chavez didn´t want to see any of that and tried to keep Jett grounded as much as possible. While Chavez didn´t fully succeed on his attempts to keep Jett down, he still did enough to get a hard fought win when he managed to hit Jett with The 187 Neckbreaker.

WINNER: Jesus Chavez by pinfall in 5:13 D-

ANGLE:

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Russell again makes a challenge to anyone in the locker room to face him so that he can once again show how dominant he really is. D

1 vs. 1

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Stan Manna vs. Billy Russell

Stan Manna answered the call this time around but just likes earlier challengers, he found Russell to be tough nut to crack and ended up staring the arena lights after Grounded Knee Flurry.

WINNER: Billy Russell by pinfall in 5:09 D+

2 vs. 2

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The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. The Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo)

These two teams out-up a good old fashion brawl (with Galindo throwing some top rope moves to the mix) with Good Ol´ Boys having the advantage early on thanks to their punches backing a bit more power. However, at the end, Latino Kings changed tactics a bit and managed to outsmart their dim-witted opponents and Velazquez got the pin on Langton after Street Cutter while Galindo kept Wooton busy elsewhere.

WINNERS: The Latino Kings by pinfall in 8:15 D+

ANGLE:

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The Five Stars cut a promo before the big eight man match, declaring once again that they are superior compered to anyone else in ESE and they are going to once again prove that not only today but also in ESE Drop The Bomb. C

4 vs. 4

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Greg Black & Kid Toma & The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. Five Stars (Jack Griffith & Hell´s Bouncer & Matthew Keith & Steven Parker) /w. Carl Batch

This was a close match and with the exception of Toma (who didn´t really pay attention to his teammates and looked to fight by himself for most of the time) both teams managed to work together well making it hard to get any pins without someone from the other team coming to stop the count. At the end, despite Toma´s unwillingness to back down or co-operate with his allies the faces got the win and Toma himself got the final pinfall after hitting Parker with Long Range Headbutt while Black and Generals kept other Five Stars members from interfering.

WINNERS: Greg Black & Kid Toma & The Ring Generals by pinfall in 12:05 C

Show Rating: D+

TV Rating: 1.22

Comments: Not the greatest of the shows with only main event delivering but that´s how TV shows usually go I guess, especially since I try to avoid giving too many main eventer vs. main eventer matches on TV (I feel it´s usually better to safe those for PPV and possible future feuds). In the end, considering that I did leave quite many main eventers out from the main show, I think that the rating was ok and to be honest, I didn´t really expect much better ratings with those particular undercard matches. As for the booking, the main event was mainly there to forward two feuds on one match plus I knew that would be a decent match too so it was a logical pick for the main event, even if it admirably did weaken the rest of the card with my go-to midcard guys (Future Is Here and Ring Generals) being tied there. Toma got the pin there as he´s the one challenging Griffith for the belt and getting the win for his team hopefully continues to build Toma up as creditable challenger. Keeping Latino Kings and Flying Daredevils strong was also on the agenda for this card and I did that by having Going Coastal and Rudy & Hector going over other tag teams. Ideally I would have liked Going Coastal going over someone´s a bit stronger than Coulrophobia but I just didn´t have any other heel teams that they could go over with Future Is Here and Latino Kings being a) tied elsewhere and b) I want to keep those two teams strong as well so Coulrophobia was the best (and only) team available and I felt that going over some random pairing (which options basically were Chavez plus either Bradley or Acid II) wouldn´t have helped either. I do plan to sign three new guys after the next PPV and two of those three will form another heel tag team to address this particular hole on my roster, but that´s for next month. Russell, again, was kept strong by having him go yet another midcard/jobber face while Chavez against Jett was there to forward the feud between their groups since I didn´t have time for them to do any angles. Chavez got the win because of popularity difference and because he´s basically the muscle of Latino Kings and thus need to get occasional wins in order to actually look like semi-useful for his role. Oh, and it also tied the matches to 1-1 after Love Machine beat Galindo in the last show. The dark matches were there to a) give little bit momentum to my main eventers who weren´t on the main show and b) to train the younger, less popular guys. As for other news (or in other words, uups I made a mistake… again) I recently included the guys picked as possible signings from top 3 companies to my shortlist and while doing that I noticed that James Prudence and Joshua Taylor were already re-signed (I rarely see who´s resigned so I didn´t know by the time I made the list) in February and that Chance Fortune was actually resigned as well this week. Now the first two were before I made the list so there weren´t much that I could do about that and I wouldn´t had excluded them from the list even if I knew but missing Fortune was a bit annoying although I don´t know if I could compete with TCW as they wanted to keep him. Still, hopefully putting the guys on the shortlist will mean that I won´t miss any other chances to sign one of them, as while I don´t want to sign too many guys from the big three, 2 or 3 guys would be nice to have and Fortune is certainly someone who I both could see leaving TCW for a smaller company were he would get a bigger role and who I think could have done well in ESE.

Zergon · November 10, 2015

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Predictions:

2 vs. 2 for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

2 vs. 2

The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

2 vs. 2

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk

1 vs. 1

???? vs. Billy Russell

1 vs. 1

Greg Black vs. Hell´s Bouncer

1 vs. 1 for the King of the Network title

Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith

NOTE: Russell´s opponent is someone from the active roster.

Roster Questions (further explanation below the picks):

1) On the face jobber, I really just looking for a singles guy who will do the jobs, basically similar to Bradley Blaze on the heel side. Which one of the following guys should get that spot?

Jeremie Courtney

Mercutio Sleep

Outlaw Wes Revell

Quentin Queen

Remmy Honeyman

Roger Monteiro

1

2

3

4

5

6

2) I also want to add another heel tag team in order to make the number of face and heel teams as four each. This team would basically be number three on the heel team pecking order and fill a similar role than what Good Ol´ Boys are doing on the face side. Which team should get this role?

Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

1

2

3

4

5

Now that first two months are done, I have had bit of time to look at my roster and I feel that I need to add few guys in it, in order to give some more variance. I don´t plan to add any big names right now but a face singles jobber and lower midcard heel tag team are the two roster spots that I want to fill right now. You know how this will go by now but I put quick explanation just in case there´s some newer readers who weren´t here for the initial roster pick-up. Put the listed guys on order from first to last. First will get maximum points (6 on the first one and 5 on second poll), second will get one point less and so on with the last pick getting one point. The points are counted together and the one with highest amount of points will be added to the roster. Below is also a more explanation of why I picked who I did for this list and what you could expect from them if they would be chosen.

1) On the face jobber, I really just looking for a singles guy who will do the jobs, basically similar to Bradley Blaze on the heel side. Which one of the following guys should get that spot?

a) Jeremie Courtney

b) Mercutio Sleep

c) Outlaw Wes Revell

d) Quentin Queen

e) Remmy Honeyman

f) Roger Monteiro

I followed the same logic that I had when picking my heel jobber (that ended up being Bradley Blaze), which might explain why half of these guys were on that poll as well. Anyway, this pick is between young unemployed Americans who don´t have any (or much) popularity. The logic is that while guy chosen here has very slim chance to ever getting past jobber role, I do hope that he can still benefit his time with me via skill increase and hopefully he will also gain bit popularity on their stay. In-ring or other skills weren´t really mattering here as I don´t expect any of these guys to produce ratings, they will be there just to give some momentum to whoever is going over them. Whoever is signed will get a year p.p.a deal.

2) I also want to add another heel tag team in order to make the number of face and heel teams as four each. This team would basically be number three on the heel team pecking order and fill a similar role than what Good Ol´ Boys are doing on the face side. Which team should get this role?

a) Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

b) The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

c) Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

d) Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

e) Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

As you can see from the choices, I´m not exactly looking a top level team but more of a team who could fill a role of a lower midcard team, someone´s who are somewhat creditable threat and who likely would get occasional title challenge as well but who won´t really be considered as a top team. The first three choices are all quite similar in the way that both members of those teams are still on unknown popularity level and all three teams seem to have one guy that is strictly better than the other one. Now, again, I have fog of war on so I have limited info but it certainly looks that way and what I have seen on these guys in other diaries also support that assumption. I don´t mind one of them being better than the other, though, In fact, it might be a good thing as once Parker and Keith are considered as main eventers, I do need someone´s to fill those vacated midcard spots and Slick, Collier or Mobstar might well be the answer to fill one of those holes (thought they would have to compete at least with Acid II and whoever else I would consider on those spots). Rich And Famous I view as pretty much the same way as Good Ol´ Boys, decent midcard team that isn´t likely to get me great ratings but aren´t likely to fail me badly either. They would be more well-known and thus wouldn´t need much build-up unlike the first three, which wouldn´t be a bad thing considering how many of the midcard and lower guys I´m trying to build-up already. Old School Principals are more of a veteran team and they both on time decline so they have limited time even on this role. That said, I view them more creditable team than Rich And Famous in terms of name value and at least assume that they would be the best choice in term of (current) in-ring ratings. Any of these guys would be hired on a p.p.a deal, as while I do have the money right now, I´m still losing popularity with my shows and that makes me a bit wary on signing too many written contracts in case I drop back to regional.

BHK1978 · November 12, 2015

Predictions:

2 vs. 2 for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

I highly doubt FIS would lose the titles this quickly.

2 vs. 2

The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

The Good Ol' Boys get the win here mainly because Coulrophobia are your job squad tag team right now. Therefore, another loss would not hurt them because they have had so many already.

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

No real reason here other than Jacob and Frankie are lower on the card.

2 vs. 2

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk

Okay well this is interesting in that you usually do not have a named team losing to a two guys who are just thrown together. However, when one of those guys is Phunk I tend to think his team will probably win. Now watch me be wrong...

1 vs. 1

???? vs. Billy Russell

1 vs. 1

Greg Black vs. Hell´s Bouncer

Black gets his revenge.

1 vs. 1 for the King of the Network title

Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith

1) On the face jobber, I really just looking for a singles guy who will do the jobs, basically similar to Bradley Blaze on the heel side. Which one of the following guys should get that spot?

1. Roger Monteiro

2. Jeremie Courtney

3. Quentin Queen

4. Mercutio Sleep

5. Outlaw Wes Revell

6. Remmy Honeyman

For some reason I have a hard time seeing Remmy or Mercutio as fan favorites and I dislike Revell's render so that is why they ranked so low on my list. I am a fan of Roger and he always seems to end up on my roster during personal games so that is why I chose him first. Courtney and Queen are interchangeable for me but I am a fan of MAW (It is my second favorite C-Verse promotion) so I ranked him higher.

I will caution you about one thing though, Courtney seems to pick up popularity in the Mid Atlantic region pretty quickly because of MAW (Or he has in my games) so he may end up moving up your card even if that is not your intention.

2) I also want to add another heel tag team in order to make the number of face and heel teams as four each. This team would basically be number three on the heel team pecking order and fill a similar role than what Good Ol´ Boys are doing on the face side. Which team should get this role?

1. Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

2. Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

3. The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

4. Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

5. Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

Tough call here as I like all of my top three teams and would not mind any of them making the official roster. I am not a fan of my bottom two teams strictly because depending on what renders you are going to use for them...well the default ones are not good.

DAVEFAN95 · November 12, 2015

Predictions:

2 vs. 2 for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

Although I prefer The Ring Generals I can't see them beating Keith and Parker

2 vs. 2

The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

Coulrophobia are tag team jobbers

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

Latino Kings seem stronger

2 vs. 2

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk

Acid is there to take the fall

1 vs. 1

???? vs. Billy Russell

Billy is high enough on the totem pole to suggest that no matter who is the mystery man, he should still come away with the W

1 vs. 1

Greg Black vs. Hell´s Bouncer

Personal Preference here, never was a huge Hell's Bouncer fan

1 vs. 1 for the King of the Network title

Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith

Jack is all-round more talented

1. Quentin Queen

2. Mercutio Sleep

3. Remmy Honeyman

4. Outlaw Wes Revell

5. Roger Monteiro

6. Jeremie Courtney

Although Remmy would me my pick here, you've already used him in your other ESE diary so I decided to go with someone new. Queen is the best option of both not being very common in diary's and being an average to decent talent, that can develop I also think his promo skills are average which is better than Sleep's. Sleep is another rare commodity in diary's so again he's high on the list, if I remember correctly he's also a solid competitor as well so that helps but he is a bit bland. Remmy I've mentioned, Revell is just somebody I don't expect to be useful, he doesn't have the upside of the three above him. Although Monteiro isn't a bad choice, I do think Voeltz' diary has proven that he can't progress to something more than a jobber. While Courtney is just somebody I don't like personally

1. Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

2. Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

3. The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

4. Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

5. Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

I'm going to have to agree with BHK on this one. Rich and Famous are the best option here. They could move up to your second Face team if given the opportunity and by and large, it'll make your tag division better. OSP are a bit old so I drop them in second. I am a huge fan of Sanders though. Dynamite Express are like a team who I like but I just feel I personally prefer the other two ahead of them. I really dislike the last two, not huge fans of the GSW or IPW tag guys outside of those companies.

Kitarzu · November 12, 2015

Predictions:

2 vs. 2 for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

2 vs. 2

The Good Ol´Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

2 vs. 2

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk

1 vs. 1

???? vs. Billy Russell

1 vs. 1

Greg Black vs. Hell´s Bouncer

1 vs. 1 for the King of the Network title

Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith

NOTE: Russell´s opponent is someone from the active roster. Remmy Skye

Roster Questions (further explanation below the picks):

1) On the face jobber, I really just looking for a singles guy who will do the jobs, basically similar to Bradley Blaze on the heel side. Which one of the following guys should get that spot?

1 Mercutio Sleep

2 Quentin Queen

3 Jeremie Courtney

4 Outlaw Wes Revell

5 Roger Monteiro

6 Remmy Honeyman

2) I also want to add another heel tag team in order to make the number of face and heel teams as four each. This team would basically be number three on the heel team pecking order and fill a similar role than what Good Ol´ Boys are doing on the face side. Which team should get this role?

Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

1 The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier)

2 Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick)

3 Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar)

4 Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler)

5 Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol)

Zergon · November 15, 2015

April 2013

Sunday Week 4

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ESE Drop The Bomb

V. Thompson Arena (South West)

Attendance: 8775

2 vs. 2 for the ESE Tag Team titles

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The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker) /w. Carl Batch

This was a close match that could had ended either way if it had actually been clean to the end.

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However, the ending on this one was anything but clean as Bouncerdid arrive on the ringside but instead of going against Statler or Waldorf, he instead threatened Dharma while Batch kept referee busy by arguing with him. Waldorf (who wasn´t on the ring at the time) did go to save Dharma but got Damnation Drop out from his troubles and that distracted Statler (who was the legal man) long enough that Parker managed to hit him via Future Shock that was enough for the three count.

WINNERS: The Future Is Here by pinfall in 13:32 C

2 vs. 2

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The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

This was pretty much a filler match and was there to keep Good Ol´ Boys looking strong and that´s what they did as they threw Hellech and Pierrot around the ring before Langton finished Pierrot via Gutwrench Flapjack.

WINNERS: The Good Ol´ Boys by pinfall in 6:22 D

ANGLE:

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We go to backstage where Toma cuts a promo about how Five Stars only win via numbers (using the opening match on this night as typical example) and warns Griffith that no-matter how many of he´s teammates he would have interfering their match, it won´t help Griffith to win against him because unlike Griffith, he is always alone and prefers it that way as being alone means that he isn´t dependent on anyone else and that makes him stronger because he has to do everything by himself. D-

3 vs. 3

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/CaliforniaLoveMachine_zps9d479b85.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Frankie-Boy%20Fernandes_zpspzts2oef.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jacob%20Jett_zpsdrmsww5r.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rudy%20Velasquez_zpsui4tl8rk.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hector%20Galindo_zpsjdrnglfp.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jesus%20Chavez_zpscjqhq2zu.jpg

Flying Daredevils (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

This was a highly intense fight with both sides wanting to prove that they are better team. As a result, this was a close match were no quarter was asked or given but at the end, Daredevils high-risk offence came back to bite them as Velasquez pinned Jett after failed top tope move left Jett open to Street Cutter.

WINNERS: Latino Kings via pinfall in 9:32 D+

ANGLE:

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We have another backstage promo next, this time from Griffith who response to Toma earlier promo by telling him that he don´t need anyone´s help to beat a flop like Toma and as prove on that, other Five Stars member won´t interfere on their match tonight. C+

2 vs. 2

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rockin%20Ryan%20Turner_zpssrqa8p1z.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Stan%20Manna_zpsracwgjzt.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Acid%20II_zpserzzsrqt.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Grandmaster%20Phunk_zpsadyjvwwo.jpg

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk

This was another filler match, this time promoting Phunk and to lesser extent, Acid II. Rock City Stars did have their share of offence, mostly against Acid II with Ohunk seemingly contend to let his partner do most of the work. However, Phunk proved to be effective when he did get into ring and was the man who got the win for his team too when he pinned Manna after Phunkensteiner while Acid II kept Turner busy.

WINNERS: Acid II & Grandmaster Phunk by pinfall in 5:56 D

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Billy%20Russell_zpsqdgujpbd.jpg

Billy Russell comes to the ring next and he once again declares that during the last month he has proved that he can beat anyone in ESE´s roster despite being on disadvantage of not knowing his opponent beforehand. He then makes another open challenge declaring that tonight, he will once again defeat a member of ESE´s roster to prove that he´s the best wrestler on the entire roster. D

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/RemmySkye_zps435007cd.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Billy%20Russell_zpsqdgujpbd.jpg

Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell

Russell didn´t look happy when it was revealed that Remmy Skye was the one answering the challenge this time around. Russell started very aggressively, perhaps remembering the fact that Remmy was the man who beat him in King of the Network tournament and wanting to get revenge from that loss. However, Skye was able to fight back effectively and eventually he not only survived the aggressive start, but also managed to start building momentum up which led to Russell eating Skye Driver that was enough to net Remmy the three count.

WINNER: Remmy Skye by pinfall in 13:41 C

ANGLE:

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We go to backstage next were Flying Daredevils (minus Donnie) sit in the locker room looking quite down and gloomy. Donnie walks in the room and starts’ cheering up rest of the Daredevils, telling them that everyone loses important matches at times, that´s just how wrestling works. Now, the important is that you got to pick yourself up after a tough defeat because there will always be new opportunities but in order to get those opportunities, you do have to keep going. After Donnie leaves again, the picture stays on rest of the Daredevils who, while still quite, now sport a determined looks on their faces showing that Donnie´s words had hit home. D

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Greg%20Black_zpsf8uuvyds.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hells%20Bouncer_zpsggokrkpb.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

Greg Black vs. Hell´s Bouncer /w. Carl Batch

There certainly weren´t any love between these two as Bouncer wanted not only to prove that he´s better than Black but also destroy a potential threat to his champion teammate, while Black was equally as determined to prove that Five Stars aren´t step above rest like they claim and also that he deserves to have another shot against Griffith. The match itself was a close one but at the end, it was Black who got the win with Fade To Black sealing the deal.

WINNER: Greg Black by pinfall in 9:45 C-

1 vs. 1 for the King of the Network title

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/ESEKingoftheNetwork_zpsuyi7wkz4.jpg

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Kid%20Toma_zpsbkkofad0.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jack%20Griffith_zpsbjgp8tsw.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith /w. Carl Batch

Griffith was true to his words as we didn´t see any other members from the Five Stars interfering here and even Batch kept himself off the match, not dunning his usual distractions on referee or Toma. Toma showed that he indeed was a huge threat to the champion and his aggressive fighting style seemed to cause champion a lot of troubles and he seemed to spend most of the match on defense. Despite being bit on the back foot, it has to be said on Griffith´s credit that he always managed to find a way out and occasionally establish his own period of dominance even if Toma usually cut those short by simply absorbing the attacks and hitting back just as hard. At the end, Griffith was forced to use low blow in order to stop Toma for long enough time to get the win via Jack In The Box.

WINNER: Jack Griffith by pinfall in 14:05 B-

Show Rating: C-

PPV Buy Rate: 0.47

Comments: Jacob Jett was slightly overused according the show notes… well, I guess he´s still an opener so yeah, probably right. Then again, how am I able to push him if I don´t give him chances to shine in PPV shows? As for the show itself, I was quite happy about it even if I hoped a bit better rating from Bouncer vs. Black. On the other hand, Griffith is quickly becoming my go-to guy for great ratings with regular C+ and B- ratings lately with that B- was my first with this save and also obviously the best match so far in ESE while two of the three C+ rated matches has also included Griffith (one against Black and one against Donnie) with the last C+ being Toma & Black vs. Future Is Here. As for the booking, Griffith keeping the belt likely wasn´t very surprising as I generally like to give at least 5 – 6 defenses before taking the belt of from someone (I won´t always follow this rule but usually I do) and we aren´t there yet. Also, Toma was (and likely still is even if he did rise to D level which is same that what Skye has) the least over of my four face main eventers going into the show and would thus had been made a bit poor champion as I like my champions to have enough popularity to go over most of their challengers without hurting their popularity. Black over Bouncer was the case of keeping Black strong as he´s still chasing the King Of The Network belt. Future Is Here over Ring Generals is one that I actually debated if I should have Generals win that one via count out or DQ but at the end, I decided that I didn´t want to hurt Future Is Here´s popularity by having them lose plus I felt that a group who feels that they are best there are and are eager to prove that wouldn´t just walk out (or forfeit) from a match without really good reason. Latino Kings over Daredevils was the case of popularity difference as only Love Machine had equal popularity than Kings. Skye over Russell will lead to storyline with Russell wanting to avenge his loss and setting up this match was the main reason why I had him running that open challenge in the first place. The other two tag matches were thrown in late once I figured that I have enough time to add them and considering how much more popularity you seem to be able to get from PPV compered to TV match, I didn´t see much reason not to include as many guys as I could even if it possibly could hurt the overall show rating a bit. After all, the higher my wrestlers popularity is, the better show ratings I can get so hurting a bit now could help me gain better ratings later on and allow higher variety for the top matches. Main reasons for those matches was to give Ol´ Boys and Phunk some momentum, while also give Acid II a win and some popularity. Angles were again, pretty standard one, Russell had angle before every open challenge so of course I had one here as well, Toma and Griffith cut basic main event hype angles with bit of character showed for both (Toma by declaring that he can win alone and Griffith by declaring that he don´t need help in order to beat Toma). Flying Daredevils angle was just a way to establish a bit more character for Donnie and also showing that he actually mentors and give advices to rest of the Daredevils since I don´t think that I had establish that as much as I originally thought I would have so far.

Zergon · November 16, 2015

Again, big thanks to everyone who took time predicting and giving their opinions about who I should pick for my roster. Before we see how the polls did go, let´s take a look to this month´s prediction contest:

This round:

BHK1978 6/7

DAVEFAN95 5/7

Kitarzu 5/7

Predictions Contest:

BHK1978 11/14

Kitarzu 11/14

KnowYourEnemy 8/7

jameschaos 6/7

DAVEFAN95 5/7

I already did go through my reasoning´s for the bookings so I´m not going to do it again here. However, I do like to mention that I originally did have Russell´s opponent as a bonus question just like in last time but decided to remove that after adding the extra matches since only Donnie, Remmy and Blaze were unused so I thought it would had been bit too obvious (thought I guess Donnie would had been a logical choice as well) and thus decided to remove the question. On hindsight, I probably should had kept that question as I think I just fell into trap of thinking something is obvious just because it felt obvious to me. After all, I do know my booking style but for someone else it wasn´t necessarily that clear as you would had needed to know that I a) don´t like to use anyone twice on the show and b) don´t like to have heel vs. heel matches, which would essentially left Remmy and Donnie the only picks and with Donnie already is in storyline with Latino Kings (another thing that might not have been completely obvious since he haven´t actually interacted with them that much this month) that pretty much left Remmy as the only option. Not a big deal or anything but just wanted to address why there weren´t bonus question this time around. Anyway, let´s get back to business and see how the poll did go, shall we?

Quentin Queen 4 + 6 + 5 = 15

Mercutio Sleep 3 + 5 + 6 = 14

Jeremie Courtney 5 + 1 + 4 = 10

Roger Monteiro 6 + 1 + 2 = 9

Outlaw Wes Revell 2 + 3 + 3 = 8

Remmy Honeyman 1 + 4 + 1 = 6

Queen and Sleep were clear top two on this one. Interesting thing is that out from these six, I actually like Remmy and Revell most though that might partly be because I used them in my last diary and I tend to grew the guys I´m working with (Remmy especially is someone who I really started to like during my last diary even if I really didn´t care about him before that). That said, I´m quite happy to get Queen as he´s someone who I have always wanted to try and hopefully working as jobber for me on a year or two will help his skills enough for him to land decent job somewhere.

Rich And Famous (Jackpot Jordan & Jake Idol) 5 + 5 + 1 = 11

The Dynamite Express (Cameron Jones & Syd Collier) 3 + 3 + 5 = 11

Old School Principals (Rick Sanders & The Masked Mauler) 4 + 4 + 2 = 10

Long Beach Crew (Aces High & Cali Slick) 2 + 2 + 4 = 8

Dead Men Walking (Gravedigga & Mobstar) 1 + 1 + 3 = 5

Sooo, we actually ended up with a draw here. It´s quite a tough choice to make (honestly, I couldn´t decide between these five, all of them looked pretty good on my opinion) but I go with Rich And Famous partly because their higher starting popularity (meaning I don´t need to spend as much time building them up) but also because I feel that they have slightly easier character to write. Other than that, I was bit surprised that Dead Men Walking didn´t get much love as I personally love their renders but guess someone had to be last.

Zergon · November 22, 2015

all contracts are p.p.a deals unless otherwise noted

Company news:

21UK:

-

4C:

-

5SSW:

-

AAA:

Talia Quinzel walked out from AAA.

ACPW:

Art Lawson left ACPW

APW:

-

BCG:

Signed Eien Miyamoto

Naonobu Murkami left BCG.

BHOTWG:

Recalled Toju Munkata from development

Sanetomo Shiraishi left BHOTWG.

CGC:

Brett Fraser left CGC

CILL:

-

CZCW:

-

DIW:

-

EMLL:

-

EWA:

-

EX2010:

-

FCW:

-

GCG:

Signed Azumaro Shimizu.

GSW:

-

Hinote Dojo:

Signed Mokuami Maita

IPW:

-

MAW:

-

MPWF:

-

NOTBPW:

R. K. Hayes left NOTBPW

NYCW:

Signed Casey Valentine

New York Doll left NYCW

OLLIE:

-

PGHW:

Stone Yoshikawa walked out from PGHW.

PSW:

-

PWC:

PWC opened with Steve Flash being the owner.

QAW:

-

RAW:

-

RIPW:

-

Saisho:

-

SOTBPW:

-

SWF:

Recalled Bear Bekowski

Enforcer Roberts leave SWF

TCW:

Signed Blackfire

Released Jeremie Courtney.

UEW:

-

USPW:

Krusher Karloff leaves USPW

Giant Redwood leaves USPW

WEXXV:

-

VWA:

Signed Joey Beauchamp

Griffin leaves VWA

WLW:

-

ZEN:

Flash opening PCW is the most interesting news for this month (well, technically it´s on the next month but I didn´t see any reason not to put that one here). VWA did get a bit stronger by signing Beauchamp while letting Griffin go while HINOTE Dojo also found an interesting name on Mokuami Maita. NYCW also made a nice signing on Casey Valentine. Other than that, the main news was that bigger companies god rid of some past their prime veterans like Enforcer Roberts, Brett Fraser and Krusher Karloff. Quite many of those guys might actually still be some use for me especially Roberts and Karloff since they are more popular than anyone on my current roster. Redwood could also work simply because I could move his popularity to my other main event guys while Hayes could make a decent main event gatekeeper. That said, at least right now I´m not interested on trying to bring any of them in.

Zergon · November 22, 2015

May 2013

Monday Week 1

Dark Matches:

2 vs. 2

The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Billy Russell & Grandmaster Phunk

WINNERS: Billy Russell & Grandmaster Phunk by pinfall in 5:01 D

3 vs. 3

Kid Toma & The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot) & Bradley Blaze

WINNERS: Kid Toma & The Good Ol´ Boys by pinfall in 5:13 D-

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/ESE-1_zps4n7ctrsa.jpg

ESE POWER

Love Ballroom (North West)

Attendance: 3336

ANGLE:

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We start the show with Roger Rogers on the ringside, explaining that there will be four-way match in ESE Death Zone (the next PPV) and the winner will be crowned as first ESE Prince Of Studios champion. On next four weeks, there will be one qualifying match on each night and the winners of those matches will advance to the title match. The eight participants for this tournament are Californian Love Machine, Frankie-Boy Hernandez, Wooton Fitzpaine, Thimbleby Langton, Rudy Velasquez, Hector Galindo, Jesus Chavez and Acid II. D+

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/RemmySkye_zps435007cd.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Acid%20II_zpserzzsrqt.jpg

Remmy Skye vs. Acid II

Acid II looked to get some momentum before his qualifying match but he was unfortunate enough to face Remmy Skye, man who only has one defeat on his current ESE record and that was against Jack Griffith in the King of the Network tournament. Remmy didn´t add another defeat on his record either as he managed to put Acid II down after a tough fight via Skye Diver.

WINNER: Remmy Skye by pinfall in 4:54 C-

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/RemmySkye_zps435007cd.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Billy%20Russell_zpsqdgujpbd.jpg

After the match, Billy Russell attacks Remmy Skye and beats him down badly before officials finally get him off. After the beating Russell leaves the ringside offering no explanation about why the attack happened. D

2 vs. 2

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Marv%20Statler_zpsnl522itw.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/DeanWaldorf_zps40a29bf9.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Dharma%20Gregg_zpsbgojwa5d.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rudy%20Velasquez_zpsui4tl8rk.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jesus%20Chavez_zpscjqhq2zu.jpg

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. Rudy Velasquez & Jesus Chavez

Despite Velasquez and Chavez not being official team, they still worked well together and gave Ring Generals a good fight. However, at the end, The Ring Generals couldn´t be denied tonight and they got the win with Waldorf pinning Chavez after Waldorf Salad Toss.

WINNERS: The Ring Generals by pinfall in 8:10 D+

ANGLE:

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After their match, Ring Generals demand another title shot and strongly disapproved Five Stars actions in the last PPV (mainly Bouncer threatening Dharma). Future Is Here comes to ringside with Batch and turn down the title match demand, telling Generals that they can give all the excuses they want but they have been beaten twice now and are thus not worthy for another shot. This is where Dharma opens her mouth, basically telling Future Is Here that they are cowards and if they are so scared to face her men, then why not just say so? This seems to anger both Keith and Parker and they deny the claim, which leads to Dharma suggesting that the two teams will have a non-title tag match next month and if they win, they get a title shot but if they lose, then they cannot challenge for the tag belt as long as Future Is Here are the champions. Future Is Here accepts those terms, telling Ring Generals to find something more suitable for them to do after they lose next week, they were even kind enough to offer an advice and said that they did hear that janitor job might be open in the arena so perhaps Generals could make a career out of that since they certainly don´t have what it takes to succeed in-ring. D+

1 vs. 1 Prince of Studios qualifying match

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Frankie-Boy%20Fernandes_zpspzts2oef.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hector%20Galindo_zpsjdrnglfp.jpg

Frankie-Boy Hernandez vs. Hector Galindo

Hernandez tried to avenge Flying Daredevils loss in PPV here while Galindo tried to keep the advantage on Latino Kings. The match itself was even, fast phased match but at the end, it was Galindo who picked the win with Shooting Star Press sealing the deal and sending Galindo into the title match.

WINNER: Hector Galindo by pinfall in 8:13 E+

ANGLE:

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Next, we have Toma coming to ringside and demanding a rematch against Griffith based on the fact that he cheated in their last match. Gregg Black interferes, telling Toma that he had his chance and now should be Black´s turn. Batch and Bouncer stop that one short, with Batch telling both Toma and Black that they have tried and failed already and because Griffith wants “real challenge” on his next PPV title defense, he has nominated Hell´s Bouncer as he´s opponent. All four men start to argue but Rogers cuts it short, telling that there will be four way match for the belt in ESE Death Zone including all three of them and whoever happens to be the champion at that points since Griffith will have a title defense before the next PPV. D+

3 vs. 3

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Donnie%20J_zpsao0qfonh.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/CaliforniaLoveMachine_zps9d479b85.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jacob%20Jett_zpsdrmsww5r.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jack%20Griffith_zpsbjgp8tsw.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hells%20Bouncer_zpsggokrkpb.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Matthew%20Keith_zpsgghpmimp.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

Flying Daredevils (Donnie J & Californian Love Machine & Jacob Jett) vs. Five Stars (Jack Griffith & Hell´s Bouncer & Matthew Keith) /w. Carl Batch

Flying Daredevils do show that they can hang with the big boys, as they gave surprisingly many troubles for Five Stars but at the end, Five Stars were victorious with Bouncer getting the final pin on Love Machine after putting him out via Damnation Drop.

WINNERS: Five Stars by pinfall in 7:54 D

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Greg%20Black_zpsf8uuvyds.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Steven%20Parker_zpsxd6aekxf.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

Greg Black vs. Steven Parker /w. Carl Batch

This was a great main event for TV were Parker showed that while he´s not really considered as main eventer quite yet, he does have skills to hang with the best. That said, much like Daredevils before him, Parker did end up slightly short as Black got the win after hard fought match via Faith To Black.

WINNER: Greg Black by pinfall in 12:15 C

Show Rating: D+

TV Rating: 1.22

Comments: Much the same than before, not enough interesting storylines and good main even somewhat saving otherwise mediocre show. Galindo and Hernandez didn´t click at all, which partly explains the poor rating between those two but even with that, I was bit disappointed there. I also hoped bit more from the semi-main event but that wasn´t that bad, it just wasn´t good either. As for booking, the main event was one of those obvious TV main events to make with Parker not being over enough to pose serious threat to Black on PPV but still good enough to gain great ratings with him. Well, actually, perhaps I´m bit harsh on Parker as the game does auto push him to main event status currently despite having D- popularity while everyone I consider main eventer has at least a D so I could certainly make him viable main eventer if I so choose. Semi-main event was bit of a same case (even if the rating was bit disappointing) and it helped Five Stars to stay strong while Jett and Love Machine gained some exposure along some of my top stars. Ring Generals over Velasquez and Chavez was case of wanting Generals to look good before issuing another challenge for the tag belts. I originally planned to have their feud with Future Is Here end in last PPV but with most other midcard guys being tied up on the Prince of Studios tournament (and me not wanting to include either Generals or Future Is Here guys on that one), it made sense to continue their feud at least a bit further just to give them something to do. That Toma/Black/Bouncer angle was there to set the main event for my next PPV. With Toma and Bouncer having bad chemistry and both Toma and Black chasing the belt, I felt that four-way was better option than just have one of them challenge again, then again, I guess three-way could have worked too but that would have left Bouncer without anything to do. That said, this will lead onto two four-way matches on the said PPV with Prince of Studios match also being four-way one, which isn´t ideal on my opinion. However, I chose to go with just one qualifying match per show in order to give a bit more room for other matches since with just 1h per show, the time is always quite limited, espesially since I currently try to fit four differend feuds on any show while also give at least a bit of time for those not into feuds currently. Galindo going over Hernandez was simply the case of me wanting two heels and two faces in the finals and Galindo getting the win helps to work on that direction. As for the title itself, I just didn´t have space to have that tournament earlier with most of my midcard tied to tag title tournament in the first month and then that Latino Kings vs. Flying Daredevils feud (alongside with Generals vs. Future Is Here) tied most of the better choices to elsewhere once again. It´s still not ideal time to have the tournament, as the main contenders are all tag guys (perhaps a clear sign that I need to sign more guys), but I really want to introduce the belt now and it actually ties in onto one of the current feuds (Latino Kings vs. Daredevils) so it helps further that feud a bit as well instead of being additional time that would be away from non-feuding guys. Remmy over Acid II was another match were I hope to build Acid II´s popularity a bit. It might had been better idea to leave that to PPV (for better popularity gains), but right now, Remmy is tied on a feud with Russell and thus I decided to do the next best thing and have the match on TV. Of course, the main reason for the match was just to set the attack angle after it. The dark matches were just there to give some momentum on the winning side while working as a training matches for the losing side.

Zergon · November 29, 2015

May 2013

Monday Week 2

1 vs. 1

Thimbleby Langton vs. Bradley Blaze

WINNER: Thimbleby Langton by pinfall in 5:18 D

2 vs. 2

Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

WINNERS: Frankie-Boy Hernandez & Jacob Jett by pinfall in 4:44 D

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Shakeshaft Auditorium (Great Lakes)

Attendance: 3699

1 vs. 1

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Quentin Queen vs. Billy Russell

The show started with debuting youngster Quentin Queen trying to prove himself against Billy Russell. Sadly for Queen, he didn´t have much success as Russell seemed to be on a foul mood and pretty much wiped the floor with the newcomer until putting him out via Grounded Knee Flurry.

WINNER: Billy Russell by pinfall in 4:59 D

ANGLE:

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After his match, Russell explains that he attacked Remmy last week simply to prove that he´s not someone who should be messed with and that Remmy´s win in last PPV was just as much of a fluke than he´s win over Russell in King of the Netowrk tournament. This draws Remmy into ringside and wants Russell in the ring on singles match next week, telling Russell that he gladly beats him a third time as well but Rogers denies that telling both men that they will be in the same ring next wee but that it will be a three way match with King of the Network belt on the line! D+

2 vs. 2

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The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan)

We have another debut in our next match as Rich And Famous have their debut match against The Rock City Stars. Rich And Famous didn´t take their opponents seriously at first and that proved to be a mistake as Rock City Stars took control of the early match and for a while it looked like Rich And Famous would start their ESE careers with a loss but they managed to just hold in the match and eventually turn it around with bit of cheating. In the end, Idol pinned Manna after Reality Check to gain the win for his team.

WINNERS: Rich And Famous by pinfall in 5:21 D-

1 vs. 1 Prince of Studios qualifying match

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Californian Love Machine vs. Acid II

Love Machine and Acid II put up a nice fast phased match that was quite even on most parts but at the end, it was Love Machine who advanced on the tournament with LAX Departure on Acid II sealing the deal.

WINNER: Californian Love Machine by pinfall in 7:48 D

ANGLE:

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After the match, Rudy Velasquez comes to ringside and “congratulates” Love Machine for his win but also gives him an advice on not showing up in the title match because he would face three Latino Kings there and forfeiting it beforehand would be the only way how he could hope to continue his career after that night. Unsurprisingly, Love Machine declared that he won´t back down and reminded Rudy that only Galindo has actually gotten a spot in the title match so far so perhaps Rudy should first concentrate on getting in the said match. D-

2 vs. 2 If Ring Generals win, they get another title shot, if Future Is Here wins, Ring Generals cannot challenge for the belts as long as Future Is Here are the champions.

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The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker) /w. Carl Batch

Much like the two earlier encounters, this was a close match were small things decided the outcome and this time those small things did go into Ring Generals favor which led to Statler getting a three count on Keith after connecting with Backdrop Backbreaker while Waldorf kept Parker from interfering.

WINNERS: The Ring Generals by pinfall in 12:13 C-

3 vs. 3

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Greg Black & Kid Toma & Donnie J vs. Grandmaster Phunk & Jack Griffith & Hell´s Bouncer /w. Carl Batch

Much like the semi-main event, this was a close match were either side could have won. At the end, the deciding factor was the growing tension between Black and Toma, that led to shoving match between the two, thus allowing heels to isolate Donnie for long enough time to do some damage. Donnie never managed to tag himself out after that as Phunk and Bouncer attacked Toma and Black sending them off the apron and leaving Griffith to finish weakened Donnie via Jack In A Box.

WINNERS: Grandmaster Phunk & Jack Griffith & Hell´s Bouncer by pinfall in 12:14 C

Show Rating: D+

TV Rating: 1.20

Comments: Again, quite standard show from us and this seems to be the level we are at this moment. Lack of interesting storylines are still a problem but right now it´s just pretty hard for me to have at least three storylines with C- heat so I just have to take the hit on that and I believe that´s mainly why TV shows keep losing popularity for me at the moment. As for the booking, the main event was there to both promote the main event on next PPV (Griffith vs. Toma vs. Black vs. Bouncer) and I knew I wanted heels to win in order to promote the fact that Black and Toma aren´t on the same page (since Bouncer isn´t really challenging Griffith and is more there to help him). I would have loved putting another feud on this match in order to help the ratings (and heat) but with Skye and Russell being in the next month´s main event, I felt that adding then here wouldn´t make much sense and would have taken bit away from Toma & Black not coming along (since neither had any reason to trust Skye either while Five Stars similarly couldn´t trust Russell). Future Is Here and Ring Generals had their own match so they weren´t available either. I did toy on the idea of putting Rudy there instead of Phunk but then he would had been the weak link and I didn´t want to risk losing popularity from three of my top faces just to give Rudy a win. I did also thought about putting Love Machine in the main event instead of Donnie (making it bit more equal sides if Rudy would have been in as well) but he already had tournament match on this show and I felt that Hernandez/Jett didn´t have enough popularity to warrant a main event spot even in multi-man match like this so I ended up having Phunk and Donnie there just to make sure both sides were about equals in terms of popularity. Matthew Keith was unhappy taking the loss on the semi-main event but one of them had to take a loss there as Ring Generals needed a win over Future Is Here before their next encounter (since they had now lost twice with one of them being clean) so Keith just had to suck up the loss. I decided to give them the loss on TV rather than PPV in hope to lessen the damage done to their popularity though on the flip side, I guess this decision also benefit Ring Generals far less than win on PPV would had so maybe it wasn´t the right decision at the end. Love Machine going into the Prince Of Studios title match likely didn´t surprise anyone and Acid II was there just to add numbers anyway (clear sign that I could use more midcard guys, which I did address a bit with Rich And Famous) as he don´t yet have popularity to go over… well anyone really. The two angles was there to further the two feuds while the other two main show matches were there to introduce newcomers. Rich And Famous did get a debut win since they are step above jobbers and while they aren´t likely to get that many wins, I did want to at least establish a fact that they can win occasional match and thus decided to debut them strong (well, as strong as they could look going over guys with no wins). Queen just got as good opponent as I had left in order to get a decent match rating since I believe that good first match will help starting momentum quite a bit (not entirely sure on that but my experience so far seems to point on that direction). The dark matches were there to give wins for guys that I want to keep looking semi-strong but who aren´t getting that many wins in actual TV show because of not being high enough on pecking order. On backstage news, Thimbleby Langton and Lee Wright have bonded over shared love of modern musical. This also means that Langton is now loyal to Wright so that´s another bonus as long as I´m keeping both.

Zergon · December 7, 2015

May 2013

Monday Week 3

2 vs. 2

Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

WINNERS: Rich And Famous by pinfall in 4:41 D-

1 vs. 1

Bradley Blaze vs. Acid II

WINNER: Acid II by pinfall in 4:55 F+

3 vs. 3

Kid Toma & The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. Quentin Queen & The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna)

WINNERS: Kid Toma & The Ring Generals by pinfall in 7:41 D

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Laurent Ballroom (New England)

Attendance: 3675

1 vs. 1 Prince of Studios qualifying match

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Thimbleby Langton vs. Rudy Velasquez

The show starts with third qualifying match on Prince of Studios title match and it was a close one too as Langton used his strength to control the early portion of the match whileRudy used some quick thinking (and some illegal moves) to get the upper hand around the mid portion of the match. Langton did manage to weather the storm and looked like coming back but Street Cutter stopped that come-back short and gave Rudy the win.

WINNER: Rudy Velasquez by pinfall in 8:07 D

3 vs. 3

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Wooton Fitzpaine & Going Coastal (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Hernandez) vs. Five Stars (Hell´s Bouncer & Matthew Keith & Steven Parker) /w. Carl Batch

Faces seemed to be bit overmatched here but they still gave their all and managed to make it a close match, even with Batch occasionally acting as 4th guy for Five Stars, thanks to his involvement on the match. At the end though, Five Stars picked up the win with Bouncer getting the final pinfall on Hernandez after Damnation Drop.

WINNERS: Five Stars by pinfall in 7:36 D

ANGLE:

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After their match, Future Is Here stay on the ring and start whining to Rogers about the title match against Ring Generals in ESE Death Zone, telling him that their win was a fluke and that it won´t happen again and they shouldn´t even need to defend their belts against Generals since they had already beaten them twice. Ring Generals come to ringside and remind Future Is Here that they only won last time because of interference from Bouncer, something that Rogers seems to agree as tells the two teams that the match will be happening as they agreed earlier, but that it will be a cage match in order to make sure that there will be no outside interference. D-

2 vs. 2

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Donnie J & Jacob Jett vs. Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez

These two groups have clashed several times during last few months and as always, the fight was a close one and seemed like it could have gone either way. This time, it was Flying Daredevils who gained the victory as Donnie showed why he´s good enough to mentor the other Daredevils by putting Galindo out after connecting with Death On Miami Beach.

WINNERS: Donnie J & Jacob Jett by pinfall in 5:14 D+

1 vs. 1

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Greg Black vs. Grandmaster Phunk

This was a close match between two veterans were Phunk used every dirty trick that he could think of but somehow Greg Black always found a way to not only stay in the game but also deliver his own attacks. At the end, it was Black who gained the win when he connected with Fade To Black.

WINNER: Greg Black by pinfall in 11:49 C

ANGLE:

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After his match, Black cuts a promo about how he´s planning of winning the King of the Network belt in ESE Death Zone and how no Griffith, Bouncer or Toma can´t stop him on doing that. Toma interferes, telling Black that it will be him, not Black who gets the belt in ESE Death Zone. Bouncer interefes on turn, telling both that they cannot seriously think they would had any chance against not one but two member from The Five Stars and that they will fall short just like they had before. Things quickly heat up between the three but Rogers interferes the argument from the commentary table, telling the three men that since they all seem eager to prove that they are better than the other twom, they will all get nice opportunity to do just that as next week he´s going to book a three way tag team match between the three of them so they all better find a partner for next week. D

Three-way for the King of the Network title

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Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell vs. Jack Griffith /w. Carl Batch

Speaking of three way matches, here´s one that followed the usual formula of champion taking advantage on other two guys seemingly being more interested on beating each other´s senseless than winning the belt (something that the commentators pointed out could well happen in Dead Zone as well if Black and Toma aren´t fully focused on taking Griffith and Bouncer out) as Skye and Russell spend most of the match beating the living hell out from each other´s while only occasionally fought Griffith who was wise enough to let the two have it their way and only interfered when one of them was in danger of getting the win. At the end, Griffith´s waiting game proved to be fruitful one as he When Russell send Skye to the ground via Grounded Knee Flurry, Griffith was right there to hit Russell with Jack In A Box and pinned him for the three count.

WINNER: Jack Griffith by pinfall in 11:57 C

Show Rating: D+

TV Rating: 1.25

Comments: Despite good main and semi-main event, we still get only D+ ratings partly thanks to mediocre undercard and partly thanks to not having enough interesting storylines to follow. On the booking decisions, the main event was there basically to give Griffith another title defense (since I want my belts to be defended occasionally in regular shows as well) while similarly advancing the Skye vs. Russell feud by using the usual angle of them concentrating too much on each other´s letting Griffith to pick up the spoils, something I´m pretty sure I have used numerous times on my previous diaries as it´s just so easy match to make and makes too much sense for me (since it give reason for feuding guys to lose while similarly gives a creditable title defense to current champion) not to use this template every so often. Black over Phunk was basically there to get a good rating and with Phunk not being in any storylines right now (being the only main event guy who isn´t), he´s going to occasionally get a loss since keeping him super strong aren´t required at the time being. Velasquez getting into Prince of Studios title match likely didn´t surprise anyone, as I he´s certainly most creditable heel in that tournament to take the belt. Donnie & Jett against Chavez & Galindo was there to further the feud between the two groups while also giving a big win for Jett (and hopefully boost his popularity a bit) while Donnie being there was the case of me wanting to lessen the possible popularity loss on Galindo and Chavez. Five Stars over Fitzpaine and going Coastal was there to keep the group looking strong, I also did hope that the match would had been good enough to build popularities a bit but D rating likely didn´t do that so perhaps I expected bit too much from that. The two angles were again there to further the feuds while similarly setting a match (2 vs. 2 vs. 2 for next week) and extra stipulation to other match (tag title match being a cage match). On dark matches, as you can see, they were all face vs. face or heel vs. heel matches, this was mainly to get some fresh match-ups (and not to waste a face vs. heel matches as there´s only so many times some ones like Rich And Famous could go over Rock City Stars) since I figured that the dark match ratings didn´t really affect a whole lot anyway. Other than that, it was the usual business of giving (mostly) midcard guys some wins in order to keep their momentum and win/loss records decent. On backstage news, Chavez and Bradley did bond over shared love of classical music. On contract news, Jungle Jack had his contract ending and while SWF did offer him another contract (4 years, 16,760$ per month with 20% PPV bonus), I decided to try to make my own offer (3 years, 18,500$, push never lower than main eventer). Sadly, he said that he prefers SWF´s offer over mine, so I decided not to leave the offer at all and just let SWF keep him. I guess I could have offered that 20% PPV bonus as well but right now, the highest wage on my roster is 9000$ (Greg Black) and second highest is Donnie J´s 6720$ so I felt I already offered bit more than I was comfortable of paying (despite the fact that I make about 80,000$ average on the two months so far) considering that I´m still falling on popularity and thus in a danger to drop to regional level if I cannot get the slide turned. Plus I was bit skeptical if I could use him all that well considering that he´s popularity is way higher (C+, with Griffith´s C- being the only one from my roster that even gets into same grade level) than anyone´s else, which always scares me a bit as I feel it makes it hard to have his opponents look good without hurting Jack´s popularity. I guess this (high wage and popularity caps) is something I need to get used to but right now I´m not yet comfortable enough for that kind of contracts plus considering that I´m way smaller than SWF and he is their current tag champion, it didn´t really look like a smart move for him to move anyway. And yes, I know the game doesn´t consider that but I feel like I should take that into account when trying to sign someone, guess it´s just personal preference thing. So overall, while he would no doubt helped, I decided to back down this time, probably a wrong move as he could no doubt help my match ratings and helped some of my top guys to gain some popularity as well…. Actually, I would be interested to hear if you would have signed Jack in my place or not so if anyone wants to share his opinion, I would love to hear it and perhaps learn (yeah, right, like I ever learn ) how these kind of situations should be handled in the future and whatever I should take more risks with higher salary signings instead of playing it safe in fear of falling below cult.

BHK1978 · December 11, 2015

Well I think you made the right call. I probably would have made the same call.

With you constantly losing popularity from your shows you do run the risk of falling to Regional and it there were to happen you probably could not afford to pay Jack. I am not sure how that would work but I guess you would have to cut him for financial reasons and if you did that you would have to buy him out so you would take a huge financial hit.

In regards to him being leaps and bounds more popular than anyone on your roster. Well that is something I have run into in the past. I never really know how to handle that. I mean yeah you want to make his opponents look good but then you run the risk of pissing him off.

I think you made the right call in not signing him as I think it would have been too much of an annoyance for you had you done so.

Zergon · December 13, 2015

Well I think you made the right call. I probably would have made the same call.

With you constantly losing popularity from your shows you do run the risk of falling to Regional and it there were to happen you probably could not afford to pay Jack. I am not sure how that would work but I guess you would have to cut him for financial reasons and if you did that you would have to buy him out so you would take a huge financial hit.

In regards to him being leaps and bounds more popular than anyone on your roster. Well that is something I have run into in the past. I never really know how to handle that. I mean yeah you want to make his opponents look good but then you run the risk of pissing him off.

I think you made the right call in not signing him as I think it would have been too much of an annoyance for you had you done so.

Thanks for the answer BHK1978, I really appreciate you taking to to answering that one as it was one I found interesting one since it was something I would think was a high risk, high reward case. Why to I think that way? Well, as said, there was that possibility on me dropping to regional which would certainly had hurt plus the booking problem someone so over makes but there´s another question of if Jungle Jack would have actually been enough to stop the popularity slide as surely he would had helped with ratings and likely rub of bit of popularity to some of the other top guys as well thus helping the overall show grades. At the end, I think it comes down to whatever I was confitend enough on my booking abilities to be able to use Jungle Jack in a way that it would have helped my company and as we known, the answer to that was no.

May 2013

Monday Week 4

Dark Matches:

1 vs. 1

Hector Galindo vs. Bradley Blaze

WINNER: Hector Galindo by pinfall in 4:50 D-

2 vs. 2

Marv Statler /w. Dharma Gregg & Thimbleby Langton vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

WINNERS: Marv Statler & Thimbleby Langton by pinfall in 8:24 D

3 vs. 3

Quentin Queen & The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Jack Griffith /w. Carl Batch & Billy Russell & Rudy Velasquez

WINNERS: Jack Griffith & Billy Russell & Rudy Velasquez by pinfall in 7:49 D-

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ESE POWER

Laurent Ballroom (New England)

Attendance: 3627

1 vs. 1 Prince of Studios qualifying match

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Wooton%20Fitzpaine_zpsds0t0p02.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jesus%20Chavez_zpscjqhq2zu.jpg

Wooton Fitzpaine vs. Jesus Chavez

Chavez looked to make it 3 on 3 on Latino Kings getting into title match here but he found roadblock in form of Wooton Fitzpaine who looked to get himself into the same match and tie the score between Latino Kings and Good Ol´ Boys in the progress. The match itself was a brawl, there´s really no other way to describe it as there was very little actual wrestling done. At the end, it was Wooton who emerge victorious after putting Jesus out via Running Big Foot.

WINNER: Wooton Fitzpaine by pinfall in 8:07 D

2 vs. 2

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Going Coastal (Californian Love Machine & Frankie-Boy Fernandez) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan)

These two teams know each other´s fairly well thanks to their shared time in CZCW. Rich And Famous seemed to be eager to prove that ESE made a mistake by signing Going Coastal instead of them at the beginning but Going Coastal was equally as determined to show that they are indeed the better team. The question of who´s the better team was perhaps left unanswered as the teams were very close but Going Coastal did pick the win this time around with Love Machine pinning Jordan after LAX Departure to seal the deal.

WINNERS: Going Coastal by pinfall in 7:49 D

ANGLE:

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After the match Rudy Velasquez and Hector Galindo attack Going Coastal, mainly concentrating their attacks on Love Machine, but Donnie makes the save and drives Latino Kings out from the ring before much damage could be made. D-

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jacob%20Jett_zpsdrmsww5r.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Grandmaster%20Phunk_zpsadyjvwwo.jpg

Jacob Jett vs. Grandmaster Phunk

Another Flying Daredevil gets a chance to shine next as Jett takes on the ever dangerous Grandmaster Phunk. Jett did make most of his opportunity, showing that he could hang with one of the best in ESE for a little while but eventually he fell short to Phunk´s mind games and got taken out by Phunkensteiner before the five minutes mark.

WINNER: Grandmaster Phunk via pinfall in 4:38 C-

ANGLE:

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We go to backstage next and Five Stars have some chosen words to their opponents. Griffith and Bouncer spend most of this promo by taunting Toma and Black while Keith and Parker focused mostly on Ring Generals, but the message was same in all cases, there´s no change for any of them to win the belts. C

1 vs. 1

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Donnie J vs. Steven Parker /w. Carl Batch

Donnie J and Parker put-up a nice even match for the semi-main event slot but eventually, much to annoyance for Batch (and no doubt for Parker too once he wakes up), it was Donnie who gained the win via Death On Miami Beach.

WINNER: Donnie J via pinfall in 7:39 D+

2 vs. 2 vs. 2

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Greg Black & Dean Waldorf /w. Dharma Gregg vs. Kid Toma & Remmy Skye vs. Hell´s Bouncer & Matthew Keith /w. Carl Batch

The main event was pretty chaotic from the beginning with three teams on the ring and tension being high between the three teams.

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To add on the chaotic nature, there was quite many interferences with Billy Russell, Marv Statler and Steven Parker all being involved to the match and eventually referee just decided to call it a day and disqualified all three teams, not that anyone really cared as they all continued to brawl with each other´s while the show ended.

DRAW by double DQ in 12:03 C

Show Rating: C-

TV Rating: 1.21

Comments: Well, thanks to backing three different feuds to main event match, I didn´t get that lack of interesting storylines line for once. That said, this show still lost popularity in 11 regions so yeah… not really sure what I could do to stop the popularity slide at this point (but I fear the answer would be around the lines of "you should have signing Jungle Jack." ). At least we still way above dropping into regional with three regions still on C- and rest on D+ with the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico so I still have time to figure this out before troubles start. As for the matches, the main event was kind of obvious attempt to get a decent heat for as many feuds as possible while similarly promoting the four-man title match in next PPV and I feel that worked rather well overall. The match did end on draw since I wanted to outline the fact that the challengers would be about equals and it didn´t feel right to put one of them over so close to PPV mainly because I feel that all of them should appear about as strong challengers and they haven´t really clashed this month apart for one 3 vs. 3 match. Donnie vs. Parker was meant to be a good rating match but that fell a bit flat for no obvious reason (no bad chemistry and neither did have an off night). Oh well, those just happen and as you have no doubt seen, Future Is Here is pretty much my go-to guys when I want to have good main eventer vs. midcard match and they have quite often seen in this type of matches as a result. On face side Ring Generals will a similar role while Velasquez or Love Machine could probably do that too, I just haven´t used them that yet (need to remember to try them once so see how they perform, though Velasquez already have had a match with Donnie). Speaking of go-to guys, if Ring Generals and Future Is Here are my midcard go-to guys, then Jett and Acid II fill that role on jobber side and Phunk vs. Jett was exactly that, a rating match that I originally planned to be my semi-main event until deciding that I want a bit closer call as semi-main event than jobber (even if Jett isn´t really a jobber but he´s popularity is still so poor that he´s basically counted as one) vs. main eventer. They did do well and actually were better than Donnie vs. Parker so yeah… maybe I should have kept that as semi-main event anyway. Wooton did get past Chavez on the last Prince Of Studios tournament qualifying match as I wanted equal amount of faces and heels in the title match. I really have no good reason why I put Wooton there instead of Langton but I knew I didn´t want another complete tag team in that match (since Latino Kings were kind of must to be in) so that´s why Hernandez didn´t get in. Going Coastal over Rich And Famous was basically there to give Love Machine (and to lesser extend Going Coastal as a whole) a win before the Prince Of Studios title match as I would assume he´s seen as one of the main contenders to become as the first Prince Of Studios champion and Going Coastal are the ones in that match that had a feud going. As for other backstage news, Matthew Keith of all people from the main event was bit unhappy about the booking of the main event… no idea why to be honest, but I guess someone usually whines about draws and I really haven´t figured out why they do that. Maybe they prefer clean finishes for some reason? Locker room was a happy (if a bit noisy) place this time as Jack Griffith decided to bring enough alcohol to float a battle ship. On the funny/embarrising details note, I just realised that it´s Frankie-Boy Fernandez, not Hernandez like a have written all the time.... yeah, it´s not the first typo I made (pretty sure I miss spelled Velasquez´s first name last time I used him for months until someone pointed that out for me) but really, I should concentrate enough to at least get the names right...

Zergon · December 15, 2015

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Predictions:

2 vs. 2 Cage Classic match for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

1 vs. 1

Thimbleby Langton vs. Grandmaster Phunk

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Donnie J & Jacob Jett & Frankie-Boy Fernandez) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan) & Acid II

Four-way for ESE Prince Of Studios title

Californian Love Machine vs. Wooton Fitzpaine vs. Rudy Velasquez vs. Hector Galindo

1 vs. 1

Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell

Four-way for the King of the Network title

Greg Black vs. Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith vs. Hell´s Bouncer

BHK1978 · December 16, 2015

2 vs. 2 Cage Classic match for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

This is a toss-up for me especially after having the Ring Generals get the win the last time. I mean that win has to have meant something (Especially in regards to the stipulation) but at the same time I just like TFIH better.

1 vs. 1

Thimbleby Langton vs. Grandmaster Phunk

I see this as a way for Phunk to get another win.

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Donnie J & Jacob Jett & Frankie-Boy Fernandez) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan) & Acid II

This is a tough one for me because as you said both Jett and Acid II are jobbers so I have to look at the rest of the guys in the match and I think Rich and Famous might be more over so I am going that way.

Four-way for ESE Prince Of Studios title

Californian Love Machine vs. Wooton Fitzpaine vs. Rudy Velasquez vs. Hector Galindo

This really is more of a personal choice for me.

1 vs. 1

Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell

Once again another personal choice but I truly do think Remmy should win here. I hate Billy Russell because he always loses in my WMMA 4 game. Without fail...

Four-way for the King of the Network title

Greg Black vs. Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith vs. Hell´s Bouncer

I am tempted to go with Greg or even Toma here but I think Jack should keep the title for a little longer.

KnowYourEnemy · December 17, 2015

2 vs. 2 Cage Classic match for the ESE Tag Team titles

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker)

The Generals won the stip. match to get here, but logic dictates they lose here as a result.

1 vs. 1

Thimbleby Langton vs. Grandmaster Phunk

Phunk squash.

3 vs. 3

Flying Daredevils (Donnie J & Jacob Jett & Frankie-Boy Fernandez) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan) & Acid II

The Daredevils need a victory here... and they'll get it, as Donnie J is far more over.

Four-way for ESE Prince Of Studios title

Californian Love Machine vs. Wooton Fitzpaine vs. Rudy Velasquez vs. Hector Galindo

Velaquez, I believe, is the one with the chops to hold a belt

1 vs. 1

Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell

Billy has more going on -- I'll give him the dub.

Four-way for the King of the Network title

Greg Black vs. Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith vs. Hell´s Bouncer

Griffith takes this one, but it's going to be a "slow turn" for the bouncer.

Zergon · December 21, 2015

May 2013

Sunday Week 4

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ESE Death Zone

Evanovich Riverside (Tri State)

Attendance: 9944

2 vs. 2 Cage Classic match for the ESE Tag Team titles

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http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Marv%20Statler_zpsnl522itw.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/DeanWaldorf_zps40a29bf9.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Dharma%20Gregg_zpsbgojwa5d.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Matthew%20Keith_zpsgghpmimp.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Steven%20Parker_zpsxd6aekxf.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

The Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. The Future is Here (Matthew Keith & Steven Parker) /w. Carl Batch

The show starts with another great tag match between Ring Generals and Future Is Here, this time in a cage with all four members being in the ring on a same time (so basically a tornado tag). Both teams showed some excellent team work and the match could easily had gone either way but at the end, it was Future IS Here who gained the win when Keith forced Waldorf to tap out on Proton Lock while Parker kept Statler from interfering.

WINNERS: The Future Is Here by submission in 13:43 D+

ANGLE:

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After winning the belts, Future Is Here is joined by rest of the Five Stars and they hype themselves up once again, telling that no-one could beat them and it´s only matter of time until one of the bigger companies finally notice them. C

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Thimbleby%20Langton_zpshya42z7x.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Grandmaster%20Phunk_zpsadyjvwwo.jpg

Thimbleby Langton vs. Grandmaster Phunk

This one was mainly there to showcase Grandmaster Phunk and his offence as he managed to outsmart Langton quite easily and stayed one step ahead for most of the match before finishing his opponent via Phunkensteiner.

WINNER: Grandmaster Phunk by pinfall in 5:36 D+

3 vs. 3

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Flying Daredevils (Donnie J & Jacob Jett & Frankie-Boy Fernandez) vs. Rich And Famous (Jake Idol & Jackpot Jordan) & Acid II

This was fast-phased match-up between two teams, who with the exception of Jett and Acid II were quite familiar with each other´s thanks to their shared time in CZCW. At the end, Donnie´s experience proved to be the deciding matter as the veteran managed to pin Acid II after connecting with Death On Miami Beach while the other four were busy brawling outside of the ring.

WINNERS: Flying Daredevils by pinfall in 10:18 C-

Four-way for ESE Prince Of Studios title

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http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/CaliforniaLoveMachine_zps9d479b85.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Wooton%20Fitzpaine_zpsds0t0p02.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rudy%20Velasquez_zpsui4tl8rk.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hector%20Galindo_zpsjdrnglfp.jpg

Californian Love Machine vs. Wooton Fitzpaine vs. Rudy Velasquez vs. Hector Galindo

While this was supposed to every man for himself, it felt much more like a tag match as Latino Kings worked together from the beginning and afte Love Machine and Wooton realized that, they made an alliance in order to fight back the Latino Kings. Despite the alliance, it was Latino Kings who gained the win partly thanks to their better teamwork and partly because they didn´t mind bending the rules when it helped them and it was Rudy Velasquez who became the first Prince Of Studios champion after he pinned Wooton for the win.

WINNER: Rudy Velasquez by pinfall in 10:05 D

1 vs. 1

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Remmy Skye vs. Billy Russell

This was another close match between these two and it closely mirrored the first two matches these two had in ESE on that Russell starting aggressively and Remmy getting more and more into game as the match continued. However, this time Remmy´s comeback didn´t end on victory as Russell uses poke into eye to stop Remmy and gained a win via Grounded Knee Flurry while Remmy was still trying to clear his vision from the eye poke.

WINNER: Billy Russell by pinfall in 13:58 C

ANGLE:

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Russell doesn´t seem satisfied on just winning the match as he continues his attack on Skye after the match, beating him down some more before officials finally managed to get him off on Remmy. D

Four-way for the King of the Network title

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http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Greg%20Black_zpsf8uuvyds.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Kid%20Toma_zpsbkkofad0.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jack%20Griffith_zpsbjgp8tsw.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hells%20Bouncer_zpsggokrkpb.jpg /w. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Carl%20Batch_zpshdpherrg.jpg

Greg Black vs. Kid Toma vs. Jack Griffith /w. Carl Batch vs. Hell´s Bouncer /w. Carl Batch

This started much on the same way than the earlier four man match with Griffith and Bouncer clearly working together but instead of teaming up, Black and Toma let their mutual distrust hinder them and they both tried to fight Griffith and Bouncer (and occasionally each other´s) alone, something that didn´t really work despite netting few close calls and thus Griffith managed to retain his title by pinning Toma after connecting with Jack In A Box while Bouncer kept Black from interfering.

WINNER: Jack Griffith by pinfall in 14:24 C+

Show Rating: C-

PPV Buy Rate: 0.42

Comments: I´m satisfied with the ratings here, main event especially delivered as did the six-man tag match and Russell vs. Skye. The match between Future Is Here and Ring Generals suffered a bit from being 4th match between the two teams in a short time so D+ is acceptable result there. As for the booking, Griffith won´t be dropping the belt quite yet and having Bouncer there helped him to keep the belt while at the same time, gave Toma and Black a reason to lose. I´m thinking about giving Griffith a new challenger next since the current set of storylines have now run three months and I feel it starts to be a bit hard to find new ways to keep the story going. That said, between Toma and Black, at least one of them are likely to get a title shot again sooner rather than later but I feel like month or two brake at the least makes sense and I plan to those two having a bit of a mini-feud in order to short their problems between each other´s. Yes, that would be face vs. face but while that´s not ideal, I´m more open on that than heel vs. heel matches and I feel that it´s warranted considering that the tension between the two basically cost them more than one match during this feud. Future Is Here also needs new challengers after beating the Ring Generals for the third time in four matches. I felt that I needed to give Generals at least one win, hence why there were four matches instead of three but I wasn´t going to have Future Is Here drop the belts quite yet so they won the title match. I have to admit that Future Is Here looks bit dominant in the current tag division, especially now that they defeated Ring Generals so I have to eventually figure a way to get belts off from them. Luckily, that don´t need to happen anytime soon so I have plenty of time to figure that one out. Russell did get win over Remmy simply because Remmy had now beaten Russell twice (once in King of Network tournament and once in last PPV) so it was Russell´s turn to win as I felt that the feud hadn´t yet gone long enough for me to cut it, hence it will continue to next PPV, though it probably needs to be on the undercard since it´s their 4th match. Prince of Studios match did go to Velasquez, again thanks to him having an ally in the match. Looking back, having two four-way matches probably weren´t the best idea, especially since both worked pretty much on a same way (heel´s playing together because of being teammates) and that was lack of forward planning from me that caused that one. It might also be bit odd that heels were able to play together in both cases too but I don´t have any plans to break either group (not yet anyway) and thus decided to go with the easy option of having no tension in the team by having the “leader” get the win in both cases. Again, certainly not one of my best executed plans but then again, no one weren´t expecting me to have any great ideas in the first place, right? The six-man tag were there to give Daredevils something to do (and giving Fernandez and Jett a much needed win, while Donnie protected the other team with his popularity), while Phunk against Langton was simply there to a) put Phunk in the PPV and give him bit of momentum and b) hopefully getting some popularity for Langton even via losing as PPV´s seem to be much more important on popularity gains/losses than TV shows and thus I would like to use my top guys in each PPV if for nothing else than having them go over random jobber/midcarder in hopes of helping the lesser guy´s popularity by a little bit. On the angles, the Five Stars one was admittedly not much else than meeting the minimum angle time requirement (though possibility to give some popularity to different Five Star members did play a factor too) while Russell beating Skye was there to signal that the feud isn´t over yet. On other backstage news, Donnie continues to take other Daredevils under his wings on real life as well since Frankie-Boy Fernandez is now his protégé (he´s also mentoring Californian Love Machine).

Zergon · December 26, 2015

This round:

KnowYourEnemy 6/6

BHK1978 4/6

Predictions Contest:

BHK1978 15/20

KnowYourEnemy 14/13

Kitarzu 11/14

jameschaos 6/7

DAVEFAN95 5/7

all contracts are p.p.a deals unless otherwise noted

Company news:

21UK:

-

4C:

-

5SSW:

-

AAA:

-

ACPW:

Signed Anne Stardust

Signed Archie Judge

Malic Cash walked out

Jay Becker left ACPW

APW:

-

BCG:

-

BHOTWG:

Sessue Kawate left BHOTWG.

CGC:

Signed Roger Cage to written

Signed Mainstream Hernandez to written

CILL:

-

CZCW:

-

DIW:

-

EMLL:

-

EWA:

Henrick Van Bon left EWA

EX2010:

-

FCW:

Lost Mainstream Hernandez to CGC

Signed Snap Dragon

GCG:

-

GSW:

Lost Mainstream Hernandez to CGC

Lost Roger Cage to CGC

Hinote Dojo:

Signed Reaper Dante on touring contract

Signed Diamande Azul on touring contract

IPW:

Panda Mask II quit.

Signed Madman Boone

MAW:

Signed Nate DeMarcus

MPWF:

-

NOTBPW:

Signed Frankie Dee on written.

C. H. Threepwood left NOTBPW

NYCW:

Rise to regional size

Lost Roger Cage to CGC

Signed Sayeed Ali

Signed Kirk Jameson

Signed Rayne Man

Signed Kip Keenan

Signed Findley O´Farraday

Signed Riley McManus

OLLIE:

Signed Mateo Iglesias

PGHW:

Recalled SATO from development

PSW:

-

PWC:

Signed Jay Flair

Signed Alex Braun

Signed Krissy Angelle

Signed Ash Campbell

Signed Bradford Peverell

Signed Mobstar

Signed Mitch Naess

Signed Akima Brave

Signed Nelson Callum

Signed Joffy Laine

Signed Frantic Ali

Signed Mean Jean Cattley

Signed Brendan Idol

Signed Dazzling Dave Diamond

Signed Robbie Wright

Signed Duke Hazzard

Signed Nathaniel Ca$ino

Signed Matt Hocking

Signed Fiasco Fierce

Signed Herb Stately

Signed The Silencer

Signed Midnight Prowler

Signed Wilson Carlisle

Signed MC Motormouth

Signed Clark Alexander

Signed Archie Judge

Signed Findley O´Farraday

QAW:

-

RAW:

-

RIPW:

-

Saisho:

Signed Namboku Makuda

SOTBPW:

-

SWF:

-

TCW:

-

UEW:

-

USPW:

-

WEXXV:

Henry Lee leaves WEXXV

VWA:

Signed Byron

Signed Cristopher Lister

Night Spyder left VWA

WLW:

Rise to cult size

ZEN:

-

Biggest news for this month were WLW and NYCW rising on size and CGC signing Roger Cage and Mainstream Hernandez on written. Other than that, PCW picked their starting roster and NYCW signed some interesting names after growing to regional. VWA also grew stronger by signing both Byron and Lister to contracts while only dropping Night Spyder.

Zergon · January 2, 2016

June 2013

Monday Week 1

Dark Matches:

1 vs. 1

Ring Generals (Marv Statler & Dean Waldorf) /w. Dharma Gregg vs. Acid II & Bradley Blaze

WINNERS: Ring Generals by pinfall in 5:01 D

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/ESE-1_zps4n7ctrsa.jpg

ESE POWER

McGaw Arena (Tri State)

Attendance: 4481

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Roger%20Rogers_zps8y3juzkd.jpg

Show starts with Roger Rogers explaining that it´s time to find new challenger for Jack Griffith and in this night´s main event, we will do just that as four men will compete on the opportunity to be the next challenger. And the four men are Grandmaster Phunk, Billy Russell, Remmy Skye and Donnie J. C

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rudy%20Velasquez_zpsui4tl8rk.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hector%20Galindo_zpsjdrnglfp.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jesus%20Chavez_zpscjqhq2zu.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/CaliforniaLoveMachine_zps9d479b85.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jacob%20Jett_zpsdrmsww5r.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Frankie-Boy%20Fernandes_zpspzts2oef.jpg

Rudy Velasquez leads the Latino Kings in the ring next and starts bragging how he and Latino Kings made history when he won the Prince of Studios belt and that audience might as well get used to seeing belts on Latino Kings waist since this will just be the first of many titles that they are going to win here in ESE. Flying Daredevils (minus Donnie) show up and Love Machine reminds everyone that only reason Rudy holds the belt now is because Galindo had his back in the four-way title match and that if that match would have been one versus one match, Rudy wouldn´t be the champion now. Rudy obviously doesn´t agree and after bit of back-and-forth argument, Latino Kings and Flying Daredevils agree on three versus three match for next week and if Daredevils win, all three members (Donnie isn´t included since he has other things to do) get a title shot for the belt but if they lose, none of them cannot challenge for the belt as long as one of the Latino Kings hold the belt. E+

3 vs. 3

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Quentin%20Queen%20ndash%20Kopio_zpsshpojan2.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rockin%20Ryan%20Turner_zpssrqa8p1z.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Stan%20Manna_zpsracwgjzt.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Rudy%20Velasquez_zpsui4tl8rk.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hector%20Galindo_zpsjdrnglfp.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jesus%20Chavez_zpscjqhq2zu.jpg

Quentin Queen & The Rock City Stars (Rockin´ Ryan Turner & Stan Manna) vs. Latino Kings (Rudy Velasquez & Hector Galindo & Jesus Chavez)

Right after agreeing on 3 vs. 3 match for next week, Latino Kings had chance to hone their skills and teamwork on this one and that exactly what they did, putting up a dominating performance with Chavez getting the final pin on Queen after putting him out via The 187 Neckbreaker.

WINNERS: Latino Kings by pinfall in 4:39 D-

2 vs. 2

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Wooton%20Fitzpaine_zpsds0t0p02.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Thimbleby%20Langton_zpshya42z7x.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hellech_zps90nhfdtr.jpg & http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Pierrot_zpsyg6iuvqc.jpg

The Good Ol´ Boys (Wooton Fitzpaine & Thimbleby Langton) vs. Coulrophobia (Hellech & Pierrot)

These two teams have faced each other´s few times already in ESE´s short history and so far it has been Good Ol´ Boys who had come out on top and nothing was changed this time around as Fitzpaine and Langton drew their smaller opponents around the ring before Langton putting end for it via Gutwrench Flapjack on Hellech.

WINNERS: The Good Ol´ Boys by pinfall in 5:20 D

ANGLE:

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After their match, Good Ol´ Boys take microphones and demand a tag title shot from Rogers, however before rogers can answer, Rich And Famous interfere and declare that they deserve the shot more. Rogers arranges a match between the two teams for next week and winners will get the title shot in ESE Dark Day. E+

1 vs. 1

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Greg%20Black_zpsf8uuvyds.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Jake%20Idol%20ndash%20Kopio_zpsxqqyorgj.jpg

Greg Black vs. Jake Idol

Idol stayed on ring after receiving a tag title shot opportunity for next week but if he tried to impress and gain momentum for that big match, he did fell bit flat as Black was on no mood to play and while Idol did manage to gain enough offence to make this a real match instead of one sided beat up, the winner was never really on question and Black finished Idol via Fade to Black on eight minutes mark to prove that point right.

WINNER: Greg Black by pinfall in 8:09 C

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Greg%20Black_zpsf8uuvyds.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Kid%20Toma_zpsbkkofad0.jpg

After his match, Black picks up a microphone and addresses the earlier announcement from Rogers. He admits that he´s not particularly happy to hear he´s not in the contention right now as far as King of the Network title goes, but also admits that he had his chances and so understands why he has to get back into line. And, there is a bit of silver lining in this (according to Black anyway) as this gives him time to settle his differences with Kid Toma who Black calls to join him in the ring. Toma isn´t one to back out from challenges so he does appear, looking to be ready for a fight. Black tells Toma that they both know their recent issues with each others have costed them more than one chance to beat Griffith so he suggest that they will solve their issues with the only way they can be solved in wrestling, in a ring. Toma seems more than happy to start a match right now but Black tells Toma that the match will happen in ESE Dark Day (next PPV, obviously). Toma agrees on that saying that he´s more than happy to give Black a beating that is long overdue. D

Four-way, winner gets a King of the Network title shot

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/RemmySkye_zps435007cd.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Donnie%20J_zpsao0qfonh.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Billy%20Russell_zpsqdgujpbd.jpg vs. http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Grandmaster%20Phunk_zpsadyjvwwo.jpg

Remmy Skye vs. Donnie J vs. Billy Russell vs. Grandmaster Phunk

With title shot on the line, everyone started cautiously and made sure to keep their eyes on all three opponents in order to see possible pinfall attemps. Of course, that state of affairs couldn´t continue for ever and soon the match heated up with the four men starting to take more risks in order to gain the necassery advantage to gain the win. Everyone in this match had their close calls during the match and it could easily had been anyone´s match but at the end, it was Donnie who gained the all important three count when he pinned Russell, after series of finishing moves had put everyone else out.

WINNER: Donnie J by pinfall in 11:52 C

ANGLE:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Donnie%20J_zpsao0qfonh.jpghttp://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/zergon_81/Hells%20Bouncer_zpsggokrkpb.jpg

Donnie doesn´t get any time to celebrate his new number one contender status as he is attacked by Hell´s Bouncer right after the match. Bouncer proceed to beat Donnie down while announcers discuss the situation with Turner praising how smart Griffith is while Rogers and McArthuer have some less nice words to say about Griffith and Five Stars. Still, despite their different opinions about Five Stars methods, all three agree that they are a tough group and that Donnie needs to bring his A-game (and preferably some allies) if he wants to have any chance in Dark Days as otherwise it will indeed be very dark day for Donnie. C

Show Rating: C

TV Rating: 1.26

Comments: We actually got C? And didn´t lose popularity? Wow, I wasn´t expecting that from a show were I didn´t even use the likes of Griffith and Future Is Here at all and were most of the undercard was midcard guys beating jobbers and having angles with each other´s but hey, I take it. The main event was good as expected and finding a new challenger was a perfect excuse to put four guys in the main event… and it did advance Remmy vs. Russell storyline as well. Donnie did get the win, mainly because Skye is still tied with Russell this month and Phunk vs. Griffith would be heel vs. heel and thus not a great main event. The other main happenings on this show were actually angles since the matches were more or less filler matches meant to give momentum to certain wrestlers while angles were there to forward most of the current feuds as well as to build some new ones. Bouncer attacking Donnie was obviously there for ratings but also because I continue to use Bouncer in Griffith´s feuds and that nicely leads to Donnie vs Bouncer on next card which hopefully makes a solid TV main event (assuming I don´t figure out any other match that would absolutely need to be the main event instead of it). Black calling Toma out sets a match for them at next PPV since they have kind of unfinished business with each other´s thanks to their recent feud with Griffith were their infighting made them ineffective to fight against Griffith + Bouncer. Black getting win over Idol was just there to set the angle up after it but it did net a nice rating too which is always a bonus. Good Ol´ Boys getting win was similar set-up to allow then to voice a challenge towards Future Is Here expect Rich And Famous is going to be involved as well on that feud since… well why not? Latino Kings against Daredevils will set-up some title defense opportunities for Velasquez (I guess it surprises no-one if I tell that Daredevils are set to win that three vs. three match?) while the match after that was just meant to give Latino Kings a bit of momentum and also to give win for Chavez and Galindo since they tend to pick more losses than wins when I´m booking them. Dark match was there for the usual reasons of giving winners some momentum and doubling as training match for the losing side.

Zergon · January 14, 2016

Lack of updates have probably made this obvious by now but I feel that I should still make it official. I´m unfortunately going to end this diary here as I just haven´t had any motivation to go forward with it, mainly because other games have taken priority lately and I just don´t have time for this at the time being.

Big thanks to anyone who took time to vote my roster and/or read/predicted this one, this wouldn´t had worked without you and I do feel like I wasted your time with this but hopefully it was at least entertaining while it lasted. As for future, I don´t have any plans to do another diary anytime soon, at least not until I find a new spark and can be reasonable sure that it won´t die as quickly as this one did but I will still be in this forum and will predict on other people´s diaries just as before.

So again, thank you for your participation during this diary and sorry that this ended way before it´s time.

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