Official "Booking Committee" Thread

[Guest Asaemon]

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So how would you guys book Jake Roberts and Ricky Steamboat in 1995? The AI signed them to huge contracts, before i took control and "The Snake" even got a "Creative Clausule".</p><p> </p><p>

Bret Hart is still the World champ and hasn't lost the title to Diesel yet. While Razor Ramon is the Intercontinental champ and feuding with both Shawn Michaels and Jeff Jarrett/The Roadie.</p><p> </p><p>

Steamboat never had his career ending injury and leaved WCW for WWF for this huge contract. He was WCW US champ in december 1994 so why should he give that up for just money? Would he have been promised a Intercontinental title run? He's pretty great in the ring so he should be able to deliver the goods with workers like Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart and Hakushi.</p><p> </p><p>

Steamboat is currently feuding with Jake Roberts, but what would you do next? Should Jake Roberts get involved in the World title chase? He pretty much already got the salary and left the main event of AAA and CWA for WWF and got a "Creative Clausule". So Vince must have something special in mind for Jake? </p><p> </p><p>

<span style="font-size:8px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Main Eventers are currently:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Bret Hart (F) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>World champ feuding with Diesel</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

British Bulldog (H) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>part of Camp Cornette and feuding with The New Foundation</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Diesel (H) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>feuding with Bret Hart</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Jake Roberts (H) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>feuding with Ricky Steamboat</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Lex Luger (F) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>feuding with Rick Martel</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Razor Ramon (F) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>(IC champ feuding with Shawn Michaels and Jeff Jarrett/The Roadie</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Ricky Steamboat (F) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>feuding with Jake Roberts</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

Shawn Michaels (H) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em>feuding with Razor Ramon and Jeff Jarrett/The Roadie</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

The Undertaker (F) </span><span style="font-size:8px;"><em> feuding with The Million Dollar Corporation</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:8px;">

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[cappyboy]

<p>What are your plans for Lex Luger? And perhaps for that matter, Rick Martel? If you're willing to let Luger walk, then maybe you have whoever's going to take his main event spot win the feud and run Lex out of the company. Thereby offending Steamboat's in character sensibilities and the riser could feud with Ricky to solidify his place. And then you re-evaulate Steamboat from there.</p><p> </p><p>

As for Jake, what I'm seeing is him trying to ingratiate himself to Diesel. Convincing the big man he has the recipe for beating Bret and will share it with Big Daddy Cool. But what Diesel doesn't know is that behind the scenes Roberts is trying to finagle his own way to the title and is using the big man as a patsy. What's supposed to be the Hart/Diesel blowoff is suddenly a triple threat. Which Jake wins. Thereby screwing both men. Diesel, being the younger, hotter head takes immediate offense and tries unsuccessfully to pry the belt from Jake. While Bret takes a different tack. He recognizes he needs to sharpen his mental defenses before seeking his revenge on The Snake. So Bret takes on someone like Goldust to become more adept at fighting Jake's psychological warfare. Building to Bret regaining the belt from Jake and then Diesel taking a second crack at Bret after a feud that restores his luster.</p>

[Guest Asaemon]

<p>Luger won a Loser Leaves Town Match at Wrestlemania, so Martel is leaving. The plan is for Luger to jump ship and join WCW in september and debut on Nitro. I was planning on Luger getting a pretty strong King of the Ring run and finish as the Runner-Up losing to British Bulldog. So your suggestion could work. Maybe i should have Camp Cornette (British Bulldog, Hakushi, the returning Yokozuna and the new addition The Sultan) run Luger out of town.</p><p> </p><p>

Yeah a Triple Threat; i really like that idea. Jake Roberts actually won the Royal Rumble so he got a title shot at Wrestlemania vs Bret in an Iron Man match that ended in an draw. So playing some mind games with Bret and Diesel might be the perfect way to go.</p><p> </p><p>

Golddust isn't available yet, but maybe Waylon Mercy could be the stepping stone. He's got pretty good performance and entertainment skills and actually don't have anything for him at the moment after terrorizing poor Typhoon out of WWF.</p>

[Valkyria]

<p>Hello there,</p><p> </p><p>

I have a small problem and maybe one of you could help me out. In my Golden Age WWF game I am running towards Wrestlemania V and at this point I have 2-3 legit Contender towards Stings WWF Title: Ted DiBiase, Ric Flair and Larry Zbyszko. I am thinking about a 3-Way Dance to find a #1 Contender.</p><p> </p><p>

So here is my Question: When was the first Triple Thread and/or Fatal Fourway Match in Wrestling? In Which Year?</p><p> </p><p>

Thanks for your help.</p>

[DeathZone2]

I'm not sure about overall wrestling but the first televised triple threat in wwf was in 1997, not sure about four ways though

[Guest Asaemon]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Valkyria" data-cite="Valkyria" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hello there,<p> </p><p> I have a small problem and maybe one of you could help me out. In my Golden Age WWF game I am running towards Wrestlemania V and at this point I have 2-3 legit Contender towards Stings WWF Title: Ted DiBiase, Ric Flair and Larry Zbyszko. I am thinking about a 3-Way Dance to find a #1 Contender.</p><p> </p><p> So here is my Question: When was the first Triple Thread and/or Fatal Fourway Match in Wrestling? In Which Year?</p><p> </p><p> Thanks for your help.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> SMW booked Triple Threat Matches in 1993, then ECW followed with the Three Way Dance. WCW experimented with the Triangle Match in 1994.</p>

[Valkyria]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Asaemon" data-cite="Asaemon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>SMW booked Triple Threat Matches in 1993, then ECW followed with the Three Way Dance. WCW experimented with the Triangle Match in 1994.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thats not good. My limit was max. 2 Years prior.</p><p> </p><p> Any other Ideas? I have 3 weeks left until Mania and my plan is for Larry Zbyszko to detrone Sting after Bobby Heenan (Zbyszkos Manager) sends the Family to assault Sting while the Referee is knocked out.</p>

[DeathZone2]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Valkyria" data-cite="Valkyria" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thats not good. My limit was max. 2 Years prior.<p> </p><p> Any other Ideas? I have 3 weeks left until Mania and my plan is for Larry Zbyszko to detrone Sting after Bobby Heenan (Zbyszkos Manager) sends the Family to assault Sting while the Referee is knocked out.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You could pull some 80's shenanigans, DiBiase bribes his way into a #1 Contenders match, and Zbysko beats Flair to face off against Teddy, then Zbysko beats him to face Sting.</p>

[Jaysin]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Valkyria" data-cite="Valkyria" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thats not good. My limit was max. 2 Years prior.<p> </p><p> Any other Ideas? I have 3 weeks left until Mania and my plan is for Larry Zbyszko to detrone Sting after Bobby Heenan (Zbyszkos Manager) sends the Family to assault Sting while the Referee is knocked out.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Have a quick round robin tournament with the three with Larry Z winning.</p>

[cappyboy]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Asaemon" data-cite="Asaemon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> </p><p> Golddust isn't available yet, but maybe Waylon Mercy could be the stepping stone. He's got pretty good performance and entertainment skills and actually don't have anything for him at the moment after terrorizing poor Typhoon out of WWF.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Any psychological warrior would do. Goldust was just the first name that jumped in my mind for that kind of heel</p>

[Lex Star]

<p>I'm trying something I've never done before.... a comedy promotion. My product is</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Key Features:</strong> Comedy</p><p>

<strong>Heavy Features:</strong> Mainstream</p><p>

<strong>Medium Features:</strong> Risque and Modern</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Women's Wrestling:</strong> Integrated</p><p> </p><p>

I plan on having a World Championship that is treated as seriously as a company can with comedy as a key feature. It won't have anything crazy comedy-wise except the gimmicks of the wrestlers involved, so if you dreamed of watching a serious wrestling match between a stoner and a sci-fi geek this is the place. However... everything else .... I'm trying to come up with some hilarious match stipulations, tournament concepts, title gimmicks, etc.</p><p> </p><p>

The only two I can think of is....</p><p> </p><p>

Iron Man Championship - a title contest solely in 5-Minute, yes 5-Minute Iron Man matches. I'd create this match type, with the match style definitely Comedy Based. The commentators would praise how much endurance the champion has.</p><p> </p><p>

A Tag Team tournament where every team consists of one face and one heel, so the face/heel dynamic is constantly switching sides depending on who is tagged in on each team, with emphasis on comedy. No idea what to call it though.</p><p> </p><p>

If anyone has any ideas on what I could add to a comedy promotion I'd like some input. I will be playing in the C-Verse, so if anyone knows workers from the C-Verse indies that can work in the USA that would fit in, I'd like your input.</p><p> </p><p>

If you have some wacky title concepts or match gimmicks, I'd like to know.</p>

[Matt_Black]

Well, off the top of my head, Joanna Silver with her pirate gimmick would seem to be a natural choice.

[sheepy]

<p>Russo era TNA is your friend here.</p><p> </p><p>

Feast or Fired match where they only have "fired" briefcases every year.</p><p> </p><p>

A cage match where no one can actually physically climb out of the cage despite that being the only way to win (the wrestlers could end up having to team up mid match just to escape the thing).</p><p> </p><p>

A stable of jobbers dressed in morph suits (but one of them happens to be awesome)</p>

[Valkyria]

So i am playing my Golden Age mod save and I have a problem: I am 2 Weeks after Wrestlemania V and after 2 Years of in Game Time and i have absolutely nothing to do for my Woman's Division. Their Last match was at the Royal Rumble and none of the Woman has been seen on TV for Month. So since i have no idea what to do with them, here is my question: Should i just kill the Womans Division and release all of my 11 Woman?

[Jazz49ers]

So i am playing my Golden Age mod save and I have a problem: I am 2 Weeks after Wrestlemania V and after 2 Years of in Game Time and i have absolutely nothing to do for my Woman's Division. Their Last match was at the Royal Rumble and none of the Woman has been seen on TV for Month. So since i have no idea what to do with them, here is my question: Should i just kill the Womans Division and release all of my 11 Woman?

 

Booking a Women's division for my WWF game has been one of the hardest things I've done. I started in 1985 and actually didn't start using Women until 1990. 6 years later, I still struggle with it. Before killing it, ask yourself why? Is it because you've been using the same 11 wrestlers? If so, maybe release a few, and bring some new ones in?

[Valkyria]

Booking a Women's division for my WWF game has been one of the hardest things I've done. I started in 1985 and actually didn't start using Women until 1990. 6 years later, I still struggle with it. Before killing it, ask yourself why? Is it because you've been using the same 11 wrestlers? If so, maybe release a few, and bring some new ones in?

 

Already done that. In November whan i started to use the womans division less and less i let Desiree Patterson and the Jumping Bomb Angels go and brought in Rockin Robin and Monster Ripper. But that did not really help me.

[Jazz49ers]

My only other suggestions then would be to either shake it up by doing something you've yet to do (I did a year long title reign with a heel Jaguar Yokota that ended with her being upset by a rookie coming in and beating her) or by scrapping it for a few years until some newer workers come along that you might want to use again.

[Valkyria]

I am playing around on the Idea to start an ECW-Save for quite some time now. But here is the thing, my last try on a performancy over pop Company was horrible about 2 Years ago.

 

Any tipps for me how to book ECW and in which year to start?

[Hashasheen]

<p>I'm working on an alternate version of Black Canvas Grappling, where Pistol Pete Hall stays with GCG and instead of American hosses the BCG theme is British and European grapplers. </p><p> </p><p>

I want to have a secondary title that reflects that change instead of the Challenger Series Championship, but I'm not sure what to call it. I'm currently stuck between the "Catch Division Championship" and the "British Heritage Championship", and the core of this change are ROF guys like Henderson, Robinson, Samurai, O'Curle and Svensson who will work with ex-INSPIRE talent (who I'm adopting instead of some of the OG BCG natives like Yokokawa, Sen, etc... that will go elsewhere). </p><p> </p><p>

Should I try and focus more on the ROF aspect and use some sort of "fire" theme? Should I focus more on the catch aspect? The European aspect? Any ideas?</p>

[Bigpapa42]

I'm working on an alternate version of Black Canvas Grappling, where Pistol Pete Hall stays with GCG and instead of American hosses the BCG theme is British and European grapplers.

 

I want to have a secondary title that reflects that change instead of the Challenger Series Championship, but I'm not sure what to call it. I'm currently stuck between the "Catch Division Championship" and the "British Heritage Championship", and the core of this change are ROF guys like Henderson, Robinson, Samurai, O'Curle and Svensson who will work with ex-INSPIRE talent (who I'm adopting instead of some of the OG BCG natives like Yokokawa, Sen, etc... that will go elsewhere).

 

Should I try and focus more on the ROF aspect and use some sort of "fire" theme? Should I focus more on the catch aspect? The European aspect? Any ideas?

 

If its directly going to be an overt connection to ROF rather than British wrestling as a whole, then something with either Ring or Fire as a clear intent would make sense. The problem with giving it a "Brit" label of some sort is that it then looks a bit weird if a non-Brit wins it.

 

Similar question... Was gonna ask in the BHOTWG thread but thought I would try here too. Booking BHOTWG and looking to add a midcard singles title. I know they had a secondary main title before (King of Fighters) and a previous mid-card title (Openweight, I think). Could re-use one of those but thought I would solicit suggestions. Not really looking to make it too targeted or create a new division for it. Just something that could give a bit more meat to any mid-card singles feuds. So suggestions and ideas for names for it?

[Hashasheen]

Similar question... Was gonna ask in the BHOTWG thread but thought I would try here too. Booking BHOTWG and looking to add a midcard singles title. I know they had a secondary main title before (King of Fighters) and a previous mid-card title (Openweight, I think). Could re-use one of those but thought I would solicit suggestions. Not really looking to make it too targeted or create a new division for it. Just something that could give a bit more meat to any mid-card singles feuds. So suggestions and ideas for names for it?

 

 

Pick up some of the old HINOTE Dojo titles, brand them as BHOTWG and as youngster titles and use them at the bottom of the cards.

[Skywalker1976]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> Similar question... Was gonna ask in the BHOTWG thread but thought I would try here too. Booking BHOTWG and looking to add a midcard singles title. I know they had a secondary main title before (King of Fighters) and a previous mid-card title (Openweight, I think). Could re-use one of those but thought I would solicit suggestions. Not really looking to make it too targeted or create a new division for it. Just something that could give a bit more meat to any mid-card singles feuds. So suggestions and ideas for names for it?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I always thought a submission title would work nicely in a puro fed a give and add certain twist to matches and the title.</p>

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Hashasheen" data-cite="Hashasheen" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Pick up some of the old HINOTE Dojo titles, brand them as BHOTWG and as youngster titles and use them at the bottom of the cards.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Flat out forgot the Hinote dojo titles. I'm totally doing this... but for lower card talent. Once I'm past a Grand Prix I'm booking, I will drop one of weekly tour shows and add a B show on TV to give the lower card talent some more spotlight. The Hinote title would work great with that. </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Skywalker1976" data-cite="Skywalker1976" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I always thought a submission title would work nicely in a puro fed a give and add certain twist to matches and the title.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Nice idea. Fits in pretty well with the Burning Hammer product too. I'm just not sure I want to make the title too "restrictive". Same with some of the other ideas I've mulled, like Under-30 title, Gaijin title, etc.</p>

[Historian]

Flat out forgot the Hinote dojo titles. I'm totally doing this... but for lower card talent. Once I'm past a Grand Prix I'm booking, I will drop one of weekly tour shows and add a B show on TV to give the lower card talent some more spotlight. The Hinote title would work great with that.

 

Tell me you're going to take the Dragon title? That's my favorite looking title in the game.

[Bigpapa42]

Tell me you're going to take the Dragon title? That's my favorite looking title in the game.

 

Don't have the game in front of me at the moment.... is the dragon belt the top belt for Hinote? There are a couple slick renders for Hinote belts, TBH. Enough reason right there to take Hash's idea.

 

With the existing Burning Hammer belts, three new Grand Prix tournaments added, the Openweight title (or whatever it ends up being called) and the resurrected Hinote title.... I'm gonna end up with as many titles as current New Japan has. Not intentional at all either.