Official "Booking Committee" Thread

[Jaysin]

Playing as PGHW in CV 1997 and I'm coming up on one of the big 4 events with Night of Honor. Hito Ichihara is my champion and the initial plan was to have him drop the title to Nobuatsu Tatsuko and usher in a bit of a youth phase after the companies first year in existence was spent mostly relying on the older established guys. Tatsuko's defining moment was to be the Honda Tadakatsu Invitational (8 man scramble match for a right to go to Night of Honor and fight for the title.) Unfortunately in the final match, which Tatsuko won, he suffered an injury that will end his tour. Thus we are left with a big 4 event without a clear cut main event. Below are my ideas to fill the spot.

 

1. Lee Wright - Lee Wright has risen to 90+ popularity in my game and is putting on violent brawl after violent brawl even surpassing Dread in terms of popularity in Japan. He is the clear cut top gaijin in the company. He also has a ready made storyline with Hito Ichihara going to a 30 minute draw with him in this year's Elite Series and then later scoring a pinfall victory over him and calling him out for a title shot. Unfortunately for Lee that title shot never materialized, however this could be a match that rights that wrong? Unfortunately if I did go with Lee it would mean scraping another well built storyline between Wright and his partner Raymond Diaz and The Rebellion. They are scheduled to face off for the Glory Tag Crown in a match that is sure to bring the house down (Wright is 90+ pop, 2 of the others 80+, and the straggler is 75+). The Rebellion will take the titles here with Wright & Diaz winning the Tag Team Elite Series next tour to set up a main event level re-match to cap that tour off. If Wright gets the shot here I have to rebook all of that but I'm sure I could come up with something. It just wouldn't make any sense to me to have The Rebellion enter the Elite Series and being forced to win to earn a title shot when the build suggests they have clearly earned it at this point.

 

2. Mito Miwa - Miwa is coming off an injury that forced him to vacate his PGHW Tokyo Prefecture Championship and is considered one of the very top 3 young guns in the company. He also happens to be Nobuatsu Tatsuko's kayfabe best friend and could use that as a means to build a match. Miwa has not yet returned but has the green light to return in 6 days, plenty of time to make the event and give it a proper build. Tatsuko stepped in for Miwa and faced Danger Kumasaka for his championship when Miwa was hurt and ultimately lost, Miwa would be returning the favor of sorts and stepping in here(and causing a bit more drama [Tatsuko "losing" Miwa's title also being a source of drama] by being the first of the two to receive a title shot). Of course if I go that route, it would be at the expense of Miwa-Kumasaka (and Kumasaka is EXACTLY the type of guy Miwa should be working with right now to train him up). Miwa is not as far along as Tatsuko and would not be a candidate to actually win this match. His psychology appears to be lower as is his popularity. In fact he is least over of all the candidates to replace Tatsuko, but it would further the long term burn of an eventual Tatsuko-Miwa split if he returned the favor here and stepped in.

 

3. Eisaku Hoshino - Hoshino has quietly became one of the companies' early success stories. The young 23 year old has built himself up to low 90's high 80's everywhere in Japan and his recent stretch of matchups show he may be ready as he only has a couple of sub 80 rated matches this tour and is coming off a 91 with Koryusai Kitoaji in the Honda Tadakatsu Invitational. Hoshino has no built in storyline, but he is free of anything right now and would be a candidate to actually win the title here setting the stage for a returning Nobuatsu Tatsuko to chase him. If he isn't in this matchup, he is the PGHW Historical Japan Champion and a contender will be set up for him between now and the big show (that contender just hasn't been picked yet) so it isn't like he has nothing to do. He has just simply gotten so over so quickly (March he was 49 and now 89 in August in the same zone) that he hasn't had a lot of stories built up for him besides his current defending champion one.

 

4. Yoshifusa Maeda - Maeda is a legend in Japan and the ace of a rival company that also splits his time with us. Sounds like a super fight....except we already did it May and it was great. This is our hail mary we don't want to mess with anything and we just want to close this tour with the status quo. Would allow for us to put on a main event quality matchup ending with an Ichihara victory and we could then continue Ichihara-Nobuatsu next tour without tearing up any additional storylines we have built up this tour. Honestly, this would probably be the best QUALITY matchup we could put on.

 

All of our other top guys have either exhausted their believable amount of title shots (you lose twice to the same guy I'm not selling that a third time) or are in the middle of what I would call a blood feud that simply can't be postponed. What would you guys do here if you were booking it?

 

I'd go with Hoshino, but he's one of my favorites

[TheJG]

I'm doing a 2001 game now and Palumbo & O'Haire are about to drop the titles to Totally Buffed who have aligned with Stacy Kiebler. They've been running a regular feature called Pose Party where they give their thoughts on things going on in WCW whilst posing and oiling up.

 

They are about to win a tournament and take the titles and then hold them until the end of the year where they will drop them to Awesome and Storm who have been recruited (along with Dustin Rhodes and AJ Styles) to form the new 4 Horsemen.

 

I think Chuck and O'Haire may go on a bit of a losing streak once they've dropped the titles but not sure yet

 

I like that. Totally Buffed are over as well so they could probably win the titles after a quick feud with Palumbo & O'Haire, then hold onto the titles until I've built some other face teams up.

 

Another question for everyone - any ideas on what to call a WCW single's tournament in the style of King of the Ring?

[Danny_H22]

I like that. Totally Buffed are over as well so they could probably win the titles after a quick feud with Palumbo & O'Haire, then hold onto the titles until I've built some other face teams up.

 

Another question for everyone - any ideas on what to call a WCW single's tournament in the style of King of the Ring?

 

I felt like Totally Buffed were too popular to do nothing with but I had no intentions of them going for the WCW. They can hold the titles half the year and fill time with their regular Pose Party Skits. Then when they drop them to either a young team or Team Canada who Flair have recruited for the Horsemen, the title should carry some value.

 

I struggled with something similar after introducing a MITB type match (no set number of participants and the match type changes yearly. Dusty Rhodes picks the entrants based on who impressed him the most). In the end I settled on the Golden Opportunity and held it at Great American Bash. I'm still not sold on my name and may change it for next year.

[Danny_H22]

Currently doing a 2001 WCW save

 

WCW title scene - Booker T was stripped of his WCW (and US) title(s) following his injury, with Sting and Scott Steiner facing off to become the first champion of the new look WCW. Sting won and went on to give Booker his rematch upon his return from injury. Sting won a hard fought victory only for Booker to claim that ring rust was his downfall. Sting has now offered him a second rematch at the next PPV. With four weeks of warm up matches ahead, will Booker be able to claim the belt?

 

US title scene - Double J became the new champion when Booker has to forfeit his title and was set to face Rey in his first title defence. This was interrupted by Bam Bam who promptly attacked Rey whilst JJ was on the ropes. This lead to a short feud between the highflyer and the powerhouse whilst JJ defended his belt against Animal. Rey took care of Bam at Great American Bash - giving me the chance to send Bam to rehab. This impressive victory will set up the Rey v JJ rematch.

 

TV title scene - After reintroducing the TV title, Douglas won a battle royale to become the first champion. New GM Dusty Rhodes then declared that 10 straight defences earns the holder the right to challenge for any title they wish. Currently sitting on 5 with a potential tenth lining up with the next PPV, could we see Douglas earn the right to challenge for another title?

 

Tag title scene - Palumbo and O'Haire have been very impressive during their tag team reign, but that may be about to come to an end thanks to a newly focused Totally Buffed who are set to win a tag tournament with title implications at stake.

 

Ric Flair and the New Four Horsemen - The best to ever do it can feel the competition getting away from him. Whilst he might be coming to the twilight of his career, it would be a shame to waste all that knowledge! Flair has taken it upon himself to form a stable that can compete with the best; introducing Ric Flair and the New Four Horsemen. Led by Flair himself, he has taken the natural Dustin Rhodes, Team Canada Lance Storm and Mike Awesome and the future himself AJ styles under his tutorage.

 

Steiner has a Golden Ticket - Steiner didn't take losing to Sting lightly, put into motion an even angrier and scarier Steiner run. His impressive performances was enough to earn him a spot in the upcoming Golden Ticket match (a MITB style match). His impressive performances would continue as he put away 5 others to stake claim to a title shot at a time that suits him and in the process making Steiner the most feared man in wrestling!

 

Insider knowledge - The locker Room Leaders have had enough of being overlooked and have taken it upon themselves to get noticed! First on their agenda, send a message to DDP and Nash who are facing off for a chance at facing Sting for the title. This doesn't sit right with the veteran Insiders who are keen to teach Konnan and Morrus a lesson

 

The Specialists - Tag team specialists Rick Steiner and Animal are forced together as they compete in a tournament for a shot at the tag team titles. With a lifetime of tag experience behind them, is there life in the old dogs yet?

 

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So this is what is going on right now. I have plans going forward for most, but struggling to come up with something for the new 4H. I went them to be a long term stable, with Dustin possibly winning the WCW title being the big pair off. However, I don't have any other stables for them to feud with as a collective. Eventually I plan on introducing an ECW team of RVD, Sabu, Douglas and one other (maybe Funk but he's obviously limited now), but I need them to be established slightly first. At the moment I have them winning meaningless singles and tag matches as a way of proving to the fans that they were worthy of being picked. I could have Dustin turn his attentions to the US title and AJ, O'Haire and Palumbo attacked by a trio setting up a short 3v3 feud. But I don't have any trio and I don't have any tag teams that are both good enough and available to recruit a third.

 

Any ideas what I can do with them?

 

My plans for the WCW title is for Steiner to use his guaranteed title shot after a grueling match between Sting and Booker and then to get the win. He will hold that until Starrcade where I may put the title on a first timer - Dustin is the correct plan.

 

However, this leaves me with a issue involving Sting and Booker. They are going to have a friendly "face of the WCW" iron man match at Starrcade after being 2-2 in matches over the year, but I don't have anything for them to do over the coming months. Kanyon is on a bit of a streak but I don't want to sacrifice him to either of those, nor can I risk them losing a feud to him. The only available big name would be JJ who could drop his US title and still be credible enough to start something with Sting or Booker. But that still leaves me short of a feud for the other.

 

I did sign Davey Boy in the hopes of throwing him in something big, without realising he is in rehab for 11 months (can I cancel that in the editor?). Maybe I could advance the Sid injury and use him to put one of them further over?

 

Any ideas welcome

[TheJG]

If DDP and Nash are in a tag team at the moment, you could add Kanyon to a stable with them, as DDP and Kanyon were in the Jersey Triad together with Bam Bam Bigelow. You could feud DDP, Nash and Kanyon with the Four Horsemen, then have Bam Bam return from rehab to even up the numbers. Or even have AJ initially side with the Triad before turning on them and joining the Horseman, depending on how long Bam Bam has until he returns.

 

With Sting and Booker, why don't you put them in a tag team and feud them with Totally Buffed? After their Iron Man match at Starrcade, they can do the whole handshake and respect deal. The next night on Nitro run an angle resulting in Sting getting attacked by Totally Buffed until Booker runs down for the save.

[Danny_H22]

If DDP and Nash are in a tag team at the moment, you could add Kanyon to a stable with them, as DDP and Kanyon were in the Jersey Triad together with Bam Bam Bigelow. You could feud DDP, Nash and Kanyon with the Four Horsemen, then have Bam Bam return from rehab to even up the numbers. Or even have AJ initially side with the Triad before turning on them and joining the Horseman, depending on how long Bam Bam has until he returns.

 

With Sting and Booker, why don't you put them in a tag team and feud them with Totally Buffed? After their Iron Man match at Starrcade, they can do the whole handshake and respect deal. The next night on Nitro run an angle resulting in Sting getting attacked by Totally Buffed until Booker runs down for the save.

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Ive built Kanyon to be a bit of a line wolf powerhouse so want to avoid him being tied to a stable currently. I also plan to have him take out DDP in a few months and then get the win over him at Starrcade.

 

Bam is out for 11 months so not planning anything for him for a while.

 

AJ has already been introduced as a Horsemen so that rules him out.

 

DDP and Nash still have another month or so of their feud with Locker Room Leaders and I'm not sure I will keep them together going forward. They were only really forced to tag for this feud so I could keep four high profile guys busy.

 

Booker is going to beat Sting at Starrcade and it will be a friendly handshake moment. Sting will get attacked but a young talent the next night and Booker will probably begin his title hunt, but I'm still 6 months away from that point and need a filler for them both until then. Ideally I want to keep them apart after their next match (barring two further matches which booker will win over next six months. But those will be one off tournament/number one contender matches with no story attached). I don't really want them to go on a tag tour.

 

I did consider having Animal and Rick Steiner recruit a third experienced tag teamer (Road Dogg is free and due to leave rehab soon) and then they can go after the Four Horsemen as a sort of veteran trying to prove they can compete with the youngsters story

[gwblack]

I felt like Totally Buffed were too popular to do nothing with but I had no intentions of them going for the WCW. They can hold the titles half the year and fill time with their regular Pose Party Skits. Then when they drop them to either a young team or Team Canada who Flair have recruited for the Horsemen, the title should carry some value.

 

I struggled with something similar after introducing a MITB type match (no set number of participants and the match type changes yearly. Dusty Rhodes picks the entrants based on who impressed him the most). In the end I settled on the Golden Opportunity and held it at Great American Bash. I'm still not sold on my name and may change it for next year.

 

"The American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American Dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance."

 

Call it the American Dream match.

[Danny_H22]

"The American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American Dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance."

 

Call it the American Dream match.

 

I like this; I was playing with the Great American Bash/land of opportunity link but yours is better

[Danny_H22]

I'm about to debut an ECW stable to feud with the new Horsemen (Flair, Dustin, Mike Awesome, Lance Storm and AJ Styles) but I'm stuck who to pick. RVD, Sabu and Sandman are all signed and are pretty solid choices and in thinking they could be lead by Shane Douglas who is in my upper mid card but I require a fifth member. Dreamer is with the WWF who that rules him out. I did consider Funk but in 2001 he can't really offer me much. Bigelow would work except he has 11 months of rehab left. Any ideas welcome.

 

The alternative is to keep them at 4 members and have them sideline AJ Styles for a while to even the teams. I'm about two months away from War Games so need to build to that

[Hashasheen]

Been thinking about the old WCW Blood Runs Cold angle that copied Mortal Kombat, after running into a Bischoff short video dismissing a long standing rumor about RVD being considered for Glacier. Was thinking about how that angle could have maybe been fleshed out into a full-length Lucha Underground style season, and that led me to try and think up wrestlers who had gimmicks near enough the job:

 

• Cage Fighters: Dan Severn – Ken Shamrock – Steve Blackman

• Flashy Badasses: Ernest Miller – Scorpio

• Grapplers: Dave Taylor – Fit Finlay – William Regal

• Hollywood Extreme: Rob Van Dam – Sabu

• Islanders: Meng – Sione

• Masked Figures: Glacier – La Parka – Mortis – Vader – Vampiro – Wrath

 

 

That's all I have for now, but I'd love to hear some IRL suggestions from the period (say, 1993 to 1997) who could fit the bill in one way or another. Japanese or Mexican names, some underappreciated journeymen in WCW or WWF, even women's wrestlers if you have any ideas.

 

I think I'll be trialing this in a game using the 'Hollyweird Grappling Company' brand from CVERSE, or maybe taking on something like IRL's WMAC Masters that the WWF was actually briefly involved in.

[joshspicer]

<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>Been thinking about the old WCW Blood Runs Cold angle that copied Mortal Kombat, after running into a Bischoff short video dismissing a long standing rumor about RVD being considered for Glacier. Was thinking about how that angle could have maybe been fleshed out into a full-length Lucha Underground style season, and that led me to try and think up wrestlers who had gimmicks near enough the job:<p> </p><p> • Cage Fighters: Dan Severn – Ken Shamrock – Steve Blackman</p><p> • Flashy Badasses: Ernest Miller – Scorpio</p><p> • Grapplers: Dave Taylor – Fit Finlay – William Regal</p><p> • Hollywood Extreme: Rob Van Dam – Sabu</p><p> • Islanders: Meng – Sione</p><p> • Masked Figures: Glacier – La Parka – Mortis – Vader – Vampiro – Wrath</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> That's all I have for now, but I'd love to hear some IRL suggestions from the period (say, 1993 to 1997) who could fit the bill in one way or another. Japanese or Mexican names, some underappreciated journeymen in WCW or WWF, even women's wrestlers if you have any ideas. </p><p> </p><p> I think I'll be trialing this in a game using the 'Hollyweird Grappling Company' brand from CVERSE, or maybe taking on something like IRL's WMAC Masters that the WWF was actually briefly involved in.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If you're dealing in the 90's around the Wars time, than you <em>have</em> to see if you can pick up Minoru Suzuki.</p>

[rufc4eva]

Been thinking about the old WCW Blood Runs Cold angle that copied Mortal Kombat, after running into a Bischoff short video dismissing a long standing rumor about RVD being considered for Glacier. Was thinking about how that angle could have maybe been fleshed out into a full-length Lucha Underground style season, and that led me to try and think up wrestlers who had gimmicks near enough the job:

 

• Cage Fighters: Dan Severn – Ken Shamrock – Steve Blackman

• Flashy Badasses: Ernest Miller – Scorpio

• Grapplers: Dave Taylor – Fit Finlay – William Regal

• Hollywood Extreme: Rob Van Dam – Sabu

• Islanders: Meng – Sione

• Masked Figures: Glacier – La Parka – Mortis – Vader – Vampiro – Wrath

 

 

That's all I have for now, but I'd love to hear some IRL suggestions from the period (say, 1993 to 1997) who could fit the bill in one way or another. Japanese or Mexican names, some underappreciated journeymen in WCW or WWF, even women's wrestlers if you have any ideas.

 

I think I'll be trialing this in a game using the 'Hollyweird Grappling Company' brand from CVERSE, or maybe taking on something like IRL's WMAC Masters that the WWF was actually briefly involved in.

 

Isn’t Kurt Angle in that mod ? Also would say Brooklyn Brawler for a street fighter type & Jushin Liger as he has the unique look and would later (briefly) go into MMA.

[Hickem]

Hi all, hope everyone is doing okay in this time.

 

Like most of you, I have a ton of free time now and am looking to get back into TEW2016 so that I am ready for 2020!!!

 

Looking for rules to a January 2006 WWE mod. Playing as Shane O-Mac.

 

I'm trying to keep it as realistic as possible, but because the Spirit Squad hadn't debuted yet (middle of January), I'm sending them back down (that won't happen!) I also cut The Dicks (lol), Juventud and some lower name guys I didn't like.

 

Just looking for a set of rules. Maybe limits on who I can hire, call-up. Maybe one of those list of 4 superstars and I have to do choose 1 thing out of the list for one of them.

 

Thanks and stay safe everyone!

 

Where can i find this 2006 mod? May i ask you if you could send me a link? I was looking for 2006 (and 2011) for years.

[a0161613]

Where can i find this 2006 mod? May i ask you if you could send me a link? I was looking for 2006 (and 2011) for years.

 

You're looking for Shifting Sands by Mammoth. It'll come up with a Google search.

[Jaysin]

Been thinking about the old WCW Blood Runs Cold angle that copied Mortal Kombat, after running into a Bischoff short video dismissing a long standing rumor about RVD being considered for Glacier. Was thinking about how that angle could have maybe been fleshed out into a full-length Lucha Underground style season, and that led me to try and think up wrestlers who had gimmicks near enough the job:

 

• Cage Fighters: Dan Severn – Ken Shamrock – Steve Blackman

• Flashy Badasses: Ernest Miller – Scorpio

• Grapplers: Dave Taylor – Fit Finlay – William Regal

• Hollywood Extreme: Rob Van Dam – Sabu

• Islanders: Meng – Sione

• Masked Figures: Glacier – La Parka – Mortis – Vader – Vampiro – Wrath

 

 

That's all I have for now, but I'd love to hear some IRL suggestions from the period (say, 1993 to 1997) who could fit the bill in one way or another. Japanese or Mexican names, some underappreciated journeymen in WCW or WWF, even women's wrestlers if you have any ideas.

 

I think I'll be trialing this in a game using the 'Hollyweird Grappling Company' brand from CVERSE, or maybe taking on something like IRL's WMAC Masters that the WWF was actually briefly involved in.

 

I love this idea so much. Like it might be my favorite post in forever.

 

I'm a sucker for Jeff Farmer(NWO Sting), but using his Cobra ginmick would give you the soldier trope fighting games have. No martial arts skills though.

 

Also, Great Muta and Great Kabuki would fit perfectly too

[Temes1066]

What would be an appropriate name for somebody with a Voodoo Witch Doctor Gimmick?

 

(I am playing with the TEW2018 Mod and I need to replace Lassana Matsuki [aka. Effigy] as he will be heading to rehab beacause of his Drug Habit)

[Jaysin]

What would be an appropriate name for somebody with a Voodoo Witch Doctor Gimmick?

 

(I am playing with the TEW2018 Mod and I need to replace Lassana Matsuki [aka. Effigy] as he will be heading to rehab beacause of his Drug Habit)

 

Baron

Baron Samedi

Samedi

[FuzzyLogic]

<p>Thinking of starting a stable of all black workers in my SWF save, led by Des Davids. I've signed Bullseye. Mobstar, Gravedigga & Waylon Walls, and might call up Avalanche. </p><p> </p><p>

Davids will claim that since Steve Frehley left for USPW, the oppurtunities for black wrestlers have been few. Obviously, this is BS because Remo was World Champion (he won't be by the time I go with this) but it will all play into the groups heel tendencies. By this point, I think Remo will be having a run as a face and they'll be making a play for him to join them.</p><p> </p><p>

BUT, what I am really struggling with is a name for the group. Any ideas anyone?</p>

[Evito]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Temes1066" data-cite="Temes1066" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What would be an appropriate name for somebody with a Voodoo Witch Doctor Gimmick?<p> </p><p> (I am playing with the TEW2018 Mod and I need to replace Lassana Matsuki [aka. Effigy] as he will be heading to rehab beacause of his Drug Habit)</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> My women's federation has one I called Azima Damballah, Yiva was the second choice. </p><p> If she was a man, maybe Kojo Damballah</p>

[Shadowhost]

Where can i find this 2006 mod? May i ask you if you could send me a link? I was looking for 2006 (and 2011) for years.

 

you could try here

 

https://homeofprowrestling.com/