WCW: Heart and Soul

[michgcs]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Unnatural

Which wrestler is beaten? Rey Mysterio

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? Cruiserweight Championship

 

How many championships will change hands? 1

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Gotta go with Matt Hardy

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? He's joining The Empire!

[Hashasheen]

She's with the Jung Dragons, and they object to your conspiracy of overlooking them just like WCW management!

 

(You're probably thinking of Tammy Sytch, who is the only non-wrestler The Empire has left.)

 

Gah, my mind's been blurred. Wasn't Kaz Hayashi a part of the Empire briefly, though?

 

And I guess King Corino is a fine enough mouthpiece for now. Though I'm guessing Austin is gonna be depicting some anti-authority tendencies right soon...

[evileddie10]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? CM Punk

Which wrestler is beaten? Alexander

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

What will be match of the night?

RVD/Styles

 

How many championships will change hands?

0

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy?

Matt Hardy

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement?

Becoming a manager.

[CobheadJake]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Lance Storm

Which wrestler is beaten? Alexander

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? War Games Match

 

How many championships will change hands? 1

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Matt Hardy

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? He's coming back and going to challenge for a title asap

[Chaos Zarak]

Fan Scorecard:

 

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? The Unnatural scores the win here...

Which wrestler is beaten? Over Lance Storm just because I feel it would be interesting to see Lance doing something different, maybe that would lead to a bigger push down the line.

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©} - I bet against AJ last month so I am I going to back him here... Although this isn't going to be the end so maybe a Dq finish here to prolong the fued.

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©} - this is a tough one to call... If what I think is happening happens then Matt Hardy wins the belt with Jeff's help then matt turns on his brother revealing he attacked him all along. (only thinking on these lines as a way to set up for Hardy Vs Hardy at starrcade...)

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©} - the champion retains here just because Knoble seems to high up the card for the Cruiserweight title...

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo - O'Haire beats chuck senseless and the match ends via knockout

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons - as good and entertaining as the Dragons are the Steiner go over here...

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick - as much as it pains me to go against DDP, Kendrick has more upside here...

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg - Big Bill continues down the road to Starrcade.

 

What will be match of the night? AJ vs RVD

 

How many championships will change hands? 1

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Matt Hardy as I stated above

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? I kinda hope that he is bringing back Lex Luger and the Flex Express for Totally Buff to have another run. Just because it would be highly entertaining

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques:

[Danny_H22]

Fan Scorecard:

 

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Unnatural

Which wrestler is beaten? Storm

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©} - AJ wins but it isn’t clean. Think RVD might get DQ’d

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo - either Sean wins and Chuck is kicked out of the stable or his stablemates help him pick up the win. Going for the former

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons - via distraction

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? AJ v RVD

 

How many championships will change hands? 0

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Shane Helms. Was going to go Matt but it’s too early after the break up

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? Teases retirement before being confronted by someone

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques:

[Satyr24]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Punk

Which wrestler is beaten? The Destroyer

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? RVD vs AJ

 

How many championships will change hands? 2

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? RVD

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? Going After A Title

[K-Nection]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? CM Punk

Which wrestler is beaten? Alexander

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

What will be match of the night? AJ vs. RVD

 

How many championships will change hands? 2

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Rikish because he did it for The Rock! No in all seriousness it was Matt

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? He is announcing his retirement. Long time friend DDP comes to give Buff a hug to wish him well and Buff kicks him in the balls and delivers a Bagwell Blockbuster. Then Bagwell shaves his head and does a true "hitman" gimmick taking shots at Bret's supposed one as he crosses off opponents on his way back to the top. (That honestly sounds way too cool for him but lets run with it)

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques: Your booking friend is amazing! I absolutely look forward to your show updates every week.

 

Also some of the predictions and comments on this PPV are hilarious!

 

Gah, my mind's been blurred. Wasn't Kaz Hayashi a part of the Empire briefly, though?

 

And I guess King Corino is a fine enough mouthpiece for now. Though I'm guessing Austin is gonna be depicting some anti-authority tendencies right soon...

 

You might be thinking of TAKA

[Rateddc]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Eddie

Which wrestler is beaten? Mortis

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? AJ vs. Rob Van Dam

 

How many championships will change hands? 2

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Matt Hardy

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? Retirement and manager role.

[Hashasheen]

You might be thinking of TAKA

 

I blame Mutoh All Japan. I've been watching some shows and both of them appear as top juniors.

[Bluestillidie00]

Fan Scorecard:

 

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team?: Eddie Guerrero

Which wrestler is beaten? Alexander

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night?: War Games

 

How many championships will change hands?: 1

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy?: Matt Hardy

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement?: He's going for the US Title

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques: I love this diary, it's single-handedly rekindled my interest in TEW multiple times

[K-Nection]

I blame Mutoh All Japan. I've been watching some shows and both of them appear as top juniors.

 

Ha! TFC has even started to breech the realm with a Mandella Effect

[The Final Countdown]

Pre-War Games News and Notes

 

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DDP and Ernest Miller weren't happy with the firing of Bischoff, but Austin smirked when he heard about it. Eric was tight with Dallas and The Cat, so it's no surprise they'd stick up for him. I think most people know the story about DDP and Eric being neighbors, and it was Eric who recruited Ernest into wrestling back when Miller was a karate instructor teaching his son, Garett. As for Austin, the story of the firing via Fed Ex is legendary by now, and there's been bad blood ever since. The two men were professional enough to put their differences aside and work together for their storyline, but I'm sure this entire situation amused Steve to no end.

 

Literally one day after the Bischoff scandal, I got word that Brian Adams failed a test for hard drugs. Feeling like I couldn't afford to be lenient at the moment and I needed to make a statement, I fired him despite this being his first offense. Brian wasn't angry with me at all; he actually shook my hand and thanked me for it, saying it was the wake-up call he needed. I guess we could bring him back down the road, but he doesn't really fit the mold for modern day WCW and our exciting in-ring product, so maybe this is for the best.

 

Sting will be sticking around, but I've only put him on a pay per appearance agreement for now. He honestly can't keep up with our current in-ring style anymore, but I feel like we need to keep him around in WCW at least in some capacity. I think he and Flair symbolize WCW to most people, so I'd like them to still be involved with the company even if they can no longer go in the ring like they used to.

 

Bobby Roode put pen to paper on a three year contract extension. Sorry, Sasuke, but you won't be seeing him in Michinoku Pro any time soon.

 

Mark Jindrak sent me an e-mail saying he felt like he'd learned as much as he could in Wildside and it was time for him to come back to the main roster. His trainer Terry Taylor disagreed when I asked him about it, telling me he thought Mark could still use some more seasoning down there before we brought him back. I took the Red Rooster's opinion into consideration, but in the end I decided to give Mark what he wanted and bring him back to Nitro. I'm disappointed that he was so eager to come back after only two months of trying to improve his skills down there, and I don't think he's done much to raise his ceiling.

 

King Corino and Kaoru Ito are dating. I guess Steve's sister Allison played matchmaker and introduced them when the guys were over in Japan for the Supershow?

 

Bob Orton signed an extension to remain a road agent with us for another year.

 

 

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The Observer has reported that Japanese investors have purchased a stake in the company, wiping out their debt and pumping some cash into the coffers. That has to be a relief to Antonio Inoki, though I've heard rumors that the new investors are already pushing for the company to only hire younger, athletic wrestlers in the future, which I guess is them making a statement against the recent emphasis on older established stars like 49 year old Tatsumi Fujinami and 51 year old Riki Choshu, the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion (and also the head booker, which sounds like a conflict of interest if I've ever heard one.) Being told what to do can't be a good feeling for Inoki, but I don't see that he had much choice if he wanted to get out from underneath his debt, which was apparently in the millions.

 

Reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Riki Choshu has been putting on some serious weight recently, and it's not muscle mass. That's perfectly understandable for a 51 year old, but that's not exactly the kind of observation you want floating around about the guy who holds your top belt. All the more reason for Inoki to have him drop it if you ask me.

 

NJPW held their Temples of Fight PPV on September 13th. No Heavyweight title match this time; Choshu beat Yuki Ishikawa in a non-title singles match early on the show. The main event was Manabu Nakanishi and Masahiro Chono retaining the IWGP Tag titles against Yuji Nagata and Tatsumi Fujinami. That was a very good match, but it was slightly outperformed by the semi main of Koji Kanemoto retaining the Junior Heavyweight title over Osamu Nishimura. This was a very good show, though they've had some stronger ones recently.

 

 

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NOAH's been signing up new talent to written deals in response to their recent growth. Aside from Candido, they've also brought in Tajiri, Dr. Wagner Jr, Pentagon, Gran Naniwa, Ricky Marvin, Shin'ya Kojika, Ryo Saito, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Ricky Fuji, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Jeff Farmer, W*ING Kanemura, Wally Yamaguchi and referee Tiger Hattori.

 

Their next big PPV, Departure, took place on September 6th. This was going to be an eventful night, both because of their rise and the injury to Kobashi. They didn't bother with a tournament for Kobashi's vacant GHC Heavyweight title, instead just naming the two top contenders and putting them in a singles main event to crown a new champion. Jun Akiyama beat Mitsuharu Misawa in a match of the year candidate to win the title for the first time. As great as Misawa is, Akiyama's excellent himself and about eight years younger, so I like the move. On the strength of that main event, this was far ahead of any of their recent PPVs, and their best since January.

 

 

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WWE has signed former Tough Enough winners Jackie Gayda and Linda Miles to extensions. K-Kwik's got a new deal too.

 

Trish Stratus has started to focus more on being a pure entertainer during her matches recently.

 

Little tidbit from the September 8th Raw: they booked Rock to go to a TIME LIMIT DRAW. With BRIAN CHRISTOPHER. It was a match of the year contender too. That guy can do no wrong.

 

 

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All Japan's Front of War Lines III PPV happened on September 16th. They had a pretty good main event of Hiroshi Hase retaining the Triple Crown against Shigeo Okumura, but nothing else on the show was all that good. This show was okay, but nowhere close to the recent efforts from NJPW and NOAH. After putting on some great events earlier in the year, All Japan has fallen back to Earth recently.

 

 

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Japanese indie group DDT closed recently.

 

The glorious era of Kid Romeo as NWA World Heavyweight Champion has come to an end. He made on successful title defense in the UK, then dropped the belt to 54-year old Yoshiaki Fujiwara during Zero-One's current tour. Fujiwara was a pioneer of incorporating what we now know as the MMA style into his pro wrestling matches, but he's way past his prime in 2003. Maybe putting the belt on him was Zero-One's revenge for Wildside having Romeo win it from Kazushi Sakuraba?

 

 

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The Observer has bumped PWG up to Small status. All credit to them; they've been putting on shows better than most of the other small independents, and they're being rewarded for it.

 

I heard that Joel Gertner and Excalibur got into a shouting match backstage during a show for PWU, I guess about money. I'm just imagining Gertner cutting one of his innuendo-laden ECW promos.

 

 

 

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Looks like I may need to just pull the plug on the entire WWE brand split. They just ran their first AI-controlled PPV, and completely ignored the split. I'd set it to be the WWE (Raw brand) only, and not only were ECW guys all over the show, but they booked at least one (title) match that had WWE vs. ECW. I could deal with them always running both brands on each PPV, but if they're going to completely ignore the split and book WWE vs. ECW at will, I don't see much point in continuing with it. I guess I'll give it another month and see what they do with the next PPV, but I'm not optimistic. It seems like the only way I could guarantee the split would be enforced on PPVs would be to have guest bookers for every single one, and I'm not fond of that idea.

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Shane Helms. By God, it's about time you started using him!

He's definitely been underutilized! Seems like any idea I come up with for him falls through (like the manager pairing with Kimberly and feud with DDP.)

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques: I almost want to see someone in the main event join Salvation because I'm a Salvation mark. Congratulations, you made me a mark for a fake stable in a company that dies two years ago in real life. Does this make you feel good?

Yep.

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques: I just finally caught up! As everyone else has said, this is just an incredible diary. I found myself reading about the Photobucket thing and getting mad that you weren't going to keep going, but then I realized there were like 75 more pages of the diary so everything was OK

 

I especially love everything you've done with Dustin, and how you didn't let guys like Awesome and Mortis fall by the wayside. All the signings have been fun too! I like the way you've used Bret to build suspense at big moments. Just a phenomenal job overall.

Welcome to 2003!

 

Yeah, spoiler alert. Kind of like when you're playing an RPG and they tease that the story is about to end, but there's stuff from the in-game interface that's only half completed.

 

Awesome is lucky he got put in Salvation, otherwise his antics would've been big trouble for him.

[The Lariat]

Fan Scorecard:

 

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team?: Eddie Guerrero

Which wrestler is beaten? Mortis

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night?: War Games

 

How many championships will change hands?: 0

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy?: Salvation maybe? Matt seems too obvious, and it probably is him, but I could see Salvation trying to welcome him into the fold.

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement?: He's retiring at Starrcade but wants one more shot at gold.

 

General diary comments/questions/critiques:

[jscotty]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Eddie Guerrero

Which wrestler is beaten? The Destroyer

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? RVD/Styles

 

How many championships will change hands? Zero

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Has to be Matt

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? He's retiring

[franticloser]

Hey, I've been MIA on these boards for awhile, to put it shortly. Yay life./sarcasm. Anyway just wanted to pop in and say I've got a lot to catch up on but look forward to catching up with my favorite diary writer!

[JMike]

WWE didn't put the split into effect for PPVs until about a year in, just saying

 

EDIT: I didn't read that fully. Oh.

[Theheel]

War Games: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)

Who scores the win for their team? Eddie Guerrero

Which wrestler is beaten? Alex is the week link so he eats the pin. I really toyed with this match because I would like to see someone join Salvation but took the easy way out

 

United States Heavyweight Championship: Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}i think a AJ has done all he can with the US title

 

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode {©}

 

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©} If Bischoff wasn’t fired I could see Knoble brining good to the Empire. Maybe I will go back to my original idea (gaffe) and say you bring in Prince Nana and they regroup as the Embassy

 

Sean O'Haire vs. Chuck Palumbo

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. The Jung Dragons

 

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Brian Kendrick

 

Minoru Tanaka vs. Goldberg

 

What will be match of the night? RVD/Styles

 

How many championships will change hands? 1

 

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? Well Matt is an obvious choice so that will be my official guess but.....

 

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? I’m going to say his announcement is he was the person to attack Jeff Hardy.

[Beejus]

War Games winner: CM Punk - He hasn't gotten a title shot yet, and the feud between he and Salvation could be pretty fun.

War Games loser: Alexander

RVD - It feels like it's about time for AJ to move up to the big leagues, possible SHC winner this year?

Robby Boode - Matt is denied his revenge. Just don't break him or wake him, no matter how close we are to September ending.

Bryan Danielson - Knoble has to be viewed as a super contender right now, but he did have a part in Austin being out for we don't know how long yet, so Bryan retains in a solid match.

Sean O'Haire - Palumbo is a pawn in the rebranding of O'Haire.

Steiner Brothers - You're putting me in a box here TFC, it's both of my favorite parts of your diary in one match!

DDP - Is the feud with London low-key still going on? That didn't really feel like it had a blowoff, so I guess Paul gets involved here?

Goldberg

 

MOTN: Noble vs Danielson

Titles: 1

Attacker: I'm gonna put my weight behind Helms, he does need something going on.

Buff: That he's got some Stuff left in the tank.

[Hashasheen]

The Observer has reported that Japanese investors have purchased a stake in the company, wiping out their debt and pumping some cash into the coffers. That has to be a relief to Antonio Inoki, though I've heard rumors that the new investors are already pushing for the company to only hire younger, athletic wrestlers in the future, which I guess is them making a statement against the recent emphasis on older established stars like 49 year old Tatsumi Fujinami and 51 year old Riki Choshu, the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion (and also the head booker, which sounds like a conflict of interest if I've ever heard one.) Being told what to do can't be a good feeling for Inoki, but I don't see that he had much choice if he wanted to get out from underneath his debt, which was apparently in the millions.

 

Did you do that or is this a new event that happens in 2016?

[smartman]

<p>Not a prediction entry</p><p> </p><p>

I just can't see the faces losing the match unless you're doing the CM Punk heel turn. I've never liked the "face is forced to be a heel" storyline as no one in real life has pulled it off that well [insert 3 people listing one(s) I've forgotten]. I would have suggested Lance until Easy E got himself fired because he needs a mouthpiece, and as big of a fan of Corino as I was at this time irl (sigh, MLW was really fun), he's not it. Basically, I'm pretty convinced that Storm is going to flounder as a single. Plus, I don't think you could do a turn on either of them since they turned face recently. Same with Eddie, and Rey as a heel makes zero sense.</p><p> </p><p>

So, it really comes down to which face gets the pin and win. I'd say Eddie for the same reason as above. I'd love a Punk push, but that would gut the tag division and Storm. The only reason it isn't Eddie is if he's "not the image WCW and Bret want to project". Well, and that whole pre-set time decline/retirement annoyance that Mod Squad put in on a ton of people.</p>

[Beejus]

So alongside all the incredible diary that TFC writes, I think I've most learned from this thread that smartman doesn't much care for our Mod Squad mods <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[Wolfman84]

<p>War Games: <strong>Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes</strong> vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)</p><p>

Who scores the win for their team? <strong>Lance Storm</strong></p><p>

Which wrestler is beaten? <strong>Alexander</strong></p><p>

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc</p><p>

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group</p><p> </p><p>

United States Heavyweight Championship: <strong>Rob Van Dam</strong> vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}</p><p> </p><p>

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. <strong>Bobby Roode {©}</strong></p><p> </p><p>

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs. <strong>"American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}</strong></p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Sean O'Haire</strong> vs. Chuck Palumbo</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>The Steiner Brothers</strong> vs. The Jung Dragons</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Diamond Dallas Page</strong> vs. Brian Kendrick</p><p> </p><p>

Minoru Tanaka vs. <strong>Goldberg</strong></p><p> </p><p>

What will be match of the night? <strong>Rob Van Dam vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles</strong></p><p> </p><p>

How many championships will change hands? <strong>One</strong></p><p> </p><p>

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy? <strong>Matt Hardy</strong></p><p> </p><p>

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement? The return of Judy Bagwell ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)</p>

[Cro Cop Rules]

<p>War Games:<strong> Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr. and True Heroes</strong> vs. Salvation (The Unnatural, The Destroyer, Mortis and Alexander)</p><p>

Who scores the win for their team?: <strong>CM Punk</strong></p><p>

Which wrestler is beaten?: <strong>Alexander</strong></p><p>

*If the faces win, whoever records the victory will challenge The Unnatural for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc</p><p>

*If Salvation wins, the loser of the fall must join the group</p><p> </p><p>

United States Heavyweight Championship: <strong>Rob Van Dam</strong> vs. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles {©}</p><p> </p><p>

World Television Championship: Matt Hardy vs. <strong>Bobby Roode {©}</strong></p><p> </p><p>

Cruiserweight Championship: Jamie Knoble vs.<strong> "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson {©}</strong></p><p><strong>

</strong></p><p>

<strong>Sean O'Haire</strong> vs. Chuck Palumbo</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>The Steiner Brothers</strong> vs. The Jung Dragons</p><p> </p><p>

Diamond Dallas Page vs.<strong> Brian Kendrick</strong></p><p> </p><p>

Minoru Tanaka vs. <strong>Goldberg</strong></p><p> </p><p>

What will be match of the night?: <strong>RVD vs. AJ</strong></p><p> </p><p>

How many championships will change hands?: <strong>One</strong></p><p> </p><p>

Who was responsible for the attack on Jeff Hardy?: <strong>Buff Bagwell</strong></p><p> </p><p>

What is Buff Bagwell's announcement?: <strong>He attacked Jeff Hardy</strong></p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Beejus" data-cite="Beejus" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43035" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So alongside all the incredible diary that TFC writes, I think I've most learned from this thread that smartman doesn't much care for our Mod Squad mods <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> My beef with this mod is the broadcasters mostly.</p>