Retirements due to injury.

[LigerLiger]

How many times have you seen someone retire due to injury in your games? How relevant are they?

 

Most of the times I don't come across many injury-related retirements, but in this 1997 PGHW save(Going back to JCP soon, I promise) there were quite a few, in the span of only a year. Mostly related to the lower body.

 

 

 

Dallas McWade, 26, Complete Lateral Collateral Ligament Tear[NOTBPW]

 

Chance, 38, Complete Medial Collateral Ligament Tear[CGC]

 

Ayame Nohashi, 35, Complete Achilles Tendon Rupture[Now Defunct 5SSW]

 

WrestleBot 9000, 34, Upper Lumbar Spinal Cord Rupture[sWF]

 

Magnifico, 18, Complete Achilles Tendon Rupture[MPWF]

 

Dread, 36, Complete Medial Collateral Ligament Tear[PGHW]

 

I, Butcher, 22, C7 Cervical Spinal Cord Rupture[DAVE](the "I," is part of his name btw)

[James Casey]

<p>I, Butcher is a tremendous name. Need to steal that sometime...</p><p> </p><p>

I can only remember it happening once to any character I was booking: JD Morgan blew out his knee in a War Games match in my MAW diary. I remember that because he was in the middle of a big push (great technician, doesn't talk = perfect for MAW) and I had to change a lot of plans.</p><p> </p><p>

Considering I tend to book feds with fairly high danger risk/intensity products, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.</p><p> </p><p>

In my RTG game, Brute Kikuchi (semi-severed spinal column), Koki Ihsibashi (two spinal injuries) and Simon Flemmingway (two broken necks!) are the three workers I can find who retired from injuries in coming up on 7.5 years.</p>

[JMike]

I've seen it happen twice in a game where I simulated a few years into the future. Mark Briscoe had a Patellar Tendon Rupture in a match teaming with his brother against the Addiction. Kassius Ohno had to retire after breaking his neck against Matt Hardy. Lastly, Hiroshi Tanahashi lost his career in a match teaming with Ricochet against roppungi vice with the same injury as Jay. Of those, only Tanahashi has a new role, as a color commentator/road agent.

[MinimiMax]

I've seen a few, though only two of them are significant to me since they're names I am familiar with. Ricochet retired very surprisingly after a couple of back to back injuries that didn't even seem all that serious on their own. Matt Sydal got paralyzed in a match and about 1,5 years into his recovery he finally announced his retirement. Oddly enough both of those injuries happened while they were working for me but at another company.

[FankuKaibutsu]

<p>Not in this game, but in the last version of TEW, during a 2004 TNA game. Jeff Jarett won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and blew his knee out during the match, and would be out for a year. I was planning on giving him a big, cowardly heel run, with a big faction behind him, winning each defense only just barely. So I put that plan on pause, go through the next year, waiting for Jarett to return, then a month before his return date he decides to retire. Ain't he great? <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p>

I ended up giving the big storyline to Steve Corino.</p>

[Blake Trask]

I think my favourite terrible thing to happen is when Pablo Rodriguez in my 2010 data got the dread semi-severed spine. Fast-forward two versions whilst I was simming some stuff in the dataset based off that savegame (and hadn't yet got around to updating Pablo)... and he promptly went down with the exact same injury.

[Zero]

In my current time, Bret Hart suffered a broken neck

 

I brought him back though