Someone you didn't expect to get over?

[Munit]

Im playing NJPW 1985 and now almost to 1988 and Rick Martel is our number 3 guy with mid 80's in pop and has held the AJPW world title and IWGP world title. Has anyone else like this came out of the blue for everyone and became a top star that you didn't expect?

[Guest Asaemon]

Well in my 1995 WCW diary The Nasty Boys have 88+ in overness, while Ice Train has 85+ and Kevin Sullivan 90+. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[BrokenCycle]

In one of my SWF games I broke up Zimmy and Randy. After a couple weeks of good segments, I look at their popularity and just said "Uhh... what?" They were in the 90s, and it really screwed up some of my roster hierarchy because I never intended to be that high so quickly.

[Icecold]

<p>I had DJ Nira teamed with Jack Evans as an undercard act, legit didn't pay attention and both got over 85 plus... Nira then signed with NOAH as I refused to out bid them as he was just an undercard guy... Jack put a bunch of projects over...all was well.</p><p> </p><p>

Nira put over a bunch of top guys in tags and his pop dropped before he debuted for NOAH... They cut him 3 months or so later... He's in Osaka Pro now, the world has kinda fixed itself..</p>

[Big Roguey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Icecold" data-cite="Icecold" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46042" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I had DJ Nira teamed with Jack Evans as an undercard act, legit didn't pay attention and both got over 85 plus... Nira then signed with NOAH as I refused to out bid them as he was just an undercard guy... Jack put a bunch of projects over...all was well.<p> </p><p> Nira put over a bunch of top guys in tags and his pop dropped before he debuted for NOAH... They cut him 3 months or so later... He's in Osaka Pro now, the world has kinda fixed itself..</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Hahahaha, this is amazing. Go go DJ Nira. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[James Casey]

<p>Kid Fantastic exploded in the course of just a few months in my RTG game. He starts a typical save as a very flashy youngster with poor performance stats, but wrestling in around 130 matches for us over a five year period saw his skills blossom.</p><p> </p><p>

Then, over a four month period, he went from a steady D in our home region to a B popularity, I think because of an A-rated main event that was the first of four such high-ranked matches in those four months. He'd had one A in 4.5 years prior to that, and it's just like a switch got flipped in him that turned him into a ratings winner - and made the fans fall in love with him!</p>

[Historian]

In my SCCW game, I have iPPV with tiny viewership. Anyway, I had Killer Shark for three years in the game, and he went from his starting pop of D- to B/B+ pop in the entire United States, signed with USPW as an immediate main eventer. It caught me by surprise with just HOW over he got thanks to menace angles and only losing sparingly (I think he had one singles loss in his run until the last show when he lost on his way out)

[smw88]

<p>Tommy dreamer and Stevie Richards as a tag team are so over they both became main eventers in the mid 90's alongside a stacked line up as my XFL took on WWF and WCW in the US.</p><p> </p><p>

Also notable was another tag team of Rhyno and abyss getting over very nicely.</p><p> </p><p>

As an earlier poster mentioned I too had the Nasty boys become a consistent top draw tag team despite my expectations to the contrary.</p><p> </p><p>

Otherwise I find real world mods tend to end up with the same people getting there just many many years earlier than in real life in most cases.</p><p> </p><p>

In other mods I was really pleased to get Red Skull over as a main eventer in my BCW diary. He basically did nothing but menacing promo's with his manager talking and then demolished someone, for about a year as he moved up the card. In ring he remained mostly average at best.</p>

[Dave E Mac]

Real world mod and again like most people it was an accident. In a throw away tag team they won some and lost some. His partner was Tyler Breeze who stay firmly in the Lowe mid card. But checking one day his tag partner had been going up about ten pop points a month and was now lower 80’s pop which was huge at the time with me and put him basically a lower main eventet. It was perfect 10 Tye Dillinger! I only put them together as they were called Ty and Ty.

[Guest DutchMagpie]

<p>In my WWE real world game, the Usos have become massively popular, both high in the 80's. They are part of a stable with The Rock, Kevin Owens and Kenny Omega and now they complain about their upper midcard push, they want to be main eventers. </p><p> </p><p>

I'm in doubt if I let them exist as a team or turn one Uso against the other and have a major brother vs brother feud before i send one of them over to the RAW brand.</p>