What are your biggest flops and draws in your saves?

[GooverDan]

Sometimes, when you are making your saves for your new run as a booker of any promotion, you got your ideas in your mind. Thinking how you can make someone the next big draw in the industry, and then you have a guy or woman in mind and start to give him the best run you can give to someone to rise from others and being the best figure in your promotion... or not.

 

In some cases in the twisted game of TEW, anything can happen, even the biggest of legends can be a huge flop or the biggest draw depending on how you control it, sometimes work, sometimes don't. So my question is, what is your biggest flop or draw in a TEW save?

[Morti]

I got Randy Bumfhole to 95 pop doing a ravishing gimmick, I would call that a huge improvement to his stock from the start! I always liked Randy more than Zimmy and happy I got him to that level.

[Vinsmoker]

I hired a 35 El Hijo del Fantasma as PWG and he is on time decline already

[Questlove]

I had Aaron Andrews hold the TCW title for over a year, being at 100 overness basically the whole time, before finally dropping it to Sammy Bach to complete the story arc I started on day one of the save. Sammy Bach then immediately went into time decline.

[ThePastor]

Custom company, Noelle Foley and Mick Foley. Noelle has really high star quality so I tried to groom her to be the future of the women’s division, hired her dad for angles to help get her over but for some reason Foley had some big issue where he would get penalized for every segment and it was a really large penalty for his destiny roll.

 

So after 3-4 months of that I gave up on it and fired them both.

 

 

My biggest draws were The Fiend who was pretty simple to get over just give him a lot of angles and have him beat legends like Batista and Big Show and Kane who got released from WWE. Samoa Joe, and CM Punk.

 

Becky Lynch carries my women’s division.

[hurricanendp]

My biggest draw that I've pushed in this game was probably PAC/Neville. Re hired him in February 2019, and by August he had become my most over worker and my WWE champion, has now held the title for 7 months and not sure who I could have him drop the belt to as his pop is so much higher than everyone elses.

 

Best ever draw however would be D-Wreck, generated worker who started with 0 pop, had very little skillset but had awesome menace rating, put him in angles where he used that stat and ended up going to a world title goldberg style run before corrupted data ended his streak.

 

Biggest flop would probably be James Storm, just can't get that guy over no matter how many times I try.

[Dorian]

Biggest flop would be the time I got, I think it was Alicia Strong, and tried making her the central figure of my women's division of TCW. Because USPW usually let's her go.

 

Now I set this up so that the Men's Division is treated as one division, the Women's Division is treated as another and made the promotion intergendered so that both divisions can function properly.

 

So I tried raising her and the division up. For whatever reason, I could never get her over Uppercard. Now that wouldn't be bad, except when you are trying to have her have World title reigns and trying to keep the true main eventers away from her to have those.

 

It wasn't like she was in decline either. Just she never got popular enough. Everyone who feuded with her usually though, ended up in the main event.

 

Still, she never was my go-to women's champ that I wanted her to be.

 

 

 

My biggest success is probably taking my jobber to the stars, created dojo wrestler Alex Stevens, and somehow getting him to the Main Event scene. He wasn't very good, hence the jobbing, but with a lot of love (and people jobbing to him), I got him to be a good wrestler. I think he got at least 3 World title reigns. Which is 3 more than I thought he would get. He might've even had a fourth, but he broke a vertebrae and retired from the business entirely. He was only 30 too, which sucked.

 

Also sucked because my main event scene at the time, wasn't very good (damn USPW stealing my guys), so I ended up losing a lot of momentum.

[cappyboy]

Oh that's easy. My biggest flops have always been my big name free agents. Playing training games mostly populated with reclamation projects and likely never gonnabes, whenever I've tried to bring an Eric The Bull in after he got dropped by USPW or a Cheetah Boy after getting cut from RIPW, that move has always fallen flat on its face. The plan has been sign them on, have them anchor my main event, win my world title and have them lose it to my user avatar when the contract ran out so it could return more easily to my native talent. All the while my guys would be facing these names and seeing how it's really done. Only the big names would play down to their competition and I'd end up ditching them for guys who needed building from the ground up.

[rufas2000]

I went with a youth movement for SWF. As an afterthought I signed Nelson Callum even though nothing about him excited me. But I brought him along, he got over as Krippler Kallum and after going over Skull DeBones (DeBones won the last match but Kallum won the series 2-1) he is set to beat Mikey Lau to take the SWF World title.

[Zero]

I have a random worker named Clyde Crockett who graduated from my Dojo, and wrestled in my developmental company. Super talented but has a horrible attitude and is super negative to the rest of the locker room. I've hired and fired him at least three times with the purpose of making him WWE World Heavyweight Champion but he always messes up. Always.

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Zero" data-cite="Zero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47367" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have a random worker named Clyde Crockett who graduated from my Dojo, and wrestled in my developmental company. Super talented but has a horrible attitude and is super negative to the rest of the locker room. I've hired and fired him at least three times with the purpose of making him WWE World Heavyweight Champion but he always messes up. Always.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> "Dang it, Clyde.... Now I gotta fire you AGAIN...."</p>

[Editor6]

<p>Alex DeColt was right to cut bait with Philippe LaGrenier. How does a good-looking French-Canadian not get over as a snobbish foreign bad guy <strong>in USPW</strong>? Dude's a zero.</p><p> </p><p>

Flip side: Richie Riggins went from a lumbering slug with an attitude problem to a tag team champion (after pairing him with a similarly-stalled Roger Cage) who's getting positive feedback from my roster about his improved ring work.</p>

[Oregano Jensen]

LaGrenier has been effective for me the two times I've used him -- re-hired him in CGC once and got him to the upper midcard. Also played a 4C game a few years back where he became a major player.

 

The biggest unexpected success story I've ever had in the game, though, was way back in TEW2007, in which Danny Rushmore had multiple A* matches en route to winning the DAVE championship.

[MaiTyLer]

During a big old 2012 - 2014 ongoing WWE save (on YouTube cheap plug) Ryback became the bane of my existence, now I haye him IRL (atleast his work not personally) but I gave him the undefeated streak and eventually the IC belt. Now he moan and was "furious" about putting over someone at mania 29, who you ask, THE UNDERTAKER, lol okay nerd. Then he didnt want to lose to Rey Mysterio in a non title tv match, NOTE Rybacks pop was around 70, Rey was around 87-89, again NERD. finally he lost the belt to Colt Cabana (literally same if not slightly less pop) but was fine, he was mad about losing the same match the following month, handed in his noticed, and had John Cena (heel) murder him on Smackdown, like kayfabe kill the guy, a funeral the next week was at Chucky Cheese ball bit, only michael cole cared, everyone else in the angle literally made fun of him.

 

Biggest success has to be during my VERY first game in TEW, I played SWF 2016 during my coding class in senior year, played till the year 2022. During the late 2018s Joe Sexy was not in decline somehow, but wasn't really doing much, until an accident happened, I had women one being the altego of something "Sexy" I think it was Danielle Sweetheart, but anyway I wanted to give her a dominatrix gimmick (custom one I did) but instead I had it given to Joe Sexy, forgot about it, and during a promo it happened, intial rating VERY GOOD, quickly went to legendary. From there his pop reached the 90s, he won the World title, and had a DOM WORLD ORDER stable, all until that following years Supreme Challenge where he finally (just hitting time decline) got squashed by a returning Steve Frehley (I was Jerry Eisen and I think Richard either left or i edited the relationship), but yeah, that was a wild ride.

[RatedRKO16]

During a big old 2012 - 2014 ongoing WWE save (on YouTube cheap plug) Ryback became the bane of my existence, now I haye him IRL (atleast his work not personally) but I gave him the undefeated streak and eventually the IC belt. Now he moan and was "furious" about putting over someone at mania 29, who you ask, THE UNDERTAKER, lol okay nerd. Then he didnt want to lose to Rey Mysterio in a non title tv match, NOTE Rybacks pop was around 70, Rey was around 87-89, again NERD. finally he lost the belt to Colt Cabana (literally same if not slightly less pop) but was fine, he was mad about losing the same match the following month, handed in his noticed, and had John Cena (heel) murder him on Smackdown, like kayfabe kill the guy, a funeral the next week was at Chucky Cheese ball bit, only michael cole cared, everyone else in the angle literally made fun of him.

 

That's a hilarious storyline!! Michael Cole being the only one who cared is great!! LMAO!!!

[lavelleuk]

I once had Steel on 100 psychology, the silencer on 100 psychology and Doctor o'Haire on 100 selling, on TEW13 (Was that the last game? Mind gone blank) in SWF at the same time . I think hell's bouncer was on 100 psychology too, or close to it

 

Silencer and o'haire I got in as a tag team so together with those stats and A* overness that just put on constant 100 rated tag matches

 

This was the last version so I remember high stats and 100 rated matches being easier to get.

 

As for flops, spent ages pushing tyrant with some other monster heel (maybe Martyr), huge wins and tag title reigns, then when I could finally see their stats they were WAY below everyone else in ability and star quality and were quickly fazed out and fired

[MaiTyLer]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RatedRKO16" data-cite="RatedRKO16" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47367" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's a hilarious storyline!! Michael Cole being the only one who cared is great!! LMAO!!!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> <img alt="2lhc6dy2r0941.png" data-src="https://i.redd.it/2lhc6dy2r0941.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> I knew I had it somewhere, granted Tyson Kidd Kinda cared but he was more about "lets stop Cena from more murdering" then the actual funeral, Samoa Joe ate Sandwiches, Zack Ryder and Xavier Woods filmed for their YouTube shows.</p>

[Nobby_McDonald]

In my real world game in 2012 (started in 2001) I am now the number 2 company behind WWE. My champions have included Jimmy Yang (who at the time was the top champion in eight different companies) and Keiji Sakoda while Kevin Steen is a grand slam champion (World, World Tag Team, TV and Youth).

[isarealhebrew]

I don't know if he's necessarily a flop, but I ALWAYS try to push Steve Corino in any save I do. And he never really gets above the Upper Card level. TEW is basically just saying "Stop trying to make Corino happen."

[Vinsmoker]

<p>So...in my PWG playthrough I hired Vladimir Kozlov (renamed as Vladimir Koslov) as the body guard of Ilja Dragunov and kayfabe cousin of Alex Koslov. He sucked. He had 20 popularity across the board at best and his stats were really not good. No positive chemistry with anyone either. Two weeks into his contract he left to film a movie. I didn't want to drop him so soon, so I just waited until his return. Turns out that the movie was a huge success. He returned with 80 pop and while his stats still aren't great, his performances are now constantly in the 70s. He left when he was an Enhancement talent and returned as a Main Eventer.</p><p>

Hollywood saved his career</p>

[Historian]

My biggest success has to be Riley McManus. He was brought in at the start of my RMW game to be a solid hand on the roster that I could use as a number two or three face to get people ready for main event runs. Due to the death of Jebediah, my planned franchise, Riley was elevated. It was supposed to be temporary but that was 2016 and now in 2024 he’s still a main eventer, a three time Heavyweight champion and consistently churns out great performances (and he got over in the diary section too and won the 2018 Wrestler of the Year award!)

[Poputt]

I had this super long Clash of the Titans save in TEW 2013 where I got Alex Wright to be the face of the company (before that feature existed) by accident. I'll always remember suddenly realizing that he was auto-pushed as a Main Eventer despite me only putting him in filler matches for 2 in-game years. In 2016 my biggest surprise was Dragon Assassin in 5SSW. She completely killed it and was putting on 90+ matches like clockwork while getting the whole roster over.

[mjmiller2010]

So...in my PWG playthrough I hired Vladimir Kozlov (renamed as Vladimir Koslov) as the body guard of Ilja Dragunov and kayfabe cousin of Alex Koslov. He sucked. He had 20 popularity across the board at best and his stats were really not good. No positive chemistry with anyone either. Two weeks into his contract he left to film a movie. I didn't want to drop him so soon, so I just waited until his return. Turns out that the movie was a huge success. He returned with 80 pop and while his stats still aren't great, his performances are now constantly in the 70s. He left when he was an Enhancement talent and returned as a Main Eventer.

Hollywood saved his career

I had something similar happen with Torrie Wilson, was using her mostly as eye candy and mouthpiece until she went on to do a movie and she came back with A population nearly worldwide and I couldn't keep her happy so she handed in her notice

[PDoody]

On my current save I snabbed Becky Lynch from WWE, but she got injured during her first feud, she's out for five months, I had her set to be the figurehead, but then out of absolutely nowhere Tenille Dashwood has CARRIED the women's division on her back, rising all the way up to 70pop in most regions in America. Now when Becky returns in 16 days I've got some major decision making to do.

[alanreao]

Not really total flops, but The Bumfholes had a bad run of luck. A year or so into my SWF save, Randy was going off to make a movie. I planned a big singles run for Zimmy while Randy was out, culminating with a Zimmy heel turn when Randy comes back, due to jealousy.

 

A week before Randy was to leave, Zimmy gut hurt, and would be out until a week after Randy came back. OK, so much for the singles run, but I could still do the heel turn based on jealousy. Except when Randy got back, his popularity and star quality went back to pre-movie levels.

 

Neither Bumfhole had anything that would really make them stand out as singles, they would just be lost in the upper-midcard shuffle. So they went back to being my top tag team and the whole storyline was scrapped.