Peria Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 BOSJ through Dontaku have been concluded, and I'd like to go over the tournament, and discuss Dontaku! Here we go! Some important news here though: Vince McMahon has died in this save, and Ultimo Dragon broke his neck at 45 and is likely retiring on return! Both awful. A Block: Sean Maluta: 6 pts - A 2nd time BOSJ entrant, and 6 points each. Maluta has shown tremendous improvement since his last BOSJ event several years ago, and picked up some major wins from Otani and La Sombra. Matt Hardy: 6 pts - Matt's first BOSJ was a rough start, suffering an injury (a theme this tournament.) Many opponents took advantage of that. Matt wanted to prove he wasn't "The Other Hardy" but definitely came up short in that goal. Shingo Takagi: 6 pts- Shingo's first BOSJ ended in 6 points, which looks terrible until you realize Mabel from BC specifically targetted the Young Dragon. That is a shame. Shingo still showed impressive potential when he was allowed, and on Night 9, Shingo shocked everyone when he lefted Mabel up and slammed him, demanding an Intercontinental title match at Dontaku! Ricky Gibson: 8 pts - Gibson is another victim of a clear and easily exploitable injury early on. Thankfully for both Takagi and Gibson, the injury wasn't as bad as Ultimo Dragon's... but it was bad enough to hurt both of them tremendously in this tournament. He stayed true to his word and did not join BC either. CIMA: 8 pts - CIMA rejoined NJPW last year and had a measely 6 points.. this year CIMA ended at 8 points. He did well and looked better, but still lacked the killer instinct to finish a lot of matches against the more experienced wrestlers. 8 points is respectable and the clear improvement is there. Shinjiro Otani: 10 pts - Otani was the only man who could have reasonably won the block all the way until Day 7... before day 7, Otani stood at 10 points. After day 9? He ends at 10. Otani choked hard, as his last three opponents were the easiest of the block.. and with a loss to Devitt, Otani was doomed. La Sombra: 11 pts - La Sombra entered the tournament on day 2 at 0 points due to Ultimo Dragon's injury, and lost to Sean Maluta due to jet lag and the shortness of it all. La Sombra then went crazy and only dropped two more matches after. If La Sombra was in a different block... perhaps he would've won the block. KUSHIDA: 12 pts - Kush did well, really well. Another example of La Sombra, wrong place wrong time. Not much else to say but Kushida narrowly lost to Devitt and anyone else he looked amazing. Kushida is one to watch. A Block Winner: Prince Devitt: 17 pts - Nearly perfect. Prince Devitt was nearly there. He nearly made history... if it wasn't for a day 3 draw against La Sombra, who showed immaculate skill and resilience as he had just arrived in Japan the night before and lost to Sean Maluta. Devitt has made it clear who he plans to face if he wins the whole thing... but at this rate, can anyone in B Block even reasonably stand up to Devitt?! B Block: Pete Dune: 4 pts - Okay, Pete Dunne didn't make an impact, but nobody truly expected him to do so. The tournament is gruelling and Dunne is extremely young. Not many historically do well in their first go, and while Dune is assuredly disappointed, his stock has risen regardless. Jayson Paul: 6 pts - Paul has actually done worse each BOSJ. 6 points is atrocious, especially considering everyone in Bullet Club has instantly found success... Jayson Paul has floundered. This is fine. Nobody in BC really cares, and him having a bad run is whatever. Hopefully... right? MAZADA: 6 pts - MAZADA has always had the benefit of being an anti-air kind of guy, and has thrived and been one of the toughest opponents to beat in BOSJ. In 2009 MAZADA struggled with just 6 points... and in 2011 he repeats this abysmal feat. MAZADA has been doing BOSJ since 1999, and to continue as strong as he is, being a former finalist, is exceptional. But has he fizzled out? Does MAZADA need to evolve as the high-fliers today become more well-rounded? Jushin "Thunder" Liger: 8 pts - Liger's worst performance in BOSJ has arrived at just eight points. That's right. Liger has NEVER had a losing record in BOSJ. Liger has racked up injuries and age and is clearly slowing down. But it is the mental battle he lost with Devitt that has really hindered him. What is left for Liger? What could be left? What else does he even need to do? Jeff Hardy: 10 pts - Jeff's first BOSJ went swimmingly compared to Matt's which probably didn't help their family dinners. While Matt's biggest issue was winning, Jeff was inconsistent. He'd beat guys like Liger and Misterio but come up short to MAZADA who had a rough year, simply because he couldn't fly and wouldn't adapt. Still Jeff is a welcome addition to the tournament and will likely be a highlight for years. Naruki Doi: 10 pts - Former IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion & last years BOSJ winner, Doi had an overhaul last year that saw his stock rise up to the elites. While nobody has ever won BOSJ back to back, Doi still attempted the impossible task. He did great ending at 5-4, but 5-4 doesn't cut it in this block. His friendly yet seemingly hostile rivalry with friend YAMATO will likely be his focus. Rey Misterio Jr.: 10 pts - Rey had an awful BOSJ, by day 5 he was 1-4. Something wasn't clicking and he was struggling against everybody. Rey has always been like this, his underdog charisma gives him the fans support but sometimes he just..fizzles. One of the best of all time when he is the best of all time if that makes any sense. Still, he ended 5-4 and can be proud he wasn't negative. But you know he expected more of himself. YAMATO: 12 pts - The returning self proclaimed future "Ace" of the division. YAMATO has been a controversial figure. He carries himself like a heel and an arrogant jerk, and even treats his friends CIMA, BxB Hulk, and Doi a bit callously, but yet he fights fair and just oozes charisma. It's tough to hate a guy like him, despite his cockiness. YAMATO didn't win BOSJ nor did he win his block however.. and you know his ego is bruised beyond measure. B Block Winner: SUGI: 14 pts - The dark horse of the Jr. Heavyweight division has finally achieved greatness! SUGI has won his block and is now going head to head with one of the most dominant men in NJPW today. Prince Devitt will likely use his numbers advantage and well rounded approach, but SUGI is one of the premier high fliers today. SUGI might be the underdog but him winning against Devitt isn't exactly impossible! Best of the Super Juniors (Important Matches Only) NEVER Openweight 6-Man: Bullet Club (c) def. Suzuki-gun (Fujita/Omori/Sugiura) The Bullet Club defended their titles against Suzuki-gun members as the two factions have appeared to lock horns. Bullet Club being the de facto heel faction right now fighting a group of punks who have somehow become babyfaces is interesting, unfortunately though the B team of Suzuki-gun does not stack well against the A team of the Bullet Club. BOSJ 2011: Prince Devitt def. SUGI Devitt has become the first man to win the tournament while Jr. Heavyweight champion and wasted absolutely none of his team declaring his opponent to be La Sombra... I admit this was obviously going to be Ultimo Dragon's spot, and congrats on ALMOST guessing what Devitt was going to do. He was always going to draw with Ultimo, but La Sombra is literally a 1:1 stand in. Regardless the match is now set. SUGI is a great talent and deserves a BOSJ win, and I think outside of early decline or injuries he will be champion too. Now we go to DONTAKU and it was a stacked card! IWGP Intercontinental: Mabel (c) def. Shingo Takagi Mabel had been targetting Shingo for weeks, and even got in the way of Shingo's matches during the tournament. Bullet Club had been provoking every faction lately and some would assume Mabel's job was the newly formed RED. After the match, Mabel had continued to bully the young Takagi until Marufuji had finally had enough. NEVER Openweight: Daisuke Sekimoto def. UMAGA (c) A massive upset perhaps? Daisuke Sekimoto has become a 2x NEVER Openweight champion, and finally wins his second singles title in the company. His first was 5 years ago in 2006. Umaga has been a workhorse and an absolute beast this year, and will likely enter the G1, with a massive chip on his shoulder. IWGP Joshi: Meiko Satomura (c) def. Cynthia Moreno Another personal call out for Satomura. Cynthia had arguably one of the weaker title reigns, largely due to bad opponents or bad chemistry. This caused outrage and many suspected perhaps this was why the title wasn't treated as well it could have been. Simply put Satomura had business here, and since becoming champion she has been on a tear, already on her 5th defense. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag: The Young Bucks def. The Hardy's (c) Nobody expected The Young Bucks to win, but with the Bullet Club backing them? It's never a doubt. Thanks to about... oh, everyone, in Bullet Club, the The Hardy's finally crumbled and were unable to survive the onslaught. Nevermind they were both in a tournament while The Bucks were lounging and preparing. Special Singles Match: John Cena def. Kurt Angle Kurt Angle was always the ultimate American athlete, and this was definitely a passing of the torch, as Angle shook and raised Cena's after. Cena looks solidifed and more focused than ever. Nothing else to say, this is an iconic match okay? I can run this as many times as I want. IWGP United States: Paul Wight (c) def. Minoru Suzuki You ever see a Gotch-style Piledriver on a 7 foot tall giant? Well, that is how Suzuki earned this title match. After decimating Bullet Club in a match and feuding with them throughout the month, Suzuki-gun, the scummy heels have been instrumental in resisting Bullet Club. Unfortunately here, Suzuki had come up just a bit short but the faction, known for its rule breaking had tried to fight it straight and this was likely an egregious mistake! IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team: The Briscoes (c) def. RAMPAGE An amazing effort by RAMPAGE, Rhino and Kuroda, long time partners. However, it's the same old tale now, except The Briscoes are genuinely elite. One of the best teams seen in NJPW. After The Briscoes win, they continue to mock TenKoji's careers and promise to become the greatest tag team in NJPW history. Until... not TenKoji, but Meiyu Tag come out! Goto and Shibata, members of SkirMish the once dastardly heel faction that terrorized NJPW, has returned as heroes. Can Meiyu Tag survive the numbers game or do they have a trick up their sleeve? IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Prince Devitt (c) def. La Sombra Devitt won BOSJ, and in anger declared his opponent be La Sombra, the only man he did not beat in the tournament. Devitt also promised that Bullet Club would never interfere, and he kept his word. The match was vicious and even but Devitt squeaked on by and dodged a massive bullet himself. He is about to say he is sick of carrying a weak division until YAMATO comes out... the two have a staredown. IWGP Heavyweight: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) def. Chris Jericho A bitter veteran, Chris Jericho, had always felt like he was the main event. The Canadian had worked in NJPW from 1992 to 2008, and he worked his ass off. He returned in NJPW in 2010 with a chip on his shoulder and one goal in mind: The top. This was his moment. He wanted it so bad. Even with the help of the Bullet Club... it was still unobtainable. Tanahashi is left tall in the ring, while Jericho, even as a heel, feels relatable in his conquest and sacrifices ending in nothingness. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Money Mac Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Peria said: BOSJ through Dontaku have been concluded, and I'd like to go over the tournament, and discuss Dontaku! Here we go! Some important news here though: Vince McMahon has died in this save, and Ultimo Dragon broke his neck at 45 and is likely retiring on return! Both awful. A Block: Sean Maluta: 6 pts - A 2nd time BOSJ entrant, and 6 points each. Maluta has shown tremendous improvement since his last BOSJ event several years ago, and picked up some major wins from Otani and La Sombra. Matt Hardy: 6 pts - Matt's first BOSJ was a rough start, suffering an injury (a theme this tournament.) Many opponents took advantage of that. Matt wanted to prove he wasn't "The Other Hardy" but definitely came up short in that goal. Shingo Takagi: 6 pts- Shingo's first BOSJ ended in 6 points, which looks terrible until you realize Mabel from BC specifically targetted the Young Dragon. That is a shame. Shingo still showed impressive potential when he was allowed, and on Night 9, Shingo shocked everyone when he lefted Mabel up and slammed him, demanding an Intercontinental title match at Dontaku! Ricky Gibson: 8 pts - Gibson is another victim of a clear and easily exploitable injury early on. Thankfully for both Takagi and Gibson, the injury wasn't as bad as Ultimo Dragon's... but it was bad enough to hurt both of them tremendously in this tournament. He stayed true to his word and did not join BC either. CIMA: 8 pts - CIMA rejoined NJPW last year and had a measely 6 points.. this year CIMA ended at 8 points. He did well and looked better, but still lacked the killer instinct to finish a lot of matches against the more experienced wrestlers. 8 points is respectable and the clear improvement is there. Shinjiro Otani: 10 pts - Otani was the only man who could have reasonably won the block all the way until Day 7... before day 7, Otani stood at 10 points. After day 9? He ends at 10. Otani choked hard, as his last three opponents were the easiest of the block.. and with a loss to Devitt, Otani was doomed. La Sombra: 11 pts - La Sombra entered the tournament on day 2 at 0 points due to Ultimo Dragon's injury, and lost to Sean Maluta due to jet lag and the shortness of it all. La Sombra then went crazy and only dropped two more matches after. If La Sombra was in a different block... perhaps he would've won the block. KUSHIDA: 12 pts - Kush did well, really well. Another example of La Sombra, wrong place wrong time. Not much else to say but Kushida narrowly lost to Devitt and anyone else he looked amazing. Kushida is one to watch. A Block Winner: Prince Devitt: 17 pts - Nearly perfect. Prince Devitt was nearly there. He nearly made history... if it wasn't for a day 3 draw against La Sombra, who showed immaculate skill and resilience as he had just arrived in Japan the night before and lost to Sean Maluta. Devitt has made it clear who he plans to face if he wins the whole thing... but at this rate, can anyone in B Block even reasonably stand up to Devitt?! B Block: Pete Dune: 4 pts - Okay, Pete Dunne didn't make an impact, but nobody truly expected him to do so. The tournament is gruelling and Dunne is extremely young. Not many historically do well in their first go, and while Dune is assuredly disappointed, his stock has risen regardless. Jayson Paul: 6 pts - Paul has actually done worse each BOSJ. 6 points is atrocious, especially considering everyone in Bullet Club has instantly found success... Jayson Paul has floundered. This is fine. Nobody in BC really cares, and him having a bad run is whatever. Hopefully... right? MAZADA: 6 pts - MAZADA has always had the benefit of being an anti-air kind of guy, and has thrived and been one of the toughest opponents to beat in BOSJ. In 2009 MAZADA struggled with just 6 points... and in 2011 he repeats this abysmal feat. MAZADA has been doing BOSJ since 1999, and to continue as strong as he is, being a former finalist, is exceptional. But has he fizzled out? Does MAZADA need to evolve as the high-fliers today become more well-rounded? Jushin "Thunder" Liger: 8 pts - Liger's worst performance in BOSJ has arrived at just eight points. That's right. Liger has NEVER had a losing record in BOSJ. Liger has racked up injuries and age and is clearly slowing down. But it is the mental battle he lost with Devitt that has really hindered him. What is left for Liger? What could be left? What else does he even need to do? Jeff Hardy: 10 pts - Jeff's first BOSJ went swimmingly compared to Matt's which probably didn't help their family dinners. While Matt's biggest issue was winning, Jeff was inconsistent. He'd beat guys like Liger and Misterio but come up short to MAZADA who had a rough year, simply because he couldn't fly and wouldn't adapt. Still Jeff is a welcome addition to the tournament and will likely be a highlight for years. Naruki Doi: 10 pts - Former IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion & last years BOSJ winner, Doi had an overhaul last year that saw his stock rise up to the elites. While nobody has ever won BOSJ back to back, Doi still attempted the impossible task. He did great ending at 5-4, but 5-4 doesn't cut it in this block. His friendly yet seemingly hostile rivalry with friend YAMATO will likely be his focus. Rey Misterio Jr.: 10 pts - Rey had an awful BOSJ, by day 5 he was 1-4. Something wasn't clicking and he was struggling against everybody. Rey has always been like this, his underdog charisma gives him the fans support but sometimes he just..fizzles. One of the best of all time when he is the best of all time if that makes any sense. Still, he ended 5-4 and can be proud he wasn't negative. But you know he expected more of himself. YAMATO: 12 pts - The returning self proclaimed future "Ace" of the division. YAMATO has been a controversial figure. He carries himself like a heel and an arrogant jerk, and even treats his friends CIMA, BxB Hulk, and Doi a bit callously, but yet he fights fair and just oozes charisma. It's tough to hate a guy like him, despite his cockiness. YAMATO didn't win BOSJ nor did he win his block however.. and you know his ego is bruised beyond measure. B Block Winner: SUGI: 14 pts - The dark horse of the Jr. Heavyweight division has finally achieved greatness! SUGI has won his block and is now going head to head with one of the most dominant men in NJPW today. Prince Devitt will likely use his numbers advantage and well rounded approach, but SUGI is one of the premier high fliers today. SUGI might be the underdog but him winning against Devitt isn't exactly impossible! Best of the Super Juniors (Important Matches Only) NEVER Openweight 6-Man: Bullet Club (c) def. Suzuki-gun (Fujita/Omori/Sugiura) The Bullet Club defended their titles against Suzuki-gun members as the two factions have appeared to lock horns. Bullet Club being the de facto heel faction right now fighting a group of punks who have somehow become babyfaces is interesting, unfortunately though the B team of Suzuki-gun does not stack well against the A team of the Bullet Club. BOSJ 2011: Prince Devitt def. SUGI Devitt has become the first man to win the tournament while Jr. Heavyweight champion and wasted absolutely none of his team declaring his opponent to be La Sombra... I admit this was obviously going to be Ultimo Dragon's spot, and congrats on ALMOST guessing what Devitt was going to do. He was always going to draw with Ultimo, but La Sombra is literally a 1:1 stand in. Regardless the match is now set. SUGI is a great talent and deserves a BOSJ win, and I think outside of early decline or injuries he will be champion too. Now we go to DONTAKU and it was a stacked card! IWGP Intercontinental: Mabel (c) def. Shingo Takagi Mabel had been targetting Shingo for weeks, and even got in the way of Shingo's matches during the tournament. Bullet Club had been provoking every faction lately and some would assume Mabel's job was the newly formed RED. After the match, Mabel had continued to bully the young Takagi until Marufuji had finally had enough. NEVER Openweight: Daisuke Sekimoto def. UMAGA (c) A massive upset perhaps? Daisuke Sekimoto has become a 2x NEVER Openweight champion, and finally wins his second singles title in the company. His first was 5 years ago in 2006. Umaga has been a workhorse and an absolute beast this year, and will likely enter the G1, with a massive chip on his shoulder. IWGP Joshi: Meiko Satomura (c) def. Cynthia Moreno Another personal call out for Satomura. Cynthia had arguably one of the weaker title reigns, largely due to bad opponents or bad chemistry. This caused outrage and many suspected perhaps this was why the title wasn't treated as well it could have been. Simply put Satomura had business here, and since becoming champion she has been on a tear, already on her 5th defense. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag: The Young Bucks def. The Hardy's (c) Nobody expected The Young Bucks to win, but with the Bullet Club backing them? It's never a doubt. Thanks to about... oh, everyone, in Bullet Club, the The Hardy's finally crumbled and were unable to survive the onslaught. Nevermind they were both in a tournament while The Bucks were lounging and preparing. Special Singles Match: John Cena def. Kurt Angle Kurt Angle was always the ultimate American athlete, and this was definitely a passing of the torch, as Angle shook and raised Cena's after. Cena looks solidifed and more focused than ever. Nothing else to say, this is an iconic match okay? I can run this as many times as I want. IWGP United States: Paul Wight (c) def. Minoru Suzuki You ever see a Gotch-style Piledriver on a 7 foot tall giant? Well, that is how Suzuki earned this title match. After decimating Bullet Club in a match and feuding with them throughout the month, Suzuki-gun, the scummy heels have been instrumental in resisting Bullet Club. Unfortunately here, Suzuki had come up just a bit short but the faction, known for its rule breaking had tried to fight it straight and this was likely an egregious mistake! IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team: The Briscoes (c) def. RAMPAGE An amazing effort by RAMPAGE, Rhino and Kuroda, long time partners. However, it's the same old tale now, except The Briscoes are genuinely elite. One of the best teams seen in NJPW. After The Briscoes win, they continue to mock TenKoji's careers and promise to become the greatest tag team in NJPW history. Until... not TenKoji, but Meiyu Tag come out! Goto and Shibata, members of SkirMish the once dastardly heel faction that terrorized NJPW, has returned as heroes. Can Meiyu Tag survive the numbers game or do they have a trick up their sleeve? IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Prince Devitt (c) def. La Sombra Devitt won BOSJ, and in anger declared his opponent be La Sombra, the only man he did not beat in the tournament. Devitt also promised that Bullet Club would never interfere, and he kept his word. The match was vicious and even but Devitt squeaked on by and dodged a massive bullet himself. He is about to say he is sick of carrying a weak division until YAMATO comes out... the two have a staredown. IWGP Heavyweight: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) def. Chris Jericho A bitter veteran, Chris Jericho, had always felt like he was the main event. The Canadian had worked in NJPW from 1992 to 2008, and he worked his ass off. He returned in NJPW in 2010 with a chip on his shoulder and one goal in mind: The top. This was his moment. He wanted it so bad. Even with the help of the Bullet Club... it was still unobtainable. Tanahashi is left tall in the ring, while Jericho, even as a heel, feels relatable in his conquest and sacrifices ending in nothingness. I hope I am not reading TOOOOOO much into the tea leaves BUT is that a hint of a Hardy's break up down the road? Maybe a disgruntled brother turns on his more successful brother and aligns with the dastardly heels? Maybe becomes the mentor to the successors? Is Devitt hinting at moving up a weight class? THE SUSPENSE!! lol Great write up/read as usual mate looking forward to the next installment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonmid Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 I started a Dragon Gate 2006 save. This is my "let's have fun" save, so I kinda said "screw it" to the real world and made a lot of big changes right off the bat. We are in August, just after Kobe World Festival. First - Yasushi Kanda was brought back as an active wrestler right off the bat (he came back in july irl) and M2K reformed with their classic line-up. Kenichiro Arai wound up being kicked out (and so was K-ness, altough he was injured so he never showed up to actually get the boot) M2K set their sights on the Open the Triangle Gate Championships, held by (now fully heel) Blood Generation, and Arai decided to do everything to stop them. He brough in some "guests" on every show to tag with him - notably Super Delfin, Atsushi Onita, Gran Hamada, Jinsei Shinzaki and KENTA, who rather than a one-off became a full-time member of the roster (more on him later). Arai did not stop M2K from winning the titles but he did beat both Kanda and Susumu Yokosuka in singles matches, after which he declared he was better off as a singles anyway and that he would let M2K be and go after the Dream Gate title. He unsucessfully challenged Magnitude Kishiwada, but did have a fairly good showing at King of Gate, including a victory over Masaaki Mochizuki, the one M2K member he hadn't gotten revenge on yet. However, since Arai was unable to get out of his block he started to rethink the whole lone wolf thing, and as K-Ness came back from injury, they decided to tag together, and now are scouting for a third member to go after the Triangle Gate. Meanwhile, CIMA was kicked out of Blood Generation, with Dream Gate Champion Magnitude Kishiwada becoming the leader. Kishiwada said that you can't really go far in wrestling if you're not willing to do everything it takes to win, and the tension came to a head when CIMA hesitated on using a chair on Yasushi Kanda (irl he had retired due to a neck injury) during a tag match, which cost BG the match and earned M2K a title shot. During the title match proper, Masaaki Mochizuki did not show the same restraint, hitting CIMA with a chair to win the Triangle Gate titles. This angered the other members of Blood Generation, and Kishiwada staged a coup to take CIMA out. CIMA then tagged with Arai for a few months before winning King of Gate and taking the belt off Kishiwada. CIMA did not join a new stable, but had basically every babyface on the roster (plus M2K) as occasional allies since everyone hates BloodGen. He will get a new group eventually though. BloodGen will be my top heel stable for a while, doing the classic strength in numbers strategy. In typical DG fashion they are pretty much in a constant feud with the entire roster, but I plan on using them to build up Shingo Takagi, and then Takagi will lead the next big heel group. Gamma is yet to join the company, and I'm thinking about adding him still. The big problem is that there aren't many popular, fully avaliable guys (I hate booking around schedules) to join them. I was thinking about picking up some former Aagan Issou guys to re-join and ride with them, but I also just might have the yet-unnamed CIMA-led stable finish them off as is and Takagi then creates a new group entirely. I also considered having Doi and Yoshino leave them and run a Gamma/Kishiwada heel tag instead but held off on that for now. I'm thinking that CIMA might join AraKen and K-ness on a new group, but he won't be their "third man" against M2K. I am torn on having him do a long, year+ reign or having two 6 - 8 month reigns with a transitional reign in between. I really like Anthony W. Mori and he never won the big one in real life so I'm thinking maybe CIMA drops the belt to him and wins it back later. CIMA vs. Shingo is the big match I'm building towards, but I'm not sure Shingo will be ready even in 1 year's time. Right now CIMA faces the challenge of Ryo Saito. Saito won King of Gate in December 2005, but in my version of history he never got his title shot due to the BG Civil War and the change in schedule. Masaaki Mochizuki also has a claim for a future challenge as he did pin CIMA the last time they faced off. The CIMA stable will probably be him, Arai, K-ness, Ricky Marvin (he quit NOAH so I brought him in), and I'm thinking of getting Okada from Toryumon Mexico (they declared war for some reason?). Again, the lack of good free agents (and the small-ish roster DG has in this mod) has me scratching my head a bit. Speaking of which, I moved King of Gate from december to may-june. Newcomer Chris Jericho made an immediate impact as he won the A block and lost to B block winner CIMA in the finals. Then he left for band touring so I'm not sure what to do with him now. The other highlight of the tournament was Akira Tozawa, who came reeeeally close to winning his block. Tozawa, now named TOZAWA, created his own stable, Tozawa-Juku. In my version it's basically a gang of angry young people. Tozawa himself is kinda crazy, kinda comedic on angles, but a machine in-ring that will tear you apart if you're not careful. The Metabolic Brothers were already on the database as a tag so I kept them together without the shitty irl gimmick (Katsuo kinda has a bodybuilder thing going on which is played for laughs). KAGETORA and KUSHIDA soon joined, and Katsuo decided to stylize his name in all caps so he wouldn't feel left out. TOZAWA then set his sights on KENTA. KENTA is stylized in all caps and starts with a K, so it's only natural that he join Tozawa's group. But KENTA said that he wasn't some rebel without cause Yoshinari Ogawa wannabe, he was the GHC Jr. champion and the future of NOAH, so why would he join a bunch of losers. Also TOZAWA should change his name to KOZAWA since everyone else has a K. TOZAWA was angry at the snub, but lost to KENTA in a singles match. However, he did earn KENTA's respect with an incredible 5-2 perfomance in the King of Gate tournament. KENTA decided that he would align himself with Tozawa's group and help them whip the others into shape, altought don't expect him to do run ins or stuff like that. TOZAWA then beat Dragon Kid for the Brave Gate at Kobe World. The story of TOZAWA at Kingo of Gate was that he lost his first match to Jericho, who had just arrived in the company, so at first people underestimated him - after all, here you have a DG Dojo Trueborn talking a bunch of trash only to lose to a guy who never worked DG before. But then he upset Don Fujii and Milano Collection A.T. back to back. Then pople stopped underestimating him, but he did not stop winning, adding Ricky Marvin, Genki Horiguchi and Masato Yoshino to the list of victims until Susumu Yokosuka finally put an end to his streak and his hopes of getting to the finals. It's just a shame that the crowd was so pissed off at a young lion getting such a big push (as if real life Darg doesn't do that all the time... but I digress) KENTA will be used to elevate everyone on the stable until NOAH decides to give him an Exclusive Written contract. I also created the Twin Gate Championships way before the irl version. After a mini tournament in April, Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi became the first champions, but they shockingly lost the belts at Kobe World in july without a single defense (no title matches in may and june due to KoG). BxB Hulk and Prince Devitt of pos.HEARTS managed to snatch the title in a Four Way tag match. Doi & Yoshino will keep chasing the titles using the "but we were never pinned argument" and the "fine, I'll interfere on you 24/7 strategy", but I'm also thinking about turning them face for a bit. Only problem like I said is who replaces them in Blood Generation and who they join (maybe CIMA's group?). Speaking of which, pos.HEARTS are finally starting to find their footing after a rough start to the year. Anthony W. Mori unsucessfully challenged for the Dream Gate, and then the stable was kinda doing a bunch of nothing until Milano showed up to light a fire under them. They added Fergal Devitt to the stable, then Mori christened him as "Prince", because "Fergal" is diffiicult to say in Japanese and because of his Royal theme, altought Mori is the only member of the stable with the royalty gimmick. Super Shisa and King Shisa are the other members. They will challenge for the Twin Gates in "friendly competition". Hulk will turn heel eventually. I might send him on excursion to ROH. ROH and us have a mutual excursion agreement. They sent the dempsey brothers and Mitch Franklin. I have no ida who any of those people are, but they've been eating pins in the undercards. YAMATO made his debut recently too. The rest of my "undercard guys not in stables or storylines" is Jackson Florida, Johnson Florida, Daniel Mishima, Michael Iwasa, Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Sasaki, Stalker Ichikawa and Shachihoko Boy. I thought about getting Billy Ken Kid, Asian Cougar, Yoshitsune, Hi69 and Hayato Fujita too, but first i gotta elevate some of the "unknowns" I already have (Kagetora, Kushida, King Shisa, Super Shisa, Naoki Tanizaki). I think YAMATO will join Do FIXER as I've been kinda doing nothing with them but irl YAMATO is one of my faves so I'll find something for him to do and that should give the stable some direction. Dragon Kid was the brave gate champ but he's not in line for either a rematch or a Dream Gate challenge for now. Like I said, Ryo Saito is next. Naoki Tanizaki is basically only taking Ls. Genki Horiguchi will go for the Brave Gate eventually. I might have them go on the Triangle Gate scene. Magnum TOKYO is pretty much filler title defense material at this point. In other news, NJPW had 52 year old Tatsumi Fujinami beat Brock Lesnar for the IWGP HC and he retired as champion a few weeks later. I wish I could book comedy this good. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 2 hours ago, dragonmid said: In other news, NJPW had 52 year old Tatsumi Fujinami beat Brock Lesnar for the IWGP HC and he retired as champion a few weeks later. I wish I could book comedy this good. I like this. I like this a lot. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AboardTheArk Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/29/2023 at 9:47 PM, dragonmid said: In other news, NJPW had 52 year old Tatsumi Fujinami beat Brock Lesnar for the IWGP HC and he retired as champion a few weeks later. I wish I could book comedy this good. This is wrestling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peria Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 (edited) On 12/29/2023 at 2:11 AM, Money Mac said: I hope I am not reading TOOOOOO much into the tea leaves BUT is that a hint of a Hardy's break up down the road? Maybe a disgruntled brother turns on his more successful brother and aligns with the dastardly heels? Maybe becomes the mentor to the successors? Is Devitt hinting at moving up a weight class? THE SUSPENSE!! lol Great write up/read as usual mate looking forward to the next installment. Thanks so much for your interest by the way, it is greatly appreciated! I forgot to mention as well that Vince McMahon has passed away and Shane is in control of the WWE now. Pretty wild stuff. Plus a year long plan for a certain title had to be completely reset since something happened, so interesting write up! Invasion Attack has been booked and dusted, and everything is shaping up more and more for what I hope is going to be the most jam packed Wrestle Kingdom of the save! IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag: The Young Bucks (c) def. Los Traumas Los Traumas are an elite team in the Junior Heavyweight division and they represent CMLL. The Bucks are out to prove that they don't need the Bullet Club name tag to dominate the division. They beat The Hardy Boys, they can beat anyone. This was an excellent match and a good proving point for the Bucks as they got the match done simple and clean. They call out the ailing division and pray for more talent to step up otherwise they'll retire with the belts. IWGP Joshi: Kana def. Meiko Satomura (c) An absolute shock to the fans, but an expected outcome for anyone behind the scenes. Satomura and Marufuji are expecting a child, and in a month Satomura is taking the time off, Kana stepped up and took the title in an excellent match via sudden knockout. Satomura was supposed to carry the title well into 2012, but we will see, as her short time with the title still saw the title gain prestige and intrigue. NEVER Openweight: Daisuke Sekimoto (c) def. Togi Makabe Makabe was never a major player in NJPW, but he was also fairly content with being a supporting one throughout his career. Now at 38 years old, Makabe admits he doesn't want to quietly fizzle out and become forgotten. He made a bold claim promising to jumpstart his career off a win of the young and hopeful Daisuke Sekimoto. Makabe has never been a singles champion, and Sekimoto is the ace of W*NG. The 8 year age gap didn't prove to be any advantage whatsoever. IWGP Intercontinental: Naomichi Marufuji (c) def. Mabel Marufuji has defeated Mabel, and didn't just stop there. Out of character, Marufuji began to attack and assault Mabel well after the match, calling him a demon and an omen on NJPW. His very existence in NJPW makes the company reek, and even vowed to remove this stench from NJPW entirely, with the rest of Bullet Club. This feud doesn't look to be fully over. IWGP Heavyweight Tag: The Briscoes (c) def. Los Asesinos (Banderas/Cibernetico & Meiyu Tag This was supposed to be a 2 vs. 2 match but during the build to Invasion Attack would saw The Briscoes cost Meiyu Tag a match. This would backfire however, as because it was noticed from the referee after the match, the match would be restarted with Meiyu Tag as the winners. Because of their punishment, they had to defend the titles in a 2 vs. 2 vs. 2 and would still manage to come up on top after Goto hit the GTR on Banderas, with Jay capitalizing and pushing Goto out of the ring to also hit the Jay Driller for the match. IWGP United States: Paul Wight (c) def. Kensuke Sasaki After Minoru Suzuki fell to the Giant gaijin, Paul Wight had a man who feared no one - Kensuke Sasaki. Sasaki is a legend in the company, and at 44 years old, has had many rivals. One of those rivals is Minoru Suzuki, their first match singles match dates all the way back to 1998, where Paul Wight was irrelevant. Sasaki stepped up, despite Suzuki being in a different faction, out of respect. Sasaki was unable to get the job done sadly. IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Prince Devitt (c) drew vs. YAMATO An extremely rare outcome, a 60 minute time limit draw between two junior competitors. Neither known for their super daredevil style, yet to see it go this long was something neither the fans nor the competitors expected. YAMATO had Devitt a few times, though. But Jayson Paul and other members of the BC were there to back him up. Meanwhile? YAMATO was alone. So alone from his cocky alienation of his mates who came up in wrestling with him. No BxB Hulk, who was injured, no CIMA or Naruki Doi. Nobody. Post match, in a rage Devitt and BC hammered away at YAMATO while absolutely nobody saved him. IWGP Heavyweight: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) def. Satoshi Kojima Satoshi Kojima is very well respected by his peers as one of the best to never get a fair shot. Kojima wasn't like other younger guys who have gotten numerous title shots and failed, a fact Kojima himself brought up. But he knows, even as his body fails, he can become champion. Tanahashi was in awe at Kojima's resolve, and couldn't disagree. A rarity in NJPW as of late, that no match had malice or the expectation that someone was going to interfere. Kojima lost and many believed this was almost like saying it was his final chance at the title. The moment was quickly ruined when Brock Lesnar returned in fighting form and stared a hole right through Tanahashi. With that done and dusted, thanks for reading! But just to avoid spamming this thread, I will also post the G1 Climax participants! A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi (Heavyweight Title / Unaffiliated) Kensuke Sasaki (Sekigun) Katsuyori Shibata (SkirMish) Samoa Joe (Unaffiliated) Chris Jericho (Bullet Club) Osamu Nishimura (CHAOS) SUWAMA (SkirMish) Tetsuya Naito (CHAOS) Satoshi Kojima (GBH Co-Leader) Rhino (Suzuki-gun) B Block: Naomichi Marufuji (IC Title / RED Leader) Paul Wight (US Title / Bullet Club) Hirooki Goto (SkirMish) Umaga (Samoan Dynasty) John Cena (Sekigun) Shinsuke Nakamura (CHAOS Leader) Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-gun Leader) Randy Orton (SkirMish) Takashi Sugiura (Suzuki-gun) KENTA (Unaffiliated) Edited January 3 by Peria 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonmid Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 We are now in March 2007, and of course many things have happened since August. Don Fujii took Daniel Mishima as a protégé, so I decided to turn him heel and have him ditch the comedy gimmick in order to join Blood Generation. Now working under his real name (Raimu), Mishima, Fujii and Shingo Takagi had a very brief squirmish with his former Florida Friends, but quickly moved on. Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi left Blood Generation. The two of them kept pestering Prince Devitt & BxB Hulk until they finally got a Twin Gate title match. 2 on 2, no BS. As expected, their superior experience and chemistry gave them a huge advantage. But Devitt & Hulk have will, and they did not give up quite easily. However, just as the champions started to gain momentum, Mishima interfered on DoiYoshi's behalf. The challengers were not thrilled, but rather furious. In the end, Mishima's interference wound up taking their focus, and a distracted Yoshino fell victim to Devitt's Bloody Sunday. DoiYoshi immediately demanded that Mishima get kicked out of BG. They said that an elite tag such as them would never lose 2 on 2 to two guys who only just started working together a few months earlier, and that Mishima had cost BG the match. Magnitude Kishiwada had agreed, but Fujii asked Doi and Yoshi to prove themselves by beating Mishima first. Yoshino defeted Mishima in a singles match and the following month Doi followed suit. However, they were shocked as Kishiwada, Fujii and Takagi attacked them instead. Kishiwada said that they were too weak and were just making excuses for their losses. Doi and Yoshino were not too bothered by getting kicked off. They said that Kishiwada himself had lost the biggest prize ever at Kobe World, and BG was nowhere near regaining the Dream Gate due to his poor leadership. They said that without the "dead weight" they would pick up the Twin Gate titles and never lose them again, meanwhile BG had no good tags that could beat them. Enter Gamma! Gamma, Kishiwada's old friend, joined BG and the team was immediately reformed. They feuded with DoiYoshi briefly. In November, they fought in a number one contender's match, won by Gamma and Kishiwada, who then added insult to injury by picking up the Twin Gate titles themselves, clean as a whistle, at Final Gate in December (Fujii stopped Mishima from interfering this time, and the champion's momentum was stalled by Gamma and Kishiwada's tag chemistry). Blood Generation's dominance continued with the additions of Dojo Graduate Cyber Kong and the surprising addition of the giant (for DG standards) Zeus (the Japanese Zeus, not former WCW Zeus). Zeus, Kong and Fujii picked up the Triangle Gate titles in February, and it doesn't seem like anyone can stop the two newly added monsters. But what about Shingo Takagi and Raimu Mishima? Well, Mishima has constantly "helped" BG turn the tide of matches as he accompanies his bethren to the ring, and on tag matches he has proven to be quite crafty as well, using the rules in his favor to stall the matches with rope breaks, bothering the referee whenever his opponent breathes so someone else can strike, etc. Meanwhile Shingo vowed to prove himself by winning a belt, but wound up losing to TOZAWA in a Brave Gate challenge. Now Mishima is fancying himself for a shot, but Shingo pointed out that he always ends up getting the wins whenever they tag. Fujii interfered and said that they should meet in a singles match, and the winner would be named the challenger to TOZAWA representing BG. TOZAWA is busy with other challengers atm, but Kobe World is still a couple months away, so there is time for some BG member to get a pin over him and earn another shot - if they can overcome yet another infighting which Mishima is at the center of, that is... I won't get rid of Blood Gen right now but their downfall will begin this year for sure. Meanwhile, the Dream Gate Championship. CIMA proved to be a fighting champion. After winning the belt at Kobe World in July, he defended it in August, September, October, November, December and January before finally losing to Anthony W. Mori in February. Ryo Saito was the first challenger, citing his previous King of Gate win for which Kishiwada never gave him a shot. Masaaki Mochizuki was next in line, since he had pinned CIMA twice earlier in the year. Magnum TOKYO unsucessfully challenged next, after going on a win streak between August and October, including one pin over the champion, and finally Don Fujii reignited CIMA's feud with Blood Generation by attacking him after the TOKYO defense, before losing the title match (he would end up picking the Triangle Gate in February). As the old year ended and the new year began, CIMA faced his toughest challengers yet: Jushin Thunder Liger and KENTA. KENTA had spent the past few months with TOZAWA-JUKU, but like he said he wasn't really "a member" of the stable, and for as much respect as he had for TOZAWA, he came to Dragon Gate to represent NOAH, not to do random tags and be TOZAWA's second. TOZAWA agreed that KENTA should challenge for the belt, but if he won TOZAWA was to be the first challenger (despite still holding the Brave Gate title). Two people had something to say about this, however: Anthony W. Mori and Liger. Liger had started working with DG right after Kobe World. At first I used him to develop the lower carders, but eventually he agreed to put over CIMA so I decided to have him on the Dream Gate track. Liger started cutting promos about how he didn't come to DG just to be a background character, but that he was representing New Japan Pro Wrestling. W. Mori pointed out how both he and KENTA spoke in similar terms, but despite being very important at their home companies both had not truly proven themselves in Dragon Gate, so why should they be Dream Gate challengers? In the end, it was CIMA's call, though. CIMA pointed out Mori had lost to Kishiwada earlier in the year, and that despite the BG shenanigans in that match it was him who should prove himself - after all, CIMA overcame the same adversity to win the belt. CIMA decided that Liger and KENTA would face eachother in a singles match, and the winner would challenge. However, the match ended... in a time limit draw! CIMA bravely declared that both men would challenge for the belt, and thus the stage was set for a 3-Way match at Final Gate, which the champion won by pinning Liger. Both challengers weren't entirely satisfied with the result, though. CIMA agreed that a singles match was the only sure fire way of determining the best wrestler, but if they couldn't come to an agreement about who should challenge then there was nothing he could do. The problem solved itself when Mori challenged Jushin Liger to a singles match, where the winner would challenge for the Dream Gate title. Mori, CIMA, KENTA and Liger agreed on the following terms: KENTA, who unlike Liger had a tag victory over CIMA, would challenge for the title at New Year's Gate. Meanwhile, Mori and Liger, both who had gone to "the back of the line", would fight eachother for another chance. At New Year's Gate, CIMA retained the title over KENTA in our best match so far, meanwhile Mori upset Jushin Liger to earn his shot, one year to the date where he had lost the title match against Kishiwada, leading Liger to go on a "am I too old for these new Juniors?" type of crisis (spoilers: I want him to get the strap eventually since it happened irl and I'm a huge mark for Liger, but right now there's too many scheduling conflicts to make this worthwile. This story here was changed a bit because of that, actually) In February at Glorious Gate, Mori fullfiled his Dream by defeating CIMA for the belt, and now his Pos.HEARTS stable will regroup to fend off the threat of Blood Generation and try to win more titles in the process. The Triangle Gate titles are an entirely different story. CIMA did end up making his own group, called ROUNDABOUT, with Ken'ichiro Arai, K-ness, Chris Jericho and Ricky Marvin. The name came because the idea is that this is the top group in DG, and no matter how much things change, it all comes back to them and they are always the "main characters". In kayfabe Jericho came up with the name and the reason. WWE hired 200 people but haven't come for him yet, so he might get a bigger push soon. Arai and K-ness immediately started gunning for the Triangle Gate titles. It was decided that Ricky Marvin would be their partner, and at Dangerous Gate in October the Trio finally ended the reign of M2K, putting an end to the M2K - AraK-ness feud for now. They defended the titles against combinations of TOZAWA-JUKU, DO FIXER and even Jackson & Johnson Florida + Michael Iwasa, before the aforementioned Zeus-Kong-Fujii combination won the belts in February. I don't know where the stable will go from here, to be honest. The plan for the Triangle Gates is for M2K to win them back at Kobe World, with their experience overcoming the size and underhanded tactics of their opponents, and this should be a huge reign as I eventually disband M2K for good. The Brave Gate title is still firmily in TOZAWA's grasp. He has recently started a gimmick where he takes on multiple members of the same stable. After beating Dragon Kid at Kobe World, he defended against Genki Horiguchi and Naoki Tanizaki of Do FIXER, before also taking on Milano Collection A.T., Super Shisa and King Shisa of Pos.HEARTS. He also took on Susumu Yokosuka, but the other M2K members declined on a challenge. These wins and M2K's attitude led to TOZAWA getting cocky, something which KENTA is trying to warn him against. Can he survive the onslaught of Blood Generation with that much overconfidence? Speaking of Do FIXER - They added YAMATO from the Dojo, but the successive unsucessful title challenges and the group's inability to stay at the top of the cards has caused quite some internal drama. I don't want to turn any of them heels, but Dragon Kid and Ryo Saito specifically have started to talk about potentially getting a change in scenery. The storyline is currently TOKYO trying to prove himself a worthy leader to his stablemates, which will culminate at King of Gate. I plan on having him lose the KoG finals, which leads to the stable getting disbanded. YAMATO will probably turn heel at that point and feud with him, accusing TOKYO of derailing his career with his poor leadership. The long-term plan is that TOKYO loses to YAMATO and goes on a complete downward spiral, before coming back around and winning KoG in 2008, perhaps denying YAMATO his breakout moment in some poetic justice in the process. I'm not sure where the rest of the stable with fit in. Horiguchi and DKid are prime Brave Gate material, and Horiguchi also has a good tag with Ryo Saito. When the Shingo push finally bears fruit then and only then I maybe think of turning them heels, since I don't want the same people who are in Blood Generation to be big players in the next big heel stable. Naoki Tanizaki has great tag chemistry with YAMATO, so he might also turn his back on TOKYO eventually. Undercards! I imported free pictures from the Real World Chronicles mod, so we got a couple more Dojo Graduates than irl. YAMATO, Kzy and Cyber Kong were the real life graduates, joined in by Matsu Mitsuya and Atsumori Ukiyo who are random gens. Mitsuya was sent on excursion to ROH alongsite Hayato Fujita and Kazuchika Okada (yeah I wound up picking them up), but the three haven't been doing much over there. ROH is currently at medium with a TV deal so I might just kayfabe the whole thing in two year's time. Ukiyo though has some great SQ and Charisma, plus some pretty decent aerial and technical, and the best part of it is he's got great tag chemistry with Mitch Franklin, and the two have become pretty solid hands to throw in opening matches. The Dempsey bros from ROH are... well, they are bad, but Bobby has been improving at a slightly better pace than his bro. The Dempseys, Ukiyo & Franklin, Shachihoko Machine, Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Sasaki, Kzy, Stalker Ichikawa, Jackson Florida, Johnson Florida and Michael Iwasa are my current "undercard", meawhile Cyber Kong, YAMATO, Zeus, KAGETORA and KUSHIDA are the "unimportant" wrestlers in stables who I'm trying to build up (KATSUO has finally moved up to recognisable!) In other news: - WWE let Shawn Michaels go back in March 2006. I only realized this when I caught him working Puerto Rico in November, and have been debating picking him up ever since, because as unrealistic as it would be it is freaking Shawn Michaels. Ric Flair was also cut but he's also 502 years old at this point, so... - Actually, WWE has been doing terrible, struggling to crack the 80 rating in shows which has seen them dropped from several TV slots, altough they're still number one. Hulk Hogan is the WWE champion. Shane McMahon is the Cruiserweight Champion. The other champions are quite unremarkable, except maybe for Edge & Kurt Angle as tag champions despite the fact they re-hired Christian Cage. On the plus side they've been giving a huge push to Samoa Joe. He's Well Known with high 60's popularity all over the US, having surged starting from mid-2006. Man might be a true main eventer by year's end at this rate. - CMLL released Mistico. Yes, Mistico of all people. This one almost made me ditch the save to go re-edit his stats and popularity before starting over. Their war with AAA rages on with seemingly 300 news about dirty tricks every week. Seriously, they're trying hard to screw over one another. AAA did not pick up Místico so I just might, who knows. - Another thing I will probably look at are the weight limits for Japan. Gedo & Jado are the IWGP Tag champions, whereas Togi Makabe is Jr. Tag champion with Shiro Koshinaka. Tatsumi Fujinami won BOSJ in 2006 (I hadn't seen that before, but he apparently won the tournament while IWGP Heavyweight Champion), and Tiger Mask IV won the G1 Climax. I'm too lazy to make a mod from scratch myself so this isn't a complaint, but I'll have to go fix this at some point since it's a bit immersion breaking (but very funny) - Kensuke Sasaki is simultaneously the Triple Crown champion and the GHC Heavyweight Champion, but sadly hates NJPW booker Riki Choshu so he probably won't get the elusive Trifecta. - TNA and ROH are hostile to basically everyone in the US now. TNA actually left the NWA and created their own world title. The lineage: Jeff Jarett, Kevin Nash, Sting, Kevin Nash. They're also booking AJ Styles like crap. 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Zero Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 1/7/2024 at 9:45 PM, dragonmid said: In other news: - WWE let Shawn Michaels go back in March 2006. I only realized this when I caught him working Puerto Rico in November, and have been debating picking him up ever since, because as unrealistic as it would be it is freaking Shawn Michaels. Ric Flair was also cut but he's also 502 years old at this point, so... - Actually, WWE has been doing terrible, struggling to crack the 80 rating in shows which has seen them dropped from several TV slots, altough they're still number one. Hulk Hogan is the WWE champion. Shane McMahon is the Cruiserweight Champion. The other champions are quite unremarkable, except maybe for Edge & Kurt Angle as tag champions despite the fact they re-hired Christian Cage. On the plus side they've been giving a huge push to Samoa Joe. He's Well Known with high 60's popularity all over the US, having surged starting from mid-2006. Man might be a true main eventer by year's end at this rate. - CMLL released Mistico. Yes, Mistico of all people. This one almost made me ditch the save to go re-edit his stats and popularity before starting over. Their war with AAA rages on with seemingly 300 news about dirty tricks every week. Seriously, they're trying hard to screw over one another. AAA did not pick up Místico so I just might, who knows. - Another thing I will probably look at are the weight limits for Japan. Gedo & Jado are the IWGP Tag champions, whereas Togi Makabe is Jr. Tag champion with Shiro Koshinaka. Tatsumi Fujinami won BOSJ in 2006 (I hadn't seen that before, but he apparently won the tournament while IWGP Heavyweight Champion), and Tiger Mask IV won the G1 Climax. I'm too lazy to make a mod from scratch myself so this isn't a complaint, but I'll have to go fix this at some point since it's a bit immersion breaking (but very funny) - Kensuke Sasaki is simultaneously the Triple Crown champion and the GHC Heavyweight Champion, but sadly hates NJPW booker Riki Choshu so he probably won't get the elusive Trifecta. - TNA and ROH are hostile to basically everyone in the US now. TNA actually left the NWA and created their own world title. The lineage: Jeff Jarett, Kevin Nash, Sting, Kevin Nash. They're also booking AJ Styles like crap. Very realistic Loving this part (and the whole write-up). Fun game world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same-old-davey Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) On 1/7/2024 at 9:45 PM, dragonmid said: - TNA and ROH are hostile to basically everyone in the US now. TNA actually left the NWA and created their own world title. The lineage: Jeff Jarett, Kevin Nash, Sting, Kevin Nash. They're also booking AJ Styles like crap. Very realistic. Pretty much the same as my L2G started in 2007. Plus my game's TNA is at open war with New Japan and AAA. Edit: And Vince stole AJ Styles from them. Edited January 9 by same-old-davey add on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peria Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 NJPW 1992-2011: August-September Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has signed a huge money contract with World Wrestling Entertainment, his final match in NJPW was admist the G1 Climax against John Cena, who proved his work ethic by not only having to deal with the gruelling tournament but also going 41 minutes against "The Great One" and winning. I've always sort of used gaijin to build up and allow WCW or WWE to take, and The Rock has actually bounced between WWE/NJPW a few times. He'll likely finish his career in WWE, unless I bring him back for a year. Let's get into the G1 Climax results! G1 Climax Results: A Block Katsuyori Shibata (2 pts) - An injury against Osamu Nishimura revealed to later be a broken neck resulted in Shibata having to forfeit and end his run on just Night 2. His one victory was against Tetsuya Naito. Which is irritating for Naito. Osamu Nishimura (8 pts) - Osamu has been taken a backseat in NJPW, and was a surprise announcement for the G1, actually. He had a solid performance, but the wear and tear on his body was showing. His wins were against Jericho, who had a stellar performance, Kojima, and Tetsuya Naito. Tetsuya Naito (8 pts) - Naito had a frustrating G1. He was the only one who lost to Shibata which is devastating when you factor in everybody else got 2 free points while Naito had 0. Still, he had a great first G1 and 8 points whilst a losing record is still impressive. Naito also had a surge of popularity! (83 to 91!) Satoshi Kojima (8 pts) - On Night 9 Kojima admitted this was his last G1, as he wanted to end his career with Tenzan winning tag titles. Thoughtful and a bit sad, Kojima's era begins to wane as with Nagata completely gone, he perhaps might be the next to go. Despite this, his G1 performance was solid again, but not spectacular. A G1 Finalist overall too, Perhaps Kojima will go down as the greatest "could have been" in NJPW history. Suwama (8 pts) - Suwama had missed 2010's G1 Climax, which is interesting when you factor in he ended with 10 pts in 2009, but that was due to an injury. This year Suwama entered and had a solid showing, though Shibata being injured has helped everybodys point totals. Not much to say, Suwama's campaign was valiant, and many were looking forward to Shibata vs. Suwama as it was interfaction warfare. Rhino (8 pts) - Rhino is the ultimate G1 wrestler, despite his point totals. He is much like Goto in the sense that he can realistically be World Champion, in fact he even beat Tanahashi in this G1. But Rhino's headstrong full frontal assault approach means he is a bit one dimensional and he always struggles against technicians like Nishimura. Still, he is a delight to watch and Rhino will likely be in every G1 barring injury or retirement. Samoa Joe (10 pts) - Joe has really caught fire in NJPW as of last year, alongside his tag team partner KENTA. This G1 showcases just how far he has come as a fighter too. In fact, he was close to winning the whole thing a few times. Despite coming up short, Joe has nothing to be ashamed of and like Rhino, has secured his spot in the G1 for years to come. Chris Jericho (12 pts) - Jericho has had a chip on his shoulder since returning to NJPW. Feeling he has less time on his side than before, he aligned with Bullet Club and instantly targetted Tanahashi. His obsession earned him a shot at Dontaku, and he failed. In the G1, he only wanted to beat Tanahashi and get a title shot... he lost. Jericho's entire G1 was so deadset on that title shot, that he could've perhaps just won the G1 Climax and went to Wrestle Kingdom. But it ran deeper than that for him. Jericho wanted to beat the Ace. Hiroshi Tanahashi (12 pts) - Tanahashi is always in the hardest blocks, but he is also the hardest person to beat. His 3 losses were against Rhino, Kojima, and the winner of the A Block. Regardless of that, he ended his campaign not only as champion but second place in the entire block. Tanahashi is untouchable at times, but after his final match on Night 9 against Suwama, Lesnar came back out to remind him that at Destruction there is no more Ace. A Block Winner: Kensuke Sasaki (14 pts) - 44 years old. Sasaki has been in the business for 25 years. He wrestled against Masahiro Chono in the very first Wrestle Kingdom back in 1994. He went was the first and only to win the G1 Climax back to back in its current format. He faced the Hashimotos, the Misawas, he even teamed with them. Sasaki has had a career that very few, if any could be envious of. At 44 years old, he defeated the most popular wrestler in the world in Tanahashi, and is now heading to the finals to perhaps do the unthinkable and become the oldest G1 Climax winner ever. He hasn't held that coveted IWGP Heavyweight title since 2002, when he defeated his nemesis Kenta Kobashi. Nobody has said it, but everybody knows this will likely be the best, and the last shot Sasaki has. B Block Takashi Sugiura (2 pts) - Sugiura has had... an awful time at the G1 Climax. It wasn't like he wasn't competitive, realistically he could have ended at 10 points and nobody would bat an eye. Sadly, this tournament isn't always like that. Sugiura plain and simple was overwhelmed and washed away by a competitive block. KENTA (8 pts) - KENTA is a made man. This G1 saw fans rally behind Kenta like never before, and they were salivating at the future matches between Goto and Marufuji. Indeed it can be stated that Kenta has benefitted the most from this G1. Outside of winning, it couldn't have gone better. Umaga (8 pts) - Umaga is like Rhino from the A Block. He put on an excellent performance, but came up a little short. Regardless, Umaga had a good campaign and his focus has been creating a dynasty, a faction that can rival Bullet Club, and perhaps overtake them as the future of the company. Naomichi Marufuji (9 pts) - The IC Champion breaks even in the G1, a draw against Shinsuke Nakamura on Night 9 ensures he does not go negative, but his performance was mid compared to what he set out to do. Marufuji has had a Bullet Club problem though. Mabel has been a constant sight in Marufuji's G1 matches, and finally was banned from Ring Side or else Paul Wight would be removed from the tournament. Regardless the damage had been done, and the Bullet Club vs RED (And the World) continues. Paul Wight (10 pts) - Paul Wight enters his first G1 since joining NJPW. The Giant's size alone makes him impossible to beat in most cases, but the men that bested him relied on their wit and their quickness. Randy Orton, Marufuji, and Minoru Suzuki all out-smarted the large man, but it was John Cena who went toe-to-toe and overpowered the brute in spectacular fashion. This has irked Paul and the two seem to be set on a collison course at Destruction. Minoru Suzuki (10 pts) - The Former IWGP Heavyweight champion has always had a curious journey. Perhaps in the past, he would fall under the archetype of say... Osamu Nishimura, or Hirooki Goto, a guy that can be a world champion any day but just wasn't. Thankfully for Suzuki, he was indeed a former champion, even if it was short-lived. So maybe he falls under the rare company of Nagata. Regardless, Suzuki begins to wind down and pass his mantle - and his faction - to a protege. Randy Orton (10 pts) - Orton had a good G1 showing, and looked poised at any moment to win the block. He still needs some seasoning but his overall ring work has improved leaps and bounds and it just seems to be a "any day now" kind of thing. Still, 10 points is impressive, and Orton has plenty left at just 31. John Cena (10 pts) - John Cena was impressive this G1, never mind the fact he went 5-4, which is still great. He also wrestled a 41 minute match against Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at The Rock's special event show in his farewell match. Cena looks more and more focused and determined to reach the pinnacle of this company. B Block Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura (13 pts) - Nakamura continues to improve. His obsession has been similar to Chris Jericho, except while Jericho covets the IWGP Heavyweight title, Nakamura has had a different obsession. Nakamura covets being better than his rival. His aloof, cool, killer demeanor betrays him at times, as you can see his hopes and desires to one day reach the heights of Tanahashi. It has been a lot of catching up for Nakamura, who himself, has already had a historic career. He still is the longest reigning IC champion, but Tanahashi is the longest reigning Heavyweight champion. Nakamura needs to win the G1 more than ever, as Tanahashi has already won a second G1. He once again plays catch up, and a loss here could be the final breaking point for the King of Strong Style. G1 Climax 21: NEVER Openweight 6-Man: Bullet Club (Jericho/The Briscoes) def. Suzuki-gun (Minoru/Sugiura/Takao Omori) Suzuki-gun continues to fall apart, as the major players except Rhino begin to age and show signs of slowing down. With this in mind, Suzuki has been clamoring to find an heir to Suzuki-gun. A simple match that continues to show the dominance of Bullet Club. G1 Climax 21 Trophy : Shinsuke Nakamura def. Kensuke Sasaki for the G1 Climax Trophy Shinsuke Nakamura went into this match with a 5-2 singles record against Kensuke Sasaki. Kensuke Sasaki gave us his best impression of Kenta Kobashi, his archrival, as he fought and showed a fercious babyface spirit. Sasaki battled and tried his hardest to overcome the odds and defeat the healthier, and younger Nakamura. Sadly, for Sasaki, the King of Strong Style proved too much. Now with Nakamura's G1 Climax victory, he calls out Tanahashi and is ready to finally defeat Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom. It could be the very last time we see Sasaki in the G1 finals, as his record vs Nakamura is now 2-6. NJPW Destruction: IWGP Junior Heavyweight: The Young Bucks (c) def. Shinjiro Otani & SUGI Otani is with GBH, which has been discussed as "one foot out the door", while SUGI is a Sekigun member. Otani needed a tag team partner to combat the Bucks, and his best student SUGI stepped up to a great pop. The two showed great chemistry teaming together but the diabolical Bullet Club continued to tormnet and outplay the two men. Sadly, The Bucks continue to reign supreme. IWGP Joshi: KANA (c) def. Chikako Shiratori Kana managed to score a knockout backfist on Meiko Satomura back in June. Since then, Kana has proven to be a real champion and has taken on any and everyone, though Shiratori at times looked outclassed. The division is still God awful, I admit. Can't produce popular enough talent to challenge for the belt, though I confess I have not tried too hard. No older talent have really put over younger talent, and I need to fix that. But because I don't actually have a women's division, it's actually just the JWP roster getting called up to hold the title, it is harder to see who can really grow. NEVER Openweight: Daisuke Sekimoto (c) def. Fred Rosser Rosser is the 5SW Champion and has a pinfall victory over Sekimoto, so consider this a cross-over / filler feud, that I actually enjoyed booking more than I thought I would. Rosser is actually pretty swanky in this save, sporting good stats and 82 popularity. So... could be likely we see him rise up and join NJPW proper, which is awesome because I always had a soft spot for him. IWGP United States: John Cena def. Paul Wight (c) John Cena has had quite the character arc, originally a midcard heel gaijin psuedo-comedy act, Cena was popular but his ceiling was evident. He really embraced a new motto of "Hustle, Loyalty, Respect" and the fans began to appreciate his work ethic and his never die atittude. Paul Wight, was actually his tag team partner when he was being a menace, and to see them now at odds, one embracing the heel side, one 180ing and becoming a fan favorite, showcases just how different things can turn out. Cena managed to get a victory, like he did in the G1, and Bullet Club begins to show cracks. IWGP Heavyweight Tag: The Briscoes (c) def. Ten-Koji This match was 8 months in the making. Bullet Club relentlessly mocked Great Bash Heel, and laughed at how fans thought GBH was going to be a major faction. They were a footnote. What stings the most is the accuracy of their statements. Tenzan was also injured, but he returned valiantly to combat BC with Kojima and the two would earn a shot here. Sadly, with Tenzan recently returning, The Briscoes picked him apart and Ten-Koji fell quickly. Will Ten-Koji stay down is the question. IWGP Intercontinental: Naomichi Marufuji (c) def. KENTA The rivalry has been in full swing since last year. Marufuji would defeat KENTA at Fighting Spirit Unleashed in 2010, they would clash in the New Japan Cup that same year with KENTA returning the favor. Their final clash would be at the G1 Climax in 2010, with Marufuji once again securing a win. KENTA in 2011, would achieve his revenge and defeat the IC Champion in the G1. This left them at 2-2. Marufuji would skew this in his favor with a victory here, but KENTA looks more determined than ever to upstage his rival in Marufuji. IWGP Junior Heavyweight: KUSHIDA def. Prince Devitt (c) This was hell for KUSHIDA, you see, at Invasion Attack in June it was KUSHIDA who challenged Devitt next. But Devitt dismissed him as a weaker, less charismatic Liger. YAMATO still wanting a title shot due to a 60 minute draw, was also dismissed as YAMATO couldn't beat Devitt, not the other way around. Devitt goes in champ, leaves champ, thus Devitt calls that a win. KUSHIDA was to prove himself to Devitt as a perverted "number one contender's" match. YAMATO vs. KUSHIDA, winner gets a title shot. KUSHIDA defied the odds and defeated YAMATO only for Paul Wight and Mabel to brutalize KUSHIDA post match. Devitt would "apologize" and say YAMATO wasn't the test, but the US Champion, Paul Wight, is the test. KUSHIDA would miraculously (with the help of Liger and Sasaki) defeat Paul Wight and earn his shot against Devitt. In the match? Sekigun surrounded the ring and Devitt was isolated and he would inevitably fall in a miracle comeback from KUSHIDA. An absolutely awful night for Bullet Club. IWGP Heavyweight: Brock Lesnar def. Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) Hiroshi Tanahashi was 2-0 against Lesnar in singles action. Despite that, Tanahashi has never felt like a winner in either match. Lesnar takes Tanahashi to his max limit and then some. This time? Tanahashi had absolutely nothing left and the Ace crumples after a single F-5, showing just how brutal Lesnar really is. Lesnar was never not in control, but Tanahashi always managed to avoid the F-5, but this time Lesnar hit a homerun, allowing him to secure his second Heavyweight title reign. One that hopefully does not end in a broken neck like the last one. For Lesnar, this was 5 years in the making, for Tanahashi, this was an unthinkable loss, as his Wrestle Kingdom main event has been for all intents and purposes, snatched away. But Tana's loss can be felt throughout, as Nakamura, who was hellbent on achieving his Tokyo Dome main event win against Tanahashi is gone. Little bonus fun fact: This is the best show I've ever had from a wrestling standpoint, ever. The Heavyweight Tag, the US title, and the IC title were all rated 100. The Heavyweight, Junior Heavyweight, and the Openweight were 99s. The Joshi title was the only dud, and even then it was an 84. Thanks for reading! The next post will be Wrestle Kingdom! I will be skipping the Tag League blocks/results, as I hate cluttering the forum! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbritton987 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) TCW's Biggest Show of the Summer has arrived! TCW Summer Showdown 2021 August 2021 - Attendance: 82,946 - Show Rating: 92 Pre-Show In an Eight Women Tag Team Match, Team Christy Higgins defeated Team Maribel Mercado. In a Four Way Tag Team Match, Pocket Aces (Joshus Taylor & Roderick Remus) defeated Long Beach Crew (Ali X & Mobstar), The Shade Gang (Matt Hocking & Marc Speed), & The Syndicate's Freddy Huggins & Princeton Pryce. Mighty Mo won a 25 Man Battle Royal, last eliminating Davis Wayne Newton. Main Show In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, Aaron Andrews defeated Rick Law. Andrews has had his issues recently with Rick Law and TCW Executive Eddie Chandler, who represents "The Powers That Be." After their first encounter ended in a Disqualification after Law brutally assault Andrews with his patented Nightstick, Andrews finally got some revenge at Summer Showdown. After brawling throughout the arena, Andrews would spear Law off the entrance stage and through a table to pick up the victory. (90) Fuyuko Higa defeated Sara Marie York to successfully retain the TCW Women's Championship. Sinner Society's Higa & SMY battled in what is considered TCW's biggest female match to date, and the ladies didn't disappoint. Higa has dodged York's challenge since SMY's debut in TCW, and even convinced TIffany Jade to take York out to avoid their originally scheduled title match. Higa would escape with her championship at Summer Showdown, but she would do so by blinding York with her green mist to the eyes. A blinded York was left defenseless as Higa connected with a Shining Wizard for the victory. (82) (This is Fuyuko Higa's 1st Reign as TCW Women's Champion. She has been champion for 85 Days and has 3 successful title defenses.) The Aegis (Ernest Youngman & Xavi Ferrera) defeated The Wild Cats to become the NEW TCW World Tag Team Champions. In their first encounter, El Jaguar & Tigre Salvaje Jr narrowly defeated The Syndicate's Youngman & Ferrera. The Aegis worked their way back towards a rematch with the Wild Cats, with added motivation from Syndicate Leader Wolf Hawkins, who demanded they bring the Tag Titles back to the group. Unfortunately, a miscommunication by Jaguar & Salvaje would lead to their demise. Salvaje would attempt a Moonsault, which Ernest Youngman would dodge...and Tigre would wipe out his partner Jaguar instead! Left alone, Salvaje would fall victim to the Aegis's tag finisher, The Equalizer. 1,2,3, Youngman & Ferrera take the tag gold home to the Syndicate. Post-Match, El Jaguar would brush off Tigre Salvajge Jr when Tigre attempted to console his tag partner. (87) (This is Aegis's 1st Reign as TCW World Tag Team Champions, and both Youngman & Ferrera's first championship in TCW. The Wild Cats's 1st Reign as TCW World Tag Team Champions ends after 8 Months and 16 successful title defenses.) Randy Unleashed defeated Spencer Spade. This match started on Spade's talk show, The Supreme Talk Show, where insults by Spade would lead to Unleashed challenging Spencer. Spade would dodge Unleashed for weeks, only to sneak attack Randy after Randy had questioned Spencer's manhood. In Spencer Spade's first TCW PPV Match, it looked like Spade might steal the victory. But, Referee Jonathan Taylor would catch Spade red handed, attempting to use a pair of brass knuckles! After arguing with the referee over the predicament, Spade would walk right into Unleashed's Running Enziguri! 1, 2, 3! Unleashed picks up the big win, but this feud appears far from over. (90) In a Five Man Ladder Match, Mr. Lucha defeated TCW International Champion KC Glenn, Aztec Prince, Jay Chord, & Mainstream Hernandez to become the NEW TCW International Champion! The title scene over KC Glenn's International Championship had become chaos, which gave TCW General Manager Ricky Dale Johnson the idea to book this huge ladder match for a big show like Summer Showdown. Cue the chaos! At the climax of the match, with everyone down and hurt, KC Glenn's manager Brother Grimm would attempt to grab a ladder and retrieve the championship for his client! But...Grimm would be caught red handed by Mr. Lucha! Lucha would shove Grimm off the ladder...wiping out Grimm's own client KC Glenn in the process! With everyone down, Mr. Lucha would retrieve the TCW International Championship, earning his first title gold in TCW! (88) (KC Glenn's 1st Reign as TCW International Championship ends after 6 Months & 12 successful title defenses.) In a Battle of Brothers, Greg Keith defeated Matthew Keith. In a true family drama, Matthew Keith would join TCW months ago under a mask, competing under a made-up alias. After months of doing so, Keith would shockingly be unmasked by none other than Kings of Wrestling Jay Chord...and his own brother Greg Keith! Matthew Keith would explain his actions, claiming that his brother Greg and father Sam had brother shame to the Keith family name with their actions and wanted nothing to do with it. But...now unmasked, Matthew realized it was his duty to bring honor back to the Keith family name. The first step was challenging and defeating his own brother Greg! Despite Sam Keith trying to change his son's mind, Matthew would not back down. After Matthew took out multiple members of the Kings of Wrestling, Greg reluctantly accepted his brother's challenge. Things would eventually get ugly in their encounter at Summer Showdown. With Referee Darren Smith down after a collision with Matthew, Greg would grab a steel chair. Sam Keith, though would intervene, refusing to let Greg use the weapon on his own brother. Sam would snatch the steel chair from Greg....only to spin around and blast his own son Matthew with the chair! "You made me do it! You made me do it!" Sam Keith would scream the same thing own over. Greg Keith would lock an unconscious Matthew into the Proton Lock, and Referee Darren Smith had no choice to call for the bell. (91) In Six Man Tag Team Action, Scythe & The Calgary Strike Force (Chris Flynn & Sterling Whitlock) defeated The Sinner Society (Primus Allen & The Behemoths). Ever since debuting in TCW, Scythe has been a thorn in the side of the Sinner Society, especially Primus Allen. After costing Allen his TCW Television Championship reign, Scythe & Primus would finally face off in a match. When Allen appeared in trouble, The Behemoths would interfere and attack Scythe. The new team Calgary Strike Force has had their issues with the Behemoths and Sinner Society, so they took it upon themselves to make the save. Thus, this Six Man Tag was made for Summer Showdown. Scythe wasn't able to settle things with Primus Allen at the PPV, but he would put Titan down with patented Chokeslam, giving his team the big victory. (76) In the Main Event of Summer Showdown, in a 3 Stages of Hell Match, Wolf Hawkins defeated Sammy Bach to ONCE AGAIN become the TCW World Heavyweight Champion! At Total Mayhem XXV, Sammy Bach finally accomplished what was always just out of his grasp. Sammy Bach defeated Wolf Hawkins to become TCW World Heavyweight Champion, proving all the naysayers wrong. Hawkins would disappear from TCW television while Sammy Bach took on all challengers, even issuing open challengers multiple times. After Sammy Bach won the Lethal Lottery Tournament with Mr. Lucha at TCW's Hotter Than Hell, their trophy celebration would be interrupted by Wolf Hawkins's impromptu return. Hawkins didn't waste time letting the world know what his intentions were. "I want back what's mine!" In an attempt to settle things between these two rivals, TCW GM Ricky Dale Johnson book them in a 3 Stages of Hell Match at Summer Showdown for the World Title. The first fall is a Standard Match. The second fall is a Street Fight. Sammy Bach earned the right to choose the third fall's stipulation by defeating Wolf's bodyguard, Aztec Prince. Bach choose a Steel Cage Match! Days before the match, Bach & Hawkins would have `their final encounter on TCW TV. After being coerced by Bach, Hawkins vowed that no one in the Syndicate would interfere in their match at Summer Showdown. "On my wife and children, I promised that no one will interfere on my behalf." Surprisingly, Hawkins would live up to vowel. Sammy Bach would win the 1st Fall after forcing Hawkins to tap out to the Bach on your Back, the exact way Bach won the World Title at Total Mayhem! Wolf Hawkins would win the 2nd Fall after a timely low blow, leading to Wolf connecting with the Full Moon RIsing for the 1,2,3. In the final fall, inside the steel cage, Bach would manage to lock Hawkins in the Bach on your Back again! Desperate to escape, stuck in the middle of the ring, Hawkins would proceeded to dig his fingers deep into Bach's eye, in which we would learn later caused severe orbital damage! Blinded by the dirty maneuver, Bach was left defenseless. Bach would manage to kick out Wolf's first Full Moon Rising, but Hawkins would get the 1,2,3 after the 2nd Finisher! The TCW World Heavyweight Championship is back in The Syndicate camp. Hawkins might have to stood by his vow...but he also did whatever he had to so he could regain the World Championship. When it comes to the Syndicate? Victory is the only thing that matters. The rest is just details! (84, Burnt Out Crowd) (Wolf Hawkins now begins his 5th Reign as TCW World Heavyweight Champion. Sammy Bach's 1st TCW World Heavyweight Championship reign ends after 3 Months and 6 Successful Title defenses.) 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dragonmid Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Now up to August 2007 in my Dragon Gate save. Throughout the month of March, Anthony W. Mori managed to avoid a potential Dream Gate challenger from Blood Generation. BG, as usual, attempted their interference and cheating in order to have one of their members earn a pin on the champion, but a very well organized Pos.HEARTS sucessfully counter-cheated the cheaters (my babyfaces are SMART, sorry not sorry) and survived the constant interference. As it turned out, it was Pos.HEARTS who managed to get a W over BG, and thus the former tag champions BxB Hulk and Prince Devitt, alongside Milano Collection A.T., made an unsucessful bid for the Triangle Gate titles. In April, though, it was Champion vs. Champion. Blood Generation started to actively hijack the shows, which left DG President Takashi Okamura with no choice but to grant Don Fujii a title match! But Okamura is no pushover either, and there was one condition: Any interference, any referee bump, any cheating at all, and not only would Fujii automatically forfeit the match - regardless of anyone being awake to ring the bell - but all of Blood Generation would get fired from DG! In the end, Mori's resilience and regal skill prevailed, and he went into King of Gate still the Dream Gate Champion. This started the downfall of Blood Generation. On the buildup, Fujii constantly talked about how he would get two belts and keep them, since he had brough people who are actually strong into the group (Mishima, Kong and Zeus are kayfabe all his idea). He said Kong and Zeus are so strong they could probably defend the Triangle Gate all by themselves, and grab the Twin Gate to boot - after this comment he corrected himself and said well, of course, except the best tag in the company already had the belts. Now obviously Kishiwada was not oblivious to the implication of those declarations... The feud that developed between Raimu Mishima and Shingo Takagi was also a point of contention in the stable. Kishiwada saw more potential on Takagi, and Fujii, while not entirely disagreeing, said that right now Mishima had proven himself more useful to the group. Kishiwada said that Mishima had changed his attitude and was important support, yes, but inside the ring he was still a little helpless by himself. Fujii pointed out this isn't supposed to matter in such an united group. During the March tour, BloodGen did get a tag win over Brave Gate Champion TOZAWA... but it was once again Shingo Takagi who did it. Mishima pointed out that him taking out KENTA from the match with "alternative" means (a chair) was what allowed Shingo to win, whereas Shingo argued that if he had a stronger partner like Zeus he probably would have gotten the W anyway. Neither man challenged TOZAWA in March. The Brave Gate champion instead found himself forced to do an open challenge, which was answered by Ring of Honor's Jay Lethal. TOZAWA won that and then went on his "stablemates" shtick by challenging the ROH guys on excursion. KATSUO pointed out that Bobby Dempsey was above the weight limit, but that wound up being a moot point as BloodGen attacked the 3 ROH boys anyway. In the same card, Raimu pulled out an upset - but not clean - victory over Shingo, who instead stated he would focus on the big prize - King of Gate. The Dempsey bros did get a title match, serving as a filler defense for Gamma & Kishiwada, during which they showed some pretty good improvement despite still not being ready to make a big impact upon going back home. In April, TOZAWA defeated Mishima to retain his Brave Gate Championship, thus pretty much confirming he'd get a yearlong reign as I'm not doing title matches during King of Gate (I might throw one or two in the finals in the future since the past two years it has been a one match card...). Both Kishiwada and Fujii felt themselves vindicated. Fujii because Mishima showed he followed the "win at all cost" spirit, and Kishiwada because in the end TOZAWA showed Mishima could not win anything by himself and had been carried by his mates, not the other way around. After the Dream/Brave Gate debacle, we entered King of Gate, where tensions came to a head as Fujii and Kishiwada were placed in Block A whereas Shingo and Mishima went together in Block B. Shingo beat Mishima in his block match, but both men didn't come anywhere near the finals, so the hatchet was buried as they recognized both still had a long way to go. In the A Block, though... ho boy. Don Fujii started the tournament very badly, so Kishiwada defeated him in a "gentleman's agreement" midway through. Kishiwada reached the last day needing only a win against Masato Yoshino to make it into the finals, and it seemed like a no-brainer that he would get it. Yoshino was 0-6 in the block, losing every single tournament match until that point. Not only that, but Kishiwada and Gamma had effectively removed Yoshino and Naruki Doi from the Twin Gate scene, and it seemed like the Speed Star would have no confidence at all to face the current tag champion. But reality is often disappointing, and as Kishiwada failed to put Yoshino away over and over, his tenacity, unmatched speed and the support of the crowd proved to be enough for him to get out of his rut and lock in the Sol Naciente for a stoppage victory, thus denying Blood Generation the chance of regaining the Dream Gate championship and also giving Speed Muscle a strong claim for a Twin Gate challenge. Susumu Yokosuka, who most people had not considered a strong candidate due to having focused on Trios action for the better part of the previous 18 months, wound up advancing into the finals instead. What transpired afterwards made it pretty clear BloodGen was not long for this world. Kishiwada angrily attacked the referee, timekeeper and announcers, demanding the match be restarted since he did not tap out. Referee Barb Sasaki defended himself saying Kishiwada had shown no reaction and that's why he called the match. BloodGen stormed the ring, but surprisingly they pulled Kishiwada and Sasaki+Yoshino+Doi apart instead of looking for a fight. With Yoshino's victory, DoiYoshi made another Twin Gate attempt at Kobe World, and this time, with zero interference whatsoever, they regained the titles. The duo will now have a longer reign. I have no idea who will take the belts from then and when that will happen yet. Meanwhile, Zeus, Fujii and Cyber Kong sucessfully retained the Triangle Gate championships over Do FIXER at Kobe World. After the Twin Gate title match, the duo attacked Kishiwada and Gamma! Fujii proclaimed that Blood Generation was no more. He started a new group - Don Fujii, Zeus, Cyber Kong were now the Monte Moscolo ("Muscle Mountain", in machine-translated italian. The name is because 1. I didn't want to use a real stable name for that, even though there are many good options, 2. Fujii is a "Don", so the name has to be in spanish or italian, 3. Fujii sounds like Fuji as in mount Fuji, so mountain and 3. They are the big, powerhouses of BG, so Muscle). Well, I never said I had the best names. I just don't want to use the real stable names for the most part. I do have a very strong affinity for the stables that were around in Dragon Gate when I started watching (Jimmyz, VerserK, Tribe Vanguard, MaxiMuM) so those names and concepts might be employed down the line. Fujii, Zeus and Kong declared their allegiance, then Shingo and Mishima came out. Mishima immediately aligned with his mentor. Kishiwada expected Shingo to join him, but instead The Dragon proclaimed he would go his own way. Fujii was right about one thing - Blood Gen had gone downhill under Kishiwada's leadership and there was no future for the stable. But Shingo would also not follow Fujii, because he refused to be held back by following some "leader" who only looks out for himself. Shingo would instead forge his own group and prove that the strongest wrestler is the one that settles his business in the ring. Thus came Shingo's transition from a 'chickenshit' heel to a 'final boss, pure strenght' heel. Fujii will play the chickenshit role for a while, while Kishiwada & Gamma will move down the card. Shingo created the Seiei Senshi-Gun stable. DeepL tells me this translates to "Elite Warrior Corps". They will be built up to be our top heel stable going forward, with MM filling the role until they're well estabilished. Anyways. After Shingo's promo, MM attempted an attack on him, but were stopped by Doi and Yoshino. DoiYoshi finally got to talk to the crowd after this, cutting a generic babyface promo. Back to King of Gate, Yokosuka completed the upset by winning King of Gate outright, defeating BxB Hulk in the finals. Hulk's B Block Run was immaculate, but one thing he could not do - defeat Anthony W. Mori. It wound up being a time limit draw, with Hulk looking like he had the champion beat at one point. An impressive 6-1-0 (W-D-L) record made my bonus expenditure shoot up as wrestlers were upset at losing to him, but Hulk was inarguably the favorite to win the final, which made Yokosuka's victory even more impressive. Mochizuki and Kanda came out to say "bro what the hell, shouldn't we go for the Triangle Gate in Kobe?". Yokosuka replied they could to both since apparently this is the new trendy thing to do. Anthony W. Mori came out. He said he was somewhat disappointed his protégé had lost the final, as he had hoped for a rematch, but that should be a lesson to Hulk and he would come back to win it eventually. He said he wished Hulk and he had a title match, and that it was espcecially upsetting that he lost two matches but held onto a draw against Hulk. People say a singles match is the best sure fire way of determining the best wrestler, and a singles match for the Dream Gate determines who should carry the company into the future. Mori believes Hulk will be this man, but he has to earn it. He said that he had already let too many people down with his tournament perfomance, but vowed to beat Yokosuka at Kobe World and take on all the challengers so that one day this could come true. Anthony W. Mori did defeat the King of Gate winner to remain champion. So that's now a 1-1 record for KoG winners under my booking. But the elusive Hulk - Mori Dream Gate title match will probably not happen. I think. Maybe. Might be an option for Final Gate, but I would want Hulk to win this time and him having a Dream Gate reign is not on the plans yet... M2K obviously did not get the Triangle Gate titles at Kobe World, but will snatch them at Truth Gate the following month. Thus Don Fujii and his group go down the card a bit, and I'll use the feud with Gamma and Kishiwada to elevate Cyber Kong further (idk if Zeus will remain in the company, to be honest...). During the King of Gate Tournament, that spawned the months of May and June, Mori wound up losing his block after going 4-1-2, with losses to Ricky Marvin and Ryo Saito, plus a time limit draw against BxB Hulk. Thus the next 2 title matches are set - August, September. October will be set up with a random tag, probably, because it's 100% filler. I don't know what I'll do for November, maybe no title match again, and in December, I have a few options. The reign should be ending there, and it will be either Jushin Liger or my-new-signing-I'll-talk-about-soon if I can build him up. It seems like Liger will have scheduling conflicts regardless of wether I surpass NJPW or not due to his loyalty, so either I go on the editor to briefly remove it while he's champion - and in "kayfabe" I suppose it makes sense he would take a New Japan break for a while since he'd be a champ here, but not there - or I just bite the bullet and try to schedule the big shows around NJPW until Kobe World 2008, where Magnum TOKYO will get his redemption and start the main event raise for Shingo and YAMATO. Then again, maybe I just keep the belt on Mori until Kobe World '08 - it would be a hell of a long reign, but it's likely to be his first and last, so... I am actually amazed at myself for knowing more or less who the next 4 - 5 Dream Gate Champions will be. Liger, Hulk or New Guy - that's the only I'm not 100% sure on, then TOKYO, then Shingo, and then I want to give Masaaki Mochizuki another reign before getting the belt back on CIMA, who's our ace. I just don't know how the hell CIMA stays 3 years away from the Dream Gate scene! After that I'll see if either YAMATO or TOZAWA are ready for the big stage. TOZAWA is popular, but his actual workrate has been lacking. YAMATO has been evolving good though. So, the new signing! It was... Rey Mysterio! Yeah. His contract expired around May and by that point I had enough cash on hand to make a bid for him. I fought hard and managed to beat WWE without compromising my budget, altough Rey Rey will keep most of his merch money (not that he's making a lot of it right now though). Rey had quite low popularity in Japan at start but a few undercard tag victories during KoG and he's up quite a chunk. I am as much of a mark for Rey as I am for Liger (yes, you are noticing a trend) so having him as the first foreign Dream Gate champion would be pretty nice. So, yeah, Either BxB Hulk, Rey Mysterio or Jushin Liger will get a reign from December '07 to Kobe World at July '08, which I think is pretty big, or Mori has a massive reign from February '07 to July '08. The only thing with Rey is that I haven't had a non-Japanese Dream Gate champion yet, so I might save it for a bigger moment with a longer build. Actually, Ricky Marvin (Triangle) and Prince Devitt (Twin) are the only foreign champs I've had thus far. Once Mori drops the belt, he probably will slip down the card, maybe tagging with Milano, but then Pos.HEARTS will disband (wether amiably or not I stil don't know) and Hulk will lead his own group. This new group will probably retain Prince Devitt if he's still around, but otherwise I want new members in it. I will not really make too much of an effort to keep people who aren't from the DG Dojo as the turnover will help me keep things fresh I think. TOZAWA lost the Brave Gate title at Kobe World to Genki Horiguchi. TOZAWA started King of Gate off strong, with 4 straight victories. First, he beat Chris Jericho, who as you might remember started off his DG career by beating TOZAWA the year before. Then, he and his TOZAWA-JUKU stable overcame Blood Generation as he beat Don Fujii. The followup was the biggest victory of his career as TOZAWA upset the Ace of Dragon Gate, CIMA! He went into the match against Masato Yoshino overflowing with confidence. Yoshino, on the other hand, was in complete tatters mentally. The result was the most one-sided match in the tournament - except for Fujii/Kishiwada, which was barely a match - as TOZAWA finished Yoshino off in under 5 minutes. This shot TOZAWA's confidence and cockyness through the roof, which made his stable quite aprehensive. His next oponents would be Genki Horiguchi, whom he had already beaten in a title match before, Magnitude Kishiwada, who TOZAWA said only relied on interference which TOZAWA-JUKU proved they could overcome, and finally Susumu Yokosuka, yet another failed Brave Gate challenger. TOZAWA then loudly boasted about how he would easily go 7 in 7 to win his block. And he did not. In a sort of reversal of what happened the year before, TOZAWA spetacularly imploded, losing his remaining three matches. The Horiguchi loss stung him like a bee or a Mike Tyson punch, and the Brave Gate champ had already lost his smile by the time Kobe World came around, and TOZAWA's disaster was capped off by dropping the Brave Gate title to Horiguchi in the rubber match at our biggest event of the year. Thus, TOZAWA declared TOZAWA-JUKU over. He recognized that in the end of the day he wasn't yet fit to lead people as he himself was not yet the perfect, manly, unbeatable wrestler he vowed to make all the members of the stable into. TOZAWA decided that it was time for everyone to walk alone and find their own paths. He reverted back to the Akira Tozawa name. Well, at this point I was supposed to send him on excursion for a while, but he's so popular I did not. Problem is, I don't really have an immediate plan for him. He will revert from an overconfident punk to a guy who is cocky but knows how to get serious when the situation calls for it. His team with Katsuo might get the belts at some point, but right now he'll pick up random wins to keep with high momentum until I figure out what to do with him. As for the rest of the stable... well, Fujii took Kagetora as a protégé, so he might join MM. I want KUSHIDA as a warm body on a new group as well - either with Shingo or whoever raises from the remnants of Do FIXER. And KENTA will go back to being used to guarantee good matches against the new Dojo boys to help them develop. Having him on the roster is basically a cheat code and he outshines everyone but CIMA and Anthony W. Mori right now, so... Another stable that ended at Kobe World was Do FIXER. Well, almost. It was, again, the leader himself declaring the stable to be over. Magnum TOKYO said that he himself had failed twice in Dream Gate challenges, and twice in King of Gate. He was also to blame for the multiple Triangle Gate losses as it was he who set up the teams and strategies. He said he understood exactly what Tozawa was feeling. He congratulated Horiguchi on his title win and told him to hold onto that Brave Gate until Magnum felt ready to try again. Horiguchi asked him to reconsider, stating that they could build off this victory, but Tokyo said that Horiguchi had actually shown him he was better off alone. Ryo Saito and Dragon Kid came out to thank him for the time, and it seemed like we would have two amiable splits in the same show... but then Tanizaki and YAMATO attacked! I pulled the trigger on their turn, with both agreeing that TOKYO had let them all down and now it wasn't the time to make up some excuse or pretend they were still friends. Tanizaki and YAMATO took out TOKYO, then brawled with Saito and Kid. Horiguchi and TOZAWA were kayfabe too tired to take part in the showdown. The next show, Shingo Takagi announced that Naoki Tanizaki and YAMATO would be the new members of his Seiei Senshi-Gun. Saito, Horiguchi, Kid and TOKYO will feud with them for a while, before Do FIXER get their official farewell. I think I'll run with TOKYO beating YAMATO in 2008 finals and maybe postpone the Shingo push for another while, or give him the Dream Gate without the tournament... I don't know. Also, Shingo will get at least one new member from TOZAWA-JUKU. I'm thinking KUSHIDA joins either Shingo or whichever stable Kid/Saito end up in, and KAGETORA joins Fujii. Kagetora has the protégé thing, but I'm not sure why KUSHIDA would turn heel. Well, it's not like I gave him much of a character on TOZAWA-JUKU anyways. Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi are also currently without a stable, so I'm thinking they might join Pos.HEARTS for a while or start a group with Horiguchi, Saito and/or DKid. Yet another new group might be overkill, but I can also see Ryo Saito leading a stable by himself rather than joining Horiguchi/Kid/DoiYoshi if I decide to give him a big push at some point. Random gen Atsumori Ukiyo, excursion guy Mitch Franklin and Dojo graduate Kzy have been building up enough popularity that it might warrant them being in a stable with some actual direction as well. I picked up Shawn Michaels after all and he obviously joined ROUNDABOUT, which is kayfabe Jericho using his connections to show that they're such a strong stable that top stars from elsewhere come to join. I understand hiring Michaels and not having him be a top guy is weird as hell, but I don't care. He's still doing Puerto Rico on the side and plenty of "special appearances" in alliance loans. Might pick the Triangle Gates in an all-foreign team with Jericho and Marvin at some point. Finally, I still got plenty of people with no direction in the undercard. ROH started going hostile on people and it seems they don't like us anymore so I might drop their excursion guys, I don't know. A lot of people who had already left DG by this point irl are still here and, worse, a lot of them are over and putting on good matches, so I don't wanna do spring cleaning (or whatever season it is in Japan in August). I might disable Dojo graduations for a while and even release the random gens who don't show promise. The roster is getting a little too big. If I were to trim the fat I'd say Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Sasaki also get the cut, and maybe the the Florida Brothers (except Takayuki Yagi who I can use as a ref). Oh, yeah. I have Hayato Fujita, Kazuchika Okada and random gen Matsu Mitsuya on ROH doing an excursion too. Other noteworthy things in the game world: - Ric Flair, Terry Funk and Atsushi Onita all retired. Ehhhh; - Randy Orton was poached by TNA; - Chris Benoit was let go by WWE. He then joined Harley Race's WLW, only to quit shortly after. Currently unemployed. - WWE dropped John Cena as their figurehead even though he gets them their best ratings. I'm not sure this is a case of needing to rework his stats since it took over a year, might be that they accidentally overshadowed him with someone else? - AJPW also dropped Keiji Mutoh. You know, the guy who owns and books the company; - AJPW hired Bob Sapp. Not sure this has anything to do with Mutoh getting dropped as figurehead; - WWE improved their ratings a bit. 4 out of the first 6 ppvs of the year cracked the 80 rating mark, with a couple RAWs and SDs as well. John Cena vs. William Regal at Backlash 2007 (95) is their top match so far. Samoa Joe's push continues as he headlined The Great American Bash, unsucessfully challenging The Undertaker to a World Heavyweight Championship match which got an 89 rating, WWE's 10th best match since game start. He's also pulled off great ratings against RVD (87, 85), Daniel Bryan (86), Shelton Benjamin (85), Bobby Lashley (86) and Mark Henry (85). I'm very excited to see if he gets a belt by year's end! The crazy stuff is: Vince McMahon won the Cruiserweight Championship, beating Shane (c), Roddy Piper and Funaki at Wrestlemania. I will edit their roster for my next save, whenever that starts. Bob Orton Jr. (who's set to retire) and Shawn Daivari won the WWE Tag titles off of RVD & Rey Mysterio. William Regal beat Hulk Hogan for the WWE title. John Cena won MITB twice in a row; - TNA is booking AJ styles slightly better, but that's more on ROH getting a TV show and pushing him hard which gave him more popularity than anything. He won Survival of the Fittest 2006, was TNA tag champ with Gangrel for a while and held the WWN World Title. Oh, yes, I created alliance titles because I love them, but they're not really part of my storylines since I have little control over them. Jericho beat Styles for this belt in Puerto Rico, the Women's title has stayed in Joshi companies since its inception and the Tag belts I actually gave to Doi and Yoshino in a random tour show, but the AI will 100% give them back to some randos at some point. I had kept Styles loyal to TNA to even the playing field a bit but with them signing Orton and Jericho, Michaels and Benoit all being avaliable, I might remove it... - 14 Year old Britani Knight won ROH's newly created Women's title; - Kensuke Sasaki is still the undisputed king of Japan, holding the Triple Crown since July 2006 and the GHC Heavyweight Title since April 2006. In NJPW, many massive reigns: Shinsuke Nakamura won the IWGP HC after Fujinami's retirement in July 2006 and is still champion, Shiro Koshinaka and Togi Makabe held the Jr. Tag titles from February 2006 to June 2007, Gedo & Jado are IWGP HC Tag champions since April 2006; - Shawn Michaels is the IWA Puerto Rico Hardcore champion; 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peria Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 NJPW 2011 Year-End Review: A great year full of motivation for me to book. In terms of time-decline, this year alone we had: Minoru Tanaka (38), Satoshi Kojima (40), Mabel (44), Kurt Angle (42), Jushin "Thunder" Liger (46), Minoru Suzuki (42), Ultimo Dragon (44, who also broke his neck), Takao Omori (41), Takashi Sugiura (41), Jun Akiyama (42), and Shinjiro Otani (38). The one that hurts the most is actually Minoru Tanaka, I think I mentioned before, in 2012 he was meant to win the IWGP Heavyweight title. This has been scrapped. The second one that hurts a lot is Satoshi Kojima, as I had Kojima ALSO winning the title in 2012-2013. Lastly, Minoru Suzuki declining at 42 feels... almost so unrealistic, and is a huge blow to the gut, but now I pivot from Suzuki having a murder grandpa run to him finding a "successor" to Suzuki-gun. Regardless the show must go on, right? I guess what I am saying is unfortunately, plans change, in fact a lot of plans have changed this year. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was meant to beat Kurt Angle in a match at the Tokyo Dome to have John Cena beat him at Dontaku for a US title defense. Ultimo Dragon was meant to win the Junior Heavyweight Tag titles with Liger. Shibata and Goto were meant to win the Tag Titles off the Briscoes, but Shibata broke his neck at G1. Mabel was actually meant to stay around a little longer, but not much longer. He was meant to have a NEVER Openweight title reign before losing to Tetsuya Naito. Regardless. I figured I should recap the year and tell you guys what I was going to do or what I thought of doing that I never pulled the trigger on. In terms of people who have risen to the top or failed to meet my expectations: KENTA has reached 89 popularity in the G1 Climax. His previous highest was 86, which surprised me. Him and Joe benefitted tremendously teaming together. Both Ibushi and Tetsuya Naito have broke past 85, with Naito even hitting 91! Suwama on the other hand, has failed to break past 83 popularity. Which is a shame because Suwama would be such a great upper midcard heel contending for the title, similar to EVIL I suppose. That's okay, Suwama is still capable of being a midcard/NEVER competitor, which is always good. Go Shiozaki has also went up from a paltry 80 popularity to 84! Which is progress, took a few years but woohoo, maybe his GoAce team has helped. Speaking of tag teams, Cibernetic Death Squad (Mil Muertes and Cibernetico) have both thrived, with Ricky Banderas hitting 88 popuarltiy, and Cibernetico hitting 84. Jay Briscoe also thrived hard in his tag team with The Briscoes hitting 89 popularity! So while many guys will be leaving/retiring with NJPW soon, many are actually on the up! With this long wall of text, let us talk about Wrestle Kingdom! Minoru Tanka Wins the New Japan Rambo I admit, this was just to get Tanaka a Definite HoI induction. He is going to challenge Marufuji on the show after Wrestle Kingdom. This is just traditional and nothing special. You know how these go. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag: The Hardyz def. The Young Bucks (c) The Hardyz are 2-0 at Wrestle Kingdom, and inaugural Super Jr. Tag League winners. It took them almost 20 years but now that they are in NJPW they plan to make the most of it, and so far they've been doing just that. They start the night hot as they deflate Bullet Clubs momentum as they march into WK19. Special Singles Match: Kota Ibushi def. Tetsuya Naito Naito has been hailed as the future ace for a while now... and well, time is ticking right? Suddenly Naito gets pushed to the side and Kota Ibushi comes into play and suddenly everyone is hailing Ibushi as the next ace. Has Naito failed? The two formed a tag team for the Tag League and did poorly, and this irked both men. They would become more and more at odds when Naito announced joining CHAOS. The two would battle here and Ibushi would get the better of Naito. This is the beginning of their rivalry. IWGP Joshi: Kana (c) def. Amazing Kong Amazing Kong shocked everyone when she won the Joshi Cup, but unfortunately for her she comes up short as Kana manages to keep the monster down. Kana shocked everyone when she dethroned Meiko Satomura who was on her way to seemingly hold the title for as long as possible, and this proves that she wasn't just a fluke winner as she retains at the biggest stage. IWGP Heavyweight Tag: TenKoji def. The Briscoes (c) GBH died for this. TenKoji suffered, Tenzan's year long torn rotator cuff injury. Kojima's singles push. The sacrifices TenKoji made just to achieve their goal of tying Sasaki's tag record (6) can not be understated. The Briscoes have already declared themselves as the ones to eclipse TenKoji, and all other tag teams but for now, they must contend with their current fate. 7 defenses (2nd highest) and a 7 month reign is a fantastic first run for the Briscoes, however. NEVER Openweight: Jun Akiyama def. Daisuke Sekimoto (c) Jun Akiyama has added another title to his collection for NJPW, at 42 years old and semi-active, Akiyama continues to prove why he should never be underestimated. After all, he wrestled amongst Gods and came out on top. The inaugural NJ Cup and IC title holder is now a 2x NEVER Openweight champion. If Akiyama had like 88 popularity or so, he would be IWGP Heavyweight champ. Sadly he is capped at like 82-83. Meanwhile, Sekimoto is on to bigger things, as he finally seems to be breaking past the 82 popularity barrier lol, as he is now at 84! I am a fan of Sekimoto and his rivalry with Ishii has been a fun undercard feud, so we'll see. IWGP Junior Heavyweight: KUSHIDA (c) def. Jushin "Thunder" Liger Liger entered Wrestle Kingdom last year as a challenger, and left as champion. This year? Liger had his final singles title match, as when Devitt defeated Liger he vowed to make sure Liger would never hold singles gold again. This... would be a cruel fate on one of the most beloved wrestlers of all time, and KUSHIDA, after defeating Devitt at NJPW Destruction, would declare he would love if Liger could face him at WK. Liger would, as his mentor, and the two would square off. KUSHIDA would receive the torch from Liger and continue his first ever title reign on one of the highest notes imaginable. Loser Leaves NJPW/IWGP Intercontinental: Naomichi Marufuji (c) def. MABEL The first member of Bullet Club to be permanently defeated. Mabel grew desperate to stay at the top of the food chain and was furious Marufuji had brought him down a few notches. Mabel never recovered, and played himself into making it a Loser Leaves NJPW match. Marufuji won, and Mabel was escorted out of the building, with Bullet Club at ringside turning their back on Mabel showcasing their brutal "survival of the fittest" mentality. With that being said, Marufuji delievered a post-match speech, explaining to everyone else "This is how you get things done. Nobody else is risking it all like Marufuji is." This is a true statement, as Marufuji's RED faction has been on the frontlines against Bullet Club. After the match, Kota Ibushi challenged Marufuji to a match! Marufuji accepted and looks forward to humbling Ibushi for interrupting him. IWGP United States: John Cena (c) def. Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing Match A legendary rivalry as many know has been taking shape throughout the years, with Orton in NJPW being dominant against John Cena (2-0 as of writing this.) When Cena dethroned Paul Wight for the US title in September, Orton wasted little time to announce that The Viper was going to strike and kill this façade of Cena. Orton was shocked by Cena's undying resilience and his newfound crowd support and he buckled. John Cena has become the first and only man to kick out of the vicious RKO, and with that he has now put points on the board but Orton isn't done, and honestly neither is John Cena. Slightly off-topic, I've been preparing long lasting major feuds as all of the older stars are being phased out, and thus new epic feuds and tales need to begin, this is one of the easier ones to create. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Prince Devitt Tanahashi and Devitt had been brewing throughout the entire year. Devitt made it clear he was going to be the first ever Junior to win the Heavyweight title. Tanahashi was the champion at the time, and he targeted all of Tanahashi's icons and inspirations, with Liger being a main focus. Devitt admitted it was all to provoke Tanahashi and get a title shot, but Tanahashi was so useless that he couldn't hold up his end of the bargain. Lo and behold, Tana suddenly has more time on his hands and said if Devitt wants to prove he can defeat the Ace... the Tokyo Dome is the best spot. The stipulation? No Bullet Club. Devitt accepted but of course Jericho, and Paul Wight had both made appearances attempting to thwart the Ace. Tanahashi would not be outdone though, and he would hit the High Fly Flow and show Devitt why he is the de facto ace of NJPW. With Bullet Club losing every single match, many expect they'll perhaps fall to obscurity. Will they though? IWGP Heavyweight: Brock Lesnar (c) def. Shinsuke Nakamura Many can argue that Nakamura entered the main event already a losing man. He has been on a warpath to defeat and dethrone Tanahashi. Already 0-1 challenging for the Heavyweight title at the Tokyo Dome as he lost to the Ace, as he failed to convert his G1 win in 2008. Plus he is already 0-1 against Brock Lesnar (a 100 rated match at the G1 Climax in 2010) Nakamura was a dead man. This doesn't mean that he didn't give it his best against Lesnar, but the man who had a perfect record last year requires - no, demands 100% of your best and even that isn't always enough. Nakamura couldn't do it. He couldn't do it again. His obsession with Tanahashi is costing him his career, and with now two massive main event Tokyo Dome losses, will Nakamura finally give up this conquest to prove his superiority over the Ace? Or will he fully descend into madness? Regardless of that, Brock Lesnar enters 2012 as the reigning IWGP Heavyweight champion, with nobody dare calling him out after a dominant main event performance. End of Year Awards: 2011 WOTY: Chris Jericho (1x) 2011 Tag Team: Rated RKO (2x) 2011 Young Wrestler: La Sombra (4x) 2011 Veteran: Kensuke Sasaki (2x) 2011 Female: Megumi Kudo (4x) 2011 Independent: Cody Rhodes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Cliff Anderson died in my game in the first few weeks, Pistol Pete Hall took over CZCW and Ash Campbell got the book. Have yet to see anyone leave CZCW but they have hired a few people. Tommy Cornell is coming back to the USA with USPW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliegolem Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Default C-Verse, started a new company on Hard difficulty at the beginning of the game. Now through exactly 1 year. All shows have been auto-booked, aside from a couple of matches/segments. World Title: Won by Frankie-Boy Fernandes, defended 6 times before being vacated in November due to an injury sustained in CZCW. Currently VACANT. Midcard Title: Inaugural Champion was Conner Threepwood. He dropped it on his first defense to Deadly Deadshot, who made 1 defense, then dropped it to Jay Becker. Becker lost the belt on his first defense to Hustle Muvva, who is the current champion and has made 4 defenses. Annual Battle Royal was won by Conner Threepwood as well; he's almost definitely going to be the champion when the January event (and season finale) rolls around. Frankie Boy Fernandes was in 6 of our top 10 matches of the first year. The other 4 were the annual Battle Royal, for which I signed some expensive free agents to 1 night deals (Jumbo Jackson, Bash Street, and Brett Biggins), and 3 Hustle Muvva matches, 2 of which also featured Threepwood. The best match of the year was a triple threat, in which Frankie-Boy Fernandes defended the World Title against Conner Threepwood & Deadly Deadshot, scoring a 62. Surprisingly, Ferrnandes vs Threepwood one on one has happened twice, but the matches rank #12 and 21 for the year. For the next year, I expect to hit Small size, as I'm at 34 Pop in the South West and need 35. Additionally, we'll see a new champion crowned soon, the returns from injury of Americana Jr (out since February with a torn rotator cuff), and Frankie-Boy Fernandes, and hopefully a tag team will swoop in and win the tag team titles, after a full year of the belts not being contested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VPrime Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Tommy Cornell started his own company in the United States, TEW (Total Entertainment Wrestling) and formed an alliance with Victor Goliath, creating Goliath Global in the United States, in TEW. For nearly all of the first two years, Tommy Cornell and Goliath Global used their power and authority to hold the TEW World title. Finally, "our hero" Variant started challenging that authority, leading to the biggest feud in TEW's short history, and the MOTY at TEW's biggest show of the year, Ground Zero 2021. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 85-2017 game The New World Order Story - Continue or finish? - Rumble 17: Moxley after being gone for nearly a year, enters the Rumble at #17 and wins by dumping Styles and Omega at the end of the match. Moxley is back for one reason, to end Cenas' run with the belt that started in May 2015. Since my last update, The Jacksons have turned on the nWo after being disrespected by Danielson and Castagnoli. Cena turned on Kenny Omega and booted him out of the nWo. New World Order consists of John Cena, Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Wes Brisco, and Dave Finlay Jr. So I'm at a crossroads Option 1 - Have Moxley finish the feud with Cena and end the nWo once and for all. Option 2- I signed Lesnar from AJPW. Debut Lesnar at Mania screwing Moxley out his title win and have Lesnar join the nWo. Current Mania 2017 card 1. World Title – Jon Moxley vs. John Cena (c) 2. Kenny Omega vs. AJ Styles 3. Randy Orton vs. Edge 4. Kevin Steen vs. The Rock 5. Muhammad Ali Mr. Wrestle Mania Match – Sami Zayn vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Chris Masters vs. Lance Hoyt vs. Dave Finlay Jr vs. Braun 6. IC – Joey Hennig vs. T Ciampa (C) 7. TV – LA Knight vs. Wes Brisco vs. Charlie Haas vs. Elias vs. Leo Kruger vs. Nick Aldis (C) 8. Tag – Jacksons vs. The Mayhem Express (Danielson and Castagnoli) (C) 9. Rogeau Brothers vs. Cryme Tyme vs. Von Erich vs. Enzol Karl 10. Wyatt Family vs. and Mega Powers 11. Tv TAG – Crush and Wrath vs. GOAT 12. Light – Gran Guerrero vs. Blue Panther vs. Syxx vs. Bandido (C) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Money Mac Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 54 minutes ago, Zero said: 85-2017 game The New World Order Story - Continue or finish? - Rumble 17: Moxley after being gone for nearly a year, enters the Rumble at #17 and wins by dumping Styles and Omega at the end of the match. Moxley is back for one reason, to end Cenas' run with the belt that started in May 2015. Since my last update, The Jacksons have turned on the nWo after being disrespected by Danielson and Castagnoli. Cena turned on Kenny Omega and booted him out of the nWo. New World Order consists of John Cena, Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Wes Brisco, and Dave Finlay Jr. So I'm at a crossroads Option 1 - Have Moxley finish the feud with Cena and end the nWo once and for all. Option 2- I signed Lesnar from AJPW. Debut Lesnar at Mania screwing Moxley out his title win and have Lesnar join the nWo. Current Mania 2017 card 1. World Title – Jon Moxley vs. John Cena (c) 2. Kenny Omega vs. AJ Styles 3. Randy Orton vs. Edge 4. Kevin Steen vs. The Rock 5. Muhammad Ali Mr. Wrestle Mania Match – Sami Zayn vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Chris Masters vs. Lance Hoyt vs. Dave Finlay Jr vs. Braun 6. IC – Joey Hennig vs. T Ciampa (C) 7. TV – LA Knight vs. Wes Brisco vs. Charlie Haas vs. Elias vs. Leo Kruger vs. Nick Aldis (C) 8. Tag – Jacksons vs. The Mayhem Express (Danielson and Castagnoli) (C) 9. Rogeau Brothers vs. Cryme Tyme vs. Von Erich vs. Enzol Karl 10. Wyatt Family vs. and Mega Powers 11. Tv TAG – Crush and Wrath vs. GOAT 12. Light – Gran Guerrero vs. Blue Panther vs. Syxx vs. Bandido (C) You could actually turn it into 2 stories. Mox dethrones Cena and if Lesnar has the Pop have him debut afterwards to close the show and put the new champ and the company on notice setting up Mox vs Lesnar. Having Omega and The Bucks win their matches at mania could set the former NWO members as the ones to finish the group once and for all at the next event in a wargames match? Mox vs Lesnar for the title and Omega Bucks vs NWO in Wargames could be 2 pretty big matches to carry the momentum after a big Mania 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 24 minutes ago, Money Mac said: You could actually turn it into 2 stories. Mox dethrones Cena and if Lesnar has the Pop have him debut afterwards to close the show and put the new champ and the company on notice setting up Mox vs Lesnar. Having Omega and The Bucks win their matches at mania could set the former NWO members as the ones to finish the group once and for all at the next event in a wargames match? Mox vs Lesnar for the title and Omega Bucks vs NWO in Wargames could be 2 pretty big matches to carry the momentum after a big Mania Love this. Lesnar is super over. 100s across the board. He’s a former WCW, WWF, VSE, NJPW champion,and just finished his run as AJPW version of World Heavyweight Champion. —————— Yeah, I’m truly stumped on how to end the nWo at the moment. End goal is to have Finley and Brisco elevated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Money Mac Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 5 hours ago, Zero said: Love this. Lesnar is super over. 100s across the board. He’s a former WCW, WWF, VSE, NJPW champion,and just finished his run as AJPW version of World Heavyweight Champion. —————— Yeah, I’m truly stumped on how to end the nWo at the moment. End goal is to have Finley and Brisco elevated. Its funny but i seem to come up with ideas for other peoples saves easier than any of my own lol but I am glad you liked my ideas. Can not wait to read what actually transpires in your world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiTyLer Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 23 hours ago, Zero said: 85-2017 game The New World Order Story - Continue or finish? - Rumble 17: Moxley after being gone for nearly a year, enters the Rumble at #17 and wins by dumping Styles and Omega at the end of the match. Moxley is back for one reason, to end Cenas' run with the belt that started in May 2015. Since my last update, The Jacksons have turned on the nWo after being disrespected by Danielson and Castagnoli. Cena turned on Kenny Omega and booted him out of the nWo. New World Order consists of John Cena, Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Wes Brisco, and Dave Finlay Jr. So I'm at a crossroads Option 1 - Have Moxley finish the feud with Cena and end the nWo once and for all. Option 2- I signed Lesnar from AJPW. Debut Lesnar at Mania screwing Moxley out his title win and have Lesnar join the nWo. Honestly looking back at the history of the OG nWo, while the wolfpack and following shenanigans where fun, it was a narrative and all narratives that big in scale (yours went just about, if not longer, then the OG nWo if I'm not mistaken) need the happy ending of the babyface ending things once and for all. Lesnar coming out afterwards to put EVERYONE on notice is a nice addition as said before as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, MaiTyLer said: Honestly looking back at the history of the OG nWo, while the wolfpack and following shenanigans where fun, it was a narrative and all narratives that big in scale (yours went just about, if not longer, then the OG nWo if I'm not mistaken) need the happy ending of the babyface ending things once and for all. Lesnar coming out afterwards to put EVERYONE on notice is a nice addition as said before as well. I’m leaning toward that. The nWo already shows signs of collapsing with Omega and the Bucks leaving. Mania will be the nail in the coffin for Cena. The following months will show Cena grasping with reality of losing everything before finally being put down at Mania 2018 by David Finley Jr. his protege. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperMachete Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just got through SummerSlam 2024 with the latest Questlove update. The show got a 94 rating and the card was as follows: Pre Show: The Queens (Liv Morgan & Dakota Kai) defeated The Way, Unholy Union, Ivy & Zoey to retain the Women's Tag Team Titles (60 rating) Match 1: Kazuchika Okada defeated MJF (79 rating) (Feud that's been going since Wrestlemania as both wrestlers try and climb up the card. Okada wins and can move on, MJF is the holder of the MITB briefcase and will strike... soon) Match 2: A-Town Down Under defeated British Strong Style, The New Day and Los Lotharios to win the SmackDown Tag Team Titles (70 rating) Match 3: Cody Rhodes defeated Damian Priest in a Cage Match to win the Undisputed WWE Universal Title (85 rating) (Cody won it at Wrestlemania, Damian cashed in his MITB briefcase with the help of Finn and Dom) Match 4: Shinsuka Nakamura defeated Kevin Owens to win the United States Title (90 rating) Match 5: AJ Styles defeated Sheamus, Baron Corbin and Bronson Reed to win the Intercontinental Title (81 rating) (Sheamus won it at Wrestlemania to become a Grand Slam Champion) Match 6: Imperium defeated #DIY to win the Raw Tag Team Titles (76 rating) Match 7: Io Shirai defeated Sasha Banks in a Cage Match to retain the Women's Title (87 rating) (Cage match to keep out Asuka and Giulia who was interfered on Io's behalf before. Kairi Sane is on maternity leave) Match 8: Becky Lynch defeated Jade Cargill to retain the Women's World Title (73 rating) (After the match, MITB winner Tiffany Stratton teased a cash-in, but decided not to. Just wanted to show Becky she's around and can strike whenever) Match 9: Roman Reigns defeated The Rock in a Once In A Lifetime Match (94 rating) (Post-match The Rock announced his retirement for good) Main event: Gunther defeated CM Punk to win the World Heavyweight title (94 rating) Current plan is for Gunther to hold the title until Wrestlemania 41 when Royal Rumble winner Kazuchika Okada will challenge him. The plan is for them to be my top two wrestlers by that point. I guess by looking at this card you'd think I've signed everyone with a pulse, but I've limited myself to people who have been rumored to WWE IRL (Giulia, Okada), people who have previously been with WWE (Cesaro, Ember Moon & Toni Storm), and I allowed myself one more signing beyond that which was MJF. Otherwise I'm trying to build from NXT, from where Stratton is a major player already over on the RAW brand at almost 70 pop, and just formed a stable with Nikkita Lyons and Sonya Deville, both of whom she has excellent chemistry tagging with. She will cash in on Becky when the time is right. Stratton has 95 Star Quality and 94 Sex Appeal, very excited where she will end up. Lyons just got called up, will try and feature her often to improve her skills, as her Star Quality of 85 and Sex Appeal of 88 can get her quite far if she can match it in-ring. Other NXT call-ups have been Ilja Dragunov (post-SummerSlam, directly into a feud with AJ Styles), Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams, both of whom have helped Cody Rhodes with Judgment Day over on SmackDown, Bron Breakker who is currently feuding with CM Punk post-SummerSlam, Wes Lee who just returned from his back injury, and Roxanne Perez who is currently waiting on making her debut on the SmackDown brand. Noam Dar is the next one up, just trying to find the right spot for him on the card. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperMachete Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Time flies and we're already at Payback 2024. Card rating was 90. Match card: Pre-show: A-Town Down Under defeated The New Day and Alpha Academy to retain the SmackDown Tag Titles (75 rating) Match 1: The Sirens (Tiffany Stratton & Nikkita Lyons) defeated Liv Morgan and Dakota Kai to win the Women's Tag Team Titles after Sonya Deville (also a part of The Sirens) distracted Dakota Kai, allowing Tiffany Stratton to get the pin. (69 rating) Match 2: CM Punk defeated Bron Breakker by DQ after Bron went into a rage and got disqualified, absolutely destroying Punk in the process. (80 rating) Match 3: LA Knight defeated Drew McIntyre (76 rating) Match 4: Imperium defeated The Bar to retain the WWE Raw Tag Team Titles (78 rating) Match 5: Kazuchika Okada defeated Finn Bálor (83 rating) Match 6: Rhea Ripley defeated Bianca Belair and Io Shirai to win the Women's Title after Giulia turned on Io, attacking her and costing her the match. Where will Black Lotus (Io, Giulia and Asuka) end up after this? Which side is Asuka on? Stay tuned. (92 rating) Match 7: AJ Styles defeated Ilja Dragnov to retain the Intercontinental Title (80 rating) Main Event: Gunther defeated Sami Zayn to retain the World Heavyweight Title (86 rating). A bit disappointed with the 86 rating since Gunther had a 97 and Sami a 95, only penalty was for "lack of psychology". Anyway, Gunther makes his first but certainly not last defense of the World Heavyweight Title. In other WWE related news, Bryan Danielson and Samoa Joe's contracts over at AEW are expiring and they both have decided to sign one last contract over at WWE. Gunther had a big contract offer from NJPW but ultimately decided to stay at WWE, mainly because I made him the third best paid wrestler in the world behind John Cena and Roman Reigns at a cool $250k a month for four years. There are not any more planned signings from AEW for the forseeable future, which they might be thankful for, because MJF left for me as their world champ, and their current world champ is... Samoa Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGN91 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Sengoku Project Pro Wrestling by Shuji Ishikawa [Real World, 2024/25] Shuji Ishikawa left All Japan Pro Wrestling at the end of January alongside Black Menso~re aka Yohei Nakajima and looked for a new home. He had several chats with different people but ultimately he came to one conclusion: Create a promotion. Sengoku Project Pro Wrestling was born and the launch event (Hataage) was set for February 17th, 2024 at Shin-Kiba 1st RING in Tokyo. At the first press conference Ishikawa was accompanied by Black Menso~re (Vice President) and the first contracted wrestlers Kohei Sato, Masayuki Mitomi, ZONES & Chi Chi. We've had 19 shows in one year, we've got two championships, two factions so far and some hurtful leavings. Freelancer Seiki Yoshioka would have been a focal point of a first big junior heavyweight title program with also freelancing Koji Iwamoto, Yoshioka even won the first Junior tournament to win the Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship against the aforementioned Iwamoto. And just three months into his reign he signed an exclusive contract with NOAH, just like Shigehiro Irie but he only made four appereances. The most hurtful leaving was Fuminori Abe. We featured the Astronauts stars heavily since the start of the promotion and Abe would have been a big star down the line, he signed an exclusive contract with New Japan (!) and made his very last appereance with us in January against his friend and partner Takuya Nomura which would become the best match in the short history of the promotion. The factions: The first anniversary was a historical event, not only because of the anniversary itself but also it marked our first Korakuen Hall visit as well as being on Samurai! TV for the first time. Attentive people (and fans of Puro) may already see names like El Desperado or Dragongate young boy Ryoya Tanaka on the card and yes both of them quit NJPW respective DG and I signed both to a handshake deal. Desperado only had one appereance before this show alongside Yoshinobu Kanemaru (who also quit NJPW) where they lost to the Astronauts. Kanemaru retired just a months after the debut match though. In the main event we crowned our second Sengoku Heavyweight Champion when Naoya Nomura took the title of Takuya Nomura in a underwhelming match due to a little injury. Nevertheless this was good show with crowning a new champ, a special singles match between Despy and Fujita Hayato Jr., a junior title match where the new leader of the REAL KILLERZ wanted to bring the title back to the faction and a special tag match between Yankee Two Kenju and Hikaru Sato & Hideki Suzuki of the Kenka Gundan. And here are our Top 10 fights: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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