Matt's Stuff & What Not

[Mattywood]

Turns out my laptop wasn't on the fritz and just needed some charging. Anywho, that said, I've been checking out TEW 2020 now, though I haven't done a full on complete dive yet. But after a long break from anything TEW, much less modding... I'm getting the itch back. This thread will host whatever I do manage to churn out. Some posts will be reserved for whatever I may need. That said...

 

Elseworld 52: An April 1988 alt universe mod

 

February 10, 1984, would forever go down as the date that was essentially the beginning of the end of the storied Von Erich wrestling dynasty that dominated World Class Championship Wrestling. Just a few weeks earlier, Hulkamania started to take over the WWF when Hulk Hogan defeated the Iron Sheik inside Madison Square Garden for the WWF Championship. Hulkamania would wind up running wild across not only the U.S.A., but across the globe as Hogan and WWF owner, Vince McMahon, would make the WWF a household name across the entire United States, and eventually, the globe. Meanwhile, tragedies and scandals would lead WCCW to go out with a whimper. But what if things had worked out differently? Actually, what if one thing had changed, somewhere in the world?

[Mattywood]

JANUARY 23, 1984

 

Yes, Hulk Hogan still won the title from Iron Sheik. In fact, the entire card went off as planned... save for one tag team match. The Invaders wrestled Mr. Fuji and Tiger Chung Lee to a time limit draw in the universe we live in. However, in this alternate reality, the Invaders no showed the event... Well, actually, one of the Invaders no showed. Gorilla Monsoon, who had a stake in the Puerto Rican company, World Wrestling Council, had informed the Invaders of the finish hours before the event. Invader #1, Jose Gonzalez, was not happy that his team would be wrestling to a draw. His partner, Invader #2 (Roberto Soto) had no qualms about it, but Jose threw a fit and refused to show up, and went so far as to pack his belongings and fly back to Puerto Rico. His partner stayed and offered to put either Mr. Fuji or Tiger Chung Lee over clean to make up for what had happened. Vince McMahon agreed, and Invader #2 would job clean to Tiger Chung Lee in a shortened 8 minute match that saw Mr. Fuji throw "salt" (really, it was powder, but you know, kayfabe!) into Invader #2's eyes behind the ref's back, allowing Tiger Chung Lee to grab Invader #2 and defeat him by pinfall following a double underhook suplex. Okay, so not exactly a clean finish. But as they say: "Mr. Fuji is a HEEEEEEL!"

 

Hogan -vs- Sheik was scheduled to take place in the middle of the card as Hogan was going to make quick work of Sheik, defeating him in just over 5 minutes to win the WWF Championship. However, with the change in the card, Hogan and Sheik would now go on last and would be given an extra seven minutes, give or take. The match would go back and forth, but then Sheik would work over Hogan for a duration of time, and the Iron Sheik had Hulk Hogan in the camel clutch. However, Hogan would power his way up, ram Sheik into the corner, then make his comeback and drop the big leg for the win. Highlights of Hogan's entrance, the match and the finish would be ingrained in the minds of fans for some time to come as it was spliced together along with an instrumental portion of Michael Jackson's hit song, "Thriller," as part of the intro of WWF's flagship syndicated show, Championship Wrestling.

 

ALL JAPAN TOUR POSTPONED

 

Before his scheduled trip to Japan, David Von Erich had complained about a pain in his stomach. David was taken to the emergency room at Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. While there, he also complained of dizziness and flu like symptons. He was prescribed an antibiotic and made Giant Baba aware of his health condition. Baba insisted that David not make the tour despite David wanting to be a good soldier and make his commitment. David finally took Baba up on his advice and postponed his scheduled tour with All Japan Pro Wrestling.

 

FALLOUT FROM MSG

 

Gorilla Monsoon was incensed with Jose Gonzalez’s actions on January 23 as it almost put him in Vince McMahon’s crosshairs, with Gorilla owning a stake in Capitol Sports Promotions, aka World Wrestling Council (WWC) based in Puerto Rico. However, Vince would cool off and remember that he had promised his father that he would take care of people like Gorilla Monsoon. Gorilla got in touch with Carlos Colon and told him what happened, with Carlos saying that he would talk to Jose. However, Carlos Colon ran an angle where Invader #2 (Roberto Soto) turned on Invader #1 (Jose Gonzalez), challenging him to a mask –vs- mask match. Jose Gonzalez won, and Roberto Soto had to unmask. Gorilla Monsoon was in attendance for the show, being brought to speed about the angle that was transpiring. When it became clear to him that Carlos Colon would take no action against Jose Gonzalez, Gorilla put his stake in Capitol up for sale, which was purchased by Carlos Colon, giving him majority control of WWC. Vince McMahon ended his working agreement with WWC, and Roberto Soto handed Carlos Colon his notice, taking a job offer from Vince to work exclusively to help bring younger talent along and help put future heels over to get them ready to feud with Hulk Hogan after the job he did in getting Tiger Chung Lee over, who was now in a feud with Hulk Hogan and being managed by Mr. Fuji, who had retired and became a full time manager.

 

FEBRUARY 11, 1984

 

At a WWF house show on February 11 in Boston, Massachusetts, S.D. Jones and Roberto Soto showed great chemistry teaming together in a loss to the Wild Samoans. The bout originally wasn’t going to lead to anything other than keeping the Wild Samoans over, but the chemistry that S.D. Jones and Roberto Soto showed gave Vince McMahon the idea to make them a regular team and putting them in a short storyline against the North-South Connection, a team comprised of Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch. S.D. Jones and Roberto Soto’s interviews on weekly WWF television started to steal the show as fans enjoyed Rorberto Soto speaking in Spanish, and S.D. Jones using his hyped up style of speaking to “translate” what Soto said, even though as a shoot, S.D. had no clue what Soto was saying.

 

The same house show in Boston also featured other matches that were all newsworthy in their own way. One match featured "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff defeating “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka in what would turn out to be Jimmy Snuka’s last match in the WWF. Rumor and innuendo continued to surround the controversy of the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino, and the heat was getting to be too much for Vince McMahon to justify keeping Snuka on the roster. Snuka would bounce around to different companies, but he never quite reached the heights of success that he had in his previous WWF run.

 

This same show featured a shocking double turn. In a six man tag match, it was Eddie Gilbert teaming up with Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas to take on the team of the Iron Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter and Tiger Chung Lee. Eddie Gilbert was crying out for Rocky Johnson to tag him in, as was Tony Atlas, after Rocky had been taking a beating until finally managing to knock out Tiger Chung Lee as they collided with a double clothesline. Both men were crawling to their corners, and Tiger Chung Lee looked to tag to Sgt. Slaughter, but instead tagged to Iron Sheik. Rocky tagged out to Tony Atlas, which seemed not to sit too well with Eddie Gilbert if the frown on his face was any indication. Tony Atlas was a house of fire, beating up both Iron Sheik and Tiger Chung Lee. Meanwhile, Sgt. Slaughter jumped down off the ring apron to argue with both Freddie Blassie and Mr. Fuji about what was going on. He decked both of them, which drew a loud ovation from the fans. He then slid into the ring and joined the Soul Patrol in beating up Iron Sheik and Tiger Chung Lee, banging their heads together with a double noggin knocker. Eddie Gilbert then got into the ring and started arguing with Rocky, Tony and Sarge. They looked bewildered as to what on earth could be chapping Gilbert’s hide.

 

Eddie snapped and shoved Tony Atlas down to the mat, knocked Rocky Johnson out with a right hand, and spit in Sgt. Slaughter’s face before giving an “up yours!” arm gesture and storming out of the ring to the boos from the fans in Boston. Sheik and Tiger managed to get back to their feet and started brawling with Sarge and Atlas. The ref, who was having a hard time maintaining control, had no choice but to throw the match out as a no contest. The consequences of this match would have a big hand in shaping the future of the WWF. Sgt. Slaughter became an All-American babyface, leading audiences in the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag before his matches and entering a feud with the Iron Sheik. Eddie Gilbert would show up on Piper’s Pit and declare that he had aligned himself with Roddy Piper’s growing stable of “Dr. D” David Schultz and "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and they would feud with the Soul Patrol and Brian Blair, which had the benefit of so many different match combinations.

[Mattywood]

A SOUTHERN TAKEOVER

 

Leading up to the NWA Parade of Champions, an event being put together by World Class and Mid Atlanitc, Georgia Championship Wrestling had been suffering turmoil behind the scenes despite it’s loyal fanbase and popularity, thanks in part to Ole Anderson. Ole had been alienating fellow NWA owners with his booking and the way he operated the Georgia territory. Jim Crockett Jr. and Fritz Von Erich, however, were undeterred and got together with Ole Anderson and proposed that he join in their venture. The NWA had already voted that David Von Erich would win the NWA World Title, and it was decided that the title change would occur in Dallas. Fritz Von Erich and Jim Crockett Jr. knew there was an opportunity to make big money by co-promoting a card featuring the best of both of their rosters, then realized that adding a third partner could potentially bring in even more money, as well as put them in position to possibly put together a national company as they saw what Vince McMahon was attempting. After their meeting, Ole Anderson agreed to take part in a show that Jim Crockett Jr. was hoping would be as successful as Starrcade was months earlier. Jim Barnett, who had just been in a shouting match with the Briscos about the direction to take Georgia Championship Wrestling in, came on board as well.

 

Fritz, Crockett, Ole and Barnett had a meeting to come up with a name for their soon to be merged promotion. They agreed upon World Championship Wrestling, which was the name of the Georgia flagship show on WTBS. Ole and Barnett got with their attorneys to trademark the World Championship Wrestling name. The stars of the soon to merge WCW would be featured on the WTBS (soon to be TBS) show, as well as in syndication as World Class agreed to replace its World Class Championship Wrestling show with Worldwide Wrestling.

 

Considering the workload that WCW was going to carry, Fritz informed KTVT 11, a station that had become a superstation in its own right, that it wouldn't be taping new episodes of Championship Sports. However, to satisfy the contract, they agreed to have reruns shown until the contract ran out. That was just the news Joe Blanchard wanted to hear as he got in touch with KTVT. Southwest Championship Wrestling, which looked to be on the brink after they lost their timeslot on the USA Network to the WWF, seemed to have been given new life after a successful negotiation with KTVT. Joe Blanchard was also able to get Paul Boesch on board, bringing together Southwest and Houston Wrestling. KTVT would soon expand their superstation status, expanding their coverage to more homes in the United States. The expansion led KTVT to rebrand itself as "TVT," with the slogan "Home of the Super Ones!"

[Mattywood]

JAPAN'S RENEGADES

 

After a falling out with Antonio Inoki in March of 1984, Riki Choshu would form a renegade promotion, Japan Puroresu, or Japan Pro Wrestling as those in the west would know it. Akira Maeda would join him in the formation of the promotion, and they were able to recruit Satoru Sayama, the original Tiger Mask. They built up a pretty solid roster in short order, thanks in part to Riki Choshu's Ishin Gundan stable. Masa Saito, who did not get into a scuffle with police in this universe, would sign on and helped to forge a relationship with the AWA. JPW would also recruit some foreign gaijins to work tours. However, tensions would rise about a year later when Akira Maeda started to have disagreements with both Riki Choshu and Satoru Sayama.

 

Things came to a head in a match between Maeda and Sayama that saw Maeda start hitting Sayama with some really hard kicks. Sayama would respond with some stiff strikes of his own, at first thinking it was just Maeda wanting to work snug. But Maeda started firing live rounds of real punches, so Sayama fought back. Maeda grabbed the referee and threw him down to the canvas, prompting an immediate disqualification. The locker room had to clear out to get the two men separated. Immediately afterwards, Akira Maeda was fired and would go on to form his own renegade group, the Universal Wrestling Federation. The UWF showed some promise early on, but soon faded out and closed for good in January of 1987.

 

NWA FALLOUT

 

Angered by Ole Anderson and Jim Barnett negotiating behind their backs, Jack and Gerald Brisco reached out to Eddie Graham about forming a merger of their own as while some Georgia workers went along with Ole and Barnett, another group of Georgia workers sided with the Briscos due to their dislike of Ole. Eddie agreed to work with the Briscos, and Pro Wrestling USA was formed, concentrating their efforts in Florida and Georgia, but were seen in other homes scattered throughout the U.S. thanks in part to syndication. "Wildfire" Tommy Rich would come over from Memphis to be one of the headliners, and "Hacksaw" Butch Reed would become a featured performer for the new company as well because as we all know... Butch Reed was over in Florida.

[Mattywood]

Elseworld 52 will be a mod starting in April 1988, four years after the first events described above. I have more in store, but I think I want to hold back and surprise people with the other changes to the timeline when the mod releases. Right now, there will be no ETA for the foreseeable future, just an fyi on that.

[Justin]

Me likey!

[Valdarix]

<p>I'm hoping the butterfly effects from the MSG fallout keeps Brody with us. </p><p> </p><p>

Also wondering how the mergers will playout in that same aspect for Magnum T.A. (maybe he wasn't in North Carlina driving a Porsche on October 14, 1986?)</p><p> </p><p>

Same for Kerry Von Erich is he in a different place in 86 than on that motorcycle that cost him his foot and addicted him to painkillers. </p><p> </p><p>

Does Mike Von Erich still suffer the injury in 87 in Israel that caused brain damage and is attributed as a key reason for his suicide?</p><p> </p><p>

Does the bigger promotion and busier schedule prevent Gino Hernandez from his demise?</p><p> </p><p>

So many awesome things can happen all from the ripples of that one change in the card. I'm really excited to see where this goes.</p>

[Mattywood]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Valdarix" data-cite="Valdarix" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50545" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm hoping the butterfly effects from the MSG fallout keeps Brody with us. <p> </p><p> Also wondering how the mergers will playout in that same aspect for Magnum T.A. (maybe he wasn't in North Carlina driving a Porsche on October 14, 1986?)</p><p> </p><p> Same for Kerry Von Erich is he in a different place in 86 than on that motorcycle that cost him his foot and addicted him to painkillers. </p><p> </p><p> Does Mike Von Erich still suffer the injury in 87 in Israel that caused brain damage and is attributed as a key reason for his suicide?</p><p> </p><p> Does the bigger promotion and busier schedule prevent Gino Hernandez from his demise?</p><p> </p><p> So many awesome things can happen all from the ripples of that one change in the card. I'm really excited to see where this goes.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Well I don't want to give much away, but I do think folks here will like where this goes. I'm going to throw in some negative ripple effects too because it's not all a bed of roses, after all. Maybe some folks who were clean in real life got addicted to something in this universe.</p>

[Moxley]

Big fan of alternate universe mods, so am looking forward to this.

[scmurph01]

Looking forward to playing this when it is available. Fleisch's Flashpoint mod is one of my favorites and to get a similar mod in the 80's is very exciting.

[Valdarix]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Mattywood" data-cite="Mattywood" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50545" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Well I don't want to give much away, but I do think folks here will like where this goes. I'm going to throw in some negative ripple effects too because it's not all a bed of roses, after all. Maybe some folks who were clean in real life got addicted to something in this universe.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I really like that, seeing what happened to Snuka had me hoping that was the case.</p>

[Justin]

<p>Dude. Brody kills Gonzalez in self defense, he and Tony Atlas fight their way out of Puerto Rico with nothing but crazyman rasslefight skillz.</p><p> </p><p>

Brody goes on to the WWF to accidentally break Hogan's orbital bone with one big ass furry boot to the nugget.</p><p> </p><p>

Book it. I will paypal upwards of $17 to make this happen.</p>

[Mattywood]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Justin" data-cite="Justin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50545" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Dude. Brody kills Gonzalez in self defense, he and Tony Atlas fight their way out of Puerto Rico with nothing but crazyman rasslefight skillz.<p> </p><p> Brody goes on to the WWF to accidentally break Hogan's orbital bone with one big ass furry boot to the nugget.</p><p> </p><p> Book it. I will paypal upwards of $17 to make this happen.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> And that brings our time around to 5:53 on KGDS, Grey Dog Software Radio. More crazy scenarios with Justin right after this! <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> All I'll say is that there might be a new spin on the Invader #1 imbroglio. And seeing as this is an alt universe because of a change in the timeline, I may or may not add some starting scandals to random workers you might not expect. Won't say who or what yet though. <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Mattywood]

<p>Wanted to give an update. Just an FYI that updates in this thread will not be constant. That said, I can say that I've added probably a third of the WWF's active wrestling roster already (won't say who all is on the roster). I will say that I'm having a lot more fun modding this time around then I did a few years ago when I got burned out and thought I was retiring. I'm really digging adding attributes to craft these workers (Kijar knows what's up!), & I thought I was going to hate not having sliders at first when adjusting stats & pop. Turns out I'm loving inputting the numbers even more for whatever reason. I really love the addition of being able to compare the current worker's stats & overness to a company &/or another worker. </p><p> </p><p>

Right now, I'm working on the picture pack. I'll be utilizing the nGo pictures combined with Taker's cuts & Asemon's additional cuts. In doing so, that means I'm going through the folders to find any duplicates, as well as rename some files.</p><p> </p><p>

That's my progress report for now. Again, I can't commit to a specific time frame that I'll be updating this thread, i.e. once a week, once a month, every other week, etc. Just know that it'll be updated when it's updated. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Mattywood]

Just popping in to say that things are going fine, & wanted to share something that I'll be adding to the mod to add a little flavor & help flesh out the various backstories involving the world after the change in the timeline. I got the idea from Fleisch's Real World Chronicles series of mods back on TEW 2013 & TEW 2016, where he would create alter egos that retained the default name of the worker. I thought this would be a good way to help flesh out the story of the timeline, & could prove to be one of my most fun tasks as I love writing up a short story. I won't do this for every worker, obviously. But for a number of workers where I may want to tell more of their story, I may just do that.

 

For example, you have Wrestler A, then an alter ego called Wrestler A (WWF). The Wrestler A default bio would be just that, the default one, & then the alter ego would give a bit of a backstory of their time in the WWF. So on & so forth.

[Nedew]

Sorry, not entirely on-topic, but these quotes drew me in so I had to take the leap.

 

Same for Kerry Von Erich is he in a different place in 86 than on that motorcycle that cost him his foot and addicted him to painkillers.

 

Kerry was far from clean before the accident. Years before this he was already missing shots and getting arrested at airports with suit pockets filled with pills from Mexico, not to mention getting doped up on the same quaalude-esque stuff that Kevin was into.

 

The 'Kerry commited suicide because of painkillers' is just Fritz trying to change the narrative in that godawful family book.

 

Does Mike Von Erich still suffer the injury in 87 in Israel that caused brain damage and is attributed as a key reason for his suicide?

 

Whilst the toxic shock certainly didn't help Mike, the reason for his death starts with F and ends with Z. The relentless pressure of being forced into the business and announcing at a press conference where Mike can barely speak that 'he'll be back and he'll be a champion' is what killed Mike.

 

As with Kevin and Kerry, Mike was also already a lover of booze, pills and other assorted nose-candies. The brain damage from toxic shock just broke his filter and brought out a more devil may care side of him, eg. bragging to WCCW cameramen between-takes about gangbanging rats with an underage Chris. But even that you could blame on the unhealthy attitude to sex you're going to have when Fritz is getting the boys hookers when they were pre-teens...

 

Does the bigger promotion and busier schedule prevent Gino Hernandez from his demise?

 

Although getting him out of Dallas would likely have gotten him away from any kingpins if you're of the 'Gino was murdered' camp, it's hard to see someone with an addictive personality and ability to talk himself to any social circle like Gino not being able to get his hands on rocket fuel anywhere he went. Not to mention the added pressure a busier schedule would give him, which is just another reason to self-medicate.

 

Anyway, historical debate aside...

 

Mattywood, I admire your dedication to detail in explaining what things changed. That's a key in any alternate history mod, and a strong confidence boost in terms of playing it. It's all too easy to change one big thing, but then everything else turns out the same, whereas you seem keenly aware of the butterfly effect. Good luck!

[Mattywood]

Thanks for the insight & kind words, Nedew. Like I've said before, not everything from the butterfly effect will be a bed of roses. Some workers who in real life may have a rep for being good folks may turn out to have bad personality traits this go 'round, and vice versa. Then there will be those people who stay the same, or are bad and get worse. And of course, it won't be just personalities that change. I'm hoping that I have a good mix of after effects from the change in timeline.

[Theheel]

<p>Let’s hope that while Magnun TA’s car crash while bad, that it wasn’t as severe as originally feared and after 12 months he makes his return to the ring. </p><p> </p><p>

I’ve always wondered how the NWA would have changed if Magnun won the title in 87 instead of Ron Garvin</p>

[Krug Stillo]

Looking forward to hear more about this project.

[Mattywood]

Without spoiling anything, I'm nearing completion of the WWF. That brings me to this question I want to lay out to all the folks here. I actually thought about going ahead & doing employment histories as I went along, but in starting to do so, I find it to be a bit more time consuming than I'd personally like with all the researching going into it for something that seems to be mostly cosmetic (I could be wrong though).

 

Not just the research, but then debating which companies to include. Asking myself questions such as whether to include a company someone only worked a few shows for, and being able to make the case either way. I figured the meat & potatoes as it were could easily be covered in the bios I'm writing up, and I can create extra alter egos if needed should I decide that I want to talk about where someone might have worked in this timeline.

[steesh07]

Without spoiling anything, I'm nearing completion of the WWF. That brings me to this question I want to lay out to all the folks here. I actually thought about going ahead & doing employment histories as I went along, but in starting to do so, I find it to be a bit more time consuming than I'd personally like with all the researching going into it for something that seems to be mostly cosmetic (I could be wrong though).

 

Not just the research, but then debating which companies to include. Asking myself questions such as whether to include a company someone only worked a few shows for, and being able to make the case either way. I figured the meat & potatoes as it were could easily be covered in the bios I'm writing up, and I can create extra alter egos if needed should I decide that I want to talk about where someone might have worked in this timeline.

 

I found it to be really tedious for something that is for the most part cosmetic (shows as job history and alumni for companies). I used it mainly for organic biographies and was worth it for that but not if you are typing them too imo.

[Mattywood]

<p>Okay, a bit of a status update. Again, these will be rare. Anywho, the WWF is pretty much done. I'll skim over it one more time just to be sure. In the meantime, Jaysin gave me permission to go back to my old Risky Business data (which I'm sure he'll do even better!), and in doing so, I'll be concentrating my efforts on title histories. I won't spoil too much, but the title histories should tell you the story of where some workers have worked in the four years between the change in timeline and April 1988, details that may not necessarily be covered in bios, alter ego bios, etc. due to space constraints. It will also help me stay on top of any continuity errors as I have had some ideas pop up, then I changed my mind. So this will help me keep track and go back and rewrite any bios I may have already written up. </p><p> </p><p>

And I know the editor's notepad has had quite a bit of heat, and I understand where people who may not like it are coming from. So I am only speaking for myself, but the notepad has proven to be a valuable tool for me as I've used it to jot down the ideas that have come into my head (thank you, Kijar, for the suggestion). Again, to help me stay on track and prevent any continuity errors. Yes, I can use the Notepad program that comes with computers. But it is nice having it right there and not having to open more programs than I want to open.</p>

[Mattywood]

Just posting an update that the project is still alive and well. I've managed to clean up some title histories, and I'm currently working on the NWA Women's Tag Team Title history. Also, while it won't be a major thing, there will be a few workers who will have a job history, but it won't cover everywhere they've been. It'll be mostly for workers who have just left a promotion right before the start date of April 1988.

[spiffyone]

<p>Great write-up. I like how you're seemingly not going with the usual major changes for WWF and instead showing how a smaller change leads to major changes for other promotions (CSP/WWC).</p><p> </p><p>

I will state, though, that I sincerely doubt World Class would've given up that Dallas TV contract even in the event of a merger of sorts because "of the workload". The promoters at the time were very territorial, and very much not trusting of one another, so they would've tried their best to keep a strength just in case any "merged promotion" idea went bad (as it did with Pro Wrestling USA).</p><p> </p><p>

Instead, I would change that to "due to the contractual obligations within the TBS deal, the KTVT contract (once a strong suit of the World Class promotion) had to be jettisoned as the TBS executives would not allow promotions airing shows on Superstation TBS to do the same for what they viewed as competing superstations". This does have some history to back it up, as TBS execs actually did put the kibosh on JCP airing any NWA Wrestling on WPIX (at that time a superstation out of NYC) for a while there for that very same reason, and the only way Crockett was able to get around it in '87 was that the show he had airing on PIX was branded as a UWF show despite it being a rebranded NWA Pro (Crockett had purchased UWF from Watts earlier in the year).</p><p> </p><p>

Also, as something of an AWA fan: what're they up to in this mod? I know they have the deal with the Japanese splinter promotion, but what are they doing themselves at this time? They're not mentioned as part of the Pro Wrestling USA group.</p>

[Kryptonite]

looking forward to this one tremendously, cant wait to see the future updates and then of course one day dive into a play thru