[Hype] 2001 WCW - Here Comes The Money

MrCanada · June 27, 2021

2001 WCW - Here Comes The Money

The Story of the Mod

WCW was going out of business. With the merger of AOL & Time Warner, the executives in charge decided WCW just wasn't something they wanted to own. A push by Eric Bischoff and Fusient Media to keep the company alive fell apart when AOL Time Warner also announced WCW would not be something they'd want to carry on their networks. With no other buyers, AOL Time Warner turned to Vince McMahon and the WWF to sell them the remains of WCW. In one reality, Vince buys the company for a penance, runs a doomed-from-the-start Invasion angle, and WCW dissappears like a fart in the wind. But, in this mod, something else happened. Vince McMahon decided he didn't want WCW to die. He decided to let it live, and step aside, allowing his son Shane McMahon to legitimately purchase the company. Selling all his WWF stock to Vince and with no other buys, AOL Time Warner sold WCW to Shane McMahon. The world continued as we all saw. Shane makes the announcement live on the last Monday Nitro on TNT and goes on to defeat his father in a match at WrestleMania X7, but after that, Shane announces he is leaving the WWF to focus on rebuilding WCW into the pinnacle of wrestling it once was. To the audience, to spite his father, but behind the scenes, with his blessing as Shane tries to build his own legacy. In this mod, you are Shane McMahon, and what becomes of WCW is in your hands.

What Actually Is This

I have forever been obsessed with the entire WWF buying WCW and the ensuing, failed, Invasion. Its so fascinating that WCW more or less drifted into nothingness after years of being so dominate and decades of being so vital in wrestling. However, I'm also obsessed with the fact that it was basically bound to happen. All "Well if WWF did this..." scenarios are all based on things that simply couldn't happen. WWF couldnt get Flair/Hogan/Goldberg/Nash/Steiner. WWF also had an exclusive TV deal with Viacom, so WWF's only option was a tv show on a Viacom network, and Viacom only offered them Saturday night from 11pm-1am. All scenarios tend to ignore that.

Anyway, as much as there have been some decent mods for this time, most are conversions of conversions and never really balanced. Most are hastily thrown together. Based on johnal881's Goodnight and Goodbye, my intention with this game is to literally touch every portion of it. Modify, balance, clean up, and all but change the entire data.

Data Notables

The data is set to start in May 2001, and I'm making the data as realistic to May 1, 2001 as possibl.

WCW as a company is basically what WWF acquired in real life from TimeWarner, but obviously only as its own company and with a few liberties with the roster.

WWF hasn't yet acquired ECW. This allows the titles to be purchased if you're WCW, and also allows all ECW talent to keep their ECW names (Dudley's and Justin Credible notably).

Companies: I'm rebalancing and basically redoing all companies.

Workers: Redoing & balancing all stats, popularity & attributes.

Lots of "future greats" are not great yet. Because they weren't. Perfectly serviceable, but pretty much all historical data tends to overvalue people based on what we know now. Don't get me wrong, AJ Styles could make a great addition to a company, but he's not putting on 5-star bangers. And half the fun of a historical based mod is the chance of something weird happening. Maybe AJ bombs and Air Paris takes off somehow. It shouldn't happen often, but the chance should exist since we're re-writing history the future should be somewhat unknown.

Moves & Movesets: Deleted them all and re-adding from scratch. I again prefer the technical idea of their not being 15-Shooting Star Presses with different names. I'd rather just have 1-move. I like clicking the moves and seeing everyone (Air Raid Crash!) who uses it. Some moves do get special names, but its not going to be very often (I just like seeing Rock Bottom as opposed to "Side Slam Uranage).

Wrestling Schools: Completely deleted them all and will re-add ones I feel like with proper graduates. In some cases I may bend a bit on where someone graduated from, but generally I want them to only be associated with a school if its truly the school they started in, not one they maybe attended a year or more into their career.

Title Lineage: Double checking, fixing, and in some cases redoing complete lineages.

Tag Teams: Completely redoing. Experience is being based on the amount of matches teams actually worked together via cagematch.de.

Worker Relationships: Completely redoing. I'd rather be conservative and have less relationships then lots of speculative ones. And at the end of the day, as much as Rock & Foley may have been friends, I don't think that relationship is really a vital thing and that Rock would be blowing his gasket if Foley gets fired for example. So I rather trim them down.

Chemistry: Completely deleted. Will be re-adding from scratch. I find chemistry plays to big of a role in TEW sometimes since bad chemistry can really kill a match more then it should vs how many times thats actually happened.

Announcer Experience: again completely removed and then added as I see fit. I went through all WWF/WCW/ECW to this point and added any of the semi-regular pairings, including pairs like Kevin Kelly & Tom Prichard from WWF Metal. I did how much experience a pair should had by pure feel/instinct and I'm sure people maybe have opinions when the data does come out.

Agers: Removed all agers for now. Will likely add some back as it goes.

Narratives: I've removed all narratives. I do not intend to add many at all. At this moment there is only 1, which causes FMW to financially crash at the end of 2001. I like the idea of the game world being an alternative time line, you kill one bug and can change the entire future. So narratives don't really work since the whole future should be unique. The FMW/Yakuza bankruptcy is a bit of an exception since it was already happening but just wasn't really known about until/after the promotions demise in Feb 2002. This also should create the unique opportunity to buy out FMW and keep it running or turn it into a fully owned Developmental Territory in Japan, which is a kind of fun idea.

Broadcasters: This is the one section I might not touch much as its difficult (especially world wide) but I will be balancing it somewhat and likely changing stuff. Haven't done anything with it yet.

Images: I'm redoing a lot. Using NGO for a lot. Just worth noting. I'll be releasing a full picture pack meant for use with the data.

Release Date: A WHILE off. I'm basically making the data from scratch but just using Johnal881's as a template/base. I'll update the list below once a promotion is "complete", but I'll tend to tinker with them until the end. I'm also redoing venues, injuries, excursions, so there's a lot more work then just companies and workers.

Active Companies Included: (will edit as companies are added or removed, but this list shouldn't change much)

USA

All Pro Wrestling (South East)

Combat Zone Wrestling (Tri State)

Heartland Wrestling Association (Great Lakes)

International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico)

IWA Mid-South (Great Lakes)

Jersey All Pro Wrestling (Tri State)

Memphis Championship Wrestling (South East)

National Wrestling Alliance (Alliance)

NWA Wildside (South East)

Ohio Valley Wrestling (Mid Atlantic)

Ultimate Pro Wrestling (South West)

World Championship Wrestling (Mid Atlantic)

World Wrestling Council (Puerto Rico)

World Wrestling Federation (New England)

Xtreme Pro Wrestling (South West)

Canada

Border City Wrestling (Ontario)

Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (British Columbia)

Mexico

Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion (Centro)

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Centro)

British Isles

Frontier Wrestling Alliance Southern England

Japan

All Japan Pro Wrestling Kanto

All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Kanto

Big Japan Pro Wrestling Kanto

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Chubu

Michinoku Pro Wrestling Tohoku

New Japan Pro Wrestling Kanto

Osaka Pro Wrestling Kansai

Pro Wrestling NOAH Kanto

Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE Kanto

Toryumon Kansai

MrCanada · June 27, 2021

World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling was Ted Turner's pet project through the late 1980s and early 1990s. After early struggles, the company gained traction under Eric Bischoff in the mid 90s and grew to be the biggest and most profitable company in wrestling history. However, the company never deviated from the formula that took them to the top, and the decline was as rapid as the rise. By the end of 2000, WCW was in trouble - losing money, few fans, and eventually corporate support. In early 2001, the company was sold to the WWF & Shane McMahon, who with his fathers support, is looking to turn WCW around and make it a viable property for the larger WWF machine.

Male Wrestlers

Billy Kidman
Booker T WCW World Heavyweight & WCW United States Champion
Buff Bagwell
Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Chris Kanyon
Chuck Palumbo
David Flair
Diamond Dallas Page
Elix Skipper
Evan Karagias
Hugh Morrus aka Bill DeMott
Jamie Knoble aka Jamie Howard
Jason Jett aka EZ Money
Jimmy Yang
Johnny The Bull
Kaz Hayashi
Kid Romeo
Kwee Wee aka Allan Funk
Lance Storm
Lash LeRoux
Mark Jindrak
Mike Awesome
Mike Sanders
Reno
Sean O'Haire
Shane Helms WCW World Cruiserweight Champion
Shannon Moore
Shawn Stasiak
The Wall (Hellraiser) In Rehab

Tag Teams

3 Count (Evan Karagias & Shannon Moore)
Jung Dragons (Jimmy Yang & Kaz Hayashi)
Palumbo & O'Haire (Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire) WCW World Tag Team Champions
Skipper & Romeo (Elix Skipper & Kid Romeo)
Team Canada (Lance Storm & Mike Awesome)

Female Wrestlers

Paisley aka Sharmell / Manager
Stacy Keibler Manager of Shawn Stasiak
Torrie Wilson Manager

Non-Wrestlers

Arn Anderson Road Agent & Color Commentator
Billy Silverman Referee
Charles Robinson Referee
Fit Finlay Road Agent
Johnny Ace Booker & Road Agent
Nick Patrick Referee
Scott Hudson Announcer & Color Commentator
Shane McMahon Owner, Occasional Wrestler, Personality & Road Agent

Notables

WCW is owned by Shane McMahon & booked by Johnny Ace. Obviously if you play as Shane as I intend, Shane is the owner & booker.
The roster is based on the 24 WCW wrestlers WWF acquired. I filled out a few I feel obvious extras but purposely left the roster very bare bones so players can form their own WCW.
Johnny Ace & Arn Anderson were brought over as agents IRL, so I did the same. Fit Finlay, who wasn't with WCW at the end, was signed as an agent as well, so it made sense to have the 3 of them start as WCW's nucleus of backstage staff.
Scott Hudson & Arn Anderson served as WWF/WCW's announce team, so I did the same. Its a weaker announce team and I believe 99% of everyone will end getting a better one. Joey Styles, Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay, Cyrus, Jerry Lawler & Larry Zbyszko are obvious options.
Torrie Wilson & Paisley (aka Sharmell) were signed. Torrie wasn't with WCW at the end and was not one of the 24-acquired talents acquired but signed as a free agent. Sharmell also wasn't with WCW near its end, but WWF signed her to a developmental deal around this time. Her relationship with Booker just made her staying put make sense.
Nick Patrick, Charles Robinson & Billy Silverman were all brought in as referees initially for WWFWCW so again made sense to be brought over. WWF actually eventually brought Brian Hebner up from developmental as Brain Webber and he served as a WCW referee. I chose not to do that.
I imagine everyone will obviously expand the roster. There's some very obvious candidates like Rob Van Dam I debate just adding to the roster, but figure I'll let people explore the (albeit limited) pool of available workers.
I toyed with moving WCW from its location in the South East (Atlanta, GA) to New England or Tri-State. I feel like in reality, this may have happened as Shane would likely relocate the "WCW office" as it were to New York or Connecticut. However, I didn't want to move WCW to the "north". So I did a middle ground and decided to move them to the Mid-Atlantic, under the guise of Shane moving WCW's head offices to Charlotte, North Carolina. It felt realistic and I just doubt Shane would have moved to Atlanta or kept the company there. Worth noting that Shane, Johnny Ace, & Fit Finlay have had the Mid Atlantic set as their home regions to double down on this scenario. Arn Anderson is already based there. I just again feel the current crop of backstage talents would be the "nucleus" of the new WCW office, so it makes sense they would all move to Charlotte as well. Also Charles Robinson is already there too and referees almost always have office/talent relations/production duties too. Its just a fun little head cannon I'm sure almost no one cares about but me.
I originally had HWA start as WCW's developmental territory but decided to not do that. It allows the player more choice of if to have a developmental territory and how if they do.
I made a list of all the wrestlers with starting absences. Lots of them are simulating the guaranteed TimeWarner contracts WWF couldn't really afford to take on, so didn't. Talent sat out while getting paid by these deals by TimeWarner IRL. I'm being very strict with WCW talent WWF didn't pick up, even if maybe they didn't have the "ironclad" deals of the bigger names. I think simulating these wrestlers stepping aside is worth it and forces the new WCW to truly be new. There are also a handful of absences for other reasons.

Starting Absences

Al Snow 20 weeks / Filming Tough Enough
Alex Wright 48 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Bam Bam Bigelow 52 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Big Vito 8 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Brian Adams 17 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Bryan Clark 17 weeks / Time Warner Contract
Chilly Willy 188 weeks / Military Service
Dan Severn 20 weeks / Training For MMA
Dustin Rhodes 12 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Dwayne Johnson 12 weeks / Filming The Scorpion King
Ernest Miller 38 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Glenn Gilbertti 6 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Goldberg 59 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Hellraiser In Rehab
Hulk Hogan 34 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Jeff Jarrett 20 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Kazuyuki Fujita 4 weeks / Training For MMA
Ken Shamrock 16 weeks / Training For MMA
Kevin Nash 34 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Lex Luger 74 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Mike Tenay 32 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Norman Smiley 8 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Randy Savage 140 weeks / I cant figure out what happened to Savage at this time, but this reflects how long until he surfaced in TNA
Rey Mysterio Jr. 23 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Ric Flair 23 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Rick Steiner 31 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Road Warrior Animal 15 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Scott Steiner 27 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Shane Douglas 44 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Shawn Michaels 50 weeks / On Hiatus
Sid Vicious 44 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Stevie Ray 24 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Sting 72 weeks / TimeWarner Contract
Ted DiBiase 48 weeks / Finding God
Terri Powers 20 weeks / Filming Tough Enough
Tony Schiavone 20 weeks / TimeWarner Contract

Edited August 21, 2022 by MrCanada

Idolized · June 27, 2021

Excited to see you actively nodding again! I too have been obsessed with the time period of the WCW buyout since seeing McMahon open up Nitro live to pure shock that infamous night. Definitely will be following this. I agree that tackling every portion of the mod for balancing is the only way to go, it’s a long process but worth it to get rid of all those conversion errors and unnoticed mistakes.

iRunIndiana · June 29, 2021

Keeping my eye on this one! Sounds like my perfect simulation scenario to take over WCW as Shane O'Mac.

MrCanada · June 29, 2021

Small Update: Got through half the WWF roster stat updates (attributes/popularity/moves/sizes/bio/job history/ect already done). Besides the large Japanese & Mexican promotions most indies in the US have small rosters and I should get through them somewhat quickly (few weeks). I'll then likely add obviously missing active wrestlers, like guys who hold titles in already active promotions and then guys who are at least actively working for promotions. After that will be a focus on adding some debuts/agers though I'd bet the first data release comes with very few if any of either. I'm also redoing venues & broadcasters from scratch so that will eat up time. Mod is still likely months out but I'll try to give updates. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Idolized" data-cite="Idolized" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53281" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Excited to see you actively nodding again! I too have been obsessed with the time period of the WCW buyout since seeing McMahon open up Nitro live to pure shock that infamous night. Definitely will be following this. I agree that tackling every portion of the mod for balancing is the only way to go, it’s a long process but worth it to get rid of all those conversion errors and unnoticed mistakes.</div></blockquote> nodding & modding! I doubt many people remember me since I'm more of a lurker in the last decade... I've been around to long. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="iRunIndiana" data-cite="iRunIndiana" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53281" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Keeping my eye on this one! Sounds like my perfect simulation scenario to take over WCW as Shane O'Mac.</div></blockquote> Thanks! I'm making this data more for me, and this is how I always wanted a 2001 What If WCW Lived scenario to be. However, I'll also purposely be making the data very nimble to be easily modded to fit different people's visions. Possibly releasing them myself. For example, this is very much being made as a "Vince gave Shane WCW to run." So there is obviously some niceness between the companies. But it could be very easily turned into, "Shane really bought WCW from under his dads nose!" and more hostile. Or a "Linda divorced Vince legit!" or a "Bischoff did get it!" or a straight up "May 2001 Real World Data" pack meant to best simulate the reality of May 2001 with all the WCW stars in WWF in a "WCW" stable. Ideally, I guess the mod is actually more that last thing then anything. The only fantasy is Shane running what WWF DID acquire, as an independent promotion from WWF.

Nyelator · June 29, 2021

If you need help researching don't be afraid to ask

Von Dozier · June 30, 2021

Looks great!

MrCanada · July 1, 2021

WWF IS DONE!

Well, nothing is ever really done. Every talent has now been completely updated. Personal Data, Contracts, Skills, Popularity, Attributes, Job History & Alter Egos. As well as events, titles, title lineage, worker relationships, TV shows.

That means WWF, WCW, OVW & MCW are "done" in that way.

Decided I'm likely just going to work through the American indy promotions now since they need a decent amount of work, but also are relatively small so I should be able to get through them. I'm trying to make accurate rosters. Basing it mostly on who worked the shows in April/May/June of 2001. Obviously exceptions are made for people who maybe worked in February & July but not if someone doesnt wrestler again until after the summer for example. Obviously title holders/injuries and stuff like that I'm trying to factor in.

There's also A LOT of missing workers. I will not be adding each one, only ones I can realistically find information and hopefully watch a match or two of on youtube. I'll have to guess work at some people still.

The following American Indy promotions are being included: [roster size based on talent in the data and my standards of who should be employed]

All Pro Wrestling (South West) [13]

Combat Zone Wrestling (Tri State) [26]

Heartland Wrestling Association (Great Lakes) [15]

IWA Mid-South (Great Lakes) [20]

Jersey All Pro Wrestling (Tri State) [28]

NWA Wildside (South East) [20]

Ultimate Pro Wrestling (South West) [26]

Xtreme Pro Wrestling (South West) [28]

I need to add a good handful of talent to almost every promotion, sadly.

Based on my own kind of rules, technically HWA should just be removed. There simply isnt adequate information about their shows at this time. However, they are too obvious a choice of a developmental promotion for WCW. Even their current roster is very much breaking a lot of my own rules of who should be there.

International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico) [16]

World Wrestling Council (Puerto Rico) [18]

I'm including Puerto Rico, but both promotions need lots of filling out, so I'm tackling them separately in my brain.

wbafanlee · July 1, 2021

Always enjoyed a good WCW reboot on TEW16 so this will be perfect. Would be good if there is some different scenarios released to like the invasion (WCW part of WWE).

MrCanada · July 3, 2021

Small update for updates sakes.

All Pro Wrestling & Heartland Wrestling Association are complete. Or best to say in a playable state. I dont intend to add every wrestler as lots of guys really dont amount to much. And the ones I dont add tend to be guys you cant even really find info on or matches to watch so its not a big loss.

I did decide to make HWA the developmental territory of WCW. WCW is medium sized and getting a company to agree to take developmental workers is near impossible without purchasing the promotion or creating it. It also allows me to keep HWA in the data as under normal circumstances I would not include them since info about them at this time (results namely) are not readily available. They are for later in the year when they were part of WWF and had a bunch of ex-WCW guys there.

I also decided to add The Prototype (John Cena) to HWA as a WCW developmental worker. I don't see someone realistically not singing him in that role right now, so might as well just do it and it kind of helps fill the roster up though people should and will likely sign up more guys when they start a game. I've even toyed with putting RVD down there since again, I just don't see how someone plays this mod as WCW and doesn't sign RVD. And I don't see how anyone can play as not-WCW and if the AI doesn't sign RVD right away its not realistic anyway. Having him start in dev would allow him to "debut" with WCW still so maybe I'll do that.

MrCanada · July 4, 2021

Because I feel like it, I'm going to run down promotions as they are completed, will be a useful guide to maybe package with the mod or make intro graphics for once its ready for release, that said, lets start with the WWF.

<div style="text-align:center;">World Wrestling Federation

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The World Wrestling Federation has its roots dating back to 1953 as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation. Now its the undisputed leader in Pro-Wrestling. Run by Vince McMahon, after years battling Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling, the WWF emerged the victor as WCW was pulled off of television and sold, to Vince's own son Shane. Now WWF looks to cement its place atop the wrestling world.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_X-Seven" rel="external nofollow">WrestleMania x7</a> has just passed at the start of April. Everything is the same except this is advertised as Shane's final appearance with the WWF and it is. Besides the absence of Shane & WCW, the WWF continued April pretty much as one would expect. A strong focus is on the Two-Man Power Trip of Steve Austin & Triple H alongside Vince McMahon and Team RECK (Rhyno, Edge, Christian & Kurt Angle) are being strongly positioned as the stars of tomorrow, while WWF has been forced to lean on Benoit & Jericho as top faces with The Rock gone filming The Scorpion King.

Male Wrestlers

Adam Copeland as Edge

Al Snow Filming Tough Enough

Andrew Martin as Test

Baldo as Albert

Bob Holly as Hardcore Holly

Brian Christopher as Grandmaster Sexay

Buh Buh Ray Dudley as Bubba Ray Dudley

Buchanan as Bull Buchanan

Charles Wright as The Goodfather

Chris Benoit

Chris Jericho

Christian Cage as Christian

Dean Malenko

D-Von Dudley

Dwayne Johnson as The Rock Filming The Scorpion King

Eddie Guerrero

Erin O'Grady as Crash Holly

Fatu as Rikishi

Funaki

Glenn Jacobs as Kane

Jeff Hardy

Jerry Lynn WWF Light Heavyweight Champion

John Layfield as Bradshaw

Justin Credible

King Tonga as Haku

Kip Montana as Billy Gunn

K-Krush as K-Kwick

Kurt Angle

Mark Calaway as The Undertaker

Matt Hardy WWF European Champion

Mr. Aguila as Essa Rios

Paul Levesque as Triple H WWF Intercontinental Champion

Paul Wight as Big Show

Perry Saturn

Raven

Ray Traylor as Big Bossman Injured 32-Weeks

Rhino as Rhyno WWF Hardcore Champion

Ron Simmons as Faarooq

Scott Taylor as Scotty 2 Hotty Injured 8-Weeks

Sean Morley as Val Venis

Sean Waltman as X-Pac

Spike Dudley

Steve Austin as Stone Cold Steve Austin WWF World Heavyweight Champion

Steve Lombardi as Brooklyn Brawler Occasional Wrestler & Road Agent

Steven Regal as William Regal

Stevie Richards as Steven Richards

TAKA Michinoku

Taz as Tazz Color Commentator

Tag Teams:

Benoit & Jericho (Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho)

Brothers Of Destruction (Kane & The Undertaker)

Edge & Christian

Kai En Tai (Funaki & TAKA Michinoku)

Right To Censor (Bull Buchanan & The Goodfather)

Sexay & Blackman (Grandmaster Sexay & Steve Blackman)

The APA (Bradshaw & Faarooq)

The Dudley Boys (Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley)

The Hardy Boys (Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy)

The Hollys (Crash Holly & Hardcore Holly)

The Radicalz (Dean Malenko & Perry Saturn)

Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay & Scotty 2 Hotty)

Two Man Power Trip (Steve Austin & Triple H) WWF World Tag Team Champions

X-Factor (Justin Credible & X-Pac)

Female Wrestlers

Amy Dumas as Lita

Jacqueline Moore as Jacqueline

Joanie Laurer as Chyna WWF Women's Champion

Lisa Moretti as Ivory

Starla Saxton as Molly Holly

Terri Powers as Tori Filming Tough Enough

Terri Runnels as Terri Occasional Wrestler & Manager of Perry Saturn

Trish Stratus

Non-Wrestlers Split this up by role, because they're are so many

Jim Ross Announcer

Jonathan Coachman Announcer & Color Commentator

Kevin Kelly Announcer

Michael Cole Announcer

Paul Heyman Color Commentator

Tom Prichard Color Commentator

Chad Patton Referee

Earl Hebner Referee

Jack Doan Referee

Jim Korderas Referee

Mike Chioda Referee

Mike Sparks Referee

Theodore Long as Teddy Long Referee

Tim White Referee

Bruce Prichard as Brother Love Road Agent

Bruno Lauer as Harvey Wippleman Road Agent

Dave Hebner Road Agent

Gerald Brisco Road Agent

Jack Lanza Road Agent

Michael Hayes Road Agent

Pat Patterson Road Agent

Percy Pringle III as Paul Bearer Road Agent

Sgt. Slaughter Road Agent

Tony Garea Road Agent

Debra Manager of Steve Austin

Mick Foley Personality

Stephanie McMahon as Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley Personality

Vince McMahon Personality

Developmental Territories

The WWF has 2-Developmental Territories at this time. First is Ohio Valley Wrestling, which most people are familiar with. The Second is Memphis Championship Wrestling. WWF actually had a really weird developmental system back in 2001. On top of those two, wrestlers were sent to IWA Puerto Rico and there was another promotion in Memphis called Power Pro Wrestling which was kind of a sister promotion to MCW, but it shut down right at the start of 2001. Information about PPW is fleeting, as with MCW to a degree.

OVW is really hitting its stride, with Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton & Batista all down there. Mark Henry is there as well. Plus Shelton Benjamin, Nick Dinsmore, Rico Costantino, Rob Conway, Damaja & Doug Basham. Also Ron Waterman is there who I feel will always be a big "what if?" scenario guy people don't talk about enough. A MMA Crossover who looks like Scott Steiner, what more do you need?

MCW would actually be dropped as a developmental territory in July 2001, and WWF took on the Heartland Wrestling Association as a new partner. Again, most mods fast forward this change, but as stated, I'm going for May 1st accuracy. This means that American Dragon (Bryan Danielson) & Spanky are actually under developmental deals at this time. MCW also has Lance Cade, Charlie & Russ Haas, Ekmo & Kimo (Jamal/Umaga & Rosey), Joey Matthews (Joey Mercury) & Christian York, Victoria & Steve Bradley and others.

IWA Puerto Rico was kind of a developmental territory at this time too. D'Lo Brown, Chaz (Headbanger Mosh), Tiger Ali Singh, Pete Gas & Gangrel were all there, but under WWF contract. They were sent there as a "talent exchange" though WWF never got anyone back. I decided to just make IWA a developmental company for this reason, though long term testing may change how its set up.

Ultimate Pro Wrestling was again a company that was not a developmental territory, but has a positive relationship with WWF that saw WWF wrestlers sometimes appear on UPW cards. WWF saw them as another place to snab talent out of. Its at this time they were just starting to recruit The Prototype (John Cena) from UPW.

I'll run down OVW & MCW in a joint post next.

Notable Things

WWF has 4-TV shows. WWF Raw is War, WWF SmackDown!, WWF Sunday Night Heat & WWF Metal. Most mods in the past exclude Metal, but I used to love that show and for accuracy sake it should be included.

The side effect of WWF Metal, is Tom Prichard being on the WWF roster as a color commentator. Kevin Kelly & Prichard did commentary at this time. He had been training wrestlers at the Funkin' Dojo off shoot in New England at this time and was never a road agent, but most mods use him as such. So its a nice little accurate change.

Grandmaster Sexay is still with WWF. Nearly all WWFWCW mods have him released, though he didnt get fired until halfway through May. I'm also not putting in a narrative to trigger the event or as a notice for the player to possibly trigger a release via the editor. I prefer the data to play out like we don't really know the future. Fun little thing is Sexay being in 2 active teams right now. Since Scotty 2 Hotty was injured and he had formed a team with Steve Blackman.

Triple H suffered his quad injury in late May, but obviously isnt hurt yet. It's always interesting to see how the world may have unfolded.

The Rock is off filming The Scorpion King at this point. Scotty 2 Hotty & Big Bossman were also out injured as noted on the roster above.

I've tried my hardest to have the proper contingent of Referee's & Road Agents. I forgot Mike Sparks actually existed, but stumbled upon him while doing "research" for this mod and I remember him being a damn fine ref. He's actually Dave Hebner's son-in-law. So that meant at this time the Hebner family had 4-active people in the WWF as Earl & Mike were refereeing on the main roster, Brian Hebner (Earl's son) was just getting his start in the developmental territories, and Dave Hebner was a road agent.

I hadn't realized just how abysmal the WWF Women's division was at this time. There was only really 6-active women & Terri would sometimes wrestle. In real life, by the end of 2001 they had added Stacy Keibler, Torrie Wilson & Jazz, but even then that's still a crap division. The only girl in the developmental territories is Victoria. Sharmell/Paisley was also down there at this time, but keeping her with WCW seemed realistic. Nidia won Tough Enough soon-ish, but even still she never really made a meaningful appearance until August of 2002. I guess I'm just shocked how small the division is/was in 2001. Granted, Trish/Lita/Molly/Ivory are 4 all-time greats.

Tazz was activley wrestling still while beginning to transition to color commentator. So he's an active wrestler/commentator combination.

Brooklyn Brawler wrestled at least 19-matches in 2001. And he actually wrestled a decent amount of times up until 2020. So I decided to put him as an occasional wrestler because, why not? Its fun. To maybe see Brawler job a match here or there. Though, I'm sure over enough games one day he might even win a the WWF Title! For comparison, Terri only wrestled 7-matches in 2001. I use <a href="https://www.cagematch.net/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.cagematch.net/</a> for a good deal of fact finding. Its obviously not a complete record of everything, especially dating far back when things simply weren't recorded well, but it's a damn fine start.

WWF Tough Enough was airing its first season now. For some reason Al Snow & Tori seemed to be off shows while training the contestants, but Jacqueline and Tazz stayed on the road. I suppose Al & Tori were doing more of the actual training. Either way, it felt realistic enough to put Al & Tori with a starting absence, especially since Tori was never used in this time, or again.

Just worth noting here. Almost all announcers have SOME color commentator ability and same for color commentators have announcer ability. There were plenty of times where you see a typical play-by-play guy become the color guy when the team needs. So there are lots of possibilities when trying to put together announce teams in any company, as their should be.

Feel free to ask any questions or raise any suggestions.

MrCanada · July 5, 2021

The Developmental Territories

Ohio Valley Wrestling

Ohio Valley Wrestling is a developmental territory of the World Wrestling Federation. Arguably it's main developmental territory as it contains most, if not all of the A+ prospects.

Male Wrestlers

Bautista as Leviathan Dev

BJ Payne as Payne Dev

Brian Logan as Damien

Brock Lesnar Dev

Damaja Dev

Doug Basham as The Machine Dev

Eric Angle Dev

Flash Flanagan OVW Heavyweight & OVW Hardcore Champion / Dev

Johnny Spade

Mark Henry Dev

Mr. Black

Nick Dinsmore Dev

Randy Orton Dev

Rico Costantino Dev

Rob Conway Dev

Ron Waterman Dev

Shelton Benjamin Dev

Solo Snuka

Sylvester Terkay as Sly Skraper Dev

Tag Teams

Bolin Services (Mr. Black & Rico Costantino)

Disciples Of Synn (Payne & Damien) OVW Southern Tag Team Champions

Minnesota Stretching Crew (Brock Lesnar & Shelton Benjamin)

Revolution (Johnny Spade & Sly Skraper)

Non-Wrestlers

Danny Davis Road Agent & Personality

Dean Hill Announcer

Jim Cornette Announcer & Color Commentator & Road Agent

Kenny Bolin Color Commentator & Manager of Rico Costantino & Mr. Black

Ray Ramsey Referee

Rip Rogers Road Agent

Robert Brisko Referee

Synn Manager of Leviathan, Payne & Damien

OVW Notables

Owner is Danny Davis. Booker is Jim Cornette.

OVW has a TV show, OVW TV, on air. They are set to a TV or Weekly schedule.

It is worth emphasizing again, that I am trying to not overvalue workers based on what we know now, or even how good they may have been in 2002-2003 or whatever. So there's a bunch of workers with fairly low stats. I try to rank wrestlers based on their 2001-self (though there still is a lot of subjectivity and even more guess work). Randy, Brock & Batista should be great one day, but maybe they wont be.

It turns out OVW's location is kind of confusing. Due to it being based in Jefferson, Indiana (Great Lakes) and Louisville, Kentucky (Mid-Atlantic) at basically the same time as the cities are basically the same. In previous TEW's, most people assumed Kentucky was part of the Great Lakes region, but according to TEW20, its in the Mid-Atlantic.

Memphis Championship Wrestling

Memphis Championship Wrestling started out as Kick-Ass Wrestling. Info is very spotty about this company & owner Terry Golden, but I felt for authenticity, I needed to include them. MCW would be dropped by the WWF as a developmental company in June of 2001 and replaced by the Heartland Wrestling Association, but that hasn't happened yet!

Male Wrestlers

American Dragon Dev

Charlie Haas Dev

Christian York Dev

Ekmo as OG Ekmo Dev

Joey Abs Dev

Joey Matthews Dev

Kimo Dev

Lance Cade Dev

Mike Maverick as Jack Dupp Dev

Otto Schwanz as Bo Dupp Dev

Rodrageous Color Commenator / Dev

Russ Haas Dev

Scott Vick Dev

Seven MCW Hardcore Champion

Simon Diamond

Spanky MCW Southern Light Heavyweight Champion / Dev

Steve Bradley MCW Southern Heavyweight Champion / Dev

Tomko as Tattoo

Tag Teams

The Dupps (Bo Dupp & Jack Dupp)

The Haas Brothers (Charlie Haas & Russ Haas) MCW Southern Tag Team Champions

The Island Boys (OG Ekmo & Kimo)

York & Matthews (Christian York & Joey Matthews)

Female Wrestlers

Head Bitch In Charge as Victoria Dev

Non-Wrestlers

Brian Hebner as Brian Webber Referee / Dev

Dawn Marie Manager of Simon Diamond

Kevin Kelly Announcer & Color Commentator

Terry Golden Road Agent

MCW Notables

Owner is Terry Golden. Booker is Terry Golden.

MCW is very rough, but I feel okay with it. There just isnt a lot of info about the company besides some results and a smattering of old shows to watch.

MCW has a TV show, MCW Unleashed, on air. They are set to a TV or Weekly schedule.

Simon Diamond & Dawn Marie made a 1-off appearance on the first show of May. So they have contracts with one appearance because, why not?

A question I still have: Were Seven & Tomko under dev deals or not? It seems not, but they ended up in OVW shortly after MCW fell apart and seemingly signed dev deals not long after.

I was vaguely aware of Rodrageous, but damn is it just a Buff Bagwell wannabe gimmick or what. Its Rodney from the Mean Street Posse. He was not the official color commentator at MCW, but had done enough interviews and stuff that I decided to give him that role to help fill out MCW. Its also interesting that Joey Abs was portrayed as important in MCW. Its basically him & Steve Bradley as the top two guys.

Steve Bradley was a big prospect with lots of hype around this time, but never quite panned out and sadly passed due to addictions in real life. Hopefully the mod can give him a happier career. I remember people comparing him to RVD way back when but don't see it. He was pretty talented though.

Victoria makes up the sole member of the MCW Women's Division. Victoria was actually the "MCW Commissioner" at this point in story, but still was wrestling Molly Holly & Ivory who would come down often enough, and even had a few intergender matches.

I have Kevin Kelly with written deals in both WWF & MCW, neither exclusive obviously.

Brian Hebner is in MCW to be a means to an end. They needed a ref and I couldnt figure out or find info on a better one. I believe Hebner was in OVW at this time technically. He did ref as "Brian Webber" at first to avoid being connected to his father & uncle, so I kept that intact. He actually was used as WCW referee early on in the Invasion.

Heartland Wrestling Association

The Heartland Wrestling Association isnt a developmental company... Yet. By the end of the year in reality, HWA took over for MCW as WWF's second developmental company. HWA is set up in a way to make it an easy "get" for WCW, should the player want to go out and get them as a developmental territory.

Male Wrestlers

BJ Whitmer

Chad Collyer

Chet Jablonski

Cody Hawk

Dean Jablonski

Human Time Bomb

Matt Stryker HWA Cruiserweight Champion

Nigel McGuinness

Pepper Parks

Race Steele HWA Heavyweight Champion

Shark Boy

Tag Teams

The A Squad (Chet Jablonski & Dean Jablonski) HWA Tag Team Champions

Women Wrestlers

Hellena Heavenly Manager of Matt Stryker

Non-Wrestlers

Brock Guffman Color Commentator & Manager of The A Squad & Pepper Parks

Joe Hempel Referee

Les Thatcher Announcer & Road Agent

HWA Notables

Owner is Les Thatcher. Booker is Les Thatcher.

HWA does not have a TV deal. They have a TV or Weekly Schedule. HWA did get a TV deal in September or so and had had one before, but as far as I can tell were TV-less at this time.

HWA is the roughest promotion in the data. There's just missing info from this time all over the place. But they fit so perfect as a WCW dev promotion, so I kept them.

Jaysin · July 5, 2021

OVW is not based in the Great Lakes, it's based in Kentucky which in TEW is Mid Atlantic

MrCanada · July 5, 2021

OVW is not based in the Great Lakes, it's based in Kentucky which in TEW is Mid Atlantic

Is it? I always thought it was technically Great Lakes?

I'm Canadian (obviously) so obviously can get regions wrong in other countries so I tend to use some "TEW maps" to clarify stuff for me. I always went by this for the US:

EDIT: Turns out you can check in-game now, and you're right. Time to modify some popularity and stuff! Thanks for pointing it out.

Jaysin · July 5, 2021

If you don't feel like checking for regions in-game, Mammoth took on the task of updating the maps for TEW2020 in this thread

Super pumped for this mod though. I love this era.

Idolized · July 5, 2021

Is it? I always thought it was technically Great Lakes?

I'm Canadian (obviously) so obviously can get regions wrong in other countries so I tend to use some "TEW maps" to clarify stuff for me. I always went by this for the US:

EDIT: Turns out you can check in-game now, and you're right. Time to modify some popularity and stuff! Thanks for pointing it out.

Check out the TEW Maps pinned post. Kentucky was Great Lakes in previous TEW versions (or at least we assumed it was) but in 2020 it’s Mid Atlantic

MrCanada · July 6, 2021

So it turns out OVW is kind of confusing.

It ran shows in Jefferson, Indiana & Louisville, Kentucky. Both cities are basically indistinguishable on the map with both right on the Ohio/Kentucky border basically integrated, separated by only the Ohio River.

At this time the Davis Arena (and OVW training) was in Jefferson, Indiana and had been since OVW's inception. OVW was running its weekly smaller shows out of the Davis Arena and bigger shows in Kentucky. It then outgrew the Davis Arena and opened the New Davis Arena in Louisville where it still is today, but now called just the Davis Arena again. Further, the original Davis Arena in Jefferson stayed open and rebranded itself as The Arena, a venue for wrestling or parties or whatever.

SOOOOOO

What I'm going to do is base OVW in the Mid-Atlantic. Danny Davis lived in Louisville as did Jim Cornette and lets just assume OVW as a "company" is based there since the accounting books were in Danny Davis's home office, or something. I have the Davis Arena (data name as Davis Arena Original) in the Great Lakes but owned by OVW and set as its home arena. BUT I have it set to close in September 2002 and the New Davis Arena (data name Davis Arena New) to open and be owned by OVW based in the Mid-Atlantic. I then have The Arena (data name Davis Arena Original Reborn) set to open in September 2002, a clone of Davis Arena Original, but without OVW as its owner.

I think that all works and appeases realism and whatever.

For no ones interest but my own, here's a map I made of current day Jeffersonville (red) & Louisville (pink) as well as the two Davis Arena locations marked with a black dot. The border between Indiana (Great Lakes region in TEW20) and Kentucky (Mid-Atlantic region in TEW20) is the Ohio River, that blue line if you've never seen a map. Louisville has a bunch of weird non-Louisville parts in it too to make it even more confusing.

Juce · July 6, 2021

This mod is perfect for me. I absolutely love booking WCW in the end and seeing what I can do with it. This will be really interesting when it is complete.

soxfan93 · July 6, 2021

Yeah man I can't wait for this! Good luck, MrCanada!

MrCanada · July 10, 2021

<div style="text-align:center;">South West - USA

Xtreme Pro Wrestling

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Xtreme Pro Wrestling is the #3 promotion in America. With ECW closing, XPW takes its stead as the top, non-major, promotion.

Male Wrestlers

Angel

Damian 666

Excalibur

GQ Money

Halloween

Homeless Jimmy

John Kronus

Johnny Webb

Kid Kaos

New Jack

Nosawa as Nozawa

Pogo The Clown

Sabu XPW World Heavyweight Champion

Shaggy 2 Dope

Steve Rizzono

Super Dragon

Supreme

The Messiah

Vampiro

Vic Grimes

Tag Teams

Black Army (Vic Grimes & The Messiah)

Mexico's Most Wanted (Damian 666 & Halloween)

The Enterprise (GQ Money & Steve Rizzono)

Female Talent

Lady Victoria Manager of Mexico's Most Wanted

Lizzy Borden Occasional Wrestler & Manager of Black Army

Tylene Buck as Major Gunns Occasional Wrestler

Veronica Caine Occasional Wrestler & Manager of The Enterprise

Non-Wrestlers

Kevin Kleinrock Road Agent

Kriss Kloss Announcer

Larry Rivera Color Commentator

Patrick Hernandez Referee

Rob Black Manager & Personality

XPW Notables

Owned by Rob Black. Booker is Kevin Kleinrock.

XPW runs a monthly schedule and has no TV deal.

Its crazy to think that in reality, XPW were arguably the 2nd top promotion before TNA, ROH or MLW showed up in 2002.

XPW's women are weird. While I wouldn't call them wrestlers, they eye-candy matches did happen monthly basically. So I do have them all set as (very terrible) wrestlers. Like most women at this time (see Stacy Keibler & Torrie Wilson) lots of women were basically models who had minimal training and learned what little they ever did on the job. I feel if you really want to throw money at Lizzy Borden and make her a wrestler, you should be able to, since she would have taken the cash.

I debated calling Tylene Buck, Tylene Buck, instead of Major Gunns. WCW would in theory own that trademark, but XPW did use it, so maybe it was never trademarked? Who knows. I'm just leaving her as Gunns for now.

Shaggy 2 Dope is only on a one appearance/one month contract. This is done in a few indy promotions to simulate guys coming in for 1-show. I could arguably just leave them off the show, but I figured it doesn't hurt anything. Generally indy deals are handshake/ongoing, but where I feel its warranted I am putting time limits on deals.

XPW has no other titles besides the XPW World Heavyweight and XPW King Of The Deathmatch tournament. In real life they do add the XPW Television title soon and Tag Titles in 2002. I don't intend to add them. Most companies will have fixed belts, but because XPW is severely lacking, they will be one of the few without fixed belts so the AI can and likely will add some.

As of now, I am not trying to simulate The Messiah/XPW issues. To this day that whole controversy and thumb cutting and goon jumping and possibly Lizzy Borden sucking, situation is surrounded by rumor.

<div style="text-align:center;">Ultimate Pro Wrestling

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Mainly thanks to its relationship with the WWF as a not-quite developmental territory, UPW has seen itself become the #2 wrestling promotion in all of the South West. With a decent crop of sports entertainment stars-to-be mixed with some seriously talented wrestlers, UPW makes a fun promotion to watch... and poach!

Male Wrestlers

Adam Pearce

B-Boy as Benni Chong

Donovan Morgan

Frankie Kazarian

Billy Kim as Funky Billy Kim

Hardkore Kidd

Horshu

Jon Heidenreich

Juventud Guerrera

Keiji Sakoda

Marshall Knox

Michael Modest

Mike Knox

Mikey Henderson

Nathan Jones

Nova

Ricky Reyes

Rocky Romero

Samoa Joe UPW Heavyweight Champion

Shane Ballard

Shannon Ballard

Super Dragon

Tom Howard

Tony Jones UPW Southern California Champion

Tag Teams

Big Time (Horshu & Tom Howard

Evolution (Frankie Kazarian & Nova)

Hardkore Inc. (Adam Pearce & Hardkore Kidd)

Los Cubanitos (Ricky Reyes & Rocky Romero)

Manilla Thrillaz (Benni Chong & Funky Billy Kim)

The Ballard Brothers (Shane Ballard & Shannon Ballard) UPW Tag Team Champions

Ultimate Army (Jon Heidenreich & Nathan Jones)

Urban Outlaws (Marshall Knox & Mike Knox)

Non-Wrestlers

Cheerleader Melissa Manager of The Ballard Brothers

Marty Rubalcaba Referee

Rick Bassman Personality & Road Agent

Todd Keneley Announcer

UPW Notables

UPW is owned & booked by Rick Bassman.

UPW is running a monthly schedule.

The sheer amount of future WWE talent on this roster is astounding, and the ones that didnt make it there, generally, had successful indy careers. Not to mention John Cena has just left UPW too at this time. Someone looking for "realistic" WCW hirings should be making one of their first stops in UPW.

Juventud Guerrera & Super Dragon are both on 1-month/1-appearance deals. UPW results at this time are very incomplete, but its seems they had a one off match in May, so here they are.

UPW has a friendly and talent trading agreement with the WWF. they weren't a full fledged developmental promotion it seems as there were no contracted developmental workers, but WWF did help pay some bills.

UPW also has a working relationship with ZERO-ONE in Japan.

UPW & APW are doing their own invasion/war angle at this time, though it seems much more APW in UPW then UPW in APW. Also it seemed the APW talent stayed consistent on the UPW shows while the UPW talent in APW was far more random/one-off. This has lead to UPW having a larger and arguable more complete roster.

<div style="text-align:center;">All Pro Wrestling

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APW may be the most seasoned, but is the #3 promotion in California right now, standing behind XPW and just slightly behind UPW. That said, it has a roster full of potential.

Male Wrestlers

Boyce LeGrande

Dalip Singh

Donovan Morgan

Jardi Frantz

Maxx Justice

Michael Modest

Peter Snott

Robert Thompson

Scoot Andrews

Seymour Snott

Shane Ballard

Shannon Ballard

Bison Smith as Super Destroyer 2000

Tony Jones

Vic Capri APW Universal Heavyweight Champion

Vinny Massaro as Vincenzo Massaro APW Worldwide Internet Champion

Tag Teams

The Ballard Brothers (Shane Ballard & Shannon Ballard)

The Snott Brothers (Peter Snott & Seymour Snott)

Westside Playaz (Tony Jones & Robert Thompson) APW Tag Team Champions

Non-Wrestlers

Cheerleader Melissa Manager of The Ballard Brothers

JJ Perez Referee

Max Marquez Referee

Roland Alexander Personality & Road Agent

APW Notables

APW is owned & booked by Roland Alexander

APW runs an almost weekly schedule.

APW is filled with a bunch of guys who stopped wrestling very shortly into 2001. I haven't included them, and probably wont.

Vic Capri is based out of Chicago and won the title there. So weirdly enough, he is not that popular in the South West despite being a top champion there.

In reality, Dalip Singh (Great Khali) kills a wrestler in late May 2001. Luckily for us, this is an alternate reality so that doesnt happen. Singh is big and has star quality but he is TRASH in pretty much every stat.

APW weirdly has no commentators. Even watching some shows from around this time, including King of the Indies, there is just no commentary. Finding referees & commentator information is by far the hardest and most frustrating thing to do, and I really hate adding workers without at least some idea of their birthday, ability and what not.

TheWho87 · July 11, 2021

Just to put it out there, if you wish to use anything from my graphics pack, feel free as long as you credit you used it, I offer since your logos seem to be in a similar style (although I have 1px borders), but the bit you may want would be broadcaster logos, the file names include the year it was first used and the name of the channel at the time, handy if you want to put in future broadcaster changes.

MrCanada · July 11, 2021

Just to put it out there, if you wish to use anything from my graphics pack, feel free as long as you credit you used it, I offer since your logos seem to be in a similar style (although I have 1px borders), but the bit you may want would be broadcaster logos, the file names include the year it was first used and the name of the channel at the time, handy if you want to put in future broadcaster changes.

So far I've actually made each logo myself. But thanks for the offer, I'll check it out.

MrCanada · July 11, 2021

Tri State - USA

Jersey All Pro Wrestling

Jersey All Pro Wrestling has just undergone an identity crisis. Forced to abandon its deathmatch & hardcore style by local politicians, the new "Hard Hitting Action" its decided to focus on instead seems to be a breath of fresh air.

Male Wrestlers

Billy Reil

Buff-E

Chino Martinez

Crazy Ivan as Skinhead Ivan JAPW Jersey State Champion

Devon Storm

Dixie

Don Montoya

Homicide JAPW Heavyweight Champion

Insane Dragon

Jay Briscoe

Johnny Kashmere

Low Ki

Mace

Mafia

Mark Briscoe

Mike Quackenbush

Monsta Mack

Nick Berk

Prince Nana

Ric Blade JAPW Light Heavyweight Champion

Rockin' Rebel

Trent Acid

Xavier

Tag Teams

Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe)

Christopher Street Connection (Buff E & Mace)

Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) JAPW Tag Team Champions

The Backseat Boys (Johnny Kashmere & Trent Acid)

Youth Gone Wild (Dixie & Insane Dragon)

Non-Wrestlers

Frank Iadevaia Personality & Road Agent

Garry Morere Referee

Mark Clemson Announcer

Mike Kehner Referee

Paul Turner Referee

JAPW Notables

Frank Iadevaia is owner & booker

JAPW runs a monthly schedule.

I didn't know about JAPW's history really. They got popular focusing on hardcore/deathmatch wrestling, maybe not quite as extreme as XPW or CZW versions. But in late 2000/early 2001, New Jersey politicians got involved and actually banned that type of wrestling in New Jersey. They focused on JAPW as it was the biggest promotion there and even sent officials to monitor shows apparently. JAPW then rebranded to focus on Hard Hitting action, and the rise of Homicide/Low Ki/Da Hit Squad among others began. Arguably this was the start of the modern indy style as we know it which I find fascinating.

Mike Kehner is actually an active wrestler & referee, though his contract with JAPW (and CZW) is only to be a referee at this time.

Combat Zone Wrestling

CZW, alongside JAPW, really make up the top of the tri-state indies at this time. While JAPW had recently began to move away from ultraviolent matches, CZW still focuses on the deathmatch style. However, a new generation of wrestler seems to be changing the product of CZW based on their high flying skills.

Male Roster

Adam Flash

Amazing Red

Eddie Valentine

Jay Briscoe

Joel Maximo

Johnny Kashmere

Jon Dahmer

Jose Maximo

Justice Pain

Juventud Guerrera

Lobo CZW Iron Man Champion

Mad Man Pondo

Mark Briscoe

MEN's Teioh CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion

Minoru Fujita

Nate Hatred

Nick Berk

Nick Gage

Nick Mondo

Reckless Youth

Ric Blade

Ruckus

The Winger

Wifebeater CZW World Heavyweight Champion

Zandig

Z-Barr

Tag Teams

Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe)

H8 Club (Nate Hatred & Nick Gage) CZW Tag Team Champions

Pain & Wifebeater (Justice Pain & Wifebeater

The Backseat Boys (Johnny Kashmere & Trent Acid)

The SAT (Joel Maximo & Jose Maximo)

VD (Eddie Valentine & Jon Dahmer

Non-Wrestlers

Eric Gargiulo Announcer

John House Color Commentator

Mike Kehner Referee

Rob Hartog Referee

CZW Notables

Zandig is CZW owner & booker.

CZW runs a monthly schedule.

MEN's Teioh never actually wrestled for CZW. CZW had a working agreement with BJW in Japan and several of its titles were defended and switched hands in Japan with wrestlers never appearing on American soil. Only way to really do it is to have Teioh on the CZW roster, though on a short contract. The Winger & Minoru Fujita were making American appearances at this time.

Juventud Guerrera has a 1-month/1-appearance deal.

Like JAPW, CZW is pretty straightforward. I'm not 100% sure what to make its product since it did seem to really be a 50/50 promotion around this time with 50% deathmatches/hardcore stuff and 50% the emerging modern indy style with guys like The Briscoes/SAT/Backseat Boys/Ruckus.

TheWho87 · July 11, 2021

That seems like a later CZW logo, I think for the period they used this one

Moxley · July 11, 2021

the picture used for Justice Pain is of Toby Klein.

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