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The return!
Hotbody taunting El Silencio? Is he trying to get even more people gunning after him? Silencio will come after him with his corporate sponsors! https://www.mezcalreviews.com/wp-con...al-espadin.jpg El Silencio debuted his new gimmick, Vintner. It gained a confused response. Loved the Naomi/Eclypse segment though, everyone just waiting for Ecylpse to finally stop putting up with the bullshit....and the heel being deluded enough to think they can keep their "subject" in line forever. |
Not sure how well an alcoholic Mexican luchador would fly as a gimmick in 2040 but I've seen worse.
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Come to think of it, an alcoholic Mexican luchador wouldn't really be able to fly at all.
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Working on SmackDown! this morning. Hopefully I can post it around lunch time. :o
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SmackDown!: October 19, 2040
We open with Ozzy Mandias entering the ring to give us all a piece of his mind. He finds it funny how Michael Hotbody was able to secure a restraining order so quickly and so legitimate but is taking his sweet time in producing it for validation. Ozzy calls Hotbody an embarrassment to the Cruiserweight Title. Quite frankly, Michael Hotbody is an embarrassment to wrestling period. Ozzy doesn't know how but he is going to find a way to get that fatal four-way match back on the PPV. That Cruiserweight Title has been around the waist of that coward for far too long and Ozzy doesn't care who he's got to go through to take it for himself! Cue Jordan Demiras who comes out and joins Ozzy in the ring. Jordan asks for a bit of forgiveness but the fact of the matter is no one else has more of a claim to the Cruiserweight Title and the right to kick the ever-loving piss out of Michael Hotbody. Michael Hotbody stole that championship from Demiras and decided it would be funny to smash his head in with steel cage door. That's something Demiras is NEVER going to forget and the mere fact that there people walking around here thinking they have more of a right than Demiras is offensive. Ozzy simply takes this in stride and suggests that Jordan is welcome to do something about it if he has a problem with Ozzy thinking he's the best. From the looks of things, neither one of them has anything better to do tonight so why not settle things like men? Demiras seems like he's down with that idea and that shit is on! Opening Match: Ozzy Mandias vs. Jordan Demiras We love our hot cruiserweight openers over here. Ozzy needs some more credibility so this is for his benefit. Unfortunately as awesome as things are with this match, Michael Hotbody decides to ruin things by coming down surrounded by cops and accusing Ozzy and Jordan of violating the restraining order. He claims they knew Hotbody was going to be here but they didn't care and decided to have a match anyway within his vicinity. He demands they be arrested right now! Sure enough the match comes to a halt as the cops surround the two competitors and slap the cuffs on them. They're dragged away as Hotbody taunts them. ****1/2, 93% overall. Second Match: Moses McKay vs. Simon Bennett McKay gets on the mic and reiterates his position that the Royal Effect are the biggest thing going in the tag team division and all of the hoopla surrounding Bennett and Hail is insulting. He's surprised that Paul Andrews had the guts to go forward with tonight's challenge because he should be smarter than that. Andrews is leading his two little lambs to the slaughter at No Mercy and he dares whoever Andrews picked to come down and tell him different. It'll be one-on-one so there should be no excuses. Simon Bennett answers the call without Hail or Andrews at his side. Bennett carries things as the veteran making McKay look good. McKay is, of course, full of shit as King Kavovit decides to run down when it looks like McKay is in trouble and attacks Bennett for the DQ. It's another two-on-one from the Royal Effect for a good while. Finally, Adam Hail makes himself known but a little too late as the Royal Effect decide to bail, their point made. Hail glares at the two as they depart. ****1/2, 93% overall. Third Match: The Future Foundation vs. The Love Connection How about some solid tag team action to break things up? I need to get the Foundation back on track. I feel like I threw them to the wolves after the whole Bennett and Hail thing. Anyways, Vivian Merrick thinks the same thing as she decides to interject on her boys' behalf, distracting Coleman. He falls victim to the Check Out Time from Hilton for the pin. Aphrodite decides to get involved as well and tackles Vivian leading to a 3-on-3 brawl. I really need to get Vivian in the ring more. ****1/2, 93% overall. Fourth Match: Dusk vs. Frankie The matches keep rolling on as we've got to put the newbie over. Dusk and Sorrow make their creepy entrance and Dusk demands that everyone bask in the darkness because it's going to be around for a long time. So this is all for Dusk's benefit as I hope to eventually make her a top woman in the division to replace some of the older members of the roster and to make up for a good chunk of them moving to the tag division. Another good outing from the rookie and she finishes Frankie clean with the Final Sunset for the pin. ****1/2, 87% overall. More In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with Ryan Pattillo. Now he can't speak for everyone else but from what he witnessed on Raw, Ryan Pattillo was on track to becoming the new Intercontinental Champion. This year of near misses and close calls can't go on. Well, at the very least the people responsible for those near misses and close calls need to be punished. Quinten McDaniels is such a person and it's high time he starts facing some consequences for getting too big for his britches. Pattillo's business is his own business so he's going to tell McDaniels the same thing he told Seth Von Kamp: there should be something to show for all of his headaches and trouble so McDaniels should get his ass out here right now and face the music. Sure enough, Quinten McDaniels decides to make himself known. McDaniels claims that he doesn't owe Pattillo anything. McDaniels isn't responsible for anyone else's shortcomings so Ryan Pattillo should look in the mirror and piss off. McDaniels has bigger fish to fry because he's got Seth Von Kamp and the Intercontinental Title in his sights and he doesn't have time for Pattillo's belly-aching. McDaniels has come closer to gold this entire year than Pattillo has and ever will again. Pattillo is nothing without his little band of merry idiots surrounding him so it doesn't matter what Pattillo thinks. Pattillo fires back that McDaniels is something else if he's going to make a statement like that. McDaniels is the odd man out if we're talking about factions. Here he stands alone still not a world champion unlike Noah Carmichael and Butch Fleming, and that's why he's reduced to blowing smoke up everyone's ass and desperate moves like on Raw. But the bottom line is this: Pattillo came out here to get a pound of flesh and that's what he's going to do. So with that, Pattillo drops the mic and makes a bee line for McDaniels. McDaniels is all about that and runs down the ramp to meet up with Pattillo and we've got ourselves a brawl! Officials try to break things up as they head through the crowd and we go to break! Fifth Match: The Perfections vs. WWE Women's Champion Naomi Bailey and Eclypse We get a clip from earlier in the day with Eclypse basically holding this match hostage as Naomi wants to team up. Eclypse tells her that she won't have anything further to do with Naomi unless she gets a title match against her. Naomi reluctantly agrees but she expects Eclypse to be on the same page otherwise it's no dice. Nathan Quinn declares that the clock is ticking down on the reign of Faith Connors and Jenna Kyle. They wrote one hell of a first chapter in the book of the Women's Tag Team Titles but the time to turn the page is getting closer. There will be new champions come No Mercy and it will be the beginning of a new era. He has the team. He has the players. He has the strategy. One final piece of the puzzle just needs to be put in place and you all will be looking at a much better picture with NEW Women's Tag Team Champions. So Naomi and Eclypse do their best to co-exist but Eclypse keeps giving the side eye. Things break down at the end as Leah drop kicks Naomi to the outside, leaving Eclypse and Bonnie as the legal women. Naomi and Leah brawl outside for a bit until Naomi shoves her into the ringpost. Eclypse sets up Bonnie for the Fade to Black but Naomi pulls Eclypse to the outside and throws her into the ring steps! WTF is Naomi doing? Naomi stands over Eclypse with a glare as the ref calls for the bell as Eclypse gets counted out. It looks like it's time for Eclypse to get murdered to cement her 100% as a face. Naomi pounds the shit out of Eclypse as she's down and proceeds to deliver an epic beat down. She hits the Bail Out on Eclypse on the outside and then goes to collect her belt. She pulls Eclypse's head up by the hair, shows her the belt, and demands to know if that is what she wants. Eventually Naomi leaves as Eclypse remains down and out. What now? ****1/2, 92% overall. Backstage, Martyn LaSalle is being asked about what happened to Ozzy Mandias and Jordan Demiras earlier in the night. LaSalle thinks that it's cute that either one of them think they're entitled to the Cruiserweight Title. The reality is that Michael Hotbody fears LaSalle the most because he knows that his whole world can come crumbling down with the snap of his arm. It's telling that Hotbody had to go and get his stupid lawyers when he had to face LaSalle for SummerSlam. Hotbody even resorted to using that double-crossing tramp Luscious. Almost on cue, Luscious makes her way into the interview and asks that Martyn LaSalle don't hold grudges because it's not healthy. She got over it so he shouldn't have any more baggage regarding the two of them. Things just weren't clicking between them and there's no sense in being mad about that. LaSalle agrees that a bitch like her isn't worth the time of day. She's as real and trustworthy as that restraining order her stupid boyfriend is waving around. Luscious gets furious at this but dares LaSalle to try testing that theory. She proceeds to slap the taste out of his mouth. LaSalle recovers and starts to advance on Luscious as she backs down a hallway. Eventually LaSalle comes face-to-face with Hotbody and his group of cops. Hotbody demands LaSalle also gets arrested for violating his personal space and threatening Luscious! The cops swarm LaSalle and slap the cuffs on him and take him away. LaSalle yells more threats at Hotbody and Luscious as he's dragged off but it's all for nothing as it looks like he's joining Ozzy Mandias and Jordan Demiras. Sixth Match: Wrakk vs. Ethan Lang Well that was a whole lot of drama. Let's calm things down here with a solid match meant to get Wrakk over. Speaking of people getting thrown to the wolves, this is quite a set up I'm giving Lang. The poor guy hasn't even been here a month. Wrakk gets the duke after hitting the Demon Cross. Afterwards the lights dim and Haven's laugh comes over the arena. Wrakk is less than amused. ****1/4, 83% overall. Backstage, Jason Sorola want to dish some more about what's been going on with him. Nobody should be shocked at what he's been doing and the attitude he's carrying. HE was the breakout star of the Hunters. Not Ryan Pattillo, certainly not Michael Haywood. Is it asking too much to get the proper amount of respect? He expects people to recognize who he is and they had better look long and hard at Shawn Dangerson in case they want to get any dumb ideas. It's all about HIM and no one can tell him any different. Sorola looks to rant some more but he pauses as something catches his attention. WTF? It's Gavin Jones! The former stablemates exchange a couple of angry glares. Gavin merely shakes his head and takes his leave. What was that about? Elsewhere backstage Luscious looks like she's heading out for the night, pleased with herself, until she runs into Eddy Clash. She freaks out a bit as she's by herself. Eddy says that it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be any restraining order against him or any order protecting Zed Jones. Eddy tells Luscious that the look on her face is exactly the message she's going to deliver to Zed. Eddy appreciates the welcome she and her buddies gave him to the WWE. It's high time that he made himself at home. He'll see Zed at No Mercy. And with that Eddy goes on his merry way leaving Luscious shaken. MAIN EVENT: Salvatore Scabbia and Ronnie Costello vs. The Dillingers Brooke gets on the mic and asks the crowd if they can feel it. That feeling in the air is the pressure that's ready to explode. It's the pressure that Salvatore Scabbia has been under these last few weeks. The pressure of having to put up with roadblock after roadblock, nonsense after nonsense, all just because he wants to claim what is rightfully his! When that pressure explodes it can be ugly. It can be disastrous. But diamonds are born from pressure. No Mercy will be Scabbia's shining moment and all of Noah Carmichael's pride, all of his stubborness, and all of his stupidity will be the end of him and he won't have anyone to blame but himself. Well, that's not entirely true. There should be some credit handed out...to the next Unified World Champion, Salvatore Scabbia! So this is a tight way to close out the show. Oddly, Justin Mitchell and Randy Ellis aren't out here with Brooke but her boys are capable of handling things here. Things come down to Scabbia tagging himself in unbeknownst to Joey Dillinger and his own partner. Joey sets Ronnie up for the Dillinger Escape Plan but Scabbia shoves him off the top and goes for the kill, locking in the Omerta for the submission. Scabbia continues his strong streak as we're a little more than a week away from No Mercy! ****1/2, 93% overall. Overall show rating: 88% |
Fair play for you finding a way for not only getting back into it but still remembering all the ongoing storylines you had been working on! I completely forget everything after more than a month out of the game and at this point I'm way passed that :o
"Final Sunset" is such a cool finisher name in general, but tying it to someone named Dusk just makes it even better. I've always kinda loved "heel has face arrsted" angles...it's hokey but it works. But to have a guy have all three of his opponents arrested? :lol: Even better. I'm sure Hotbody's crack legal team will have forgotten a loophole in the restraining order soon. |
I've been running Fire Pro tournaments in lieu of playing EWR, I can just book the matches and watch things play out and imagine the "storylines" from there. Very reminiscent of watching No Mercy/SmackDown sim feds back in the day.
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I hope Dusk ends up being a major player. Figuring out a finisher name for her took a while because a lot of what I came up with sounded too close to Eclypse's Fade to Black. I also need to get around to finding an appropriate profile pic for her. I'm going to try to do some more booking over the weekend, at the very least Raw, but you know how it goes. One luscious distraction is all it takes to derail your plans. |
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Hah, you thought the luscious distractions were successful in derailing me but...yeah, actually they kind of were. :o Anyway, here's Raw...
Raw: October 22, 2040 It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! He wants to let us know that despite the million dollar smile on this face he's not proud of what happened to Jordan Demiras, Martyn LaSalle, and Ozzy Mandias on SmackDown!; but the law is the law! "We can't have people running around here thinking and acting like the rules don't apply to them! Ask yourselves what would happen to any of you if you decided to just go off the rails and ignore protocol at your job, much less ignoring what the law says. And also ask yourselves this important question: do you really want the Cruiserweight Title to be represented by any one of those guys? A trio of criminals and delinquents? Jordan Demiras disrupted my dance party! Martyn LaSalle physically threatened Luscious! Ozzy Mandias interrupted my lesson on the Coriolis effect! And then they all added the cherry on top of disregarding my restraining order! Whether Lisa Benton likes it or not, having me as your Cruiserweight champion is the best thing for the company right now. I stand here a role model, a pillar of the community, and the shining beacon in the dark as the greatest Cruiserweight champion you've ever seen and will ever have the privilege of seeing! Now as far as No Mercy goes, it looks like the match is off so I'll be just like one of you people and kicking back and enjoying the show. As far as my next defense goes, I can't worry about that right now but I'm sure I'll come up with a solution in about 2 weeks or so. I have to think long and hard about this, OK?!? In the meantime, I'm going to go home, relax, and bask in the fact that all of this pressure has been lifted off of my shoulders and I don't have to do deal with any more nonsense!" Cue Lisa Benton who looks like she's going to dump some more nonsense on Hotbody. Wait! She's not alone! She brings out Demiras, LaSalle, and Mandias to join her on the stage! Lisa addresses Hotbody by bringing up the supposed restraining order. Not only has Hotbody and his team failed to produce a copy of said order so that it can be reviewed but nobody can seem to find any judge who authorized it. Lisa is giving Michael Hotbody a chance right now to come clean about the whole thing right now. Hotbody goes apeshit declaring that all three of the guys next to her are currently in violation of the order and that they need to be removed right now! Benton again asks for proof of this. She's willing to wait but she can't speak for any of the guys up here. Benton adds that even if the restraining order was legit, what happened on SmackDown! wasn't. Hotbody deliberately got in the same vicinity as Demiras, LaSalle, and Mandias so that's all on him and that means that all three men were victims of a wrongful arrest. "This has been a PR disaster for the company, Michael, and there's a lot of pressure to make sure you get the brunt of it. There have been talks of suspensions and even stripping you of that Cruiserweight Title. The guys up here are also considering legal avenues of their own against you which I'm sure would be a long and tedious process that would take up so much time that you wouldn't be capable of fulfilling your duties as champion and, well, we'd have to take that belt away from you now wouldn't we?" Hotbody clasps his head in frustration as he realizes he's in a lot of shit here. Lisa continues by saying that Hotbody can spare himself a lot of that turmoil. Demiras, LaSalle, and Mandias have all agreed to call off any legal retaliation under one condition. Naturally, Hotbody perks up at this bit of information. "What is it? What do I have to do? I'll do anything" he declares. "Well, it's actually rather simple," Benton continues. "Show up at No Mercy and defend the Cruiserweight Title in the fatal four-way elimination match! Enjoy your Sunday!" And with that Benton and the guys take their leave as Hotbody is beside himself in the ring. First Match: Gavin Jones vs. Miles Shawcross Jones gets on the mic as he wants to talk about Jason Sorola. A few weeks ago was probably what many considered to be the lowest point of Gavin's career, having to separate from his friend and tag team partner, Michael Haywood. Actually, the lowest point was when Jason Sorola stabbed him and the rest of the Hunters in the back so long ago and Gavin had to endure losing the Cruiserweight Title to that traitor. So now he wants to walk around the joint pouring more salt into the wound and then go on complaining about how life is so unfair. Gavin hasn't forgotten and he'll be more than happy to make sure Sorola never forgets either. A hell of a sweet opening cruiserweight match as the rating demonstrates. Sorola comes down to yell some trash at Jones but Jones merely shoves Shawcross into him and finishes things off with a Frog Splash for the pin. Sorola loses his shit some more at ringside while Gavin makes his way out through the crowd. *****, 95% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time with the Queen of Queens, the Women's Champion Naomi Bailey. She asks the crowd if they are really, truly surprised over what she did to Eclypse on SmackDown!. "Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what SHE wanted? Everybody wanted Eclypse and I to be at each other's throats, beating each other up for their amusement. Well I hope you're all happy! I didn't want to have to do that. I begged her and all of you to not force me to do something like that. I didn't want to fight my own cousin! But you know what, there's only so much disrespect and ungratefulness that I'm willing to put up with! I'm the God damn Queen of Queens! YOUR WWE Women's Champion and that doesn't mean anything if I'm not smiting some bitches every now and then and Eclypse deserves all of the smiting that I can muster! She was reaching irrelevance before I was generous enough to ask her to join me as my partner. I didn't have to do that but I felt sorry for her! She could have been part of history but she didn't have what it takes to carry the ball and she has the audacity to blame me? SCREW HER and SCREW ALL OF YOU! Yeah, I probably could have helped her out at Unforgiven but she didn't deserve it! And I'll tell you what else she doesn't deserve: a shot at the Women's Title but I'm going to go through with it at No Mercy because there is one thing above all else that Eclypse does deserve. The beating of a lifetime. The kind of beating that lets her know that it was a mistake to ever piss me off! SmackDown! was just the beginning and in fact I wish she was here right now so I can continue where I left off so she understands what exactly she's getting herself into!" Well that's just asking for Eclypse to respond by coming out. The crowd pops as she's fully transitioned to face at this point. It only takes a few seconds of glaring a hole through Naomi before Eclypse decides to charge full speed ahead into the ring and tackle the shit out of the Women's Champion. WE GOT ANOTHER FIGHT ON OUR HANDS! Lisa Benton comes out with the goon squad to try to separate the two as they wreck the shit out of the ringside area. Second Match: The Royal Effect vs. The Wasteland Doing more of what I can to help the Royal Effect and their credibility as they look to No Mercy and their title match against the Tag Team Champions. It's some good shit to say the least. Duke gets left alone with McKay and he falls victim to the Mass Effect from McKay giving the heels the win. Kavovit and McKay certainly look ready for this Sunday. Sunday being the key word because they decide to bolt when Simon Bennett and Adam Hail come down to try to confront them. Half a million well spent on this night. *****, 97% overall. Backstage, Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp wants to rap on what's been going on with him. It feels pretty nice being the popular guy right now. He has the main event tonight teaming up with Noah Carmichael. He's got both Quinten McDaniels and Ryan Pattillo knocking on his door looking to take this Intercontinental Title. Everyone seems to want a piece of the SVK but there's only so much of him to go around. That doesn't mean he's going to just roll over and let everyone walk all over him, though. Reaching this point of his career has been a high he's not ready to give up just yet and overcoming every naysayer only makes it sweeter. So as far as No Mercy goes, Ryan Pattillo and Quinten McDaniels both better bring their dancing shoes because Seth is going to do some stomping by defending the Intercontinental Title against the two of them in a Triple Threat match. He recommends that they take notes as they watch him tonight. Third Match: Leah vs. Jenna Kyle Lisa Benton has declared that anyone not officially involved in this match is banned from ringside. So that means no Bonnie Beckham, Faith Connors, or the Southern Belles. It's nice to go back to these two as they've got sweet chemistry. This is no different as they deliver some awesome goods. Leah looks to take advantage of Jenna being distracted by Nathan Quinn on the outside but the big screen comes alive with a live shot of backstage where it looks like the Southern Belles are harrassing Leah's partner, Bonnie. Things look like they're going to get physical which causes to Leah to drop what she's doing and run to the back to try to run interference. This causes a countout, giving the match to Jenna. Hollow victory as she's left alone with Quinn and he locks in the Outback Rack on her for a bit, roughing her up ahead of No Mercy. ****1/2, 91% overall. Fourth Match: Ryan Pattillo and Alexander Piero vs. Quinten McDaniels and Chris Collins Quinten McDaniels wants to run his mouth for a bit before things get started. He's actually glad that Seth Von Kamp wants to also give Ryan Pattillo a crack at the Intercontinental Title. McDaniels will be able to smack around the both of them and kill two birds with one stone. The more ass he can kick the better and the championship will be the icing on the cake. So this is solid as fuck as you'd expect. The faces start kicking way too much ass as things come to a close and McDaniels starts to feel a little unsure of his chances and decides to retreat leaving Collins alone. Pattillo hits the Shutdown on Collins and that gives the faces the win. Pattillo points to McDaniels as he's making his way up the ramp. ****1/2, 93% overall. To the back again as we're joined by Luscious and Zed Jones. Luscious is FURIOUS BEYOND DESCRIPTION over what Eddy Clash did on SmackDown!. It's OK, though, because Zed Jones is here to handle problems like Clash and handle them with extreme efficiency and brutality. Eddy Clash was warned by her that signing his contract would end up being the biggest mistake of his life. He was given a chance to consider his options but he didn't want to listen. So that sound you hear? That's not the Big Thunder; it's the coming storm that's called Zed Jones. It's the stomping that's going to squash Eddy Clash. Eddy wanted to play in the WWE? Zed doesn't play. He makes it hurt. He punishes. He destroys. It's actually pretty hard to not feel bad for Eddy Clash. His career has just started and he's already in for the worst night imaginable. More In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with Haven. He starts things off by replaying the ending to his match against Wrakk at SummerSlam with the two of them falling off the stage. He talks about how in certain moments of your life, you find clarity. "I had clarity as I lay in that wreckage. I saw what I needed to become in order to slay a monster like Wrakk...a bigger monster. Wrakk couldn't end me at SummerSlam and he has even less hope now. Wrakk needs to be re-educated on the subject of the pecking order. Time hasn't been on your side, Wrakk. I've adapted and I'm more than willing to demonstrate as much when we meet at No Mercy. Which is why our encounter is now No Holds Barred. Adapt or get left behind, Wrakk. The choice is yours." Naturally this brings out Wrakk to offer a counterpoint. He gets face-to-face with Haven and mocks him. "Let me guess what it is you call 'adapting', Haven. Is it more parlor tricks? More theatrics? More light shows? This isn't about who's the bigger and badder monster between the two of us. I don't care about that. I care about being better and I care about being recognized as the best. What matters around here is results, and I'm the only one in this ring that's had some major results. I was the Unified World Champion before I got jettisoned and I did that without this dog-and-pony show you come out here and peddle, week in and week out. What's all of that gotten you lately? Oh, right, an ass kicking at SummerSlam...and an ass kicking this Sunday. You're inferior. You're delusional. And more importantly, as I'm looking to get back to where I was, you're in my way." And with that, Wrakk nails Haven with a sucker punch and we got ourselves another brawl! I don't think the goon squad is going to be as successful here as they were earlier with these behemoths. It's back-and-forth for a while until Wrakk sends Haven into the ring post outside. He's not finished and decides to use the steel steps for nefarious purposes, namely sending them into Haven's face, busting him open. HE'S STILL NOT DONE! Wrakk sets up the steps again and hits Haven with the Demon Cross on them. Wrakk stands tall as we go to break. Fifth Match: Vivian Merrick and The Future Foundation vs. Aphrodite and the Love Connection The next logical step after what went down on SmackDown!. Both women have been out of the ring for a while. I didn't expect to ever use Aphrodite for a match again but here we are. We gotta fill the slots somehow, right? Things break down between the guys and it's down to just the ladies. Vivian hot shots Aphrodite on the top rope and that stuns her enough to allow Vivian to schoolgirl her with the tights for the cheap pin. ****1/2, 91% overall. MAIN EVENT: Salvatore Scabbia and Ronnie Costello vs. Noah Carmichael and WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp Carmichael wants to say a few words before we kick this fucker into gear. All of the complaining coming from Camp Brooke over here is so damn rich. Carmichael is the one who actually lost something in all of this drama. Carmichael had the Unified World Title taken away from him. He wants to set the record straight and clarify that Scabbia never was the champion and he never will be the champion, not as long as Carmichael has something to say about it. Carmichael may be busted up and working against doctor's orders but as long as he can pull his ass up to the arena this Sunday at No Mercy and get into that ring, he's got a chance to make sure Scabbia doesn't walk out of there with that title. 40%, 32%, 65%, 21 and 3/4%, 3.14 repeating percent, no matter what condition Carmichael is in, he's your worse nightmare and the biggest pain in the ass you'll ever put up with. The fun is just getting started so screw the doctors and screw the system. It's time to take back what belongs to him and Scabbia can go back to stuffing canoles down that big mouth of his. So the tensions are high here to say the least. Everything you need to make a rocking main event. Brooke calls for the Academy to come down for an assist when the ref gets bumped. They take their sweet time, not looking particularly thrilled to be out here. Brooke gives them a piece of her mind, upset with them not getting out here faster. Words are exchanged and this grabs Scabbia's attention. He sides with Brooke but that leaves poor Ronnie alone in the ring. Seth dives out onto Scabbia while Carmichael hits Ronnie with the Quick Draw for the pin. Carmichael has successfully BUILT MOMENTUM for this Sunday. ****1/2, 92% overall. Overall show rating: 90% |
I still maintain that Hotbody's entire moniker would take an entire segment to introduce on its own. Should be an angle in the game "Obnoxiously Long Ring Introduction", gets overness points for heels but deducts overness from faces.
Ah yes, Hotbody's crack legal team at their finest work with fake restraining orders. It would've been kinda funny for the tide to be turned and Hotbody himself going to jail. I suspect he wouldn't like jail very much. But I suppose defending the Cruiserweight Title will have to do! He's running out of ways to weasel out of losing the thing, but I have no idea which of these three challengers would be best to dethrone him. FURIOUS BEYOND DESCRIPTION would be an awesome name for a band. Complete with all caps. Hey, why not use Aphrodite? If she's capable of working, may as well. I'm kind of a sucker for those "jack of all trades" types who have clients but also get booked in matches. |
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I'm looking to try to squeeze some stuff out before Valentine's. Hell, I'm looking to squeeze some stuff out ON Valentine's. :shifty: So far this is No Mercy: WWE Unified World Title (vacant): Noah Carmichael vs. Salvatore Scabbia WWE Women's Tag Team Titles: The Lonely Girls (c) vs. The Southern Belles vs. The Perfections WWE Cruiserweight Title: The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody (c) vs. Jordan Demiras vs. Martyn LaSalle vs. Ozzy Mandias (Possibly canceled???) WWE Unified Tag Team Titles: The Collective (c) vs. The Royal Effect WWE Women's Title: Naomi Bailer (c) vs. Eclypse WWE Intercontinental Title: Seth Von Kamp (c) vs. Quinten McDaniels vs. Ryan Pattillo Haven vs. Wrakk Zed Jones vs. Eddy Clash |
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Did Superstars last night. Just have to find some time today to finish typing up the report. I might have to re-evaluate my life if I can't even get to the PPV before the end of February. Miss the good ol' days of dumping out 2-years in a week.
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At this point I'm so far removed from my last game (nearly a year behind the actual timeline now) that I'd almost want to start anew because EWR has changed so much in a year. I could probably roll through a month of booking fairly quickly but if I get too far ahead, I'd forget what I did for the reports :lol: |
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Not a booking sim per se but I turned on Fire Pro and decided to run tomorrow night's AEW Revolution card as best I could and I watched the CPU duke it out. The results were as follows:
Buy-In: Hook submitted QT Marshall with the Redrum, 92% Kris Statlander pinned “Legit” Leyla Hirsch with the Big Bang Theory, 75% 6-Man Tag Team Match: Erick Redbeard and Death Triangle (PAC and Penta Oscuro) defeated The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews). Penta pinned Malakai with the Pentagon Driver, 82% Main Card: “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson pinned Jon Moxley with the Running Knee, 93% Jade Cargill pinned Tay Conti with Jaded to retain the TBS Championship, 65% 6-Man Tornado Tag Match: The Andrade-Hardy Family Office (Andrade El Idolo, Matt Hardy, and Isiah Kassidy) defeated Darby Allin, Sting, and Sammy Guevara. Kassidy pinned Sting with a School Boy, 68% Face of the Revolution Ladder Match...unfortunately ladder matches aren’t in Fire Pro so I simply did a battle royal figuring the last man in the ring would retrieve the contract for a future TNT Title shot -Wardlow eliminates “Absolute” Ricky Starks -Keith Lee eliminates “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy -Wardlow eliminates Keith Lee -Christian Cage eliminates Wardlow -Christian Cage eliminates Powerhouse Hobbs to win the “ladder match”, 74% Eddie Kingston pinned Chris Jericho with a head-and-arm suplex, 89% Triple Threat Tag Team Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship...more rule changes here since triple threat tags aren’t possible, I turned it into triple threats: -Jungle Boy defeated Matt Jackson (The Young Bucks) and Kyle O’Reilly (reDragon) via roll up on Jackson, 81% -Luchasaurus defeated Nick Jackson (The Young Bucks) and Bobby Fish (reDragon) via Mesozoic Moonsault on Jackson, 67% Because they both won their triple threats, Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus retain the AEW World Tag Team Championship, 74% Thunder Rosa defeated Dr. Britt Baker via ref stoppage after Britt was knocked out cold with the Fire Thunder Driver, Thunder Rosa is your NEW AEW Women’s World Champion, 91% Dog Collar Match...another match not allowed in Fire Pro so I subbed it with another old school match, a Texas Death Match: CM Punk defeated MJF when MJF failed to answer the 10 count after being pinned via GTS, 100% Adam Cole pinned “Hangman” Adam Page with the Boom to become the NEW AEW World Champion, 92% |
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Yeesh, what world are we living in where Vito gets in a show before I do? :o
I was about 50-60% done with my next write-up but then the shit storm of last week went down and there was that brief moment after I flipped the fuck out at the world. I need to get back to my place of Zen so I can continue on. Good on you, though, for finding another avenue to provide me with more Britt Baker. :) |
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Wait, now there's a TBS Championship? :lol:
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Superstars: October 25, 2040
It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! Hotbody feels like he deserves the additional title to his name because he has all of the scoops and all of the attention! No other talk show brings the people the hard truth and emotional drama like the Hot Button. Likewise, no other person brings all of the boys to the yard like Michael Hotbody. The spotlight shines brightest on those who deserve it and that's why it is so crucial, not just to Hotbody, but to the whole company and the millions of fans out there that Hotbody remains the Cruiserweight Champion! Hotbody doesn't act out of selfishness. All of his decisions and actions are for the greater good and none of his opponents this Sunday at No Mercy can claim that! This brings out Ozzy Mandias to the ring and he gets in Hotbody's face. Hotbody warns Ozzy that the restraining orders are still in effect but Ozzy shoots that claim down by calling the whole thing bogus. It's only appropriate because the man behind it all is bogus himself. Hotbody is a fraud and he knows it. His whole crew knows it and if being called 'selfish' is going to go along with winning the Cruiserweight Title, Ozzy will proudly carry both of those titles. Hotbody claims that the restraining orders are legit; it's just that things can get lost in the mail and sometimes the law can move slowly and that's NOT HIS FAULT! Bottom line is all Ozzy has to do is wait just a few more days and all of this will be settled. Ozzy, Demiras, and LaSalle can find out for themselves just how much time they all wasted being this petty in demanding this match! Hotbody is willing to go through with it BECAUSE HE WANTS TO not because he's being strong-armed into it! Hotbody doesn't give into threats. He makes them disappear. Ozzy counters by saying there isn't one damned person on the roster that can make him go away. This brings out Martyn LaSalle to the show and he gets in Ozzy's face. LaSalle is feeling a tad left out and insulted. He questions what credentials Ozzy even brings to the table. At the very least Jordan Demiras is a former champion so LaSalle can somewhat tolerate him being in the match but compared to everyone else, Ozzy's resume leaves a lot to be desired. Ozzy gets right in LaSalle's face and declares that he doesn't need experience; he just needs to be the best. All three of Ozzy's opponents have had their moments to stumble all over each other. It's time for a new era in the Cruiserweight division and it begins Sunday when Ozzy beats everyone's ass. LaSalle merely smirks and claims that Ozzy has a lot to learn, namely that desperate men will do desperate things. LaSalle is absolutely desperate. Forget Jordan's anger over a cage door putting him out of action. Forget Ozzy's entitlement. Martyn LaSalle and Martyn LaSalle alone is the man to watch and to be afraid of. You'll all see. With that, LaSalle drops the mic and turns to leave. Hotbody decides to be a dick about things and shoves Ozzy into LaSalle and bails. LaSalle turns around with the wrong idea in mind and nails Ozzy. We got a brawl on our hands between Ozzy and LaSalle! Hotbody merely takes his title and heads to the back with a smile on his face as officials come down to break things up. First Match: El Silencio and Isaac Wolff vs. Bill Crockett and Vinnie LaPaige Gonna take things fairly easy and laid back as far as matches go. I don't think I'm progressing anything major tonight, what with the PPV just a few days away. Anyways, it's some solid cruiserweight tag action to get the crowd going. The charisma levels here are a fucking albatross. Whatever; it still works. El Silencio hits Crockett with El Ojo Del Tempesta for the pin. That's certainly not setting him up for something major down the road, right? :shifty: ****1/2, 86% overall Second Match: Ethan Lang vs. Zed Jones Luscious is with Zed and she decides to add onto the list of grievances that her baby Mikey Poo had earlier. Dealing with a trio of hooligans is bad enough but her and Michael Hotbody have also run afoul of a delusional meathead that goes by the name of Eddy Clash. Clash has had it easy up to this point. The main course at No Mercy will be her man retaining the Cruiserweight Title, but Zed is going to take care of the appetizer that is Eddy Clash. Eddy had better be watching and had better be having second thoughts about everything. I'm hoping that my use of Lang as a whipping boy will eventually come to an end. He's super talented and I'd like to slap him with a manager to start moving him up the card. In the meantime, he's got a more important job here. Luscious trips up Lang as he goes for the Bitter Languish and when he turns his attention to her, she slips Zed the GAVEL OF DOOM. The ref goes to admonish Luscious and while Lang turns his attention back to Zed he's greeted with some solid justice to his forehead. The ref counts the pin and Zed has BUILT MOMENTUM! ****1/4, 81% overall Backstage, Paul Andrews is with the Unified Tag Team Champions Simon Bennett and Adam Hail. Andrews isn't sure what the Royal Effect are trying to accomplish with all of their recent actions. The career of Paul Andrews alone overshadows anything McKay and Kavovit can ever hope to accomplish. Add in the stellar records of Bennett and Hail and that's a mountain that even the Royal Effect are going to have trouble overcoming. Bennett and Hail made their return because there was a whole lot left to prove and there's a whole lot left in the tank. You have two King of the Ring winners. A former Unified World Champion and Intercontinental Champion. McKay and Kavovit need to understand that experience is not on their side and talk will only carry you so far. Third Match: C4 vs. The Lady Liberties I realized I haven't used C4 in a while. Now is as good a time as any. The Liberties could also use some exposure...so to speak. Zoey in particular, am I right? Some good shit where, again, the talent has to work overtime to overcome the charisma deficiency. Carmella counters a victory roll from Katie and uses the ropes for leverage to score the cheap pin. Good shit all around and Brooke could use some good news at this point in time. ****1/2, 86% overall Fourth Match: Jordan Demiras vs. Ziggy Styles Ziggy Styles wants to know if Jordan is going to bring this match down with his toxic negativity. It's like bringing chips but no salsa. Where's the fun? Jordan reminds Ziggy way too much of Michael Haywood, dragging everyone into their whirlpool of depression and misery when it's nobody else's fault that their lives are in a rut. Ziggy Styles, however, claims that he is merciful and generous. Ziggy offers Jordan a chance to call things off right now and join Ziggy in getting his positive vibes back by getting Ziggy with it! Jordan takes the mic and declares that Ziggy reminds Jordan of someone, too. Ziggy has a lot in common with Michael Hotbody: the two of them have their own "show", a lot of hot air, a bunch of nonsense coming out of that big mouth of his, and it may or may not be positive but there's a huge aura surrounding him that just screams "jackass". And after No Mercy, Ziggy is going to have another thing in common with Michael Hotbody: his face smeared all over this God damn canvas. With that, Demiras kicks things off with a...uh, kick, by dropkicking Styles in the face and starting the match. More really good shit here as Styles looks like he's found his groove. Things seem to be going Jordan's way but Michael Hotbody comes running down, apparently really eager to show Jordan his Cruiserweight Title belt that he might win on Sunday but Hotbody apparently slips on some moisture in the ring and ends up smacking Jordan in the back of the head with the belt. The ref calls for the DQ and it's a good thing, too, because who knows who else could end up slipping on that? Hotbody slaps Jordan around in the face, no doubt trying to wake him up in order to apologize. Michael Haywood takes this opportunity to be a Debbie Downer by running down and chasing everyone off. *****, 94% overall Backstage we are blessed to hear from Chris Collins. Collins is here to sadly report that once again Alexander Piero will not face him one-on-one as he had hoped due to Piero once again being a wuss and putting Madison above his own career. He had hoped to have another match with Piero at No Mercy but with Piero's mind being elsewhere, the whole card is stacked and now there's no room for either one of them! Collins is furious at Piero's selfishness and weakness taking money out of his pocket. Collins offers an ultimatum: face him on Raw after No Mercy or live in shame as a whipped waste of space! Fifth Match: Xavier Cross vs. Cameron Harper Cross is unfortunately in a holding pattern until Kyle Jacobs can come back. Better use him to get some awesome matches on the card. Cross wins this one pretty handily after hitting the Cross Cutter for the pin. *****, 94% overall We go to a pretty sweet video package detailing the history between Haven and Wrakk. It goes back to Haven's King of the Ring victory last year that set everything in motion and documents their SummerSlam encounter. It's a battle of monsters this Sunday at No Mercy! Sixth Match: The Perfections vs. The Southern Belle with Guest Referee Faith Connors It's heel vs. heel here as we head into Sunday's triple threat match for the Women's Tag Team Titles. Faith is here to give the crowd someone to cheer. Although the Southern Belles are extra bitchy here so the Perfections have a little bit of support. Both teams give shit to Faith here and there for her officiating. Things come to a head when Nathan Quinn tries some of his interference on behalf of the Perfections. He has Faith's championship belt in hand but Hannah gets in his face on the outside. Bobbi Jo steals the belt from him as he's yelling back at Hannah and she clobbers Bonnie with it. Faith has been busy with Leah and she completely misses all of this. Faith drops down to count the pin giving the Belles the cheap win. Leah gives Faith and the Belles the stink eye as she checks on Bonnie. ****1/2, 90% overall MAIN EVENT: Clubber Harris vs. Quinten McDaniels Quinten McDaniels gets on the mic and claims that he's actually cool with a triple threat match this Sunday for the Intercontinental Title. He's just livid that Ryan Pattillo is also going to be competing for the belt. Pattillo's time went before it even came. Overall, Pattillo doesn't have a whole lot to be ashamed of. Actually, that's a lie. Pattillo has plenty to feel bad about and it's just going to be one more straw on the pile when Quinten McDaniels walks out of No Mercy as the NEW Intercontinental Champion! And afterwards, Seth and Ryan can go start a support group for dumb luck chumps and hug it out like the disappointments that they are! With that all said this match rules. McDaniels looks like he's going to steal a win here with some shenanigans but Ryan Pattillo apparently has heard and seen enough and certainly upset with all of the physical attacks and decides to rush the ring and get a piece of McDaniels. It's a DQ win for McDaniels and the two slug it out as we go off the air. *****, 95% overall Overall Rating: 88% |
Given your entire roster are original characters so far in the future, I forget who half of them are so honestly you could have someone wrestle their first match in months and I'd probably not really notice. Given the absurd talent ratings of literally everyone in the show I don't think your audience would mind either. Literally could treat every show as a Lethal Lottery of names out of a hat and probably be guaranteed a couple of bangers in the process!
Case in point, Cross beating Harper handedly but it was still a 5 star match. Hot diggity damn! If talent levels were represented as gold coins you'd be able to jump into the pile like Scrooge McDuck. Hotbody baiting two faces into beating the shit out of each other is classic stuff. The shitbaggery is unmatched. I had this idea that whenever he eventually loses the Cruiserweight Title, he files yet another grievance against corrupt Lisa Benton and some way or another it results in Hotbody actually being given the Authority Figure gimmick in EWR and he effectively is given one of the three shows in a settlement. It's like "SmackDown...presented by Michael Hotbody" and the show basically exists as a multiverse. |
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Of course, the CPU making the calls also means you're gonna have some fairly ridiculous outcomes. Upsets can and do happen (see: Isiah Kassidy pinning Sting). I remember in SmackDown HCTP, Rico won my Royal Rumble and I had to then play out the Road to WrestleMania putting Rico in matches that he mostly lost since he was now in there with high profile talent, and then he somehow won the World Heavyweight Title when I simmed the Mania match anyway :lol: As it turns out there's a tag team mod in the game that, if activated, will allow you to book a 6-man battle royal but the tag teams will know not to attack each other. So I probably could've done the triple threat tag after all. Ah well. |
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Did the final SmackDown! before No Mercy as well as No Mercy itself. I hope I'll have time later in the day to do the write up. Thus begins the march to Survivor Series. 10-man elimination tags FTW!!!
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SmackDown!: October 26, 2040
Last show before No Mercy!!! Opening Match: Ethan Lang vs. Vinnie LaPaige Gonna take things fairly easy tonight, all things considered. Hopefully this can kick off Lang's rise to the top. He really needs a manager, though. The charisma black hole is present here but it's a fair opener. Lang hits the Bitter Languish for the pin. ****1/4, 78% overall. Second Match: Neil Quint, El Silencio, Isaac Wolff, Josh Turmell, and Jesse Capalbo vs. Joey Osbourne, Jerome McDougall, Bill Crockett, Zachary Vale, and Doug Michaels Fuck it; let's just toss 10 cruiserweights out there and see what develops. BOOKING GENIUS! Anyways, this is all sorts of fun. Doug Michaels is left alone and falls victim to El Ojo Del Tempesta from El Silencio to give the win to the faces. ****1/4, 88% overall. Backstage Ozzy Mandias has been watching the proceedings when he's confronted by Martyn LaSalle. Ozzy naturally is a tad apprehensive considering what happened last night on the Hot Button and immediately gets in LaSalle's face demanding what the hell he wants. LaSalle assures Ozzy that he's not here for any hostility or physical confrontation and asks that Ozzy hear him out. LaSalle saw the footage from what happened on Superstars. He knows now that it wasn't Ozzy that instigated things between them. LaSalle just wanted to come to apologize. Ozzy isn't sure that he wants to accept that apology considering how quickly LaSalle went off the deep end and sent his fists flying. Plus, there's the little matter of LaSalle thinking that Ozzy isn't good enough to win the Cruiserweight Title. LaSalle says that Ozzy CAN become the Cruiserweight Champion one day...it's just not going to be at No Mercy. Whether Ozzy accepts this apology or not, LaSalle is most definitely not apologizing for snatching the Cruiserweight Title from everybody else's hands this Sunday. With that, LaSalle takes his leave and Ozzy is left to ponder this over. It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! Hotbody wants to clear the air about a couple of things. The restraining order that Galino & Farnes is TOTALLY LEGIT but is merely caught up in a lot of bureaucracy and possible even stuck in some post office at the moment. In the interest of goodwill and good ratings for the Hot Button, however, Hotbody is willing to waive the enforcement of said restraining order for tonight. He wants to invite Jordan Demiras to the show for a chat because he, along with everyone else, needs to understand that Michael Hotbody actually does enjoy being in the fight; it's just that if he is going to fight, he needs to be sure that he has the ability to fight smart. "So with that being said, Jordan Demiras, please come on out to the show!" It takes a bit but sure enough Jordan Demiras answers the call with some reluctance on his face. He climbs into the ring with a murderous look on his face. Clearly he's had enough of all of Hotbody's shit. He asks what the hell the champion wants. Hotbody continues on the mic: "Jordan, I understand that things aren't kosher between us. Hell, they probably never will be. Between me being a completely superior athlete and physical specimen and you being...well, you, we may never be on the same page, exchanging Christmas cards. But I need you to understand something, Jordan; I take no pleasure in your misfortune. I take no pleasure in this nastiness between us. This is just business. I didn't want to see you get absolutely annihilated inside a steel cage. I didn't want you to be on the shelf all those months. I certainly don't want to see you get embarrassed this Sunday. But the Cruiserweight Title is on the line, Jordan. The stakes are extremely high." "Get to the God damn point, Michael. You're on my last nerve as it is." "OK, OK...listen; you're desperate to take this championship. You're so desperate that you came back from what was surely a severe head injury. So desperate that you've been willing to partner up with the likes of Martyn LaSalle and Ozzy Mandias. But we have to be honest, Jordan; they're not in your league. More importantly, they can't be trusted. When it all hits the fan, they'll turn on you! This little alliance that they've formed with you has been nothing but an exercise in DISGUSTING INSIDIOUSNESS! They smile to your face and nod in agreement all while waiting for that moment where they'll stick a knife in your back and take all the glory for themselves. Jordan, I know I've done some questionable things to you but at least I'm honest and upfront with you about my intentions. I'm the devil that you know. Ozzy and LaSalle are the devils you THINK you know. You don't want to believe me? Just look at how the two of them have been snapping at each other! That could easily be you on the receiving end." "You're still yammering about nothing, Michael..." "What I'm trying to say is you need a smarter partnership, Jordan. What needs to happen, for you to have a fair shake at winning this championship, is you need to join forces with me!" Jordan gives an incredibly WTF expression as a reaction to this. Michael notices this and tries to explain: "Listen, it may sound unseemly. Quite honestly, even I'm a little disgusted at the idea. But it's the best chance you have Jordan. I'll be watching your back. I can help you eliminate the other two so that it can be down to a fair one-on-one match between just the two of us! It's what you really want! It's the best thing for either one us! And if I may say so, Jordan, out of all three of you guys who are coming after me...you're my favorite." "Michael...I swear to God I'm going to vomit and then shove your face in it if you don't shut right now. You're a God damn punk. You're a coward. You're a liar. You're the most pathetic paper champion I've ever seen. You bashed my head in with a cage door and you're prancing around with MY Cruiserweight Title that you and your chump bodyguard stole from me...but, I have to admit...you might be right. Laying in bed all that time, I had my eye on the prize. And winning the Cruiserweight title isn't going to come from partnering with Ozzy or Martyn. It's going to come by beating them. I'm not happy or proud about this..." Jordan extends his hand, offering Hotbody a shake "...but I have to do what it takes to get that title back. You got a deal, Hotbody." Hotbody leaps for joy and proceeds to shake Jordan's hand enthusiastically. Jordan raises the mic and continues: "But know this, Michael; once the others are out of the way, you're all mine." With that, Jordan rips his hand away from Michael's, breaking the handshake and he takes his leave. Michael looks concerned as we go to break. Third Match: The Perfections vs. The Internet Darlings Gotta give Leah and Bonnie one last push for credibility going into the Women's Tag Team Title match. Both the Southern Belles and The Lonely Girls are shown watching the match from the back. It comes down to Leah and Sarah Moore. Leah reverses an Irish Whip and Sarah is sent into Bonnie's waiting arms and falls victim to the Bluebonnet and Leah puts the exclamation point on it with a Sultry Splash to pick up the win. ****1/2, 88% overall. Fourth Match: Chris Collins vs. DJ Stokes Chris Collins reiterates that he's expecting Alexander Piero to show up on Raw and face him. Collins accuses Piero of falling short of all the hype that he built up shortly after debuting. It's OK in the long run because he's dealing with Chris Collins and there aren't that many people out there that get the better of him. Piero has always been way over his head and it's time that he faces facts. This ends up being a pretty decisive victory for Collins as he hits the Fall From Heaven for the pin. ****1/2, 91% overall. It's talky-time with Wrakk somewhere in the back. It's fairly dark as he rips into Haven. He warns Haven that spending too much time in the darkness can be blinding when one steps outside of it. That's what's happened to Haven. Being blind to the reality of the amount of trouble he's stepped into dealing with Wrakk. The violence will continue and when it's all said and done, Haven can go crawling back to the safety of the shadows. Fifth Match: Eddy Clash vs. Freddie Galino Freddie and Luscious want to go over the OUTRAGEOUS HYPOCRISY coming from Lisa Benton. Benton was all up in arms over not getting to look over the VERY REAL and TOTALLY NOT MADE UP restraining order put out against Michael Hotbody's opponents for this Sunday. But Lisa Benton never allowed the law offices of Galino & Farnes to look over the BOGUS CONTRACT she offered Eddy Clash. There are proper channels to go through in order to make it to the WWE and Eddy Clash has been anything but proper. Stealing the Money in the Bank briefcase from Brandon Reigns, claiming ownership over it, and being a general nuisance to society! The good fans of the WWE need not worry because where the law can't find resolutions, justice will emerge in some other form. That form has a name and it is Zed Jones. This Sunday Zed will make good on the promise Eddy was made the day he decided to sign his WWE contract. Anyway this match is about Eddy looking good. Galino tries his best but Clash is just TOO MUCH and Galino decides to call it a night and opts to get counted out. Eddy stands tall, looking strong heading into Sunday. ****1/2, 90% overall. Backstage we're blessed with the opportunity to hear from the Women's Tag Team Champions, the Lonely Girls. Faith and Jenna are certainly very impressed with the Perfections and the Southern Belles. But it isn't about impressing them; it's about beating them. They're not ready for the ride to be over any time soon. The Southern Belles decide to interrupt and get in the faces of the champions. Hannah declares that the ride has been going on for too long and she and Bobbi Jo are sick of it. The mere sight of the Lonely Girls makes them want to puke. Jenna and Faith are nothing but frauds who take advantage of all of the stupid fans out there. The Southern Belles will not insult the intelligence of anyone. They're the real deal and they're the future of the division and there's not a damn thing the Lonely Girls OR the Perfections can do about it. They're certainly welcome to try, though! Things look like they're going to get physical but some officials step in to separate the two teams. Sixth Match: Eclypse vs. Maya Eclypse is now fully a face so she can start killing bitches properly now. Eclypse gets on the mic first and opts to drop some truths on Naomi Bailey. Let it be recognized that in the case of going after the Women's Tag Team Titles, Naomi came to Eclypse, NOT the other way around. Eclypse didn't need Naomi around and she most certainly doesn't need her around now. Naomi used Eclypse because that's all she knows how to do: use others. Eclypse has managed to stand on her own in the past. Eclypse blazed the trail that Naomi is walking right now. Well this Sunday, that path gets blocked off. Naomi will pay and she'll pay with that Women's Championship. This is a match all about making Eclypse look dominating. She ends things fairly decisively with the Fade to Black leading to a pinfall win. Afterwards, Naomi comes out and looks to try to get some of Eclypse but the challenger is prepared and stares her down. Naomi decides to back up and yell some threats instead. She rubs it in by raising the Women's championship. ****1/2, 92% overall. MAIN EVENT: WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Simon Bennett and Adam Hail vs. The Academy Brooke takes this opportunity to get in a few last digs at Noah Carmichael. "The moment is almost upon us all! The moment that has been delayed so many times over will finally come to fruition. And all that needs to happen is the complete and total destruction of Noah Carmichael, a task Salvatore Scabbia is capable of pulling off and a task that he will enjoy the entire time. There are no more avenues out of this and I say that not just to Noah, but to Lisa Benton as well. You'll have no more excuses to not recognize Scabbia as the rightful Unified World Champion! This match is sanctioned! This match is official! Carmichael is participating in it of his own free will! He's waived all responsibility! It's a matter of days now. Noah, you may not be in the greatest of shape right now but take solace in this fact: it's as good as it going to be." Paul Andrews also wants to use this opportunity to get in some shots against the Royal Effect on behalf of his team. The Royal Effect can't let their success get to their heads. His team stands here as proof that they're always ready for any challenge. They didn't return to the WWE to get upset by the likes of McKay and Kavovit. Adam Hail adds on to this sentiment by claiming that anyone who thinks they have an idea as to how No Mercy is going to go down, is going to be unpleasantly surprised. So this is a solid affair as these guys are awesome as teams. Things end when Salvatore Scabbia gets involved when it looks like Bennett is about to make Randy Ellis tap to the Bennett Lock. He attacks Bennett causing the DQ. Both Ellis and Mitchell don't seem pleased with this and they argue with Scabbie BUT HERE COMES CARMICHAEL!!! He gets himself a piece of Scabbia and we go off the air with a brawl! See you on Sunday! ****1/2, 91% overall. Overall show rating: 86% Next up: NO MERCY! |
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No Mercy 2040: October 28, 2040
Pre-Show: Gavin Jones and The Love Connection vs. Jason Sorola and The Future Foundation Keeping the Jones/Sorola thing going, sort of. As usual the pre-show match is all about getting people in the mood and we've got some good shit here. Vivian Merrick once again tries to make a nuisance of herself by trying to interfere but Aphrodite cuts that off. The ref is busy with their little spat and that allows Sorola to low blow Coleman and slap on an STF. The ref turns in time to see Coleman tapping out. Sorola retreats up the aisle, taunting Gavin Jones as he departs. ****1/2, 83% overall. I think we've got a DUD show. :( NO MERCY BEGINS NOW!!! Your theme song tonight is "Hate Me" by Ded! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fAnq3uzKekk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Opening Match: WWE Intercontinental Championship - Seth Von Kamp (c) vs. Quinten McDaniels vs. Ryan Pattillo Let's kick this show off proper with a bang, huh? Seth has just been bringing the goods ever since his elevation to championship status. No need to cut that off just yet, right? Pattillo looks to hit SVK with the Shutdown but hits Quinten McDaniels as he's setting it up, sending McDaniels to the outside. Pattillo loses his grip and balance and that's enough to allow Seth the chance to escape and hit the Collapse of Society on Pattillo for the pin and he retains the title. ****1/2, 83% overall. Yup...DUD show. Second Match: Zed Jones vs. Eddy Clash HOSSES, BAH GAWD! Hmmm, one-on-one these guys don't seem to click all that well. Meh. It's a one-off anyways. Luscious is out here decked out in a Harley Quinn get up in honor of the Halloween spirit. After a hard-hitting affair, Luscious tries her hand at distracting the ref as Eddy looks like he's got things well in hand BUT HERE COMES BRANDON REIGNS!!! WTF?!?!? Reigns has been gone ever since the Last Man Standing match against Seth Von Kamp! HE NAILS EDDY CLASH IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH THE MONEY IN THE BANK BRIEFCASE!!! He slides out of the ring just as Luscious stops her distracting ways and the ref looks back into the ring to see Zed crawling over Eddy's body and counts the 1-2-3. Reigns just screwed Eddy hard! Luscious takes Zed to the back in joyous celebration. REIGNS ISN'T DONE!!! He proceeds to pound the shit out of Eddy, busting him open. He sets up Eddy on his knees and hits a whopper of a shot with the briefcase to Eddy's forehead. Reigns has made quite the statement. ****, 76% overall. Third Match: WWE Women's Tag Team Championship - The Lonely Girls (c) vs. The Southern Belles vs. The Perfections One woman from each team is allowed in the ring at the same time for this one. It's chaotic to say the least but fucking sweet. It comes down to Jenna, Bobbi Jo, and Leah as the other three duke it out as things break down. Jenna hits the Kyle Driver on Leah and looks to walk away with the victory but Nathan Quinn pulls her out of the ring, off of Leah, seemingly saving things for his team but all that does is allow Bobbi Jo the opportunity to take the pin for herself. The Southern Belles are the NEW Women's Tag Team Champions!!! Both the Perfections and the Lonely Girls look on in disgust and disbelief as the new champs take their leave. ****1/2, 81% overall. Fourth Match: Wrakk vs. Haven More hosses! Thankfully this goes much better, probably because they've got good charisma and their stats are more in line with each other. Wrakk removes a turnbuckle pad and looks to pick up Haven, no doubt looking to use the exposed turnbuckle for nefarious purposes but Haven is playing possum and he shoves Wrakk off, sending him into the steel and Haven capitalizes with a small package for the pin. Not really a decisive victory here but Haven looks glad nonetheless. *****, 85% overall. Fifth Match: WWE Cruiserweight Championship - The Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody (c) vs. Ozzy Mandias vs. Jordan Demiras vs. Martyn LaSalle This is elimination rules. Hotbody walks in with Luscious in hand, looking confident as hell. He pats Jordan Demiras on the back and it looks like the alliance the two cooked up on SmackDown! is legit! LaSalle and Ozzy look at Jordan and Hotbody with what appears to be disgust. It looks like Hotbody has managed to find a way to increase his chances of walking out of here with the belt after all...UNTIL JORDAN TAKES HIS HEAD OFF WITH A CLOTHESLINE!!! Jordan looks to Ozzy and LaSalle and their expressions all change to a grin. THEY ALL BUMP FISTS!!! Was this the plan all along?!?!? Hotbody looks royally fucked as he slowly recovers and looks up to his three opponents surrounding him. He begs for mercy BUT THEY ALL START BEATING THE FUCK OUT OF HIM!!! It's just a glorious orgy of violence as all three challengers take turns getting their licks in. Luscious can only look on in horror as she freaks out! After about seven solid minutes of Hotbody trying to bail but continuing to get fucked over, eventually it's too much and Hotbody is down and out, at the mercy of his opponents. The faces talk amongst themselves about how to proceed and eventually agree to "Rock, Paper, Scissors". LaSalle ends up the winner of that exchange AND HE LOCKS IN THE MARTYNIZER! Ozzy and Demiras merely kick back in a corner and watch, not bothering to interfere! Hotbody looks like he's going to tap! His reign is coming to an e...HERE COMES ZED AND GALINO & FARNES!!! Zed breaks up the submission hold while Galino & Farnes take on Jordan and Ozzy. It's No DQ so there's nothing the referee can do about it other than call for help to get things under control! The three-on-three brawl continues all over the ring and outside as Hotbody tries his damndest to get his bearings straight. He rolls to the outside to recuperate as things continue to spiral out of control with the others. Officials finally come down and start breaking things up. Jordan has Farnes set up for an Axe Kick but Hotbody comes out of nowhere and Jordan gets GAVEL OF DOOMED off the top rope. Officials start getting Hotbody's crew out of here as Hotbody goes in for the pin. The ref turns and counts the pin on Jordan! Jordan is eliminated!!! Hotbody breathes a sigh of relief but that's short-lived as he's still at a disadvantage. Ozzy and LaSalle regroup and look to continue their slaughter of the champion. Hotbody decides running is the best strategy. You know, to get his cardio in and to get the blood pumping. He chased around the ring but is ultimately caught as he tries climbing back in. Ozzy and LaSalle yank him off the apron and he goes flying through the announce table!!! HOLY SHIT! He looks fucked beyond repair. Luscious tries to get involved and whacks Ozzy with the GAVEL OF DOOM from behind. LaSalle sees this and goes after Luscious, who rightfully freaks out and gets away, allowing LaSalle to snatch the GAVEL OF DOOM from her. Ozzy recovers and turns to see LaSalle holding the object and gets the wrong idea. He immediately starts a fight with LaSalle and the two of them go on to have a proper match with Hotbody still knocked out amongst the debris. The medical team eventually comes down to try to help with Hotbody as Ozzy and LaSalle continue their affair in the ring. Hotbody looks like he's going to be stretchered out. LaSalle sets up Ozzy for a Superplex off the top but Ozzy shifts his weight as they come off and they both end up landing pretty badly. They get entangled as both men's shoulders are down and the ref counts them both out! They've eliminated each other! Hotbody is the last man remaining! Hotbody just retained his title while knocked out on his ass!!! Luscious immediately grabs the belt and puts it over Hotbody as he's put on the stretcher and carried out. What a turn of events here tonight! ****1/2, 83% overall. Sixth Match: WWE Women's Championship - Naomi Bailey (c) vs. Eclypse They waste no time getting into the physicality as this has been brewing for a long time. Eclypse is the veteran, though, and she ultimately uses that to her advantage. Eclypse is in the zone, not letting up, and Naomi gets desperate, going to the outside to escape Eclypse's wrath. She tries using the championship belt but Eclypse will not be denied and she grabs it away and in a fury uses it on Naomi, causing the DQ. Eclypse is nowhere near done and keeps on the offensive. Naomi is eventually able to shove Eclypse over the barricade and she uses the opportunity to bail. Eclypse got her licks in but Naomi is going to take a DQ win tonight. This looks nowhere near over. *****, 85% overall. Seventh Match: WWE Unified Tag Team Championship - The Collective (c) vs. The Royal Effect The Royal Effect ambush Simon Bennett as he and Hail are talking things over in the corner. This causes Hail to get knocked off and thus Bennett is cut off from his partner for the duration of the match. Andrews is all "WTF" as he has to watch The Royal Effect dismantle Bennett off of that bullshit move. Bennett takes a pounding, made worse by Adam Hail ruining things by ignoring the ref, forcing the ref to turn a blind eye to all of the heel shenanigans. Bennett FINALLY gets an opening, sending McKay into Kavovit, knocking Kavovit off the apron. Bennett crawls his way to his partner and goes for the tag...and Adam Hail knocks him down with a right hand. WTF IS GOING ON?!? Andrews looks on in shock as he can't believe what he's seeing. Hail drops down from the apron and glares at Andrews. Kavovit sneaks up from behind Andrews and nails him, sending him into the steps. Bennett is still loopy and he walks into the Mass Effect from McKay. That's enough for the pin and we have NEW Unified Tag Team Champions! The Royal Effect bail in celebration and Hail climbs back into the ring and stands over Bennett. He climbs to the top and nails a Hailstorm on his fallen former partner. What another turn of events! *****, 87% overall. MAIN EVENT: For the vacant WWE Unified World Championship - Noah Carmichael vs. Salvatore Scabbia This shit is lit to say the least. Carmichael is still looking pretty rough but he could give a damn. The ref eventually gets bumped pretty badly as Carmichael accidentally clotheslines him to the outside while trying to nail Scabbia. The match continues and we get a new ref as we have people checking on the first ref. More close calls for both men continue until eventually Scabbia reverses the Quick Draw into the Omerta! Carmichael fights for his life. He finally tries the Survivor Series '96 trick by kicking off of the turnbuckle and he ends up on top of Scabbia! The ref drops into the count! 1...2...3!!! CARMICHAEL WINS IT!!! The ref looks to award the belts to Carmichael but the first ref comes to put a stop to it. He tells the time keeper and the announcer that Carmichael tapped and he called for the bell after seeing it. We go to the replay and indeed Carmichael is seen tapping as he has the pin on Scabbia. Both officials are in disagreement. They eventually agree to call it a draw and that just infuriates Scabbia who decides to beat up both referees and proceeds to absolutely destroy what's left of Carmichael. Scabbia blasts the crap out of Carmichael with a chair and when he's bored of that he decides to drag Carmichael up the ramp to the stage AND SENDS HIM THROUGH THE BIG SCREEN! It's still not enough and he decides to recreate SummerSlam by knocking some of the set on top of Carmichael. Well that sucks...and we still don't have a champion!!! ****1/2, 81% overall. Overall show rating: 83% |
The god damn DUD show hitting on a PPV is such a kick in the balls. I once had a DUD like 2 PPVs in a row and it got to the point where I made another copy of the save files because I fucking refused to let it happen again :lol:
Clash vs. Zed not clashing one on one is a surprise......I figured they both had similar stats, and knowing they're hosses I assumed the high brawl numbers would carry them through as they keep clubbering each other. Nice to see Reigns back. Triple threats are always fun when you can do finishes like that. "Champs lose the title without being pinned" is always a nice trope when done correctly and now it sets up a logical angle with the Belles looking for excuses to not grant the rematch to a team angered it never really lost the belts. Speaking of winning a match without doing the damage......Hotbody!!! That is just a brilliant piece of writing. Imagining the collective gasp or maybe groan of the audience as he wins a match from a stretcher. He is the modern day Scott Stirling! The man, the myth, the legend! Hail turning on Bennett is cool too. Somewhat of a makeshift team of two returning legends, and now they can switch over into a proper angle with each other and pop some good ratings in the process. Hopefully they are enjoying their cool $250k per show! :lol: |
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Zed actually emailed me about him and Eddy not clicking. He actually suggested someone else to work with and I forgot who it was but I know it was a cruiserweight, which raised some eyebrows. I wonder if the DUD show effect screwed things up for them even more. It just angers me that it had to happen at all considering there were a couple of guaranteed bangers that would've been awesome without it, like Naomi and Eclypse, but that's clearly not the last we're going to see of them.
I didn't really want to move the belts off Faith and Jenna but they were mainly chosen to give the new titles a boost of credibility. I've got options for them now that they don't have the belts. Obviously I can just have them chase them again but they can easily be moved back into the singles picture. Dusk can always use an opponent to help her get over. Michael Hotbody showed that table who was boss! I've actually wanted to see something like that in real life where some douche lucks into a victory because everybody else took themselves out. Imagine if all the participants of the Royal Rumble were eliminated before the 30th guy came out. Hail turning on Bennett was always the plan but originally I had wanted to do it on the night of the gauntlet. It would've been funny to make this big stink of their return and participation only for Hail to fuck it all up. Both guys can be a boost to the upper-card and this way I can better manage their appearances so I'm not coughing up half a million all the time. I will be crowning a new Unified Champion on Raw, though. Vacant has had its day in the sun long enough. |
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Raw: October 29, 2040
We open with our glorious boss Lisa Benton going over what went down in the main event of last night's No Mercy. Unfortunately because of the way Salvatore Scabbia conducted himself after the match, she has no choice but to suspend him for tonight and the rest of the week and stand by the decision that the main event resulted in a draw. The plan is to crown a Unified World Champion tonight. However, with Scabbia undergoing his aforementioned suspension and Noah Carmichael in severe medical condition, so much so that his return to in-ring action is hard to determine at this point time, neither man will be participating in tonight's proceedings. Lisa Benton declares that the two participants in tonight's main event to determine a new Unified World Champion will be the two men who had the next best times in the Beat the Clock challenge after Carmichael and Scabbia. Those two men are none other than Wrakk and the WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp. There must be a winner. Period. First Match: Gavin Jones vs. Romeo Valiente Poor Gavin came up short last night so I figure let him try to look good as he continues his little business against Jason Sorola. Gavin accuses Sorola of forgetting where he came from. It's fine and dandy that Sorola wants to stand on his own and break from the rest of the pack that was the Hunters. However, all four of them got to where they are because of the fact that they stood for one another and they certainly never pulled something like what Sorola did to Shawn Dangerson. Gavin continues by claiming what he's about to say may be in a bit of bad taste considering the circumstances, but he would like to try to work towards a shot at the Cruiserweight Title himself with Dangerson being out of commission and the fact that there's no chance in hell Sorola is better than Gavin Jones. So this match brings home the bacon. Why couldn't we have opened like this for No Mercy? Anyways, we have to make sure Gavin looks strong and in prime contention shape so we'll have him finish Valiente pretty decisively here with a Frog Splash off the top for the pin. Sorola runs down and looks like he's going to try to get a piece of Gavin but Gavin catches him in the act and Sorola takes that as a cue to hold off and wait for another day. We get a staredown between the former factionmates. *****, 95% overall. Backstage, we're joined by Nathan Quinn and his clients, the Perfections. According to Quinn, last night was highway robbery! Bobbi Jo and Hannah McCormick know for a fact that the Women's Tag Team Titles were stolen out from under the noses of Bonnie and Leah. Well, they had better be enjoying themselves to the fullest extent they know how. Leah has challenged either one of the Southern Belles to a match on Superstars and if the so-called new champions had any shred of dignity and self-respect, they'll show up and answer for what they did! It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! He looks like he's been through the ringer as he comes out in a neck brace and walking very gingerly. He still has the Cruiserweight Title, though, so that's a small measure of comfort that he and everyone can enjoy. He's proud of his valiant efforts last night despite all of the odds against him! He hopes that with such a decisive and dominating victory over THREE incredible challengers, the matter between them is closed and done with. All three of them can go pout and go back to training and hope that someday, maybe, JUST MAYBE, they can once again get the privilege of sharing this ring with the great Michael Hotbody. In fact, Hotbody isn't even concerned about those restraining order anymore! They are officially null and void now so it doesn't matter if they never show up! But onto more serious matters. The match, despite Hotbody's brave efforts, still took its toll on him. He had to be stretchered out and put in this neck brace! He couldn't celebrate with Luscious the way they usually celebrate. He looked over the match from last night and also looked carefully at all the scrapes and bruises and sprains and then he looked at the sad face on Luscious! Maybe...maybe it might not be worth it anymore to be the Cruiserweight Champion. How much more of this is he supposed to take all in the name of being the highlight of every show and the biggest star of the Cruiserweight division?!? Maybe...it's best to leave on a high note, with his head held high, with the biggest and bravest title defense of his career! It'd probably be for the very best because it's just fair to all the other great athletes back there who work their ass and still not come close to holding a candle to Michael Hotbody.... Wait! Here comes Luscious! She has a huge sack with her and she climbs into the ring with Hotbody begging him not to do this. He can't retire! He still has so much to offer, both as a champion...and as a man. He just needs to be inspired again! She reaches into the sack and pulls out what she calls a letter from a little girl called Suzie. "Dear Michael Hotbody: No Mercy was the greatest night of my life and I'm only 6! I know that even though I might live to be 90, there won't be another night like last night because you were on it! The only way there could be a better night is if you went on another show and also defended your title and won again! I would enjoy it very much! X's and O's, Little Suzie!" Hotbody begins to well up with tears in his eyes as Luscious pulls out another letter, this time from a little boy named Johnny. "Dear the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! You are my hero! You are my inspiration! My dad is such a dork because he's not a real man like you are! He doesn't have any qualities that I can look up to. You, on the other hand, are handsome. Bold. Daring. A winner. A champion. And more importantly than anything, you're not a quitter. My dad is a quitter. I wish you were my dad, Michael Hotbody. I can only hope that one day, I can accomplish just HALF of what you've done. Thank you for being OUR Cruiserweight Champion! X's and O's, Little Johnny!" Hotbody is beside himself as he cries into the microphone. Luscious declares that he can't give up now! He's just getting started! Hotbody agrees. "You're right! Little Suzie and Little Johnny, you're right, too! I owe it to the people who want to be me and look up to me! If I give up now, all of my haters would win! Luscious, thank you for this! Zed, Freddie, and Jimmy, you deserve thanks as well. You always have my back and so I'll always have yours! Michael Hotbody is here to stay! After a year like this, I can't stop. In fact, you can call me MISTER TWENTY FORTY! And let me tell you, the best is yet to come!" And with that Luscious and Hotbody kiss in celebration and joy as we go to break. Second Match: Alexander Piero vs. Chris Collins Collins gets on a mic and brags about being able to manipulate Piero so easily. He will at the very least give Piero a modicum of credit for actually agreeing to this match, not unless he plans on backing out and continuing to be a whipped little school boy! Piero does indeed show up and marches to the ring with enthusiasm. He looks ready to go. He demands that the bell be rung...and then proceeds to promptly boot Collins in the dick for the DQ. Piero shouts over a fallen Collins saying that he doesn't owe him anything before taking his leave. ****1/2, 92% overall. Third Match: The Wyldhearts vs. Agents of Change Well with new tag team champions after last night and the fact that Hail and Bennett aren't looking to be reuniting anytime soon, we might as well have some teams jockeying for position to be the next contenders. These guys had a nice little feud earlier in the year so they've picked up some familiarity with each other. Clayton North falls victim to the Heartstopper in the end to give the Wyldhearts the victory. They dedicate that victory to Madison. ****1/2, 93% overall. Fourth Match: Adam Hail vs. Kerry Cemenko Hail gets on the mic and mocks Paul Andrews, Simon Bennett, and anyone else who ever trusted him. He's confused as to why anyone would be shocked over what he did last night. Does anyone really believe that he would go through the trouble of brokering a deal, a major money deal for that matter, pairing up with someone like Simon Bennett, just to be in a tag team? He didn't come back to the WWE to tread old ground. He didn't jump through a bunch of legal hoops just so he could be standing side-by-side with Simon Bennett. Adam Hail's eyes has always been on the top of the mountain, so when he saw his chance to get back here, he used that avenue for all that it was worth. Well now Adam Hail is back in the saddle here in the WWE and that avenue has lost its worth. Andrews and Bennett shouldn't take it personally. Hail is going to be extremely grateful to them when he climbs that mountain so they can believe him when he says that there are no hard feelings. I don't think I ever had these guys in a match against each other when they were both on the roster before. Now's as good a time as any, I suppose. Hail is the one who needs establishing so we'll give him the win here. He moves out of the way of Cemenko's Curb Stomp and uses the tights on a roll-up for the pin. Bennett tries running down to get him some of Hail but Hail has a bus transfer that's only good for another hour so he decides to get the hell out of there. ****1/2, 91% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time with the Money in the Bank holder, Brandon Reigns. He declares that no one, NO ONE, has any right to claim they've had a worse month than his own. Reigns had to put up with losing to that phony champion, Seth Von Kamp and not getting back the Intercontinental Title! Reigns has had to sit at home recuperating watching people like Seth Von Kamp take up HIS valuable screen time! And now, tonight, Seth is going to get a chance to become the Unified World Champion?!?! This is a joke! Reigns has a good mind to just cash in his Money in the Bank contract RIGHT NOW and take that Unified World Title and spoil it for everybody here! But no! You people don't deserve to have such a momentous occasion take place in front of you! Reigns is going to stay the course! He is going to keep his focus on that WrestleMania main event! So no matter what happens tonight, no matter who lucks their way into a championship win, they had better remember what's coming for them come WrestleMania. Wrakk needs to understand that Reigns is the actual most dangerous man in the WWE. And Seth, well, as far as Seth goes, retribution may not have happened last month at Unforgiven but Seth can be assured it will come in the form of a briefcase. The one positive takeaway that Reigns can claim is that he got a measure of revenge against that moron Eddy Clash last night! That was the fulfillment of a promise, Eddy! There was a warning that something like that was coming your way! Everyone responsible for making Reigns go through headaches is on the list so get used to living with a target on your back! Cue Eddy Clash himself! He runs down to the ring looking to get some of Reigns. Reigns is overwhelmed but he turns to the Money in the Bank briefcase as the equalizer, smashing it against Eddy's knee. Reigns continues to wallop Eddy as he's bent over and finally delivers the knockout blow across Eddy's forehead, busting him open. Reigns stands over Eddy with the briefcase raised. Fifth Match: Dusk vs. Sarah Moore We all need a little more Dusk in our lives. I'm kind of in a corner here with her as I brought her out all guns blazing and shit but I'm not exactly sure where to stick her as far as a feud goes. Something will come to me. Something's coming to Sarah Moore, in the form of a Final Sunset from Dusk to give the Goth Goddess the pin. ****1/2, 87% overall. We go backstage to the Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp being asked about tonight's main event. "You know, I actually have a bit of a problem tonight as far as this main event is concerned. I came here to Nashville prepped and ready to go for almost anything. Unfortunately, I wasn't ready for this little wrinkle. Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, I only have enough baggage for one championship. I'm already the Intercontinental Champion so carrying that around is no big deal but I didn't plan on bringing home the Unified World Championship. Do you know what a hassle that's going to be at the airport? I'm going to have to work some kind of magic with my carry-on! Oh, and I suppose there is another major problem; the man they call Wrakk. Well, you and I have danced this tango before, Wrakk. I'm pretty sure I've got your number, especially with history on the line." MAIN EVENT: For the vacant WWE Unified World Championship - Wrakk vs. WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp I think I had these guys go at it the Raw after SummerSlam if I'm not mistaken. I guess Seth is my post-PPV main event guy or something. He's certainly been very handy. Sadly things aren't in the cards for him tonight, despite a fucking awesome match here. The ref is bumped after Wrakk accidentally clotheslines him into Wednesday. Wrakk tries using the championsip belts as cymbals on Seth's head but Seth blocks and hits a surprise Collapse of Society. He tries waking the ref! HERE COMES QUINTEN MCDANIELS!!! Quinten reintroduces the Intercontinental Championship belt to Seth...namely to the back of Seth's head. Wrakk and the ref slowly recover as Quinten slides out of the ring. Wrakk takes the opportunity to hit the Demon Cross! 1...2...3!!! WRAKK IS ONCE AGAIN THE UNIFIED WORLD CHAMPION! But what of Seth??? Quinten McDaniels glares at Seth's body as Wrakk takes his moment in. WE'RE OUT OF TIME! *****, 95% overall. Overall show rating: 90% |
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End of the month notes:
Still profitable but the worker wages went up significantly. I can only think of TWO VERY SPECIFIC REASONS for that! Birthdays! Faith Connors (33) Wonder if she'd pull the whole "retiring at 35" thing. That'd seem almost appropriate. She comes in, gets massively over, makes a shit ton of money in a short period of time, and cashes out young to enjoy the rest of her life in relatively good health. Chet Morris (38) Emilio London (30) Brody Lee (27) Robbie Greer (35) Martyn LaSalle (30) Stephan Q. Sterling (42) Emma Edwards (41) Carmella Costello (25) Fantasee (46) Randy Ellis (34) Lyle Morris (39) Ian Moore (54) Wow. Still don't want to retire, huh, Ian? Developmental people who my staff claims is ready to be called up: Debra Phillips Katy Volkoff Rikki Bronson Johann Eisenhart Ainsley Out of all of them, Ainsley probably has the biggest upside. High talent ratings and a strong charisma rating at 95. Johann's the worst. I'll probably dump him. Rikki has great charisma so she'll probably be stuck being a manager. Nobody else really stands out. Madison and Chet Morris are making their returns, from injury and rehab respectively. I can finally move a few things forward now. A new promotion has opened, and I swear this is real: South of the Border Pro Wrestling. I figure I should make sure El Silencio is happy. Speaking of making sure people are happy, Luscious's contract is coming up. Better believe I'm resigning her. She deserves some bonuses. |
Little Suzie and Little Johnny are the MVPs of the universe for convincing Mr. 2040 to stick around. That would have been a monumental loss for everybody! It's also a face turn for Little Johnny after being associated with Heidenreich nearly 40 years earlier.
A World Title match with a decisive finish on free TV is always an extra treat for the fans, interesting chain of events to see Wrakk end up with the belt out of all of this but he's got some feuds built-in and ready to go right out of the gate. And I like Brandon Reigns being back because he's got the MITB floating around and can easily welch on his promise of a WM cash-in. Johann Eisenhart is a fantastic name but the roster is so loaded as is, it makes sense to be choosy about who can actually rejoin the roster. I'm actually shocked at how many workers you have that were north of 35 already. Wrestling has changed so much in 20 years, retiring from wrestling at 35 is basically unheard of now unless you're hurt. And yes, Luscious needs a big money contract. All of it. Ever. |
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I am deeply saddened that we never got Heidenreich/Little Johnny vs. R-Truth/Little Jimmy headlining a show. Fucking God can make an appearance and get a PPV payoff but why let anyone else get in on that action? :nono:
I'm snickering to myself picturing someone like Michael Hotbody in real life actually going through the trouble of writing a bunch of bullshit letters just for the sake of a segment. Although I suppose I would have to award them points for dedication and initiative. The movement to get his name as absurdly long as possible before his inevitable loss continues! His whole entrance and match for WrestleMania would make one hell of a Day 1. I could only keep the World Title vacant for so long. The thing is the year-long suspensions of both Fleming and Wrakk fucked the timing up for a lot of the planned programs surrounding the title. The Hell in a Cell blow off was supposed to have been WAY earlier and Wrakk was supposed to be the champion going into this year's 'Mania. Thankfully I haven't had to suspend anymore nutcases for that long. Reigns in particular had better not fuck up because of what I have in store for him. I figure sometime after December I have him refuse to wrestle anymore before his cash-in because he's nothing to gain and just have him sit on his ass in the crowd but he'll only agree to a match if someone offers him something worth his while. Him not needing to be in the Rumble frees up a slot at least. The two ladies that I have that are ready to be called up, Katy and Ainsley, might as well get called up. I burn through women's matches and feuds a lot quicker than I do with the men on account of the smaller numbers. Johann is indeed a fun name but I just wish he didn't blow so hard. That's what the women are for. :shifty: Giving Luscious more money is absolutely a priority but then I have to question what I'm giving Jenna and then there's conflict and then Adam Hail and Simon Bennett are all "WTF, bro?" and then I have to be all "Dudes, have you SEEN them?" and then it's just a lot of negotiating. Someone has to get dumped to offset the cost and it's certainly not going to be the people who look amazing in the shower. |
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Was going to start Superstars until I realized I haven't put much thought into who is going to be involved in the elimination matches for Survivor Series. :o I usually do at least 3; one that's all women and 2 with the guys. Plus, now I have the dynamic of the 5-on-5 matches that I didn't have access to before so I've got to do a bit more pondering.
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Lethal Lottery: Survivor Series team edition!
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Working on the next show and I realized I'm not that far away from Slammy Award time. I figure I leave it up to you to pick the winners. I don't have all of the nominees but I have the categories. Take a gander:
Superstar of the Year (this will probably be an open field) Woman of the Year Match of the Year Rookie of the Year Shocker of the Year Douche of the Year Tag Team of the Year I can't think up any other categories. Maybe Best Hair like HHH won back in '97 but who knows? |
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Oh, right, Manager of the Year is another one. I can think of someone who'd be a shoo-in for that one....
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Well Hotbody is obviously a lock for Douche of the Year, which then sets up the ring announcer adding it to his intro to Hotbody's dismay. That should be GOLD Jerry, gold!
And yeah the Manager of the Year has to be a Luscious selection I'm sure. Shocker of the Year might just be Hail and Bennett returning because in the context of your universe, legends leaving the company is generally the end of the road for them so not one but two guys returning at once must've been a surprise. Rookie of the Year feels like it could go to Eddy Clash given his immediate impact of stealing MITB but then again I forget who is a rookie in this world. |
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Superstars: November 1, 2040
Not really going to advance too much for this show but it does start the build for a few things for Survivor Series. Let's get to it. We open things up with the NEW WWE Unified World Champion Wrakk in the ring. "The dark days of the WWE have returned!" he claims. "The dark future that I intended to build last year has finally arrived. The people who held this title in the time that I was gone did what they could to the best of their abilities but it's all for naught. It was a falsehood. A brief interruption of what was to be the Kingdom of Pain. Everyone back there had better listen up and listen up good. You're not dealing with some easily broken poster boy like Noah Carmichael. The situation just got a whole lot more real. I've been waiting for this for over a year and I am more than willing to and more than capable of making things very miserable and very uncomfortable for anyone who wants to try to take this from me. You can line up from here to the damn moon. None of you can ever put me through what I had to endure all that time away from this championship. I'll knock you all down with a smile on my face and a sick pleasure in my heart. NO ONE can step up to me now that justice has been served and this title is back where it belongs!" Well this is just asking for the lights to go out and the music of Haven to hit. The Dark Shepherd does indeed make himself known as he makes his way out to the stage and glares at the Unified World Champion. Wrakk doesn't seem surprised as he addresses this interruptor. "Haven...right on schedule. I had a feeling you weren't going to pass this moment up. It's like I know you better than you know yourself." "If that had any degree of truth to it, Wrakk, you would've managed to walk away victorious at No Mercy." "Now, see, I knew you were going to bring that up, Haven. You know what I say to that? Keep your battle! I won the war! I've got the Unified World Championship. You've got NOTHING! Your words are hollow and you know it. The real man around these parts is the man who wears this title." "Then I suppose the next step for me is to become the man who wears that title, that is if you're absolutely sure of your belief that you've won the war." "I'm already way ahead of you, Haven. Like I said, I've gotten to know how you think from all of this time we've had to do this dance. I knew you'd try to leverage something out of me because of what went down at No Mercy and I'm certainly not afraid of another step into the lion's den. I have no intention of letting my Kingdom come to another abrupt end. So here's the plan: you and me, one more time. This time, the Unified World Title is on the line at Survivor Series...NO HOLDS BARRED!" "Bold of you. Bold on so many fronts. Your so-called kingdom certainly won't end abruptly...I'm going to slowly burn it to the ground." And with that Haven takes his leave as the new champion glares back intently. Backstage, Ozzy Mandias would like to get a couple of things off of his chest. He's extremely disappointed with how things turned out in regards to the Cruiserweight Title match at No Mercy. That was supposed to be a defining moment. The people were looking forward to a new champion being crowned in that match but they were let down. Fortunately, there's one person that they can put all of the blame on for that: MARTYN LASALLE! LaSalle screwed the pooch at No Mercy. All he had to do was stick with the program and things would have turned out differently! Ozzy and the entire WWE fanbase expect a full apology from LaSalle soon because it's his fault things turned out the way they did. First Match: Ethan Lang vs. Tom Foley Lang's quest to the top begins! I've got just the manager in him mind for him but it's a matter of making him worth a damn first. A nice solid dominant victory should help. Lang finishes Foley off with the Bitter Languish for the pin. ****1/2, 76% overall. Second Match: The Lady Liberties vs. The Pacific Connection Gotta get more of the new ladies over. Faith and Jenna sadly won't be around forever. Oh, but if only. Anyways, I'm probably going to use the same manager for Lang and the Lady Liberties. It should give them a boost of credibility. The Liberties finish Mika off with the Stars & Stripes and that's enough for the pin for the faces. ****, 72% overall. Third Match: Lyle Morris vs. Patrick Dean Quartermaine I have some stuff in store for Lyle now that I've got his cousin Chet back from rehab. Better give him some wins now while I can to make it count for something. Lyle picks up the pin off a jackknife roll-up. ****, 81% overall. It's taken me this long to realize I've got another DUD show on my hands. Fourth Match: The Love Connection vs. The Wolves of Wall Street I've got the Love Connection pegged for a slot at Survivor Series. Well, maybe just for the pre-show. I'm still working out the details. I feel like I've taken a step back with Caleb Greene. I broke up his team with Lonny Richards earlier in the year and now I've got him back stuck in another team. At his age, though, and all of what he's done in his career it's not like there's a big need to shoot him the card as a singles guy. The tag division needs the help more, I say. Anyway, this match manages to overcome the DUD show being a little bitch by rocking pretty good. London gets isolated and gets double-teamed by the Connection with the Heated Affair for the pin. With the current tag champions as heels I can probably squeeze a PPV match out of these guys and the Royal Effect. Maybe at the Rumble. Who knows? *****, 85% overall. Backstage, Quinten McDaniels would also like to get some things off of his chest, namely things directed towards Seth Von Kamp. He brings up the Beat the Clock challenge from a while back and once again notes Seth Von Kamp beating him in that series by ONE SECOND. Quinten made it a point to ensure that one second difference wasn't going to be the thing that defines him. He also wasn't going to allow Seth to coast on that and advance his career by just dumb luck. Seth escaping No Mercy with the Intercontinental Title was one thing; Seth getting a crack at the Unified World Title all because of that ONE SECOND DIFFERENCE?!? Hell to the no! Quinten vows to make sure Seth never forgets that one second. If Seth wants to do something about what Quinten did on Raw, he knows where to find him. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time with the WWE Women's Champion Naomi Bailey. Naomi hopes that No Mercy settled a lot of questions anyone might've had regarding her and Eclypse. Eclypse should be thanking her lucky stars that she has a cousin like Naomi who was willing to look past her irrelevance and ask her to be partners. Naomi wanted to make history and she wanted to make that history with family. Apparently that was asking too much! Everyone here witnessed it; Eclypse's ego and selfishness and incompetence eventually came out and screwed everything up and nobody can put that on Naomi!!! She only did what she had to do to keep Eclypse in her place! It pained Naomi to have to do what she did to her own family but with Eclypse coming for the Women's Title, a title Naomi earned, Naomi will be happy to put Eclypse down the next chance she gets! She can't just step up to--- No, wait; hold that thought! Eclypse decides to interrupt these proceedings! It looks like Naomi is getting that chance she spoke of. Eclypse walks to the ring with furious intent giving Naomi some time to think. Not too much time, though, as she jumps into the ring and continues where she left off at No Mercy! It's another brawl between these two that goes all over the place. Eclypse has Naomi down and she stalks the champion as she's down and trying to crawl away. Naomi manages to get enough distance between the two of them and she kicks the ring steps into Eclypse's knee. Naomi gets her second wind and proceeds to capitalize on this turn of events. After beating on Eclypse for a while, she sets up Eclypse's leg across the steel steps and proceeds to bash it with a chair! Looks like she wasn't kidding. Officials eventually get off their asses and come down to try to stop things but it looks like the damage is done. How bad has Eclypse been fucked up? Fifth Match: WWE Unified Tag Team Champions The Royal Effect vs. The Tokyo Titans The champions get on the mic and want to brag about what happened at No Mercy. McKay wants to make it clear that regardless of what Adam Hail would have done, he and Kavovit would have walked out of No Mercy as the champions no matter what. So anyone wanting to criticize how things went down should be ignored because they're just being haters wanting to take away from their rightfully earned victory. Their win was the just the final piece of the puzzle needed so that everyone can see that the Royal Effect is the greatest team in the WWE. And to think they only formed a few months ago! Every team looking to take their shot at the Royal Effect had better understand what they're getting into. This is another match that survives the DUD show's effects as it ends up rocking. No need to job the new champions out here. McKay puts Wu away with the Mass Effect for the pin. *****, 86% overall. Sixth Match: Hannah McCormick vs. Leah McCormick has decided to be the one to answer the challenge laid out by Nathan Quinn and Leah on Raw. She claims that she and Bobbi Jo aren't going to apologize for becoming the new Women's Tag Team Champions. They did what they had to do. Leah and Bonnie would've done the same thing. Now the belts are where they belong and not attached to a couple of punks like Faith and Jenna. The people now have women champions they can be proud of and emulate because the Southern Belles are about class and skill rather than aimless debauchery! Granted, Leah and Bonnie might just be a step up above Jenna and Faith but they're still second rate in comparison to the Southern Belles. And Hannah is going to prove it right now! This is two heels going at it so naturally it's going to suffer in the reaction department. It's still technically a good match as these two know what to do. The ref gets bumped after Leah comes off the top with a crossbody and Hannah moves out of the way. Hannah knocks Leah down and tries going for her belt. Leah dropkicks Hannah down as she re-enters the ring, knocking the belt out of her hands. Leah picks up the belt and Nathan Quinn encourages her to hand it to him and to go wake up the referee. Leah does so but WHAT THE FUCK?!?! NATHAN SLIPS THE BELT BACK TO HANNAH WHILE LEAH'S BACK IS TURNED!!! Hannah takes the belt and smacks Leah in the back of the head with it!!! The referee comes to as Hannah tosses the belt back to Nathan! Hannah goes to the top and hits Leah with the Spotlight! The ref counts the pin!!! Nathan and Bobbi Jo enter the ring and they all celebrate together! WTF IS GOING ON?!? Has Nathan Quinn been in cahoots with the Southern Belles all along?!? ****, 66% overall. MAIN EVENT: WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp and Ryan Pattillo vs. Quinten McDaniels and Brandon Reigns Seth Von Kamp gets the mic and addresses what Quinten had to say earlier. Seth wouldn't be much of a champion if he were to choose to base his whole career around one second. Seth is going to be remembered as a champion because of the amount of ass he kicked. So with that said, there is something Seth is going to do about Quinten robbing him of the Unified World Title and hopefully he shows up. Seth is willing to give Quinten another crack at the Intercontinental Title and it's going to be at Survivor Series. There, Quinten can bring all of his grievances, all of his whining, and all of his indignation. Seth will happily welcome all of that, because he's going to shove it up Quinten's ass. Announcing TWO major title matches on a Superstars? What universe is this? A universe that gives us all a pretty good main event like this, apparently. It comes down to Pattillo and Reigns as the legal men. They end up brawling on the outside, triggering the ten count from the referee. Reigns sends Pattillo back in and he looks to follow in order to break the count but the music of Eddy Clash hits! This distracts Reigns as he turns to see Eddy making his way out. Reigns shouts some threats at Big Thunder warning him to stay away but the ref ultimately reaches the count of ten and that gives the faces a countout win. Eddy hobbles down looking to get a piece of Reigns but the Money in the Bank winner has had enough for the night and he takes his briefcase and bails. Quinten gets knocked around a bit by Pattillo and Seth before he's able to find an opening to make his own escape. *****, 85% overall. Overall show rating: 81% |
What exactly are the aesthetics of Wrakk and Havoc? There have been plenty of dark, brooding, gothy-type characters in wrestling and for some reason it's always hard to visualize how they would work as a champion. Even thinking back to Undertaker's title runs from 2004-11, the dude just wasn't on TV half the time. What would be the closest proxy to how Wrakk and Havoc are supposed to look?
Depressing thought washed over me that in 2040, Tom Foley might be Dewey's kid. Ethan Lang and The Lady Liberties being managed by the same guy, Lang can achieve GOAT status if he ends up banging them. Alternatively the throple angle can be reserved for Nathan Quinn and the Southern Belles. Actually kinda funny to imagine a couple of classy Southern gals being entwined in that kind of thing. I hate the dreaded realization that it's a DUD show, but as always your DUD shows are still pretty good. It still kinda cracks me up when I see a 5 star match but an 85% rating. I know the crowd reaction is obviously weighing it down for that and it's like, damn people, what could possibly be more interesting? |
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Haven (not Havoc) is supposed to be kind of like this messianic leader. He used to head this stable called the Order as a heel, if you can imagine something like the Ministry. Only his alignment has changed so it's just this same kind of doctrine-driven guy but he's beating the shit out of bad guys. The name Haven is supposed to conjure imagery of just that: a safe haven, a savior. His attire would be mostly white but invoke a sense of authority and order, almost church-like. Wrakk is along the lines of Wrath or Rhyno, just a monster of dude who looks jacked and terrifying as all fuck. It made sense to me once I had Haven as a face that eventually I'd put them together in a program.
Tom Foley being a descendant of the Hardcore legend himself would be something. I actually think I could have fun with that idea, if a little mean-spirited. "Yo, "DAD"! Maybe you'd have turned out to be a decent father if grandpa actually had the balls to cane you!!!" I swear I never thought of a threesome thing with Lang and the Lady Liberties but if you want to go by the profile pics I assigned to Katie and Zoey I wouldn't fault Lang one bit. Hell, I'd give the sucker a raise and have him headline WrestleMania if some fucker managed to pull that off. The Liberties would have to dump the wholesome Female Team Angle thing I gave them. There's certainly more to come with Nathan's plans. Again, wouldn't fault the dude for trying and succeeding to bed a couple of hot southern gals. I blame Rogue from X-Men for giving me that slight kink in the back of my head. |
I like how I read it and yet I still had Havoc in my brain instead of Haven :lol: God damn Halloween Havoc. The idea of mostly white gear immediately makes me think of Mordecai but way less cringey.
:lol: the cane Dewey reference would always be timeless. Mick would be 75 by this point, almost certainly bound to a wheelchair but I'm certain he could still cut a killer promo. Yeah I could see why Rogue would definitely do it for someone. Well, minus the whole "can't actually touch them without getting your soul sucked out of you" thing. |
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Oof, this last week took a lot of time away from me. I did SmackDown! already but finding the time to sit down and do the report was a pain. I had a lot on my plate, sadly. Maybe another round of pandemic can force my hand to focus on the fabulous and luscious adventures of Michael Hotbody. :o
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SmackDown!: November 2, 2040
We open with the new WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, the Southern Belles, who are being accompanied by Nathan Quinn. No doubt they need to explain to everyone what the hell is going on and why Nathan decided to screw over his former clients, the Perfections. Nathan takes the mic and boasts about what he did. "Can any of you really blame me for what I did to Leah and Bonnie? When I began my career to cultivate the best talent under my watch and guidance, I needed winners. Proven winners. Solid commodities that would stand the test of time. Leah and Bonnie were NOTHING when I stumbled across them. They couldn't handle the likes of Faith and Jenna when it mattered the most. Hannah McCormick here, on the other hand, is the goods. She's a Queen of the Ring winner. She's been in some of the biggest women's matches in WrestleMania. And she's mentored Bobbi Jo over here into a worthy partner. These are the women I want representing me. That's why I made sure they walked out of No Mercy the champions. They've been owed that level of recognition several times over. There just needed to be a few "obstacles" removed out of the way. Nobody watching this should hold my actions against me because believe me when I say that this is only the beginning." Hannah takes the mic and continues the verbal beatdown. "It is just the beginning, Nathan, and no, nobody should hold what you did against you. Because this has been the year of people fed up with not getting what they've been owed and doing something about it. None of us are going to feel guilty about winning these belts. We're not going to feel sorry for the propped up poster girls, Faith and Jenna. We're DEFINITELY not going to feel sorry for Leah and Bonnie, who time and time again, failed to take advantage of the opportunity given to them by being managed by a legend like Nathan Quinn. You two failed to live up to the trust you were given and what that did was open up a slot for Bobbi and I. We'll do what you couldn't accomplish and there's not a damn thing you can do about it!" Cue Leah and Bonnie who are going to try to do a damn thing about it. The Perfections rush the ring and try to get some of the new champs and it leads to a quick 2-on-2 brawl before the champions decide to bolt at the direction of Nathan Quinn. Threats are exchanged between all parties as this is evidently a face turn for the Perfections. But what did Nathan mean when he said this was only the beginning? First Match: Ethan Lang vs. Jerome McDougal Pre-match, Jerome's manager, Aaron Ramsey decides to set the stage for this by claiming he made an overture to Ethan Lang but was shot down. Is Ethan too good to accept help? He can't take a compliment? If there's one thing to take away from what everyone witnessed at the top of the show it's that you need to be wise about who you want to associate with! It's fine, though, because Jerome McDougal can take this kid to school and show him the error of his ways. Ethan Lang comes out but takes the mic and wants to set the record straight. He claims that he's flattered to receive such attention but the truth is that he had another offer that he was entertaining and the ink is still wet from that deal. So what better time than now than to introduce the man who is willing and able to mentor Ethan Lang? Ladies and gentleman, please welcome back to the WWE...JAKE CONNELLY!!! The crowd goes into frenzied confusion at this announcement and HOLY SHIT! Ethan wasn't fucking around! Jake Connelly is here! He hasn't been seen since his retirement match against Brandon Reigns! Aaron Ramsey and Jerome flip the fuck out in outrage. There's not a lot they can do, however, as the match is underway. It's some good shit, Jake Connelly's return aside. Fast forward to the finish as Aaron tries some of his interference shenanigans but Connelly yanks him off the apron and KOs him with the Vision Impairment. Jerome is all "WTF?" and Ethan capitalizes with the Bitter Languish to score the pin. Connelly joins Ethan in the ring and raises his hand. What more is to come from this partnership? And who else, if anyone, does Connelly have his eye on? ****1/2, 86% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time with the WWE Women's Champion, Naomi Bailey. She wants to address the multitude of changes that have been happening in the WWE recently. A new Unified World Champion. New tag team champions, both in the men's and women's divisions. Managers getting new clients. Jake Connelly returning. But there's no need for anyone to worry because there is still one constant: Naomi Bailey is STILL the best damn thing going on in the women's division and she has proof because she is STILL the Women's Champion! The only one real major change going on with Naomi Bailey is that she made the smart decision to dump the dead weight that was dragging her down! Naomi was tired of carrying Eclypse and her toxicity around. She took her shot and failed miserably and what happened to her last night on Superstars was the exclamation point. Eclypse got what was coming to her and she's been sent back to whatever hole she likes to crawl into. If she were smart, she'd take the loss at No Mercy and the ass-kicking she got to heart and stay away. Eclypse took her name too literally and was keeping Naomi out of the spotlight she's earned! Now, NO ONE, is in Naomi's way and NO ONE can stop her path of dominance! Cue someone who is going to try to stop Naomi's path of dominance. HOLY SHIT!!! SONYA BRADDOCK!!! IT'S GOD DAMN SONYA BRADDOCK!!! The crowd loses their shit as the former champion slowly saunters down to the ring. Naomi is wide-eyed, not believing what she's seeing. Braddock eventually enters the ring and Naomi raises her mic to protest this turn of events but Sonya just KOs the champ with the Left Hand of God before Naomi can get a second word out. That gets a huge pop and Braddock looks down on Naomi briefly before leaving and walking back up the ramp without a word. This has been quite the SmackDown!. Second Match: The Hero to Millions Around the World, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Mister Twenty-Forty, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody, Zed Jones, and Galino & Farnes vs. The Wasteland and The British Infection That poor chevron having to hold all of that information. It's all well-deserved, according to Hotbody. On Raw, Luscious held his sack in her hands and it was just loaded with love! Yes, love from all of the good believers! It was just the boost he needed and now he is on an important quest to find his next challenger! But it's not just a one-man show. He'll gladly share the love with his fine partners here. This is another quality outing here tonight. Hotbody, of course, doesn't really feel like doing much. It comes down to Zed Jones and Nate Exley and Luscious remembers that she hasn't shown the referee her chest tattoo so she uses this opportunity to do so. Fantasee gets involved and Hotbody uses this opportunity to get Exley GAVEL OF DOOMED and Zed capitalizes by going for the pin, giving the heels the win. ****1/2, 91% overall. Backstage we're finally getting a chance to hear from the former Women's Tag Team Champions, the Lonely Girls. They're not interested in the drama and politics surrounding Nathan Quinn. The bottom line is their titles were stolen. Leah and Bonnie can feel as cheated as they want and that's certainly fair. The Lonely Girls absolutely support their desire to get revenge...they're just going to have to wait their turn. Third Match: Dusk vs. Lzzy Ryd Dusk continues to be cool as fuck. I'm hoping I can make something out of her. Faith and her could do some good shit, I think. Another thought for another time. Lzzy is on the menu right now, though. It's hard-hitting and physical but it's not Lzzy's night. Dusk reverses the Jam Session into the Final Sunset and gets the pin. ****1/2, 92% overall. Fourth Match: Xavier Cross vs. Michael Haywood Well this rocks all kinds of ass. Haywood actually has Cross on the ropes as we begin to reach the go home point. Ziggy Styles decides to make a nuisance of himself by continuing his scuffle with Haywood. Cross pushes his way out of Haywood trying to lock in the Rage Quit and Ziggy drops Haywood's throat on the top rope and that leads to Cross hitting the Cross Cutter to score the pin. Ziggy rolls into the ring post-match and wants to get him some more of Haywood. It's not looking good for the former Play Pal but we're continuing a theme here tonight AS KYLE JACOBS MAKES HIS RETURN TO MAKE THE SAVE!!! The heels bail as the crowd once again loses their shit. What's going on here tonight? *****, 96% overall. More In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with Martyn LaSalle. LaSalle points out that he is here without the Cruiserweight Title around his waist. Apparently there's a reason for that and he's been told that Ozzy Mandias has all of the answers surrounding this issue. Well, LaSalle has the time so Ozzy can feel free to make himself known right now and explain it to everyone. Ozzy Mandias eventually makes his way out and joins LaSalle in the ring. LaSalle says that he heard from Ozzy that LaSalle is reason we don't have a new Cruiserweight Champion and that he can't wait to hear this explanation so let's get to it. Ozzy accuses LaSalle of failing everyone. The plan was perfect. Hotbody was helpless and was ripe for the picking. All LaSalle had to do was finish the job. It should have been easy. But no; LaSalle locks in his weak ass submission hold and couldn't get Hotbody to tap in time before all of Hotbody's buddies came down to screw it all up. LaSalle gave them the time because he couldn't get the job done. From there, it was just one domino falling after another and before you knew it, Hotbody was the last man standing and he got to leave No Mercy with the title. Everyone should blame Martyn LaSalle and Martyn LaSalle should issue an apology to everyone he let down that night...starting with Ozzy Mandias. LaSalle gets in closer to Ozzy and offers his take. "Maybe next time, pick rock instead of paper. You're not getting an apology out of me but if you think my submission is weak, you're more than welcome to get locked in it and you can tell me how weak it is after I yank your arm out of its socket. You need to quit being a crybaby. You're not owed anything and I'm beyond tired of conversations like this. You want to settle things and make a real statement and try to put me in my place, I'll tell you what. I've got no plans for Survivor Series. It's one of the biggest stages we've got here in the WWE. You show up and take me on and you can try to get an apology out of me then and there. Otherwise, piss off and quit wasting my time." Ozzy ponders this over before accusing LaSalle of not taking responsibility. His offer is intriguing, however, but he'll have to get back to him on that. Maybe LaSalle can use the time to reconsider his stance on his guilt. And with that Ozzy rolls out of the ring and leaves LaSalle with his thoughts. Fifth Match: Blaine Bellamey vs. King Kavovit Neither man has their respective partner with them. Bellamey takes this opportunity to try to goad Kavovit into giving the Wyldhearts a title match. Kavovit tells him to earn one because the Royal Effect aren't in the business of just handing them out. Bellamey claims that he'll earn one right now by beating Kavovit. This is another awesome outing from Kavovit. Blaine helps...sort of. McKay eventually tries to make himself known but Robbie Greer comes out as well to put an end to those plans. The ref is distracted by all of this and MADISON SNEAKS INTO THE RING AND LOW BLOWS KAVOVIT!!! WTF is going on here tonight? Blaine takes advantage with a victory roll and gets the pin. That's FOUR returns on one night!!! *****, 94% overall. Sixth Match: WWE Unified World Champion Wrakk vs. Cameron Harper Have to give the champ a solid win here to keep him strong. We get word that the main event for Survivor Series is set as Wrakk will be defending the title against Haven. Harper, in another universe, is probably in a better position but he's got to face the music here and make Wrakk look good. Wrakk hits the Demon Cross and gets the win. Post-match, the lights go out and when they come back on, Haven is in the ring with his hand around the throat of Wrakk!!! Wrakk is wide-eyed but before anything can happen the lights go back off and when they come back on Haven is gone and Wrakk is by himself looking confused as all hell, looking around for Haven. Haven's voice comes over the house mic simply saying "Anytime". Haven looks to be trying some psychological tactics. ****1/2, 93% overall. MAIN EVENT: Adam Hail vs. Mathias Hail mocks Paul Andrews for sending in his second-stringer in Mathias. Neither Andrews or Bennett should take things so personal but if this is the avenue they want to take, well, Hail can't be held responsible for what happens next. For what I'm paying out for this segment, it'd better be fucking good. It comes down to both men being knocked down. The ref starts the count but WTF is this? Nathan Quinn comes out of the crowd and nails Paul Andrews from behind!!! This gets the ref's attention and that allows Lonny Richards to come running down and he boots Mathias down as he's trying to get to his feet. Hail climbs to the top and hits the Hail Storm and the ref turns back around and counts the pin for Hail! Quinn and Richards celebrate along with Hail. Simon Bennett again tries to get him some of Hail in the name of revenge but he gets obliterated along with Mathias. Was this what Nathan Quinn was talking about earlier?!? ****1/2, 89% overall. Overall show rating: 87% |
Well holy shit, this reads like what the post-WrestleMania episodes of Raw used to be where every segment you were wondering if there would be a new debut or return and chaos ensued at every turn.
Were all of these guys injured in-game and then happened to be eligible to return right around the same time? It's cool to even see a retired wrestler come in and still continue to get used in a mentor role. Hey, you might be retired but you're still getting a paycheck...get back to work! |
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The only legit injured person out of that group was Madison, who had a triceps tear. The other 3, Connelly, Braddock, and Jacobs, were just given a break. I usually do that from time to time to let other things develop and to set things up for later down the road. Connelly is a manager full-time now and hopefully he can lend a hand to some of these young whippersnappers. Braddock is a non-wrestler anyway so her being absent from a lot of shows doesn't diminish things for her. I think it gives her PPV appearances a much bigger boost in terms of specialness. Now she can pick up where she left off in regards to feuding with Naomi. Ditto with Jacobs as he can continue his thing with Cross. I want Survivor Series to be stacked so here we are.
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LOL, we were talking about gimmicks earlier and now I'm sitting here tossing ideas around for the most recent NXT call ups. Imagine a dude who's an Evil Knight headlining WrestleMania.
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So I've had the craving to do a Fire Pro tournament for the first time in a while, especially with NJPW's G1 Climax on the horizon. Figure this is the most appropriate thread for it since, technically, it really is a sim. I'm just booking matches and letting the CPU do its thing and watching it unfold.
So I'm gonna do an AEW version of the G1 but on steroids. Traditionally it was a 20-man tournament with 2 blocks doing a Round Robin. 19 shows, 9 each per block. Each show would have a bunch of prelim tags featuring the next night's block participants, and then 5 block matches. Night 19 would be the finals. Instead I'm doing a mammoth 40-man tourney across 4 blocks. Night 1 will have 5 A Block matches and 5 B Block matches, Night 2 will have 5 C Block and 5 D Block matches etc. Night 19 will be the semi-finals and night 20 the finals. In reality it would be impossible to watch a tourney like this because it would be like 3 hours of wrestling a night for over a month. But in Fire Pro land where I can watch matches play out at 200x speed and blow through it? Hell yeah. I'll write up the results for each night like it was an actual event recap or something. Dunno. Playing an actual booking sim where I make the decisions requires creative energy I do not have ATM :o |
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As you can see, I put my thing on the back burner for now but I'll look forward to what you got. I'll see about what I can do for a Luscious reward for returning.:shifty: |
It is night 1 of the AEW's Grand Climax Tournament! Tonight, we will see 5 A Block matches and 5 B Block matches. Fans and competitors alike have been kept in the dark on who is even in this tournament, who is in their block and even who they are facing tonight.
Justin Roberts announces that our opening contest will be from the A Block. One can only wonder what surprises will lie ahead... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nKFMmsUZ_OY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> The crowd gasps as, holy shit, MJF is here! We haven't seen him since he famously and publicly demanded to be fired over a month ago! He has evidently returned to win this tournament and possibly give himself even more contract leverage. MJF soaks up the combination of heel heat and adulation for a while before the music of Wheeler Yuta hits. The ROH Pure Champion and popular young member of the Blackpool Combat Club charges out to the ring and we are on! <b>A Block: MJF vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> MJF's return match didn't look like it would go as planned at the start with Yuta catching MJF off guard with some high octane offense, requiring MJF to beg off for a bit. The announcers point out that Yuta was in NJPW's Best of Super Junior tournament earlier in the year, and he's well-prepared for the endurance required to get through a grueling tournament of this style. MJF eventually gets the upper hand, ironically, using some underhanded tactics including busting out the Dynamite Diamond Ring. MJF counters a clothesline from Yuta into the Salt of the Earth armbar and that's all she wrote. <b>Winner: MJF Time: 14:01 Rating: 80%</b> --- We're told we'll be alternating blocks tonight as B Block is next. "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes is out to a big hand, followed by Scorpio Sky. <b>B Block: "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes vs. Scorpio Sky</b> Chances are quite good that the 53-year old Rhodes will be the oldest participant in this tournament, how will his body hold up over 9 block matches? Fortunately for him, Sky's head didn't seem fully in the game here, possibly still dealing with the disappointment of dropping his TNT Title to Wardlow recently. He picks Dustin up for a TKO but Dustin slides out. Scorpio leaps up to try a hurricanrana but is reversed into a powerbomb pin for a flash pin. <b>Winner: Dustin Rhodes Time: 10:36 Rating: 76%</b> --- Dustin celebrates his win. Sky sulks to the back. On the way back, Sky is passed by his Men of the Year teammate Ethan Page, apparently up next for the A Block. He gets a tough draw as "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer charges out next. <b>A Block: "All Ego" Ethan Page vs. "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer</b> Page is at both a size disadvantage as well as an experience one as Archer has experience in the actual G1 Climax tournament from which this tournament is based. Anyway, despite both guys being good talents I don't think anyone in the arena was prepared for what happened. Both men brawled all over ringside, flirting with countouts. Archer's EBD Claw was too close to the ropes and Page slithered out. Similarly, Archer's long legs thwarted Page from making a pin attempt many times. What people probably assumed would be a run of the mill undercard match ended up getting perilously close to being a time limit draw that had the fans on their feet by the end of it. The big man Archer attempts to go up top in desperation, only for Page to knock him into a seated position on the turnbuckle. He hits a Vanity Search on the big man for a huge win! Good luck to everyone else following this one. <b>Winner: Ethan Page Time: 27:25 Rating: 96%</b> --- B Block: Daniel Garcia vs. Samoa Joe After what fans just saw, I'm not sure how they will hold up for 7 more matches tonight but the show must go on, and these two were a treat to be paired up against one another. Both men are known for their hard strikes and their submission ability, but neither man could make the other tap. Joe had to call in the heavy artillery and put down Garcia with the Muscle Buster. <b>Winner: Samoa Joe Time: 12:14 Rating: 85%</b> --- In a similar site to Sky and Page earlier, Garcia worked his way to the back only to be comforted by the leader of the Jericho Appreciation Society, that's right, Chris Jericho is here and in the A Block! He gets an interesting round 1 matchup against the charismatic Swerve Strickland. <b>A Block: Chris Jericho vs. Swerve Strickland</b> It would seem the always arrogant Jericho didn't think too much of his opponent nor did he seem concerned. He talks down to Swerve early on and physically controls the match for the first half of it until Swerve gives him a taste of his own medicine, forcing Jericho onto the offensive. Jericho eventually gets back in the catbird seat, puts Swerve on the top rope to try and give him a superplex. Swerve pushes him off and leaps off the top for a Swerve Stomp! And holy shit, Swerve beats Jericho in what has to be viewed as a big early upset! <b>Winner: Swerve Strickland Time: 10:08 Rating: 82%</b> --- <b>B Block: Malakai Black vs. Powerhouse Hobbs</b> A potential clash of styles in this one. Hobbs, as his name would imply, is a powerhouse through and through while Malakai relies on a more vicious kick-based arsenal. This is another match that probably went longer than people expected, with both men throwing everything they have at one another. Hobbs gets Black up for a Powerslam, but Black rolls out. Hobbs turns around directly into a Black Mass kick, and that's that. The leader of the House of Black starts his tournament off with a W. <b>Winner: Malakai Black Time: 19:42 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>A Block: Darby Allin vs. Kyle O'Reilly</b> These two kick off their tournament with a rematch, KOR having beaten Darby at Double or Nothing back in May. That was considered to be a pretty good match, this one sadly was not. Actually a fairly one-sided affair, Darby doesn't seem to have learned from their last meeting as KOR had a counter for everything, including countering a top rope splash into a Guillotine Choke. Darby taps and KOR starts off with a relatively easy 2 points. [b]Winner: Kyle O'Reilly Time: 9:47 Rating: 61%</b> --- <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O9Gcx4kSoUA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> We've got ourselves another return as the crowd gets on their feet within 2 notes of Flight of the Valkyries. Blackpool Combat Club's Bryan Danielson is back to kick some fucking heads in! And he's drawn a man synonymous with the latter days of ROH in his first match. <b>B Block: "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson vs. Jay Lethal</b> Lethal attempted to quiet the crowd who were showering Bryan with "YES" chants even though that's not his gimmick anymore. Nothing really could've stopped this momentum though. It was far from the strongest showing for Bryan, who looked like he was shaking off some ring rust. Lethal was able to counter the Running Knee, only to then turn around right into a rollup for a flash pin. <b>Winner: Bryan Danielson Time: 9:53 Rating: 80%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. Rey Fenix</b> Our A Block action for the night ends with another rematch, this time between two men who just had a banger a couple of weeks ago on Rampage. This match wasn't quite to the same lofty standards but it was still a very solid performance all around. Also much like the last match, the rematch did not see a reversal of result. Fenix misses a senton, Andrade picks up the pieces with an El Idolo armbreaker to get the victory. <b>Winner: Andrade El Idolo Time: 11:50 Rating: 83%</b> --- <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W4v7RUBF8CQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> THE CHAMP IS HERE! Wait, wrong guy. We've got our 3rd and final surprise return of the evening as AEW World Champion CM Punk makes a return to join what is looking like a very crowded B Block. <b>B Block: CM Punk vs. PAC</b> B Block gets even stronger and it's a fitting way to close out the inaugural tournament show, with a Champion vs. Champion match between the World Champion and the All-Atlantic Champion. On paper, this should've been a dream match and truth be told, it was still nothing to sneeze at, but these two guys just didn't seem to gel like expected. Neither guy could successfully connect with a finish, which is always a great way to tease a crowd. But perhaps spending the night watching the B Block action unfold and realizing Malakai Black was possibly PAC's most hated rival, Punk decided to break out a Roundhouse Kick of his own. 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I think I'll stick with Fire Pro for a while because I don't have to do an actual fed or league, I can just do tournaments or dream matches whenever I want because the roster is literally endless, you can download anyone from any time period. After I finish this I could do a Round Robin tourney of Attitude Era WWF, for example.
In terms of the text-based sims, TEW 2020 has sounded like the best bet in terms of being equipped to sim the modern day wrestling landscape. Haven't tried it as I figure I'll get overwhelmed. But it's at least tempting to be playing a game where stuff like this can happen on its own. https://content.invisioncic.com/r229...9443b600bd.png |
Night 2 of the AEW Grand Climax tournament coming in hot...tonight we learn the other 20 men competing in the tournament as the C and D blocks kick off.
After Justin Roberts states that our opening contest will be in the C Block...the music of Ricky Starks hits. The FTW Champion and member of Team Taz saunters out as our first participant of the evening. He grabs the mic from Roberts and shoots his mouth off about how this tournament will be the crowning moment he's been waiting for, and how there isn't anybody in this field who will stop him. He holds his FTW Championship high above his head as he awaits his challenger... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xrXdEHHcfhs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> IT'S HOOK! The crowd loses their shit as Taz's son makes his way out to the ring. Although he's been palling around with Danhausen of late, Hook is still a member of Team Taz and he's now got to battle his stablemate, who also happens to hold the title his dad made famous. <b>C Block: "Absolute" Ricky Starks vs. Hook</b> Hook is 10-0 in his young career and now he's got his toughest challenge yet. The crowd goes nuts for Hook as Starks can't believe this draw. As soon as the bell rings, Hook starts off with a belly to back suplex and Starks immediately takes a powder. It takes a bit of a feeling out process but Starks eventually goads Hook into more of a standard wrestling match, trying to be wary of the suplexes and chokes that Hook is known for. At one point, Hook locks in the Redrum but Starks is just close enough to the ropes. A reversal out of a suplex turns into Starks picking Hook up for the Roshambo and the win. <b>Winner: Ricky Starks Time: 10:27 Rating: 80%</b> --- Starks, in a rare moment of doing the right thing, helps his fellow Team Taz member to his feet to enjoy a hand from the crowd. Although Hook has the first blemish on his AEW record, him being in this tournament is going to gain him a new level of experience. Shortly after the Team Taz members depart, the theme of AEW's newest signing hits and I have to post it because my god it's such a banger. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UBCOkVvFCfE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <b>D Block: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Buddy Matthews</b> It's Blackpool Combat Club vs. House of Black as Claudio and Buddy square off. These two have a history together, having faced each other multiple times in WWE so it's only fitting that their paths should cross again on this stage. This match does not disappoint in the slightest as they beat the tar out of each other for nearly 20 minutes. Buddy hits the ropes aiming for a running knee, but Claudio reverses, throwing him into the air and into a massive uppercut. He quickly picks up the pieces and hits the Neutralizer for the win. <b>Winner: Claudio Castagnoli Time: 19:44 Rating: 90%</b> --- <b>C Block: Frankie Kazarian vs. Penta Oscuro</b> A relatively solid match given the potential styles clash involved, Kazarian is far more of a technician in his older years contrasted with the unique mix of brawling and high flying that Penta brings to the table. Although Frankie is a good guy, the crowd is solidly behind Penta as always, and he doesn't disappoint them, eventually catching Frankie in a Pentagon Driver for the win. <b>Winner: Penta Oscuro Time: 9:14 Rating: 73%</b> --- <b>D Block: "Limitless" Keith Lee vs. "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara</b> Speaking of styles clashes, this is a match that really entertains me to think about, because Sammy can sell his ass off like not many others can and here he would get to bump for a huge dude who can also move like a guy his size shouldn't be able to. Sammy misses with a 630 Senton, allowing Keith to seize the moment and get him up for a Spirit Bomb for the win. After Jericho lost to Lee's partner Swerve Strickland last night, Sammy follows it up with a loss to Lee. The Jericho Appreciation Society has started the tourney 0-3, not how they drew it up. <b>Winner: Keith Lee Time: 8:28 Rating: 76%</b> --- The music of "Hangman" Adam Page hits and the crowd loses it. Those cheers soon turn to a hushed silence as the music of Luchasaurus takes over. <b>C Block: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Luchasaurus</b> Having recently turned heel, Luchasaurus has gone from a lovable monster to a downright terrifying one, making him about as tough of a test for the always popular Hangman as possible. Luchasaurus is another very athletic big man, err, dinosaur, doing things a being his size shouldn't be able to do. Hangman fights out of a few nearfalls and takes everything Luchasaurus throws at him, but he can't seem to put the big man down himself. Hangman eventually mounts another rally, heads to the apron, flips in for the Buckshot Lariat but NO! Luchasaurus catches him by the throat. Chokeslam, and the win. Luchasaurus has pinned the former World Champion in what has to be an early upset. <b>Winner: Luchasaurus Time: 9:32 Rating: 82%</b> --- As Luchasaurus is about to exit the heel tunnel, "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora hits which means Jungle Boy is here! He charges out of the face tunnel and makes a beeline straight for his former tag partner Luchasaurus! Security immediately intervene and forceably separate the two. After he gets into the ring, "Jane" by Jefferson Starship plays over the PA which can only mean the arrival of Orange Cassidy. <b>D Block: Jungle Boy vs. "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy</b> The crowd is electric for this one as the first night of the D Block sees two of AEW's most popular competitors get paired off. The crowd is really split right down the middle with dueling chants right out of the gate. This match kicked it into high gear and never really let up as there were a heaping helping of nearfalls on both sides. Fire Pro's crowd reactions get louder and louder when a match registers as hot and this one certainly qualifies. In the end, Orange prevails with a Beach Break and 2 points. <b>Winner: Orange Cassidy Time: 16:20 Rating: 89%</b> --- <b>C Block: Brody King vs. Jon Moxley</b> Buddy vs. Claudio featured a House of Black vs. Blackpool Combat Club battle, and now we're getting another one here. Mox just defeated Brody to retain the Interim AEW World Championship the other night, and now has to do it again all while knowing that at the end of this tournament, he'll have a date with the newly returned CM Punk to determine the true World Champion. Anyway, these two went hell for leather in what can only be described as a violent brawl both in the ring and at ringside. Imagine having to fight a huge, tattooed 6'8" dude twice in the span of a few nights? Not a walk in the park for Mox by any stretch. He eventually gets a Paradigm Shift that knocks King out cold, and the ref calls for the bell in a critical stoppage decision! <b>Winner: Jon Moxley Time: 17:04 Rating: 93%</b> --- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. Wardlow</b> Welcome back from concussion protocol, Adam Cole. Your reward is you get to face the brand new TNT Champion who has been known to Powerbomb his opponents into oblivion. The size difference between these two men is very apparent, as Cole attempts to be crafty and avoid being caught in Wardlow's grasp for any length of time. It doesn't work. As soon as Wardlow seizes control of the match, it's game over. Wardlow ends up hitting Cole with two Powerbombs and he gets the win in, by this tournament's standards, short order. If Wardlow's gonna do this to a perennial World title contender in Adam Cole, he could well be establishing himself as the favorite in the block. <b>Winner: Wardlow Time: 7:00 Rating: 70%</b> --- <b>C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. "The Redeemer" Miro</b> Our C Block action closes off with a rematch from All Out 2021. These two had a total banger for the TNT Title back then, and Miro came out victorious. Unfortunately, this one didn't live up to the hype as it should've. This is sorta the Fire Pro equivalent of a non-clicky show, except thankfully just for certain matches instead of the shows. Even still, it wasn't a bad match...more in the realm of watchable, just wasn't what I thought it'd be pairing them up. Both guys were heavy on the striking throughout, and Eddie ends up avenging his loss from nearly a year ago, putting Miro down with the Uraken spinning elbow. <b>Winner: Eddie Kingston Time: 12:36 Rating: 73%</b> --- And time for our main event. Christian Cage enters as the 39nd participant in the tournament, soaking in enormous heat. Since turning on Jungle Boy a few weeks ago, he's become possibly the most hated man in AEW. Now to see who is opponent will be... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ONULsA9GcVk?start=63" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Bah gawd! Entry #1 saw the surprise return of MJF and now entry #40 features the even more shocking return of Kenny Omega. We haven't seen him since he lost the AEW World Title to Hangman Page back at Full Gear in November. People wondered if he'd ever return, and now he's here! <b>D Block: Christian Cage vs. Kenny Omega</b> The crowd absorbs the return of Omega. As the winner of the actual NJPW G1 Climax tournament in 2016, he knows exactly what it takes to survive this grueling schedule. And he's no stranger to Christian, they've split a pair of decisions last year, with Christian besting him on the debut episode of Rampage and Omega returning favor with a win at All Out. It's a beautiful thing in Fire Pro when you can have a short-ish match that draws a high rating because it's just bell-to-bell action that never lets up, and that was this match in a nutshell. Both men threw the kitchen sink at one another in rapid succession, with plenty of nearfalls to go around. Omega charges Christian in the corner looking for a V-Trigger, Christian ducks and sends him knee first into the corner. LOW BLOW! Christian then spins Kenny around and hits the Killswitch. 1-2-3! The crowd is stunned as Christian has out of nowhere spoiled Kenny's grand return! Boos rain down upon Christian as he flashes that punchable smirk of his while the show goes off the air. <b>Winner: Christian Cage Time: 10:47 Rating: 94%</b> |
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Night 3 of the AEW Grand Climax tournament is upon us as the A and B Blocks return for their 2nd night of action.
<b>B Block: "Red Death" Daniel Garcia vs. "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes</b> Garcia is the second-youngest man in this tournament, but this match with Rhodes features the largest age gap in block play. At a staggering 30-year difference, Garcia was born when Rhodes was going through his weird preacher stage in WWF. Anyway, these two had an absolute barnburner to kick us off, Dustin sticking predominantly with his old school brawling and Garcia using his kicks and submission acumen. Garcia attempts to lock Dustin into an Abdominal Stretch which is countered into a School Boy for a win. <b>Winner: Dustin Rhodes Time: 17:01 Rating: 96%</b> --- <b>A Block: Rey Fenix vs. Swerve Strickland</b> We go from a more hard-hitting opener to a battle of flashy speedsters as Swerve looks to ride some momentum off of his upset tournament-opening victory over Chris Jericho. Unfortunately for Swerve, he ran into a Rey Fenix that was every bit on his A-game. This match was just in full throttle the entire time and ended with Fenix connecting with a Fenix Driver to secure his first points. <b>Winner: Rey Fenix Time: 8:39 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>B Block: Jay Lethal vs. PAC</b> Here we have our first matchup between participants who started their tournaments off on a losing note and looking for redemption. They also seemed hellbent on following up the opening B Block match of the night, and they gave it their best shot with a ton of drama and nearfalls. PAC goes for a top rope suplex but gets shoved off the top. Lethal follows it by paying homage to Macho Man with a Flying Elbow Drop for the victory. In addition to getting his first points of the tournament, Lethal might be able to lay claim to a future shot at PAC's All-Atlantic Championship. <b>Winner: Jay Lethal Time: 13:46 Rating: 93%</b> --- <b>A Block: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> On paper, this is a match that should've had all the makings of a technical masterclass. In practice, it was the 2nd straight KOR match in the tournament that just didn't quite live up to expectations. He did his job for certain, but he certainly wasn't looking to impress anybody nor get paid by the hour. KOR is a master of not only submissions but he also has so many suplexes with pinning combinations, it's only a matter of time before his opposition succumbs, as was the case here with Yuta being put down with a Northern Lights Suplex. The former ROH World champion takes down the current Pure champion. <b>Winner: Kyle O'Reilly Time: 10:25 Rating: 71%</b> --- <b>B Block: Scorpio Sky vs. Samoa Joe</b> Oh my word, the B Block is having an incredible night tonight in terms of match quality. Another match that was packed with drama and had the crowd on their feet from the variety of near-falls that were seen. This match also saw the recurring theme continue of champions being dropped. Joe picks Sky up for a Muscle Buster but he's able to wrangle himself free and then impressively pick the larger man Joe up onto his shoulders. Sky hits him with the TKO and takes down the ROH TV Champion in a fantastic bout. <b>Winner: Scorpio Sky Time: 16:51 Rating: 97%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer</b> Having nearly been forced into a near-30 minute draw only to come up with a losing effort in his last contest, Archer charged into the ring tonight hoping to put down the smaller Andrade in quick fashion. The shrewd Andrade was prepared for this and attempted to use his shiftiness to play Archer's overeagerness against him. A stunned Andrade sat on the top rope, Archer walked over to get him into position for a Blackout, only for Andrade to reveal he was playing possum and boot him in the face. Andrade leaps off the ropes with a Diving Senton to collect 2 more points. <b>Winner: Andrade El Idolo Time: 11:40 Rating: 78%</b> --- <b>B Block: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson</b> On paper there would seem to be some similarities to this match as the previous - big powerful dude vs. resourceful dude. It's also tough to imagine a universe where Bryan Danielson would have the worst match of the night, but such is life in Fire Pro simulations. Bryan had an answer for everything Hobbs threw at him, whether it be an elbow strike, knee strike, or a good-ol' fashioned brutal submission. Hobbs lifts Bryan up for a Powerslam but Bryan is able to clasp his hands around Hobbs neck and shoulders. Hobbs collapses down into the LeBell Lock and Bryan forces him to tap out. <b>Winner: Bryan Danielson Time: 7:24 Rating: 68%</b> --- <b>A Block: "All Ego" Ethan Page vs. MJF</b> The combined cockiness of these two men would probably be enough to form a sucking black hole that would envelop the entire arena and maybe even the entire ZIP code. But the crowd on this night decided to support Page as the babyface. Both because MJF is the heeliest of heels in the business, and also out of appreciation for Page pulling out a MOTY candidate the other night. Somehow, someway, Page topped his performance from a few nights ago. The crowd was absolutely losing their minds at the back and forth nature of this one, and cheering Page on as he wrestled his way to the ropes out of the Salt of the Earth armbar on multiple occasions. Page ducks MJF's attempt to hit him with the Dynamite Diamond Ring, then hits him with the spinning Uranage he refers to as the "Spinning Dwayne". Page scores a big upset and wins a classic! <b>Winner: Ethan Page Time: 18:56 Rating: 99%</b> --- <b>B Block: Malakai Black vs. CM Punk</b> We last saw CM Punk winning a match with a roundhouse kick, reminiscent of one Malakai Black. Well now he gets to face the man himself to close out the night's B Block competition. The match ran a bit shorter than expected, but it still delivered a solid showing. The announcers pointed out that Punk's next challenger, the interim World champion Jon Moxley, beat House of Black member Brody King via knockout the other night. Punk seemed determined to do the same thing. He hits the leader of the House of Black with not one but two GTSs, forcing the ref to call the bell for a knockout win! What a statement to Moxley from CM Punk. <b>Winner: CM Punk Time: 7:56 Rating: 81%</b> --- <b>A Block: Chris Jericho vs. Darby Allin</b> Although the block assignments were a surprise until competition started, if you'd seen the blocks ahead of time, these two men would've jumped out as being among the favorites for A Block. The tournament is young, but things can slip away from you in a hurry if you have too bad of a start, and now these two favorites are squaring off to avoid a dreaded 0-2 start. The bulkier Jericho outpowered Darby for most of it, but couldn't do enough to put him down. The speedster threw caution to the wind, throwing his body at Jericho from the top rope and ring apron with reckless abandon. Darby eventually starts a string of three straight rapid fire pinning combo attempts, visibly wearing Jericho out. The fourth ends up being the charm as the Last Supper puts Jericho down for three. Darby's got his first points and Jericho starts 0-2! <b>Winner: Darby Allin Time: 14:19 Rating: 92%</b> |
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Dustin Rhodes continuing to have a strong showing remains funny as hell. Even his video game interpretation has this aura about it that is fueled by spite. It wouldn't surprise me if he ends up taking this whole thing. My money is on Punk but I'm probably going to be disappointed.
I actually have some time coming up for myself on the first week of August. I might use that time to do a deep dive and finish up the month of November on my game. I can present some of the nominees for the Slammys later and see what you think. I'm not expecting anything major to qualify for the rest of the year so this should be enough but if something comes up I'll add it in. |
Second night of C and D blocks coming in hot.
<b>D Block: Claudio Castagnoli vs. "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara</b> Blackpool Combat Club vs. Jericho Appreciation Society action to kick us off as the crowd is red hot for Claudio. They have themselves a fine opener to start off the evening, I'm laughing imagining Sammy's facial expressions when the time comes to sell the giant swing. Sammy eventually starts to take control and attempts to springboard off the ropes but it results in a stiff uppercut. Neutralizer finishes it off, Claudio continues his early AEW winning streak as the JAS falls to 0-6 in the tournament. <b>Winner: Claudio Castagnoli Time: 10:51 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>C Block: Frankie Kazarian vs. "The Redeemer" Miro</b> Perhaps he was up until the wee hours of the morning having riotous sex with Lana, but Miro just looked completely off his game here and never got out of the box against an opponent he would've been viewed as a considerable favorite over. Kazarian controls the pace throughout as Miro struggles to really do anything, winning with a Northern Lights Suplex in the worst match of the tournament thus far. Miro will need to live up to his nickname and redeem himself soon. <b>Winner: Frankie Kazarian Time: 7:56 Rating: 58%</b> --- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. "Limitless" Keith Lee</b> OK, these two have chemistry together from their time in NXT so it should serve as a nice palate cleanser after that stinker of a match that preceded it. Tough draw for Cole having to face the two largest competitors in the block back-to-back, but he had a better strategy in this one as he attempted to use a ground game to work on one of Lee's knees. Later in the match, Lee picks Cole up for the Spirit Bomb but his knee gives out! Down to one knee in pain, Lee has no way to see Cole bounce off the ropes behind him and lay down The Boom! The knee to the back of the head puts Lee down for the count and gets Cole on the board. <b>Winner: Adam Cole Time: 12:17 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>C Block: Hook vs. Luchasaurus</b> Hook was taking a hell of a risk entering this tournament after only 10 matches of professional experience, but the value of facing top-tier competition can't be understated. Many would've thought this match had squash potential and instead Hook proved to be a tough son of a bitch just like his dad taught him. Hook's sole focus on this match was to choke Luchasaurus out as he went for the Redrum constantly but could never quite cinch it in. Luchasaurus eventually slides out of it, picks Hook up and connects with a Burning Hammer to win it. <b>Winner: Luchasaurus Time: 10:47 Rating: 87%</b> --- For the second C/D Block show in a row, Jungle Boy is booked right after Luchasaurus and he makes a bee-line for him on the way out the ramp. These two have a lot of bad blood and will have to settle their differences in the ring someday. <b>D Block: Jungle Boy vs. Wardlow</b> Jungle Boy might have business with Luchasaurus looming in the future, but for now he has to deal with the TNT Champion Wardlow who we last saw running through Adam Cole like a hot knife through butter. Jungle Boy was all fired up in this one, taking the big man off guard on more than one occasion. The crowd rose to their feet at numerous times in this one with Jungle Boy throwing everything at the champion, including a tope suicida. Several near falls to build drama. Wardlow stunts momentum with a huge lariat. Goes to pick up Jungle Boy for a Powerbomb and it's reversed into a Hurricanrana! 1-2-3! Jungle Boy has pinned the TNT Champion!!! <b>Winner: Jungle Boy Time: 14:41 Rating: 95%</b> --- <b>C Block: Brody King vs. "Absolute" Ricky Starks</b> What a tough act to follow that match was, thankfully in Fire Pro we don't have to worry about matches being downgraded solely because they came after a banger! King and Starks were up to the task though, continuing the night's theme of large man vs. smaller opponent. Starks wrangles his way out of a gorilla press, impressively gets the big Brody up for a flash Fisherman's Suplex to grab 2 more points. Starks is off to a great start in his tournament. <b>Winner: Ricky Starks Time: 12:37 Rating: 87%</b> --- <b>D Block: Buddy Matthews vs. Kenny Omega</b> Matthews just watched his House of Black teammate get off to an 0-2 start and doesn't want to do the same, meanwhile Omega comes off of a surprise loss in his return match. Plenty of matches in this tournament are ones I'd actually want to see in real life, but this one might be near the very top of the list based on stylistic similarities. Both men were working at a breakneck pace throughout, sometimes quite literally with the number of suplex variants being handed out. They also both need to be checked for concussions from how often they kneed each other in the face. Omega gets Buddy up in a Fireman's Carry, slams him down and then connects with a Moonsault to win. <b>Winner: Kenny Omega Time: 12:20 Rating: 87%</b> --- <b>C Block: Penta Oscuro vs. Jon Moxley</b> As JR would say, this match was bowling shoe ugly. Both men brought out the hardcore brawler in each other as this match went out to the floor numerous times with a chair being introduced into the mix. It's more of a shock that somebody didn't draw blood. Penta reverses out of the Paradigm Shift on two separate occasions, forcing Mox to dig further into his bag of tricks to pull out another move. The Hook and Ladder, a move he rarely uses to finish matches anymore, ends up putting Penta down for the count. <b>Winner: Jon Moxley Time: 9;14 Rating: 68%</b> --- <b>D Block: Christian Cage vs. "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy</b> Much like the last contest, the D Block main event featured two men who got off to winning starts in the tournament, and you can't really find two polar opposites in terms of crowd reaction. The crowd hates Christian's guts, and he made sure to soak in every ounce of heat as he tried a ground and pound approach on Cassidy. Cassidy wouldn't yield though, and Christian's unrepentant dickery eventually caused the normally aloof Cassidy to come alive and start mounting a big comeback. Cassidy goes for the Stun Dog Millionaire, Christian blocks. Christian goes for the Killswitch, Cassidy blocks. Cassidy connects with an Orange Punch and gets the dub to a huge pop. <b>Winner: Orange Cassidy Time: 12:58 Rating: 82%</b> --- <b>C Block: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Eddie Kingston</b> Two of the most popular competitors in AEW lock up in this one, and they wasted no time in just pelting each other with fists and forearms. Before too long this one resembled a fight more than it resembled a wrestling match, which is par for the course for Eddie Kingston. Page ducks a Uraken backfist and picks Kingston up for the Dead Eye. He connects with it and then jumps straight to the apron waiting for Kingston to get back to his feet. Buckshot Lariant and Page gets his first 2 points. That's some real cowboy shit right there. Hangman celebrates with a beer after as we go off the air. <b>Winner: Adam Page Time: 8:49 Rating: 80%</b> |
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In the real life G1, it's treated like an actual sport and in a real sport you'd see your schedule in advance. So when they announce the G1 schedules, you know which night each match is. The one drawback though is you could quite easily look at the final night of the blocks and pretty much figure out where the tourney is going, because obviously they want it to work out so that the block is decided on the final night of the tourney. In this case, I'm not in control of the outcomes so I just decide the matches on the fly and if two guys position themselves as favorites and haven't fought yet, I'm gonna try to push their match to the end. If I can get to the point where there is a clear cut "this guy wins the block if he wins this match" scenario then that's a win, but it's out of my control. Quote:
I do think Edge returning though got him into the mindset where he actually wanted to give it a go. Funny enough, he returned as a total surprise in the 2021 Royal Rumble (which Edge won). There was a fairly clear path to do some Edge and Christian vs. The Usos stuff on Edge's road to face Roman. Instead, Christian almost immediately bailed and signed with AEW within a month of his return. :lol: |
Night 5!
"Judas" by Fozzy blares as a very flustered Chris Jericho makes his way out to the ring. He's heard enough shit from people about his 0-2 start to the tournament, and his Jericho Appreciation Society being 0-6 total. He's not going to wait for his match, he's demanding his next opponent get out here RIGHT NOW! "Everybody Dies" hits and Jericho shits his britches. As and you shall receive as the 6'8" Lance Archer charges his way out to be Jericho's next opponent! <b>A Block: Chris Jericho vs. "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer</b> Jericho has seen the blocks and knew who he has yet to face in the block, but arguably Archer was the man he was least hoping for to come down that aisle. Not only is he a big and tough bruiser but he's 0-2 and desperate for a win just like Jericho is. Archer dominated the early going of the match like a house of fire, but Jericho had a few tricks up his sleeve. A well-placed low block with the ref down brings the big guy down to size, Jericho connects with a Codebreaker to land his first points of the tournament. At 0-3, Archer is an incredibly difficult mathematical spot, and he might be left playing spoiler the rest of the way. <b>Winner: Chris Jericho Time: 9:45 Rating: 79%</b> --- <b>B Block: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Jay Lethal</b> Lethal is trying to ride some momentum from his win over the All-Atlantic Champion last time out, while Hobbs is in the same spot as Archer. He ended up meeting the same fate. Picks Lethal up for a Powerslam, Lethal slides off and sends Hobb into the ropes. Leg sweep, diving elbow, done. Both A and B blocks have to contend with big, mean dudes getting off to 0-3 starts. <b>Winner: Jay Lethal Time: 11:41 Rating: 75%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> Two opposite trajectories in this man with one man undefeated in the tournament and the other winless. Poor Yuta gave this one his best showing of the tournament, nearly tapping out Andrade on multiple occasions but never quite finishing the job. El Idolo for the win to move 3-0 as Yuta becomes the third straight man tonight to fall to 0-3, as the line to compete for his ROH Pure Championship grows ever larger. <b>Winner: Andrade El Idolo Time: 14:28 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>B Block: Malakai Black vs. Scorpio Sky</b> Quite the reversal of fortunes for both men in this one. Black is coming off a knockout loss to CM Punk, while Sky is coming off of a win against Samoa Joe in one of the best matches of the tournament. But let this be an example of how a Round Robin tournament has its ebbs and flows. This match was all Malakai as he just throttles Sky for 9 tortuous minutes and puts him down for a German Suplex for the win. <b>Winner: Malakai Black Time: 9:19 Rating: 59%</b> --- <b>A Block: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Swerve Strickland</b> Same deal - ebbs and flows. KOR arguably looked like the most dominant man in the tournament with how swiftly he put down his first two opponents, yet tonight Swerve Strickland took him to the absolute limit. A back and forth encounter which the crowd got really into as it went deeper into the match. Swerve proved himself to be a tough bastard, muscling his way out of several KOR suplex attempts and wrangling his way to the ropes during submissions. Swerve connects with a big lariat and jumps up to the top for a Swerve Stomp for the win! <b>Winner: Swerve Strickland Time: 17:15 Rating: 885</b> --- <b>B Block: "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes vs. PAC</b> The cagey Rhodes has been one of the surprise performers of this tournament so far, while PAC's still finding himself scrapping for a win. Tough not to start thinking about Rhodes as an ageless wonder with the performance he churned out here. As the speedier PAC tried to quicken the pace, Dustin was able to hold his own and meet him with his strength advantage. Fans were in for a treat as this was another one they got really into and they bought on all of the drama and near-falls. That sound Fire Pro makes when the crowd starts to get really electric during a tight match is a great noise indeed. PAC locks in a Brutalizer and Dustin refuses to yield, PAC takes a different course, goes up top and hits the Black Arrow for the win to finally get on the board. What a match! <b>Winner: PAC Time: 14:11 Rating: 97%</b> --- <b>A Block: MJF vs. Rey Fenix</b> Coming off of a surprise loss last time out, MJF looked to regain his composure against the speedster Fenix. MJF had no time for Fenix's lucha shit as he was able to cut Fenix down to size every time he looked to be getting the momentum. Fenix attempts a dive to the outside that MJF sidesteps, causing him to land awkwardly on his arm. MJF slides Fenix back in and immediately cranks back on the Salt of the Earth, bending Fenix's arm in a way it shouldn't. The referee calls for the bell! <b>Winner: MJF Time: 7;19 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>B Block: Daniel Garcia vs. CM Punk</b> Jericho finally got the JAS on the board earlier in the evening, could this propel his stablemate to do the same? These two put on a clinic in there, with Garcia very smartly placing an emphasis over working on Punk's knees with an eye towards many of his signature moves, the least of which being the GTS. This all comes in to play at the finish as Punk does hit the GTS but Garcia is too close to the ropes, sliding himself out of the ring and leaving Punk favoring the knee in the ring. As Garcia recovers, he gets into the ring and relentlessly assults the knee further. He locks in a Sharpshooter and then goes a step further and bridges it for extra torque. With his knee in agony and a long tourney still ahead, PUNK TAPS!!! What an upset! <b>Winner: Daniel Garcia Time: 16:39 Rating: 95%</b> --- <b>A Block: "All Ego" Ethan Page vs. Darby Allin</b> Tonight's A Block finale features two men with some previous history, as longtime AEW fans will remember Page throwing Darby down a flight of stairs while they were still in the midst of the Daily's Place COVID-era shows. The two wasted no time slugging it out and letting the bad blood flow. Page has been one of the standout stars of the tournament thus far, putting on two masterclasses and scoring arguably two of the biggest upsets. But tonight was not his night. Darby reverses the Spinning Dwayne into an armdrag and they he quickly puts Page into the Last Supper pinning combination for the victory. <b>Winner: Darby Allin Time: 15:06 Rating: 92%</b> --- <b>B Block: "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson vs. Samoa Joe</b> On paper this match was a no-brainer to close out the night as the two have a storied history with one another, battling many times across multiple promotions including a more than 45-minute ROH Title match way back in the day. Although it's been quite a long time since they've faced off, I'm sure their in-ring chemistry would pick right back up again. Instead we got a match that was solid but nowhere near what it could have been. Them's the breaks in Fire Pro. Bryan is pretty deadly in the Fire Pro realm with so many submission and pinning combinations. Such was on display here as Bryan ducked a clothesline and turned it into a quick backslide for the win just as the match was hitting its second gear. <b>Winner: Bryan Danielson Time: 11:27 Rating: 80%</b> |
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See, here's the problem with a match like this happening in this day and age. Yes, they're darlings and talented and all that jazz but they've been going 20+ years at this point. I don't really see much of a difference between this and Hogan and Flair headlining Raw. OK, the latter might make me hang myself with barbed wire but still. Granted this is just a game but in the real world, both guys deserve so much better at this point. If for no other reason than TO SHOVE IT VINCE'S FACE!!! :rofl: OK, enough of that. :o I'll see what I can do about getting around to my Slammy nominees. |
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Still working on a whole list for all of the categories but this is what I've got so far for the nominations for Manager of the Year and Match of the Year:
Manager of the Year: Jake Connelly Paul Andrews Luscious Vivian Merrick Nathan Quinn Madison Match of the Year: Iron Woman Match: Jenna Kyle vs. Faith Connors on Raw Hell in a Cell for the WWE Unified World Title: Noah Carmichael vs. Butch Fleming at SummerSlam Last Man Standing for the WWE Intercontinental Title: Seth von Kamp vs. Brandon Reigns at Unforgiven WWE Unified Tag Team Titles: The Future Foundation vs. The Dillingers at WrestleMania Kerry Cemenko vs. Xavier Cross at the Night of Champions pre-show The Play Pals vs. The Royal Effect at Unforgiven |
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This should be the rest of the categories. Like I said, I'm not expecting anything to really blow up at Survivor Series at the 5-on-5 matches tend to not rate super high. If anything changes to where I think something noteworthy occurred, I'll make edits.
Woman of the Year (limiting it to actual competitors): Hannah McCormick Sonya Braddock Faith Connors Leah Jenna Kyle Naomi Bailey Tag Team of the Year: Future Foundation The Royal Effect The Play Pals The Dillingers The Wyldhearts Galino & Farnes Shocker of the Year: Butch Fleming returns and wins the WWE Unified Title Luscious turns on Martyn LaSalle and joins Michael Hotbody Adam Hail and Simon Bennett return to win the Unified Tag Team Titles Kyle Jacobs ends Salvatore Scabbia's two-year win streak at WrestleMania Seth Von Kamp finally wins his first singles title Brandon Reigns turns on Jake Connelly Rookie of the Year: Michael Hotbody Eddy Clash Nigel Gallagher Neil Quint Leah Alexander Piero Ethan Lang Dusk Ziggy Styles Douche of the Year: Brandon Reigns Butch Fleming Wrakk Xavier Cross Michael Hotbody Salvatore Scabbia Quentin McDaniels Chris Collins Noteworthy Moment of the Year: Lisa Benton gains complete control after firing Vanessa. Faith Connors and Jenna Kyle become the first Women's Tag Team Champions. Adam Hail turns on Simon Bennett. Jake Connelly retires. The Play Pals are forced to split. Cruiserweight of the Year: Jason Sorola Michael Hotbody Jordan Demiras Shawn Dangerson Martyn LaSalle Miles Shawcross Superstar of the Year: Xavier Cross Haven Noah Carmichael Brandon Reigns Butch Fleming Wrakk Ryan Pattillo Seth Von Kamp Salvatore Scabbia Kyle Jacobs Quentin McDaniels |
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It would be something if a women's match were to take the title of best of the year in real life. If anyone could pull it off it'd be those two lovely ladies. I'd imagine the rest of the nominees getting pissed and feeling looked over. I kind of felt obligated to include that pre-show match because I could picture the fans in that universe being outraged on the internet over it not being appreciated. |
Woman of the Year: Sonya "Blade" Braddock
Tag Team: The Royal Effect Shocker of the Year: I'll have to go with Fleming, the idea of someone coming off of a controversial longass suspension and then immediately getting rewarded would be a shocker Rookie of the Year: Michael Hotbody, of course Douche of the Year: Michael Hotbody, of course (lol this being added to his intro) Noteworthy Moment: Faith and Jenna, HISTORY! Cruiserweight of the Year: Jordan Demiras (just to give Hotbody something to complain about) Superstar of the Year: I'll go with Brandon Reigns and his briefcase of doom |
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Someone like Sonya taking the award despite wrestling, at the most, 12 times in a year would be something. Did Brock manage to accomplish something like that in real life? Either way, it gives Naomi something more to use against Sonya in their little tussle. Braddock really did own the fuck out of a lot of the chicks so her wrestling so little speaks volumes. The Royal Effect taking Tag Team of the Year despite forming in the middle of the year and not being tag champions is quite a choice. I would imagine being responsible for breaking up a super group like the Hunters and having some of the best matches on any card tipped things in their favor. I am already working on the details of how to incorporate Hotbody's Slammy nods into his entrance. For the Cruiserweight of the Year category I imagine him storming the stage and just taking the trophy for himself and giving himself another bullshit addition to his name. Faith and Jenna being double Slammy winners, one for them fighting each other and the other for them teaming up is almost poetic and funny at the same time. At the same time, even more fuel to anger Naomi. A heel taking Superstar of the Year would be interesting. If Reigns can't carry the Intercontinental Title along with his briefcase, I suppose a Slammy will suffice. And next year can only get better for him as that WrestleMania cash-in gets ever closer...supposedly. |
Yeah I was kinda imagining a situation where Sonya, Jenna, Naomi, and Faith have basically a dead heat with Sonya controversially winning by one vote or something.
And year Royal Effect are having 5 star matches nearly every show they're on, I imagine voters being begrudgingly like "man, these fuckers are really good aren't they?" Reigns was a tough call, I just figured based on the number of accolades held during the year it could make some sense. In a way heels really are the best people to win Slammies as it's easy promo ammo but maybe that's Hotbody's thing. Not sure who else would take it though. |
Night 6!
<b>C Block: Brody King vs. Hook</b> Continuing what happened on Night 5, two winlesss competitors squared off looking to secure their first points in the tournament. Poor Hook got absolutely throttled here, this match played out in such a way that it was the single biggest drubbing in the entire tournament so far. This was all Brody all the way and the big man grabs 2 points following the Gonzo Bomb in a quick one. <b>Winner: Brody King Time: 4:27 Rating: 62%</b> -- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. Buddy Matthews</b> Inspired by his House of Black stablemate finally getting a win, Buddy Matthews looked to do the same against a game Adam Cole. Unfortunately luck was not on his side. Buddy carried all of the early momentum but he couldn't quite put Cole down before he started to mount a head of steam in comeback. A stellar match full of vicious knees thrown at each other ends quite appropriately with Cole lowering The Boom right to the back of Buddy's head. <b>Winner: Adam Cole Time: 16:24 Rating: 96%</b> --- <b>C Block: Luchasaurus vs. "The Redeemer" Miro</b> On paper this looked like it'd be a serious hoss fight between the unbeaten and the winless. Instead we got another stinker of a showing from Miro. Given how strong he's booked on AEW television, it's kinda fascinating to see him just get his ass kicked in Fire Pro. I'm trying to imagine how they'd actually play this off in reality, I can only assume Miro would just look completely unfocused. Dammit Lana! Anyway, Luchasaurus puts Miro away with the Land Before Time to go 3-0 and send one of the block favorites to a shocking 0-3. <b>Winner: Luchasaurus Time: 7:18 Rating: 64%</b> --- For the third time in as many shows, Jungle Boy is booked to wrestle right after Luchasaurus but this time the security detail thought better of it and had the face tunnel covered before Jungle Boy could try to have another go at Luchasaurus. What would happen if these two have to meet in the semi-finals bah gawd? <b>D Block: Jungle Boy vs. "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara</b> After two largely terrible one-sided matches from the C Block, the D Block is definitely picking up the slack and delivering the goods. These two men have been described as being two of the four "pillars" of young AEW talent as the company first got its footing, and they gelled really well in this one. Crowd reaction intensified as Jungle Boy's lovable plucky underdog played a sharp contrast to Sammy's smarmy dickhead self. Sammy looks like he's got Jungle Boy ready to be put away for the kill. Picks him up for a GTH only for Jungle Boy to reverse out of it and spike Sammy on his head with a Poisonrana! Jungle Boy wins! <b>Winner: Jungle Boy Time: 14:43 Rating: 91%</b> --- <b>C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. Penta Oscuro</b> These two men are former friends, forging an alliance back during the pandemic days of AEW. But there's no time for friends in a tournament setting like this. True to their hardcore style, this match almost immediately got taken out to the floor with gratuitous use of the barricade. Bryce Remsburg's arm must've gotten worn out from the amount of times he had to start and restart his countout attempts. Once the match got back into the ring, Penta was able to leverage his quickness to keep Eddie off his game. Penta connects with a Fear Factor too close to the ropes, and then tries again and Eddie, being a tough and stubborn bastard kicks out! Penta remains undeterred and hits him with a third Fear Factor to finally end it. <b>Winner: Penta Oscuro Time: 11:38 Rating: 85%</b> --- <b>D Block: "Limitless" Keith Lee vs. Kenny Omega</b> This is a match I'd quite like to see in real life, Lee moves so much better than a guy his size has any right to and Omega for my money is the best worker in the world nowadays. Anyway this was all about Omega managing to find a way to stay clear of Lee's high impact power moves, which he was able to do so successfully. A few V-Triggers are unable to put the big man down so Omega had to go to the next plan: show off his surprising strength by hoisting the big Lee up on his shoulders for a One Winged Angel! Nobody kicks out of that one! <b>Winner: Kenny Omega Time: 9:28 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>C Block: Frankie Kazarian vs. Jon Moxley</b> When we last saw Kazarian, he was pulling off a surprise upset over Miro. Watching Miro tonight, it would be easy to question if maybe he just took advantage of a slumping opponent and that he'd come back down to earth against the unbeaten Moxley. Instead what we got was Kazarian proving he can absolutely rise to the level of the competition. Both men throw everything they have at one another, Kazarian narrowly avoids a Paradigm Shift and instead hits Mox with a D.O.A. for the win. Kazarian has just pinned the Interim World Champion! <b>Winner: Frankie Kazarian Time: 10:24 Rating: 90%</b> --- <b>D Block: Christian Cage vs. "Mr. Mayhem" Wardlow</b> This match was a masterclass in crowd reaction as Christian remains just about the most hated heel in the company and Wardlow is currently over as all fuck. I can just imagine the boos as Christian keeps finding ways to slither out of the Powerbomb as he did in this match. Christian keeps trying to resort to some underhanded tactics but gets thwarted at every turn. Wardlow finally connects with a Powerbomb which gets a massive pop. Wardlow decides this isn't enough punishment for an asshole like Christian so he picks him back up and hits him with a F-10 to close it out. <b>Winner: Wardlow Time: 11:44 Rating: 94%</b> --- <b>C Block: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. "Absolute" Ricky Starks</b> There's some definite bad blood in the C Block main event of the evening. The last time these two men faced off, it was early 2021 and Starks suffered a neck fracture during the match and it could've been a whole lot worse. So suffice to say, these two went hell for leather at each other right from the opening bell and never really let up. Hangman connects with a Dead Eye, dropping Starks right on his previously damaged neck but he kicks out! Page goes to Plan B and heads to the apron for a Buckshot Lariat but Starks thwarts the attempt with a Superkick. Picks Page up and connects with the Roshambo for a huge win. <b>Winner: Ricky Starks Time: 10:29 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>D Block: "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy vs. Claudio Castagnoli</b> Capping off the night in a big way with two fan favorites meeting up with the winner guaranteed to end the night in sole possession of first place through the first third of the tournament. Unfortunately, this match would probably be way more fun in real life than it was in Fire Pro. The game doesn't know what match is the main event since you just play individual matches within league mode...but it sure feels like they're hellbent on making every main event be mildly underwhelming. Anyway, they never quite got out of second gear here but it was a fairly even contest throughout. The finishing spot I imagined being pretty dope though. Claudio whips Cassidy off the ropes, shoots him high into the air for a big uppercut but instead, Cassidy hits a Stundog Millionaire on the way down to get the win outta nowhere. <b>Winner: Orange Cassidy Time: 10:30 Rating: 74%</b> |
A third of the way through group play, here is where everyone stands on points:
<b>A Block</b> 6 points: Andrade El Idolo 4 points: Darby Allin, Ethan Page, Kyle O'Reilly, MJF, Swerve Strickland 2 points: Chris Jericho, Rey Fenix 0 points: Lance Archer, Wheeler Yuta <b>B Block</b> 6 points: Bryan Danielson 4 points: CM Punk, Dustin Rhodes, Jay Lethal, Malakai Black 2 points: Daniel Garcia, PAC, Samoa Joe, Scorpio Sky 0 points: Powerhouse Hobbs <b>C Block</b> 6 points: Luchasaurus, Ricky Starks 4 points: Frankie Kazarian, Jon Moxley, Penta Oscuro 2 points: Adam Page, Brody King, Eddie Kingston 0 points: Hook, Miro <b>D Block</b> 6 points: Orange Cassidy 4 points: Adam Cole, Claudio Castagnoli, Jungle Boy, Kenny Omega, Wardlow 2 points: Christian Cage, Keith Lee 0 points: Buddy Matthews, Sammy Guevara |
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No, see, the Ganso Bomb I'm thinking of is that one Kawada did where the dude is just dropped on his head. King's version doesn't look that much safer.
If we're talking wrestling Buddys there's always Buddy Roberts from the Freebirds. Yeah, he was known for being the one getting his ass kicked, but come on, it's the Freebirds. I'm shocked they didn't try to apply that Fear Factor idea to Tommy Dreamer when he was doing that 'gross out' schtick. They could've brought in Bastion Booger to complete the package. I like to imagine a wrestling Roshambo playing out as the two competitors agreeing to rock, paper, scissors and then the guy winning the match just goes for the punt and that leads to the pin. The announcers could play up the fact that the dude works on his mix-up game and that's why it's tough for his opponents to anticipate what he's going to do. Yeah, it'd be incredibly stupid but look where we are now in wrestling. |
Onto Night 7!
<b>B Block: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Samoa Joe</b> We've got a certified HOSS FIGHT to kick us off as two big men who have had disappointing tournaments thus far look to take out their frustrations on one another and right the ship. This match would probably rule in real life and it didn't disappoint in the slightest in Fire Pro. I'm sure the crowd wasn't expecting to see an epic right out of the gate, and this match was just packed with drama, neither man able to put the other down as the minutes ticked away. Joe kicked out of multiple Powerslams, frustrating Hobbs to no end. Joe locks in an STF and Hobbs refuses to tap as the bell sounds! A draw! Hobbs finally gets rid of the goose egg in the point column but not the way he wanted. <b>Winner: Draw Time: 30:00 Rating: 95%</b> --- <b>A Block: "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> Our opening contest saw two men desperately trying to keep their tournaments alive and that was only amplified in this one as Archer and Yuta come in with 0 points. Starting 0-3 makes a block win very unlikely, 0-4 makes it nearly impossible. That desperation both men felt got parlayed into a classic, surprisingly becoming the best match of the tournament to date. Yuta tried his mightiest to wear Archer down with technical prowess, and proved himself to be a tough bastard by fighting out of the EDB Claw multiple times. But one last Final Days puts Yuta down for the count and gets Archer on the board. <b>Winner: Lance Archer Time: 21:45 Rating: 99%</b> --- <b>B Block: Scorpio Sky vs. "The Bastard" PAC</b> Suppose after two lengthy, tightly-contested bouts the crowd needed a reset with something completely different. Not much to say here, PAC wasn't fucking around tonight as he just runs roughshod over Sky and taps him out with the Brutalizer. <b>Winner: PAC Time: 6:45 Rating: 62%</b> --- <b>A Block: Chris Jericho vs. Rey Fenix</b> Nice happy medium from the last two matches - a nice, compact 10 minutes but they got a lot in and it worked well. Jericho controlled a lot of the early pacing and was a dickhead trying to pull off Fenix's mask before Fenix started to mound a fiery comeback. Jericho goes for the Judas Effect elbow, Fenix ducks, spins Jericho around and gets the Black Fire Driver for the win. <b>Winner: Rey Fenix Time: 9:55 Rating: 89%</b> --- <b>B Block: "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes vs. Malakai Black</b> A fairly straightforward, if sloppy, brawl between these two guys. The finishing sequence sees Dustin get his arms up with perfect timing as Malakai attempts to Black Mist him. This catches Malakai off guard as Dustin connects with the Final Reckoning for the win. Dustin season is back on! <b>Winner: Dustin Rhodes Time: 8:34 Rating: 68%</b> --- <b>A Block: "All Ego" Ethan Page vs. Kyle O'Reilly</b> I'm getting kinda lazy with commentary at this point since honestly I'm not sure what to say especially since I'm often recapping the results a day or two after I actually played the match. :lol: Anyway this match was what EWR would call "Perfectly Acceptable Wrestling", KOR puts Page down with the Northern Lights Suplex. <b>Winner: Kyle O'Reilly Time: 9:51 Rating: 72%</b> --- <b>B Block: CM Punk vs. Jay Lethal</b> Punk is looking to bounceback from arguably the biggest upset in the tournament following a submission defeat to Daniel Garcia. Instead he's running up against Jay Lethal who is on a 2-match win streak. After a good match, Punk goes for a GTS but Lethal slides off, waits for Punk to turn around. Superkick and a flash pin, the the World Champion has been knocked off twice in a row! <b>Winner: Jay Lethal Time: 16:22 Rating: 85%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. Swerve Strickland</b> Andrade entered this match as the only undefeated man in A Block through the first third of the tournament. But Swerve was determined to bring an end to that. Incredibly fast paced bout between these two, the crowd was biting on some of the high spots that happened at a frenetic pace. Andrade throws Swerve off the top and hits a Frog Splash for a narrow two count. Andrade is beside himself and arguing with the official for a while. Doesn't realize Swerve got back up behind him, Complete Shot and just like that Swerve has pulled himself to the top of the leaderboard himself. <b>Winner: Swerve Strickland Time: 11:55 Rating: 85%</b> --- <b>B Block: "Red Death" Daniel Garcia vs. "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson</b> Garcia is given tonight's B Block finale following his upset over the World Champion, and he goes from facing one of the greatest technical competitos of all time in the currently undefeated Danielson. Unsurprisingly, these two put on a technical clinic and just torture each other with kicks and holds for days. The fight briefly spills out to the floor as the referee attempts to regain order. Danielson charges Garcia for a Busaiku Knee but Garcia ducks, sending Danielson knee first into the ring post. Garcia slides Danielson back in and locks in the same Bridging Sharpshooter he used to put away Punk. Danielson taps! Bah gawd Garcia has knocked off two legends in a row! <b>Winner: Daniel Garcia Time: 16:55 Rating: 90%</b> --- <b>A Block: MJF vs. Darby Allin</b> Our main event of the evening sees the other two homegrown "pillars" of AEW in MJF and Darby go at it. These two have no shortage of history with one another, with MJF getting the better of Darby in a 22 minute affair back at Full Gear last year. This match took half that amount of time but they kept the crowd engaged throughout. Darby is one of the most popular wrestlers in the company and MJF is a heat magnet, so it's a naturally nice pairing. MJF removes the turnbuckle pad to cheat, Darby thwarts it and sends MJF face first into the exposed steel! MJF is busted open. Darby quickly hops up top and lands right on MJF's face with a Coffin Drop! The referee calls for the bell as a bloodied MJF is in no condition to continue. Darby moves into a 3-way tie for 1st. <b>Winner: Darby Allin Time: 11:05 Rating: 91%</b> |
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I question opening things up with a hoss battle, even if one of them is Joe. But LOL @ the game deciding to go the distance and end with a draw. It gives zero fucks.
Somebody with the name "Murderhawk Monster" not picking up any wins until now would seem counterproductive in real life. Kind of like how WWE handles things. How many times have we seen the "big, scary, unstoppable monster" turn into this dancing and smiling idiot who can't buy a win. I don't even want to imagine what they would've done with Vader had he not bailed when he did. Can you imagine him and Rikishi doing the dancing heavyweight schtick? No? Because I can guarantee Vince probably thought about it once or twice. I knew Dustin wasn't going to let me down! Now we just need the crown jewel of him and Jericho going at it with their 100-year combined age and see which geriatric the game really prefers. This game really seems to hate Punk. Is HHH behind this or something? I really don't know what to make of its decisions especially when it goes on to act positively towards a scrub named fucking Swerve. I hope Garcia wears some kind of creepy mask that way it can be referred to as The Mask of the Red Death. :shifty: I wonder why more matches don't end that way in real life, where it's booked so that ref stops things because one dude just fucked up the other beyond repair. The last time I saw that was when Brock was on initial killing spree and KO'd Jeff Hardy. It'd really help in getting someone over a dangerous motherfucker. Of course the problem is finding someone to look the part but what can you do? |
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Night 8
<b>D Block: Buddy Matthews vs. "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara</b> Continuing a theme from the last show, the matchmakers apparently love to see people squirm as they decided to book the two 0-3 guys against each other in a desperate attempt to salvage their tournament. In reality this would be a fast-paced, fun match but in Fire Pro world it was a pretty clunky, one sided affair with Matthews hitting a Running Powerbomb for the win. <b>Winner: Buddy Matthews Time: 8:29 Rating: 62%</b> --- <b>C Block: "The Redeemer" Miro vs. Hook</b> Ditto in this match with the two 0-3 men trying to earn some points. Unlike the previous match, this one ended up hitting all the right notes. Miro, who'd looked surprisingly unfocused in his first few matches seemed to have a much clearer headspace in this one as he threw Hook around in the early going. They brawl outside for a bit, Hook starts to mount a comeback that Miro shuts down. Miro locks in the Game Over but Hook gets himself to the ropes. Miro charges for a Machka Kick but Hook sidesteps to get behind him and he locks in a Redrum. MIRO TAPS! Holy shit, Hook scores a major upset and the favorite Miro falls to 0-4. Why has God forsaken Miro? <b>Winner: Hook Time: 18:47 Rating: 93%</b> --- <b>D Block: Christian Cage vs. "Limitless" Keith Lee</b> This was a really good one with Cage resorting to his usual douchebaggery to try to evade the bigger Lee, including a cheap chairshot when the ref was down. Cage hits a Killswitch onto the chair as the ref comes to and gets the W. <b>Winner: Christian Cage Time: 9:33 Rating: 90%</b> --- Cage fistbumps his associate Luchasaurus as he makes his way to the ring for our next contest. <b>C Block: Luchasaurus vs. Brody King</b> It is time once again for everybody to come aboard the HOOOOOOSSSSSS TRAIN! Wait, that's not right. Anyway this hoss fight was short and sloppy with the undefeated Luchasaurus continuing his roll. He impressively gets the massive King up for a Burning Hammer to move to 8 points. <b>Winner: Luchasaurus Time: 6:54 Rating: 62%</b> --- Security once again are put to work as they again crowd the face tunnel to prepare for Jungle Boy's entrance. Jungle Boy instead runs out of the heel tunnel to ambush Luchasaurus! Security and even Christian Cage get involved in breaking up another fight between the two men. <b>D Block: Jungle Boy vs. Claudio Castagnoli</b> Perhaps Jungle Boy let his emotions get the better of him tonight, because it likely wasn't the wisest of ideas to exhaust so much physical energy brawling Luchasaurus right ahead of going into the ring with someone of Claudio's stature and conditioning. Jungle Boy hung in there for a while and had some close calls but ultimately Claudio was too much on this night, getting himself back in the win column with a Ricola Bomb. <b>Winner: Claudio Castagnoli Time: 11:19 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>C Block: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Penta Oscuro</b> As usual with these write-ups I don't have too much clever to say when it's just a match. Page is one of the block favorites off to a 1-2 start and on paper this seemed like a match he should win, but shit like Miro starting 0-4 is proof that expectations can easily be broken in this game. Anyway Hangman didn't disappoint in this case, they had a solid match and Hangman gets the win with the Buckshot Lariat. Winner: Adam Page Time: 11:10 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>D Block: Kenny Omega vs. Wardlow</b> Truly a toss-up contest here with no clear favorite going in. Wardlow has the power and strength advantage while Kenny has the tournament experience and the endurance. As it turns out the former won out. Kenny impressively was able to get Keith Lee up for a One Winged Angel last time, but wasn't up to the task this time. Wardlow slips off, picks Kenny up and hits the F-10 for the win. <b>Winner: Wardlow Time: 10:47 Rating: 84%</b> --- Our next contest pits another undefeated man in the tournament against a man who has pulled off two major upsets already. <b>C Block: "Absolute" Ricky Starks vs. "You Guessed It" Frankie Kazarian</b> Jeez, this seemed like a compelling story going in but instead it turned into one of the worst matches in the tournament. Not even 6 minutes into the match, Starks hits a Roshambo and the ref calls for the bell. In Fire Pro, all you see is the opponent KO'd (for what the game calls a CRITICAL). I like to imagine the reason for the KO, suppose the Roshambo is a move that could cause you to land awkwardly if the recipient didn't take their bump correctly. So let's just assume that happened as Starks squashes Frankie's momentum and moves to 4-0. <b>Winner: Ricky Starks Time: 5:37 Rating: 58%</b> --- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy</b> The D Block main event certainly didn't disappoint the audience. These two had a lengthy rivalry earlier this year and they seemed to pick right up where they left off with both men knowing each others' moves and strategies like the back of their hands. Cassidy leaps up for an Orange Punch but Cole counters and takes out his knees in mid air. Cassidy slowly attempts to get up leaving him easy pickings for Cole to clobber him in the back of the head with The Boom. <b>Winner: Adam Cole Time: 13:42 Rating: 90%</b> --- <b>C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. Jon Moxley</b> These two are the best of friends going way back to their original indy days despite the fact that they nearly (lovingly) killed each other in an I Quit match back in the main event of Full Gear 2020. It only makes sense that the matchmakers chose to gave them a headliner spot in the tournament. Sadly this continues a trend all tournament of Eddie just having bowling shoe ugly matches. Suppose that's not hard to do with his violent tendencies. These two just can't help but go outside and brawl and get weapons involved, and during a match with these two Bryce Remsburg allowing them to get away with everything just short of felonious assault. Mox puts away his bloodied friend with the Paradigm Shift for a victory. <b>Winner: Jon Moxley Time: 9:46 Rating: 72%</b> |
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Raw: November 5, 2040
It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, The Hero to Millions Around the World, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Mister Twenty-Forty, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! Hotbody wants to thank all of his devoted followers like the two young individuals who just last week saved him from making what was sure to be a huge mistake. The love he felt from those letters was enough to inspire him to stick around a bit more. There is still so much to accomplish! In fact, his match on SmackDown! gave him an idea as to where to look for his next challenger to his Cruiserweight Title. He was very impressed with the teams he faced in that match and since a great superstar can emerge from practically anywhere as long as the right opportunity presents itself, Hotbody wants to offer a chance of a lifetime to one brave soul. Hotbody wants his next challenger to be a member of a tag team! He wonders who out there has the guts to discard their current situation for a chance at something greater! You can't fly until you fully spread your wings and, more importantly, get rid of any dead weight holding you down. Hotbody is eager to see who will rise to the occasion but anyone looking to take up this chance needs to understand that there are no guarantees here. This is only a chance we're talking about here, nothing more, nothing less. Keep in mind that Michael Hotbody is known as Mister Twenty-Forty for a reason and that's not looking to end anytime soon! Cue the music of Gavin Jones!!! He decides to enter the ring and join the Hot Button. Hotbody is upset at this as he wasn't invited. Gavin declares that he's out here to challenge for the Cruiserweight Title. It's been a LOOOOONG time since Gavin has been involved in the championship picture and given how things went down for him farely recently, he was hoping to end the year on high note and reclaim something that's been away for too long. Hotbody claims that he sympathizes. Actually, he can't sympathize because he hasn't had a horrible year. Plus, maybe Gavin is deaf or something but Hotbody clearly just finished saying that he wants his next challenger to be part of a tag team. If this were two months ago, Hotbody would consider Gavin for this role, you know, because he was actually IN a tag team at that point. Hotbody declares that he's been pretty caught up in a lot of drama of his own so he hasn't been keeping close tabs on everything and so he asks Gavin to remind him what happened to his tag team. Did they break up because they were bested or was Gavin's partner just so sick of him that he saw a way out and took it? Gavin takes offense to this and grabs Hotbody by the collar. HOLD THE PHONE! Jason Sorola makes his way out and Gavin lets Hotbody go to face Sorola as he enters the ring. Sorola gets in Gavin's face and accuses him of still having unfinished business with him. Gavin has a long way to go before asking for title shots, considering Sorola was in a much better position before all of this nonsense. Gavin says Sorola's shot went bye-bye when Shawn Dangerson embarrassed him three times in a row. Sorola is right about one thing: Gavin does have unfinished business with him and he's more happy to settle it. Sorola just needs to name a time and place. Sorola backs away and claims that he needs to think about that for a bit but then he tries a surprise sucker punch. Gavin is prepped for it and blocks it and he knocks Sorola out of the ring. Gavin turns and faces Hotbody and the champion takes a hint and decides to bolt. Backstage, we get to hear from the Jake Connelly, talking about his shocking return on SmackDown!. He may have been forced out of the ring but he most certainly wasn't forced out of the business. Brandon Reigns may not have wanted to listen to Connelly but there is a long line of young men and women who would do damn near anything to pick the brain of a veteran like himself. Ethan Lang is one such individual. Connelly sees a lot of potential in that young man. Now, Lang isn't here tonight. Connelly has him on a rigorous preparation schedule. Tonight is all about expanding the landscape of Connelly's management career. He'll see us all later. First Match: King Kavovit vs. Robbie Greer Madison is with Greer as she's returned to her managerial role. She confirms that the Wyldhearts have received a chance at the Unified Tag Team Titles but that date is down the road. Tonight, she hopes that the process of chipping away at the pristine image the Royal Effect have put up for themselves continues. The titles will be a fantastic welcome back present, right up there with Chris Collins paying for what he did to her. So this match is fucking great. Who knows, the Royal Effect might just be Tag Team of the Year. Ahem...anyways, both men end up floored as Madison looks on. Chris Collins, who is evidently miffed at Madison's comments, wanders out with an incredulous look on his face and sets his sights on Madison. He gets pretty close but Alexander Piero runs out to intercept him! We get a brawl on the outside and it's what greets Kavovit as he comes to. He's at a loss and Greer takes advantage by rolling him up from behind and getting the pin. Greer goes out to assist Piero and Collins takes the hint and decides to back off for now. *****, 86% overall. Second Match: The Lady Liberties vs. C4 Brooke is out here with C4 and she wants to talk about how Salvatore Scabbia will be making his return later tonight. If we all thought Salvatore was mad before, oh boy, we haven't seen anything yet. Not only did he ONCE AGAIN get screwed out of the Unified World Title at No Mercy but Lisa Benton actually has the gall to suspend him?!? For what? Scabbia reacted like anyone would have in that situation! Everyone saw Noah Carmichael tap out! It doesn't matter what some other referee wants to claim. He wasn't even the original referee assigned to the match! His only job was to check on the original referee! And since that first referee came to and saw the submission THAT is only call that counts! The minute the original referee in a match is capable of continuing his or her duties, any other actions by another official are null and void! Scabbia may have been punished for what he did but understand that he's not sorry in the slightest and he's going to show that same lack of mercy for anyone dumb enough to continue pissing him off. So tonight is about regrouping and getting everyone's ducks in a row. The camp of Brooke is going to get back on track and woe to the people who want to derail that. Cue someone who is going to derail that as the Lady Liberties have a bit of a surprise with them. HOLY SHIT! JAKE CONNELLY IS WITH THE LADY LIBERTIES!!! The man has kept himself busy in these last few months. Brooke is beside herself as she obviously wasn't expecting this. A good effort from everyone here despite the charisma vacuum. Brooke tries getting her hands dirty but gets stared down by Connelly. Cordelia is left alone with the Liberties and she falls victim to the Stars and Stripes double team giving the faces the win. This is certainly not going to help the mood Brooke is in. ****1/2, 78% overall. I think this is a DUD show. :( In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, with the returning Sonya Braddock! As she so eloquently demonstrated on SmackDown! when she knocked the taste out of Naomi Bailey's mouth, Sonya is not in the mood to be messing around. She's back for one reason and one reason only. Naomi really should be thanking Sonya for her generosity. Sonya pretty much allowed Naomi to have the best five months of her life as Women's Champion. But Sonya's generosity only runs so deep before her selfishness kicks in. It's past time that the Women's Championship returns to Sonya Braddock and Survivor Series will be the perfect stage for that to happen. Naomi had to have known that this was coming, and if she didn't then that definitely means she's not prepared for what's going to happen and that's going to be disastrous for her, even more than it was going to be already. Naomi Bailey, the Women's Champion herself, has apparently heard enough and she takes this opportunity to come out and give Braddock her thoughts on the matter. Nobody should blame Naomi for not expecting Sonya to return on SmackDown! because after what Naomi did at Night of Champions, NOBODY in their right mind would haven thought that Sonya would be dumb enough to come back and ask for more. Everyone saw what happened that night. Sonya was humiliated and destroyed like never before. She had never suffered an ass kicking like that before. She had never suffered a loss like that before. And now she's going to come out here and try to save face? There's no shame in what happened to Sonya. Naomi Bailey is the Queen of Queens and she carried this championship better than Sonya ever did. This simply just wasn't Sonya's year and if anyone wants proof of that, they can watch Survivor Series. Naomi is more happy to give a repeat of Night of Champions and this time, it won't be a simple 5-month vacation that keeps Sonya occupied when it's all over. Don't want to believe that? Talk to Eclypse. And with that Naomi takes her leave as Sonya glares in content. Third Match: Bobbi Jo vs. Jenna Kyle Neither woman has their respective partners out here. Jenna is extra salty as she takes issue with Bobbi being the one to steal victory from her at No Mercy. So they have a boss match that only makes me love Jenna even more. Bobbi doesn't share that sentiment as she has Jenna down on the outside and she looks like she wants to nail her with her title belt. We'll never know if that's what she intended as Leah decides now is as good a time as any to get her hands on Bobbi and that causes the ref to call for the bell. Leah's fury is enough to send Bobbi away cowering and Jenna is all "WTF, bro?" and they have a bit of a shoving fest. The drama continues. ****1/2, 83% overall. Fourth Match: Martyn LaSalle vs. Lonny Richards Ozzy Mandias decides to come out and join the announce team for this match. Ozzy laments the fact that Martyn still hasn't offered an apology for his screw up at No Mercy and essentially rips into him throughout the bout. It's a good big man/little man affair. Right now, though, building up Nathan Quinn's little cabal is a more lofty goal so LaSalle is going to have to take a hit here. LaSalle ends up outside in front of Ozzy. Nathan looks like he's going to get involved and approaches LaSalle but Ozzy gets in between. LaSalle starts to get up and uses Ozzy to help in that regard. Ozzy blindly elbows LaSalle in the face, no doubt thinking it was probably Lonny trying to grab him. That sends LaSalle backwards and Lonny reaches out and pulls him back in and locks in the Dragon Sleeper and LaSalle passes out. Ozzy looks dumbfounded as Nathan and Lonny take their victory lap. ****1/2, 83% overall. Fifth Match: Quinten McDaniels vs. Eddy Clash Quinten wants to let Seth Von Kamp know that despite how the two of them may feel about their situation, Seth needs to understand that it's nothing personal. Seth is just the poor sap caught in the crossfire. The WWE needs to understand the frustration felt by Quinten McDaniels and if that means a guy like Seth Von Kamp needs to lose the Intercontinental Title, so be it. Seth shouldn't be so upset about it and on top of that, it's fine that this match at Survivor Series is supposed to be the last chance. Wasn't Seth prepared to call it quits not that long ago anyway? The Intercontinental Title will be in good, more deserving hands so if after Survivor Series Seth doesn't want to show his face around here anymore, he can go off into the sunset with a clear conscience. Eddy has a good showing here, despite the big experience gap. Unfortunately, Brandon Reigns must be looking to avenge being chased off on Superstars as he comes down when the ref is bumped. Clash looks to pick up Quinten but Quinten shoves him into the ropes where Brandon is waiting with his Money in the Bank briefcase. The back of Eddy's head collides with the briefcase. It doesn't send him down immediately so Brandon lends more of a helping hand by slamming it down on Eddy repeatedly until Quinten recovers enough to hit the Great Depression. The ref recovers and counts the pin for Quinten. Seth Von Kamp has evidently seen enough and runs down to try to get him some of Quinten. Brandon bails as he's got nothing to gain from sticking around. Quinten goes to the eyes of Seth and uses the opening to make his exit. ****1/2, 83% overall. Backstage, Haven wants to jaw a bit about his affairs regarding Wrakk. Unless one is capable of seeing all sides, they are never truly safe atop the mountain. The hubris on display from Wrakk will be his downfall. Haven has proven he can get to Wrakk anytime. Wrakk has built his throne on a pile of lies. It can burn with him at Survivor Series. Sixth Match: Salvatore Scabbia and Ronnie Costello vs. Simon Bennett and Mathias So Brooke and Scabbia look like they are in NO MOOD to be dealing with any shit. Brooke declares that she expects ALL of her clients to be in step because she isn't going to tolerate anything like earlier tonight. Scabbia is just aggressive all fuck. It eventually comes down to Bennett and Costello as Scabbia takes Mathias on outside the ring. He locks in the Omerta and swings him around violently. The ref tries getting him to release the hold. Scabbia eventually gets annoyed enough that he throws Mathias away but he hits Justin Mitchell. Randy Ellis is all "WTF, bro?" and gets in Scabbia's face. Scabbia shoves Ellis down and issues threats. The ref uses this chance to get back in the ring and escape Scabbia's wrath. Just in time, too, as he sees Costello locked in the Bennett Lock and he taps. Oh, that's not going to help matters. ****1/2, 80% overall. MAIN EVENT: Kyle Jacobs and Michael Haywood vs. Xavier Cross and Ziggy Styles Kyle Jacobs takes the mic and declares that he should've known better than to expect Xavier Cross to hold up his end of an agreement. Cross is just too proud of a man, apparently. That's fine because Kyle knows how to break proud men. He's spent his time away dreaming up lots of neat ways to make Cross pay. Kyle apologizes to the people in attendance in advance because what he wants to do to Cross tonight might go over time so he understands if they feel the need to leave before he's done. They have hard work at their jobs and family to worry about, something Cross can't wrap his head around. However, Kyle hopes he can wrap something around Cross's head. Anyway, this match is a direct result from what went down on SmackDown! when Kyle made his surprise return. Ziggy continues to be an annoying idiot, constantly poking the bear of Michael Haywood. Kyle looks like he hasn't lost a step. Ultimately, Cross feels like the face team is too much for him and he decides to leave Ziggy to his fate as Kyle hits a Legacy Bomb on him and he gets the win while staring at Cross. Cross looks nervous to say the least. *****, 84% overall. Overall show rating: 83% |
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Superstars: November 8, 2040
Opening Match: Lyle Morris vs. Marc Fury I actually have plans for Mr. Lyle over here...kind of. Anyway, you want a way to open your show hot, you get some damn fine cruiserweight action all up in this bitch. Morris gets the duke after some solid back-and-forth after coming off the top and hitting his half of the Backwoods Bomb, as Chet Morris isn't around right now...yet. ****1/2, 91% overall. Second Match: The Love Connection vs. Galino & Farnes Luscious gets on the mic and wants to talk about how the challenge Michael Hotbody laid out on Raw isn't the only challenge being put out by her camp. Luscious just doesn't have the greatest Cruiserweight Champion and lover under her; she also has one the greatest units of wrestling talent at her disposal. The Mean Bodyguarding Machine Zed Jones and the cream of the crop top legal counsel that happens to be one hell of a tag team, Galino & Farnes help make up the Luscious Dynasty. And with Survivor Series on the horizon, the question of what collection of talent is going to want to dare oppose them? They had better think long and hard about it because even the combined "might" of Jordan Demiras, Martyn LaSalle, and Ozzy Mandias collapsed at the hands of her boys. Nevertheless, they'll be looking forward to any group that's up for the challenge. To say nothing of the pretender over on the other side here, who has the gall to name herself Aphrodite. Luscious is the real goddess of wrestling, someone everyone should admire and who everyone will respect! So this is a typical "underdog faces vs. big baddie heels" match. It's good shit that comes to a head when Aphrodite tries stopping Luscious from slipping Farnes the GAVEL OF DOOM! They get into each other's faces and a chase ensues when Luscious slaps Aphrodite and then quickly realizes that was dumb. Greene gets in between them but that leaves Coleman alone and suffers SERIOUS INQUIRIES from Galino & Farnes and the legal counsel gets the win. ****1/2, 90% overall. Third Match: Ryan Pattillo vs. Orlando Kincaid Kincaid also wants to do a pre-match spiel as he wants to decry all of the craziness going on right now. Between Wrakk coming back and unexpectedly winning the Unified World Title to the drama between Simon Bennett and Adam Hail to Jake Connelly once again being a fixture in the company to new Women's Tag Team Champions, it's enough to cause some people to get lost in the shuffle. Kincaid does not want to be part of that group getting overlooked so he's taking the initiative to make sure he's noticed and not forgotten. This next match was set up by him tossing out an open challenge to anyone. Come hell or high water, Kincaid wants to be part of Survivor Series. So Ryan Pattillo answers the call and thus we have a match of two really talented motherfuckers who I've been sadly overlooking. They are going to be part of Survivor Series, I assure you, short of them fucking up backstage. Anyway, things end up outside and the count begins. Pattillo is up first and starts making his way in at around 8. Kincaid struggles to get up and tries stopping Pattillo's retreat by holding on to his legs. Pattillo uses a last gasp to yank Kincaid towards himself and Kincaid gets the wind knocked out of him as his chest collides with the ring apron. The ref reaches 10 and Pattillo gets awarded the countout win. Kincaid is pissed and decides to make Pattillo pay by hitting the OK Corral on him afterwards. *****, 94% overall. Backstage, we have Madison who is with her team, the Wyldhearts. She's ready to put the last few months behind her. She wants to make her return mean something and it's already going well. Her boys have themselves a shot at the Unified Tag Team Titles. Tonight, McKay and Kavovit can watch the Wyldhearts tear up the main event with the knowledge that it's only a matter of time before those titles have new owners. Also backstage, Jake Connelly is walking around on his phone. He runs into Stephan Q. Sterling who apparently has been waiting for him to pass by. Sterling is less than impressed with Connelly's return and he certainly doesn't appreciate Connelly elbowing his way through his business. Every client Connelly picks up is potential money for Sterling that's getting snatched away. Connelly makes the claim that it's not his problem if people don't want to sign up with whatever Sterling is hocking. In fact, Connelly wouldn't blame them if they chose not to. Sterling thinks Connelly is out of his depth when it comes to managing. He presents the idea of pitting Connelly's Lady Liberties against his own team of the Pacific Connection later tonight. Connelly is game and he takes his leave to let his clients know. Fourth Match: Leah vs. Maya Let's see how this whole face turn for Leah and Bonnie works out. If nothing else, I've got a whole new round of matches I can do with the two of them now. This one rocks but the charisma factor prevents it from being phenomenal. Leah gets the duke after hitting the Sultry Splash. Afterwards, Hannah McCormick runs down and slams her title belt into the back of Leah's head for fun. ****1/2, 87% overall. Going to the back again as the Women's Champion, Naomi Bailey, wants to rip into Sonya Braddock. Naomi wants to know just who in the hell Sonya thinks she is? Naomi left Sonya a broken little bitch back at Night of Champions. That should've been the end of it. This year belongs to Naomi and she made it happen all by herself! Sonya has got a lot of nerve walking back in here and laying her hand on Naomi! Sonya just had to go for a cheap shot because she found out the hard way that she can't handle Naomi head on. Sonya barely survived WrestleMania and she most certainly suffered the worst loss in her career at Night of Champions so nobody can tell Naomi that she isn't the best. The Queen of Queens reigns supreme and will continue to reign supreme. So the bottom line is that Survivor Series is on and that's the best that Sonya can hope for: surviving. Fifth Match: Kerry Cemenko vs. Romeo Valiente Nothing much to say here other than I'm slapping some really talented motherfuckers together. I need to do something with Cemenko. Maybe one of the new people can debut against him. Anyway, Cemenko gets the clean pin after a Curb Stomp. ****1/2, 93% overall. Sixth Match: The Lady Liberties vs. The Pacific Connection Before the match, Connelly wants to bring up the fact that when he presented this match to his clients, Ethan Lang was kind of disappointed being left out. So Connelly has a propostion for Sterling. How about Ethan gets to join in and Sterling picks out one of the Young Bloods to make this a six-person affair? Sterling has no problem with that as he'll get to see all of Connelly's clients humiliated in one go. So Sterling sends in Matt Riley and thus we get... Sixth Match: Ethan Lang and the Lady Liberties vs. Matt Riley and The Pacific Connection Riley kind of sticks out here as he's got more experience under him than probably everyone else combined. All eyes are on Connelly's group as the question is up in the air as to how well Connelly is mentoring them and whether or not they're worthy of his attention. It's a great match nonetheless and it comes down to the guys and Lang is able to get the upset after hitting Riley with the Bitter Languish. Sterling is beside himself! Things are looking OK so far in Connelly's camp. ****1/4, 84% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with Eddy Clash! Clash wants to recall how excited he was when he signed his contract to fulfill his lifelong dream of being part of the WWE. Unfortunately, it's been a while since he's experienced anything close to that. He wants to call attention to the coward known as Brandon Reigns and the briefcase that he carries around. Clash may be a rookie but Reigns himself has a long ways to go before he can carry himself as a world champion. And maybe that's the real reason Reigns hasn't cashed it in. Maybe in the back of his mind, Reigns knows that he's all talk. If Reigns is more than bluster, then he'll have no problem accepting Clash's challenge to a match at Survivor Series to get all of this business between them hashed out. Cue the music of Brandon Reigns and the Money in the Bank contract holder makes his way out, incredulous that Clash would be calling him out. Reigns says he takes great pleasure in being someone who's helped turn Eddy Clash's WWE dream into a nightmare. Reigns warned Clash a long time ago that things were going to go south for getting involved in his business. Clash has nobody to blame but himself. Clash started all of this and Reigns, being the kind and merciful person that he is, has already tried to finish it but Clash continues to be a stubborn idiot, just like when the two of them first crossed paths. And as far as this stupid little challenge goes, Clash is far beneath Reigns that Clash should be grateful that Reigns is even out here talking to him. Clash doesn't deserve a stage like Survivor Series, at least not across from Brandon Reigns. "Simply put, Eddy, keep dreaming." And with that Reigns takes his leave and Clash looks annoyed at this. MAIN EVENT: Salvatore Scabbia and Ronnie Costello vs. The Wyldhearts Brooke wants to let us all know that despite her, Scabbia, and Ronnie being upset and disappointed with Justin Mitchell and Randy Ellis after what went down on Raw, they're not about to hold a grudge because they know the two of them realize they screwed up and that getting back on the same page is all that matters. Luscious talked earlier about a strong force under her watch but the real power group is whoever follows Brooke. So you can either get with the program or get crushed and join Noah Carmichael in whatever hole he crawled into! Brooke then addresses Madison and tells her that she picked the wrong time to come back and that Scabbia and Ronnie are going to mess up the Wyldhearts so badly, they won't even have a chance to worry about becoming tag team champions. The match that ensues rules all kinds of ass as the Wyldhearts know how sell and make Scabbia look like a complete monster. It breaks down after the hot tag which leaves Greer and Scabbia as the legal men. The Academy decides to make themselves known just as Scabbia is about to lock in the Omerta. Brooke looks happy BUT WTF IS THIS?!?!?!? The Academy attacks Scabbia and Costello!!! That's going to draw a DQ but that's just a formality. Brooke is irate to say the least as she has to watch the continued assault from the Academy. Costello is no condition to help as Scabbia falls victim to the double team when the Academy hits the PHD on him. I suppose this is a face turn from Ellis and Mitchell but what happens now? WE'RE OUT OF TIME!!! *****, 95% overall. Overall show rating: 90% |
Yessssss Hotbody's intro gets even longer! Pretty soon it will be long enough to sustain the universe in and of itself. The whole "I can sympathize....wait no I can't" is a brilliant bit of heelery :lol:
Sadly yes your return show was a DUD, even though in this universe a DUD show would've been the show of the year compared to a modern day Raw. I just sorts shrug it off and embrace the wonderful star ratings that pour in in spades. Jake Connelly expanding his stable is a good thing. I do love the prevalence of managers in your universe. I never thought managers necessarily needed to form a stable around them either, they can just simply sign multiple clients and manage them individually. AEW's got something like that happening now with Stokely Hathaway. Cross being a bitch and leaving the tag is another classic heel tactic. Banging out a few 80+ overall matches even in a DUD show speaks to the quality of the roster and how over everybody is. |
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See? I knew I'd be able to crank out a couple of shows once I had the free time to focus on them. Does this mean I can crank out a third show before the end of the day?!?!
I mean, probably not...:o |
Hey, I give you kudos for continuing to work your way through them. My brain has a tough enough time keeping up the fantasy booking of a promotion with real life talent, let alone a game deep enough in the future to be all fictional characters. Takes on a new level of creativity.
"The Mean Bodyguarding Machine" is such a ridiculous moniker. I love it. |
Night 9
<b>A Block: Chris Jericho vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> Ironic timing for this one as these two just main evented last week's Dynamite in real life, yet here they are facing off in the opener with all of 2 points between them. The real life match was actually a lot of fun and I kinda felt a similar vibe here with Yuta being the fiery underdog getting ever so close to pulling off the upset only for Jericho to stunt the momentum with a well-placed cheap shot. Jericho takes it old school and wrenches Yuta's back in the Liontamer for a win. Jericho moves up to 4 points while poor Yuta stays winless. <b>Winner: Chris Jericho Time: 14:53 Rating: 96%</b> --- <b>B Block: Jay Lethal vs. Scorpio Sky</b> When I script out a card I do seem to always put the guys with the lowest amount of points early even when they're facing someone near the top of the block. Such was the case here as Sky's 2 points sees him in the opener against Lethal coming off of a big win against Punk. Lethal carries this momentum right on through into a really great contest between the two. Sky ducks a Clothesline and hits a Superkick for a flash pin. <b>Winner: Jay Lethal Time: 13:56 Rating: 93%</b> --- <b>A Block: Darby Allin vs. "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer</b> Holy shitballs, Archer might be turning into the tournament MVP despite the relative lack of success in the points column. He's had multiple really long, epic matches including this one which could've been a prototypical little guy vs. big guy match and instead turned into much more, spilling all over the arena floor and everywhere else. Darby shows he's just a glutton for punishment as he finds a way to kick out of everything Archer throws at him, from the Big Boot through the Final Days. Archer picks him up for a Powerbomb which Darby reverses into a Hurricanrana for a successful pin and a guaranteed share of 1st place for another week. <b>Winner: Darby Allin Time: 26:30 Rating: 94%</b> --- <b>B Block: Samoa Joe vs. "The Bastard" PAC</b> Guess we've had too many bangers in a row so it only makes sense that a match that, on paper, would also be a banger ends up being a big disappointment. For a second show in a row, PAC shows he's not being paid by the hour as he just throws everything he has at Joe in short order. Maybe Joe is still feeling the effects of the 30 minute draw last time out but he just couldn't keep up with PAC and the Black Arrow finishes things up. <b>Winner: PAC Time: 6:45 Rating: 64%</b> --- <b>A Block: MJF vs. Swerve Strickland</b> File this one under "matches that I'd like to see in real life if MJF ever actually fucking returns". This show is batting .800 in terms of quality as the two go back and forth with MJF's attempts to cheat never quite being enough to put Swerve away. MJF apparently didn't learn his lesson from last time as he again tries to expose a corner post, only to see his effort go awry and see him sent into the steel instead. Swerve heads up for the Swerve Stomp and grabs the win. <b>Winner: Swerve Strickland Time: 13:02 Rating: 86%</b> --- <b>B Block: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. CM Punk</b> Samoa Joe being exhausted from his 30 minute encounter with Hobbs no longer seems like a valid excuse as Hobbs went out there and had himself another lengthy battle, this time against CM Punk. Fun fact - yours truly was in attendance the last time these two wrestled one another, at last year's Grand Slam event in Arthur Ashe Stadium, which was just Punk's second match back. Was a good match and I'd be happy to see it again. Anyway, Punk enters this match reeling from two straight defeats to Daniel Garcia and then Jay Lethal. He's clearly hurting and favoring his knee, and Hobbs is relentless in his pursuit. He did muster just enough strength in that knee to roll out of a Powerslam and hit a well-placed GTS to stop the bleeding and get himself back in the win column. <b>Winner: CM Punk Time: 21:38 Rating: 98%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. Ethan Page</b> This show has been on great match overload so it only makes sense we veer back down into the "perfectly acceptable" territory of things. Crowd wasn't sure who to support this one as it was two cocky pricks going had to had, but Page's early tournament momentum has certainly vanished. Andrade hits the El Idolo DDT to move into a three-way tie atop the leaderboard. <b>Winner: Andrade El Idolo Time: 9:37 Rating: 76%</b> --- <b>B Block: Malakai Black vs. Daniel Garcia</b> Garcia is coming into this match after successive tapouts of CM Punk and Bryan Danielson, so really no matter what else he does here, he's got a boasting point for a long while. Unfortunately his luck seems to have run out here as Black was there to meet him strike for strike. These two kick the shit out of each other (quite literally), right up through Black hitting the Black Mass kick to secure the W. <b>Winner: Malakai Black Time: 11:42 Rating: 89%</b> --- <b>A Block: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Rey Fenix</b> KOR saw 3 other men climb up to 8 points tonight, and with a W tonight he could join them. Instead he ran into Rey Fenix who was just having nothing of it. KOR's dangerous with his kicks, holds, and suplexes but Fenix had the speed advantage to evade some of his most effective offense. KOR goes for a German Suplex and Fenix backflips his way out of it, picks KOR up for a Black Fire Driver and the win. Fenix equalizes KOR with 6 points. <b>Winner: Rey Fenix Time: 9:57 Rating: 72%</b> --- <b>B Block: "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson vs. "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes</b> Coming off of a big win against Malakai Black, matchmakers decided to reward Dustin with a main event spot against Danielson as both men go into this match sitting at 6 points. These two had themselves a really nice match, back and forth throughout with several nearfalls on both sides. Danielson kicks out of the Final Reckoning to Dustin's surprise. He picks Bryan up to go for it again but Bryan fights his way out of it before laying in a barrage of kicks. Bryan heads off to the corner and waits for Dustin to rise. Busaiku Knee! And the Dragon is back in the win column. <b>Winner: Bryan Danielson Time: 11:14 Rating: 88%</b> All in all pretty easily be best night of the tournament from a match rating perspective. |
Night 10
<b>C Block: "The Redeemer" Miro vs. Penta Oscuro</b> Miro finally showed some signs of life even in a defeat last week, unfortunately for him he's in a spot where he'd need to rattle off 5 wins AND get help to even win the block. Is tonight the night he finally gets off the schnide? LOL nope. He and Penta have a solid opener but once again it comes down to just a slight mistake, the Matchka Kick is ducked and Penta hits the Pentagon Driver for the victory. God has fully turned against The Redeemer, as Penta picks up the big win to stay in contention. <b>Winner: Penta Oscuro Time: 9:23 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara</b> Sammy still finds himself on the hunt for his first points as well as he matches up with Adam Cole who put away one of his rivals last time out. These two had a very fast paced match that got the crowd revved up. Sammy is on his knees, Cole lines up for The Boom but Sammy drops last minute, throwing Cole off guard. Sammy leaps up for a snap suplex. Runs up to the top rope and hits a Shooting Star Press for the win! Sammy scores a huge win! <b>Winner: Sammy Guevara Time: 13:11 Rating: 86%</b> --- <b>C Block: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Brody King</b> The crowd is fully behind Hangman in this one as he fights from behind despite the size disadvantage he has going against the big man king. Page shows why he is a former World Champion, taking all of the punishment King will offer and even managing to kick out of the Gonso Bomb. King tries for another Gonso Bomb, which Page slides out of into a Rollup, only for King to then flip over into his OWN rollup and his weight is too much for Page to overcome. King scores a win and stuns the crowd who are just crestfallen to see Page's path to a block win look even murkier. <b>Winner: Brody King Time: 11:00 Rating: 91%</b> --- <b>D Block: Buddy Matthews vs. Wardlow</b> Let this matchup be a lesson that there is no such thing as a gimme in this kind of tournament, especially not with this roster. Even coming off of a win last time out, few would've given Buddy much of a shot against the TNT Champion Wardlow who just pinned one of the biggest names in the company last time out. Instead, Buddy kept a respectable accounting of himself and threw everything he had at Wardlow, managing to avoid the dangerous Powerbomb. Wardlow course corrects and goes for the F-10 but Matthews is able to counter and land on his feet. A couple of palm strikes and knees keep Wardlow off balance before Buddy goes up top and connects with a Meteora knee drop and he scores a major upset! <b>Winner: Buddy Matthews Time: 13:44 Rating: 85%</b> --- <b>C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. "Absolute" Ricky Starks</b> This match seemed to lack a lot of the intensity and drama the last few have but they had a respectable showing. Eddie, as usual, took things out to the floor but Starks was having none of it and kept bringing the action back into the safe haven of the ring. Starks ducks a Uraken and hits a Fisherman's Suplex to get the win and move to a perfect 5-0 in the block. <b>Winner: Ricky Starks Time: 12:31 Rating: 75%</b> --- <b>D Block: Claudio Castagnoli vs. "Limitless" Keith Lee</b> Keeping the train right on rolling with another good one here. Two really strong men here with Claudio being basically superhuman in his ability to throw Lee around, while Lee is just a big powerful dude on his own. A nice mix of power and agility displayed by both men, getting the crowd into it over an even contest. Apparently even Claudio has his limits as his attempt to throw Lee up for an uppercut fail and instead Lee picks him up for a Spirit Bomb to get the victory. <b>Winner: Keith Lee Time: 11:55 Rating: 88%</b> --- <b>C Block: Hook vs. Jon Moxley</b> Hook is coming off a win against Miro in possibly one of the biggest on-paper upsets in the tournament, and now he's got the biggest test in the block in the interim champion Moxley. This match felt like less of a match and more of just a fight with both guys laying it in hard and trying to choke one another out MMA style. Hook gets Mox in a chokehold and goes to sit on the top rope for extra leverage but Mox fights out of it, and delivers a devastating Paradigm Shift from the higher elevation for the win. <b>Winner: Jon Moxley Time: 10:48 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>D Block: "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy vs. Kenny Omega</b> Fire Pro really loves to take what should be a surefire great match and turn it into a big 'ol disappointment. These two had a really fun feud in the spring of 2021 but sadly it didn't translate into this match. Instead it wound up being a fairly one-sided affair in favor of Omega who was so determined to make up for his loss last time out yet he didn't even need to really break out the big guns. Omega prevails with a Kotaro Krusher. <b>Winner: Kenny Omega Time: 7:09 Rating: 66%</b> --- <b>C Block: Luchasaurus vs. "You Guessed It" Frankie Kazarian</b> Never would've dreamed of this match getting the honors of being a block main event but here we are as Luchasaurus is unbeaten and Frankie, despite a loss last time, still had a couple of huge upsets to his credit in the early going. These two took the ball and ran with it in this one as they had themselves a hell of a match with Frankie nearly ending Lucha's streak on multiple occasions. But Mr. Saurus eventually has enough of this shit and puts Frankie down with a Chokeslam to tie Starks at 10 points. <b>Winner: Luchasaurus Time: 10:12 Rating: 91%</b> --- Once again, security line the entry ways (both of them this time) to prevent Jungle Boy from jumping Luchasaurus. But fans then quickly realize by process of elimination that, oh shit, Jungle Boy and Christian Cage are the last two men to fight! These two have been at each others throats for months and now they're getting a chance to settle things in the tournament! <b>D Block: Jungle Boy vs. Christian Cage</b> Maaaaaan. These two have an intense rivalry in real life and I suspect their feud will culminate with a PPV match at All Out in a few weeks. So I figured hey, they're in the same block here so let's have them main event a show. Having a match that should be good but isn't is the Fire Pro equivalent of a non-clicking/DUD EWR show. Not a whole lot to say about the actual match as it was underwhelming as hell. Christian had the early advantage and controlled the tempo, which is fine because he's the heel. But Jungle Boy never had his fiery comeback and every attempt was quickly thwarted. A low blow with the ref's back turned and a Killswitch later, and Christian wins. 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SmackDown!: November 9, 2040
It's time for another edition of the Hot Button with everyone's favorite host, The Hero to Millions Around the World, the Host With THE Highest Rated Interview Show In All of Entertainment, The New Age Intellectual Savior to the Masses, The 2031 Fulton County First Place Conga Award Winner, The Luscious Lover and Undefeated Steel Cage Master and REAL 2040 King of the Ring, The Supreme Submission Machine, Mister Twenty-Forty, Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion-Elect, the Cruiserweight Champion Michael Hotbody! Hotbody claims that his phone has been ringing off the hook from offers to challenge for his Cruiserweight Title. There are just so many potential victims to choose from. Sadly, Hotbody had to take notice of the fact that El Dandy was NOT one of the people stepping forward. He's in a tag team, isn't he? Him and his old lady? Nevertheless, as El Dandy continues to deny giving the people the epic of a lifetime, Hotbody has a lot of thinking to do. He can obviously ignore Gavin Jones. He was way out of line on Monday when he had the arrogance to make demands of Michael Hotbody. His misfortunes aren't Hotbody's problem. Hotbody has enough problems on his plate and that includes trying to find decent grub in this miserable Louisiana town. Why does everything have to be so damn spicy here? He may be Michael Hotbody but there are limits to what even he can tolerate! And what the hell is the thought process behind gumbo and jambalaya anyway? You just toss in whatever is in a 6-foot radius around the pot? Hotbody needs the proper food intake to keep up his intense training regimen that allows him to be the greatest Cruiserweight Champion in the company's history. Do you think he got all of those accomplishments that appear before his name by eating this kind of sludge? No, the quicker Hotbody can get out of here, the better. He has work to do and it can't get accomplished sticking around this place any longer than he has to! This calls for someone to interrupt these proceedings. And it's Lyle Morris of all people??? Well he is a Louisiana boy. He enters the ring and gets in the face of Hotbody. Lyle declares that Louisiana isn't the problem. The problem is Michael Hotbody isn't enough of a man to handle the way they do things here. But then again, that's been Hotbody's trademark for the last year, hasn't it? Not being a man about things and spending all his time crying about everything. Hotbody is taken back at these comments and demands to know just who the hell Lyle Morris thinks he is talking this way! Lyle brings up the point that Hotbody is looking for a challenger for the Cruiserweight Title and if people will recall, Lyle Morris was part of probably one of the best matches at WrestleMania when he competed for that belt. And, of course, let's not forget the fact that Hotbody is looking for someone who's part of a tag team. Add all of that up and it shouldn't take a genius to figure out what Lyle's business here is. Hotbody looks like he's trying to hold in a laugh. "Oh, you can't be serious, right? Sorry, what exactly have you done to even consider thinking about asking for this opportunity? WrestleMania might as well be a lifetime ago. Besides, you're not in a tag team either considering your other half has been spending the last few months..." "DON'T GO THERE!" Lyle interrupts. "Chet is more of a man than you'll ever be and he'll prove it by getting past all of what's happened to him. Of course, you can prove me wrong by giving me that title shot." "Um, OK. Let me think about it...NO! And you want to know why? Chet is in no way a real man because your cousin's going to show up, join up with you again, and then get reminded about why he went to where is right now in the first place!" That's enough to cause Lyle to snap and he nails Hotbody and the champion goes down. Lyle goes into the mount and gets in some more shots before Hotbody manages to shove him off and take his belt and run away. Hotbody just can't seem to stop making friends. Backstage, we see that Brooke is arriving with Salvatore Scabbia and Ronnie Costello. Our crack interview team tries getting a word with them and Brooke claims that they're here to set a few things straight with the Academy. Oh, boy, did they make the stupidest mistake they could've made last night. Those two ingrates are going to bite her hand? After everything they've been through? After everything she's done for them? And especially with the mood Scabbia has been in? Randy Ellis and Justin Mitchell are NOT leaving this arena tonight under their own power! First Match: Alexander Piero and The Wyldhearts vs. Jerome McDougall and the Millennium Rebels Madison gets on the mic and says that this lovely reunion of her and her clients has been a long time coming and she couldn't be prouder of all of them. The Wyldhearts are in prime position to become the next Unified Tag Team Champions and Piero did nothing but carry the torch for her while she was gone. It's time to start to giving out as much as they've been taking. This match is 6-man goodness as you can imagine. Aaron Ramsey has himself a good crew under his watch but they have a role to serve here in putting over Madison's crew. Piero manages to hit Sammy Brady with the Flashpoint and picks up the win for the faces. ****1/2, 90% overall. Second Match: Eddy Clash vs. Brandon Reigns??? Clash is on the mic and makes the declaration that he should be facing Brandon Reigns here tonight right now. After all, Reigns said that Survivor Series wasn't the stage for it so Eddy figured a change of stage would lead to Reigns changing his mind. The venue isn't so important as much as being able to kick Brandon's ass. Surely a change of scenery will be enough to convince Reigns to answer the challenge and step into this ring tonight, right? We get no response for a good while despite Clash's repeated attempts. Finally, the music of Orlando Kincaid hits and the man himself steps out and begins making his way down to the ring. Orlando calls Eddy pathetic and a bonafide idiot. He needs to be able to take a hint. It's fairly obvious that time and place isn't what actually matters to Brandon Reigns. Eddy Clash himself is the thing that makes it not worth it. On the bright side, Kincaid doesn't really have much to do tonight and since he's still on his big initiative kick he started last night, Kincaid will happily take the place of Brandon Reigns tonight. Eddy Clash gives his approval to the ref and so we get... Second Match: Eddy Clash vs. Orlando Kincaid More good shit here. Clash shows a pretty awesome big man game as Kincaid does his best to outwit him. Kincaid tries taking a breather by rolling to the outside and retreating up the ramp a bit but Ryan Pattillo decides to make himself known, looking upset as all hell over what Kincaid last night. Kincaid backs up towards the ring and gets grabbed by Clash. Clash brings him in by one hand and chucks him back into the ring. Kincaid decides to hell with all of this and crawls out the other way and decides to make his escape via the crowd while shouting at Ryan Pattillo. Clash gets the countout win here. No Reigns, though. ****1/2, 91% overall. Third Match: The Academy vs. The Sin City Rollers Randy and Justin want to talk about what they did last night. They just about had it up to here with all of the noise that comes out of Brooke's mouth when she's out here flapping her gums. Brooke put everybody else that wasn't Salvatore Scabbia on the backburner in order to focus only making sure he won the Unified World Title. Well, look at where we are now and what does she have to show for it? And she's going to get on the Academy's case for not stepping in line? The Academy followed Brooke through thick and thin but they've got their limits. Week in and week out, if it wasn't one thing, it was another. Now supposedly, Scabbia and Costello are here all full of angry vigor. The Academy isn't afraid because they actually had the balls to stop being Brooke's errand boys. So this match is all about establishing the Academy as faces. It's a role I don't think I ever would have given them but we got to do what we can to mix things up, no? Ortega falls victim to the PHD from the Academy and the pin is, well, academic after that. Post match, Brooke attempts to make good on her promise by sending Scabbia and Costello after her former clients and we have ourselves a brawl! It's a pier six affair and we need officials to get things under control! *****, 94% overall. Backstage, we are all blessed to hear from the Lonely Girls, Jenna Kyle and Faith Connors. To say their disappointed with the turn of events surrounding the Women's Tag Team Titles is an understatement. They didn't go through hell this entire year to have things end up the way they are now. The two of them have been going over when they think they should exercise their rematch clause to challenge Hannah and Bobbi Jo for the belts. Whenever it does happen, all they ask is that Leah and Bonnie Beckham stay out of the way. They can get a piece when it's all said and done, they have their word on it. Also backstage, Ozzy Mandias wants to clear the air regarding what's going on between him and Martyn LaSalle. Ozzy is big enough to admit that he made a mistake on Raw when he elbowed Martyn in the face. See? That wasn't so hard. So why is it so difficult for Martyn to own up to his mistake at No Mercy when he screwed up and basically let Michael Hotbody walk out still the Cruiserweight Champion. Ozzy is a patient guy but the longer this goes on without any sort of apology from Martyn the more ridiculous this gets. And Ozzy has no tolerance for the ridiculous. Fourth Match: Clubber Harris vs. L.A. Xander I'm gettis Harris involved in Survivor Series so I gotta give him some shine. I forsee a little feud with another big beefy monster on the roster. Should be good. Just like this match. Harris hits the Club Pain after a strong showing and gets the win. ****1/2, 93% overall. Fifth Match: Neil Quint vs. Zachary Vale Can't forget about the quintessential Neil Quint match on my shows. It's a cheap way to steal a good rating to help with the overall average. This is good little cleanser after the big man display in the previous match. Quint comes off the top with the Quint-Essential Top Rope Maneuver to score the pin. ****1/2, 88% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time with Kyle Jacobs. Kyle wants to make things as simple as possible. He wants to settle things with Xavier Cross, one way or another. He's not asking for much. He just wants the opportunity to get Cross's blood all over his fists. He just wants to kick Cross's teeth in. He just wants to drag Cross's useless sack of meat from corner to corner all over this ring and take a leak on his broken body. Is that so much to ask for? And to think we ended up here all because Cross wasn't going to stand a blow to his precious ego. Well, if he doesn't want to suffer humiliation, he'll just have to flat out suffer and while Kyle hasn't been keen on going down that road, he's certainly willing to learn for Cross's sake. Cue Chris Collins who wants to interrupt these proceedings. Collins thinks that all of these people coming back and making these outrageous claims and calls for revenge is getting out of hand. They can't all get what they want. Collins himself is having to hear this garbage from Madison and her little pet, Alexander Piero, so you can imagine he's not too thrilled having to hear it from some entitled little piss ant like Kyle Jacobs. Collins wants to tell Kyle, one second-generation star to another, a name is just a name. Actions are what matters so Kyle needs to pick his battles more carefully. Kyle wonders if Collins is looking to pick a battle right now. Seeing as Cross doesn't seem like he's willing to show up and take his medicine, Kyle is willing to take a substitute. We get a staredown between the two but Xavier Cross uses this chance to sneak up from behind Kyle and knock him down! Well this doesn't look good for Kyle. It's a two-on-one scenario as Kyle is beaten down and he ultimately gets laid out after taking the Fall From Heaven from Collins and Cross puts the exclamation point on it all with the Cross Cutter. Well this is certainly not over to say the least. MAIN EVENT: Wrakk and Quentin McDaniels vs. Haven and Seth Von Kamp So we've got the two title matches at Survivor Series hooking up here. The heat is fucking great so I can only hope Survivor Series doesn't end up being a fucking DUD show. Seth and Quentin handle most of the load as they're probably the best workers of the group. Wrakk and Haven are really just the big kaiju scene at the climax of the movie. I'm not keen on having anybody job here so we'll just go the double countout route as Wrakk and Haven just forget about formalities and slug it out to their hearts content. Quentin decides to be a dick and lays out Seth with the Great Depression after all is said and done and he stands tall. *****, 94% overall. Overall show rating: 89% |
Survivor Series shaping up nicely. I love that Hotbody continues to feud with basically everybody on the cruiserweight roster, seemingly everybody has some sort of beef with him.
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Lisa Benton has announced over the weekend two 5-on-5 Survivor Series matches that will take place at the PPV. Card subject to change. Kyle Jacobs, Alexander Piero, Ryan Pattillo, and The Wyldhearts vs. Xavier Cross, Chris Collins, Orlando Kincaid, and the WWE Unified Tag Team Champions The Royal Effect Simon Bennett, Mathias, Michael Haywood, The Academy vs. Adam Hail, Lonny Richards, Ziggy Styles, Salvatore Scabbbia, and Ronnie Costello These two matches will likely not be the only traditional Survivor Series elimination matches and they join the already announced set of matches, which are as follows: WWE Unified World Title: Wrakk vs. Haven WWE Intercontinental Title: Seth Von Kamp vs. Quentin McDaniels WWE Women's Title: Naomi Bailey vs. Sonya Braddock Tune in to Raw for more, if any, additional announcements to WWE's biggest fall extravaganza! |
Night 11
<b>B Block: "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes vs. Powerhouse Hobbs</b> When we last saw Dustin, he had earned main event honors in a losing effort to Danielson, and now he's right back out there trying to right the ship and keep his block hopes alive. He did just that against a tough Hobbs who still has yet to find the win column in the tourney. Dustin hits the Final Reckoning and gets the win. <b>Winner: Dustin Rhodes Time: 10:08 Rating: 74%</b> --- <b>A Block: Rey Fenix vs. "The Murderhawk Monster" Lance Archer</b> Fenix has been on something of a hot streak in the A Block but his fire was put out fairly quickly in this one. Archer wasn't fucking around tonight, as he used his size advantage to ragdoll Fenix multiple times and put him away with the F'n Slam. <b>Winner: Lance Archer Time: 7:38 Rating: 59%</b> --- <b>B Block: "Red Death" Daniel Garcia vs. "The Bastard" PAC</b> Fucking hell what a match this was. Frantic pace, both guys had like a dozen nearfalls on each other and they were killing each other with hard strikes and suplexes all night. Garcia is eventually able to get a low bridge and put PAC into his patented Bridging Sharpshooter which has put away Punk and Danielson and now does the same for PAC. And for the first time in this tournament a match scores the full monty! <b>Winner: Daniel Garcia Time: 21:56 Rating: 100%</b> --- <b>A Block: Kyle O'Reilly vs. MJF</b> Not that these two aren't good wrestlers but man, this is kinda the equivalent of a *****, 97 overall segment in EWR where it feels like anything that comes after is going to get dinged by being something else. Anyway they had a fairly standard match with some good chain wrestling and KOR ends up leveling MJF with a Muay Thai High Kick for the victory. MJF continues to freefall down the block and his tournament is, for all intents and purposes, over. <b>Winner: Kyle O'Reilly Time: 11:16 Rating: 80%</b> --- <b>B Block: "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson vs. Scorpio Sky</b> FUN Easter Egg: Scorpio Sky portrayed Harold during the Team Hell No Anger Management sketches back in 2012. Life has come full circle! The current standings would make you think this should be lopsided but as we've come to learn, "on any given night". Sky viewed this as his chance to make a real statement and he didn't disappoint. He was able to take everything Bryan threw at him and evade some of his real put-away moves. Sky eventually sets Bryan up top and hits a devastating top rope Powerbomb for the upset! <b>Winner: Scorpio Sky Time: 14:06 Rating: 87%</b> --- <b>A Block: Darby Allin vs. Wheeler Yuta</b> An evergreen statement at this point but...poor Yuta. This continues a recurring trend for him to have a banger of a match and nearly getting the win but ultimately being stopped just shy of being able to shut the door on a victory. Yuta and Darby go through a chain of attempting to German each other repeatedly, before Darby finally course corrects and rolls up a Small Package instead. Darby wins and becomes the first man in A Block to hit the double digit threshold. <b>Winner: Darby Allin Time: 17:12 Rating: 92%</b> --- <b>B Block: Jay Lethal vs. Malakai Black</b> Not a whole lot to say about this one, both men are doing well in the standings but that didn't matter at all in this one. Black didn't waste any time, immediately disorienting Lethal with aggressive, brutish offense that threw any strategizing Lethal might've done out the window. Black Mass ends it in a pretty lopsided affair. <b>Winner: Malakai Black Time: 7:55 Rating: 64%</b> --- <b>A Block: "All Ego" Ethan Page vs. Swerve Strickland</b> Before the match, Page cuts a promo insulting his opponent, asking what the hell kind of name Swerve is anyway? Regardless, while the early momentum of his tourney was long gone he still had the golden opportunity to play spoiler here. Unfortunately Swerve showed why he was near the top of the block for a reason, hitting a Complete Shot out of nowhere to win a solid, even bout. Swerve joins Darby at the top of the board with 10 points. <b>Winner: Swerve Strickland Time: 14:10 Rating: 84%</b> --- <b>B Block: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk</b> The B Block main event features familiar foes as another old ROH rivalry is rekindled for a new generation. Joe's had a rough go of it in this tournament, the results just haven't been there for him and he's coming off of an embarrassing lopsided loss to PAC. Joe was clearly motivated in this one, and had his best showing in several outings. But Punk showed why he is the AEW Champion as he was able to take all that Joe was giving and bend but not break. Unable to lift Joe for a GTS with his sore knee, Punk focused on a more ground-based attack before eventually heading up and sealing the deal with a Diving Elbow Drop. <b>Winner: CM Punk Time: 13:11 Rating: 88%</b> --- <b>A Block: Andrade El Idolo vs. Chris Jericho</b> Andrade looks to join Darby and Swerve on the top of the boards while Jericho, sitting at 4 points, needs to win out and hope for help if he was gonna be able to pull off the block. These two had a pretty solid match, both guys are full of themselves and felt the need to pose for the crowd after big moves. The fight spills onto the floor where Jericho pulls out a chair and crashes Andrade in the back while the ref was tending to the turnbuckle pad Jericho had undone. This sore back of Andrade left him prey for the Liontamer as Jericho closes the night with a win to keep his hopes alive. <b>Winner: Chris Jericho Time: 14:42 Rating: 83%</b> |
A and B Block standings through 2/3rds of Block Matches
A Block Darby Allin - 10 points Swerve Strickland - 10 points Andrade El Idolo - 8 points Kyle O'Reilly - 8 points Rey Fenix - 6 points Chris Jericho - 6 points Lance Archer - 4 points Ethan Page - 4 points (eliminated on tiebreakers) MJF - 4 points (eliminated on tiebreakers) Wheeler Yuta - 0 points (mathematically eliminated) B Block Bryan Danielson - 8 points CM Punk - 8 points Dustin Rhodes - 8 points Jay Lethal - 8 points Malakai Black - 8 points Daniel Garcia - 6 points PAC - 6 points Scorpio Sky - 4 points Samoa Joe - 3 points (eliminated on tiebreakers) Powerhouse Hobbs - 1 point (mathematically eliminated) |
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Night 12
<b>D Block: Buddy Matthews vs. "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy</b> Never underestimate momentum in a tournament like this. Following his first tournament win over Sammy Guevara and then a stunning upset over Wardlow, Matthews seems to be firing on all cylinders and that carried right into this match against Orange Cassidy. The normally aloof Cassidy had to be on his A-game tonight, he kicked up the pace and even that wasn't enough. Buddy finishes him off with a brainbuster and a Frog Splash to win his 3rd straight. <b>Winner: Buddy Matthews Time: 15:40 Rating: 88%</b> --- <b>C Block: Hook vs. "You Guessed It" Frankie Kazarian</b> Both guys lost last time out but had great showings against favored competitors. These two got C Block action off to a rousing start on the night as they had no issues following up the D Block opener with an exciting match of their own. Back and forth encounter that sees Kazarian get the win with the D.O.A. <b>Winner: Frankie Kazarian Time: 15:28 Rating: 92%</b> --- <b>D Block: "Limitless" Keith Lee vs. "Mr. Mayhem" Wardlow</b> HOSS FIIIIIIIGHT! Gotta love when it's two genuinely athletic hosses going at it, and these two slugged it out and made it 3-for-3 on bangers tonight. Lee was looking to ride the momentum while Wardlow was trying to recover from an upset loss. These two excited the crowd with nearfalls, both men Powerbombing each other to no avail. Wardlow ducks a clothesline and picks Lee up for the F-10 to get the dub. <b>Winner: Wardlow Time: 10:28 Rating: 87%</b> --- <b>C Block: "The Redeemer" Miro vs. "Hangman" Adam Page</b> One would've assumed this is a match that could've served as a block main event, but Miro's 0-5 start coupled with Page's 2-3 start got it relegated a bit lower. As two block favorites, Miro has nothing to play for but pride while Hangman is desperately clinging to a chance with so many other guys getting off to great starts. These two absolutely delivered a long, PPV-quality match that will be hard to top tonight. Just tons of drama, including Miro managing to kick out of a Buckshot Lariat not once, not twice, but thrice. On a fourth attempt, Miro meets him with a Lariat of his own and locks Page into the Game Over for the win! The crowd is stunned....Miro laughs at the crowds' displeasure, he has successfully spoiled the tournament for possibly the most popular wrestler in AEW! <b>Winner: Miro Time: 25:39 Raing: 98%</b> --- <b>D Block: Adam Cole vs. Jungle Boy</b> Surely anything is going to feel like a come-down from that one. Suppose it's only natural to follow it up with Jungle Boy who has strung together some rather unimpressive showings of late. They have a fine match that only seems so-so compared to the match before it, Cole gets the win with a Frog Splash, second man to use that as a finish tonight. <b>Winner: Adam Cole Time: 11:24 Rating: 81%</b> --- <b>C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. Luchasaurus</b> Speaking of other men who have grossly underachieved in this tournament, Eddie Kingston is here with only one win on the tournament and at this point he doesn't seem to care about playing spoiler, he just wants to kick ass. As is the case with most Kingston matches, this turns into a full-on brawl fairly quickly. Luchasaurus picks Kingston up for a Chokeslam but Kingston counters with a series of hard elbow strikes. As Luchasaurus gets back to his feet, Kingston winds up with a spinning Uraken elbow to hand the dinosaur his first blemish of the tourney! <b>Winner: Eddie Kingston Time: 8:41 Rating: 83%</b> --- <b>D Block: Christian Cage vs. Claudio Castagnoli</b> Jesus, this is turning into easily the best night of block competition so far as we have yet another really good match on the offing. These two are both consummate pros in the ring, even if one of them often resorts to slimy piece of shit tactics. Cage produces some brass knuckles to try to cheat but Claudio thwarts him with a massive Uppercut that requires no weapon to put someone out. Ricola Bomb ends it. <b>Winner: Claudio Castagnoli Time: 11:46 Rating: 87%</b> --- <b>C Block: Brody King vs. Penta Oscuro</b> Train keeps on rolling with yet another great one. Penta often yells "CERO MIEDO!" to the crowd and that very much applied here as he threw his body at the much larger King with reckless abandon. Penta seemed to have a counter for all of Brody's power moves and Penta was able to keep making mistakes and avoiding the dreaded Gonzo Bomb. The crowd's jaws collectively drop to the floor when Penta is able to pick Brody up for a Pentagon Driver for the win. <b>Winner: Penta Oscuro Time: 9:56 Rating: 89%</b> --- <b>D Block: "The Spanish God" Sammy Guevara vs. Kenny Omega</b> The crowd are surely exhausted by the sheer amount of awesomeness thrown at them so far, so let's add on even more with a breakneck pace main event. Another exciting match that kept the crowd riveted, Sammy thought he had it one with a 630 but Kenny was able to evade the maneuver. He then picks Sammy's downed body up for a One Winged Angel to grab the win and make D Block an even more crowded affair. <b>Winner: Kenny Omega Time: 12:27 Rating: 88%</b> --- <b>C Block: "Absolute" Ricky Starks vs. Jon Moxley</b> THE STREAK.....IS OVER :( in more ways than one. At long last we have a stinker of a main event that sees Starks fail to secure sole possession of first place, losing for the first time all tournament. Although the match went over 10 minutes, it was a fairly one-sided affair with Mox just beating Starks all over the arena and putting him down with the Paradigm Shift to move himself into the 1st place mix as well. Perhaps Ricky will think better of his pre-match shit talk next time. <b>Winner: Jon Moxley Time: 10:16 Rating: 69%</b> |
C and D Block standings through 2/3rds of Block Matches
C Block Jon Moxley - 10 points Luchasaurus - 10 points Ricky Starks - 10 points Penta Oscuro - 8 points Frankie Kazarian - 6 points Eddie Kingston - 4 points Adam Page - 4 points (eliminated on tiebreakers) Brody King - 4 points (eliminated on tiebreakers) Hook - 2 points (mathematically eliminated) Miro - 2 points (mathematically eliminated) D Block Adam Cole - 8 points Claudio Castagnoli - 8 points Kenny Omega - 8 points Wardlow - 8 points Buddy Matthews - 6 points Christian Cage - 6 points Orange Cassidy - 6 points Jungle Boy - 4 points Keith Lee - 4 points Sammy Guevara - 2 points (eliminated as some of the 8 point guys have yet to face each other, ensuring one of them will get at least 9 points) |
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