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Time to do pop for ROH, another neglected promotion, how I see it they break down into two camps, the big names with cross US pop and then the rest with a base line across the US of 10 and then major pop for the Mid-Atlantic and Tri-State (ROH's base regions).

This is their current state, anyone missing or who shouldent be there?

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Popularity for the US
60 Bully Ray
45 Christopher Daniels
40 Cody
40 Alex Shelley
30 Nick Jackson
30 Matt Jackson
30 Jay Lethal
30 Jay Briscoe
30 Frankie Kazarian
25 Mark Briscoe
25 Chuck Taylor
25 Chris Sabin
20 Kenny King
10 The Beer City Bruiser

Local popularity in Mid-Atlantic and/or Tri-State
25 Beretta
25 BJ Whitmer
25 Dalton Castle
25 Hanson
25 Matt Taven
25 Rocky Romero
20 Adam Page
20 Bob Evans
20 Jonathan Gresham
20 Raymond Rowe
20 Rhett Titus
20 Silas Young
15 Caprice Coleman
15 Cheeseburger
15 Flip Gordon
15 Leon St. Giovanni
15 Shaheem Ali
15 Sumie Sakai
15 Vinny Marseglia
10 Brandon Tate
10 Brent Tate
10 Deonna Purrazzo
10 Joey Daddiego
10 Kelly Klein
10 Mandy Leon
10 Punishment Martinez
10 Scarlett Bordeaux
10 Shane Taylor
10 TK O'Ryan
10 Will Ferrara

No set pop in Mid-Atlantic and/or Tri-State
- Jay White
- Jenny Rose
- Josh Woods
- KUSHIDA
- Marty Scurll

Also skimming through their Wikipedia roster page these are the only people listed not on the roster.
- Brandi Rhodes
- Faye Jackson
- Karen Q
- Scorpio Sky
- Solo Darling
- Stella Grey

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Here is their updated pop, added in all those missing except Solo Darling (last worked in 2016) and Stella Grey (not enough info).

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Overall US popularity
40 Bully Ray
40 Cody
30 Alex Shelley
30 Chris Sabin
30 Christopher Daniels
30 Frankie Kazarian
30 Jay Briscoe
30 Jay Lethal
30 Mark Briscoe
30 Matt Jackson
30 Nick Jackson
15 Kenny King

Regional US popularity (Mid-Atlantic & Tri-State)
40 Dalton Castle
30 Hangman Page
30 Marty Scurll
25 Beretta
25 Chuck Taylor
25 Hanson
25 Raymond Rowe
25 Rocky Romero
25 Silas Young
20 BJ Whitmer
20 Kushida
20 Rhett Titus
20 Will Ferrara
15 Bob Evans
15 Boy #1
15 Boy #2
15 Caprice Coleman
15 Cheeseburger
15 Deonna Purrazzo
15 Flip Gordon
15 Jay White
15 Joey Daddiego
15 Jonathan Gresham
15 Kelly Klein
15 Leon St. Giovanni
15 Matt Taven
15 Punishment Martinez
15 Shaheem Ali
15 Shane Taylor
15 The Beer City Bruiser
15 TK O'Ryan
15 Vinny Marseglia
10 Faye Jackson
10 Jenny Rose
10 Josh Woods
10 Karen Q
10 Mandy Leon
10 Scarlett Bordeaux
10 Scorpio Sky
10 Sumie Sakai

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I'm sure that is all fine, my only question is whether Beretta's WWE run would give him more popularity throughout the US (ie more than 10) or is it too far gone for that?

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3 minutes ago, Kevin Elliott said:

I'm sure that is all fine, my only question is whether Beretta's WWE run would give him more popularity throughout the US (ie more than 10) or is it too far gone for that?

I get that, especally considering Kenny King has a pop boost due to his TNA run, I'll move them in general to 15 in the US/Canada/UK and give Beretta the boosted regional pop for Mid-Atlantic, Tri-State and South West.

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Let's move onto New Japan, this is their current state, I've already removed Ricochet, Takumi Honjo, Yoshitatsu and War Machine from the roster, going to update their pop while I'm here though.

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Popularity in Japan
85 Hiroshi Tanahashi
80 Kazuchika Okada
75 Tetsuya Naito
70 Kenny Omega
60 Hirooki Goto
60 Hiroyoshi Tenzan
60 Minoru Suzuki
60 Satoshi Kojima
60 Togi Makabe
60 Yuji Nagata
55 Jushin Liger
55 Tomohiro Ishii
55 Toru Yano
50 Gedo
50 Kota Ibushi
50 KUSHIDA
50 Manabu Nakanishi
50 Yujiro Takahashi
45 Bad Luck Fale
45 Jado
45 Ryusuke Taguchi
45 Takashi Iizuka
45 Tiger Mask IV
45 Yoshinobu Kanemaru
45 Yoshitatsu
40 BUSHI
40 Davey Boy Smith Jr
40 Lance Archer
40 SANADA
40 Taka Michinoku
40 Tama Tonga
30 EVIL
30 Juice Robinson
30 Matt Jackson
30 Michael Elgin
30 Nick Jackson
30 Ricochet
30 Taichi
30 YOSHI-HASHI
25 Cody
25 El Desperado
25 Hiromu Takahashi
25 Rocky Romero
25 Will Ospreay
25 Zack Sabre Jr
20 Beretta
20 Hanson
20 Jay Briscoe
20 Mark Briscoe
20 Marty Scurll
20 Raymond Rowe
15 Chase Owens
15 David Finlay Jr
15 Jay White
15 SHO
15 YOH
10 Hirai Kawato
10 Takumi Honjo
10 Tanga Roa
10 Teruaki Kanemitsu

Newly added/no popularity in Japan
- Hangman Page
- Henare
- Katsuya Kitamura
- Leo Tonga
- Ren Narita
- Shota Umino
- Tetsuhiro Yagi
- Tomoyuki Oka

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Just finished work on NJPW's pop.

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80 Hiroshi Tanahashi
80 Kazuchika Okada
70 Kenny Omega
70 Tetsuya Naito
60 Hirooki Goto
60 Hiroyoshi Tenzan
60 Minoru Suzuki
60 Satoshi Kojima
60 Yuji Nagata
55 Togi Makabe
55 Tomohiro Ishii
50 Jushin Liger
50 Kota Ibushi
50 KUSHIDA
50 Manabu Nakanishi
45 Toru Yano
40 Bad Luck Fale
40 BUSHI
40 Davey Boy Smith Jr
40 EVIL
40 Gedo
40 Hiromu Takahashi
40 Jado
40 Lance Archer
40 Matt Jackson
40 Nick Jackson
40 Ryusuke Taguchi
40 SANADA
40 Takashi Iizuka
40 Tama Tonga
40 Tanga Loa
40 Tiger Mask IV
40 Yoshinobu Kanemaru
40 Yujiro Takahashi
30 Cody
30 Juice Robinson
30 Marty Scurll
30 Taichi
30 Will Ospreay
30 Zack Sabre Jr
25 David Finlay Jr
25 El Desperado
25 Jay White
25 Michael Elgin
25 Rocky Romero
25 SHO
25 Taka Michinoku
25 YOH
25 YOSHI-HASHI
20 Beretta
20 Jay Briscoe
20 Mark Briscoe
15 Hangman Page
10 Chase Owens
10 Henare
10 Hirai Kawato
10 Katsuya Kitamura
10 Leo Tonga
10 Ren Narita
10 Shota Umino
10 Teruaki Kanemitsu
10 Tetsuhiro Yagi
10 Tomoyuki Oka

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On 1/9/2018 at 18:27, TheWho87 said:

Time to work on Impact's pop, it's a little messed up due to their recent move to Canada, in the spoiler is their current pop in Canada, the first thing I'm going to do is drop Alberto to 50 and have him as a benchmark compared to WWE, chances are if he rejioned he'd be put into their rotation main eventers that I put around 50. Any opinions on changes @JohnnyNitro?

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Overall pop in Canada
60 Alberto El Patron
50 Ethan Carter III
50 Lashley
45 Eddie Edwards
45 James Storm
40 Abyss/Joseph Park
40 Homicide
40 Matt Sydal
30 Chris Adonis
30 Johnny Impact
30 Moose
25 DJ Z
25 Eli Drake
20 Grado
20 Jimmy Jacobs
20 Rosemary
20 Sienna
20 Sonjay Dutt
20 Tyson Dux
15 Andrew Everett
15 Braxton Sutter
15 Trevor Lee
10 Allie

These have local pop for Ontario
20 Chandler Park
15 Brent Banks
15 Mathieu St-Jacques
15 Phil Atlas
15 Sami Callihan
15 Thomas Dubois
10 Hannibal
10 KC Spinelli
10 RJ City
10 Tony Cage

And these have no pop in Canada
- Alisha Edwards
- Ava Storie
- Caleb Konley
- Dave Crist
- Dezmond Xavier
- Diamante
- El Hijo del Fantasma
- El Texano Jr
- Fallah Bahh
- Garza Jr
- Hakim Zane
- Hania
- Ishimori
- Jake Crist
- Jon Bolen
- Kaito Kiyomiya
- KM
- Kongo Kong
- Laredo Kid
- Laurel Van Ness
- Mario Bokara
- Ortiz
- Pagano
- Petey Williams
- Richard Justice
- Santana
- Taya Valkyrie

Good stuff, some minor tweaks:

Agree with the tweaks to Johnny Impact as hes quite over at the tapings and being pushed heavily as a main attraction. Also Jon Bolen & Kongo Kong work regularly in ontario for Scott D'Amore's BCW so should have some canadian pop - where you have put them is perfect. 

Moose should definitely be higher as he's been involved in two major storylines at last set of tapings and is very much being positioned as the future face of impact. The recent tapings have him in the title mix aswell. About 40 alongside Storm and Eli Drake would be perfect for him. 

Petey Williams should have a slightly higher canadian pop than the likes of Caleb Konley - around 25/30 would be perfect. He was VERY over at the Ontario tapings, so much so they changed original plans and had him in a title match.

FYI I'm putting together a full list of Impact arrivals, departures and changes from this week which ill post for you this evening. 

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2 minutes ago, JohnnyNitro said:

FYI I'm putting together a full list of Impact arrivals, departures and changes from this week which ill post for you this evening. 

That's great, although if they have left and is still champion (Laurel Van Ness), I wont remove them till when their title loss airs, although from the looks of it that may be March so a simple 1 month contract might be simpler for February.

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Impact Wrestling Changes from this weeks tapings in Orlando:

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Departures

- Remove Chris Adonis 

- Remove Ethan Carter III

- Remove Lashley

- Remove Laurel Van Ness

- Remove King Mo and any other American Top Team Guys on the roster. 

- Remove Ethan Page/Chandler Park

 

Arrivals

- Add Austin Aries as a Babyface, Cocky Gimmick

- Add Brian Cage as a Babyface, Same GImmick as he currently has set in LU - muscle bound bad ass basically.

- Add Su Yung as a Heel, im not sure what gimmick as i haven't seen her before but its quite similar to Rosemary's, facepainted demon, something close to that. 

- Add James Mitchell as a Babyface, Devil/Preacher gimmick, Push as Manager, Set as manager for Abyss

- Add Tommy Dreamer as a Babyface, Legend Gimmick, Semi Active Wrestler, Set push as Road Agent (he is currently acting as a backstage agent/producer but is set to wrestle aswell at the Redemption PPV)

- Add Jerry Lynn as a Babyface, Staff Member, Road Agent Push, he acted as backstage producer/agent at the recent taping.

- Add Tyrus as a Babyface, Bodyguard gimmick. He initially returned as EC3's manager but since a falling out has turned babyface with an anti-bullying gimmick...

- Add the Tag-Team TECH (Mike Monroe & TC Read) as Bayfaces. 

- Add Amber Nova as a Babyface

- Add Scott Steiner as a Heel, he was revealed as Eli Drakes tag-team partner when cashing in his feast or fired case. 

 

Talent Changes

- Change Hakim Zane's name to Rohit Raju. He is now going by this name. 

- Kiera Hogan should be set as a Face with Blue Chipper gimmick

- Braxton Sutter should be set as a Heel.

- Abyss/Joseph Park should be a Babyface

- Matt Sydal is now a Heel

- Add Josh Mathews as Matt Sydals manager.

- Fallah Bah should now be set as a Babyface. 

- Set Jimmy Jacobs as a Heel with a Manager push and set as manager for Kongo Kong. 

- Hania the Huntress should just be named Hania. She should be set as a heel. 

 

Title Changes

- Austin Aries is the New Impact Global Champion. He defeated Eli Drake on Jan 10th, set to air on February 1st via tape delay.

- Allie is the New Impact Knockouts Champion. He defeated Laurel Van Ness on Jan 12th, set to air around March 1st via tape delay.

- Matt Sydal is the New Impact X Division Champion. He defeated Ishimori on Jan 12th, set to air around March 1st via tape delay.

- Matt Sydal is no longer the Grand Champion. He awarded it to his spiritual advisor Josh Mathews on Jan 13th (Set to air March 8th). Austin Aries is the New Impact Grand Champion defeating Matt Sydal on Jan 14th (Set to air around March 29th). A merger of the Global and Grand championships along with title redesigns are believed to be on the cards.

 

Injuries/Other

- Sienna is currently in hospital with two blood clots on her lungs. 

- Diamante should return from her leg injury in a month. Set her starting injury to 4 weeks. 

- Sonjay Dutt underwent surgery for a torn achilles. is expected to be out for 6-12 months. Set as starting injury and set his push from in-ring to Road Agent. 

- DJZ and Andrew Everett are currently on loan to NOAH. Add PPA deals for them with NOAH set to expire in 3 months. 

 

Business Changes

- Add a broadcast agreement between Impact and Twitch. They are now on the ring covers and have announced a partnership for a 24/7 Impact channel and broadcast of exclusive matches and live events. 

- Change the April Pay-Per View to Redemption. The pay per view is to be held on April 22nd 2018 (April Wk 3) and will be held in Toronto. 

- The relationship between Impact and NJPW has come on strong since Don Callis and Scott D'Amore's appointments. Whilst no official working agreement has been announced yet it is expected down the line - i would at least add a Non-Agression pact between the two. 

 

Also have had no takers still to do the new IMPACT logo or the updated Slammiversary, Bound For Glory or the new Redemtpion logos. If i take a stab at them would you be willing to use them Who?

1 hour ago, TheWho87 said:

That's great, although if they have left and is still champion (Laurel Van Ness), I wont remove them till when their title loss airs, although from the looks of it that may be March so a simple 1 month contract might be simpler for February.

Grand. See above, with regards to title changes ive included the expected air dates to help you out. 

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1 minute ago, JohnnyNitro said:

Also have had no takers still to do the new IMPACT logo or the updated Slammiversary, Bound For Glory or the new Redemtpion logos. If i take a stab at them would you be willing to use them Who?

They changed their logo again?

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16 hours ago, TheWho87 said:

They changed their logo again?

lol yes it looks like it from some of the photos from the recent tapings! With the move to four sided ring they've taken away the six sided parted of the logo naturally and the green colouring that referenced GFW. Pretty much the same impact wrestling font though. Once a good image comes available which probably wont be until the new tapings start airing (next week?) ill post it up. 

Also cant believe i forgot but as it occurred at the previous tapings it probably slipped my mind:

- Remove James Storm

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According to DivaDirt.com, Hania has been fired from Impact Wrestling for refusing to do a 90-second job so remove her from the Impact roster.

I don't know if her attitude should be adjusted because from what I heard, she's quite hard to deal with so maybe that's worth checking out if it hasn't already been done.

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On 18/01/2018 at 18:43, Gabriel said:

Deathmatch workers will need to be updated at some point, with their personalities set to be Liberal, to allow for booking in Deathmatches.

Any chance of pointing me in the right direction of who to look at?

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7 minutes ago, TheWho87 said:

Any chance of pointing me in the right direction of who to look at?

So far, I've come across Masaya Takahashi, Ryuji Ito, Kendo Kashin, Masashi Takeda, and Takumi Tsukamoto needing to be adjusted. I will keep a list of any workers I find that are in the same boat and get them to you either in batches of 10, or I will send whatever I have when you post the February update. For now though, those 5 for sure.

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2 hours ago, LUKIE said:

Kendo Kashin is not a deathmatch worker.

He did two barbed wire matches in October for Onita's shows, and has been involved in extreme weapon gimmick matches in the past couple years.

EDIT: No light tube or glass panes as far as I can tell, but he should be capable of doing barbed wire matches, at the very least.

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On 20/01/2018 at 07:31, Gabriel said:

He did two barbed wire matches in October for Onita's shows, and has been involved in extreme weapon gimmick matches in the past couple years.

EDIT: No light tube or glass panes as far as I can tell, but he should be capable of doing barbed wire matches, at the very least.

Would this include OVE (Jake and Dave Crist, Sami Callihan) and LAX (Santana, Ortiz and Homicide) who recently featured in Barbed wire massacre 3? They are also not normally considered deathmatch workers per se but I suppose would need to be able to at least work barbed wired matches. 

For the record, Abyss, Sabu and Judas Mesias also competed in barbed wire matches in the past as well if that helps. 

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2 hours ago, JohnnyNitro said:

Would this include OVE (Jake and Dave Crist, Sami Callihan) and LAX (Santana, Ortiz and Homicide) who recently featured in Barbed wire massacre 3? They are also not normally considered deathmatch workers per se but I suppose would need to be able to at least work barbed wired matches. 

For the record, Abyss, Sabu and Judas Mesias also competed in barbed wire matches in the past as well if that helps. 

I think that would really just need a new match type. I feel like main companies like WWE/Impact who do barbed wire use gimmicked barbed wire so it just needs a match type with lower danger involved. 

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2 hours ago, Forever Forky said:

I think that would really just need a new match type. I feel like main companies like WWE/Impact who do barbed wire use gimmicked barbed wire so it just needs a match type with lower danger involved. 

Workers who do those matches, even the gimmicked ones, would need their personalities changed though anyways. I'm not 100% on this, but if the personality hasn't been set, and the Conservative-Liberal rating is smack dab in the middle, they won't be willing to do matches like that in the game.

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