Dan B.

APW owner Roland Alexander has passed away.

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/118-daily-updates/33847-roland-alexander-passes-away

Change Ayako Hamada nationality to Japanese

Most sources I've seen have her born in Mexico City?

Remove Lance Hoyt from FWE. Japan commitments have prevented him from working HOH3 as scheduled

The nice thing about EWR's Japanese system is that, they only make workers unavailable for specific dates. Hoyt can stay in FWE, while also having a touring commitment... We can just assume that the FWE event was one of the dates that Hoyt was "on tour" and unavailable for FWE. If he's not working for FWE at all, that's a different story, but it sounds like in this instance, the dates just didn't allow him to work one specific show. Please let me know if I'm wrong on this.

-Bill

HOH3 would've been his FWE/HOH debut. As I recall, he was announced along with several returning stars (i.e. Tara), so I put the suggestion to add him to FWE with them. Since he's now off of HOH3, has not been booked for FWE's next show (Open Weight Grand Prix: Second Round in Dec.) either, and hasn't worked for them in the past, I'd just remove him for the time being. In the future I'll wait to suggest roster additions until the show actually happens.

Thanks for the update btw!

For my two cents re: relationships, I'd also suggest being more stringent on Love relationships and limiting them to only marriages, engagements and known long-term, multi-year relationships (think Candido and Sunny), thus cutting out ones based on simply "so-and-so is dating so-and-so this month."

At worst, I've seen Love relationships suggested based solely on two workers being photographed together (to be fair, I believe those were shot down pretty quickly in the suggestions thread and didn't actually make it into the game), but even not factoring that kind of thing there's always a lot of "dating" relationships that are put into the game and a month or two later have to be removed, or worse, don't get removed as details of someone's private life aren't made public right away and thus just make the game inaccurate by sticking around (for instance, James Storm still had a Love relationship with Crystal Louthan in the game until fairly recently - at least as recent as the Feb. 2013 data - despite being married to someone else outside the business for around two years IRL).

In my reading of the in-game FAQ, the game itself seems to support this:

Love is for long-term non-marital relationships or marriages.

Seems like doing this would reduce at least a fair chunk of the Relationships file and save some work on Bill's end as far as adding and removing relationships goes.

I remember rumors of Undertaker and Michelle McCool because of the paparazzi pictures of them just standing together and getting lunch. It's not like they were caught kissing or something in these pictures. What do you know, it was true.

The problem is we don't know which relationship will last or not. For instance, Tammy Sytch and Chris Candido were on breaks at point (remember Shawn's "Sunny days" comment to Bret?) Some relationships are fuzzy. That's an issue. I think we should have it be at least a year (or the worker(s)) say they have dated for a year before we add the relationship going forward

The specific incident I had in mind was when several months ago a Love relationship was suggested for Brad Maddox and Paige with the sole evidence being a single photo of them standing side-by-side and smiling. IMO, more direct evidence would be needed than just a few out-of-context, not-specifically-romantic pictures to warrant anything being added to the game - I wasn't an active poster yet when the Taker-McCool relationship was added (could've been lurking then, but don't remember it specifically), but I'd like to think it wasn't put in the game until more solid evidence than just those pictures came to light.

A period of a year or so sounds like a good rule of thumb. Of course it'll never be completely foolproof; long-term relationships or marriages can break up, people who have split can get back together, etc. But being more stringent as to what goes in in the first place can make it that much easier to manage when something does have to change.

For my two cents re: relationships, I'd also suggest being more stringent on Love relationships and limiting them to only marriages, engagements and known long-term, multi-year relationships (think Candido and Sunny), thus cutting out ones based on simply "so-and-so is dating so-and-so this month."

At worst, I've seen Love relationships suggested based solely on two workers being photographed together (to be fair, I believe those were shot down pretty quickly in the suggestions thread and didn't actually make it into the game), but even not factoring that kind of thing there's always a lot of "dating" relationships that are put into the game and a month or two later have to be removed, or worse, don't get removed as details of someone's private life aren't made public right away and thus just make the game inaccurate by sticking around (for instance, James Storm still had a Love relationship with Crystal Louthan in the game until fairly recently - at least as recent as the Feb. 2013 data - despite being married to someone else outside the business for around two years IRL).

In my reading of the in-game FAQ, the game itself seems to support this:

Love is for long-term non-marital relationships or marriages.

Seems like doing this would reduce at least a fair chunk of the Relationships file and save some work on Bill's end as far as adding and removing relationships goes.

Remove Goldust and Lance Hoyt from FWE. Their other commitments (Goldust with WWE, Hoyt in Japan) have prevented them from working HOH3 as scheduled; since neither have worked for FWE or HOH in the past I'd remove them until they actually show up there.

Per this article, add a friendship, perhaps even loyalty between Rosita and Tommy Dreamer. http://www.chinlock.com/2013/10/thea-trinidad-triumph-and-tragedy/ (great read overall, btw)

I'll be at HOH3 on the 9th so I'll fill in any other necessary updates for FWE afterward.

More BFG spoilers

AJ Styles is the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Chris Sabin is the new TNA X Division Champion.

Gail Kim is the new TNA Knockouts Champion.

Make Magnus' primary finisher the King's Lynn Cloverleaf (submission) and secondary the Mag Daddy Driver (impact)

Add Norv Fernum as an alter-ego for Peter Avalon.

Add Ted DiBiase (Jr.) and Rhett Titus to the FWE roster, both as heels - both worked tonight's Open Weight Grand Prix, and DiBiase will also work HOH3 next month.

Add Karen Jarrett to FWE as a face Authority Figure.

Switch Petey Williams' TNA contract to Open and add him to FWE as a heel. As of next month he'll have worked five consecutive FWE/HOH shows.

So Cal Val arrested and charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident - http://pwinsider.com/article/80323/former-tna-knockout-arrested.html?p=1

Drop her behavior by the usual amount for this sort of thing (5 points?).

Add Devon and Stevie Richards to FWE under the HOH roster.

Add a tag team for Devon and DOC, "Aces and Eights II," 10 exp., inactive.

Make Isis the Amazon a non-wrestler (retired 2011 per Cagematch).

Set Paddy Morrow's age to 29 and birth month to December (per Cagematch).

From FWE's Facebook:

Got some shitty news for everyone. Ring of Honor has decided their talent can no longer appear on our iPPV's. This means that ROH has pulled Mike Bennett, ROH pulled the surprise return of Matt Taven and for the second show in a row ROH has pulled Jay Lethal. Replacements will be named shortly and we apologize for the misunderstanding.

Remove Jay Lethal and Mike Bennett from FWE. (No word yet on if and how this affects FWE Women's Champ Maria Kannellis.)

Add DOC, Lance Hoyt, Matt Hardy, Reby Sky and Sonjay Dutt to FWE under the HOH brand - all will be on the 11/9 show (DOC, as "The Big XLG," was also at HOH1).

Name: Pierre Vachon

Short Name: The Beast

Gender: Male

Age: 33 (guess)

Birth Month: October

Weight: Heavy

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/ms28hm5

Nationality: American

Over: 11

Brawl: 59

Speed: 9

Tech: 7

Char: 56

Stiff: 49

Sell: 43

Att: 90

Behav: 90

Tick: Menacing, Trainer

Primary Finisher: Legacy of Pain (impact)

Secondary Finisher: Splash (ground)

Speaks: Yes

Wage: 6k

Contracts: none, heel, Monster

Alter Egos: The Beast, Pierre The Beast Vachon, Chad Peters

Relationships: n/a

Add Serena Deeb to FWE on an open contract. She's been announced for their October event.

SoCal Val posted the following on Twitter tonight:

"Thank u #ImpactWrestling ,the lockerroom & esp the fans for 9 wonderful years. No longer w the company. Really excited 2 see what's NEXT!"

Remove So Cal Val from TNA. (Perhaps change her position to Manager?)

Thanks as always!

Couple of quick alignment tweaks for FWE:

Eddie Kingston - heel

Homicide - heel

James Maritato/Little Guido - face

Jimmy Yang - tweener, perhaps (he worked as a heel with his Akio gimmick against Paul London at Welcome to the Rumble 2, then as a face later the same night with his Flying Elvises gimmick in the rumble match)

Katarina Leigh - face (could probably stand a gimmick change too as she doesn't really do the Supernatural thing anymore - Mysterious, perhaps?)

Maria Kanellis - heel

Shawn Daivari - face (he worked as a face against Crowbar at HOH 1; probably change gimmick to Old School Face)

Also...

Nick Berk should be the manager of Big Daddy V (as Nicky Benz, he managed BDV at HOH 1).

Reactivate the tag team of Love and Winter (they teamed up at Welcome to the Rumble 2 last month); rename team to Love and Katarina.

Maybe make Vik Dalishus a heavyweight - he was already borderline, and looks to have put on a fair amount of weight lately.

For anyone wanting them, here's the FWE logo and banner graphics I made:

One more FWE update for me this month.

Add JP

Name: JP

Short Name: JP

Gender: Male

Age: 29

Birth Month: April

Weight: Heavy

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/mzmh2xn (left)

Nationality: American

Over: 9

Brawl: 63

Speed: 21

Tech: 34

Char: 61

Stiff: 60

Sell: 72

Att: 95

Behav: 95

Tick: 95

Primary Finisher: Fireman Carry Facebuster (impact)

Secondary Finisher: Schoolboy (impact)

Speaks: Yes

Wage: 4k

Contracts: FWE, open contract, opener, heel, Fitness Instructor

Alter Egos: John Redbeard, John RedBeard

Relationships: n/a

Other: Managed by AJ Pan

Add M3

Name: M3

Short Name: M3

Gender: Male

Age: 27 (guess)

Birth Month: Unknown

Weight: Light

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/mzmh2xn (right)

Nationality: American

Over: 9

Brawl: 35

Speed: 51

Tech: 39

Char: 49

Stiff: 39

Sell: 63

Att: 95

Behav: 95

Tick: n/a

Primary Finisher: Floatover Cutter (impact)

Secondary Finisher: Floatover Cutter (impact)

Speaks: Yes

Wage: 4k

Contracts: FWE, open contract, opener, heel, Fitness Instructor

Alter Egos: Mike Mitchell, Mint Mike Mitchell, Mike Kettel

Relationships: n/a

Other: Managed by AJ Pan

Add a tag team for JP and M3 called The ExerGuys, 8 exp., active

Also, the FWE training camp should be named "HOH Wrestling Academy."

Stephen DeAngelis is the ring announcer for HOH events; he could be added to FWE as a staff member.

As far as event names go, thus far the only names repeated in the company's short history have been "No Limits," "Welcome to the Rumble" and the HOH-branded shows, and same-named shows haven't necessarily been the same month year-by-year. But, here's a selection of past event names and the months they've been held to do with what you will. As far as event size goes, their shows have been broadcast on iPPV since last October; I assume that qualifies as PPV in-game.

No Limits (February)

Welcome to the Rumble # (March and June)

The Big Kabosh (April)

Meltdown (May)

Dysfunctional Family (June)

Empire State Showdown (August)

Back 2 Brooklyn (October)

Fallout (November)

House of Hardcore # (June, October and [upcoming] November)

The next promotion I'm wanting to add is Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE), but I dunno if that'll happen in time for the August update, as I still have no idea on what their promotion Size, Money, Image, Risk, Production, Advertising and Merchandising should be. I have little more than a roster for them. I don't even have suggestions for the images (Prestige, not pics) of the belts. Without this info, I'd be taking a lot of shots in the dark as to what to give them.

This is my first shot at promotion stats, so if anyone wants to edit me feel free.

Name: Family Wrestling Entertainment

Initials: FWE

Logo: http://tinyurl.com/k4b4g5k

Banner: http://tinyurl.com/lwxg3kk

Size: Regional

Based in: America

Money: 2.4 mil

Image: 55

Large Event Announcers: none (should be owner Jordan Schneider, but the game won't let him be two places at once) and either Katarina Leigh or Matt Striker

Roster Splits: HOH

Risk: 68

Production: 60

Advertising: 55

Merchandising: 36

Development Territory: n/a

Training Camp: House of Hardcore School, camp facilities Average, head trainer none (should be Tommy Dreamer, but he's a worker)

Titles:

FWE Heavyweight Title - 40 image, currently held by John Morrison

FWE Tri-Borough Title - 28 image, currently held by Paul London

FWE Tag Team Title - 19 image, currently held by EJ Risk (still needs to be added) and VSK

Add FWE owner Jordan Schneider to the game.

Name: Jordan Schneider

Gender: Male

Picture: http://tinyurl.com/lkxde48

Birth Month: January

Age: 29

Employer: FWE

Contract: Written

Position: Owner

Wage: n/a

Talent: 74

Backstage: 91

Tick Unsackable and Booker

Owner Style: Normal

When I have time I'll still try to work up stats for some more of the missing workers and staff.

Totally forgot the women's strap.

FWE Women's Title - 23 image, currently held by Maria Kanellis

Edit: My bad. Moved it.

The next promotion I'm wanting to add is Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE), but I dunno if that'll happen in time for the August update, as I still have no idea on what their promotion Size, Money, Image, Risk, Production, Advertising and Merchandising should be. I have little more than a roster for them. I don't even have suggestions for the images (Prestige, not pics) of the belts. Without this info, I'd be taking a lot of shots in the dark as to what to give them.

This is my first shot at promotion stats, so if anyone wants to edit me feel free.

When I have time I'll still try to work up stats for some more of the missing workers and staff.

Impact spoilers

Add Rampage Jackson to the Main Event Mafia.

Vacate the X Division Title - Sabin cashed it in for the World Title shot next week.

One question regarding FWE: The HOH Roster that was posted... Should that be a roster split then?

That's what I figured. FWE co-promotes HOH shows, their top title has been defended at both HOH shows to date, and there's a lot of crossover between their rosters (the separate HOH roster I did for the roster split is those that have *only* done HOH-branded shows thus far).

Is Stone Cold E.T. a wrestler? Thought that was just a bizarre viral video.

A wrestler at least insofar as that he can get in the ring, do the Stunner and a few other basic moves and comedy spots, and take a few bumps, yes. He was in the 30-man Rumble at the most recent FWE show.

That said I probably did overrate that brawl skill, so I'll go back and change that.

Family Wrestling Entertainment: Again, good on info and relatively recent as well. My main question is, are all of the "big names" on the roster there frequently, or is it just a mishmash roster with a bunch of one-off appearances?

The big names on my roster list (Dreamer, Masters, Carlito, Cabana, London, Kendrick, Bucks, etc.) are all regulars. John Morrison is one of the most recent additions, but as he's currently their top champ (as of 6/21) doubtless he'll be sticking around for awhile. I tried to leave off the one-shot guest appearances as much as possible (Rhino, for instance, wrestled on one FWE and one HOH show last October, but hasn't appeared for them since, and RVD wrestled Dreamer at the show I went to two weeks ago but that was one-and-done since he's on his way back to WWE).

Offhand the ones that could go either way: Jay Lethal is a former FWE champ but hadn't appeared for them much since going back to ROH, but did make a surprise appearance at their last show, and Robbie E may not appear for FWE anymore now that TNA is on the road. Also, Matt Striker made his FWE debut at their last show, but as he's NYC-local it seems likely that he'd become a regular at least to do commentary (Edit: FWE's Facebook confirmed Striker will be on hand at their next show on 10/12).

I will go back over my roster list with a fine-toothed comb though as there might be a few of the lower-tier guys that haven't appeared in awhile and could be omitted (I've noticed that Hawaii Allen, for instance, doesn't have an FWE match listed on Cagematch in over a year - fortunately he's not in the game yet anyway).

Edit:

Add Stone Cold ET to the game.

Name: Stone Cold ET

Short Name: SCET

Gender: Male

Age: 31

Birth Month: June

Weight: Light

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/l5g6lgr

Nationality: American

Over: 25

Brawl: 28

Speed: 12

Tech: 15

Char: 72

Stiff: 29

Sell: 48

Att: 90

Behav: 85

Tick: n/a

Primary Finisher: Stunner (impact)

Secondary Finisher: Stunner (impact)

Speaks: Yes

Wage: 5k

Contracts: FWE (if added), open contract, face, opener, Impressionist or Comedy Character

Alter Egos: Stone Cold E.T., SCET, Matt Girdwain

Relationships: n/a

Add AJ Pan to the game.

Name: AJ Pan

Short Name: Pan

Gender: Male

Age: 33

Birth Month: May

Weight: Light

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/kx6waft

Nationality: American

Over: 35

Brawl: 10

Speed: 2

Tech: 6

Char: 73

Stiff: 25

Sell: 41

Att: 90

Behav: 95

Tick: Booker

Primary Finisher: Low Blow (impact)

Secondary Finisher: Low Blow (impact)

Speaks: Yes

Wage: 7k

Contracts: FWE (if added), written contract, heel, manager, Sports Agent

Alter Egos: A.J. Pan, Anthony Panarella, America's Favorite Agent

Relationships: n/a

Any chance of adding Family Wrestling Entertainment?

http://www.fwewrestling.com/

Probably biased since I was second row at Welcome to the Rumble 2 in Queens a little more than a week ago, but I know I'd love to see FWE added. As they co-promote Dreamer's House of Hardcore shows (and the FWE title is defended at those events), perhaps HOH could be a roster split for FWE if it were added.

That said a fair number of FWE's undercarders and staff members would have to be added to the game. I'll try to come up with a cursory roster list just for exploratory purposes.

Edit: Here's the roster listing I've come up with. Feel free to make corrections/alterations/suggestions.

FWE roster

AJ Pan (manager) [needs to be added]

Akio Yang (Jimmy Yang)

Alex Reynolds

Angelina Love

Azrieal

Bandido Jr.

Big Daddy V

Brian Kendrick

Carlito Colon

Chris Masters

Chris Rockwell

Colt Cabana

Damien Darling [needs to be added]

Diamond Dee (manager) [needs to be added]

EJ Risk [needs to be added]

Harry Smith

Hawaii Allen [needs to be added]

Ivelisse Velez

Jason Gotti

Jay Lethal

Jigsaw

Jillian Hall

Joey Ace [needs to be added]

John Morrison

Johnny Knockout [needs to be added]

Jorge Santi [needs to be added]

JP [needs to be added]

Kasey Ray (manager)

Katarina Leigh

K-Murda

K-Pusha

M3 [needs to be added]

Malta the Damager [needs to be added]

Maria Kanellis

Maryse Ouellet

Matt Jackson

Matt Striker

Melina

Mike Bennett

Nick Jackson

Paul London

Petey Williams

Rick Silver

Robbie E

Rosita

Sam Shields

Shawn Daivari

Sonjay Dutt

Stone Cold ET [needs to be added]

The Patriot (Tom Brandi)

The Sandman

Tommy Dreamer

Tony Nese

VSK

Wes Draven

Xander Page [needs to be added]

HOH roster (excluding those who also work FWE-branded shows)

Crowbar (Devon Storm)

Danny Doring

Eddie Kingston

Hale Collins

Homicide

Larry Dallas (manager)

Little Guido (James Maritato)

Montel Vontavious Porter

Nicky Benz (Nick Berk) (manager)

Rick Steiner

Scott Steiner

Too Cold Scorpio

Vik Dalishus

Tag Teams

Adrenaline Express - EJ Risk & VSK

All Money Is Legal - K-Murda & K-Pusha

Diamond Inc. - Jason Gotti & Joey Ace

London and Kendrick

Midnight Sensations - Chris Rockwell & Sam Shields

The ExerGuys - JP & M3

The Steiner Brothers - Rick & Scott Steiner

The Young Bucks - Matt & Nick Jackson

Staff

Jordan Schneider - owner/announcer [needs to be added]

Kevin Keenan - referee

Uncle Steven - referee [needs to be added]

Titles

FWE Heavyweight Championship - John Morrison

FWE Tri-Borough Championship - Paul London

FWE Women's Championship - Maria Kanellis

FWE Tag Team Championship - Adrenaline Express (EJ Risk & VSK)

Impact spoilers

Activate tag team Main Event Mafia (Kurt Angle & Sting).

Maybe add a stable for Main Event Mafia with Angle and Sting (or just wait until a third member is added).

Vacate the Knockouts Tag Team Title.