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• End working agreement between CMLL and ROH

https://www.tpww.net/2021/04/cmll-ends-working-partnership-with-roh/

• Add El Phantasmo to Impact

On 23/04/2021 at 09:52, C-MIL said:

It's going to be MLW Fusion.

- Thanks C-Mil. So not a new show? Does this mean Fusion is on two channels? or the BEIN Sports deal ended? Starts this Saturday on VICETV at 12pm so add in an afternoon timeslot @TheWho87

Some Impact Wrestling Updates following Rebellion

• Josh Alexander is the X-Division Champion
• Jordynne Grace and Rachael Ellering are the Knockouts Tag-Team Champions (Create a Tag-Team for them)
• Add Taylor Wilde to Impact Wrestling as a Babyface, Girl Next Door gimmick. 
• Kenny Omega is the Impact Wrestling World Champion
• Add Big Cass/Cas XL/Bill Morrisey to Impact Wrestling as a Heel, under the ring name W.Morrissey

• End working agreement between CMLL and ROH

https://www.tpww.net/2021/04/cmll-ends-working-partnership-with-roh/

Speaking of MLW, im sure your probably aware but just in case - MLW have a new TV Deal with VICE TV, starting May 1st

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/04/mlw-announces-new-tv-deal-with-vice-tv/

Haven't seen any details about what the show is called but imagine it will air as a lead-in for Dark Side of the Ring as NJPW was pitched that when they talked with them. Maybe just call it MLW on VICETV until they confirm a show name. 

17 hours ago, TheWho87 said:

Is Before the Impact the new Xplosion, is so they can be added.

Yes its replaced Xplosion, the cancelled the show for BTI.

- Is it just my DB or is christian cage not with AEW for some reason? Just added him back in in mine.

- Remove occasional wrestler for DDP, he said his match on AEW was to be his last ever. Should he be under contract or handshake deal with AEW? Or does he not appear on the show at all these days?

- Set a photo for Erick Redbeard, currently blank / looking for a missing file name. 

- Set Ashley Lane to left the business. 

- Add Diamante to AEW under a PPA Handshake deal, she seems to be working their B Shows regularly enough.

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=8526&page=4

- Whats going on with the pop stats? Noticed like Grado for example has 0 pop in america but he was on impact for ages, surely deserved something there? or is this to stop american promotions picking him up as hes currently UK based? Theres a few other known names like this too, tessa blanchard was pretty low stats etc - not knocking, trust theres some sort of reasoning behind it. 

- Change Impact Wrestling shown on to Thursdays, they moved nights now NXT moved to Tuesday. Set to Tape 4 episodes at a time as impact do once a month mass tapings these days. 

- Add Before the Impact - shown on Thursdays. B Show, 1Hr, Tape 4 Shows at a time. Announcers Josh Mathews, Gia Miller and John Burton (Latter two will need importing). It airs directly before Impact so broadcast deal is with AXS TV and airs in Evening slot, 10% to company and 20 quality (slight less that impact as it is a pre-show). 

Heres the logo if someone could cut it. 

- Set the Decay stable to must involve Rosemary

- Tried enabling AEW Dark Elevation but they wont seem to tape it, can you only record two shows on the same day in game?

- Disband the Hurt Business, i heard they split up.

- Remove Matt Hardy, Isiah Kennedy and Marq Quen from Impact. 

- They appear to be having matches and exclusive promos on Before the Impact now, the 1hour pre-show on AXS TV that airs right before Impact. @TheWho87 What's the possibility of adding that as a TV Show even if its kept dormant and players can choose to activate it? Hosts are Josh Matthews, Gia Miller and Tom Burton. 

- Remove Neveah from Impact Wrestling.

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/04/nevaeh-leaves-impact-wrestling/

- Remove Alex Shelley from Impact Wrestling.

- Change Cousin Jake's name to Jake Something in Impact and gimmick from Redneck to Bad Ass. 

7 hours ago, Owen said:

Just going through the mod, it looks good but I've noticed Kota Ibushi is still set as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion. Will Ospreay should be the current IWGP World Heavyweight champion.

On this, i dont follow japanese wrestling that much but according to wikipedia the IWGP Heavyweight Championship is retired. It was unified with Intercontinental title and the new belt is the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship starting with Ibushi and now Ospreay? Should this be reflected in game or is it really just an extension to the original heavyweight belt and treated as such?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWGP_World_Heavyweight_Championship 

Another great update who! thanks.  

- Quick small thing i noticed but International Wrestling Syndicates logo dosent show, they are looking for IWS.jpg but its been changed to IWS (Can), anyone can change this themselves in two seconds so not a biggy, just something for the next update. 

- I think you can remove the broadcasting deals for Impact  TV and PPV on Nittele G+ in Japan. I cannot find any mention of them broadcasting impact on their website or elsewhere at the minute so i'm guessing this deal has expired and they are no longer on the air in japan.

- They do have a deal with Sony Ten to air Impact Wrestling TV in India (one of their best earners if im not mistaken so up the to company percentage to 20% maybe) and it airs in an afternoon slot. 

- WWE 205 Live should be set to held on Friday, shown on friday (it's usually taped/broadcast before or after Smackdown)

- WWE Main Event should set to held on Monday shown on Thursday (its taped prior to RAW).

Also quick question. I know this mod has India disabled but there are Indian broadcasters in the mod, so is there any advantage to starting with it enabled - i.e. you can still get broadcast revenue for deals there or will the fact theres no active promotions there cause issues in game?

4 minutes ago, TheWho87 said:

That's know.

These will be in May, not the post mania update.

No probs. 

Also saying this respectfully as someone who loves a bit of Impact Wrestling but should NXT not be ranked ahead of them in the company wars? NXT and AEW drawing 700k range in ratings at the moment, Impact 160k-ish, even accounting for the less well known TV channel, they probably are more popular these days? 1. WWE, 2. NJPW, 3. AEW, 4. NXT, 5. Impact Wrestling sounds about right to me.

Spoilers since she hasn’t appeared on tv yet but they have announced it on tv.

- Add Sam Beale to Impact under a handshake deal as a babyface. 

- Remove Jazz from Impact she lost a retirement match at Hardcore Justice. 

Would someone be able to create a custom logo for Impact Wrestling in the below style.

So for example the iMPACT! bit exactly the same but the gold writing set below it instead of above and just saying WRESTLING instead of Total non stop action wrestling. 

On 07/04/2021 at 16:59, TheWho87 said:

Can't wait till their back in May.

LOL its always these two aswell, never seen a tag team hop in and out as much in my life. 

Also remove from Impact -

 - Melissa Santos 

- Renee Michelle

- Killer Kelly

- Konnan

Remove Reno Scum (Adam Thornstowe and Luster the Legend) from Impact, their contracts have expired and not renewed. 
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/04/reno-scum-announces-impact-departure/

Starting injury for Eric Young - https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/03/impact-wrestling-star-out-of-action-for-several-months/

Random question but I notice in your mod Who you'll randomly get non promotion shows like "US Independent Wrestling Event" with results etc which is pretty cool. How is this triggered in game? Or is it automatic for all games? Ive noticed it in your mod but cannot say i have in others (though most of those other mods i play are historical if that makes a difference?). 

- Add Chris Mordetzky to NWA under the name Chris Adonis, heel.

- remove James Storm from the NWA roster 

- Add Brian Pillman Jr and Griff Garrison to AEW under handshake deals, they have been working there since July and June of 2020 respectfully. Pillman has vocally wanted out of his Written MLW deal which expires in July but has worked a handshake deal with AEW alongside MLW at present. Both standard gimmicks, family tradition and varsity blond. I set them as Heel as thats what Pillman has on his MLW deal but i dont watch much AEW so perhaps someone who sees that show more can confirm.

Edit: They are Babyfaces

- Add a Tag Team called "The Varsity Blonds" to AEW consisting of Brian Pillman Jr and Griff Garrison. 

- Add Leyla Hirsch to AEW. 

- Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH) Stable needs to have must involve set to Shane Taylor. Had a news item about him being kicked out of the group in my first save  

- Add Tyrus (George Murdoch) to NWA, Written, Babyface.

- Add JR Kratos to NWA, Written, Heel

- Add Slice Boogie to NWA, Handshake PPA, Babyface, Traditional Standard Gimmick

- Add Jordan Clearwater to NWA, Handshake PPA

Couple more Impact Updates, in spoiler quotes for those who haven't watched Sacrifice yet. 

21 hours ago, TheWho87 said:

This is the map I use for my mod, all those regions covered that are not reflected are in Southern Europe.

Thats fair enough, southern europe then as tiny instead of eastern europe, wasnt sure what countries fell under what will keep that map handy. 

- Add Billy Kidman to WWE under a written deal as a road agent. He was furloughed last year but was brought back, returned on September 25, 2020.

- Add Rampage Brown to a written deal with NXT UK. And remove him from Progress and RPW UK.

Another great update Who. Some Impact Wrestling updates for the next one. 

- Add David Finlay (David Finlay Jr) and Juice Robinson to Impact under handshake deals as Babyfaces. Add a tag team for them as FinJuice.

- Add a working agreement between Impact Wrestling and NJPW. 

- Change Manik back to TJP. 

- Remove Impact Wrestling TV and PPV UK broadcasting deals with BoxNation and Youtube their site is listing it now as premiering on Impact Plus at 3am GMT each Wednesday as well as on 5Star.

- Set Xplosion to a dormant show and remove broadcasting deals. It appears Impact has put the show on "extended hiatus" to focus on this new Before the Impact show they have on AXS. 

- Would it be possible to add eastern Europe coverage as tiny for Fight Network as I see on the impact site the show airs in PORTUGAL, TURKEY, GREECE, BULGARIA, SERBIA & MONTENEGRO, BOSNIA on there, looks like Mediterranean and iberia is set already but eastern europe should cover bulgaria/serbia etc.

- If possible could you update the Impact Wrestling Event schedule as some of the PPV names and orders are a bit out of date now, and you already have logos for many of the ones to be included. Based on the events held in the last two years i'd recommend the following:

- And some NWA Updates.

- Remove broadcasting deal with Youtube.

- Add NWA Power broadcast deal with Fite TV

- Add Events Deal with Fite TV, Early Evening Slot

https://lastwordonsports.com/prowrestling/2021/03/02/nwa-partnership-fite-tv/

- Update NWA March event to "Back for the Attack" Week 3, Sunday.

Few new additions to NXT, (Spoiler Tags in case anyone not watched takeover). 

16 hours ago, TheWho87 said:

That is because for its size and current money it will e a considerable financial drain, that's why all own roadcasters except for WWE and NJPW hare only active in their home region, with WWE and NJPW large enough with enough money to survive the costs.

Ah ok, apologies I know there are some sacrifices of accuracy in the db for playability purposes just wasn't aware of this one, thought it was an oversight. Do you know out of interest roughly how much it costs adding a region? Considering it seems to be the main UK broadcaster for them i'd be keen to add the UK Britain and Ireland regions, might make the change and run some test saves to see what kind of impact it has on the finances. 

Add Black Taurus to Impact Wrestling as a Heel Monster/Brute/Gimmicky gimmick. He appeared on impact last night joining decay.

Add Black Taurus to the Decay stable alongside Rosemary and Crazzy Steve. 

Can you update the Impact Plus app broadcaster. Currently only shows coverage for USA and Canada but is available worldwide. Especially important for UK as they are now touting this as their main home for Impact in the UK now are off Freesports. 

NJPW have a new tv deal with ROKU. 

https://411mania.com/wrestling/njpw-content-coming-to-the-roku-channel/

its non exclusive, interesting some of the networks that were in talks for a deal too, might be worth adding them to the database as they seem interested in wrestling content. I know ESPN is already in the database not sure if VICE and CBS Sports Network are (i'm not at my main PC to check)

https://411mania.com/wrestling/details-on-more-networks-njpw-negotiated-with-prior-to-roku-channel-deal/

 - Add ODB to Impact on a handshake deal as a babyface she returned on this weeks show.

 - Update on the Impact TV Deal in the UK. Looks like whilst Impact is off of Freesports they have signed a new deal with BoxNation. PPVs and Impact will be moving to BOXNATION from next week as they are already on the schedule. Not sure if BoxNation is already in the game or not? But if they could be added. 

Impact Wrestling to air Thursdays at 8-10 and a replay on Friday 7-9 

PPVs staying live in the UK on boxnation instead of premier sports 1 

Strangely they will also continue to air Impact Wrestling on 5Star 1hr after BoxNation air it for the second time. 

And obviously as they've announced they will also be streaming it on youtube. 

- Remove Impact Wrestling TV and PPV/Event Broadcasting deals with Freesport and Premier Sports respectively. 

- Add a Broadcasting deal for Impact Wrestling TV show in UK & Ireland for Youtube and Facebook. Given it's airing near to the US broadcast that would be a Late Night slot or Graveyard slot? I'm not quite sure of what hours contribute to what slot - if anyone has that info can you post, i'd appreciate it for reference. I'm guessing the PPVs will no longer air in the UK now or will move to Impact+ app but they havent mentioned them.