TEW05 Real World Update: May 2011

[tougie]

Rename Bragging Rights, WWE Uprising

TNA Spoilers

- Abyss is the new X Division Champion

- Possibly turn Samoa Joe heel considering there is no tweener option.

- Add ODB to TNA as a midcard heel.

- Set Desmond Wolfe to authority figure and make his gimmick "people's boss" or whatever its called. Set his AF to rarely.

- Turn Anderson heel.

- Eric Young is the new TV champ.

- Maybe wait on this but the word is TNA is making a new belt for Xplosion called.....The TNA Xplosion Championship.

Edited May 18, 2011 by tougie

[ThTmp4]

Rename Bragging Rights, WWE Uprising

TNA Spoilers

- Abyss is the new X Division Champion

- Possibly turn Samoa Joe heel considering there is no tweener option.

- Add ODB to TNA as a midcard heel.

- Set Desmond Wolfe to authority figure and make his gimmick "people's boss" or whatever its called. Set his AF to rarely.

- Turn Anderson heel.

- Eric Young is the new TV champ.

- Maybe wait on this but the word is TNA is making a new belt for Xplosion called.....The TNA Xplosion Championship.

Don't make the Title. It's just a tournament with the winner getting a shot at any Champion on Impact Wrestling.

- Add Sonjay Dutt to JCW.

- Make a Tag Team in JCW with Officer Colt Cabana and Weedman. He's now Cabana's Deputy.

- Make a Tag Team in JCW with U-Gene and Zach Gowen. Low Experience.

Edited May 18, 2011 by ThTmp4

[TheWho87]

Finally got round to finish off the missing talent for FCW including the newly added talent today.

[tougie]

Still can't believe this, but remove Macho Man Randy Savage from the game. He died in a car accident this morning.

Also, the WWE has renamed Uprising to WWE Vengeance.

And Terry Taylor is leaving TNA on May 31st.

- Not sure if it was noted but Bo Rotundo is the FCW Heavyweight Champion

Edited May 21, 2011 by tougie

[ThTmp4]

ROH was just sold to Sinclair Broadcasting Group.

Press Release: Make changes as needed!

BRISTOL, PA. (MAY 21, 2011)–Ring of Honor Wrestling owner, Cary Silkin, announced today the sale of the promotion to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., one of the largest television broadcasters in the country and which owns and operates, programs, or provides sales services to 58 television stations in 35 markets across the United States.

ROH, currently the third largest wrestling promotion in the country, just celebrated its ninth anniversary, and Mr. Silkin is excited about taking the next step towards increasing the company’s visibility and expanding its operations.

“We have been waiting for and working for this opportunity for quite some time”, he said, “and of our 9 years in business, there has been no better roster of wrestlers than this one to expose the ROH product to the masses. With Sinclair’s resources and many avenues of distribution, we believe many new fans around the world will be as captivated as those who have followed Ring of Honor over the years.”

The month of September will see the debut of the new Ring of Honor television program which will be syndicated across the Sinclair network of stations, and with it, ROH will become the only wrestling promotion in the United States with a major, multi-market presence on broadcast TV. But if you don’t live in a market with a Sinclair station, fear not, says Mr. Silkin. “Through our revamped website we will be able to make the TV show available to anyone in the world with internet access.”

Sinclair officials are enthused about the project as well.

“We are very excited about this acquisition,” commented Steve Marks, COO of Sinclair’s Television Group. “Television and professional wrestling have a long history of successful partnerships and driving viewership. Unfortunately, the broadcast networks have not protected that relationship, allowing professional wrestling to migrate to cable network distribution. We believe that the powerful promotional platform that our TV stations provide, coupled with our 22% share of the U.S. TV households, will allow ROH to achieve name brand recognition and grow its share of the wrestling market. When you consider the makeup of our station mix and the number of CW, MYTV and FOX affiliates we operate, this is a perfect fit for our viewer demographics.” Mr. Marks also noted, “Longer-term, we can envision syndicating ROH wrestling to broadcasters in markets where Sinclair does not have a presence, and even internationally.”

Mr. Silkin assures the ROH fans worldwide that they will be seeing the same exciting, hard-hitting style of pro wrestling that they have become accustomed to. “We have established the name Ring of Honor as synonymous with the best in-ring action in the sport. The only thing that will change is that it will now be easier for fans around the world to follow. Our visibility will increase greatly–our production will be upgraded–but the work ethic of our incredible talent roster and our athletic style of wrestling will remain the same. This is what our fans have told us they want, and we will continue to give it to them.”

The current front office staff, including Cary Silkin, Syd Eick, and Ross Abrams, will remain with ROH going forward. Hunter Johnston, a favorite of ROH fans for years as the masked grappler Delirious, will still handle matchmaking, Jim Cornette will remain as executive producer, and other familiar faces like ring announcer Bobby Cruise and senior referee Todd Sinclair will be in place.”

Additionally, longtime wrestling broadcaster Kevin Kelly, already the voice of ROH internet pay-per-views, will assume the TV play-by-play chair this fall. Veteran NWA and WCW promoter Gary Juster will come aboard to be in charge of live event operations, which are planned to continue in current ROH markets as well as expanding into new locations concurrent with the increased TV exposure.

Mr. Cornette, who along with Mr. Johnston, will be in charge of talent and matchmaking, sees this as a new beginning for pro wrestling. “This is not old-school wrestling, and it’s not sports entertainment,” said Mr. Cornette. “This is wrestling for the 21st century, a new style developed by fresh, young stars that incorporates wrestling, mixed martial arts and high-flying, high-risk action with unique personalities, and it’s showcased by a sports-based presentation completely different from any other product out there. In my 30 years in the sport, it’s the most exciting live-event wrestling experience I’ve seen, and I’m thrilled to help bring it to broadcast TV.”

A major press conference, open to wrestling press and mainstream media alike, is being planned for Baltimore on Friday, June 24th. This event will feature a number of the ROH staff and wrestlers both announcing news about ROH’s future and answering questions. The media event will be presided over by new ROH COO, Joe Koff. Mr. Koff, a longtime Sinclair executive with an extensive background in TV sales and management, also has experience in pro wrestling television production and syndication. Most visible of his projects may have been the first-ever live, prime time syndicated pro wrestling events, the Battle of the Belts, which aired from 1985 to 1987. These Championship Wrestling from Florida-based cards were broadcast live to a syndicated network of stations and may be best-remembered for the classic Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham NWA World Title contest from St. Petersburg.

The press event will kick off a weekend which includes ROH’s next internet pay-per-view event, “Best In The World 2011,” live from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Sunday, June 26th at 4PM EST. In addition to all the top stars on the ROH roster, this event will feature the return of some favorite stars from Ring of Honor’s past, and can be ordered by anyone in the world with internet access through Gofightlive.tv for only $14.95. More information about Ring of Honor can be obtained through their website, www.rohwrestling.com

[tougie]

Doesn't really make a different that ROH was just sold, Silkin will still run day to day operations and should remain the owner. Only thing that might need to be changed is their money and a future TV show that is coming up.

[No1Thuganomic]

Ramon Loco and Matt Barella are the same person

I think its safe to change Matt Strikers status from inactive wrestler to retired wrestler. He hasn't wrestled a match in like 2 years and it doesn't look like he is going back into the ring in the near future.

Change Mick Foleys authority role to usually and his semi-active role to sometimes or rarely.

[ThTmp4]

Doesn't really make a different that ROH was just sold, Silkin will still run day to day operations and should remain the owner. Only thing that might need to be changed is their money and a future TV show that is coming up.

And some people needed to be added, read the release! lol

[TheWho87]

Just skimming through I only noticed possibly adding Gary Juster to the data/ROH but that’s about it.

Also since I don’t think there is any of the channels that Sinclair Broadcast Group own in the database I was thinking of removing most of those small level regional networks (all those -TV ones) and adding in a set of generic syndication networks that are low level get available all over the US, in short a generic set similar to the local networks but for each country and at the Small level.

[tougie]

Sinclair owns MyNetworkTV and the CW, both of which featured Smackdown in the past 6 years, so yeah.

ROH Spoiler

- Add Jimmy Jacobs to ROH as a midcard face.

Chikara Spoiler

- The UnStable should be set to inactive, stable and tag team. Colin Delaney/Olsen is teaming with Jimmy Olsen again, Stigma and Vin Gerard have disbanded after losing a match to 3.0

Edited May 22, 2011 by tougie

[modernoni]

No, SBG owns affiliates of The CW and MyNetworkTV. Huge difference. As such, just because ROH is going to be on The CW in one state doesn't mean it will be on The CW in another state and there likely won't be a set time when ROH is on across the country. It's not a TV deal with a specific network so it's not comparable with WWE's Smackdown timeslot. It's syndication. It'll probably just get jammed into the schedule wherever the network can fit it like what happens with local programming on said stations.

[tougie]

No, SBG owns affiliates of The CW and MyNetworkTV. Huge difference. As such, just because ROH is going to be on The CW in one state doesn't mean it will be on The CW in another state and there likely won't be a set time when ROH is on across the country. It's not a TV deal with a specific network so it's not comparable with WWE's Smackdown timeslot. It's syndication. It'll probably just get jammed into the schedule wherever the network can fit it like what happens with local programming on said stations.

Either way, it's still going to be featured on a network owned by Sinclair, and they are aiming for a September debut. So for now, obviously there isn't anything to do in the data besides possibly giving ROH more money as I said, it's been noted that Cornette and Delirious will over see the wrestling side while Joe Koff of Sinclair will be ROH's Vice President of Operations. So adjust that as you will. But regarding the TV slot, obviously it's not been decided yet.

[super]

You may want to put Kevin Nash and Steve Borden in as friends.

[ThTmp4]

No, SBG owns affiliates of The CW and MyNetworkTV. Huge difference. As such, just because ROH is going to be on The CW in one state doesn't mean it will be on The CW in another state and there likely won't be a set time when ROH is on across the country. It's not a TV deal with a specific network so it's not comparable with WWE's Smackdown timeslot. It's syndication. It'll probably just get jammed into the schedule wherever the network can fit it like what happens with local programming on said stations.

They also own affiliates of NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX.

[HeyHey666]

Add Kurt Angle as Protege of Vince McMahon.

Add friendship between Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon.

[Syrjis]

-Shouldn't Paul Lloyd, Jr. & Heath Miller be in the SD! roster? Or have I missed something?

-Same for Joe Hennig being in the RAW roster and on The New Nexus?

WWE OTL spoiler:

-The Miz lost the I Quit match.

Edited May 23, 2011 by Syrjis

[TheWho87]

What I'm going to do is remove most of the small level networks such as CKPG-T, CKVU-TV, KBBC-TV and the such (will be keeping KDOC-TV, WKYI-TV, WKYT-TV and WOBZ-TV since there are shows airing on them). and add in a generic syndication network for America, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Europe and Japan set at Very Small.

[ThTmp4]

Here's a couple pictures of MVP with the NJPW Intercontinental Title. Shouldn't be too hard to cut it out. If any better pictures come up, I'll try to post them.

[TheWho87]

Here's a couple pictures of MVP with the NJPW Intercontinental Title. Shouldn't be too hard to cut it out. If any better pictures come up, I'll try to post them.

If you went to www.wildcatbelts.com you would of found the original.

[ThTmp4]

Here's a couple pictures of MVP with the NJPW Intercontinental Title. Shouldn't be too hard to cut it out. If any better pictures come up, I'll try to post them.

If you went to www.wildcatbelts.com you would of found the original.

Well Then! I'll bookmark that link for the future!