TheWho87 Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 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? Spoiler 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) Here is their updated pop, added in all those missing except Solo Darling (last worked in 2016) and Stella Grey (not enough info). Spoiler 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 Edited January 15, 2018 by TheWho87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJE Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) 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? Edited January 15, 2018 by Kevin Elliott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 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. Spoiler 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 Just finished work on NJPW's pop. Spoiler 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyNitro Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 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? Reveal hidden contents 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyNitro Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Impact Wrestling Changes from this weeks tapings in Orlando: Spoiler 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyNitro Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Deathmatch workers will need to be updated at some point, with their personalities set to be Liberal, to allow for booking in Deathmatches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWho87 Posted January 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Kendo Kashin is not a deathmatch worker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited January 20, 2018 by Gabriel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyNitro Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draevyn Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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