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And lots of angry fans. I'm thinking of using a "heels ascending" angle to set up my big January Show. I hope I can do as good a job of that as you are doing here.

Thanks. I hope I can do those quarter-final match-ups justice. All right! Expensive sushi for dinner tonight! Actually... it's not Maeda who is proving difficult this time around... It's always my goal that every wrestler who comes over here goes home looking at least a little better. I don't always achieve that goal, but that is what I'm shooting for. Jumbo and Brody still doing work as is Fujinami.... JWA Tournament Match: Tatsumi Fujinami vs Adrian Adonis -Fujinami goes on here. JWA Tournament Match: Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda -I think Maeda is a dark horse here. JWA Tournament Match: Bruiser Brody vs Tiger Mask Sayama -Still thinking Brody is the man JWA Tournament Match: Riki Choshu vs Jumbo Tsuruta -Jumbo's coming out party... he is the man to beat the man who bet Inoki. Pretty good predictions! Choshu vs Jumbo is proving pretty difficult to write up for whatever reason. One of those guys has to go over clean, without making the other look bad.

nice story-line there with Big Dust as the special ref! Even with just two matches announced, that card in New Orleans looks like a must-see.

It's cool to see young Bam Bam headlining and defending his title, and Killer Khan is a great match-up for him.

The Fantastics vs The Hart Foundation is a perfect '80s WWF TV Main Event.

I like how you are building something for Mr. Electricity off of that house show match in Saskatchewan. I wonder who his tag partner will be.

I'm looking forward to seeing the names people come up with, and I'm going to enjoy seeing more guys like the "Duke of Dorchester" get a win once in a while.

Perfect ending to a damn good show.

That is a near-perfect album cover. It takes about 45 minutes or so for the pro wrestling connection to become apparent...but once it does, Holy Moley!

I think it's great how your house shows often have surprising results or long, epic battles. It's nice to reward the paying crowds sometimes.

It's interesting that WTVT decided to name a wrestling program after an Italian painter of the 16th-century Venetian school.

Biggest victories of Steve Regal's career: 1) Teaming with Jimmy Garvin as the Freebirds, and beating the Road Warriors for the Tag Belts. 2) Winning a tournament to be crowned Pacific Northwest champion. 3) Beating Dory, Jr. on a house show in Saskatchewan.

Yeah, Adonis and Murdoch were both NJPW regulars in the early 1980s. According to Cagematch, it looks like Adonis had 45 matches in New Japan in '85 alone, working there from March through June. He had another big run in NJPW in '88. A few of the guys on my roster, such as Inoki and Sayama, are pretty famous for being marks for themselves and hating to do jobs. A couple of guys are famous for being sometimes being bad tempered and difficult to work with, particularly Maeda. I want to address that in the project, without dwelling on it too much. My hope is that with guys like Baba and Jumbo setting a good example and with Baba's payoffs presumably being really good, and with guys like Andre and Fujiwara around to serve as "policemen" if things go out of control... hopefully everyone can learn to be team players and good soldiers... ...but yeah, I figure with a roster like this you simply have more guys who can work on top than you have top slots available, so there will always be some issues with bruised egos and so on.

JWA Press Release: JWA Japanese Championship Tournament Round 3 July 17, Okayama Budokan. To be aired live on Asahi TV as a special presentation of JWA World Pro Wrestling Please note: Due to extenuating circumstances, the match-ups for round three of the tournament have been changed, as below: Keiichi Yamada vs Naoki Sano Shinya Hashimoto, Keiji Mutoh, and Masa Chono vs Takashi Ishikawa, Nobuhiko Takada, and Masa Fuchi Antonio Inoki, Seiji Sakaguchi, The Cobra, and Toshiaki Kawada vs Umanosuke Ueda, Anoaro Atisanoe, Siva Afi, and Tatsutoshi Goto JWA Champion Tenryu, Yoshiaki Yatsu, and Ashura Hara vs Kengo Kimura, Blade Runner Sting, and Osamu Kido ***BREAK*** JWA Tournament Match: Tatsumi Fujinami vs Adrian Adonis JWA Tournament Match: Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda JWA Tournament Match: Bruiser Brody vs Tiger Mask Sayama JWA Tournament Match: Riki Choshu vs Jumbo Tsuruta Respectfully, JWA President and Founder, Shohei Baba JWA Vice President, Motoko Baba JWA Managing Director, Hisashi Shinma JWA Booker, gordi

I love the idea that Mulligan has been hospitalized by a Heart Punch. The detail of Kendall being by his side really makes that work.

I love Fire Pro. It probably has almost as much to do with getting me into Japanese Pro Wrestling as any other single factor. As mentioned, the roster, the gameplay, and the CAW mode are all unbeatable.

JWA Japanese Championship Tournament Round 2, Day 2 July 11, Osaka Prefectural Gym Koshinaka, Mutoh, and Yamada vs The Cobra, Kawada, and Ogawa We started out with Mutoh’s athleticism and flash vs Kawada’s toughness, transitioned into Koshinaka beating on Ogawa until he used his trickiness to get the tag, then The Cobra beating on Yamada until he used his quickness to escape… Then The Cobra and Koshinaka battling to a stalemate, then Kawada and Yamada doing the same… then finally Mutoh taking Ogawa out at the knees with a Low Angle Dropkick, doing more damage with a Dragon Screw, and finishing the match with a Figure Four. Yoshiaki Yatsu and Nobuhiko Takada vs Phil Hickerson and Yoji Anjo Takada and Anjo exchanged precision strikes, and Hickerson and Yatsu exchanged clubbering blows. How much more do you need out of a wrestling match? Some heel work and a bit of grappling? OK! Hickerson hit Takada with a low blow while the ref wasn’t looking and Anjo tried to sink in a Cross Armbreaker, but Takada reversed it and forced Anjo to submit. JWA Tournament Match: Tiger Mask Sayama vs Samson Fuyuki This was pretty close to a squash match, as Sayama ran through his extended move-set and gave Fuyuki next to nothing on offense. Baba didn’t seem too happy about that, and I’m hoping we don’t have another ‘Antonio Inoki’ type situation on our hands. JWA Tournament Match: Tatsumi Fujinami vs Siva Afi In sharp contrast to Sayama, Fujinami gave Afi a ton of shine by bumping and selling for his chops, kicks, and head-butts. After a good seven minutes of that, Afi went for the Big Diving Splash but Fujinami moved out of the way and took over the match. Even with all the momentum on Fujinami’s side, Afi got a near-fall after a Cross Body. After kicking out, Fujinami redoubled his efforts on offense and knocked Siva Afi all around the ring. A Dragon Backbreaker followed by a Dragon Suplex ended things at the 19 minute mark. ***BREAK*** JWA Tournament Match: Adrian Adonis vs Ashura Hara This was high-speed, back-and-forth big man brawling. Hara got a 2.5 count after a Lariat and a 2.99 after a Superplex, but in the end Goodnight Irene put the big former rugby star to sleep, giving us a second gaijin heel in the quarter-finals. JWA Middleweight Champion Dos Caras vs Black Tiger With Kengo Kimura, Blade Runner Sting, and Shinya Hashimoto all standing guard for their Fujinami’s Family stable-mate, Choshu’s Army were unable to interfere in this match and Black Tiger was forced to rely on his own ability in trying to regain the Middleweight Title. He came very close, battering the new champion with European Uppercuts, and getting a very close near-fall after a nasty looking Neckbreaker. Dos Caras, however, managed to reverse Black Tiger’s subsequent Tombstone Piledriver attempt. Once he gained control of the match, Dos Caras kept the pressure on, battering Black Tiger with Flying Cross Chops, twisting his limbs on the mat, and finally putting him away with a Sit-out Powerbomb to earn his first successful title defense. JWA Tag Champions The Giants vs Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi Having flown all the way from Canada, where he had been defending the NWA Canadian International Heavyweight Championship while dealing with sneak attacks from The Creatchman Family, The Machines, *and* The Bolshevik Revolution, Andre was in pretty rough shape when he arrived in Osaka. “I’m sorry boss,” he told Baba. “You are going to have to carry the weight in this one.” Baba gave it his all, and even a diminished Andre is still a force to be reckoned with… but Inoki and Sakaguchi brought their “A” games to this one and wore The Giants down with precision strikes and well-timed double team manoeuvres. Every chance they got, they sunk in a Chin Lock or Sleeper Hold to wear the big men down further. After more than 20 minutes of action, Inoki Drop-Kicked Andre off of the ring apron while Sakaguchi leapt on Baba’s back and sunk in yet another punishing Sleeper Hold. Baba fell to one knee but continued to struggle… then eventually he toppled face-first into the mat with Sakaguchi relentlessly applying the hold. Referee Joe Higuchi checked on Giant Baba, raising his arm three times with no response. He signalled for the bell. Inoki and Sakaguchi celebrated in the ring briefly, but stopped to check on Baba and Andre. All four men shook hands and bowed, then Andre and Baba made their way to the back and let Inoki and Sakaguchi soak in the cheers of the crowd and enjoy their victory. JWA Tournament 3rd Round Match-ups: Choshu vs Sayama Fujinami vs Adonis Tsuruta vs Maeda Brody vs Fujiwara

I'm looking forward to those cage matches. Also, I always like the honest approach, like when one of us writes something like "Really a pretty bad match..." I think it adds tot he realism of this project. They can't all be barn-burners.

I genuinely enjoyed Roman and Strowman, as foemen, roamin' in the gloaming. But... The announcers with their "serious voices" and in particular Dingleberry all stuttering and finding it hard to get his words out in the aftermath of that ridiculous angle. Yikes. That was BRUTAL.

Chamber of Horrors!!!

Nice booking, with the Main Event building up two matches on the Birmingham show.

Thanks! I'm having fun writing that one up. Very much my pleasure. I'm enjoying learning about these wrestlers as well. Well... It's Black Tiger Rocco, not Black Tiger Eddie... hope that's still at least a "Yesssss". Thanks! I've got young Hashimoto, young Misawa, young Kawada, futureLiger, and a whole lot more of my all-time favourite pro wrestlers on this roster. I feel like the most "important" thing I have to do in this project is bring them along in their development at the right pace. Hopefully I'll still be doing this in four years, when they are ready to start moving up the cards.

Asian Cooger.

I like the contrast in how you use attacks and interference to set up for future matches... but with Bravo vs Funk you users respectful challenge and a handshake