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Great opener with the ladies! I always like seeing the DDT ending matches! Excellent cage match, and I'm delighted to see Kevin Von Erich come out on top! Cool main event! Jim Neidhart looks really strong going forward!

I'd love to see Colonel DeBeers have to take on Ron Simmons! Nice squash here for Lord Humongous! Great angle with Jeff Jarrett and Jacqueline Moore! Loved the Jake Roberts interview! Awesome save from Jerry Lawler! Excellent TV main event, with an explosive finish!

Dusty Rhodes versus Dino Bravo is a match I'm definitely looking forward to. Loved the interview segments! This WrestleMania V is looking great!

Chris Candido and Louie Spicolli look really good putting up such a fight with the Midnight Express! Really stuck the segment with Bret Hart and Steve Austin. The Diamond Exchange won't know what hit 'em! Brian Pillman versus Cactus Jack is a great TV main event! I like how the Wild Things are developing! Both announced matches for the Mega Show look great! I'm excited!

Very interested to see how Jamie Dundee does going forward! Always nice to see the Dynamite Kid picking up wins! Ron Garvin and the Road Warriors vs Bob Orton, Ole Anderson and Harley is such a good TV main event!

Great back-to-back matches to close the show! Loved the visual right at the end!

Great smarmy heel promo from Brian Adias here! Excited to see how much of an impact Hulk Hogan makes! Loved that six-man tag! Really fun post-match segment for the main event!

This show has done amazing work to hype up WrestleMania! Rick Martel versus the Great Muta is going to be something else!

Building my excitement for the Von Erichs taking on the Hart Foundation very well here! Davey Boy Smith in a TV main event, getting a lovely powerslam on a big guy, perfect WWF!

Barry Windham and the Undertaker vs Scott Hall and Ricky Steamboat is such a great main event! Steve Austin vs Gary Albright is a solid match, nice to see it was competitive. Here's hoping Steven Regal will get another shot at the California title somewhere down the line!

Loved the post-match angle for Road Warrior Hawk vs Ole Anderson! SuperBrawl is shaping up nicely!

Really happy to see Misty Blue Simmes go over here! Fun brawl with Raymond Rougeau and Mike Lozanski. It'll be interesting to see what you do with that guy. Great tag team action to end the show!

Loved the video for Dory, here's hoping he'll make a big impact! A singles outing is a great way to tease the tag title match, really fun finish as well! Cool main event, solid performance from Leo Burke, and Ray Stevens has a nice promo to end the show. Jumbo Tsuruta vs Hulk Hogan is money!

Fun brawl to end the show! Dusty Rhodes and the Von Erichs make for such a cool babyface trio!

Wonder Women of Wrestling - Postscript (OOC) Having enjoyed myself immensely with this project, and being gutted that it ended so anti-climactically, I wanted to offer some final thoughts. This all began as an attempt simply to spice up my own territory. A women's division seemed like a fun side project and, yet, the further I took it, the more I realised that I could build a promotion that almost functioned as its own separate world, with total freedom to reimagine women's wrestling in the United States. From the beginning I had a singular vision: I wanted to create the anti-GLOW. I allowed for some parallels, of course, since it isn't as though I have some burning hatred of the promotion, but I wanted a "sports-based" product that took women's wrestling seriously. There was always going to be a little trouble, there, of course, in terms of plausibility. I'm sure everyone here has at one time entertained the fantasy of Jim Cornette keeping SMW open another year, in time for the wrestling boom, or Bill Watts getting his hands on the money to sustain the UWF, the AWA keeping their hands on Hulk Hogan, and so on and so forth, but for women's wrestling there's really nothing seize upon, certainly not in the eighties, apart from the one thing I didn't want to do. I hedged my bets, there, and tried to put a lot of emphasis on the commercial aspects of the promotion, with as many sponsorships as possible. An idea I considered, for example, was having the women - or at least the top stars - all wear jackets to the ring, with sponsors on them. Beyond that, I tried to create, in the form of the "season" system, a way to generate storylines somewhat organically, though I never got to really show that off, as it would've taken about half a year longer to create a real sense of the winners and losers of the first season. Of course, I had my big stars and I identified them early, namely Wendi Richter and Madusa Miceli. Something I was perhaps a little too pleased with was changing the latter's name to Medusa. It's an idea I'd had for many years before I even knew this place existed, and comes from a concept I developed that I might eventually share. Of course, I wanted her to be my top heel with the idea, a few years down the line, being to see if I could pull off a big double turn passing-of-the-torch moment between WWF's top girl of the 80s and the WWF's top girl of the early 90s. In the meantime, I wanted faction warfare, which is perhaps my favourite trope in professional wrestling. If I were to do it all over again, I would definitely have defined my stables earlier on and given them a sharper sense of character. Anyway, this has gone far beyond being just a few quick afterthoughts so I'll stop here. I want to say a big thank you to everyone who commented week to week, and I'm so glad to see the game still going strong after poor health took me away from it.

Cracking build-up for the whole promotion here! I'm glad to see the women getting a lot of attention! Really cool way to build heat for Ryuma Go! Hopefully Jacques Rougeau will be able to get some measure of revenge at a later date! Dramatic way to end the show, and I'm wondering who will figure how to stop the Destruction Crew!

Just look at that card! Unreal amount of talent! I don't ever want this run for Brian Pillman to stop! I hope we get another go-around with Eddie Guerrero and Steven Regal at some point!

The Youngbloods versus the Eliminators is such a solid TV opener! A wild brawl between Manny Fernandez and Dick Slater is a great way to go off the air, I hope the blow-off will be suitably violent!

I had a blast reading through the rumble! Big Bossman had a really impressive run! Randy Savage versus the Ultimate Warrior could be an amazing programme!

Between the prose and having seen a few different runs of that bout, it was so easy to visualise the main event. Great win for Nobuhiko Takada!

Dusty Rhodes versus Terry Funk back-to-back with Ric Flair versus Sting! Wow, wow, wow! The tag team division is suitably stacked.

SuperClash was an absolutely tremendous show and it's cool to see the effects continue to ripple out. I'm really digging the solid push for Tom Brandi. Buzz Sawyer looks like an absolute beast coming off his brutal fight with Carlos Colon, really credible opponent for Mr Wonderful!

What a main event! I had in my mind the idea "well, there's two ways this could play out" but this was a refreshing third that I wasn't expecting.

OOC: Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I've been sick for the past three days. I'm still going to try to stay on schedule but I might not be able to.

Wonder Women of Wrestling – Episode No. CVIII – 21st of December 1987 – Airing Live! – Las Vegas, Nevada Advertised Match: Wendi Richter versus Debbie Combs for the NWA United States Women’s Championship We open this week’s programme with a brief rundown of the card, before heading into our traditional opener. The newly vacant television title is being contested by Misty Blue Simmes and Princess Delta Dawn. The narrative for this one is quite simple, with the multi-time champ heading up against a rookie with power on her side. We get a fun back-and-forth for a while but eventually it becomes obvious that Princess Delta Dawn has missed her chance to put this one away and Misty Blue Simmes has managed to run her ragged before going in for the kill. Misty Blue Simmes defeats Princess Delta Dawn in 12:29 by pinfall after a diving splash to win the WWW Television Championship A hype package for the main event then takes us through to the interviews. Princess Delta Dawn is all thunder and fire, as she shouts her way through a promo, lambasting the company for granting her opponent yet another chance for a short reign with the belt. Misty Blue Simmes chats happily about her victory but says she feels the need to prove herself by swiftly gaining the US title. A commercial break then takes us to our first season match of the night. With their partners in their corner, we have Kat Le Roux taking on Reggie Bennett. A heel affair, through and through, this match is nasty from the start, with brawling around the ring, constant interference and ridiculous amounts of rule-breaking. In the end, the finish sees Linda Dallas successfully distract Reggie Bennett before getting knocked down hard by Rhonda Singh, a trade she’s happy to make as it allows Kat LeRoux to get a three count by the skin of her teeth. Kat LeRoux defeats Reggie Bennett in 13:46 by pinfall with a schoolboy roll-up in a Season Match Before we can cut to a promotional video, the fighting has already started up again as the Monsters beat their opponents savagely. The Nasty Girls eventually make a break for it, running up the entrance ramp, passing the Giant Slayers who’re refusing to let this opportunity pass them by, diving right into the fight, and getting some hard hits in before the officials can swarm in and regain control. Another commercial is then followed by another season match, as Desiree Petersen, fresh off her brawl with the Monsters, takes on Ashly Kennedy. With her teammates arrayed around the ring, ready to deal with the Monsters if they come back for round two, Desiree Petersen is free to give her opponent her full attention. Whilst remaining respectful, letting Ashly Kennedy catch her breath here and there, the leader of the Giant Slayers dominates the proceedings and the match serves as a showcase of her skill and her moveset. Desiree Petersen defeats Ashly Kennedy in 09:51 by submission with a Boston crab in a Season Match A promotional music video for Medusa Miceli then plays and we head to the interviews. Ashly Kennedy pouts and whines, backed up in all of her accusations towards her opponent by Brittany Brown. The Giant Slayers begin to chat away happily, before having their interview broken up by the Monsters, who barrel into them and restart the brawl, this time on their terms. We cut to commercials amidst the chaos. When we return, we have a badly bruised Selina Majors facing off against the former Monster, Mad Maxine. The result is a deeply one-sided affair as the big woman demolishes her opposition. Mad Maxine defeats Selina Majors in 08:02 by pinfall after a vertical suplex in a Season Match Another hype package for the main event then plays and we get to the interviews. Selina Majors is buoyed by her comrades, who blame the Monsters for her loss, remaining on guard throughout. Mad Maxine implies she is upset that her victory was tainted by her opponent’s altercations from earlier in the night. After another commercial break, we arrive at our penultimate match, with one again featuring the Giant Slayers, with Winona Little Heart and Susan Starr, both a little beaten up, going up against each other. This respectful and clean contest is fairly even but there is never any doubt that Winona Little Heart is the one in control and Susan Starr is the one struggling to keep up. The finish is textbook. Winona Little Heart defeats Susan Starr in 08:30 by pinfall with a victory roll in a Season Match A video showing off another sponsored charity drive then follows before we head to the interviews. The Giant Slayers use the opportunity to talk about the Monsters and their desire to steal their title belts away from them. A commercial break then takes us through to our main event. Debbie Combs is already in the ring, pacing around nervously, and Wendi Richter is beginning to take a drawn-out journey down the ramp. Just before she gets into the ring, however, Medusa Miceli rushes down with a steel chair and strikes her hard across one of her legs. Staff members rush to take the world champion away, though she has thrown her weapon and is walking off by the time they arrive, and a few officials fuss over Wendi Richter. Enraged, however, the champ clambers into the ring and asks the referee to ring the bell. The commentators mention the fact that she is just one defence away from an automatic match for the world title. The contest is brutal, as Debbie Combs senses blood in the water and hones in on her opponent’s leg and proceeds to torture her. By the time we return from a commercial break, both women are exhausted and bruised and the champ is in tears. Desperate for someway to equalise things, Wendi Richter wraps her arms tight around Debbie Combs' neck and drags her to the turnbuckle, trying to choke the life out of her, positioning herself on the bottom rope and lifting her off canvas. Initially trying to be lenient, after the five count has long since expired and Wendi Richter has ignored several warnings, the referee calls for the bell, and Debbie Combs is finally given some respite. Debbie Combs defeats Wendi Richter in 18:49 by disqualification but the NWA United States Women’s Championship does not change hands As Debbie Combs hugs the ropes and gaps for breath, Wendi Richter screams and raves at the referee, as Pat Patterson and a gaggle of officials rush down to the ring. Intense conversations are held that last for a minute or so before Pat Patterson speaks to Debbie Combs, seeming to suggest that what happens next is up to her. After a few moments of contemplation, the challenger asks for another chance, which, as it happens, provokes an evil smile from Wendi Richter. The next ten minutes are even nastier, as both women try to hurt each other as much as they try to win. With the two in a weakened state, it all seems to come down to who has just a little more gas in the tank. In the end, it’s the champion. Wendi Richter defeats Debbie Combs in 11:03 by pinfall after a powerbomb to retain the NWA United States Women’s Championship We end on a shot of badly beaten Wendi Richter, struggling to ascend the turnbuckle and show off her title.