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Fucking bring it! If Hayabusa can prove himself in the Grand Slam tournament, then he can prove it anywhere. Also if any chumps from the UWFi want to show up for the Grand Slam tournament, then they can be embarrassed by the most bad ass wrestling in the world's history. Are you running the tournament in September? I may have a couple of guys interested in winning your little garbage tournament, but most of them will be in training for their big fights at UWFi Late Summer Night's Dream at the Tokyo Dome. Which has nearly sold out in advance without any matchups announced and without a roster even finalized. The fans just saw the first 10 names and said "yeah, we wanna see whatever thats going to be."

EXACTLY

FMW started as Onita vs Karate Fighter Aoyagi. Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling. Maybe Hayabusa wants to "prove himself" like Onita against "real fighters." Maybe Fujiwara is like "don't worry fellas, I got this." So Fuji wears a crown of barbed wire to the ring that he uses to headbutt/maim Hayabusa. And imagine REGAL's facial expression after almost getting thrown into barbed wire.

This is EXACTLY why UWFi is going to invade FMW.

The new talent thing is a great question because I absolutely thought about sending Mark Henry to the UWFi dojo for 6 months.

God do I want to draft Terry Funk, send him to the Fujiwara school of shoot wrestling and bring them back as an angry veteran tag team. But I just can't justify it.

Yeah great pick finding someone with ace potential so late!

I was playing with the idea of going for Hase. But Fujiwara fits into my plans way better and I wasn't going to risk taking Hase and having someone draft Fuji out of spite. Norton is a great pick and was an UWFi alternative. Underrated as a worker and star

Takada walks to the podium and starts to announce UWFi's next pick. "Uwfi selects Fi" Suddenly a door bursts open and a masked man walks up to the podium. Takada audibly says "who are you" only to be met with a massive headbutt. As Takada looks up through his bloody face he recoils in horror as he sees the unmistakable face and hears the words. "Yoshiaki Fujiwara is coming to UWFI, bitches." the grizzled legend smiles and steps over Takada as he exits the stage.

On the draft list is Yoshihiro Akiyama supposed to be Yoshihisa Yamamoto?

I'm intrigued by ECW too. Owen Hart would be fucking amazing in that environment either in workrate matches with topropepodcast's other picks Benoit/Malenko or trolling the ECW Vampries with Cactus. And Goldust! I mean holy crap. All of our rosters are better than what happened in real life. Good work so far everyone.

ECWA doing a HELL of a job with their roster on limited resources. Hot damn.

I need to start figuring out some guys who will actually lose matches. We're a couple of top names away from having to be booked like 80s All Japan. Edit Really I'll probably need to run split crews. It's early obviously, but my top tier is ridiculous for starting in September 1995. The UWFi vs NJ feud was just about to start in real life and that was the biggest feud in wrestling in late 95 early 96. Hash vs Takada was the blowoff. Akira Maeda was getting older in 1995 but he is/awas absolutely a major star in Japan still and a Maeda vs Takada match in real life in this time period also would have been huge. Now add Vader and Dr Death. And Tamura is knocking on the door of the top tier. And its not like I protected Sakuraba & Takayama or reached for Regal to job them out. I like those guys and have big plans. So yeah, I'm gonna need to run spit crews. Or since Pride isn't going to exist, maybe I actually will run all stadium/dome shows. Make me Tier B+ and give me access to 22-36 picks

Liger and Kanemoto are great foundational picks for any juniors division though and there's still some REALLY great juniors talent out there! You got this!

I've basically missed out on 1 guy I was heavily targeting before this started: Tenryu. And I had him below Hashimoto on my depth chart. Things are breaking perfectly thus far for what I had planned/hoped. "If I can't land Hashimoto or Tenryu, I'll reach down and grab Maeda with my first pick." "In a perfect world, I'll land Vader, but I'd be happy with Dr Death. Or I could grab Regal and build him up." Or, I'll just draft ALL of them US PPVs may have to be a thing for this group if I can convince WCW to lend me Tenay and Dusty for commentary

Nobuhko Takada, unimpressed with all the controversy, casually strolls to the podium. "UWFi selects His Lordship. Steven Regal." *drops mic*

I loved Ahmed Johnson as a kid. Great pick. So...is UWFi up?

I think that's a good plan. Good riddance to Bruno.

Right on.

He's in the mix. Japan & US Tier A & B only.

Yeah just let me know when its cool to pick.

There is an incredibly great Kiyoshi Tamura vs Gary Albright match from 1994 and Doc is like a rich man's Albright. In addition to being a top name in All Japan, Doc also has the "real wrestler/tough guy" credentials that would fit into UWFi. "Hey Doc, instead of the Oklahoma Stampede, how about you try and bash dudes in the face really hard?" UWFi is so loaded at this point that I'm playing around with injury angles already

And there it is

Mocho Cota would be an awesome addition to UWFI. Really him and Casas I could see working the style well.