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I vote for New Japan. I think they have the most interesting scenario to play with. 1) Their US expansion has been struggling, and now they have the red hot AEW with a lot of stars they helped build to contend with as well as WWE, but WWEs internal rot gives them opportunities to acquire nationally recognized US talent that could be complete game changers in that equation, amd that could lead to a full-fledged War to see if either if these upstarts have what it takes to become the new dominate force in North America, or if WWE can right its ship and beat both challengers back. Plus they have to deal with their dissatisfaction with ROH as a US partner. Can they find some way to help that promotion to improve, or shall they cut bait and seek a new partner for their trans-Pacific invasion on the American market? 2) On the home front they are finding a lot of success in their expansion into local markets in Southeast Asia and Australia, but they have to be mindful of WWEs heavy investment via their NXT program into China and the fact that they continue to strip the Australian Indy scene bare at every opportunity. WWE may have problems, but they still have more money than god, and that can make things very difficult as New Japan attempts to maintain its own momentum and revenue to support its American venture since they are eyeing Asia as a potential goldmine. A wrestlemania in Beijing may be closer than anyone thinks, and that could be a huge threat to New Japan's dominace on the Eastern side of the globe, especially if their efforts to break out in North America encourages WWE to try and actively undermine them. 3) Internally New Japan has a big "problem," in that after investing years and years into the creation of an incredible young Ace to lead the company for the next several decades in Okada, and then using him to have the most lucrative and legendary run in their company's history, they've also managed to book previous Ace Tanahashi back into being the most popular man in all of Japanese wrestling AND to maintain the red-hot popularity of ultimate antihero Naito ABOVE that of Okada even without giving him a run on top for nearly a year AND finally secure the long-term commitment of long-persued golden goose Ibushi. How do you use Tanahashi to your advantage when his body is falling apart but your fans are treating him as if he's returned to his prime and should be the Ace again? How do you manage a next-generation Hashimoto/Mutoh/Chono in Ibushi, Okada and Naito to maximize your company's success? How do you continue to build your top Gaijin star Jay White in this overwhelmingly stacked Main Event scene? What about the rising stars of your upper midcard like Sanada, do you feed them to this crop of megastars or give them a chance to join those ranks? How do you use Jon Moxley when hes the hottest act in wrestling but is also tied to AEW, which you may soon be at war with? How do you use KENTA after the damage WWE did to him? How do you use Kenny Omega, or do you use him at all, and how might that affect Ibushi now that you finally have him long term? Is there any chance Shibata, who has become a near mythical figure after his injury, might return to the ring? Your Jrs division is hotter than ever thanks to Ospreay, ZSJ, Shinto, Dragon Lee and others, how do you capitalize in that? Your tag division is struggling, how do you fix that? The Bullet Club brand is waning, can you inject new life into a giant money maker, or do you abandon it for something new? And perhaps most importantly: your coming up on your first ever two day Wrestlekingdom: how do you book such an experimental show? Yes, New Japan is the one we should tackle.
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1) Keep risk value the same. Moxley needs to be able to do some hardcore wrestling like he did last weekend since it was a stellar main event and all of Moxley's matches have the wrestling fan world buzzing, but we don't need to be at light tube levels. We're on cable for god's sake. 68% should be a good sweet spot for the moment. 2) Raise Production by 6%. With TNT helping defray our production costs we've come a long way already in putting on a slick, modern and high quality product that visually competes with WWE, but we need improvements. Double or Nothing and Fyter Fest both featured botches in music and entrances, sound balancing, camera work, and direction (particularly camera cuts). If we're going to make a good first impression when our TV starts, we need to have those issues ironed out! 3) Raise Advertisement to 70%. AEW isn't just a T-shirt company! For all the jokes the Bucks put out on twitter about it, and as much of a lifeblood as merch sales are to a wrestling company, we're on the verge of a full-scale public launch. As enthused as our fans are about the product based on the ticket demand for All Out, we haven't managed to sell out Fight for the Fallen yet, and to me that smells like a failure to get the product's name out there to "average," fans. During the leadup to our television debut, we need as much advertisement as we can get so AEW is the word on everyone's tongue! Once we've settled in, we can rebalance and move back toward merchandise, but for now, lets go ALL IN on ads. 4) Don't open a Camp or Developmental. There's merit in planning for the future, but right now we have a LOT of young talent on our roster that we can develop already. Every wrestler on the indy scene is eyeing us as the new hot thing, and we have the cash to lock them down. There is major unrest in WWE, meaning we could be flooded with top-tier talent with national recognition at any time. Let the training and development of new wrestlers fall to smaller promotions and privately owned schools for now. They're an expense we don't need this early in the game and given the pool of talent we already have to draw from, both in and out of the company. 5) Cavauro posted:say good morning to sophie
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DoctorGonzo posted:
What's Bischoff's talent number?
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Can we use him on-screen or would he be writing only?
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DoctorGonzo posted:only as a writer Sign DeJoseph. Gerowitz is too much of a WWE drone though, we don't need that. Anyone else available in the 80 skill range?
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DoctorGonzo posted:we could add Bischoff as an on screen character Kreizman - Incredibly prolific Soap Opera writer who won a daytime emmy for his run on Guiding Light, and was head writer for WWE from the build to Mania 29 through to Summerslam 2013. Seems like his career is a history of contrasting highs and lows. Brent - co-wrote The Stone Cold Truth and was director of publications for WCCW, UWF, NWA, WCW, and WWE. Lot of experience in many different promotions across the business, including the promotions we're looking to take the mantle of, so that has value. Pavone - Extremely prolific writer with a LOT of tv and minor film credits under his belt, including an episode of Prison Break S1, and was a consulting writers in WWE from '09 to '11. Pretty dark period to be associated with, but the man has experience in a LOT of writing styles. Real journeyman. Ypsantis - vouched for Santino when Vince didn't want to give him a shot, but was also decided to feel betrayed by Heyman when he left in 06 after December to Dismember instead of wishing him well like the rest of the writers. Seems like a personality we could do without. Goldberg - Director of Women's World of Wrestling for two years, and promoter and owner of New England Championship Wrestling. An indy sensibility and experience with women's wrestling has some value, but might be too smalltime for our needs. Fasano - No info available ---- I vote to Hire DeJoseph and Kreizman for our writing team. And I'm down to Hire Eric Bischoff as on-screen talent. Lets get him on a 1 Year Contract, but no PPA. Just a standard salary. Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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1) Create an AEW World Championship, an AEW Women's Championship, an AEW Tag Championship, and an AEW Women's Tag Championship This is a no-brainer. Since a big part of the company is going to be pushing equality between the rosters but Mr. Khan has made it clear he is against intergender wrestling, it's important that the women have equal representation in the divisions to the men, which means that since we know we're going to have a tag division to go with our singles division, we must include a Women's Tag division. I don't believe the company needs a midcard title at this time. While I am personally a big believer in specialist divisions that operate under unique rules (Trios divisions (under Lucha no-tag rules), Openweight divisions in feds where weight classes are pushed, Hardcore divisions, TV titles, 24/7 divisions, or Lucha Underground's Gift of the Gods title all being great examples) I think for now the roster is small enough that we can focus on our four bread-and-butter divisions and expand later. 2) Replace Marvez on commentary, but keep him around as backstage interview guy. If available, get Excalibur. Excalibur has proven himself to be a brilliant head for the commentary desk as our first PPVs, and he deserves to be kept on as we move into the company's premiere. Based on the screen I assume we're limited to a two-man desk? If so drop JR and hire Punk for Color Commentary Ask if he's willing to wrestle as a special attraction while working in the slot, so we can pull him out for an occasional Tazz/Lawler thing. 3) Schedule AEW All Out for the end of August This should be our last show before weekly TV starts, so lets make it a good-un. PPV Name Ideas When Eric Bischoff comes out on the first Tuesday Night Dynamite, I want him to announce AEW Bash At The Beach. Lets use those trademarks Cody sniped.
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DoctorGonzo posted:[quote="Sanguinia" post="496394261"] Ok, put Excalibur on color commentary. Hire Tony Schiavone for Announcer. This is assuming he has a high skill rating still. Putting Punk in the booth but him never wrestling with just annoy people. I guess push All Out to the first week of September. TV has already started? Weird. How many episodes in are we?
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DoctorGonzo posted:Tony schiavone has a verbal contract with MLW doesnt want to start negotiations and has 68 talent Uggg... is there anybody who isn't a TNA castoff with more than 80 skill who can work announcer? Other than Punk? If not Sign Punk for Announcer. However, I'm less sure if Excalibur is the best fit for Color Commentary with Punk doing Play by Play. Anyone else have any thoughts?
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DoctorGonzo posted:for fucks sake Literally cursed.
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