Rarity posted:

I see ROH is going full WWE by going all in on old stars too broken down to match their previous glories

Rarity posted:

IcePhoenix posted:

Cavauro posted:

what is happening.

Cavauro posted:

are the pretend tweets the best way to follow this as a viewer until shows are happening? i am 'In' the discord but that seemed like buds buddin' around mostly. what's with the draft thing. you don't have to respond to me. Posting such as this is chock full of value on its own

Cerebral Bore posted:

New Japan 2020? It's looking pretty loving good.

Ziggy Tzardust posted:

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While stuck in a sewer, Ian Rotten finds a winning lottery ticket for a hundred dollars, which he's promptly cashed in and did what any person would. Stock up on alcohol, pay off his overdue internet bill, and bought subscriptions to multiple streaming services. In his alcohol binged dazed, he's drawn inspirations from some of the movies and TV shows he's watched. First and foremost, after finishing Tiger King, Ian Rotten has decided he too is worthy of praise and sees dollar signs in a multi-part documentary about his life. But how does he do this, when he's been living largely broke and working at a Taco Bell for several years? With part of his lotto winnings he's hired a production company from West Virginia to follow his life around as he crowns himself the "Hardcore King". After taking out several more loans, he's also secured a giant empty field in the middle of Kentucky with dreams of once again, opening the doors to IWA Mid South and becoming the biggest promotion on the planet following the death of WWE.

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• Total Anonymity (Metagame): The booker of IWA MS will remain anonymous until they've chosen to come forward, so a majority of their shows & updates will be sent to Hiram or RealFoxy to be posted in the discord or forums. We're also only given show results and story beats, so a majority of write-ups will be done by us as well.
  
  
• "Simple Man": Because of Ian Rotten's general brain trauma and drug abuse, he's living on a fantasy planet where what he sees on the television he considers to be "real". As such, IWA MS is able to draft fictional wrestlers on their shows, appearing in their on-screen rolls but will still be the actors underneath that roll performing. Ian Rotten just cannot discern reality from acting anymore
  
  
• "Free Bird": Because IWA MS was pitched after all promotions have already drafted their rosters, IWA MS mostly consists of un-signed talent. Because of this however, IWA's roster is constantly changing show-to-show. However, there is a list of signed talent that are not available to be used by any other promotion.
  
  
• "Too Drunk to gently caress": IWA MS will not be running a weekly Television show. Updates will be posted periodically by the "Camera Crew" following him around as well as impromptu matches or promos done by members of the roster living on Ian Rotten's property. All signed talent have been given their own luxury double-wide trailers with access to travel, "gyms" & on-site food trucks.

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• Ted DiBiase Sr: Ian's given all finances to DiBiase despite his recently run-ins with the law. DiBiase handles all of the behind-the-scenes booking of talent, payroll, and general finances of IWA Mid South
  
  
• Joseph Parks: Ian's personal lawyer and voice of reason. Parks will attempt to keep Ian Rotten out of trouble but his meek personality makes him somewhat of a pushover
  
  
• Mad Man Pondo: A somewhat casual friend of Ian Rotten from their deathmatch wrestling days, in Ian Rotten's singular moment of clarity this decade, he realized that he didn't know very much, if any modern talent in the wrestling scene and has hired Pondo to help him book his shows. Because of Pondo's respect in the business and vast knowledge of wrestling, he's brought in a good handful of unsigned talent from Japan and the US to fill out their roster.
  
  
• The Rotten Girls: Ian Rotten has hired the entire Tennessee Titan's cheerleading squad as a Nitro Girl's esque tool to bring in young, straight, adult males. Feeling as if this wasn't enough, Ian has hired Stacy Keibler as the lead "Rotten Girl"
  
  
• Dan Castellaneta (The voice of Homer Simpson): Ian Rotten has hired famous fictional retired wrestler "Homer Simpson" to do color commentary for his shows. As far as Castellaneta is concerned, he's getting paid well enough, but refuses to do shows as Homer Simpson because that would cost millions extra.
  
  
• Charlie Day: While binging shows online, Ian Rotten fell in love with the Always Sunny cast, and attempted to book Charlie Day in a wrestling roll. Charlie Day refused, but negotiated a commentary roll for the company after seeing Ian Rotten's insane scribblings of show ideas wrote in marker in the walls of Ian Rotten's bathroom.

Sanguinia posted:

World Wonder Ring STARDOM General - Boy, Stop! It's About Ta Be A... Girl Fight!



A Brief History:

The pre-eminent federation in the world of Joshi Puro, STARDOM is swiftly approaching its 9th birthday. The brainchild of Rossy Ogawa, one of the principle architects of All Japan's golden age of Joshi in the 90s, as well as Joshi stars Fuka Kakimoto and Nanae Takahashi, the promotion began with the simple, slightly-gross dream of fusing the appeal of gravure models and idol singers with pro-wrestlers. In the years since that dream it has become so much more, producing incredible matches and compelling stars, so much so that WWE made it their business to pillage their main eventers like it was 1996 and they were WCW.

While some cynics feared the promotion couldn't last as it lost Kairi Hojo (aka Pirate Princess Kairi Sane) and Io Shirai (aka... Io Shirai), in fact they managed to thrive, continuing to build new stars and replace the ones lost to the west. Their success culminated just a few months ago, in October, with the purchase of the company by New Japan Pro Wrestling parent corporation Bushiroad. This infusion of money and a desire to take an all-women company mainstream was HUGE news, and everyone expected 2020 to be a revolutionary year for STARDOM.

But boy oh boy did they not know the half of it.

The King Is Dead, Long Live The Queens:

WWE's sudden death has left an incredible vacuum of power in the wrestling world, and while Bushiroad and Gedo clearly have plans to take NJPW global, STARDOM didn't want to be left out. They had the money, they had the opportunity. What they needed was a plan, a road-map to take on the rest of the world in the scramble to succeed wrestling's greatest superpower. They needed someone with true, unerring VISION.

https://twitter.com/dc_mma/status/1208075510812528641

No, you're not having a stroke. Former UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is the man who came to Bushiroad with a pitch on how to use STARDOM to take over the Wrestling world. And man he must have been convincing because a room full of Japanese businessmen got on-board with him. Not only that, but the announcement went viral overnight because he dropped it at a red carpet event... right in front of now-independent NXT's public face Triple H! Talk about a throwing a gauntlet.



The first phase of Cormier's plan seems to have been a success, because it's been reported he's secured US broadcast television for Stardom's weekly TV series, "We Are Stardom." Currently a show mostly for rerunning major matches from their important events and just getting the company's stars into the public eye to boost gate sales, its being fully retooled to function as episodic TV to compete directly for American eyeballs.



Reports say that similar to New Japan World shows, the same broadcast will have Japanese and English announce team audio. The commentary will be recorded live but the show itself will be pre-taped, both to fix the issue of timezone changes for US viewers and to allow Stardom to continue its tradition of subtitling important promos and angles.

There's still a lot up in the air right now, but STARDOM seems ready to ramp up their social media campaign and make a big push to promote their American TV debut. The coming weeks are going to be the start of a new era for STARDOM and women's wrestling in general! So about STARDOM ITT!

EDIT:

So, uh... I found out why Rick and Morty got pushed back to 11...

Sanguinia posted:

STARDOM WK match announcement reaction roundup!






t: Pro Wrestling is changing so much, its a little scary. However, I am still the STARDOM champion! Everyone, come with me onto the world stage! The Icon of STARDOM will fight everyone!


t: Kagetsu-sama is ready to fight! Everyone will see Oedo-Tai's strength! Idiots, appreciate us at the Tokyo Dome!


t: Queen's Quest is the strongest in STARDOM. STARDOM is the strongest is Pro Wrestling. As leader, I'll prove it at the Tokyo Dome.


t: Tokyo Cyber Squad will follow our leader into this future! Everyone, watch Hana shine in the Tokyo Dome!
(note: I've decided I'll use Jungle Kyona for fun fake tweets related to this faction. I don't feel right making them from Hana. Honestly figuring out what to do with Hana is still very strange. I'm going to do everything I can to be respectful to her memory and I welcome any advice anyone has for how to do it better)