Post by troy on Jul 31, 2023 21:40:43 GMT 1
Okay so I think best thing to do is use this first post to show the current state of the save starting with the Triple Crown scene
In what may feel early to 99.9% of people that watched AJPW in 1996, Jun Akiyama is the current Triple Crown champion
after dethroning Stan Hansen at the Tokyo Dome after defeating Mitsuharu Misawa to win the Champion Carnival the month
before, currently on 2 successful defences these being a very impressive defence against Akira Taue and a tough fought match
against tag team partner Kenta Kobashi
Next is the AJPW Jr Heavyweight Championship
(Fuchi had 12 defences not 35 its a me error when I was editing the database)
So the Jr Heavyweight Champion is none other than Hayabusa after winning it off Chris Benoit in what is currently considered
AJPW match of the year (97 rated) he currently has 1 succesful defence coming against legendary Luchadore, El Dandy
The AJPW Unified Tag Team Championship
The Steiner Brothers have been tag team champions for well over a year now, being at the 15 month point, they are currently tied
with Mitsuharu Misawa (August 1992--June 1994) for most successful title defences however in terms of days the Steiners have had
the tag titles far shorter, they defeated The Holy Demon Army to win the belts at the 1995 Tokyo Dome show, their defences count
Ten-Koji, Hansen & Gordy, The Holy Demon Army, Misawa & Kanemoto, The Road Warriors, and the dream team of Mitsuharu Misawa
& Masahiro Chono
Next is the All Asia Tag Titles
As you can see, the All Asia Tag Titles have been moved about quite a bit with it being impossile to get over 3 successful defences,
the current champions NO FEAR won the belts off the Kings of Combat, Steven Regal & Norman Smiley however to be completely
honest I plan on having hem retired as part of my big storyline for 1997 (no spoilers but.... too sweet anyone)
All Asia Heavyweight Championship
Okay so the All Asia Heavyweight championship was unretired following the 1995 Champion Carnival as it showed me how overly
stacked my singles heavyweight division was and I felt we needed a secondary heavyweight title to manage that and also to serve
as a way to get younger competitors competing for a title with prestige (like WWF's Intercontinental championship at the time or the
AEW TNT championship nowadays) It started with Hiroshi Hase defeating Jun Akiyama in the finals of a mini tournament to crown a
champion who would lose it to Satoshi Kojima who has just been denied of a year with the title by Dean Malenko who recently became
a full time heavyweight, no longer copeting in the junior division
AJPW Champion Carnival
Okay so, yes I did go balls deep on a Jun Akiyama push but he is capped at 78 pop it seems as no matter who I have be fed to him it's stuck their in Japan,.... In America however he's by far the most over person on the roster in the states (thank you USA Network deal) and I just want to address something now
Despite being primed for success as the successor to Stan Hansen, we had a massive talent ripped away from us due to injury and I feel it would be a bad idea having him come out of retirement because of the state of his health following such a severe injury
Now if I'm not mistaken, thats the same injury that Killed Misawa irl so we're lucky to still have Doc alive in this save however I very much doubt he can compete again
Anyways after that
AJPW Real World Tag League
So at the start I decided to continue the tradition of vacating the tag titles in the lead up and then I scrapped it in 94 which the 1994 final is also the only 100 rated match in the save for AJPW so far
We also debuted a Super J Cup like tournament for our juniors which Hayabusa seems to own and also a battle royal at the start of each year to crown a no.1 contender to the triple crown