The Unsung Hero of the TEW Modding Community

I wanted to write to talk about my role in “Wrestling Nexus”. It’s a good time as yesterday was the release of Total Extreme Wrestling (TEW) 2020, the demo with the full release in a week’s time. The origin of this actually goes back to the release of the 2016 version, where “Wrestling Nexus” began.

Wrestling Nexus was a home for a community of mod creators for the TEW series, focusing on historical, real world content with some alternative history additions. Originally this was a website and a forum. Now it’s a wrestling fan community in its own right, hosted on Discord. These mod creators for the TEW series joined together as a group with the aim to pump out as many historical mods as we could for the 2016 series as there was demand for.

My role in this, as a jack of all trades and aspiring coder, wanted to help this as much as possible. At the same time, I wanted to learn about coding. TEW was a good fit. So in this post I want to talk a bit about my role, what I’ve done but not released for the community and why it’s not something I’m looking to release or “upgrade” with the release of TEW2020.