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Post by Ryan Kelman on Aug 2, 2022 4:20:27 GMT 1
I like it.
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Post by rabbitman on Aug 2, 2022 7:10:33 GMT 1
That's not what I expected and this makes the announcement even better, lol.
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Post by dhk1989 on Aug 2, 2022 15:12:52 GMT 1
So this will bring the title count in WCW up to 13. Are we gonna see some title unifications soon?  |
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Aug 2, 2022 17:06:46 GMT 1
So this will bring the title count in WCW up to 13. Are we gonna see some title unifications soon?
Part of the reason why I decided to make this new title is to give something to some of the upper mid-card singles guys to keep them happy (a title that's somewhere between the World Title and US Title) when the World Title scene is already occupied by other guys.
I'm also someone who doesn't mind having more titles as long as the number of titles you have is proportionate to the roster size, if that makes sense. WCW has a big roster, for example. |
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Aug 22, 2022 3:47:50 GMT 1
So the G1 Climax is finally over, which means I can get back to posting a little more regularly (but not too much, since I still need to get a little further ahead in my actual game, and currently I'm in late August of 2001, closing in on September). To sort of ease back in, I'm going to post the results from the Spring Break: Night Of Champions edition of Nitro from March 26th, 2001 in Panama City Beach, Florida.....as well as the Spring Break editions of Thunder and Saturday Night from the same city! Of course, March 26th, 2001 was, in OTL, the date of the very last episode of Nitro. Obviously, this isn't the case in my game, so I figured I would show off how that show, as well as the others from that week, played out. While Nitro would take place at the Boardwalk Beach Resort (as it did in OTL), Thunder and Saturday Night would take place at the moral tradition Spring Break location for WCW....Club La Vela! I'll give quick thoughts on each show after listing the results, and with that....let's get into it!
WCW Monday Nitro - Spring Break: Night Of Champions
March 26th, 2001 - Boardwalk Beach Resort - Panama City Beach, Florida
1.) WCW World Heavyweight Title - No DQ Match - Diamond Dallas Page (with Kimberly) (c) def. The Giant
2.) WCW World Tag Team Titles - Four-Way Tag Team Elimination Match - The Hardy Boyz (c) def. The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio Jr.), The Natural Born Thrillers (Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire), & The Radicalz (Perry Saturn & Raven)
3.) Terry Funk & Tommy Dreamer def. The Radicalz (ECW World Heavyweight Champion Eddie Guerrero & Mick Foley) via DQ
4.) WCW Cruiserweight Title - AJ Styles (c) def. Shane Helms
5.) WCW United States Title - Owen Hart (c) def. ECW World Tag Team Champion Lance Storm
6.) Six-Man Tag - Booker T, Goldberg, & Ric Flair def. The Radicalz (Chris Benoit, Bam Bam Bigelow, & Chris Kanyon)
7.) WCW World TV Title - Ambulance Match - Andrew Martin def. Kevin Nash (c)
As the show title would indicate, there were plenty of title bouts on this card. A couple of the matches were just thrown together (mainly referring the the Four-Way for the WCW World Tag Team Titles and Owen Hart's WCW United States Title defense vs. Lance Storm), but the others were more significant. The opening contest saw the WCW World Heavyweight Title on the line, with The Giant cashing in the title shot that he earned by winning the Gauntlet For The Gold Match at Uncensored. In the middle of the card, AJ Styles defended his newly won WCW Cruiserweight Title against Shane Helms, in what was a rematch from Uncensored. Finally, in the main event, the WCW World TV Title was on the line in a match that served as the conclusion of the feud between Andrew Martin and Kevin Nash. I did it as a Hardcore Match in the game (obviously, because the game is a bit limited in terms of stipulations), but I envision this as being an Ambulance Match. With Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow taking out Scott Hall, that would allow Diamond Dallas Page to get involved in the closing stages, and he helped his Radicalz stablemate regain the WCW World TV Title. Page costing Nash here would help set things up for Spring Stampede the next month.
There were two other non-title matches on the show. The first was a tag team bout that saw Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer go up against Eddie Guerrero and Mick Foley from The Radicalz. The match would get thrown out when Sabu and The Sandman got involved, but Mike Awesome and Sting would make the save, setting up an Eight-Man Tag for Thunder. There was also a Six-Man Tag that saw Booker T, Goldberg, and Ric Flair defeating The Radicalz trio of Chris Benoit, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Chris Kanyon.
The show also featured a segment with Rhino and Rob Van Dam (who are having a feud), as well as the return of The Steiner Brothers, who attacked Konnan and Ron "The Truth" Killings of The Filthy Animals.
WCW Thunder - Spring Break Edition
March 29th, 2001 - Club La Vela - Panama City Beach, Florida
1.) Six-Person Tag - Edge, Christian, & Trish Stratus def. The Dudley Boyz & The Duchess Of Dudleyville
2.) Scott Steiner def. Konnan
3.) Bret Hart def. Lex Luger (with Elizabeth)
4.) WCW Hardcore Title - Yoshihiro Tajiri (c) def. Juventud Guerrera
5.) Eight-Man Tag - Mike Awesome, Sting, Terry Funk, & Tommy Dreamer def. The Radicalz (ECW World Heavyweight Champion Eddie Guerrero, Mick Foley, Sabu, & The Sandman)
Thunder didn't feature a ton of title matches (only one), but the wild atmosphere in the center of the pool at Club La Vela proved to be an exciting scene as always. The program would close with a wild Eight-Man Tag, and the show went off the air with Mick Foley getting tossed into the pool by Sting, which continued their issues after Foley's interference led to Sting losing to Chris Jericho at Uncensored. Elsewhere, the show opened up with Six-Person Tag that saw Trish Stratus and The Duchess Of Dudleyville (Stacy Keibler) getting in the mix. Scott Steiner made his in-ring return and picked up a win over Konnan. Finally, Bret Hart scored a victory over Lex Luger in what would be Luger's final appearance for WCW.
In terms of non-wrestling segments, there was a Kevin Nash interview (talking about what happened on Nitro), as well as a segment between AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels that featured the debut of a brand new faction led by Daniels. The members? Donovan Morgan, Elix Skipper, Low Ki, and Michael Modest. The name of the group? The Triple X Prophecy.
WCW Saturday Night - Spring Break: Night Of Champions Part 2March 31st, 2001 - Club La Vela - Panama City Beach, Florida1.) NWA World Heavyweight Title - Ron "The Truth" Killings (c) def. Rick Steiner
2.) NWA World Tag Team Titles - Rebels Rizing (Jimmy Yang & Kaz Hayashi) (c) def. The Bad Street Boyz (Joey Matthews & Kristian York)
3.) ECW World TV Title - Super Crazy def. Steve Corino (c)
4.) ECW World Heavyweight Title - Panama City Beach Street Fight - Eddie Guerrero (c) def. Terry Funk
5.) ECW World Tag Team Titles - Rob Van Dam & Jerry Lynn def. The Thrillseekers (Chris Jericho & Lance Storm) (c)
The final night of this Panama City Beach Triple Header would return to the Night Of Champions theme, though this show would feature the three titles from ECW and the two titles from the NWA. The main event would conclude with Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn capturing the ECW World Tag Team Titles from Chris Jericho and Lance Storm. Super Crazy would also win the ECW World TV Title from Radicalz member Steve Corino. The other three titles on the line at this particular show didn't change hands.
Stay tuned for the next big PPV extravaganza....Spring Stampede!!
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Sept 7, 2022 3:02:44 GMT 1
Definitely going to shoot to have the Spring Stampede 2001 post up within the next week or so....hopefully....fingers crossed!
To give you a teaser, there's a certain match from a certain movie which featured WCW that may be making an appearance on this PPV, with an interesting twist that I might use for that match going forward.
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Sept 19, 2022 22:15:20 GMT 1
Part XL: WCW Spring Stampede 2001
With this post, I've officially reached a big milestone in this diary. We've officially passed the point when WCW went out of business in 2001. A huge moment for sure, and the first PPV main event in this second phase of my EWR experience is a notable one.
As you all know, in April of 2000, a little movie called Ready To Rumble hit theaters. Of course, it came out as WCW was going through all of the turmoil and upheaval in what would end up being it's final year. However, in this alternate timeline, things are a little different with regards to this movie. No, I'm not saying that this movie was magically better or a smash hit or anything like that (maybe it does turn out a little better, but that's not a question I'm qualified to answer haha). The one aspect of the movie that I would change is that instead of coming out in April 2000, it comes out in late March 2001....just about a year later. This change would have a lot of implications for the 2001 edition of Spring Stampede. Ever since Mick Foley attacked Sting at Uncensored, costing him a Falls Count Anywhere Match against Chris Jericho, the two have been at odds. They would agreed to have a one-on-one bout at the PPV, but the stipulations had yet to be named. During an in-ring summit that took place on the April 9th edition of Nitro (featuring passionate promos from both men), the stipulations were set. Foley and Sting would fight it out in the Triple Cage Match from the Ready To Rumble movie (featuring the three different levels which....if I recall correctly....were Caged Heat, Hardcore Hell, and the Weapon's Room). Instead of a title being hung at the tippy top of this structure, there will be two briefcases....one with a pink slip for Mick Foley, and one with a pink slip for Sting (both of which are clearly marked as such, so there's no chance of mixing them up). While Sting is putting his legendary career in WCW on the line, Foley is putting up both his job as a wrestler and as one of WCW's Commissioners. Losing Foley would be a major loss for The Radicalz, and on the flip side, losing Sting would be a massive blow for WCW. It's battle between an Icon and a Hardcore Legend in a brand new match type, and only one of them will remain in WCW.
Another way that the Ready To Rumble movie is involved with this PPV can be seen in the semi-main event. To help promote the movie, David Arquette was a special guest during the Spring Break events at the end of March (mainly serving as a guest commentator during various matches), and during his appearances, he kept mentioning how he wasn't a big fan of The Radicaliz and how they handled their business in WCW. In particular, one member of The Radicalz that particular irked him was WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page. After Page retained his title against Ric Flair via nefarious means on the April 2nd Nitro (security guards had been present around ringside to ensure that other members of The Radicalz....mainly Flair's arch rival Chris Benoit....didn't interfere), he would continue to attack Flair until Arquette (who was once again on commentary) decided to interject. When it looked as though Arquette was about to get cornered by Page and Kimberly, who should make the save but Kevin Nash and Sable. Of course, Nash is still pissed about Page costing him the WCW World TV Title back on the March 26th Nitro. This confrontation would set up a World Title match between Page and Nash for Spring Stampede, with David Arquette as the Special Guest Referee. The two would face off in a tag team bout on the April 9th Nitro, with Kevin Nash teaming with his regular tag team partner Scott Hall, while Diamond Dallas Page would team with Scott Steiner (who's been having issues with Scott Hall as of late, which will lead to a singles match between those two at the PPV). David Arquette would be in the corner of The Outsiders for this one, and when the dust settled, Nash would get the pinfall victory over Page with the Jackknife Powerbomb. Would Nash be able to claim his first WCW World Title after being in the company for nearly five years? Spring Stampede might be his best chance to date. What role will David Arquette play in all of this?
As with many of the PPVs over the last year, there would be a number of matches that would see the continuation of the ongoing battle between WCW and The Radicalz. I've already mentioned some of those matches, and there's even more to go over. After winning the ECW World Heavyweight Title at Uncensored, Eddie Guerrero would start to get into it with Rey Mysterio Jr., one of his longtime rivals in WCW. Of course, both men have their own history with ECW prior to joining WCW years earlier, so it seems fitting that the ECW World Title would become a part of such an awesome rivalry. These two would go back and forth in various forms on (Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr., Eddie vs. Billy Kidman, Los Guerreros vs. Mysterio and Kidman) in the weeks leading up to the PPV. A feud that continued into the PPV was Rob Van Dam vs. Rhino. After Rhino cost Van Dam a match against Chris Jericho on the April 9th Nitro, Booker T would run down to make the save. Security had to separate the two sides, and Rowdy Roddy Piper would later declare that the two sides would face off in a Street Fight at the PPV. In addition to seeing rivalries continue, Spring Stampede would also serve as the endpoint of one longstanding feud. Chris Benoit and Ric Flair have been going at each other on-and-off since Benoit turned his back on Ric Flair in January of the year prior to form The Radicalz. After Benoit and Flair battled it out in a Steel Cage Match at Uncensored (with the aforementioned Rhino and Rob Van Dam as their respective partners), the two would meet one final time in a Last Man Standing Match at Spring Stampede to settle the score. These two men have been associated with each other since the early days of Nitro, and now it's all come down to this. Who will walk away victorious?
Since the last PPV (and really since the Spring Break specials), there have been some interesting developments regarding the WCW World Tag Team Titles. On the April 5th edition of Thunder, The Dudley Boyz won the titles from The Hardy Boyz in a Tag Team Tables Match. Both Amy Dumas and The Duchess of Dudleyville got involved, and it was a low blow from the latter onto Jeff Hardy that helped seal the deal. On the following Nitro on April 9th, Bubba Ray Dudley (with D-Von Dudley by his side) took on Goldberg, which came about after The Dudley Boyz attacked Goldberg following a bout against Chris Kanyon the week prior. The match ended in a DQ after D-Von got involved, and the person who ended up making the save for Goldberg was none other than Kurt Angle (if you'll recall, Angle rejected an offer to join The Radicalz earlier in the year, which led to a face turn for Angle). This would set up a non-title tag team bout on the April 12th Thunder, which was won by Angle and Goldberg. Given how The Dudley Boyz won back the WCW World Tag Team Titles, Rowdy Roddy Piper decided to put the screws to them, so to speak. Not only would The Dudley Boyz have to defend their titles at the PPV against the team that just beat them in Angle and Goldberg, but they would also have to defend them against the team they just beat for the titles in The Hardy Boyz, along with another team they've had issues with in Edge and Christian. It would be a Four-Way Tag Team Elimination Match for the WCW World Tag Team Titles. Can The Dudley Boyz survive? Can Edge and Christian or The Hardy Boyz become title holders once again? Will the makeshift All-Star team of Goldberg and Kurt Angle shock them all? We'll find out at Spring Stampede.
There are only two other matches that I need to go through, but they shouldn't take up too much time. The opening contest of the PPV will see Kronik going up against the team of Mike Awesome and The Giant. Leading into the PPV, KroniK had been having issues with The Giant. They managed to defeat The Giant and Spike Dudley on the April 5th Thunder, but they decided to continue their assault after the bell. That led to Mike Awesome making the save, which would set up this tag team encounter. Meanwhile, a Six-Man Tag on the PPV would see AJ Styles, Bret Hart, and Owen Hart come together to take on the newly-formed Triple X Prophecy (which, in this case, is Christopher Daniels, Donovan Morgan, and Michael Modest). The Hart Family wrestled, and defeated, Donovan Morgan and Michael Modest on the April 12th Thunder. When the rest of the Triple X Prophecy attacked in the aftermath, AJ Styles (who the Triple X Prophecy attacked in their debut) would make the save, and that set up this match for the PPV. A pretty simple setup as AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels kick off their feud.
Aside from the PPV itself, there isn't much else to mention in terms of other title changes (a lot of those either occurred before or at the Spring Break specials), though I guess I can mention some other notable matches. AJ Styles retained his newly-won WCW Cruiserweight Title against Ultimo Dragon in his first title defense on the March 19th Nitro. Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn retained their newly-won ECW World Tag Team Titles against Sabu and The Sandman on the April 2nd Nitro in a Hardcore Match. Tommy Dreamer formed a trio with Joey Matthews and Kristian York called Young Blood (based on their trio from OTL during the dying days in ECW), and they wrestled their first match as a unit on the April 7th Saturday Night, defeating The Puerto Rican Express (the former Los Boricuas from WWF, minus Savio Vega). Madusa retained the WCW Women's Title in a Four-Way Match on the April 9th Nitro against Amy Dumas, The Duchess of Dudleyville, and Trish Stratus. Two unique matches took place on the April 12th Thunder as Ric Flair defeated La Parka while Chris Kanyon defeated Jushin Thunder Liger. Finally, Devon Storm won a battle royal on the April 14th Saturday Night to earn a title shot against WCW World TV Champion Andrew Martin later in the night. He was unsuccessful in his bid to take the title from Martin.
With all of that out of the way, let's dive right into the PPV.
WCW Spring Stampede 2001 April 15th, 2001 - Pepsi Center - Denver, Colorado
1.) Mike Awesome & The Giant def. KroniK 2.) Scott Steiner def. Scott Hall 3.) Street Fight - Booker T & Rob Van Dam def. The Radicalz (Chris Jericho & Rhino) 4.) ECW World Heavyweight Title - Eddie Guerrero (c) def. Rey Mysterio Jr. 5.) Six-Man Tag - WCW Cruiserweight Champion AJ Styles & The Hart Family (Bret Hart & WCW United States Champion Owen Hart) def. The Triple X Prophecy (Christopher Daniels, Donovan Morgan, & Michael Modest) 6.) Last Man Standing Match - Chris Benoit def. Ric Flair 7.) WCW World Tag Team Titles - Four-Way Tag Team Elimination Match - Goldberg & Kurt Angle def. The Dudley Boyz (c), The Hardy Boyz, and Edge & Christian 8.) WCW World Heavyweight Title - Special Guest Referee: David Arquette - Diamond Dallas Page (with Kimberly) (c) def. Kevin Nash (with Sable) 9.) Loser Leaves WCW Triple Cage Match - Sting def. Mick Foley
For Spring Stampede 2001, I got an overall score of 80%, which was down 11% from Uncensored back in March. While I thought the PPV card looked pretty solid on paper, the actual ratings didn't exactly reflect that, unfortunately. Match Of The Night honors went to Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. for the ECW World Heavyweight Title with a score of 84%, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Just below that was the Street Fight with Booker T and Rob Van Dam against Chris Jericho and Rhino, which earned a score of 82%. A number of other matches wound up in the lower 80% range. The Four-Way Tag Team Match for the WCW World Tag Team Titles and the Loser Leaves WCW Triple Cage Match between Sting and Mick Foley got a score of 81%, while Chris Benoit and Ric Flair in a Last Man Standing Match finished at 80%. The remaining bouts all finished in the 70% range. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Title got a score of 79%, while Scott Steiner vs. Scott Hall earned a score of 77%. AJ Styles and The Hart Family vs. The Triple X Prophecy wound up with a score of 75%, and the opening tag team contest with Mike Awesome and The Giant vs. Kronik finished with a score of 72%.
Again, even though I liked how the card came together, the scores unfortunately didn't turn out as well as they could have. To just go over some of the major happenings from the PPV, Sting managed to defeat Mick Foley in the Triple Cage Match in the main event, with Foley taking a huge bump. I'm sure you can envision what that might look like with the Triple Cage. Personally, the way I see it playing out is that, after battling around the Weapon's Cage, they make their way back down to Hardcore Hell, and we basically get a repeat of the big spot from the Cactus Jack/Triple H Hell In A Cell Match at No Way Out 2000 from OTL (Foley is about piledrive Sting on the flaming barbed wire board, but Sting backdrops him through the roof of the cage, which sends Foley through the mat). It would essentially take the spot of that aforementioned No Way Out 2000 bout, since it didn't happen in this version of events. After the huge bump from Foley, Sting climbed to the very top of the Weapon's Cage to retrieve the briefcase that contained Foley's pink slip. With that, Foley's second run in WCW (which lasted about nineteen months) came to a close. In the game, his contract was set to expire at the end of the April, and I had decided beforehand that I wasn't going to renew him. So, I decided to put this match together to serve as Foley's sendoff. Foley would swiftly return to the WWF the following month.
As for the various championship matches, the WCW World Heavyweight Title bout would see Diamond Dallas Page retain over Kevin Nash after (just like in OTL) David Arquette turned heel. In the late stages of the match, Arquette wound up with a steel chair in his hands, and when it looked like he was going to hit Page with the chair (effectively handing the title to Nash), he hit Nash instead, and counted the pin for Page to retain. It's funny to see this historical swap where (in OTL) Arquette turned heel on Page, but in this version of events, Arquette's heel turn helped Page win. The only other title change on the PPV occurred in the Four-Way Elimination Match for the WCW World Tag Team Titles, where Goldberg and Kurt Angle came away with the titles. I just felt that pairing Angle and Goldberg together would be a cool super team and I felt putting them in this four-way with three of the top tag teams in WCW was a cool match to book.
Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Booker T, Rob Van Dam, Mike Awesome, and Scott Steiner all getting wins on this PPV is notable, as they'll all have big roles to play on the next PPV, Slamboree. Speaking of which, that PPV is going to be a MASSIVE one, as the various ECW titles are finally going to be unified with their WCW counterparts. How will that all go down? Well, you'll just have to wait for the next post to find out. |
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Oct 15, 2022 22:01:20 GMT 1
Wanted to provide an update. Currently, I'm playing through my game just so I can get further ahead of my posts. I think when I originally started this threat when I was in 2000, so my posts were about two years behind my game. Now it's only a few months. No worries though. I'm going to shoot to work on/post Slamboree 2001 on Monday. Maybe I'll work on it during RAW.
One thing that I have noticed in my game recently is that the industry peak around 9% right now, which obviously isn't good lol. I presume there's nothing you can really do with the shows that I book that would change that? I ask because I just put on maybe the highest rated show I've ever done in the game (a 92% for the Nitro before Halloween Havoc 2001), but the rating for Nitro was the lowest it's done in a long time (RAW is down as well, for the record).
I'm also curious whether the TV ratings dipping for Nitro will impact my relationship with the network, in terms of what they expect vs. what the show is doing. Again, it is lower, but in the game, Nitro is still the highest rated wrestling show of the bunch.
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Oct 19, 2022 0:43:48 GMT 1
Part XLI: WCW Slamboree 2001
Well, this post was a day later than I was originally planning, but better late than never, as they say!In the aftermath of Mick Foley's dismissal following his loss to Sting in the Loser Leaves WCW Triple Cage Match at Spring Stampede 2001, it was announced that the WCW Championship Committee (led by the three main authority figures in WCW....Dusty Rhodes, JJ Dillon, and Rowdy Roddy Piper) would come up with a solution regarding the three ECW titles that had been active in WCW for a little over a year. They eventually came to the decision that all three sets of titles of ECW would be unified with the respective WCW counterparts at the Slamboree PPV in Chicago, Illinois. In the case of the World Tag Team Titles and the World Television Titles, those unification matches were going to be pretty straightforward, with the two champions facing off in a match to unify those titles. However, in the case of the two World Heavyweight Titles, it was decided that both titles would be defended individually earlier in the PPV, with the winners facing off in the main event. If this sounds familiar, it's definitely an idea I borrowed from OTL....more specifically....WWF Vengeance 2001, where the WWF Title and the WCW World Heavyweight Title were unified. The only difference here is that there will be a number of buffer matches in between the two World Heavyweight Title bouts and the main event, to give the wrestlers involved some rest.What's ironic about all this is that while the path to unifying the two sets of World Heavyweight Titles is much more difficult the night of the PPV, the participants involved were set in stone a number of weeks beforehand. Mike Awesome won a Three-Way Dance over Masato Tanaka and Taz on the April 30th Nitro to become the #1 Contender to the ECW World Heavyweight Title. Meanwhile, in a move that came after Diamond Dallas Page screwed Booker T out of a chance to win the WCW World TV Title from Andrew Martin on the Nitro after Spring Stampede on April 16th, citing the fact that Booker T never received his proper one-on-one rematch after losing the title in a Three-Way Match back at Uncensored in March. So with that, the stage was set. Eddie Guerrero vs. Mike Awesome. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Booker T. Four Men....Two Matches....One Undisputed Champion!!On the flip side, while the title unification situations for the World Tag Team Titles and the World Television Titles at the PPV were pretty simple, the path to get to the PPV would be a much more difficult challenge. Each title would be defending multiple times on television in the buildup to Slamboree, so the unification bouts on the PPV weren't really set in stone (in terms of who would be involved) until the week before the PPV. Goldberg and Kurt Angle won the WCW World Tag Team Titles at Spring Stampede, and they were able to hold onto their tag team titles after a number of successful defenses against The Steiner Brothers (on the April 30th Nitro), The Hart Family (on the May 3rd Thunder), and against both The Dudley Boyz and the duo of Ric Flair and Sting in a Three-Way Tag Team Match (on the May 7th Nitro). Meanwhile, Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn were the ECW World Tag Team Champions for most of the month of April, but they lost the titles to Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho on the April 26th edition of Thunder. They would retain their newly won titles against The Outsiders (in a match where both Sable and Woman would get involved) on the May 7th Nitro. This means that the title unification match would be Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho against Goldberg and Kurt Angle.
When it comes to the World Television Titles, their roads to the PPV were very similar to their tag team counterparts. Much like Goldberg and Kurt Angle, Andrew Martin was able to successfully retain his WCW World TV Title on few different occasions, aside from the Booker T defense previously mentioned (against the likes of Rob Van Dam and Devon Storm). Meanwhile, much like the ECW World Tag Team Titles, the ECW World TV Title did see a title change. Super Crazy had been the ECW World TV Champion for most of April (and he actually became a double champion for a brief period after he won the WCW Hardcore Title from Yoshihiro Tajiri on the April 16th Nitro), but he lost the title to Edge in a Four-Way Match that also included Chris Kanyon and the aforementioned Yoshihiro Tajiri on the April 23rd Nitro. Edge would make a few successful defenses (against the likes of Rhino and Steve Corino) in the buildup to the PPV. With that, the title unification match would be set, as Andrew Martin would go one-on-one with Edge.
Slamboree would also feature some other title bouts not involving any sort of unification. Owen Hart would defend his WCW United States Title against Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam (who's coming off winning his feud with Rhino after defeating him in an Extreme Steel Cage Match....basically a Steel Cage with weapons already inside the cage....on the April 30th Nitro) in a very unique Three-Way Match, while Sabu would defend his WCW Hardcore Title against Rey Mysterio Jr. in a Ladder Match. After picking up singles victories over Juventud Guerrera and Psychosis, Sabu managed to win the WCW Hardcore Title from Super Crazy on the May 3rd edition of Thunder. Looking to avenge his Filthy Animals stablemates, Rey Mysterio Jr. stepped up to the plate to challenge Sabu, and the match was made for the PPV.The only other title change I need to make note of is the WCW Women's Title. Coming into 2001, I decided to get some Joshi involved in the women's division. So, in this alternate timeline, WCW strikes up a relationship with GAEA, which (to my knowledge) was one of the prominent Joshi promotions in the early 2000's (I won't pretend to be any sort of Joshi expect). The bottom line, though, is that this deal would allow two very notable Joshi names to come to WCW. The first was Meiko Satomura, who (if you didn't know) actually had some matches in WCW in 1996 and 1997. As for the other notable name, it's none other than the legend herself, Aja Kong. While she did have a couple of matches in WWF in 1995, she had never wrestled in WCW before. These two women were involved in a huge Three-Way Match with Madusa for the WCW Women's Title on the April 23rd Nitro, and when the dust settled, Aja Kong emerged victorious. So while she's not on this PPV, she will be taking the title with her back to Japan, possibly to defend it in GAEA and elsewhere.
In terms of the rest of the PPV lineup, two notable matches with no titles involved round out the card. The first is a tag team encounter that will see The Dudley Boyz take on Ric Flair and Sting which, while mainly serving as an extension of the greater battle between The Radicalz and WCW, is still a pretty cool bout on paper. Meanwhile, Bret Hart would be taking on Scott Steiner, as Big Poppa Pump looks to continue his ascent to the top of WCW. A victory over a former multi-time World Champion would certain help Steiner get closer to his goal of winning the WCW World Heavyweight Title. I had to check cagematch (a great site, by the way) to confirm this, but Bret Hart and Scott Steiner have never had a one-on-one match against each other. They did meet in a tag team match (Bret Hart and Owen Hart vs. The Steiner Brothers) on an episode of WWF Wrestling Challenge in January of 1994, and they were involved in two Royal Rumbles later that month (one on the Royal Rumble PPV itself, and another on a MSG house show a few days prior). Beyond those instances, they've never wrestled each other in a singles match. Well, I'm giving that gift to you here on this PPV.Now that was A LOT to go over, but with all of that out of the way, let's dive into this PPV!!WCW Slamboree 2001May 13th, 2001 - United Center - Chicago, Illinois1.) WCW Hardcore Title - Ladder Match - Rey Mysterio Jr. def. Sabu (c)2.) The Dudley Boyz def. Ric Flair & Sting3.) Scott Steiner def. Bret Hart4.) ECW World Heavyweight Title - Eddie Guerrero (c) def. Mike Awesome5.) WCW World Heavyweight Title - Booker T def. Diamond Dallas Page (with Kimberly) (c)6.) Unification Match - ECW World TV Title and WCW World TV Title - Edge [ECW World TV] def. Andrew Martin [WCW World TV]7.) Unification Match - ECW World Tag Team Titles and WCW World Tag Team Titles - Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho [ECW World Tag Team] def. Goldberg & Kurt Angle [WCW World Tag Team]8.) WCW United States Title - Three-Way Match - Rob Van Dam def. Owen Hart (c) & Jeff Hardy9.) Unification Match - ECW World Heavyweight Title and WCW World Heavyweight Title - Booker T [WCW World Heavyweight] def. Eddie Guerrero [ECW World Heavyweight]For Slamboree 2001, I got an overall score of 94%, which is not only an incredible increase of 14% from Spring Stampede 2001, but is also the highest PPV score I've ever gotten in this game thus far. A grand total of SIX of the nine matches on this card scored over 90%, which must be a new record for my PPVs. Match Of The Night honors went to Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho vs. Goldberg and Kurt Angle (unifying the ECW World Tag Team Titles and the WCW World Tag Team Titles), which earned a score of 99%, with a 97% match quality score and a 100% score for crowd reaction. Following that were three bouts tied at 92%. Those were Booker T vs. Eddie Guerrero (unifying the ECW World Heavyweight Title and the WCW World Heavyweight Title), the Three-Way for the WCW United States Title, and Eddie Guerrero vs. Mike Awesome for the ECW World Heavyweight Title (a great night for Eddie Guerrero on the match quality front). Bret Hart vs. Scott Steiner, along with Andrew Martin vs. Edge in a title unification match (for the ECW World TV Title and the WCW World TV Title), both wound up with a score of 90%. The remaining three bouts on the card finished in the high end of the 80% range. The Dudley Boyz vs. Ric Flair and Sting earned a score of 89%, while Diamond Dallas Page vs. Booker T for the WCW World Heavyweight Title and Sabu vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. in a Ladder Match for the WCW Hardcore Title both ended up with an 87% score. You know you put on a great show when your lowest scores are that high.
So with that, Booker T is your Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho are your Undisputed WCW World Tag Team Champions, and Edge is your Undisputed WCW World Television Champion!!
I'm really happy with how this PPV turned out. Out of all the PPV's that I've done thus far, this is easily the one that I am the most proud of. In a way, I guess you could consider it my magnum opus (if I'm using that phrase properly). It's my WrestleMania X-Seven. An awesome card with great matches involving big stars up and down, with the major theme being these title unification matches that officially closed this chapter of the feud between The Radicalz and WCW. I don't know if I'll be able to produce a PPV card that looks as incredible as this, but I can certainly try lol.Anyway, the next PPV will, of course, be the 2001 edition of The Great American Bash. I might wait to make my next post until sometime in early November, just so I can continue to progress further in my actual game (currently in late October 2001). Not going to set a firm date right now, but early November is definitely what I'm going to shoot for. |
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Post by dhk1989 on Oct 19, 2022 1:05:50 GMT 1
The NWA Titles remaining separate from the WCW ones?
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