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Post by ramen on Jun 1, 2023 5:29:54 GMT 1
BTW just wanna say have been a big fan of this diary and it has been a huge influence on booking in TEW. Also what a coincidence your doing a mentor/protege angle with Regal & Danielson when I'm about to do one in mine as well!
On the show, what a shocking turn of events! Two Iconic teams broken up, hopefully we can see successful for the 4 men as singles stars in the future.
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Post by rabbitman on Jun 1, 2023 13:26:36 GMT 1
Seeing as the Dudleys never had an equivalent irl tag title victory at Wrestlemania, or ever really had the spotlight quite like the other 2 teams, some might have been surprised to see them win that one there at Starrcade.
However with the stipulation it makes perfect sense. Which team has the most to lose if they were forced to split up there? The Dudleys of course. I mean sure if this was irl it'd be a treat to see either the Hardys or Edge & Christian stay together for another year in this great tag team division but with the right push all 4 members of the 2 losing teams can be WCW champions but Bubba and D-Von? Let's face it D-Von would probably have remained in the tag division, with a new partner and Bubba would be lucky to get out of the hardcore division unless you came up with the world's greatest storyline for him. The momentum from being Starrcade main event winners will really boost their tag team status though.
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 2, 2023 0:25:54 GMT 1
Just made some minor edits to my Starrcade post (spelling and sentence errors). That'll happen when you write a post so late at night!
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 2, 2023 3:03:26 GMT 1
BTW just wanna say have been a big fan of this diary and it has been a huge influence on booking in TEW. Also what a coincidence your doing a mentor/protege angle with Regal & Danielson when I'm about to do one in mine as well! On the show, what a shocking turn of events! Two Iconic teams broken up, hopefully we can see successful for the 4 men as singles stars in the future.
What's funny about the Danielson/Regal thing is that it's an idea that I stole from someone when they brought up to me that they did that in either an EWR game or a TEW game that they had done. Guess that's a very common idea that people utilize. |
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 2, 2023 3:15:25 GMT 1
Seeing as the Dudleys never had an equivalent irl tag title victory at Wrestlemania, or ever really had the spotlight quite like the other 2 teams, some might have been surprised to see them win that one there at Starrcade. However with the stipulation it makes perfect sense. Which team has the most to lose if they were forced to split up there? The Dudleys of course. I mean sure if this was irl it'd be a treat to see either the Hardys or Edge & Christian stay together for another year in this great tag team division but with the right push all 4 members of the 2 losing teams can be WCW champions but Bubba and D-Von? Let's face it D-Von would probably have remained in the tag division, with a new partner and Bubba would be lucky to get out of the hardcore division unless you came up with the world's greatest storyline for him. The momentum from being Starrcade main event winners will really boost their tag team status though.
When I came up with the idea for that stipulation, The Dudley Boyz were the easy choice for the reasons you mentioned. Out of the three teams, they're the one that loses the most by splitting up, whereas we know all four guys from the other two teams have that potential as singles guys. |
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 5, 2023 3:38:31 GMT 1
Just want to make a quick note about the set Undisputed Championships (Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Title, Undisputed WCW World Tag Team Titles, and the Undisputed WCW World TV Title). On New Year's Day 2002, those three titles will revert back to their normal status. This sort of mirrors what happened with the WWF Title in 2001-2002. It was the Undisputed WWF Title for several months, but once the brand split went into full effect later in 2002 and then-champion Brock Lesnar got signed to SmackDown, that "Undisputed" label went away. No brand split in this case, of course, but since it's been a couple of months, I felt the timing of the new year was right to drop the "Undisputed" label.
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Post by rabbitman on Jun 5, 2023 5:08:26 GMT 1
Wow you're right about the tag split.
What you've done is add something that even the WWF didn't do, in that it lends itself to believing that anyone could win. Compare that to irl and once Edge and Christian's big push started, did anyone really believe the Dudleys would win one of the big matches? The Hardys maybe but it was clear they were going to be THE guys and everyone else would chase them.
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 7, 2023 0:14:03 GMT 1
Time for some ratings talk!So with the Monday Night Wars coming to a close at the end of September, these ratings charts will only include the first nine months of 2001. The story of the final months of the Monday Night War was that WCW Monday Nitro was firmly ahead in the ratings for pretty much all of 2001, aside from one episode of RAW Is WAR on March 12th. It's interesting to see how the ratings shifted throughout this entire period since I started this EWR game. I managed to keep Nitro ahead for a little longer in 1998 compared to OTL, then RAW took the lead and dominated ratings for the second half of 1998 and for the first half of 1999 (about a full year). In the middle of 1999, the tide turned again, and for about a year-and-a-half (the second half of 1999 and pretty much all of 2000) the two sides traded wins back-and-forth. Nitro finally managed to solidify their lead at the tail end of 2000, and the rest was history.I'll finish this post by giving the final scores of the portion of the Monday Night War that I was involved in (1998 onward) and then the overall scores (including the start in 1995 through the end of 1997).
The final tally during my time playing EWR (starting in 1998) saw WCW Monday Nitro pick up 99 wins, while WWF RAW Is WAR got 95 wins. There was one tie included in that time period.
The overall Monday Night War total saw (if my math is correct) WCW Monday Nitro win 192 times, while WWF RAW Is WAR won out 111 times. There were three total draw, as well as several weeks between 1995 and 1997 where (on a given week) one of the shows aired either in a different time slot or on a different night (I did not include those here).
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Post by dxvsnwo1994 on Jun 9, 2023 3:02:56 GMT 1
Now it's time to go over the PPV rankings for 2001! As always, when it comes down to tiebreakers, I'll determine it based on the number of 90% matches they have, or which card had the higher rated match in the 90% range (you get the idea).
2001 PPV Rankings
1.) Slamboree 2001 - 94% - Booker T vs. Eddie Guerrero in a Unification Match for the ECW World Heavyweight Title and the WCW World Heavyweight Title
2.) Halloween Havoc 2001 - 92% - Kurt Angle vs. Booker T vs. Chris Benoit vs. Scott Steiner in a Four-Way Match for the Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Title
3.) Blood, Sweat, & Tears III - 91% - Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle in a Last Man Standing Match
4.) Uncensored 2001 - 91% - The Hardy Boyz vs. Edge & Christian vs. The Dudley Boyz in a TLC Match for the WCW World Tag Team Titles
5.) Bash At The Beach 2001 - 91% - Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle in a Steel Cage Match
6.) The Great American Bash 2001 - 91% - Booker T vs. Scott Steiner for the Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Title
7.) Fall Brawl 2001 - 90% - Scott Steiner vs. Kurt Angle for the Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Title
8.) United We Stand 2001 - 89% - Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit in an Ultimate Submission Match for the Undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Title
9.) Starrcade 2001 - 88% - Edge & Christian vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. The Hardy Boyz in a TLC Match for the Undisputed WCW World Tag Team Titles where the Losing Teams Must Disband
10.) Bound For Glory 2001 - 87% - Mitsuharu Misawa, Ric Flair, & Sting vs. Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, & Jun Akiyama in a Six-Man Tag
11.) Souled Out 2001 - 80% - Booker T vs. Chris Benoit for the WCW World Heavyweight Title
12.) Spring Stampede 2001 - 80% - Mick Foley vs. Sting in a Triple Cage Match where the Loser Leaves WCW
As you can see, I had a number of strong PPV ratings in 2001. In fact, it's my best year thus far in terms of PPVs, with seven of the twelve PPVs at or over the 90% mark. It continued the trend of the quality of PPVs gradually going up over time as well. Just to give you an idea of how much the PPV quality has gone up, let me rattle off the yearly average for PPV ratings for the previous three years (and I did round in the cases where it wasn't a non-decimal number). 1998 had an average PPV rating of 78%. 1999 had an average PPV rating of 85%. 2000 had an average PPV rating of 88%. What was the average PPV rating for 2001? 89%. Unfortunately it didn't crack the 90% mark for the yearly average, but I would put that mainly on the two shows that did 80%, which really dragged down the average.
Unlike previous years, the PPVs didn't peak towards the end of the year. Instead, the peak was from March through October (excluding the Spring Stampede PPV in April, which only got 80%). All of the PPVs that were above the 90% mark were in that time frame. That timing does make a ton of sense, as I feel like that time period is when I did my best work in terms of booking PPVs. The top PPV of 2001 was Slamboree 2001, which did a whopping 94%. I really consider that PPV to be my magnum opus in terms of this EWR game. In fact, it's the highest ranked PPV that I've ever put together. Halloween Havoc 2001 was the second highest ranking PPV of the year at 92%, while four other PPVs all ended up at 91%.
In terms of the main events of these PPVs, I did headline two shows with the incredible Dudley Boyz/Edge & Christian/Hardy Boyz TLC matches, but for the most part, the majority of the PPVs were headlined by singles matches of some kind (eight out of the twelve, to be exact). Chris Benoit headlined the most PPVs with six, and Kurt Angle was right behind him with five main events, though they had vastly different fortunes (Kurt Angle won all five of his main events, while Chris Benoit lost all six of his main events). Of course, three of those main events were Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle matches. Right behind those two was Booker T with four PPV main events, while Scott Steiner had three PPV main events.
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Post by dhk1989 on Jun 9, 2023 4:59:30 GMT 1
Makes me wonder what happened at Wrestlemania X-7 for Raw's ratings to drop behind Nitro's that much.
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