Sagitta
12-18-2005, 06:04 PM
I've been tinkering around with a dataset based around 30 years in the future (2035 to be exact).
As such, (some of) today's young talent would be legends by then, most current workers would be dead or retired, and a select few would remain in the business with office, booker or road agent duties.
Since I want the set to be somewhat of a challenge, I decided that it would be based roughly 10 years after a devestating series of events crippled and almost destroyed the industry. I'm doing this so that I can eliminate most of the current feds in lieu of fictional ones - the only survivers would be the major players of today (WWE/TNA/maybe RoH) and the miniscule independants who wouldn't really be affected anyhow due to their being so tiny
What I would like is for people to suggest feds and/or workers who would (in 30 years) be worthy of inclusion.
Bear in mind I'm very much a 'casual' fan and as such I'm doing this more for fun than accuracy.
I have a very rough established history that should be used as a guidline. Each major world region area underwent a couple of significant changes in my fictitious future world and so any ideas handed my way should abide by them:
North America/Europe: Major economic depression which is only now being recovered from. Wrestling has for a good 15 - 20 years been considered by the general public to be a 'dead' industry despite the survival of a few hardy feds.
Japan: For reasons I have to decide upon, wrestling was deemed illegal for roughly 10 years spanning roughly 2015 - 2025. As such 'legit' feds have only just now begun reestablishing themselves in the nation. (this is done primarily due to my utter lack of knowledge about this region)
Mexico: Booming, as it was largely unaffected by the depression that crippled its northern neighbors, but its still all lucha wrestling and thus practically unknown by the casual fan outside of Mexico itself. (I'd need someone to basically donate their time and energies to doing Mexico for me as again I know very little of that area)
General wrestling history spanning today - 2035:
The business peaked around 2010 before it began suffering a series of unrelated but devestating effects.
The public fixated on the continuing problem of wrestlers prematurely dying either due to accident or medical malady and as such efforts to regulate at a governmental level were begun by various countries. This ultimately failed, but stigmatized wrestling worse then perhaps it ever was before, and ticket sales plummeted along with most television shows either being cancelled or censored to the point of silliness.
This generally becomes known as the wrestling 'crash' which is generally dated from roughly 2014 to 2020.
In Japan something (I haven't decided what yet) happened to cause the government there to blacklist the sport and essentially render it dead. Underground and low level 'black market' feds continued of course, but the days of huge wildly popular promotions there were essentially gone.
In the US (and Europe and Canada) the economy tanked and killed ticket sales. Cheap inexpensive feds survived, but players such as WWE and TNA are forced to cut salaries and expenditures, dropping their status to cult or regional levels.
To make matters worse, in 2015 a WWE flight carrying around half of its roster went down, killing all on board. Included in the fatalities are Vince and Stephanie McMahon. The resulting power struggle between Linda McMahon, Shane McMahon and Paul LeVesque for control of the company essentially destroys the company and marks what would become known as the low point of the 'wrestling industry crash.' Ultimately Shane retains ownership leading up to the point where the dataset would be set to begin. The WWE regains its 'F' and reverts to the WWF around this time as the World Wildlife Fund merges and becomes a part of a seperate conservation program, thus freeing up the WWF monicker.
TNA survives - as a subsidiary of WWF Entertainment. During the low point of the wrestling crash (not long after the devestation to its roster by the plane wreck) and coinciding global recession/depression Panda Energy does what every good corporate entity would do - it bailed, selling its investments for whatever cash can be had. This isn't a wise choice by WWF as they overpay and take years trying to recoup the losses of a bad transaction.
RoH continues to survive, though it fails to grow. It remains a local fed known primarily in the Tristate, New England and Mid Atlantic regions.
Numerous smaller feds exist at this point, but they are all very regionalized and have ironically set up a structure very much like the territorial system known 50 year prior. Most bide by a very loose series of agreements that form an unofficial alliance of sorts in an effort to stave off the overbearance of the WWF monopoly on the industry.
In Europe, there is a national federation in the UK that competes with a roughly equal sized fed based in Europe. I haven't even begun to hash out any details beyond that yet for them. Again, a handful of smaller feds also exist.
GOALS:
I want to have roughly 30 feds with around 1000 - 1500 workers. The difficulty should vary depending on who is chosen to be played. I would like to include at least one representative of every style available in the game as feds, and an equal amount for possible startups. I also would like to have a small number of '2005' workers who would have moved on in their careers by 2035 and taken what would be a realistic position in the industry of that time.
What I have done: Locations, and a handful of workers on the WWF roster.
What I would like: People with some spare time to 'donate' rosters and/or fed ideas to me that could be used in the dataset.
As such, (some of) today's young talent would be legends by then, most current workers would be dead or retired, and a select few would remain in the business with office, booker or road agent duties.
Since I want the set to be somewhat of a challenge, I decided that it would be based roughly 10 years after a devestating series of events crippled and almost destroyed the industry. I'm doing this so that I can eliminate most of the current feds in lieu of fictional ones - the only survivers would be the major players of today (WWE/TNA/maybe RoH) and the miniscule independants who wouldn't really be affected anyhow due to their being so tiny
What I would like is for people to suggest feds and/or workers who would (in 30 years) be worthy of inclusion.
Bear in mind I'm very much a 'casual' fan and as such I'm doing this more for fun than accuracy.
I have a very rough established history that should be used as a guidline. Each major world region area underwent a couple of significant changes in my fictitious future world and so any ideas handed my way should abide by them:
North America/Europe: Major economic depression which is only now being recovered from. Wrestling has for a good 15 - 20 years been considered by the general public to be a 'dead' industry despite the survival of a few hardy feds.
Japan: For reasons I have to decide upon, wrestling was deemed illegal for roughly 10 years spanning roughly 2015 - 2025. As such 'legit' feds have only just now begun reestablishing themselves in the nation. (this is done primarily due to my utter lack of knowledge about this region)
Mexico: Booming, as it was largely unaffected by the depression that crippled its northern neighbors, but its still all lucha wrestling and thus practically unknown by the casual fan outside of Mexico itself. (I'd need someone to basically donate their time and energies to doing Mexico for me as again I know very little of that area)
General wrestling history spanning today - 2035:
The business peaked around 2010 before it began suffering a series of unrelated but devestating effects.
The public fixated on the continuing problem of wrestlers prematurely dying either due to accident or medical malady and as such efforts to regulate at a governmental level were begun by various countries. This ultimately failed, but stigmatized wrestling worse then perhaps it ever was before, and ticket sales plummeted along with most television shows either being cancelled or censored to the point of silliness.
This generally becomes known as the wrestling 'crash' which is generally dated from roughly 2014 to 2020.
In Japan something (I haven't decided what yet) happened to cause the government there to blacklist the sport and essentially render it dead. Underground and low level 'black market' feds continued of course, but the days of huge wildly popular promotions there were essentially gone.
In the US (and Europe and Canada) the economy tanked and killed ticket sales. Cheap inexpensive feds survived, but players such as WWE and TNA are forced to cut salaries and expenditures, dropping their status to cult or regional levels.
To make matters worse, in 2015 a WWE flight carrying around half of its roster went down, killing all on board. Included in the fatalities are Vince and Stephanie McMahon. The resulting power struggle between Linda McMahon, Shane McMahon and Paul LeVesque for control of the company essentially destroys the company and marks what would become known as the low point of the 'wrestling industry crash.' Ultimately Shane retains ownership leading up to the point where the dataset would be set to begin. The WWE regains its 'F' and reverts to the WWF around this time as the World Wildlife Fund merges and becomes a part of a seperate conservation program, thus freeing up the WWF monicker.
TNA survives - as a subsidiary of WWF Entertainment. During the low point of the wrestling crash (not long after the devestation to its roster by the plane wreck) and coinciding global recession/depression Panda Energy does what every good corporate entity would do - it bailed, selling its investments for whatever cash can be had. This isn't a wise choice by WWF as they overpay and take years trying to recoup the losses of a bad transaction.
RoH continues to survive, though it fails to grow. It remains a local fed known primarily in the Tristate, New England and Mid Atlantic regions.
Numerous smaller feds exist at this point, but they are all very regionalized and have ironically set up a structure very much like the territorial system known 50 year prior. Most bide by a very loose series of agreements that form an unofficial alliance of sorts in an effort to stave off the overbearance of the WWF monopoly on the industry.
In Europe, there is a national federation in the UK that competes with a roughly equal sized fed based in Europe. I haven't even begun to hash out any details beyond that yet for them. Again, a handful of smaller feds also exist.
GOALS:
I want to have roughly 30 feds with around 1000 - 1500 workers. The difficulty should vary depending on who is chosen to be played. I would like to include at least one representative of every style available in the game as feds, and an equal amount for possible startups. I also would like to have a small number of '2005' workers who would have moved on in their careers by 2035 and taken what would be a realistic position in the industry of that time.
What I have done: Locations, and a handful of workers on the WWF roster.
What I would like: People with some spare time to 'donate' rosters and/or fed ideas to me that could be used in the dataset.