TNA can have a little Hulkamania V2.5 (2020 edition begins!)

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Final Resolution -> Genesis -> Against All Odds -> Destination X

Title changes
2010-12-30 Impact - Knockouts Championship: Daffney -> Taylor Wilde
2010-01-20 Impact - World Heavyweight Championship: Kevin Nash -> Scott Steiner
2010-02-07 Essentials - X Division Championship: AJ Styles -> Matt Morgan
2010-03-10 Impact - Global Championship: Doug Williams -> Homicide

Signings, re-signings, releases
Carlito Colon signs with TNA as a wrestler.
Mad Dog Vachon signs with TNA as a non-wrestling figure.
Ed Ferrara re-signs.
Vince Russo re-signs.
Daffney re-signs.
Hulk Hogan re-signs.
Terry Taylor re-signs.
Consequences Creed re-signs.
Jay Lethal re-signs.
SoCal Val re-signs.
Brother Ray re-signs.
Jeff Jarrett leaves TNA.

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One of the strongest matches of the year came on the December 27th Impact, where Kevin Nash defended his world title against James Storm.
TNA won Most Improved Promotion of the Year 2010. Alissa Flash won Best Female Wrestler of the Year 2010.
Simon Diamond wrestled for TNA during this period. It's as bad as it sounds.
Jeff Jarrett and Vince Russo are no longer friends; this may have caused Jarrett's demotion down the card and release.
Recently, also, there's been friction between AJ Styles and Samoa Joe...

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The latest 5-star classics: Sheamus vs. Chris Jericho, and D-Generation X vs. Matt Hardy/Rey Mysterio, both on Raw.
WrestleMania was, by all accounts, a great show. Highlights included Sheamus over Goldust, Hardy/Mysterio over Cena/Kingston, and the main event where Batista beat Shawn Michaels for the WWE Championship.
 

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Aye, the best X-Division champ is back.
 

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Jarrett left early :monkey
 

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Destination X -> Lockdown -> Sacrifice -> Slammiversary -> Badlands

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2011-04-11 Essentials - X Division Championship: Matt Morgan -> Consequences Creed
2011-04-25 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong -> Daffney
2011-05-16 Essentials - World Heavyweight Championship: Scott Steiner -> Sting (the timelines begin to converge)
2011-05-22 Sacrifice 2011 - X Division Championship: Consequences Creed -> Samoa Joe
2011-06-06 Essentials - X Division Championship: Samoa Joe -> Daniels
2011-06-13 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Daffney -> Awesome Kong
2011-06-16 Impact - Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Daffney/Taylor -> Filthy-X-Hardcore
2011-06-26 Slammiversary IX - World Tag Team Championship: Two-Man Olympiad -> Motor City Machine Guns
2011-07-27 Badlands 2011 - Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Filthy-X-Hardcore -> Kong/Wilde
2011-07-27 Badlands 2011 - Global Championship: Homicide -> Consequenes Creed

Signings, re-signings, releases
Simon Diamond re-signs.
Sting re-signs.
Andrew Thomas re-signs.
Mike Tenay re-signs.
Samoa Joe re-signs.
Mick Foley re-signs.
Roxxi re-signs.
Don West re-signs.
Dr. Stevie re-signs.
Traci Brooks re-signs.
Chris Sabin re-signs.
ODB re-signs.
Sarita re-signs.

Alliances
ODB + Roxxi = Filthy-X-Hardcore

The business side
Carlito Colon got his first world title shot on the first Essentials after Destination X. He still lost, though.
A-rated matches: James Storm d. AJ Styles (2011-04-25 Essentials), Brother Devon d. Brother Ray (2011-06-13 Essentials), Sting d. James Storm (2011-06-16 Impact AND 2011-06-20 Essentials), Team 3D d. Beer Money (Slammiversary IX), Sting d. Brother Ray (2011-06-30 Impact), James Storm d. Consequences Creed (2011-07-04 Essentials), Sting d. Brother Ray (Badlands 2011).
James Storm and Kurt Angle are no longer getting along, for some reason.

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John Cena and Randy Orton have fallen out.
Sean Waltman is losing friends left and right, with Road Dogg and even Scott Hall having given up on him.
Santino Marella spent several months as ECW champion. Make of that what you will.
 

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Badlands -> Hard Justice

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2011-08-01 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong -> ODB
2011-08-04 Impact - Knockouts Championship: ODB -> Awesome Kong
2011-08-08 Essentials - X Division Championship: Daniels -> Alex Shelley
2011-08-21 Hard Justice 2011 - X Division Championship: Alex Shelley -> Daniels
2011-08-21 Hard Justice 2011 - World Heavyweight Championship: Sting -> Dr. Stevie

Signings, re-signings, releases
Suicide re-signs.
Brother Devon re-signs.
Scott D'Amore re-signs.
James Storm re-signs.
Desmond Wolfe re-signs.
Amazing Red re-signs.

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None.

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A-rated matches: Brother Ray d. Robert Roode (2011-08-04 Impact)

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A new promotion arrives?! NWA Alberta has opened.
 

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Hard Justice -> No Surrender -> Bound for Glory

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2011-09-19 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong -> Daffney
2011-10-23 Bound for Glory 2011 - Global Championship: Consequences Creed -> Brother Devon

Signings, re-signings, releases
Sgt. Slaughter re-signs.
Magnus re-signs.
Charles Robinson re-signs.
Kristal Lashley re-signs.
Mark "Slick" Johnson re-signs.

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None.

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TNA Essentials has recently started beating WWE Raw in the TV ratings.
A-rated matches: Dr. Stevie d. James Storm (No Surrender 2011), Sting d. Daniels (2011-10-03 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. James Storm (2011-10-10 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. AJ Styles (2011-10-20 Impact), Dr. Stevie d. Robert Roode (Bound for Glory 2011). Dr. Stevie putting on those bangers.

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CM Punk, away from the wrestling business for a year, is now NWA Alberta's top champion, somehow.
America's Most Wanted are no longer friends, thanks to some problems Chris Harris had with James Storm.
Michael Cole was signed to ROH, then released within a week.
 

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Dr. Stevie is gonna be wrestler of the year :whoa also damn bruh poor Cole :lol
 

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If Stevie Richards actually had the chance to put on good matches weekly, it's not impossible. I mean even when WWE was treatin' him like he was washed up, he and Punk were havin' the best matches on ECW.
 
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Bound for Glory -> Turning Point -> Final Resolution -> Genesis

Title changes
2011-10-24 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Daffney -> Roxxi
2011-11-10 Impact - X Division Championship: Daniels -> Chris Sabin
2011-12-15 Impact - Knockouts Championship: Roxxi -> Taylor Wilde
2011-12-15 Impact - World Tag Team Championship: Motor City Machine Guns -> Two-Man Olympiad
2011-12-15 Impact - World Heavyweight Championship: Dr. Stevie -> Robert Roode
2011-12-29 Impact - World Tag Team Championship: Two-Man Olympiad -> Homicide/Creed
2012-01-12 Impact - Global Championship: Brother Devon -> Desmond Wolfe
2012-01-12 Impact - Knockouts Championship: Taylor Wilde -> Daffney
2012-01-12 Impact - X Division Championship: Chris Sabin -> Kevin Nash(!!)
2012-01-22 Genesis 2012 - Global Championship: Desmond Wolfe -> Consequences Creed

Signings, re-signings, releases
Abyss re-signs.
Scott Steiner re-signs.
Earl Hebner re-signs.
Jeremy Borash re-signs.
Awesome Kong re-signs.
Tomko re-signs.
Hernandez re-signs.
Taylor Wilde re-signs.
Blackjack Lanza re-signs.
Tara re-signs.
Hector Guerrero re-signs.
Eric Bischoff re-signs.
Robert Roode re-signs.
D'Angelo Dinero re-signs.

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TNA once again won Most Improved Promotion of 2011. The highest TNA wrestler on the Top 100, strangely, was Sting at 13, followed by James Storm at 16. (Dr. Stevie was at 36.)
A-rated matches: Dr. Stevie d. Robert Roode (2011-11-07 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. Sting (2011-11-10 Impact), James Storm d. Robert Roode (2011-11-21 Essentials AND 2011-11-24 Impact), Sting d. James Storm (Turning Point 2011), Dr. Stevie d. AJ Styles (Turning Point 2011), Storm/Stevie d. Team 3D (2011-12-05 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. AJ Styles (2011-12-08 Impact), Storm/Ray d. Roode/Sting (2011-12-19 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. AJ Styles (2012-01-05 Impact), Sting d. James Storm (2012-01-09 Essentials), Dr. Stevie d. Sting (2012-01-12 Impact AND 2012-01-16 Essentials), Robert Roode d. James Storm (2012-01-19 Impact AND Genesis 2012), Sting d. Dr. Stevie (Genesis 2012)
Trouble exists between TNA stars, wtih Tomko arguing with James Storm, and Eric Bischoff and Kevin Nash no longer being friends.

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Due to a ratings collapse, all WWE programming is off TV. Also, the following WWE talents have recently left the promotion.
Abraham Washington
Big Show
Chris Masters
Colt Cabana
Funaki
John Finegan
John Morrison
Primo Colon
R-Truth
Ric Flair
Scott Armstrong
Shad Gaspard
Shane Helms (again)
Slam Master J
Steve Lombardi
Ricky Steamboat has left as WWE booker, to be replaced again by Stephanie McMahon.
There appears to be unrest among an increasingly hopeless roster, as Shawn Michaels and MVP almost came to blows.
Predictably, CM Punk has left NWA Alberta. Who knows where he is now?
Almost the entire Kliq has abandoned Sean Waltman now, with Triple H the latest to condemn. Only Shawn Michaels sticks by him.
El Dandy recently failed a drug test. Who are we, though, to doubt his innocence?
Billy Gunn and Sabu have now retired.
The midget wrestling legend and star of WrestleMania III, Lord Littlebrook, has passed away.
 
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El Dandy recently failed a drug test. Who are we, though, to doubt his innocence?

:mj4

Also ngl TNA is starting to look good af to me. How's the Japanese wrestling world looking rn?
 

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Now let's get some Matt Morgan/Kevin X-Divison Nash gold.
 
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:mj4

Also ngl TNA is starting to look good af to me. How's the Japanese wrestling world looking rn?
In terms of prestige, NJPW > NOAH > AJPW > ZERO-1 > Dragon Gate > Kaientai Dojo > DDT.

Current IWGP HW = Masato Tanaka
Current IWGP Tag = Masato Tanaka/Yujiro Takahashi
Current IWGP JHW = Yujiro Takahashi
Current IWGP JHW Tag = Ryusuke Taguchi/YOSHI-HASHI

Current GHC HW = Kenta Kobashi
Current GHC Tag = Kotaro Suzuki/Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Current GHC JHW = Kotaro Suzuki
Current GHC JHW Tag = Naomichi Marufuji/Akihiko Ito
Current GHC Open Hardcore = Makoto Hashi

Current Triple Crown = Taiyo Kea
Current All Asia Tag = Akebono/NOSAWA Rongai
Current World JHW = Manabu Soya
Current AJPW Unified Tag* = Taiyo Kea/Minoru Suzuki

Current ZERO1 World HW = Shinjiro Otani

Current Open the Dream Gate = BxB Hulk

Current STRONGEST-K = TAKA Michinoku

Current KO-D Open = HARASHIMA

*newly created belt
 
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Genesis -> Against All Odds -> Destination X -> Lockdown

Title changes
2012-02-20 Essentials - Knockouts Championship: Daffney -> Sarita
2012-02-23 Impact - X Division Championship: Kevin Nash -> Chris Sabin
2012-03-15 Impact - World Tag Team Championship: Homicide/Creed -> Two-Man Olympiad
2012-03-22 Impact - Knockouts Championship: Sarita -> Taylor Wilde
2012-03-25 Destination X 2012 - World Heavyweight Championship: Robert Roode -> Sting (sadly the real life Victory Road 2012 was non-title, so this isn't a fun parallel with reality)
2012-04-16 Essentials - X Division Championship: Chris Sabin -> Abyss

Signings, re-signings, releases
Daniels re-signs.
Homicide re-signs.
Velvet Sky re-signs.
Doug Williams re-signs.
Kevin Nash re-signs.
Eric Young re-signs.
Matt Morgan re-signs.
Rhino re-signs.
SoCal Val re-signs.
Andrew Thomas re-signs.
Mike Tenay re-signs.

Alliances
None.

The business side
A-rated matches: Robert Roode d. Doug Williams (2012-02-20 Essentials), Brother Ray d. James Storm (2012-02-23 Impact), Robert Roode d. Brother Ray (Against All Odds 2012), Dr. Stevie d. James Storm (Destination X 2012), Dr. Stevie d. Brother Ray (2012-04-12 Impact)
Kurt Angle and Matt Morgan now have A-level chemistry as Two-Man Olympiad.
The Knockouts Tag Team Championships have gone undefended for 6 months, and seem to have been quietly forgotten.

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Completely despite itself, and its increasing inability to pay the bills, WWE is still putting on great shows. They have a TV show once again, with WWE Wrestling Challenge coming to G4 TechTV on Sundays. Several ex-WWE stars have re-signed, but several others have left, including none other than Triple H!
The new big name on campus is ROH Takedown TV. Thanks to TNA's stubborn unwillingness to snap up the time slot left by Raw after its disappearance, ROH got its own show at 9pm on a Monday (on CBS) and has reaped the ratings.
Batista has left to make movies, like in real life.
Recent drug test fails: Norman Smiley, Shocker
Recent retirements: Road Warrior Animal, Honky Tonk Man
 
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Important question, should I:
- Continue with this save?
- Restart it with the February 2010 database instead (so I get all the start-of-Hogan-era signings)?
- Restart it in TEW2020 with The Future Is Now 2010 database?
 
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