I held my 3-way co-promoted clusterfuck show, and of course we had to do it in a legendary arena for the occasion.
So this was my company's first show in Japan. It was the third show WCPro and Big Japan have co-promoted, but the first with all three companies that belong in my United In Fight alliance. It got my highest attendance ever (at Korakuen no less) and had my best match ever (AZM vs. La Catalina). Of course the segments were ass because of the language barrier. The overall show rating was mostly hurt by the fact that most of the people aren't full-time WCPro talents so they were all considered "overused". Without that factor, I think the show rating would have been higher. But it wasn't harmful to my popularity anyways, so it's all good.
Just for a little added context that isn't represented. This could get long because it's going to dive into the lore of the game-
- Calvin Tankman is my world champion, and he's just recently beat Adam Priest who held the belt for over 500 days. Tankman is also a Big Japan regular and often teams with Taniguchi in a team called Raw Power, and their most frequent trios partner is Kazumasa Yoshida. Adrian Quest and Robert Martyr belong to a stable in Big Japan called Ex Psychos, who are led by AKIRA. Recently, AKIRA and Tankman won the WCPro Blind Faith Tag Team Tournament (8 randomly drawn teams compete in a tournament where the winner gets a title shot). They're still waiting for their title shot, but things are a little messy now that Tankman beat his stable-mates here.
- Meanwhile, Priest and 1 Called Manders have been staples of the company, and Priest just recently lost the World Title after 500 days as champ. Priest and Manders have 2 prior singles meetings in WCPro. Manders beat Priest in the semi-finals of the 2025 King of the Indies Tournament, which he would go on to win. Priest, however, would then enter a triple threat between Manders and the current champion Kevin Blackwood, which is where Priest became the champ. Priest then defended the belt against Manders in their second singles match to even the score at 1-1. Now that years have passed, Manders and Priest are two of the company's stalwarts and heading for a rubber match.
- The women's champion is Nixon Newell. Previous champs include Johnnie Robbie, Takumi Iroha, Masha Slamovich and B3CCA. Right now, Newell has just turned heel along with Alex Windsor, who has been like a friend-emy. They jumped AZM after she won the 2027 Queen of the Indies (over Brooke Havoc) which earned her a shot at Newell's title. So that's also brewing.
- The Golden Gate Championship has mostly been defined by Starboy Charlie who had the belt when I started. I started developing a storyline for him back in 2025 where he was a workhorse champ who was getting increasingly banged up. You could compare it to OC's lengthy run as International Champ probably. Well, eventually, he lost the belt to Arez. But, Arez's deal had expired that same night so I had to audible a story wherein the title was held up. Charlie then beat Arez to regain the vacant title, continuing to carry it through kayfabe injury. His second title reign then went another 308 days. At one point near the end, Juice Robinson joined the company and was an ally of Charlie's. Eventually he wanted a title shot though, and he got it. He took advantage, won the title, and Charlie had to be stretchered off to finally give him some time off to sell his injuries. Juice became a heel out of this and is now having his run, with Hiromu Takahashi (another recent signing) being his next challenger.
- Some other core pieces of the company have been Titus Alexander, Marcus Mathers (he won last year's King of the Indies and was promptly signed to an exclusive deal in TNA, which I consider a success), Timothy Thatcher, Hideki Suzuki, Kevin Blackwood, Anthony Henry (until ROH got him exclusively), Sinner & Saint who are the tag champs, Tre Lamar, Josh Bishop, KC Navarro and BEEF. We have some younger dudes who are kinda homegrown like Alpha Zo, Jiah Jewell and Ishmael Vaughn who are mainly in Big Japan these days. We also have signed some high profile free agents, mostly in recent months, such as Juice Robinson, Ace Austin, Chris Bey, Hiromu Takahashi and Brody King who are going to help continue to raise the profile the company.
- The roster is super fluid beyond the names mentioned before in this breakdown, really. One of my favorite parts of being an indie company is all the one-night or short term deals. Bringing people in once, letting them go, maybe bring them back a while later for a few more spots and so on. Plus, with all these wrestlers moving between WCPro, Big Japan and RIOT, there's always fresh matchups and people to push.
since I'm in 2016 and that came a bit later than that.
