Non-Fleshed Out BTB Ideas

[Gambit]

WCW Late 97-98: Shawn Michaels is the one who makes the jump to WCW instead of Bret. Hollywood Hogan grows concerned with HBK's sway over the nWo. Michaels assures him that he's just helping the cause and will help him beat Sting at Starrcade. Hogan grows increasingly paranoid given how close Syxx, Hall, Nash, and Michaels are. Michaels is also a member of the original Wolfpac (not the red and black version, but the original trio).

WCW 99: DDP beats Goldberg at Halloween Havoc (with no loss of satellite feed by going over time).

AEW: Cody doesn't leave and becomes the mega heel everyone wanted. Feuds with CM Punk and alludes to accomplishing everything Punk claims he would do.

ROH is All Elite: creating more of a hybrid of ECW's hardcore tv and NJPW sports based presentation. Jonathan Gresham, managed by Tully Blanchard, wants to protect and preserve his idea of what ROH was before being bought by Tony Khan.Possible feud with CM Punk, who champions what ROH truly was and not what Gresham believes it to be in his warped mind. Kenny Omega at some point floats over wanting to add his name to the ROH title lineage and legacy.

WWF Invasion: No ECW/WCW alliance. No mockery of Booker T at every turn. An attempt to build something while still working around the idea a lot of the guys from WCW were under contract with AOL Time Warner.

TNA under Paul Heyman: A retrospective at the history that was through the ups and downs from the crowning of D'Angelo Deniro to the political battles of Heyman/DIxie/Jarrett/Russo.

 

[Knable]

Ring of Honor - That’s D’Amore: Scott D’Amore takes over booking Ring of Honor after Supercard of Honor 04/05/24, and it becomes an official AEW Development brand that tours on its own.

Ring of Honor - Tribune Buys In: Instead of Sinclair taking buying Ring of Honor I have Tribune Media buying them and putting them on a dying WGN America which would be rebranded as a sports network.

Also, was thinking of NWA 1998 after the titles were shown on WWF TV, NWA decides to come back as a National brand instead of an Alliance. Trying to take a shot at becoming relevant again.

 

[Sky]

An Angle That I Am Certain TJPW Would Never Do

- Starts from Uta Takami's hometown show that's been announced for November 22. Shino Suzuki vs. Ren Konatsu. Ren debuts her actual finisher and gets a shock win over Shino! The rookiest rookie and she won. And it solidifies Shino's fear that not only her peers, but her juniors have surpassed her. Shino goes to the back, not distraught like she was at All Rise, just.....broken.

- Flash forward to the main event, and Uta gets the win for her team. She gets to do the send-the-crowd-home-happy speech, but then Shino comes out to congratulate her. She's struggling through her words... and she wallops Shino with the microphone! Massive beatdown ensues, brutal as you can get away with in the silly idol promotion, full stretcher job. We don't see Uta again for months.

- Shino starts coming out with a new style, really harsh and stiff. A lot of chokes, neckbreakers, all that, ending with a neck submission finish. Maybe even a guillotine choke to play off Uta's Koala Clutch finish being similar. The big point is that she's way, way harsher on her peers and juniors (debuted 2023 or later). Seems to hate them for daring to exist and outpace her in their careers.

- This is when you start to really build up the Bumping gRitters in the tag ranks. Shino is horrible to the newer stars who've found their niches, and HIMAWARI is scared but goes along with it because they're winning together for once. They beat the Tokusatsu Club with Shino wrecking Haru. They beat Hot Shot, with Shino destroying Toga. (As for Kyoraku Kyomei, I'm going to say have a MLW Women's Featherweight Title defence at 1.4 so Shoko is occupied and doesn't have the question "why aren't Shoko/Misao shutting these two up?" hanging over her.)

- Also, from this point, no more Up Up Girls performances. It's either Miu solo or Raku solo from now on, because Shino is full heel and Uta is not healthy enough.

- It's of course building to 1.4 - Ober Eats vs. Bumping gRitters II. And things go much the same way as they have in the previous tag matches. Shino is AWFUL to Wakana. Rope choking, all kinds of illegal activities, fucking up Wakana's neck and throat and passing her out to the guillotine choke. This new attitude has not only put Shino on a winning streak, it's made her one half of the Princess Tag Team Champions.

- Over the next couple of months cracks start to show in the champion team, and it's for obvious reasons. HIMAWARI does not like this new Shino at all, and Shino is starting to see her as yet another of her jumped-up peers, blaming her openly for losses in multi-woman tags even when she isn't involved. And yet they soldier on into Grand Princess, where they face off against the winners of Futari wa Princess Max Heart 2026... special guest Mei Suruga, and her partner, the returning Uta Takami!

- Bumping gRitters vs. Apple Ice Cream at Grand Princess. Shino is horrific to Uta and gets a lot of heat, but it's clear over the course of the match that the other team's synergy is just better... and that Uta is just better than Shino, and she gets the fall over her for the win to win the titles.

- When the titles are being presented, Shino just looks hateful. HIMAWARI (great actress) sees her and tries, wordlessly, but hopelessly, to urge her not to do what she thinks she has planned. But Shino does. She steals Uta's belt, knocks HIMAWARI out with it in one blow, and pounces on Uta, belt shot to the head after belt shot after belt shot after belt shot. It's only by Mei Suruga's (and Kamiyu's, and Wakana's, and everyone else's) intervention that Uta gets to walk off as champ and isn't stretchered again.

- From there I guess you build to an eventual Shino vs. Uta singles grudge match at Summer Sun Princess, after which Shino begins her journey of redemption. Which ends up with the triumphant return of the Up Up Girls as a quartet... at All Rise '26, a year after this horror started.

They'd 100% never do this because the UUG staying together is too important and also it's too serious but just a thought on where the current Shino struggles could go.

 

[Haskell]

I would be useless at fantasy booking, but I recently had an idea about booking WWE after WM 23.

Basically, I would scrap ECW, release a ridiculous load of talent (such as RVD, Great Khali, the ECW Originals, etc), and bring in a HUGE amount of developmental talent and make them into stars.

I would have a segment on the Raw after WM 23, where Vince cuts a angry promo about Bobby Lashley & Donald Trump, but Linda McMahon interrupts him and explains that the board of directors feel that Vince is damaging the company by taking up way too much TV time, so as a result, Linda relives Vince of his duties.

Vince goes ballistic and threatens Linda, but his threats fall on deaf ears, as Linda introduces Arn Anderson as the new general manager of Raw. Arn walks out, gives Vince a Spine-Buster, before ushering security to remove Vince from the ring.