Most bizarre World Champ

[Shock Pillman]

For me it was banger beating Zeta quade no screw job or Amari or Avarice

[Trip Lambo]

Intruder and Komodo were World Champions early on in my first playthrough, but that was when my roster was really light.

Nowadays I rarely even let midcarders challenge for the World Championship, let alone openers.

Avarice is one of my top guys, by the way. In my fed, it's not bizarre at all for him to be champion.

[Ashe]

Jun 7, 2020 23:49:07 GMT -5 Trip Lambo said:

Intruder and Komodo were World Champions early on in my first playthrough, but that was when my roster was really light.

Nowadays I rarely even let midcarders challenge for the World Championship, let alone openers.

Avarice is one of my top guys, by the way. In my fed, it's not bizarre at all for him to be champion.

I’m still the guy who booked avarice as Jamie noble and had destiny beat his ass

[quicklimetime]

I booked Mick Florez as a Jay Brisco type, and had him go over Alexei Monstro for the belt for a good run.

[Dark Mauler]

Morbid ruined Domingo's debut title run

[The Manhattan Mauler]

Avarice won the belt by accident 3 times.

[thatguyoverthere]

For me it was Glitter Dash beat Son of Samoa for the world championship not once but twice. Son of Samoa has not been a serious contender since then

[saturdaynightr]

I guess mine would be the midcard guy Shadow. Once I built my main event roster the way I wanted it, no one below main event got a title shot

[bigdubwins]

Mine would be Richie B. It was when I first started playing the game. Gunslinger beat Richie for the TV title. Then a few in-game weeks later I just threw Richie in a #1 contender match. Needless to say, he won and then beat Alexi at the P4V. He actually lasted a few months!

[Skullgore]

Early on in my game, Jackson Good won March Madness and became the second World Champion in my fed by knocking off Alexei Monstro (he’d had the title for 16 months) at Champ Clash.

The weirder sequence happened a few years later. Alexei got the title back and was booked in what was supposed to be filler title defense against Grand Manga. Manga won. I didn’t hate it because it was a genuine upset. Manga didn’t get a single successful defense as Swish beat him the following month (which is essentially what I was looking for). Swish then followed suit and lost the title to Richie B in his first defense. It was not soon after that I bought the Screwjob card because I generally like to give my World Champions relatively lengthy runs.

[themadness]

I once helped Buddy Danger win just to see how long it would take for him to drop the belt. The next PPV Alexei beat him and the rest is history

[Mr. Europa]

So in order to make things a little more random and chaotic, I treat the March Madness tournament as something like a Money in the Bank contract. I randomly seed the tournament each year, and the winner gets to "cash in" at either of the two points on the calendar when you can make anyone challenge the world champ via a mic promo (before the TOQ and March Madness). Otherwise, I try to leave contendership up to the in-game rankings. (In general, I don't like to control outcomes in this game all that much.)

This said, in the 17th year of my first playthrough, Grifter won the Madness contract. Kind of weird. He'd gone something like 20-60 in 16 years, and he'd only ever been sporadically used as an emergency matchup for someone like Lord Evermore.

Heading into that year's TOQ, he was injured. Of course. He continued to hold the contract through the beginning of year 18, and in March, he officially cashed in. For some obvious but necessary background, Monstro has dominated my World Title scene. He got a bit of a break between years 4 and 6 (when he was transitioning from Alexei to Monstro), but he has otherwise always been a threat to hold the belt for years at a time.

At March Madness 18, Grifter cashed in on Monstro. Knowing Grifter had very little chance to dethrone the big man, I thought that he would demand a stipulation, and a psychotic one at that. Burning ring it is! This is the only time I've used the burning ring in this playthrough, and Grifter won. Not only that, but he injured Monstro for 8 weeks with what I've fictionalized as a seriously charred arm.

Weirder still is the fact that Grifter actually *defended* the belt at Champ Clash, beating Pale Rider in a - you guessed it - burning ring match. Unfortunately, Monstro healed on time and came back at Monster Mayhem to *brutalize* Grifter in the cell, ending the most magical run I may ever see in either of these games.

This is by far the coolest confluence of events I've seen in this game, and now I can't separate the idea of Grifter and fire. May he forever reign.

[Mr. Europa]

This one isn't "technically" because the champion is weird, but the immediate road to his victory had a fun happening I thought I'd note here.

In the fifth year of my second playthrough, Monstro held the belt heading into Battle Royale. In the eponymous match that opened the show, there were a number of serious contenders for Monstro's championship. Greg Quebec drew the number one spot but was always a threat to do damage. Jin Kinji was on a tear since growing his hair and joining Code of Combat. Gridiron had been making most of his noise in the tag division but was clearly poised to win, and Evermore and Avarice each looked capable of upsetting the field. Considering the performers involved, I decided to actually watch the match, instead of skipping to the results as usual.

In the battle royal itself, there weren't many surprises. GQ lasted for a long time, and Gridiron looked unstoppable. The one surprise was the fact that Sherman friggin' Turk (I use coin flips to determine who's in the match; blame luck) entered the match second and just wouldn't get eliminated. In fact, the whole match came down to Sherman Turk and Gridiron.

Interestingly, after Gridiron hit his finisher, the game kept Turk on the screen and declared them both the winner (probably a visual glitch, but fun!). Now, Gridiron "officially" won the battle and beat the pee-pee out of Monstro later on to claim the gold. To get there, though, I see a circumstance where Mr. Fantasy himself had to power walk to the ring and restart the rumble, a la Cena/Batista. Crazy.

I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I'm going to help Sherman Turk get his revenge at some point in the future.

[Mr. Europa]

Also, for those who liked my mini Grifter run from my first playthrough, the bugger won March Madness again in the 4th year of my second playthrough. The champion when he cashed in?

Monstro.

Unfortunately, the Burning Ring match was not Monstro's kryptonite this time. He retained against Grifter at ToQ, and a month later, he lost to Gridiron as mentioned above.

[The Manhattan Mauler]

That time Mid-card Greg Quebec beat Gunslinger twice in the time span of 3 P4V's