In this episode of the TEW 2020 Exploring the CornellVerse series, it’s a look at where things stand with 5SSW, why it’s another great pick-up and play promotion, and much more.
Here are my notes on 5 Star Supreme Wrestling:
TEW 2020 CornellVerse: 5SSW
Overview
- 18th in the world
- $100,000 to work with
- 41 percent momentum (62 percent prestige)
- Tiny size, easy path to Small
- Can you regroup from Modern Japan movement and tsunami?
Product
- Highly competitive Joshi
- All about match quality
- Action-packaged matches with fast tempo
- Match focus is Main Event Spotlight
- No face/heel divide
- Intense style on workers
- Short angles
TV/Events
- Touring schedule
- Event graphics are great
Titles
- Nice group of titles
- Triangle title is interesting
- J Grand Prix is single elimination tournament in July
- Tag Grand Prix is single elimination tag tournament in November
Roster
- Five experienced tag teams
- No relationships (possible talent trading options)
- Maruya is easily top star
- Nakajima and Jippensha are also Hall of Fame talents
Video
Transcript Preview
Hey everyone, it’s Blake, welcome to episode No. 22 of our Exploring the CVerse series in TEW 2020. We are on to 5SSW: 5 Star Supreme Wrestling.
We’re back to another all-women’s promotion and a very interesting one here as you will see and we go through it. Again, if you haven’t checked out all the other ones, before be sure to go back through the archives. We’ve done 20-plus CVerse companies, and you can go back through and check those out and see if any of those interest you.
Let’s see if 5SSW interests you because it is the No. 18 ranked company in the world right now. A tiny company to start off with, a hundred thousand dollars, and 62 prestige and 41 momentum.
The size, as we always discuss right off the bat. It’s a small company, but I mean it’s just a very easy path – let’s call it what it is. You’re already at 31 here in the home region, so you know now to get small, you just have to get to 35. That should be something pretty achievable right off the bat.
Now, small to medium, that’s where things get a lot tougher. But for now, that at least could be kind of a tiny little achievement early to push you forward into that small territory.
So, that is where things stand on the size for the company.
As for the back story, this is the most successful women’s wrestling company in history. So, a lot of tradition, a lot of backstory with this one. You know the Joshi scene in Japan and you know you can read the backstory of the magic three and what things have pivoted to now.
As we’ll talk about in the product, it’s really all about action and sort of that fast tempo. That’s really what this is all about for the promotion. It is really built on match quality.
So, you can kind of see what I think is one of the challenges early. If you want to use it as sort of a narrative to play with, basically it’s can you regroup from joining the Modern Japan Movement, which we’ve all kind of talked about over the years now of what that did and you know the backstory there.
The tsunami in 2016, as it says, hit the company pretty hard. So, can you continue to regroup from that?
The company is on the right track now as we talked about. The momentum is swinging up um, so yes, it’s sort of a company that’s getting back on good footing and can you continue to push it forward…
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