Yep, Another Ponyguy Diary. It's WWE this time!

[thatponyguy]

OOC: I can't bring myself to even look at TEW at the moment so, my ROH diary is going on hiatus 'til I can bare playing TEW again. For now, this shall be my main project.

On May the 20th, 2013, Paul Heyman was set to reveal the newest 'Paul Heyman' guy. In our reality, it turned out to be a major letdown, as Michael McGillicutty, a man who had not won a match in a year, redebuted as Curtis Axel and was all but buried by Triple H later that night. However, what if Axel hadn't debuted alone? What if, during his match with Triple H, two more 'Paul Heyman Guys' debuted? Well, in this reality, that is exactly what happened, as Corey Graves (TAFKA: Sterling James Keenan) and Kassius Ohno (TAFKA: Chris Hero), talents from WWE's developmental territory NXT debuted and attacked Triple H, aided not by Curtis Axel, but by Axel Hennig (OOC: For the less intelligent readers, it's the still the same guy, just under a different name). The three Paul Heyman Guys beat 'The Game' down. The next week, the three Paul Heyman Guys teamed up in a six man tag team match, destroying three jobbers that nobody gives a flying fuck about, following interference from two more Paul Heyman Guys: Wade Barrett and Antonio Cesaro. The five men were dubbed later that night as The Heyman Family, by Paul Heyman himself. As we entered the month of June, Kassius Ohno and Corey Graves found themselves in a feud with Justin Gabriel and his returning partner Tyson Kidd whilst Wade Barrett would feud with Chris Jericho over Barrett's Intercontinental championship Antonio Cesaro would be repeatedly defeated by the debuting Sami Zayn (OOC: TAFKA: El Generico), in what Cesaro would call flukes. A great deal would also occur apart from The Heyman Family throughout June, with Cody Rhodes and Sheamus doing battle multiple times in a personal rivalry, Team Hell No feuding with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns over the WWE Tag Team championships, Dean Ambrose feuding with Randy Orton over Ambrose's US championship, John Cena going against Ryback for the WWE championship and Jack Swagger taking on Alberto Del Rio for the #1 Contendership to the World Heavyweight championship whilst the champ himself Dolph Ziggler was on the sidelines with a concussion.

WWE Payback results (30/06/13) (91%):
Pre-Show: Team Hell No ripped into WWE Tag Team champs The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) verbally. (90%)
Opener: Sami Zayn pinned Antonio Cesaro with a Schoolboy Roll-up. Cesaro beat Zayn down after the match. (83%)
Second Segment: The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) beat Team Hell No to retain their WWE Tag Team championships in a ladder match when Rollins and Reigns hit Bryan with a combination of a Diving Knee Drop (From the fifth rung on the ladder) from Rollins and a Torture Rack from Reigns. (93%)
Third Segment: Dean Ambrose defeated Randy Orton when a new member of The Shield, Samuel Callis (Sami Callihan) debuted and hit Orton with a Back Suplex into a Neckbreaker which allowed Ambrose to cover Orton for the three count to retain the WWE United States championship. (90%)
Fourth Segment: Chris Jericho beat Wade Barrett by DQ when the ref caught Paul Heyman helping his client. As a result, Wade Barrett retained his WWE Intercontinental championship. After the match, Jericho hit Heyman with a Codebreaker. (89%)
Fifth Segment: Cody Rhodes pinned Sheamus with a roll-up and a grab of the tights. Rhodes bolted after the bell rang. (92%)
Sixth Segment: Kassius Ohno and Corey Graves of The Heyman Family drew with Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel, International Airstrike, when the two teams ended up brawling outside of the ring long after the ref counted to ten. Both teams brawled to the back. (85%)
Seventh Segment: Alberto Del Rio drew with Jack Swagger in our second draw in a row, when the World Heavyweight champion Dolph Ziggler returned and, along with his bodyguard Big E Langston, destroyed both competitors. (94%)
Main Event: John Cena defeated Ryback when Paul Heyman tried, and failed, to interfere on Ryback's behalf, instead distracting the big man and allowing Cena to pick up the win. After the match The Heyman Family swarmed Cena as Ryback reluctantly shook hands with Paul Heyman, seemingly joining The Heyman Family. (94%)

With Payback in the books, WWE moved forward to July and Money In The Bank. Over the two weeks leading up to MiTB, we saw ten men, Dean Ambrose, Antonio Cesaro, Fandango, Axel Hennig, Damien Sandow, The Miz, Ted DiBiase, Rey Mysterio, Sami Zayn and Christian qualify for the, now singular, Money In The Bank ladder match. We also saw The Shield's newest member Samuel Callis make his in-ring debut, defeating Randy Orton after interference from the US champion, Dean Ambrose. July also saw the debut of Leo Krueger, Luke Harper (TAFKA: Brodie Lee) and Bray Wyatt (TAFKA: Husky Harris), collectively known as The Wyatt cult. Lee and Kruger would dominate Smackdown's tag teams for most of July, being managed by Wyatt until an injury to Kruger saw their push halt and Wyatt step into the ring to team with his Disciple Leo Kruger. Kruger wasn't the only injury however, as former WWE Tag Team champion Daniel Bryan was also out, after taking a bad bump in the tag team ladder match at Payback. The only new feud started in July was one over the tag belts, with Evan Bourne returning to reform Air-Boom with Kofi Kingston and win a #1 Contenders tag team match, beating 3MB's Drew McIntyre and Heath Slater. Also during July, Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton settled their feud when Ambrose beat Orton to not only retain his US championship but qualify for the MiTB Ladder match.

WWE Money In The Bank (14/07/13) (80%)
Pre-Show: Paul Heyman, Kassius Ohno and Corey Graves cut a promo on Ohno and Graves' opponents tonight: Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd. (86%)
Opener: The Heyman Family (Ohno and Graves) beat International Airstrike cleanly to end their feud. (72%)
Second Match: Dean Ambrose won the Money In The Bank Contract in a 10 Man Ladder Match. (66%)
Third Match: Cody Rhodes again beat Sheamus by cheating and once again bolted from Sheamus after the match. (83%)
Fourth Match: Wade Barrett beat Chris Jericho to end not only their feud, but Chris Jericho's career after a Bullhammer elbow to the skull. Y2J teared up in the ring after the match and it looked as if Wade was going to show some class and respect to a definite future Hall of Famer, but instead he hit Jericho with not one, not two, not even three but four straight Bullhammer elbows and left the ring grinning. (81%)
Fifth match: Alberto Del Rio defeated Jack Swagger to win #1 Contendership for Dolph Ziggler's WHC as well as to end their feud. ADR was attacked by the 'Show Off' after the match. (84%)
'Main Event': John Cena submitted Ryback with the STF to end their feud and retain the WWE championship. However, he was not able to celebrate long... (84%)
In-Ring Segment: As the music of The Shield hit and the foursome hit the ring and absolutely destroyed Cena, each hitting him with their respective finishers, Rollins with the Skywalker (Standing Shiranui), Reigns with the Spear, Callis with the Death Machine (Back Suplex into a Neckbreaker) and Ambrose with the Justice Driver (Headlock Driver). Rollins, Reigns and Callis then hit Cena with a Three-Man Superbomb as Ambrose handed the MiTB briefcase to the ref and announced that he was cashing in! (88%)
Main Event Numero Dos: Dean Ambrose easily defeated John Cena with a Justice Driver to win the WWE championship! The PPV ended with Ambrose passing the US title to Samuel Callis and The Shield each holding a belt high in the air. (81%)

OOC: More of the backstory, which shall run through all of what I've played so far (Up 'til January '14) shall be up tomorrow~.

[thatponyguy]

On the Raw post-MiTB, it was announced that John Cena would be out-of-action for the next few months after the brutal attack from The Shield the night before. The aforementioned Raw would be Main Evented by Kane challenging Dean Ambrose for Ambrose's WWE championship unsuccessfully, though the night was truly ended by the return of CM Punk, who immediately announced his intentions of going after the WWE championship in the form of a knee to the face of the champ. The build-up to the WWE's next PPV, Summerslam, saw a couple of new feuds begin as Zack Ryder turned on his friend and sometimes tag team partner Santino Marella after one too many losses. Ryder began to show a far darker side of himself, repeatedly attacking his former friend and cutting cryptic promos, claiming that 'The bird's flight would see him land in the WWE.' This confused fans and Ryder's fellow Superstars alike until the 05/08 Raw, on which Ryder cut another promo, claiming that 'the bird had landed.' before a man not seen in the WWE for many years, Raven, returned, helping Ryder beat down Santino Marella. The other new feud to start was Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett, that began when Orton pinned Barrett's Heyman Family stablemate Antonio Cesaro to become #1 contender for Barrett's Intercontinental championship. August also saw the 3MB become the 2MB when Jinder Mahal was released from the WWE, Daniel Bryan return and join The Heyman Family, turning on and putting out his former partner Kane in doing so and the WWE return of one Shane McMahon, who announced himself as the new COO of the WWE, his first actions being to book Dean Ambrose vs. CM Punk for the WWE championship and Samuel Callis vs. The Miz for the now vacant WWE United States championship at SummerSlam.

SummerSlam (18/08/13) (92%):
Pre-Show: Samuel Callis defeated The Miz after Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins interfered and cost Miz the match.
Opener: Air Boom defeated Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins of The Shield cleanly to become the new WWE Tag Team champions when Rollins accidentally Super Kicked Reigns, allowing Bourne to hit the Air Bourne for the three count. After the match, Reigns and Rollins argued until Dean Ambrose and Samuel Callis hit the ring, attempting to calm Reigns down...
In-Ring Segment: Only for Ambrose to turn and smack Rollins in the face with his WWE championship! Rollins was hit with a finisher from each member of The Shield and left for dead in the middle of the ring.
Backstage Segment: Josh Matthews caught up with Dean Ambrose for an interview with Ambrose simply stating that Rollins had been excommunicated from The Shield before walking away.
Second Match: Sami Zayn pinned Antonio Cesaro after a Brainbuster to end their feud.
Third Match: Wade Barrett cheated to defeat Randy Orton and retain his WWE Intercontinental belt. After the match, Orton RKO'd Barrett.
Third Match: Cody Rhodes pinned Sheamus, cleanly this time, to end their feud.
Fourth Match: Alberto Del Rio surprised everyone by defeating Dolph Ziggler!... Via DQ, when Ziggler's 'Heavy' Big E Langston jumped ADR as Del Rio was about to defeat Ziggles.
Main Event: Dean Ambrose defeated CM Punk when Roman Reigns interfered, attacking Punk. Seth Rollins ran out to save Punk after the match.

And thus, The Shield was brought back down to three members and we also had new Tag Team champions, Air Boom. The Raw after SummerSlam would see five things occur: #1, Adrian Neville (PAC) would debut, defeating and starting a rivalry with, Fandango, #2: The Heyman Family (Kassius Ohno and Corey Graves) would win a four team tag team match to become #1 Contenders to the tag team titles, #3: Sami Zayn would become #1 Contender to the US championship, defeating Antonio Cesaro and The Miz in a Triple Threat Match, #4: The rivalry between Dean Ambrose and CM Punk would come to an end and #5: the rivalry between Seth Rollins and his former Shield-mates would begin, with Rollins pinning Reigns and attacking Callis and Ambrose. On Smackdown that week, we would see another debut, that of former TNA (Now a Global force and almost at the level to challenge WWE) and PWG talent Joey Ryan, now known as Ryan Mitchell and being managed by Byron Saxton. He would make an impressive debut, pinning Kane. Also happening as the WWE moved into September, was a feud between The Heyman Family (Mostly Axel Hennig) and Christian, spawning from an upset victory in which Christian led a team of JTTS (Consisting of The Usos, Ted DiBiase and Christian himself) to victory against Antonio Cesaro, Axel Hennig, Daniel Bryan and Ryback. Back to the feud between Rollins and The Shield and Rollins formed a stable with two other men who had problems with the Hounds of Justice: William Regal and Sami Zayn. That same night, Rollins would a cut a scathing promo on his former stablemates, calling Samuel Callis a 'Psychotic fanboy', Roman Reigns 'a mindless brute who followed Ambrose's orders to a tee' and calling Ambrose himself 'a coward and a liar' and claiming that The Shield had gone from 'being all about stopping injustice' to 'being all about Dean Ambrose' before claiming he would beat Ambrose and take his WWE Championship.

WWE Night of Champions (15/9/13) (92%):
Pre-Show: Randy Orton cut a promo on Wade Barrett.
Opener: Air Boom retained their WWE Tag Team Championships against The Heyman Family, when Paul Heyman accidentally distracted Kassius Ohno, allowing Kofi Kingston to hit the Trouble In Paradise for the win.
Second Match: Sami Zayn defeated Samuel Callis by DQ when Callis refused to stop beating down Zayn when Zayn was in the ropes. After the match, Callis beat Zayn up some more.
Backstage Segment: Paul Heyman cut a promo on the behalf of his client, Wade Barrett, ripping into Randy Orton.
Third Match: Wade Barrett defeated Randy Orton to retain his Intercontinental Championship and end their feud after multiple Bullhammer Elbows and a Winds of Change.
Backstage Segment: Christian was interviewed and hyped his match against Axel Hennig.
Fourth Match: Axel Hennig defeated Christian when Paul Heyman interfered to help his client.
Fifth Match: Dolph Ziggler defeated Alberto Del Rio cleanly in a ladder match to end their feud.
Main Event: Dean Ambrose beat Seth Rollins when Roman Reigns interfered. After the match, Seth Rollins fought Ambrose and Reigns off with some help from William Regal.

Ty Lovell
~Even more over the next few days.

[Brain Of J]

I couldn't even get into TEW. WAAAAAY too complicated. I'd like a little more flexibility in EWR, but TEW was too much.

Jed Shaffer
~Good start so far.

[thatponyguy]

Everything else on TEW I can handle except for the fucking constantly changing card positions! Fuck, Steve Corino in my ROH game went from being a Main Eventer to a fuckin' Midcarder after winning the damn belt.

Ty Lovell
~So yeah, screw TEW.

[thatponyguy]

Another PPV down as we move on to the road to Hell In A Cell. Worth noting on the first post-NoC Raw is that a feud began between CM Punk and his former Manager, Paul Heyman's stable the Heyman Family, led by Daniel Bryan in their quest to seemingly oust Punk from the WWE for refusing to join them upon returning to the WWE. On the first WWE show of October, Smackdown on the 4th, the WWE saw yet another debut, their third in the last two months. The debut was none other than recent WWE signee Jimmy Jacobs, known now as Jacob Daniels who debuted as Raven's new client and Zack Ryder's new tag team partner. Daniels, who signed with the WWE in July and spent a couple of months down in NXT, would help Ryder who, along with Raven and Jacobs was dubbed 'The New Flock', beat down Santino Marella multiple times. Another feud started up in October as the newly face-turned Drew McIntyre, fresh of a mini-feud with former 3MB-cum-2MB frontman Heath Slater, began feuding with IC champ Wade Barrett over, yep, the Intercontinental Championship. Even more debuts would come before HiAC, with Michael Evans (Mike Bennet) and the brother of WWE Superstar Evan Bourne, Mikey Bourne (Mike Sydal). The two would be accompanied by the returning Maria as a Heel tag team.

WWE Hell In A Cell (27/10/13) (93% (My best show thus far)):
Pre Show: Ryan Mitchell defeated Christian.
Opener: Zack Ryder defeated Santino Marella in the first of three Hell In A Cell matches that night, to end their feud.
Second Match: Drew McIntyre defeated Wade Barrett by Count Out when Barrett walked out on the match.
Backstage Segment: CM Punk cut a promo on The Heyman Family (Mostly Heyman and Bryan)
Third Match: Air Boom beat The Heyman Family to retain their Tag Team titles.
Fourth Match: Daniel Bryan beat CM Punk in a MOTYC via Heyman-ference.
In-Ring Segment: The Shield destroyed Sami Zayn, not allowing him to even start his US Title match against Samuel Callis.
Fifth Match: Dolph Ziggler defeated John Cena in the penultimate HiAC match of the night to retain his title and end their feud.
Main Event: Dean Ambrose defeated Seth Rollins in the final HiAC match of the night to retain his WWE Championship, though their feud would continue, as Ambrose needed ridiculous amounts of Shield interference to win.

Even more debuts would occur during the month of November, by way of the return of the WWE Diva's division, which had been quietly dropped in July. A couple of returns would also happen as the division returned. The debuts were: Sara Amato (Sara Del Ray), Melissa Flash (Cheerleader Melissa) and Angel LaGuerta (+1 to anyone who gets the reference in that) (Mercedes Martinez) and the returning Divas were the previously released Natalya Neidhart and Beth Phoenix! Neither of the returning women would capture the Diva's title as that honor would go to Sara Amato who won a fatal four way match against LaGuerta, Phoenix and Natalya. Also on the first Smackdown! of November, Christian would become #1 Contender to Dolph Ziggler's WHC and on Raw, The Wyatt Cult would start a feud against the newly formed Team Air (Justin Gabriel and Adrian Neville) after Neville's short-lived feud against Fandango, whom Bray Wyatt had been approaching about possibly joining his Cult, ended, we would later find that Fandango had rejected Wyatt's attempts to get him to join, leading the Cult to put Fandango out indefinitely. Also, John Cena would finally claim his WWE Championship rematch against Dean Ambrose, though he would fail to capitalise on it and would fall to Ambrose. Cena would, later that week, announce that this would be his last month in the WWE as he had aggravated an old neck injury during his match with Ambrose. He would fight his final match on the last episode of Raw before Survivor Series, losing to Seth Rollins. He put Rollins over after the match as the future of the WWE. Two feudd would end before Survivor Series rolled around, Air Boom vs. The Heyman Family and CM Punk and The Heyman Family ended it, the first in a Tag Team Ladder Match which Air Boom won and the second in an Ultimate Submission match which lasted Sixty Minutes and saw Punk pick up the win, two falls to one, and two new feuds to start in November the first of which was Axel Hennig against The Miz, who simply had a problem with the way Hennig had won most of his matches, cheating, and had no problem expressing it. Hennig saw this as blatant disrespect and would attack Miz on a number of occasions. The other was another Tag Title feud as Raven's Flock won a Triple Threat tag team match to become #1 Contenders. Announced on the final Raw before SS was a Survivor Style Ten Man Tag Team Match in which the Survivor or Survivors would get a WWE Championship match at TLC in December. The participants were: On the first Team, Sheamus, Randy Orton, Alberto Del Rio, CM Punk and a Surprise Entrant vs. Roman Reigns, Antonio Cesaro, Ryback, Daniel Bryan and Cody Rhodes.

WWE Survivor Series (17/11/13) (89%):
Pre Show: Ryan Mitchell defeated Rey Mysterio.
Opener: Team Sheamus defeated Team Reigns when the mystery partner on Sheamus' side turned out to be The Undertaker, who would be the sole survivor, last eliminating Reigns to gain a WWE Championship match at TLC against either Seth Rollins or Dean Ambrose, depending on the winner of the night's Main Event.
Backstage Segment: Raven's Flock cut a promo on Air Boom.
Second Match: Raven's Flock defeated Air Boom to capture the WWE Tag Team Championships when Raven interfered on their behalf.
Third Match: Drew McIntyre once again got a win over Wade Barrett, this time cleanly to claim the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
Fourth Match: Axel Hennig pinned The Miz when Paul Heyman interfered to end their feud.
Fifth Match: Sami Zayn captured the United States championship from Samuel Callis cleanly in their feud ender.
Sixth Match: Christian beat Dolph Ziggler by DQ when AJ Lee attacked Christian.
Main Event: Dean Ambrose beat Seth Rollins in an I Quit Match to retain his WWE Championship. After the match, the Undertaker would appear, laying a bloody and beaten Ambrose out with a Tombstone Piledriver.

Ty Lovell
~Just one more month of backstory left!