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Well since I am once again bored, I'm going to do another hypothetical situation much similar to the Gaia Royal Rumble remember this holds no merit, and I shall explain as I go along.


I hypothesize that TNA's creative team was nothing more than a room full of monkeys with pictures of the talent and coins to toss to determine the outcomes of the matches, and that my methods will prove ultimately better than what TNA does.


The next step of the scientific method is to test your hypothesis with an experiment.

In order to book like a TNA creative team member, I had to think like one. I had to do research and analyze what some of TNA's favorite things are. When all was said and done, I came up with 5 constants:


- Three-Way Matches
- Post-Match Brawls
- Interference
- Tournaments
- Going back to what didn't work before

At that point I had to determine a way to combine all 5 aspects and incorporate it into future plans for TNA television. So imagine if you will that all of the TNA stars were replaced by Gaia Characters, the ones we use. Now imagine that the world title is vacated through some bullshit involving Hogan, Dixie and Bischoff. Because lets face it, it would've happened regardless.


Now I know this ventures into the realm of "fantasy booking" and some of you guys hate that, but its not like I've got anything else better to do than to reply to matches, rant or watch anime.

Besides, I'm not using my imagination here. I'm leaving everything up to chance and I was confident the results would come close to something TNA would do (if not better). The only part where I use my noggin a little is tying everything together to have it make a little bit of sense (aka: Vince Russo's job when the chimps hand him their results).

In order to resolve this potential vacated World Championship dispute, TNA will go back to old faithful: The Tournament.

However, this won't be just ANY tournament.
No. It needs to be convoluted. It needs to incorporate several different types of matches and most importantly, it has to have a definitive end result.

So what I have constructed is a tournament consisting of 24 wrestlers competing in 5 rounds to determine who truly is the BEST all-around wrestler on the roster.

--The first round will be Tag Team Matches where the teammates and their opponents will be chosen completely at random (like BattleBowl)

--. The winning teams will advance to the 2nd round where they will face each other in a One-on-one Match.

--The winner will advance to the 3rd round where they will face another opponent in a One-on-one Match.
This will be done to test One-on-one superiority.

--The field will be then narrowed down to 3, which is typically unusual for a tournament, but this is TNA we're talking about.

--Those men will face off in, you guessed it, a TNA Three-Way.
The person pinned is then eliminated and will not advance to the finals.

The two remaining wrestlers will go head to head in a Ladder Match to determine who the NEW World Champion will be. Got it?

Now to determine the contestants. Keep in mind this is all random names I picked from the Gaia Royal Rumble.

It's actually not the worst idea in the world, but it's certainly not the easiest to comprehend. In order to determine the teams listed above,
I simply wrote down the first 24 names that came to mind on the GNA roster who would be actively wrestling at the time this story is meant to take place. I literally just jotted them down in a row.

So with that being said you get

1 Mike Landry
2 Yuke Clepsydra
3 Matt Draven
4 Kyle Dracious
5 Kid Omega
6 Brantley Summers
7 Marxx
8 Jed
9 Nuke Fusion
10 Johnathan Riker
11 Harli
12 Jarel Damone
13 Justin Amaze (Gaia Royal Rumble winner)
14 Lauri Henry
15 Kodiak
16 Draze
17 Brody Robinson
18 Freakshow
19 Kelly King 2.0
20 Joshua Danielson
21 Guy Fox
22 Hernandez
23 Joey Desch
24 Matt Shanahan

The random number that I roll via 1 six side dice will determine how I pick teams. If four is picked, then every other fourth will be paired together, and continue on until all names are picked.

(2 was the number that was generated)

6 Brantley Summers
12 Jarel Damone
vs
18 Freakshow
24 Matt Shanahan


Freak and Shanahan succeeded. In the booking sense, Brantley is a face, and Jarel has always been a face. They go in facing Freak(Heel) and Shanahan(face) Since Brantley and Freak are tag partners, and on opposite ends, we're going to assume that Freakshow took out his own partner Shanahan, and as a confused Jarel looked on Brantley nailed him with bottle of rum as Freakshow pinned Jarel.

Now commencing:

2 Yuke Clepsydra
8 Jed
vs
14 Lauri Henry
20 Joshua Danielson

In case you couldn't tell, TNA seems enjoy being number two, since it spends so much time being inferior to WWE, and the same could be said about this tournament

3 Matt Draven
9 Nuke Fusion
vs
15 Kodiak
21 Guy Fox


Draven and Nuke are playing the roles of faces in this match, but ultimately they couldn't get the job done. So how we're gonna play this, is that Nuke hits his finisher on Kodiak, however the ref is distracted by Draven for some unknown reason, Fox takes this time to clock Nuke with a foreign object and have Kodiak pin Nuke. Because this is TNA logic


Now commencing

4 Kyle Dracious
10 Johnathon Riker
vs
16 Draze
22 Hernandez

and FINALLY we get a heads! I mean.. a One!

5 Kid Omega
11 Harli
vs
17 Brody Robinson
23 Joey Desch

This will be a mostly high flying battle, as Omega, Brody and Desch are more quickened than the seasoned Harli. Desch would presumably be taken out, Harli reverses a finisher from Brody, hits his own and Omega comes with the double rotation moonsault for the win.

now commencing:

1. Mike Landry
7 Marxx
vs
13 Justin Amaze
19 Kelly King 2.0

18 Freakshow
vs
24 Matt Shanahan

Shanhan certainly has a lot of anger going in, and this could be his chance for revenge from the previous match they had however, despite Freakshow being smaller than Shanahan he scrapes a win, presumably because Brantley comes and hits Shanahan from behind with an object while Freakshow is distracting the ref. Remember this is TNA

Now commencing

14 Lauri Henry
vs
20 Joshua Danielson

15 Kodiak
vs
21 Guy Fox


This is a pretty even match, solid back and forth action. Probably one of the best matches since this tournament started, Kodiak has Fox up for his finisher, but Fox wiggles out of it and from nowhere nails Kodiak with his super kick finisher for a clean pin fall.

now commencing

16 Draze
vs
22 Hernandez

I'm sensing a trend here with all of these twos anyways..

16 Draze
vs
22 Hernandez


Draze is pretty dominant in this match, partially because Hernandez kept protecting himself from Draze's shots. Hernandez however learned from his Essence of Excellence partner Landry, and used one of Landry's legal low blows to get the upset victory!

now commencing

1. Mike Landry
vs
2. Marxx

5 Kid Omega
vs
11 Harli

No surprise here, the second slot gets picked, even so Harli completely dominated Omega and gets a win cleanly.

Now that thats out of the way its time to move on to the tournament brackets lets see what we have now:


18 Freakshow
vs
20 Joshua Danielson

21 Guy Fox
vs
22 Hernandez

11 Harli
vs
7 Marxx

Seems like a pretty solid tournament thus far for the TNA world title, lots of interference, lots of surprises, count outs, unexpected wins (unless you bet on the second slot)

Well time to get this under way:

18 Freakshow
vs
20 Joshua Danielson