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MIKA KANEMURA is Notoriety's answer to Mayonnaise Boy, in that she's an insufferable little shit who spends half her matches shoving her thumbs into people's eyes and her crotch into their faces. Oddly enough, while she is absolutely despised by her opponents due to her use of dirty tactics (with at least two definitions of "dirty" in use here), she is extremely popular with the fans.  This is probably because the fans are a buncha freakin' perverts.

Meanwhile, across town in Hyper Pro Wrestling MOSES, SEIJI ITO was once among the gnarliest deathmatch ghouls in all the land. Then he got married, and after one too many nights spent pulling light bulb glass out of his ears with a par of tweezers, she dropped an ultimatum:  Either knock this shit out, or I'll leave your bald-headed ass.  After careful consideration, he decided that anyone who would've done those glass-tweezin's in the first place was obviously a keeper, and it would be really hard to get back into the dating scene with a fucked-up forehead and at least a dozen missing teeth.  So he signed with a respectable promotion, cut carbs until he could wrestle without a t-shirt, and has been on his best behavior ever since. He hasn't been a superstar or anything, but he wins about as often as he loses, which is precisely half of the best you could hope for.

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Just in time for two days after running a major outdoor show, I've finally figured out the most rudimentary techniques with the Arena Edit mod, so here's a RUN-DOWN STRIP MALL PARKING LOT, YEEEAHHHHH

And just in time for the impending Grim Family Reunion, here's a more picturesque setting from Hillbilly Grim's backyard:

And some new wrasslers:

"The King of the Indies" DAMIEN NOVA is yet another cautionary tale of Tri-State Area wrestling.  Some of y'all may have forgotten, but back in the day, there were actually three can't-miss future legends in the region, and this was the third guy, along with Ace La Grange and Lieutenant Governor Justice (aka President Evil).  This guy was a much smaller and decidedly less hossy wrestler than the other two, (as seen in costume #4) but god damn, the dude had moves for days.  The only problem was that he also had a habit of ignoring posted speed limits, no friends in the legal system, and a trunk full of several kilos of substances you're not supposed to have any of, much less kilograms.  So now, after serving close to 20 years in prison, he's back to reclaim his once-bright future, except now he's in his forties and can only get work in places with duct-taped light tube hole in their canvas.  So he's working a bit more of a "smash you in the face with this here chair" style these days, but there's enough left of early 2000s Damien to make people raise their eyebrows from time to time, which is why Tony Unity hired him for EWX.

Meanwhile, across the pond in the Tri-Prefectural Area of Japan, some updates with the wrestlers of Notoriety.

First, Naomi Inoue's first name got changed to ETSUKO INOUE , because I needed the first name for someone else, and two is just a lot of Naomis.  Secondly, Notoriety's final boss, NIKUYA has joined the prestigious "four attires means the edit is basically finished" club, at least until I go "oh yeah, the move lists mod."

Seen here repping both Slayer AND Tupac, because she is a woman of culture.

And in a couple of actual new edits, first here's recent dojo graduate and amateur wrestling enthusiast RIKU SHUTAINA, and if that last name just sounds like I just typed "Steiner" into Google Translate, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. (That's totally what I did)

While somewhat limited by her tendency toward actual amateur style holds, as opposed to smashing people in the face, she's actually super-limited by being five foot nothing and weighing like 90 goddamn pounds.  Still, she can suplex the everlasting piss out of someone, if they're not careful.

And as for the next couple new edits, just in case anyone actually gets the references here, I'd just like to say that my "I'm Not Really a Pervert, I'm Just Friends With People Who Post a Lot of  Weird Shit on Twitter" t-shirt is causing people to ask a lot of questions that should have been answered by the t-shirt.

NAOMI HARUKAWA is a young wrestler who is generally pretty popular overall, but extremely popular with a super-creepy subset of fans who all seem to be skinny, short-statured, middle-aged businessmen.  Opinion of her in the locker room is a mixed bag, largely due to her tendency to base much of her in-ring strategy around smashing her big ol' ass into people. I guess you could think of her as a Lawful Good counter to Mika Kanemura's Chaotic Evil.  However, if that sort of thing sounds more like a best-case scenario than an assault to be feared, (ya freakin' perverts) I regret to inform you that she is, in fact, happily married to this guy:

From across town in Pro Wrestling MOSES, European import DOUG OF ICELAND has been quickly rising through the ranks as of late. Doug sort of aimlessly drifted through life for years, pursuing such varied careers as construction worker, sailor, and police officer, before he finally ended up hitting rock bottom as part of a motorcycle gang.  But when the gang was hired as cheap security for a local wrestling promotion, he met Naomi Harukawa, (who was there with a couple other Notoriety wrestlers as part of a foreign excursion) and finally found his calling in life.  He has grown extremely popular for his powerful in-ring style, his impressive physique, and his penchant for extremely brief ring attire.

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first, here's a guy from the files of LEGENDS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA I literally made by using a wrestler name generator then working backwards from the name.

BRUTUS MUSCLE was former college defensive tackle and powerlifter, and, uhhh... I haven't come up with more of a backstory for him yet. The more I look at costume #4 though, the more I think of making up some sort of Four Horseman-esque thing. I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of that Gold's Gym shirt.

Meanwhile, in the present day, here's a slight redesign of someone I never actually mentioned here in detail.

For years, PATTY BOBATTY has been pretty much a human tackling dummy for various Tri-State Area promotions, mainly STRUGGLE. Fed up with the dismal state of her career (and seeing the writing on the wall after STRUGGLE announced Draconian budget cuts (more on that in a future TALES OF THE INVISIBLE BACKSTAGE CAMERA) and realizing that recent Hoss Dojo graduate and fellow hapless loser CONGOLIA DONDELINGER was getting most of the ladies' cannon fodder bookings lately) she decided it was time for a new beginning.  She made some calls, booked a flight, and headed to off to Japan, where she signed with Notoriety, and approached wrestling with a renewed passion and vigor.  Then, she got booked in a match against NIKUYA, lost in roughly 48 seconds, then realized that she was still a human tackling dummy, but just in a new country where she spoke maybe 17 words of the language. some people are cursed, and you should never have ambition, is what I'm trying to say here.

Then, back in the states, a couple of addtions to the yet-to-officially-launch TRI-STATE LUCHA LIBRE

EL HIJO DEL SABADO NOCHE is a man out of time, who yearns for a simpler age of polyester suits, butterfly collars, and those sweet, sweet disco sounds.  Meanwhile, in his pursuit of learning the hottest dance moves of 1975, he sort of accidentally became a tremendous athlete, and is one of those most gifted high-flyers on the TSLL roster, which is saying something, because of the lucha and whatnot.

Representing the godforsaken deathmatch styles of lucha extrema, EL MOCO is just a squirrely-ass dude who lives to injure himself and others (in that order). There is very little actual wrestling in his wrestling style, and what little there is usually takes place on top of a steel chair. TSLL founder/owner/etc. PUÑO DORADO pretty much hates this guy and absolutely does not want any of that cheek-stabbing bullshit in his promotion, but Moco is his wife's sister's nephew, and there was some unpleasantness involving some local cops back home, and family is important, so here he is. Basically, this is a dude who is officially on the TSLL roster, but is pretty much going on permanent loan to EWX.

finally, there's the bizarre story of HANOVER STERN, a former mild-mannered accountant who now finds himself in the blood-soaked rings of EWX. Basically, one night many years ago, poor Hanover had some engine trouble in his teal 1998 Geo Metro and had to make his way on foot to find the nearest phone.  (he had dropped his iPhone in a puddle earlier that day) somehow, he ended up in the roughest, toughest, meanest place in the Tri-State Area, which was the infamous illegally-run dive bar/drug den/strip club/brothel/fighting pit/disreputable trading card shop known as The Scum Dumpster. (You can't go there now, on account of it got blown up in a biker war a couple years ago, but there is a historical marker on the charred rubble somewhere.)  After a wild and wacky series of misunderstandings, the 126 pound Hanover found himself accidentally entered in some sort of no-holds barred free-for-all in the venue's fighting pit. (which was a famous thing in local wrestling lore, as well as where a 15 year-old JEZEBEL GRIM started her combat sports career after running away from home, and where a seemingly washed-up, 38 year-old ACE LA GRANGE would fight drunks for opiate money in between rehab stints) No one knows whether it was due to pent-up rage over his iPhone and his Geo or due to second-hand PCP smoke wafting out of the crowd, but somehow, Hanover just went into a mindless berserker rage, savagely defeating like 6 guys, and biting off half of one dude's finger. Future EWX founder TONY UNITY was in the audience that night (his old band, Reversed Front, was playing there later in the night as part of some sort of ill-planned reunion tour) and immediately signed him up for his fledgling wrestling promotion. While he hasn't quite recreated the savagery of that first foray into semi-organized violence, he has scared the shit out of several people literally twice his size, and and one time, he almost hacked off MORBID MANUEL's ear. Outside of the ring, though, he's basically the nicest dude, albeit painfully shy.

Finally, here are a couple of new rings for Hyper Pro Wrestling MOSES and Notoriety.  MOSES also has a spiffy new logo, which is something else that will be explained in a future TALES OF THE INVISIBLE BACKSTAGE CAMERA.  Still need to make a TSLL ring and some home base arena skins for all of these extraneous promotions.