(FTZ's LWF) Rankings after Omni Onslaught

[thefamoustommyz]

LWF World Champion: Nick Bockwinkel (c)
1. Mil Mascaras (2)
2. Jimmy Snuka (1)
3. Ted DiBiase (4)
4. Johnny Valentine (5)
5. Bobo Brazil (9)
6. Don Leo Jonathan (6)
7. Frank Gotch (7)
8. Harley Race (3)
9. Buddy Rogers (-)
10. Bruiser Brody (-)

- Mascaras supplants Snuka at #1, while Buddy Rogers crawls back into the top ten. Maybe that face turn isn't a COMPLETE failure. Race tumbles all the way back down, while new US champion Bobo Brazil edges up the ranks. But Don Leo Jonathan, whose first title shot ended in a DQ, is poised for a rematch.

LWF World Tag Team Champions: The Road Warriors (3)
1. Nikolai Volkoff & The Iron Sheik (2)
2. Nick Bockwinkel & Harley Race (1)
3. The Killer Bees (c)
4. The Midnight Express (7)
5. Cowboy Bob Orton & Virgil (6)
6. Buddy Rogers & Jimmy Snuka (-)
7. The Valiants (5)
8. Giant Baba & Antonio Inoki (4)
9. Dick Hutton & Red Bastien (-)
10. King Kong Bundy & Ox Baker (8)

- The Warriors become 8 time tag team champions while The Midnight Express act like deserving contenders by rising in the ranks! Rogers & Snuka debut, while Hutton and Bastien stick their heads above water for the first time in a long time. Meanwhile, the Warriors' other rivals, Baba & Inoki, sink in the ranks.

LWF United States Champion: Bobo Brazil (2)
1. Don Leo Jonathan (3)
2. Harley Race (1)
3. Johnny Valentine (5)
4. Frank Gotch (-)
5. The Destroyer (-)
6. Bruiser Brody (10)
7. Buddy Rogers (8)
8. Giant Baba (9)
9. The Iron Sheik (-)
10. Jimmy Valiant (-)

- Bobo not only wins his belt back, but spikes The Sheik all the way out of the rankings! Gotch rebounds nicely after his injury, and take a look at Destroyer! Feuding with Masked Superstar is good for his career!

LWF Television Champion: Ted DiBiase (c)
1. Dick Hutton (-)
2. Killer Kowalski (-)
3. Stan Lane (3)
4. Nikolai Volkoff (7)
5. Chris Candido (-)
6. Bobby Eaton (5)
7. The Destroyer (-)
8. Jimmy Valiant (8)
9. George Hackenschmidt (-)
10. Buff Bagwell (4)

- DiBiase is king, and a whole new slew of challengers join the list, from Dick Hutton to The Destroyer! Can anyone stop him?

Scheduling Note: The BattleBowl tour is now the Lethal Lottery tour, and the A shows will be graced with three randomly drawn matches, with the B shows having two. If a champion is drawn? The title is on the line.

[tystates]

Interesting notes on your rankings. I do a top 20 for singles. How do you determine your U.S. rankings? Example, Johnny Valentine is on the world and u.s. list but DiBiase is not.

What is your Lethal Lottery Tour?

[thefamoustommyz]

I use points. Matches are worth 5 pts (+ or - for wins/losses, respectively) for pin or submission, 3 pts for countouts and 1 pt for DQs with supercards being worth triple that.

Point totals can go into the negatives...in fact, to qualify for the TV title list, you have to have 1 win or more and 0 points or less.

The US rankings are determined by the difference in wins and losses. for instance, a 6-3 record means you have a US ranking of "3". However, anyone with 51 points or more "rank out" of the US division and can only challenge for the World title.

DiBiase was in the negatives when I held the TV title tournament and has thoroughly dominated everyone to the point that he is well over the 50 pt mark. When he drops the belt, he won't get a rematch, because he has elevated FAR beyond it.

[thefamoustommyz]

Ack!

The Lethal Lottery tour is just like the Showdown and Onslaught tours, 4 "A" shows featuring top stars, 10 matches each and 4 "B" shows, featuring mid/undercarders or mismatches (main eventers versus undercarders), 5 matches each.

the differences are: This tour will end in a BattleBowl competition (card 9), complete with 10 tag matches with randomly drawn teams in each match, the winners going into the BattleBowl battle royal and the winner of that getting a World title match on the next tour. Buff Bagwell is guaranteed a spot in the draw thanks to winning last year.

The other difference is that each A show will have two singles matches and 1 tag match determined completely at random...so it could be face vs face or heel vs heel, or even someone like Koko B. Ware getting a World title shot.

Each B show has 1 singles and 1 tag match determined the same way.

All this is done to build the drama towards the random draw that BattleBowl will bring.