History Trivia / VideoGameChampionshipWrestling

** Bazza wanted Pokey Minch from ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' to appear at some point, but it never worked out.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://vgcw.wikia.com/wiki/Video_Game_Championship_Wrestling_Wiki Video Game Championship Wrestling Wiki]] provides full details of the series.
* WordOfGod: Bazza and co. occasionally will throw in some comments or background information on the show, which of course then end up on the Wiki.

** One particular fan [=YouTube=] channel was one run by a small group of ''VGCW'' fans who watched the show and [[ReactionVideo gave their real-time commentary]] during the live streams. However, they weren't particularly well-liked by the ''VGCW'' fandom at large, or by Bazza and the official ''VGCW'' keepers (to the point that they refused to link to their videos on the official Google Doc), and their behavior and attitude got steadily worse as time went on. This came to a head when their leader, who got sick of fans pestering him to cover ''WVGCW'', which he was ''not'' interested in doing at all, uploaded a video showing him watching a short clip of the match between the male Bryn and Dr. Gero, mocking the division and its fans and--since he didn't know/care about the whole context behind the match in question--questioning why two men were fighting in a ''women's'' wrestling division. Needless to say, he and his group lost whatever remaining support they had left in the ''VGCW'' community, and they got sick of ''VGCW'' themselves, to the point that they stopped uploading videos and later shut down their channel, taking all their videos down with it.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: Fans used to submit character suggestions [[http://vgcw.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Suggestions on the wiki.]] As of July 2013, twenty suggestions (nine male, eleven female) have made their debut. Unfortunately, they had to stop accepting suggestions and will now only accept CAW submissions on the forums.
** In addition, all [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wwv0PDXarz0 title]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VkM4_JCJa7k sequences]] for the show were made and submitted by fans.

*** Prior to the ''2K17'' era of WVGCW (season 10), the show used Wrestling/AJLee's entrance theme "Right Now" as their main theme, a song that had not only ''long'' outlasted Lee's career in WWE, but Lee herself stopped using that song in 2011, before VGCW even existed.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Wreck-It-Ralph ended up getting fired from VGCW because of Disney constantly taking down streams that featured his entrance music.

* FanNickname: Quite a fair number.
** [[PaletteSwap Palette Swaps]] often end up with nicknames referencing the fact. [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael]] becomes "Red Leonardo", [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]] becomes "Yellow Sub-Zero", and so forth.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Sabin]] was called the Suplex Train, both for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRw_qW9ecTo obvious reason]] and for his tendency to use suplexes almost to the exclusion of anything else.
** [[Franchise/StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]] earned the nickname "BOO THIS DAN" after the fans decided that he cheated [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] out of a Royal Rumble victory.
** According to the fanbase, [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red]] has a very strong affinity towards [[Main/ThePowerOfBlood blood]] due to his tendency to make his opponents, or himself, bleed before finishing them off, earning him the nickname "Blood Red".
*** He's also referred to as "[[Main/ToBeAMaster The Very Best]]" due to his impressive victories and accomplishments.
** WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph was often referred to as "Copyright-It Carl" because of Disney constantly taking down streams that featured his entrance music, which eventually [[ScrewedByTheLawyers led to his departure from the series]].
** [[{{Creator/THQ}} #THQ]][[TakeThat uality]] was used to refer to any time the game bugs out or displays ArtificialStupidity. The other versions are #[=BazzaQuality=], which is what happens when Bazza just screws up on his own, and #[=BrynQuality=], when Bryn of the ''Female Division'' makes a mistake, as well as #[=QualiTOH=] or #[=TOHQuality=], #[=DudebroQuality=] and #[=BelmontQuality=] for the other hosts. With the switch to ''WWE 2K14'', #[=THQuality=] is now #[[Creator/TakeTwoInteractive 2K]][=uality=].
** [[VideoGame/MegaMan Break Man]] was often referred to as "Glitch Man" due to the tendency of the stream to start stuttering during his matches. Oddly, this usually happened when he was losing, and when the stuttering was over, Break Man had reclaimed his momentum.
** [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] briefly earned the nickname "Security Guard B" due to a bugged cutscene displaying it as his name.
** Similarly, Because of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]'s role in WVGCW's storyline as Bryn's enforcer, she was dubbed as "Security Guard L".
** VideoGame/MegaMan was sometimes called "Cancelled Man" due to his recent troubles with actually getting a game on him to come out. Funnily enough, Rock is now off-roster as well, perhaps making him ''Cancelled Man'' in more ways than one.
** Due to the limitations of the engine, many characters have weird names being said by the announcers. Hence, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]] is known as "Thomas", Mario is known as "Gonzales" (also doubling as a reference to ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'') and so on. The chat will usually pick up on this and run it into the ground.
** [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]], due to his horrible tendency to lose most of his matches early in his career despite his high stats, was often referred to as [[{{Jobber}} Jobgeta, Vejobber, or other nicknames along those lines.]] Since debuting [[RealMenWearPink a new outfit]] and theme, he's since started showing much more potential-- and a much more popular nickname: The Badman.
** Instances of MickeyMousing (such as a ThemeMusicPowerUp coinciding with a wrestler popping a comeback) are almost universally responded to with cries of "SYNC" in the chat. Similarly, the part of [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Miles Edgeworth]]'s entrance where he climbs up the ring steps in time with the music are called the "SYNC STEPS".
** Fans refer to Waluigi as "[[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The People's Champion]]", a reference to LetsPlay/{{pokecapn}}'s LetsPlay of the VideoGame/MarioParty franchise where Medibot claimed that nickname while playing as Luigi, and later Waluigi.
** Along with his RealLife nicknames of "Sir Charles" and "Chuck", the promo by [[VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden Charles Barkley]] where he tore into the fickle fandom harkened back to a certain wrestler's 'pipebomb', which gave rise to the nickname [[Wrestling/CMPunk CM Dunk]].
** It is not uncommon for a rollup pin to be reversed... and reversed... and reversed again, over and over, until the rollup breaks or someone reaches the three count. This is referred to by the fans as an "Obamaroll" due to a particularly infamous example in a match between UsefulNotes/BarackObama and [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile]], and is typically announced in chat with cries of [[{{Memes/Politics}} "THANKS OBAMA"]]. In the ''Female Division'', fans will refer to First Lady Michelle Obama instead. UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin was also referenced in this way when [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] got caught in one of these sequences.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra Branford]]'s announcer name, "Terror Baltimore", is her fan nickname across the VGCW universe in honor of her intro, her impressive record, and her even more impressive in-ring work.
** Thanks to a new CAW that makes him look more like [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Blue]], and having astonished the fans with seven eliminations in a Royal Rumble (including ''Gaben''), [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Gary Oak]] was being referred to by some fans as "[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Mega]] Gary".
** ''VGCW: Female Division'' is also frequently referred to as the convoluted acronym, ''WVGCW'', a shorthand for ''[[DistaffCounterpart Women's]] Video Game Championship Wrestling''. As of Season 7 however, [[AscendedFanon WVGCW has become the official name for the show]].
** The Star Road tournament was preemptively called "Salt Road" as it was certain that whoever won the tournament (and the ensured main roster spot that come with it), people would be unsatisfied. The resultant winner only exacerbated this all the more.
*** And in the first Star Road, this actually happened, with [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Illidan]] winning.
** The [[ComebackMechanic Hot Tag]] system is frequently wasted by the AI. Such instances are referred to as Cold Tags or Lukewarm Tags depending on the degree of success. The VERY rare occasions that it completely works become awesome due to this.
** The DDT variant known in the WWE games as "DDT 5" is known across the VGCW universe as the "ILLIDDT", thanks to [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Illidan]]'s famous use of the move. [[labelnote:*]]Said move is what the game defaults to whenever a character tries to use a submission move in a no-submissions match. Most bouts in ''[=2k14=]'' VGCW are no-submissions, which meant Illidan used the move a ''lot''. This is also the move a wrestler defaults to using whenever they have a submission signature or finisher--such uses of the move are nicknamed "Super ILLIDDT" since it has the potential to actually put people away. The most common user of this is Snake, who still has his Sleeper Hold submission in his moveset but basically adopted the Super ILLIDDT after his fantastic matches with Illidan.[[/labelnote]]

** Although ARENA had no actual plot, fans made their own stables and promos, leading to many rivalries that eventually found their way onto the show. Additionally, it wasn't uncommon for CAWs that debuted on ARENA to show up on EDBW eventually.

** Bryn originally planned to hire [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Misty]], [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Nina Williams]] & [[VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw Juliet Starling]], but never did due to the CAWs being of a lower quality.

** VGCW, WVGCW, & EDBW's main themes come from WWE material: The Jim Johnston/Kromestatik version of Outasight's "Tonight" (which remained the Wrestling/WWERaw theme until July 2016) for VGCW, CFO$' "Take a Chance" for WVGCW (the Wrestling/WWESmackDown theme since 2016) and "Roar of the Crowd" for EDBW, which is still the theme of WWENXT.
*** Prior to the ''2K17'' era of WVGCW (season 10), the show used AJLee's entrance theme "Right Now" as their main theme, a song that had not only ''long'' outlasted Lee's career in WWE, but Lee herself stopped using that song in 2011, before VGCW even existed.
** The themes for some wrestlers also fall into this category, most notably "[[Music/MenWithoutHats The Safety Dance]]" for [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] prior to Season 11, and [[Wrestling/JohnCena John Cena's]] "Bad Bad Man" for [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]].

** Disney/WreckItRalph was often referred to as "Copyright-It Carl" because of Disney constantly taking down streams that featured his entrance music, which eventually [[ScrewedByTheLawyers led to his departure from the series]].

** The GiantBomb hosts are big fans of the series, and an interview with Bazza gave End Game 7 a very noticeable bump, with the stream hovering in the 3,000-3,500 viewers range for most of the night.

* CreatorBreakdown: In Season 4 as the result of a ''huge'' InternetBackdraft. Charles Barkley, after a rapid rise from jobber to multiple-time VGCW champion due to a glitch[[note]]The Glitch Knee, in which as a joke, Barkley's CAW was redone to purposely have a weak leg to mirror the real life knee injury that ended Barkley's NBA career. Unfortunately, this led to WWE '13's AI constantly targeting the leg, which was more or less a waste of offense in WWE '13 as its programming made submission moves virtually impossible unless the submission was set as a finisher, ergo Barkley would get in more effective offense and win by attrition; a Royal Rumble win would serve as the catalyst for this to launch Barkley into the highest VGCW ranks.[[/note]], plot circumstances would vacate the title, which would set up a tournament to decide a new champion. The audience was hoping that they'd get a champion other than Barkley in the King of the Ring tournament to decide said new champion [[spoiler:after Vegeta's HeroicSacrifice]]. When Barkley did in fact get his title back, the fans ''rioted''. It got so bad that Bazza put his foot down and threatened to '''cancel''' VGCW entirely. He eventually settled for finishing Season 4 and then taking a month-long break before Season 5. Fortunately, the fans seem to have learned and there have been no such incidents since, despite some unpopular results like Illidan winning Star Road.

** It is not uncommon for a rollup pin to be reversed... and reversed... and reversed again, over and over, until the rollup breaks or someone reaches the three count. This is referred to by the fans as an "Obamaroll" due to a particularly infamous example in a match between UsefulNotes/BarackObama and [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile]], and is typically announced in chat with cries of [[{{Memes/Politics}} "THANKS OBAMA"]]. In the ''Female Division'', fans will refer to First Lady Michelle Obama instead. VladimirPutin was also referenced in this way when [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] got caught in one of these sequences.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: More or less the primary appeal for the series. Bazza/TOH and BRYN often have to write new plots based on how the matches play out-- or rather, how they glitch out. The ''entire plot'' was basically kicked off by ArtificialStupidity involving a Money in the Bank match.

* AscendedFanon: Random comments on the Wiki or the Chat become canon if Bazza/TOH and/or the rest of the community decide to treat it as such.

* FanNickname: So, so many.

** [[Franchise/StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]] earned the nickname "BOO THIS DAN" after the fans decided that he cheated [[{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] out of a Royal Rumble victory.
** According to the fanbase, [[{{Pokemon}} Red]] has a very strong affinity towards [[Main/ThePowerOfBlood blood]] due to his tendency to make his opponents, or himself, bleed before finishing them off, earning him the nickname "Blood Red".

** [[{{Creator/THQ}} #THQ]][[TakeThat uality]] was used to refer to any time the game bugs out or displays ArtificialStupidity. The other versions are #[=BazzaQuality=], which is what happens when Bazza just screws up on his own, and #[=BrynQuality=], when Bryn of the ''Female Division'' makes a mistake, as well as #[=QualiTOH=] or #[=TOHQuality=], #[=DudebroQuality=] and #[=BelmontQuality=] for the other hosts.
*** Now with the switch to ''WWE 2K14'', #[=THQuality=] is now #[[Creator/TakeTwoInteractive 2K]][=uality=].

*** Similarly, Because of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]'s role in WVGCW's storyline as Bryn's enforcer, she was dubbed as "Security Guard L".

** Due to the limitations of the engine, many characters have weird names being said by the announcers. Hence, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]] is known as "Thomas", Mario is known as "Gonzales" (also doubling as a reference to ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'') and so on. The chat will usually pick up on this and run it into the ground.
** [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]], due to his horrible tendency to lose most of his matches early in his career despite his high stats, was often referred to as [[{{Jobber}} Jobgeta, Vejobber, or other nicknames along those lines.]] Since debuting [[RealMenWearPink a new outfit]] and theme, he's since started showing much more potential.
*** And has earned himself a much more popular nickname: The Badman.
** Instances of a ThemeMusicPowerUp are almost universally responded to with cries of "SYNC" in the chat.

** It is not uncommon for a rollup pin to be reversed... and reversed... and reversed again, over and over, until the rollup breaks or someone reaches the three count. This is referred to by the fans as an "Obamaroll" due to a particularly infamous example in a match between UsefulNotes/BarackObama and [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile]], and is typically announced in chat with cries of [[{{Memes/Politics}} "THANKS OBAMA"]]
*** In the ''Female Division'', fans will refer to First Lady Michelle Obama instead.
*** VladimirPutin was also referenced in this way when [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] got caught in one of these sequences.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra Branford]]'s announcer name, "Terror Baltimore", is memetic across the VGCW universe due to her intro, her impressive record, and her even more impressive moves.

** ''VGCW: Female Division'' is also frequently referred to as the convoluted acronym, ''WVGCW'', a shorthand for ''[[DistaffCounterpart Women's]] Video Game Championship Wrestling''.
*** As of Season 7 however, WVGCW has become the official name for the show.
** The Star Road tournament was preemptively called "Salt Road" due to the assurance that whoever won the tournament (and the ensured main roster spot that come with it), people would be unsatisfied. The resultant winner only exacerbated this all the more.

** The DDT variant known in the WWE games as "DDT 5" is known across the VGCW universe as the "ILLIDDT", thanks to Illidan's famous use of the move. [[labelnote:*]]Said move is what the game defaults to whenever a character tries to use a submission move in a no-submissions match. Most bouts in ''[=2k14=]'' VGCW are no-submissions, which meant Illidan used the move a ''lot''. This is also the move a wrestler defaults to using whenever they have a submission signature or finisher--such uses of the move are nicknamed "Super ILLIDDT" since it has the potential to actually put people away. The most common user of this is Snake, who still has his Sleeper Hold submission in his moveset but basically adopted the Super ILLIDDT after his fantastic matches with Illidan.[[/labelnote]]

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: More or less the primary appeal for the series. Bazza/TOH and BRYN often have to write new plots based on how the matches play out, or rather, how they glitch out. The ''entire plot'' was basically kicked off by ArtificialStupidity involving a Money in the Bank match, and that's just the beginning.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bazza wanted Pokey Minch from ''Earthbound'' to appear at some point, but it never worked out.
** It was also mentioned in the fun facts that [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Lee Everett]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer Almasy]] were planned, but never did.
*** Seifer did eventually show up in Season 6 along with the rest of the Disciplinary Committee.

** Bazza stated that [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Kanji Tatsumi]] got into VGCW only after he couldn't download [[VideoGame/{{TheWorldEndsWithYou}} Sho Minamimoto]] or an updated version of [[VideoGame/{{FinalFantasyVIII}} Raijin]] from 2K14's servers.
*** However, Raijin & Sho both later made their VGCW Debuts the following season.
* WordOfGod: Bazza and co. occasionally will throw in some comments or background information on things, which of course then end up on the Wiki.

*** VladimirPutin was also referenced in this way when [[TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] got caught in one of these sequences.

** Bazza stated that [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Kanji Tatsumi]] got into VGCW only after he couldn't find a good CAW for either [[VideoGame/{{TheWorldEndsWithYou}} Sho Minamimoto]] or [[VideoGame/{{FinalFantasyVIII}} Raijin]].

** The DDT variant known in the WWE games as "DDT 5" is known across the VGCW universe as the "ILLIDDT", thanks to Illidan's famous use of the move. [[labelnote:*]]Said move is what the game defaults to whenever a character tries to use a submission move in a no-submissions match. Most bouts in ''[=2k14=]'' VGCW are no-submissions, which meant Illidan used the move a ''lot''.[[/labelnote]]

** [[{{Creator/THQ}} #THQ]][[TakeThat uality]] was used to refer to any time the game bugs out or displays ArtificialStupidity. The other versions are #[=BazzaQuality=], which is what happens when Bazza just screws up on his own, and #[=BrynQuality=], when Bryn of the ''Female Division'' makes a mistake.

* AscendedFanon: Random comments on the Wiki or the Chat become canon if Bazza and/or the rest of the community decide to treat it as such.
** Although ARENA has no actual plot, fans create their own stables and promos, leading to many rivalries that eventually find their way onto the show. Additionally, it's not uncommon for CAWs that debut on ARENA to show up on EDBW eventually.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: More or less the primary appeal for the series. Bazza and BRYN often have to write new plots based on how the matches play out, or rather, how they glitch out. The ''entire plot'' was basically kicked off by ArtificialStupidity involving a Money in the Bank match, and that's just the beginning.

** Bazza stated that [[VideoGame/((Persona4)) Kanji Tatsumi]] got into VGCW only after he couldn't find a good CAW for either [[VideoGame/((TheWorldEndsWithYou)) Sho Minamimoto]] or [[VideoGame/((FinalFantasyVIII)) Raijin]].

** Bazza stated that [[VideoGame/Persona4 Kanji Tatsumi]] got into VGCW only after he couldn't find a good CAW for either [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Sho Minamimoto]] or [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Raijin]].

** Bryn originally planned to hire [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Pokemon Misty]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Tekken Nina Williams]] & [[VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw Juliet Starling]], but never did due to the CAWs being of a lower quality.

** Bryn originally planned to hire [[Franchise/Pokemon Misty]], [[VideoGame/Tekken Nina Williams]] & [[VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw Juliet Starling]], but never did due to the CAWs being of a lower quality.

** [[VideoGame/MegaMan Break Man]] is often referred to as "Glitch Man" due to the tendency of the stream to start stuttering during his matches. Oddly, this usually happens when he's losing, and when the stuttering is over, Break Man has reclaimed his momentum.

** VideoGame/MegaMan is sometimes called "Cancelled Man" due to his recent troubles with actually getting a game on him to come out. Funnily enough, Rock is now off-roster as well, perhaps making him ''Cancelled Man'' in more ways than one.
** Due to the limitations of the engine, many characters have weird names being said by the announcers. Hence, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]] is known as "Thomas", Mario is known as "Gonzales" (a reference to ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'') and so on. The chat will usually pick up on this and run it into the ground.

* WordOfGod: Bazza occasionally will throw in some comments or background information on things, which of course then end up on the Wiki.