TNM Illustrated Rules
by ~69~, The Peoples Literary Critic, TNM Bennagen, and The Hardcore Jobber
originally posted on the now defunct TNM Illustrated website
The Menu 
Part 1-----The Roster 
A-----The Tag Teams 
Part 2------The Titles 
Part 3------The Pay Per Views 
Part 4------The Basics 
The Booking 
Part 1------January 
Part 2------February 
Part 3------March 
Part 4------April 
Part 5------May 
Part 6------June 
Part 7------July 
Part 8------August 
Part 9------September 
Part 10------October 
Part 11------November 
Part 12------December 

Part 1-----The Roster 
1. Hulk (or Hollywood, doesn't matter) Hogan 
2. Shane Douglas (any persona) 
3. Randy Savage 
4. Sean Waltman (as 1-2-3 Kid, X-Pac, or Syxx... doesn't matter) 
5. Mick Foley (any of his identities) 
6. Scott Hall (as Razor Ramon, Scott Hall, or Diamond Studd... really, all 3 
are the same character) 
7. Kevin Nash (or Diesel) 
8. Rey Misterio Jr. 
9. Kidman 
10. Owen Hart (any persona) 
11. Rob Van Dam 
12. Raven (any persona) 
13. Sabu 
14. The Sandman (any persona) 
15. Shawn Michaels 
16. Steve Austin (any persona) 
17. Bret Hart 
18. Rocky Maivia (any persona) 
19. Benoit (any persona) 
20. Dean Malenko 

A-----Tag Teams You Have/Could Have 
You can make any tag team you want, just these 
are/were real ones. 
1. The Four Horsemen (Dean Malenko & Chris Benoit) 
2. The Outsiders (Scott Hall & Kevin Nash) 
3. The Hart Brothers (Bret & Owen Hart) 
4. Rob Van Dam & Sabu 
5. Billy Kidman & Rey Misterio Jr. 
6. The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage) 

Part 2-----The Titles 
Well, you start off with the basics, and gain some more down the 
road. Here are the ones that you start with. The rules of each title are 
explained as well. 

TNM World Title - Anyone can fight for it, but put it on the line sparingly, 
it is the highest ranked title. 

TNM World Tag Team Titles - Any tag team can fight for this. Defend it more 
than your World title, but not too much more. 

TNM Intercontinental Title - This should be defended every other show. More 
if needed. 

Those ones are good for now, but down the road (some not in this 
version, but there may be more versions) , you will gain.... 

TNM Cruiserweight Title - You decide the weight class but they should be no 
more than 235. A good weight is 225 and under, but I use 235, it's up to you! 

TNM Hardcore or Extreme Title - Must be defended with No-Time Limit, 
No-Countout, No-DQ. You can use gimmick matches too. 

TNM Hardcore or Extreme Tag Team Titles - Must be defended in a tag team 
match with No-Time Limit, No-Countout, No-DQ. You can use gimmick matches 
too. 

TNM Television Title - Simple, should be defended on MOST, if not EVERY card. 

Part 3-----The Pay Per Views 
As you all know, there are many regular ppv's (such as Wrestlemania, 
Summerslam, Starcade, etc) and there are generic ppv's (In Your Houses). 
Here is a list of pay per views with their themes (Royal Rumble has a battle 
royal theme etc). 

January -Battle royal (your WW3/Royal Rumble) 
February -Generic PPV 
March -Hardcore PPV (your all gimmick matches) 
April -Generic PPV 
May -Slightly Less Big, Semi-Important PPV (your Summerslam/Great American 
Bash/Halloween Havoc)* 
June -Generic PPV 
July -Tournament PPV (your Battlebowl/King of the Ring) 
August -Generic PPV 
September -Stable War PPV (your Wargames/Survivor Series) 
October -Generic PPV 
November -Big Important PPV (your Wrestlemania/Starrcade)** 
December -Generic PPV 

*The battle-royal winner will traditionally get a shot here 
** The Tournament winner will traditionally get a shot here 

Part 4-----The Basics 
Here are the basics........... 
1. You need a weekly show. 
2. Don't put all your titles on the line on the same card, unless it is a 
ppv, or you desperately need the ratings. 
3. Don't hand out title shots, they are earned, not given. 
4. If a wrestler loses so many title matches (even if he is your favorite), 
don't give him a shot for a while. You could make him face easier opponents 
as a card opener and get a lot more wins. 

--The Booking-- 

Part 1------January 

1. Hire the twenty people specified above. 

2. Have a tag team tournament of some sort, where the tag titles end up being 
determined at the pay per view. OR you could hold the whole tournament 
there. OR you could have a triangle or a four corners match at the pay per 
view for the tag team titles. 

3. Have at least two cards before the pay per view, so you will start to know 
who will be your mid carders and who will be your main eventers. 

4. To determine your World Title do this. At the pay per view, have two ten 
man battle royals. The winner of each battle royal fights in the main event 
for the world title. 

5. Start a small face or heel stable. 

Part 2------February 

1. Over the course of this month, round out your upper card with a couple 
more upper-midcarders or main-event wrestlers. If there were any that were 
left out of the initial roster that you really want, now is the time to 
pursue them. 

2. With your stable, have them feud with a decent singles wrestler. 

3. Have two good wrestlers feud over a similar finisher, a manager, or 
something that you can find in common with the two. 

4. Remember your two ten man battle royals? Well, find out who was the last 
eliminated in each and have them fight for the Intercontinental Title. 

5. Look at your rankings at the beginning of the month too. Find who is #1 
and hype him vs. your world champ at the ppv. 

Part 3------March 

1. If you don't have a few hardcore or extreme wrestlers yet, hire a few this 
month. 

2. Remember the singles wrestler that was feuding with the stable? Have the 
war heat up, in a tag match where two people from the stable fight the 
singles wrestler and a friend. Find a way for the friend to turn on the 
singles wrestler by either making it a handicap match or having him beat up 
his friend after the match. This can set-up big things (just wait until next 
month)........ 

3. This pay-per-view will have a hardcore/extreme theme to it... this is 
where you will have a lot of no-DQ matches, falls-count-anywhere matches, 
gimmick matches, and so on. Hardcore FCA Cubed Matches are also excellent. 
Try not to book wrestlers in random gimmick matches... try to set up logical 
ones based on their character or the nature of their feud. 

4. Make an exceptionally extreme match for your hardcore wrestlers at the 
pay-per-view, like a Hell In The Cell or Barbed Wire Cage match, or something 
else with an extremely hardcore element. 

5. Remember the two singles wrestlers that were feuding? Well, have them end 
their feud at the pay per view. Have it end in an I quit match or a Ladder 
Match with a contract at the top where whoever wins gets what they were 
feuding over. 

6. Your world champion has nobody to fight, and believe it or not, at the pay 
per view, he wants to! Press 'm' for him to fight a mystery wrestler (not on 
roster) or 'r' for him to fight a random wrestlers (someone on the roster). 
If you choose a mystery wrestler, you can decide to job him out in the cards 
to come, push him and hop he re-signs, or just fire him. 

Part 4------April 

1. In order to help get some of your struggling wrestlers over, it might be a 
good idea to hire a few jobbers or jobbers-to-the-stars. 

2. Remember the single wrestler/stable feud? Well, the single wrestler is 
mad that his friend turned on him, so he wants back up. Have him "make a few 
friends" and start a face stable. Have the stable members fight at the 
upcoming pay per view (not a big stable war, but in singles and tag teams). 
Make sure that the first singles wrestler doesn't fight the heel stable 
"leader" or his ex-friend at the pay per view. 

3. Remember the hardcore feud you have going along? Make another match for 
them at the next PPV... one that doesn't have to be quite as hardcore as 
their March match, but should still be at least no-DQ or Falls-Count-Anywhere. 

4.You need a new tag team, but your budget is too low to hire one this month, 
so team up two wrestlers on your roster and test them out. Give them a small 
match at the pay per view against one of the semi good tag teams. 

5. Look at your singles rankings. So, at the pay per view, you have two of 
your best wrestlers fight in any type of match (must be semi-main event). 
Then (in the next match), the winner goes on to fight the world champion in a 
match where he chooses the stipulations (like Kane would choose an inferno 
match etc). 

Part 5------May 

1. Hire several cruiserweight wrestlers to supplement the ones that you 
already have, and book them in matches against one another all throughout the 
month. At the pay-per-view, introduce a Cruiserweight Title and have a battle 
royal, tournament, or four-corners match for it. 

2. Way back in January, you had two ten man battle royals to determine who 
would fight for the world championship. Who won one of the battle royals, 
but lost in the world title match? Well, he gets his title shot AGAIN! Even 
better, AT THIS MONTHS PAY PER VIEW! 

3. Remember the stable vs. stable feud? Well, here it gets even more tricky. 
It seems that the first singles wrestler involved (the leader of the face 
stable) wants a shot at the leader of the heel stable. BUT the leader of the 
heel stable said he had to get by his EX-FRIEND FIRST! If he does, he gets a 
shot at him on the next pay per view, if not, he won't get a chance for a 
while. 

4. The hardcore feud has to come to an end, and it will at the pay per view. 
It HAS to be a loser leaves town match, because both men are so stubborn and 
want to be considered the king of hardcore! *Note* you MUST fire the loser. 

5. Look at your rankings, and go to the bottom, find one of the last five 
people, and give him a new gimmick. It does not mean that you have to change 
him from a face to a heel or vice versa, but you can. We recommend that you 
give him a manager(s) and possibly a new finisher. If he is real desperate 
for a push, adjust his push by 5 points. 

Part 6------June 

1. If you have any wrestlers that, for whatever reason, can't seem to fill a 
useful role or get involved in anything important in your circuit, now is the 
time to fire them. This doesn't necessarily mean a wrestler with a poor 
won-loss record; just one who can't seem to get involved in any angles or 
interesting situations. 

2. Start a new stable, it can be a face or a heel stable, just make another, 
slightly big stable. 

3. Back to the feud between two stables. If the leader of the face stable 
won last month, have him fight the leader of the heel stable this month. If 
he did not win, have him challenge the heel stable to a gauntlet match (he 
fights ever member of the heel stable in one card). 

4. Start a feud between your new cruiserweight champion and the last man he 
defeated in the tournament or four-corners match for the title, or the last 
man he eliminated in the battle royal for the title if you did that instead. 

5. Your world champion is getting very bored. Have him interfere in a faces 
matches to turn heel (if he is not already heel). Then, you have a few 
choices, 1. Have him defend his title at your upcoming pay per view, or 2. 
You can have him be an a-s and put an obstacle (Have him fight someone or 
fight the champ in a non-title match) in front of this wrestler, which would 
lead to a title shot at the next pay per view. 

Part 7------July 

1. Have the man currently on the losing end of the cruiserweight title feud 
join one of your stables, and possibly the other one as well if it's fitting. 
Have another match between the two men at this months PPV, possibly with 
interference from the stable. 

2. This months pay per view theme is a tournament. You can start a tournament 
in the beginning and have it end at the pay per view, or you can have it half 
on the ppv and half not on the ppv OR just have the whole thing on the ppv. 
Whatever you choose is fine, just make it a 16-man tournament. The winner 
gets a shot at the title in November, and if you want, they can have 
something else too. 

3. If last month your champ made a wrestler prove himself (and the wrestler 
did) give that wrestler a title shot here. If not, have him defend the strap 
against an opponent of his choice (this means he can choose to fight a jobber 
if he would like). 

4. Your two stables that are feuding have both decided that they need more 
people, choose one or two more people for each of the feuding stable (see the 
above about recruiting the cruiserweight). Have these new members fight each 
other. 

5. Last month, you started a new stable. Have one member of that stable want 
to make a name for himself and challenge any champion for the title. If the 
champion does not accept right away, have that wrestler interfere in the 
champion's matches until the champ accepts for a match at the pay per view. 

Part 8------August 

1. The big stable feud needs to end. Have them sign a contract for a 
wargames match or a Survivor Series type match at September's pay per view. 
The losers of this match must break up their stable. This month's pay per 
view, the members of the two stables should fight one another at the 
pay-per-view, if they're not otherwise occupied, in singles or tag team 
matches, but no matches larger than that. 

2. The winner of the tournament and the world champion will begin to 
acknowledge one another at this point. Book an angle which culminates in a 
two or three-man tag team match involving both men. They can be on the same 
side (uneasy alliance) or opposite sides, beginning the feud right away. 
Ideally, one or both of them should join your two big stables that are 
feuding for backup, if it's in character for them. 

3. The cruiserweight feud will come to an end this month; book the two 
feuding cruiserweights against one another in one final match at this month's 
PPV. 

Part 9------September 

1. This is it. This pay per view ends the big stable feud. Have each stable 
pick between 4 and 6 of their best wrestlers and have them fight in a 
Wargames or Survivor Series type match. The losers MUST break-up their 
stable. If the world champion and/or tournament winner can be included in 
this, all the better. 

2. If the world champion and/or the tournament winner aren't members of your 
two stables, find other wrestlers that would make good temporary allies for 
them, such as former enemies of the other wrestler or former tag team 
partners, etc. Have these two impromptu stables fight one another this week 
as well. 

3. Hire a fantasy wrestler to add a little spice to your roster. 

4. If you currently have one stable that has done close to nothing, have a 
member or two leave the stable. The leader is really pissed, so at this pay 
per view, have 'x' amount of members in the stable against 'x' amount of 
members that left the stable. If the leader wins, the people that left MUST 
re-join with the stable. If the people that left the stable win, the leader 
MUST disband the stable. 

5. Your cruiserweight champion must go on to bigger and better things, if he 
hasn't already. Begin a feud with him and another prominent cruiserweight. 
Have the cruiserweight that came out on the short end of the stick in last 
month's match also go on to feud with another cruiserweight, or perhaps form 
a tag team. 

Part 10------October 

1. If someone managed to pin your world champion in the stable matches last 
month, feud that person with the World Champion this month, culminating in a 
match at the PPV. If not, have your tournament winner find an exceptionally 
dangerous wrestler to soften up the World Champion for next month's feud, or 
perhaps have another top contender challenge him. In any case, the tournament 
winner wants to ensure that his title shot remains for next month; have him 
interfere in title matches to ensure that the title stays on the World 
Champion. 

2. In September, your most dominant stable was determined....Or at least you 
thought so.....IF there are two stables left (which means that in part 4 of 
September, the leader would have won) then have the one that WAS NOT I REPEAT 
WAS NOT in wargames cut an interview saying that they are a better stable. 
IF your second stable didn't make it, create a new stable, and have them do 
that. Have the biggest men in each stable fight. 

3. Start a feud between your two biggest, strongest wrestlers. Have them 
start it with a match that focuses on power or strength, if possible (arm 
wrestling match, bodyslam match, or something similar). 

4. Stick a third person in the cruiserweight title feud, and possibly a 
fourth as well. You could possibly have a tag team match or a match between 
the two challengers at the pay-per-view. This is setting up a triangle or 
four-corners match next month. 

4. Someone in your federation isn't too happy. You know whom I am talking 
about. Give him a new manager and adjust his push by 6 points (if possible, 
if not, raise it as high as possible). Make him a card opener now and change 
him from face to heel or heel to face. Have him fight the jobbers of your 
federation. 

Part 11------November 

1. Yet another person in your singles rankings isn't too happy, if we were 
you, we'd get him a tag team partner...... 

2. One of your tag teams isn't getting along, have them split up. One will 
be a face and the other will be a heel. Make them fight at your BIG PAY PER 
VIEW EXTRAVAGANZA! 

3. Your cruiserweight title should be defended in a triangle match or a four 
corners match at the pay per view. Make sure to have the heel interfere in 
the champion's matches prior to the pay per view, just to build a story. 

4. The two stables that were fighting over who was the best WILL fight at the 
pay per view. It will settle who your most dominant stable is. You can have 
the leaders fight or a six man tag, or whatever you decide on. We'd 
recommend more than one wrestler from each stable wrestle in at least a tag 
team match. 

5. Your World Champion will fight the winner of the tournament July. Try to 
avoid jobbing either one of them at all this month. 

6. This whole month is basically devoted to your pay per view. This is your 
Starcade or your Wrestlemania, if you will. So, hype up all the matches the 
most you can. 

Part 12------December 

Being the last month in the year, you want to go out with a bang. At your upcoming ppv, have the biggest man in your top-5 fight your world champion at the pay per view. 
The two stables know who is the best, but the loser is still pissed off. The loser leader wants to fight the leader of the best stable in your circuit now. 
If there is a wrestler on the borderline of being a cruiser, have him drop a few pounds and get a cruiserweight title shot at the pay per view, if he can beat two cruisers. 
If there are any wrestlers that just aren't working out for you at the moment, who you can't seem to fit into any angles, you may want to consider firing them.

These are our TNM Rules. Thank you for reading/using, 

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