I’m starting another wrestling tournament, and this one’s the biggest yet. I found a free game called the Wrestling Dice Game on the Sideline Strategy Games site. It looks like a fun play, it has a massive roster of wrestlers from over the decades and it’s pretty editable, meaning I could re-rank wrestlers as I felt necessary and also easily add some new ones to the field.
How big is this going to be? I’ve got 96 wrestlers who will be in the tournament, ranging from the 1980s, when I first got into watching wrestling, to present day. I put them into tiers and then randomly slotted them into 16 groups. They’ll play a round-robin group stage, and the 16 winners will advance to a championship tournament. The group stage will consist of 240 matches, so this might take a while.
This project began in September 2025.
Group A: Ric Flair, Goldberg, Drew McIntyre, Paul Orndorff, Samoa Joe, R-Truth (winner: Ric Flair)
Group B: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Ultimate Warrior, Jake “the Snake” Roberts, Sami Zayn, Seamus, George “the Animal” Steele (winner: Steve Austin)
Group C: Hulk Hogan, Nikita Koloff, Booker T, Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart, Koko B. Ware, Arn Anderson (winner: Hulk Hogan)
Group D: Randy “Macho Man” Savage, Jon Moxley, Ricky “the Dragon” Steamboat, Rob Van Dam, Billy Jack Haynes, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan (winner: Jon Moxley)
Group E: Kenny Omega, Kurt Angle, Edge, Big John Studd, Bam Bam Bigelow, Road Warrior Hawk
Group F: Andre the Giant, Kevin Owens, Davey Boy Smith, Diamond Dallas Page, LA Knight, Greg “the Hammer” Valentine
Group G: The Rock, “Hangman” Adam Page, AJ Styles, Magnum TA, Honky Tonk Man, Tully Blanchard
Group H: Gunther, Roman Reigns, MJF, Eddie Guerrero, Kamala, “Cowboy” Bob Orton
Group I: CM Punk, Will Ospreay, Barry Windham, Owen Hart, Rick Rude, Junkyard Dog
Group J: Seth Rollins, the Undertaker, Lex Luger, Big E, Jey Uso, Brutus Beefcake
Group K: John Cena, Kane, Batista, Curt Hennig, Tito Santana, One Man Gang
Group L: Cody Rhodes, Big Show, Finn Balor, Bray Wyatt, Dominik Mysterio, Jesse “the Body” Ventura
Group M: Bret Hart, Randy Orton, Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, The Miz, Nikolai Volkoff
Group N: Sting, Shawn Michaels, Mankind, the Iron Sheik, Claudio Castagnoli, Hillbilly Jim
Group O: Chris Jericho, Roddy Piper, Bobby Lashley, Adam Cole, King Kong Bundy, Xavier Woods
Group P: Dusty Rhodes, Triple H, Swerve Strickland, Bryan Danielson, Ted DiBiase, Hercules Hernandez
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