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what an absolute bellend

According to Sportico, Nick Khan has filed to sell all of his TKO shares. I wonder if he’s jumping before he’s pushed here. Not sure why he would get rid of his interests in the company.

It gets better as the season goes on but yeah they took a fair bit of time to find a groove

All At Sea (AKA Barnacle Bill). Ealing comedy with Sir Alec Guinness as a naval captain who develops chronic sea sickness, and so buys a pier and runs it like a ship instead. It's all very daft, and so wonderfully British, with Guinness as the straight man while the environment provides the gags. Lovely stuff.

800 capacity show with their new drummer. Ugh. Not a huge fan but that would've been sick.

The neck brace was brilliant. Felt like everyone delighted in the daftness of it. AEW fans. WWE fans. The mainstream. Can't remember the last time there was such a unified enjoyment of what makes pro-wrestling such a silly, unique form of entertainment. And then he fucked it. Like always. Couldn't help himself but piss it all away. LOL, they're sex pests. Anyway, can I offer you a can of Woooooo energy?

Only if there was a run in from Ken Bruce looking to avenge the absolute decimation of his morning slot.

The man is a total embarrassment.

Appearing on TV, supposedly representing a major sports team, in a neck brace to sell a fake wrestling angle is a choice I suppose. (Fuck me, can you imagine Fulham fans’ reaction?) But its trivialising what is a very serious situation. Takes some gall taking the moral high ground given some of his employees though.

Yes.

Yeah I think that has been going-on since the early days

What an absolute fucking twat. You will STILL get people "Well actually"-ing this somehow and defending him. Arseholes.

Selling a couple of the Walmart exclusive WWE Superstars figures. Roddy Piper and Bam Bam Bigelow. Brand new and sealed. Hard to find in the UK. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204766185856?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rutj1deqsig&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=q4DSU-onQ_W&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Can't play Peggle without thinking of the time I stayed up all night playing it while listening to the audiobook of Middlemarch, because I had an exam in the morning and hadn't read it. Didn't finish the book, or pass the exam, but I did enjoy me some Peggle.

“We’re the Pepsi of wrestling and they’re the Weinstein”. Why didn’t he say coke? “2 Stella’s and a Pepsi please”. “Sorry, we don’t have Pepsi, is a Harvey Weinstein ok?”

I hate wrestling. Going to take a few days off whilst some people argue that it's fine because CM Punk said something once, others argue that it's the Bucks fault, and then the cycle repeats when WWE inevitably clap back. Make it end. Shitheads, the lot of them.

Never mind having Flair, Jericho, Darby Allin, etc under contract.

Yep. A very interesting choice of words to use when you've got such an opportunity for publicity.

Tony Khan had an interview cut live today when talking the draft on NHL today when he could / should of have promoted AEW and instead calling WWE "the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling" What an idiot

I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in the stand up thread but my Mum and I are off to see I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue getting recorded at King George's Hall on Monday niht. Jack Dee is chairing, alongside Samantha, as always. The panelists are Henning Wehn, Tony Hawks, Marcus Brigstocke, and Vicki Pepperdine. Also, Colin Sell will be setting some things to music as well, unless they have a new Maestro since the old one failed its MOT. Oh, we've also got tickets to two Lancashire Hotpots gigs (surprise surprise) in July and November.

Not in ny particular order: Kurt Angle vs Beniot Royal Rumble 2003 Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker No Mercy 2002 Stone Cold vs Kurt Angle Summerslam 2001 3 Minute Warning & Rico vs Bubba, Spike and Jeff Hardy Survivor Series 2002 (My fave table match ever) Demolition and King Duggan vs Andre & Twin Towers. Summerslam 1989 (My first ever intoduction to wrestling at 4 yrs old.

Contestant Magid Magid said pretty much the same. Jaxon and Nicola were complete idiots at the end though. They were in the helicopter with £100,000 between them, so why encourage Sade to get in so they'd only get £66,666? Jaxon should have jumped out and pinned Sade down until the helicopter took off, trusting that his sister wouldn't screw (pardon the pun) him out of £50,000.

Civil War (cinema) I enjoyed it despite huge apprehension about it. Sticks its muddled politics in the background to a really well told story about photojournalists and some excellent action scenes. Cailee Spaeny is brilliant, and this is Kirsten Dunst's best work outside of Fargo for a decade. Abigail (cinema) A great laugh. Not *quite* as good as Ready or Not but very, very close. Dan Stevens is absolutely ace in everything and you never know where he's going to appear next. Kevin Durand the clear MVP though. Kung Fu Panda 4 (cinema) I haven't seen the first three. It didn't seem to matter. It was quite funny. Jack Black's cover of Baby One More Time the highlight. Summer Time Machine Blues (Prime) Japanese time-travel comedy from the same guy who wrote the similar Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River, which I also think are on Prime. They're all really funny, silly and feelgood films and this one is especially so. Solarbabies Alexei Sayle does pop in at some point and is very funny, otherwise it's too daft for its own good. Full marks for effort but I was quite bored. Looper Yeah, this is still great. Reminder that Rian Johnson still has a 100% record. Death Race (2008) One of the very few Jason Stathams I hadn't watched mainly because it was directed Paul WS Anderson. It's fun though, especially during the ridiculously long race scenes. Reminder that Jason Statham got good films out of Ben Wheatley and Paul WS Anderson. He's my hero. Miracle Mile God this is fucking great. I can see why it tanked on release because how the fuck do you market this? It's a romcom and then it's a nuclear apocalypse thriller. One of the most underrated American films of the 1980s. Extraterrestrial (2011) (Prime) Enjoyable alien invasion comedy from the guy who made Timecrimes (another great time travel / loop film). Not at all what I expected but better for it. Journey to the West Brilliant Chinese mockumentary about an obsessed UFO investigator. Surprised this isn't better known considering how well received it was in its home country. Lovely stuff. Ikarie XB 1 (YouTube) Extremely influential Czechoslovakian sci-fi film. Looks incredible, an obvious turning point for the genre once Hollywood saw it. Largely unknown but it shouldn't be.

Do American cities bid for Wrestlemania the way they do for the Olympics etc? You’d imagine that would be something WWE would like to exploit on a global scale.

Fallout Yeah, it's great. As other have said, the perfect amount of game stuff to keep the game fans happy, and more than enough for non-fans to still find it enjoyable. Jonathan Nolan doesn't half like a dual-timeline narrative, doesn't he! But only real gripe with the show was the final episode...