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Fucking hell, he looks like one of the Italians in Allo Allo!

Bit of a childish response to a man having an opinion, isn't it?

I hope the next fued Brian Danielson is in sees this exchange... "So if you wanna say your the best... then I need you to beat me to prove it. Cos I'm the best!" "Mate you've lost the last 20 fueds you were in. Fuck off."

I’ve got it down to 9. It’s pretty difficult choosing 5 and trying to choose between which were pivotal in terms of shaping my tastes vs telling a chronological story in terms of how my relationship with pro wrestling changed. To be fair, the shifts in what made a pro wrestling match appeal to me or not would probably take 10 matches to cover alone. It’s been more than 30 years man and boy, after all…

Is that an excellent piece of Wikipedia vandalism? Yes. I like that it’s got a reference as well, which is close enough to the text that it could pass moderation.

Didn’t know where else to put this, but a clip of Lenny McClean being all hard and that showed upon my Instagram feed this morning. Apart from Lock Stock, I knew nothing about him so headed to Wiki and so found this gem of an edit.

He’s the prowrestling.net guy.

I played drums in a garage band circa 1999. We were called Albino Al Pacino. I couldn’t tell you why.

Running WCW as a separate show, completely plausible. It was odd that initially they tried to babyface the whole of the incoming roster by them going after Vince, and even stranger they didn’t foresee a hostile reaction to Booker T lamping the boss and scoring one for the Monday Night Wars great losers in Madison Square Garden which was something akin to Napoleon performing a victory parade through Trafalgar Square after the dust had settled at Waterloo. The WCW roster ran house shows on their own for a few weeks, which you can read about at many worthwhile online resources. Give them a show, yes. Give them Raw? Fuck off was that ever happening. To further the analogy, that’s Napoleon losing and being captured but then given Wellington’s army to command. No fucking chance. Speaking of WCW, brand splits and breaking my own rules completely, it always amuses me when Bischoff talks about the idea behind Thunder being to better utilise more talent and bangs on about thinking Bret Hart would have been a great focal point. Like he could have the nWo storylines on Nitro and a bit more wrestling on Thunder, headed up by Bret. Considering he had final say on virtually everything, it baffles me that he floats this as the plan but when it came time to execute, Bret gets introduced on Nitro as the ref for Hollywood Hogan vs Sting, and the first Thunder is built around the Hogan vs Sting fallout from the rematch and subsequent title vacancy. Doesn’t seem like the roster split was a plan Eric considered for very long at all, whatever he says. Unless it was TBS saying “We wanted another Nitro, you can’t make us the B show.” Which is funny, because it didn’t take long for it to become so.

I don't know who that is but he's wrong and can fuck off. As great as Ospreay/Danielson was I think it's actually Jack Perry's incredible shit-eating grin that's stayed with me the most. Think we might be on to something special here. A new Champion. The Elite firing on all cylinders. Willow on the rise. Ospreay. Hangman waiting in the aisles...things are looking very tasty at the moment, lads.

Spot on. "BAD-ASS-ATRON" Megatron, a man destined to become a ruthless dictator and crime lord, who will happily enslave or eradicate an entire race to satisfy his people's need for energy "We'll call you B!"

Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker - Hell In a Cell After hitting that age when I had to concede that wrestling wasn't actually real and losing interest, this was the match that brought me back into it. There was none of the hokiness of the early 90s, and it was (at that time) the most brutal match I'd ever seen. This was closer to a live action movie than Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect - Summerslam '91 In my first period of fandom, I thought Bret was one of the greatest, and I thought that Hennig was a mouthy cunt that needed his head kicking in, so this was the match I was wanting see, and it didn't disappoint. Matches like this are why the IC Championship held more prestige than the World Championship for me. Owen Hart vs 123 Kid - KOTR '93 I probably consider this one of the top ten matches of all time. The chemistry between Owen and Waltman is as good as anybody's, and they're just hitting everything perfectly. It's probably the greatest case study of how you can all your shit in, and more, but not have it descend into a meandering spotfest. Everything just follows on in a believable way, and the winner could have been either of them. Kurt Angle vs Shane McMahon - KOTR '01 I can still remember the edge-of-the-seat excitement we had watching this for the first time. I genuinely thought Shane was going to get crippled or actually die. Kurt was brilliant by this point, and Shane was probably at his athletic best, throwing some nice looking armdrags and suplexes throughout the match.

Yes, august 10th we have our first import in Shlak!

Home Counties and Lip Filler. Just fuck off.

Toni Storm not being champ would mean no Toni Storm post show pressers and that, quite frankly, can go get fucked. Ospreay had another good showing at the presser as well. He's been an unbelievable get for AEW.

Busted out these when I was watching AEW Dynamite. Gave up on them after four crisps because they were absolutely foul. Two hours later and they've still left an aftertaste. Even worse than the Jericho vs Hook match. 2/10.

The argument against her has generally come from critics/journalists; and it’s not so much against the character - it’s her as the champion. Jason Powell is particularly vocal about that, he likes the character, but not the character as champion. I totally disagree, I think she’s tremendous and she’s probably the best heel champion AEW has had to date, with any title.

In 2001. The original plan was for WCW to be its own thing. With the belief there was a Saturday night slot on TNN. There's ads for cancelled shows that were going to be TV tapings. By the time the brand split became an idea in 2002 there was the talk of Nitro/Smackdown. Which is something i've never really put much faith in beyond the people that talked to Meltzer were floating it as an idea in meetings.

I knew of and saw a pic of IRS’s cack brown tights from when he debuted but I’d never seen them in motion until now. Horrific.

Part of me hopes that they are testing out how a shit Apex style card does in front of a live audience. If it's a success, it might encourage them to leave the Apex knowing that they don't have to load the cards with top guys when they go on the road. That's probably wishful thinking though. I will watch this show purely because it's in front of a live audience, if it was in the Apex, I would skip it. I haven't skipped a show for over a decade, but all of the Apex cards in 2024 I haven't bothered watching. They have been too weak.

WHY IS HE JUST SITTING THERE WHEN THE BAT SIGNAL HAS GONE UP???

Such a shit song from a shit band. I hate how it’s associated with Cov City.

Yeah, the whole story stinks to me. It's been pointed out by some outlets that there were Jewish protesters marching, who weren't in danger, weren't harassed and weren't singled out by the police. Which kind of suggests that he and his crew were doing something that warranted Inspector Knacker's attention. I can't imagine the stress of having to police these marches, with counter protests and agitators mixed with peaceful marchers, and it sounds like the policeman on the scene had a serious brain fart when it came to his choice of words. Having watched it in context, it doesn't seem deliberately antisemitic as much as stressed and hurried. There's almost certainly been an uptick in antisemitism since the October terrorist attack, and I am sympathetic to people over here feeling the heat for something a foreign government is doing thousands of miles away, but this particular news story feels heavily manufactured and counter productive.

That's what we call a wide parting.

How much stock do we put in the rumour that the original plan for the "brand split" was to give Raw over to be rebranded WCW Nitro? This would be in 2001 during the Invasion storyline, and the story goes this plan was nixed after the Bagwell/Booker match was shite. Does it really sound likely that Vince ever would have given over his flagship show to be rebranded in the colours of his rival? Chinny reck-on. Also, I can't imagine the network having any interest in rebranding its hit wrestling show to a different company.