pol_pot_rick Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Daniel Bryan is better than you.  http://withleather.uproxx.com/2012/12/wwe-...r-no-lock-video   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Butternut Squash Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Saw that earlier. Heart warming stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexy Dad Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Aw that's class. Bryan was so good as the underdog hero in the 6 man TLC match on Sunday and took a beating whilst staying trying to survive in a way which reminded me of HBK's Survivor Series 03 effort. I think he is going to have a lot of people calling him up for the charity stuff if he stays away from manipulating mentally unstable women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheman Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 WWE has made the call to put the new Fandango gimmick on hold. There is no confirmation that the gimmick has been dropped completely, but WWE is no longer running vignettes and there are no plans for him to debut any time soon. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted December 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2012 Gordon Nelson, a Canadian wrestler well known as a shooter in his day, and part of a pro wrestling family, passed away on Monday at the age of 82. Nelson was one of Canada's best amateur wrestlers, who qualified but didn't compete in two Olympics, turned pro after the 1956 Games and wrestled into the late 70s. He was a solid journeyman performer, who was the first Mr. Wrestling who worked California in the early 70s.  Modern fans who went to WCW live events would know him as the older, bald guy who was the head of the ring crew during the 90s.  Nelson was a star wrestler in the U.K., where he worked much of his career as The Outlaw and Handsome Gordon Nelson. In the U.S., he spent several years in Amarillo, where the promotion would offer $1,000 to anyone who could beat Nelson in ten minutes. He did shooter work for a few different promotions as he was the master of the legitimate sugar submission hold.  Nelson married woman wrestler Maria LaVerne. Their son, Steve Nelson did both pro wrestling and MMA in the 90s as well as promoted very successfully in Amarillo.  F4W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2012 Just been to an Attack! Pro Wrestling show in Bristol and screw talking about it in the show-specific thread: this was the most enjoyable show I've been to in 21 years of going to live shows and needs to be pimped to everyone. I'd estimate the crowd was about 90% either very casual fans or not wrestling fans at all, but just going for a night out because it's in an area with not much happening. It probably wasn't more than a couple of hundred, but it was a small venue and absolutely packed with 30-50 people standing (which they didn't mind because it was by the bar.) Â At first people were just having a bit of a laugh and playing along with what they though wrestling fans are meant to be like, with a wrestler in the second match summing up the entire concept of pyschology by insisting to the crowd that clapping gave his tag partner power. As the show went on and people getting drunker it livened up. In the third match half the crowd was completely amused by the babyface being called Pete and started "ironically" cheering and chanting for him (the idea of chanting caught on, with repeated chants for Christmas and a bizarre chant of "noone's chanting"). Meanwhile another section of the crowd thought they were a bit clever and subversive, so chanted for the heel. By the end of the match the two groups were screaming at one another. Â After the interval and a few more drinks, the crowd heat pretty much had stopped being ironic. Come the main event people were going batshit for the entrances, with the babyface coming out to Fairytale of New York (coming through the curtain at the precise moment the flutes hit and Kirsty MacColl starts singing) and the crowd singing along like it was Sandman at One Night Stand. Match builds up and the heel's setting up a table for the big finish when Santa runs in for the save, at which point grown men are genuinely hugging one another in joy and relief. Heel cuts off Santa with a groin shot and there are now fans trying to hit the ring to help Santa. Santa makes a comeback, the face wins, and about half the crowd storm the ring to celebrate and the show ends with Santa carrying the babyface on his shoulders and people embracing while singing Fairytale of New York. Â And yes, I'll admit I actually welled up a few tears in sheer joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 That sounds like brilliant fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted December 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2012 Jesus Christ, that sounds amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ShortOrderCook Posted December 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2012 Haha, i love that. That goes against everything everyone's been saying in the random thoughts thread that wrestling is just for kids. It's really just entertainment, fun and escapism, for all ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2012 Ironically enough this was meant to be in the random thoughts, making this approximately the 38th time I've mixed the two up. Yeah, it was an amazingly diverse audience -- it was almost as if they'd literally grabbed the 200 people nearest to the venue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 21, 2012 Moderators Share Posted December 21, 2012 That sounds like what wrestling should be. Wrestling should be fun. I know I've said it a million times on here, but wrestling is best when you watch it with a smile on your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 21, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 21, 2012 Just forgot something else that, while looking "fake" as fuck if you are being cynical, was awesome: Santa ran-in to the Darkness Christmas song and it carried on playing during his save, but cut off at the exact moment he got hit in the balls. That and the entrance during Fairytale were just beautifully timed. I really hope this is one of those shows where the atmosphere holds up on DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 21, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 21, 2012 The sad irony being the DVD wont be out for Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted December 21, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted December 21, 2012 I love that something on the UK scene is getting so much praise, shows when done right it really can hit at any audience well enough. Â Show sounds fantastic too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 No, Albert really didn't work a good big man style in the early 2000s at all. He was never any good at Titan and still isn't now. Â What sort of fan says Titan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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