The Reverend

The battle for the UK continues between AEW and WWE, before both companies over egg the pudding leading to poorer numbers than expected and then both abandoning the country for the forseeable future and instead focusing on mainland Europe.

It was definitely Shawn Michaels' chin.

Jake Roberts and his '92 leap from WWF to WCW springs to mind 

7 hours ago, Chili said:

It's a real waste of talent isn't it. They had her take over WWF Mania and had her rename it The Sunny Show for a week and you can see why she owned 1996. A ridiculous amount of charm, sex appeal and charisma. It's insane how quickly it all took a turn.

I honestly thought at this time she had real potential to become a massive crossover star. She would've been perfect for one of those mid-90s comedy films that got put out at a rate of knots, or as a sitcom star. So sad, as had it happened her life would've been far happier I'm sure.

So ol' Tammy is up in court today and potentially looking at 26 years: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox35orlando.com/news/tammy-sytch-wwe-star-to-be-sentenced-for-deadly-florida-dui-crash.amp

What a fucking life - the car crash is an analogy of her very existence. 

Her life would be far-fetched if it were a Hollywood movie script. 

So, do you feel sorry for her? Her own fault - or just another victim of the toxic world of wrestling. To be fair I'm just surprised she's not dead.

12 minutes ago, Brock Goldberg said:

Music producer Rick Rubin was/is a massive wrestling fan and was often spotted at WWF/E events. 

And was the financial backer for Smoky Mountain Wrestling

Comedian Rob Beckett took his WWF Hasbros on 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown.

Dear old Kenneth Williams wrote in his infamous diaries "16/5/64 We motored down to Brighton. All clientele dreadful but the hotel is good. In the evening we went to a wrestling match. It was obviously rigged"

No pulling the wool over Kenny's eyes.

The premiere took place in Dallas last night - it got some good reviews: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sescoops.com/.amp/news/the-iron-claw-is-heartbreaking-tragedy-steeped-in-americana-efron-shines-in-demanding-role

I have to say, this looks like it could be very, very good! 

I can't believe CM Punk couldn't figure out Uber, or get a cab.

Either he took the tube as he's 'man of the people' and had circumstances been different, that would've been a news story (everytime someone plays the O2 and takes the tube it gets huge column inches - despite most of the carriage being full of their entourage) however with what has happened, it was easy and convenient to flip the story to now make Punk look like a victim.

Or is it, and I'm sure I've read it before, that he's notoriously tight, proper taking teabags from hotel rooms tight, and rather use the tube than an Uber (if it wasn't a hassle to work out he'd probably taken the bus as it's cheaper) to save his pennies.

23 hours ago, BLAT said:

I have these up for sale, still sealed.

THE BIG BOOK OF WRESTLING - SEPT 1974
THE BIG BOOK OF WRESTLING - JUILLET 1975
PWI SEPT 1987
SHUKAN PURORESU #529 DEC 1992
SHUKAN PURORESU #587 NOV 1993
SHUKAN PURORESU #771 DEC 1996
PWI YEAR IN REVIEW 1998

WEEKLY PRO WRESTLING #2035 30.10.2019

 

How much are you asking? 

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Never thought I'd see a 'Casket (Coffin) match' let alone having Sting participate. Can't say I know much about the other team in it. A lot of mental coffins containing sporting hopes and dreams in Wembley but imagine this would be the first physical one ever to grace the hallowed turf

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FTR vs Young Bucks will be a cracker and having 'Carry on my Wayward Son' will be epic 

Unfamiliar with some of the women in the Championship tournament but might as well give it a look 

 

There was one there in '92. 

Not quite Youtube (sorry) but couldn't find it on that platform. 

Great piece of early Andre footage: https://www.facebook.com/100042841007890/posts/984420096329348/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

3 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Have we got any wrestling mad UK celebs that could get involved? Or are we going to get stuck with Jack Whitehall again?

Eamonn Holmes - he's not up to much. I remember the first WWF show in London '89, the best we could muster up was a couple of stars from Hi-de-Hi 

Sad to hear about the passing of Superstar Billy Graham - a legitimate megastar and one of wrestling's controversial characters. He was a huge influence on the sport and so many of its stars 

Way to blow your gimmick! 😄

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2 hours ago, scouseman said:

keep hold of it mate. The one i am struggling to get is booker T's second book. There is a copy on ebay but its too expensive at £30

Try here: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9781605427041&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-ISBN-_-used

A couple for a more reasonable £16 mark (inc.postage)

2 hours ago, FUM said:

Is £17.99 “reasonable” for a book in 2023? Genuine question.

For this one, yes. Over the years I've bought and sold quite a few copies of this book, always making a nice little profit. Cheapest I think I bought it at was £7 and the most expensive I've sold it for was £45.

I wish I had bought just more than my own copy when the Works were selling them for £4 brand new not long after it just came out.

Never mind, I thought I'd strike it rich with copies of Hogan's 2nd book instead.....still got them!! 🙄

20 hours ago, Uncle Zeb said:

A Hasbro-style Gangrel that I pre-ordered last February arrived today, and it got me wondering what I'd have done if they hadn't lost the WWF licence when they did.

I had a decent if incomplete collection (still do), and starting over with Jakks figures that weren't of a compatible scale didn't appeal. Being around 13 it was the right excuse at the right time to stop buying toys, but a continuing Hasbro line featuring Diesel, Vader, Mankind and a "proper" Owen would've been hard to resist.

Maybe I'd have been stuck buying them into adulthood, sneaking Rikishi and Val Venis into uni halls after a clandestine trip to Woolies. Would I have bought as many N64 and PS2 games if DX, The Rock and Stone Cold were hitting the shelves with spring-loaded signature moves?

Those of you who did keep (or even start) collecting in the post-Hasbro era - have your figure buying days been continuous, or were they interrupted for budgetary/stigma reasons and resumed later on? And if the style changed again completely next year, would you draw a line under your pursuit of new releases, or build a new shelf for its next phase?

I too was a 'Hasbro Kid' - got a fairly nice set (along with the WCW Galoobs) of which I'm missing only about half a dozen. I definitely would have carried on buying them (in fact in the last decade I starting buying the more elusive and expensive ones I missed first time round - eg. Dusty Rhodes).

The Jakks BCA were, as you say, out of scale so never bought those - and they looked like a downgrade on the Hasbros. I remember seeing shelves of them around '99 when they were in full flow and seriously considering starting a collection. I have looked in the last few years of actually starting a collection (their weird cartoonish nature, and the fact there's a number of names that haven't got other figures appeals to me). But what it comes down too (other than can I really justify spending the money) is what I'd with them. I don't have space to display them (my Hasbro collection is in boxes in a cupboard) so I'd just have them in storage. 

Years back when the WWE Classic Superstars line came out I was seriously tempted again - but they were so big in their packaging, I had no idea how I'd store them. 

I did consider an LJN collection - but those are so pricey as most ebay listings are US based, plus they were so badly made that loose versions are usually battered to fuck.

I think maybe it's the thrill of the chase I'm swayed by, like all collectors, to track down the rare pieces. But to be brutally honest to myself, I can think of better things to get excited about. 

Although saying that, having a fondness for all things Hasbro, I have bought all of the new Retros and the similar product by Chella toys.

I did notice those new Superstar Walmart figures (similar to the AWA Remcos) and even bought a couple when I was in the States last year, but so far my willpower is good......

Anyone else started a new collection on a whim? Is there anyone on here who was too young for the Hasbros first time but been lured in by their 5" plastic wonder? 

There's always a market for old wrestling merchandise. What exactly do you have? 

To be honest, this was always going to happen. As so many have pointed out, he really is a mad old bastard! What has he been doing since leaving? A man who’s workaholic lifestyle is extreme even for most workaholics. Let’s not forget that all that coke and the steroids in the 80’s has probably fucked his brain up. There was no way he was going to sit at home all day. He probably drove to the office everyday and sat in his car outside until security went over to see him, leading him to drive off in a screech of car tires. Only to repeat it the next day, and the next day.....

IMO Vince is definitely of a ‘if I can’t have it, no-one can’ mentality. He’d probably prefer to stand atop Titan Towers, with it all burning beneath him like James Cagney (it could be that this is the plan – hence why they’re getting a new HQ just ahead of his inferno meltdown!)

What is the biggest shocker is that this is one of the best storylines WWE have done in ages, intrigue, emotion and sudden swerves, but unfortunately it’s not even on their shows!   

Always looking to add to my library of wrestling books - if you have any for sale, then please shoot me a DM with what you have.

On 1/3/2023 at 3:48 PM, Jonny Vegas said:

 

Another option for larger orders is to wait until Ringside Collectibles have their crazy sales because even with paying their insane shipping prices it works out less than online from the UK which is wild.

 

This is what I did recently to finish off my Mattel retro collection. Despite the postage cost (which I didn't think was too bad) it crazily worked out so much cheaper than buying them on ebay in the UK - even with the crap exchange rate!! 

What If. …Sky TV had never had WWF as part of their programming? Would ITV have done a deal with Vince to have it shown in the WOS spot? They had WWF featured matches as part of that before. Would Channel 4 have picked it up as late-night cult programming?

If ITV had picked it up then the exposure it would’ve been given would have been huge, but would it have sunk quicker? I’m of the opinion that the fact that it was on SKY, with a lesser audience than mainstream TV, gave it a slow burn popularity over about 3 years, rather than the usual 1 year that most fads have.

Or would Sky have picked it up later, meaning tje boom period would've been the piss-poor 93-95 era.

Would the British Bulldog have featured so prominently without a UK presence?