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If any of the guys who used to run the SAS Wrestling shows in Pinner are on here could they drop me a PM? Just had a few questions about those shows and it'd be much appreciated.

Looking at this list so far (and the remaining 5) shows you the incredible talent we have here.

Zak Sabre - Has been in some of the best tag matches to ever happen in the UK. However, I can't see him winning this and his singles stuff is good but missing that special something. It may be his lack of crowd work - because technically he is excellent - but he is definitely NOT the best singles wrestler in the country. Put him in an All-Star or family friendly environment and I think he'd struggle a little to get the crowd to love/hate him in the same way as some of the other guys could. Just my opinion.

El Ligero - As i've only seen him in FWA I don't think i've seen the best of him.

Mastiff - Has just been awesome as the IPW champ. The matches he'd had with Go Shiozaki and Morishima were some of the best heavyweight matches i've seen live.

Spud - The most charismatic worker in the UK today. Not much more to say really. Whenever i've seen him wrestle he's not done anything spectacular in the ring but his character has carried the match and got the crowd emotionally involved.

Stone - Been a great year for him and I think he'll win this.

He put in a great performance against Leroy (IPW:UK) with a match which had many in the crowd wondering if what they seeing was real (the punching of a 'fan')

 

What? No.

 

I think having Shane, a guy who's wrestled about six matches in the voting period, this high, is fairly insane. How many votes did he get from his eight UKFF accounts?

 

I agree. I regret not voting as Shane was my first and only idea for a nominee on the shit list. His promo against Leroy Kincaide was not only amazingly racist but it earned real "we don't care, just shut the fuck up" heat. The match itself was fuill of overbooking like every big Alex Shane match I have seen. I was wondering if any members of the FWA associated schoold voted for him out of loyalty, tbh.

Fair play if you didn't like the angle/match as we are all entitled to our opinions but I was at that IPW show and the pop was huge when Leroy beat him?

Also I don't get why so many on this board criticized the promo as 'racist'. He was being a heel - and obviously the promo would have been discussed with both Andy and Leroy beforehand. The fans were booing him because what he was saying is so despicable. Plus all the smart fans know about Alex Shanes work in India and know he isn't racist. On top of that - you have so many people on here praising the work of RJ Singh who, in my opinion, essentially gets heat by coming out and waving around an Indian flag. His whole gimmick, along with the bhangra knights, is just feeding off peoples xenophobia. The guy is very talented and is a great cocky heel but the crux of his gimmick is, in my opinion, is getting a room full of fans (the vast majority of whom are white) to boo him because he is Indian. Plus, at the last two FWA Broxbourne shows i've heard people shouting borderline xenophobic/racist abuse at him because that's what his gimmick does - it brings out that side of people. So I think it's unfair to label Alex Shanes promo as racist (a promo, which essentially got a room full of people to boo him and dislike him for the way he talked about Leroy) when guys like RJ are praised for their crowd work when essentially their gimmick borderlines on encouraging peoples xenophobia.

Watched Hot Rod the other night. Was hilarious - if your into apatow type films - eg knocked up,superbad you might like it. Quite a particular type of humour i guess - the lead guy is from lonely island.