Big Rob

Road Dogg sounds exactly like Woody Harrelson, doesn't he? Great man, I've seen a lot of online hate for him recently as a wrestler, but I think he's been pretty damn good since his return.

I skim-watched Raw, but the bits I saw were good. Liking the Shield/Wyatt promos, and the main event was pretty great - I'd rate it as their best match, save for maybe that one street fight they had last year. Really enjoyed the tag team cage match too, though it was quite slow and appreciate that it wouldn't be to everyone's tastes.

Cronuts are well shit, duffins are easily the best cake with a stupid mashed up name.

I liked the Stevie shoot, but it's really hampered by RF being a fucking awful interviewer. So many "what are your memories of..." that if you did a drinking game around it, you'd end up getting your stomach pumped before you're half way through the DVD.

He seems to have the fire and passion and really enjoyed his return. Not sure if the Batista-bomb is now officially modified to being jacknife-style rather than sit-out style, or if he was taking it easy because it was his first night back and he was wearing skinnies.

He used to sometimes do the jackknife for angles, so it's wait and see for now I guess.

I could see Ziggler vs John Morrison main eventing an indy tour of Qatar in the near future.

Find me a match from Japan where Albert was good and I'll call you a liar. Been watching some stuff this afternoon and he was just as fucking crap as he always was! It could be the most impressive Power Slam/IWC myth of all time that he magically got good. What a complete load of shit, no wonder Tensai was such a disappointment when he came back.

This is pretty good. Not a case for Tensai being some kind of super-worker or anything, but he's far from shit here. I think it's from 2006, but not 100% on that.

Have you got a link to one where Natalya's good? I think her being good is a bigger lie than the Albert lie, because at least everyone admitted he was shit after about six months of him being back. But you still get clowns demanding Nattie be made divas champion because she's a WORKER~ and top quality and all that.

I remember

Find me a match from Japan where Albert was good and I'll call you a liar. Been watching some stuff this afternoon and he was just as fucking crap as he always was! It could be the most impressive Power Slam/IWC myth of all time that he magically got good. What a complete load of shit, no wonder Tensai was such a disappointment when he came back.

This is pretty good. Not a case for Tensai being some kind of super-worker or anything, but he's far from shit here. I think it's from 2006, but not 100% on that.

Kamala too, that seemed a bit of a weird fit - very much a WWF gimmick, even if it obviously didn't originate there.

I don't even remember that match. Obviously men twatting women was de rigueur then.

 

Decent sprint worth a look?

It's online, and assuming you have four minutes to kill then yeah, it's not a bad match by any stretch. Just a bit of a shame - I'd fucking kill to see it these days, as it'd probably go 15 on NXT.

Just watching a Tajiri vs William Regal match from Survivor Series 2001, and granted it was over ten years ago but this would never these days. They had some feud going on since Tajiri didn't join the Alliance, but during the entrances they showed clips of the previous Smackdown where Regal does a tiger bomb on Torrie Wilson and then puts her in the STF. To top it off, Regal then beats Tajiri clean in a three minute match! Since it never happens now, it's a bit shocking to see that level of perceived violence from a man to a woman, especially in a really low-card angle.

That might actually be my favourite match of the year, enjoyed it so much.

Speaking of Smackdown, they didn't edit out the advert breaks during the matches this week did they? During the really good Wyatts/Rhodes match, there was a Eric Rowan spot that was later replayed in the little WWE App graphic, so I guess they kept extra couple of minutes in to fill time rather than adding a Vault match. Hope this becomes a regular feature.

Jeremy Deller, an artist who takes inspiration from Adrian Street' was on Hardtalk on BBC News yesterday. He has done a documentary on Street and that photo is the centre point of his latest exhibition by all accounts too

 

From about 18m 41s in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03lt..._Deller_Artist/

 

Excerpt of his Adrian Street Biog: http://vimeo.com/55603074

I saw the documentary in one of the museums in Manchester, they have it playing on a loop alongside a couple of Street's ring robes. Nothing fantastic, but a fun watch.

Has R-Truth ever had a good match? He's had solid TV matches but I can't think of him ever pulling out any crackers...or really any type of memorable match at all. The guy was good for about 6 months in 2011 when he first went mental and in the short-lived Awesome Truth...but apart from that I can't think of a more boring wrestler.

He had a really good match on Main Event this year (July?) with Wade Barrett, like shockingly good considering. Hands down his best match out of the lot that I've seen.

I really noticed it this week, that the great thing about NXT is that it's so busy yet nothing seems rushed. It would be great if it were 90 minutes just so you didn't have to go three weeks without seeing Aiden English, for example, but they totally make the best of the time available. Especially now that Main Event is generally an afterthought (although there was a tidy little Goldust/Ryback match this week), it's by far the best TV show that they do.

And yeah, Renee should be all over everything, she's amazing.

Didn't see much of Raw, but I liked the six man tag a lot, Cody put on one of his best performances ever in it and Goldust busted out a sweet diving hurracanrana. Benoit vs Snitsky ended up being a pretty damn good match too, and served as a nice backdrop to a great Bray Wyatt promo. Nice to see Hunico back as Sin Cara too, I guess he's been wearing long sleeves as Hunico for the last few weeks to cover the tattoo before returning under the mask. I guess he could conceivably do both gimmicks simultaneously.

I love the phrases "rum bugger" and "a rum do", so thumbs up to whoever said that. I think it looks pretty swanky, mind you.

Punk's promo before the Wyatt match was fucking shit as well.

Was it really shit? It probably went over a bunch of heads when he started listing names, but it was clearly him having a loss about and at least he did it with some conviction, so I'd say it was fine. It's not like he was "shooting" like he was during the HHH feud.

Sweet, always thought that would be a good match but wasn't sure if it had happened or not.

Has Welsh Wrestling ever run a Krammer vs Big Dog tag, Butch? I reckon that'd be pretty damn good, Big Daddy style but with better wrestlers.

You agreed with the tweet that stated that the roster were spastics and pretend, so that kind of a slur, yeah.

And Ian, yeah Karl still works. He's still pretty mobile and could come off the top rope fine, though I haven't seen him in a few months. I know he worked the LDN show at the weeks and heard positive things about the match, but I wasn't there.

So you're basing it off of opinions from 2006? You're clearly just letting your grudge against one guy tarnish the reputation of many others.

Flatliner's a classy guy.

 

 

Whilst I think Bagga is a cunt, and the rest of the tweet is true, there is no need for the P word.

You think the "pretend wrestler" bit is true? I suppose it depends on your definition (most of the general public would likely say that they're all pretend) but I'd say that guys like Roy & Zak Knight, Karl Krammer, Johnny Kidd, Paul Malen, Richard Parliament, Aron Frost, etc all have pretty damn good credentials. Are they all "spastics" too, since you think the rest of the tweet is correct?

Oddly enough, Flatliner's twitter page seems to have been taken down. Unsurprising.

His tag against the Prime Time Players was better than the Bryan match, same with the Kassius Ohno match on NXT. Hardly seen anything bad out of him at all, there's been a bunch of four minute matches of no consequence, but I can't think of a single time in the last few months where he's looked bad at all.

He didn't even have a match on the last 4 PPVs have they? They are exclusive to TV and developmental. Usually against workers who wipe the floor with him. This is a heavily pushed act and the match with Punk and Bryan at Survivor Series is their first big test. And its a huge jump from working nobodies on Smackdown to wrestling Bryan and Punk. The fact they put him in there with better workers (or more over workers) says a lot. Like how Ryback went from working nobodies to wrestling Punk and The Shield when his progress hit a wall. He's better than Rowan obviously, but Harper isn't much of anything in the grand scheme of things. He's 34 and has worked for a decade. You'd think he'd be in a position to lead Rowan around better than he does.

I'm not saying he's brilliant or ought - just he's not "shit" or anywhere close to it. I agree that the PPV is their first big test, but considering they had a good quality match with PTP, not exactly noted as being super-workers, they should do fine.