UK Kat Von D

53 minutes ago, Slapnut said:

Any chance she was from Southend?

Yeah, I think she was living near Essex when I was seeing her.

I remember Joey Ryan being good in Lucha Underground. Still a sleeze but without magic dick powers. With the right booker I think he would have something to offer 

Not sure if I’ve ever told this story on here before. Couple years back I was dating a girl and when she found out I liked wrestling she told me that she had been best friends with a girl who’s Dad was a wrestler. I asked who it was, thinking I was going to surprise her by knowing some obscure wrestler most people wouldn’t have heard of. She replied with Steve Austin.

This girl literally knew nothing about wrestling at all, not even that he was called Stone Cold. I thought she was full of shit at first but she said the girls name was Steph Williams, which google showed to be true and they were the same age. She told me that the Mum had also been a wrestler, but was wasn’t really aware of the difference. Apparently she had been on holiday with her to Austin’s ranch and told me what it was like. 
Naturally I asked what the chances of us ever going there together was and she said “nah, I don’t talk to her anymore. She is a bitch and thinks she can do whatever she wants all the time.” If your Dad is Stone Cold Steve Austin, of course you can do whatever you want all the time. 

(I have no idea how much of this story is true, but I’m inclined to believe her based on her very select knowledge while being otherwise clueless.)

I’m gonna find Tom Segura and chop him in the chest.

8 minutes ago, Divorced Dad said:

What the fuck is custard brothers? 

When two guys have had sex with the same woman.

I’ve tattooed Pete Dunne and Tyler Bates which is my most respectable one. Smoked cigars in Vegas with Dustin Rhodes which is my favourite one.
I’m also custard brother to a long list of current wrestlers with the biggest one being The Rock. That was bloody intimidating. 

46 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

Bloody hell, just googled him and he's 43! Another up and comer then.

Well guys like Jungle Boy, Darby Allin, Sammy Guevara and Private Party are the up and comers. Lance Archer has never been presented as an up and comer, his story is totally different. 

1 hour ago, Mr Butternut Squash said:

For a company that's been famed for changing course and cutting bait on things that ain't working, I'm astonished this Dark Order shit wasn't shot dead long ago.

They’ve been doing pre-taped for a while, so changing direction until now has been impossible anyway. They’ve got to give Brodie Lee a chance to get over before sacking him off already, but if anyone is going to send the Dark Order packing it should be Moxely. Be surprised if he doesn’t run through all the putties with ease before having a wild brawl with Lee.
Can’t think of anyone else who has been featured regularly enough to challenge for the belt either. 
 

@Shy Dad I saw this on twitter 

49 minutes ago, King Pitcos said:

I'm hoping that Harper getting the title shot at the PPV is about resetting him/knocking him down the card before crowds come back. Is there any chance of a non-WWE guy getting a PPV match for the AEW world title this year? 

They’ve only had one PPV match for the world title in 2020. 
MJF and Moxely will be great, but that match will really need fans behind it. They are in a holding pattern right now, giving Mox strong wins is smart. 

Imagine thinking a getting a fine is a huge embarrassment or a black eye for AEW. Hardly going to send shockwaves through the industry.
Thought the show was decent, not bothered about Moxely and Lee but I’d rather they didn’t piss away too much on the mostly empty arena shows. Cody and Archer is the proper title match anyway. Interesting to see what else they can put together, due to limited TV time I assume most the build will be video packages which is what gets me most excited for a match

Herb is the fucking man as far as I’m concerned, dunno why he was fucking about with wrestling though.

3 hours ago, garynysmon said:

I remember seeing that poster as a kid when I was living in Aston. Wasn’t even really watching wrestling at the time but I knew the faked looked shit 

They hardly ever use DQ finishes for regular TV matches, they won’t use it for a tournament final to crown an inaugural champion 

WWE’s design team are absolutely awful. Kane is the only one that is just about bearable. The amount of people willing to wear these is going to be very limited, maybe that’s the point 

They could do a time limit draw and have the judges award it to Archer for being dominant through out. AEW wheel out legends to act as judges incase a winner must be decided.

Edit: hopefully the judges aren’t there live and it’s a few old boys on live stream.

I reckon the most likely scenario is for Dustin to throw in the towel to save his brother’s life. That story would have more layers than an onion 

3 hours ago, King Pitcos said:

You're not wrong, but you're overthinking it - Cody's just doing the standard "tell dem what dey want to hear" thing (he's ticked off both Authority Figures Bad and Wrestling Fans Have a High IQ here, pretty good promoting for a single tweet).

Yeah, the absolute nerve of him giving fans what they want. Why would anyone do that when they can have an on screen authority figure telling the fans they are idiots?

2 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

American Badass Taker vs Sting

That would still have done big business, then the rematch would have done even better once Undertaker had reverted back to being dead. Could have put Sting in Kane’s spot at Wrestlemania 20 with some small changes to the story. 

22 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said:

I don’t think I’ve watched any Invasion-era WWF since it was originally broadcast, but did Steph not “buy” ECW when it went bankrupt, to join forces with Shane and stick it to their dad? That kinda makes sense.

Here Shane introduces Steph as the owner of ECW, while Heyman is stood next to him acting like it’s the best thing ever. JR fucks the reveal a bit by announcing her as the owner of the wrong promotion, but we are used to that

1 hour ago, garynysmon said:

Let's be honest, did anyone really want Stephanie to lead ECW? Is there a company less suited for her to buy than ECW? Shane leading WCW was understandable, but throwing her into the mix just turned it into a regular WWF storyline of the time.

Steph made even less sense since Heyman was actually there. Shane made sense but they should have gone with a mystery financial backer to later be revealed as Flair. Could have been a good higher power angle but with an actual pay off.

When people have a dig about wrestling being fake I just point out most the stuff I watch on tele is. Then when their guard is down I chop them in the chest to prove it’s real

44 minutes ago, Pinc said:

You’re on to something here, I’d say. The smarter thing to do would probably have been to bring in the small number of top guys they could get as individuals in a staggered way through 2001/02, and book them in big ‘Dream Matches’

Well, that’s kinda what they did anyway. It’s just a case of if the invasion story would work with staggered debuts. 

1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said:

 

I always thought it was a damn tough thing to book. You've got 2/3 companies with their own individual faces and heels. How exactly do you book that successfully while keeping them as separate entities/factions?

DDP for example. Absolutely loved him in WCW as the plucky face that you always wanted to get behind. But being in WCW made him an automatic heel.

 

Yeah it would have been a tough thing to book, but they should have been able to work it out. In theory they have collected all the best minds in the business together into one place. All three promotions having face/heel divides just opens them up for loads of possibilities and intriguing dynamics. I remember RVD being the only face member of the Alliance as being really cool. Having a few heels in WWF and a few faces in WCW shouldn’t have been that confusing 

It could have been done a lot better while they waited to bring those guys in. Staggering debuts would have been far more effective for presenting them to a new audience. I didn’t have a clue who Booker T or DDP was really, at that age I’d have given up watching if too many randomers had shown up all at once.

Sending Austin to team WCW was really stupid, because they fired him over the phone. Austin shouldn’t have stuck with WWF either because he hates Vince. Natural thing for him to do is a lone wolf DTA guy focuses on the title and not fussed about a brand war. Why would Austin care about a brand war? They could tease it out and eventually have him join the WWF for Survivor Series when WCW had pissed him off one too many times. 
I’d have put Jericho as the face of WCW. Had a mystery man as the financial backer who eventually gets revealed to be Flair. Dunno if Big Show was off injured or just not being used but I’d have sent him to team WCW. They could have dragged the story out, with WCW bringing in a new wrestlers whenever they would be on the verge of losing. Id drag it out right up until Bischoff debuts, with him turning on WCW and killing it, only to align with Vince as a scummy sell out. 

When I saw that Cody was stopping the towel thrown it it made me think of how he didn’t want the towel thrown in when he lost his chance at the title. His motivation for allowing his brother to take extra punishment made total sense. Well see how Dustin feels about it hopefully