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Also, has anyone ever promoted a match that could only be won by countout? I used to do those all the time on No Mercy N64.

The only match I recall that had an element of that was the Savage/Crush falls count anywhere match at WMX which required a wrestler to be counted out of the ring for 60 seconds after a fall had taken place. Which was stupid, they should have just had a standard weapon-strewn arena-wide brawl ending in one pin.

Is TNA's record attendance from a show over here?

Wembley this year had between 10,000 and 12,000 which it's said by falling anywhere between those numbers is their biggest attendance to date. Biggest domestic was 5500 in Brooklyn in July '10.

But what

I was just wondering what made WWF have Summerslam in this country during 1992 ?

Domestic business was down, we were giving them monster merchandise sales and selling out every time they came over, and they knew they'd get a massive gate here and sell shitloads of merchandise. It was a good call. I've read several times that in terms of actual people in the building rather than "official attendance," it was the most attended WWF/E PPV ever.

In Bret's bookie he mentions learning from JJ Dillon that SummerSlam was going to be in either Washington or London, and he was scheduled to drop the Intercontinental title to Shawn, but he suggested to Vince that it would do better business in England if he dropped it to Davey and DBS could do the honours for Shawn when they get back. He also suggested the ladder match if Vince wanted him to drop it to Michaels in DC. Vince went with the former.

Two interesting notes - all the best things that ever happened in the WWF were because of Bret Hart's ideas. And even in 1992 he was suggesting alternative scenarios that both meant him avoiding getting pinned by Michaels.

Anyone know why Jim Neidhart didn't enter the Hart Foundation stable in 1997 until a month into the angle? Was Neidhart unavailable? Or was it just something that came to them later on?

Speculation : Anvil wasn't under contract when the angle began, and Bret went to bat for Anvil to get him his job back as part of the story? Vince and Neidhart having a bit of a chequered past over money/lawsuits etc, I believe it may have required a bit of persuasion.

Are stingersplash and turnbucklepads still on here?

I *believe* ROH intended the "Best in the World" tagline to allude to the settling of the argument as to who is the best wrestler in the world (in their minds and their minds only, it should be stressed) between Eddie Edwards and DAVEY RICHARDS!1

Someone has to be best in the world, don't they? Branielson "gave it" to Richards during the Final Countdown tour. I expect a shock win for Eddie that sends Davey schizoid because it means little wolf, not he, is TEH BEST IN TEH WORLD.

I like an awful lot of what ROH does, but the self-aggrandisizing of both company and especially fanbase can be awful nauseating at times.

Whatever happened to Debbie Malenko?

Personal speculation : I reckon in the warped mind of Savage, he felt slighted by WcW for allowing all the crap to happen to him - suspensions, beatdowns etc - so joined the order to stick it to them. Yes, the nWo were the ones beating him up most of the time, but he was a mental, so let him off.

Plus the nWo were enemies of the Horsemen so he probably thought joining them would give him chance to beat up Flair again.

hilarious mate dont see what the pcc have against him

Not against him, against the berks that have labeled him as a possible massive star for the WWEs future, despite the fact he's not been on WWE telly yet. ANYONE in FCW could be a massive star, but it's definitely going to be Seth. To hear some of the ROHbots speak, he's going to be the next Shawn Michaels. He could just as easily be the next Colin Delaney.

What about the one in the lingerie?

Actually looking at the one on the right... I've had worse.

I don't know where the dog ends and the mascot outfit begins. If ever there was a BOBFOC, it is there.

Harsh. I'd jump right on it.

It was 24th November 1997 Raw to be exact.

I found this by typing "steve austin memorex" into Google.

He also interviewed Luna Vachon for the WWF Magazine in 1994, where he pretended to want to bonk her.

I always mean to ask this but forget, on one of the early Smackdowns of 2000 was a cage match between the Outlaws and Hardys. Now, has my mind played a decade long trick on me or did Road Dogg perform a moonsault in said match by running up the three turnbuckles and jumping straight off? I ask cos I was amazed to be honest and haven't seen him do the same since or previous. Any footage?

Searching for "outlaws hardy cage" on Youtube yielded this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw7WY0MoYiA

Can some cunt give me a date for the first Raw on TNN please?, the one with the Hardys vs Edge and Christian ladder match?.

This cunt can. 25th September 2000.

I read a few months ago in Powerslam about the Taker v Mankind HIAC match, that both the big spots in that match (Foley off the cell and Foley through the cell) were planned. But just been reading another board and a guy is adamant that Foley going through the cell was unplanned and that Funk coming down to get chokeslammed out of his shoes was to allow Foley recovery time.

 

Who is correct here?

It was planned. It's in Foley's book. Funk coming down was of course to allow Foley recovery time, but that was probably planned too.

Tell your mate to think about that moment where that section of the cell roof buckled a little under Undertaker's foot : if they weren't planning to go through, there is no way they'd have been stupid enough to go near that panel again.

HOLY SHIT!

Every day, twice on Sunday. I'd even spring for breakfast and BFH.

EDIT - ignore me, I'm talking bollocks, it was a triangle match.

have Edge or Shawn Micheals ever had a match ?

If, sweet cripple, you meant have Edge and Shawn Michaels ever had a match (against each other) then, yes, several. Most notably at Royal Rumble 2005 and a couple of weeks later on Raw under a no-DQ stip.

Not sure if anyone picked up on this, but on one of his Twitter posts Silkin mentioned there were plans in motion for a return to the UK "soon"

Cracking news if it comes to pass. Wonder who wil be helping with the organisation and promotion at this end?

I am just curious about what happens when you get banned. I know you can't post but can you still view the fourm? or are you blocked out from it all together?

You can read it un-logged in, just as you can while suspended, I'm sure.

Don't even think about getting banned. I'm not making my own fucking coffee.

I don't mind a bit of ROH, I really don't. I've got a decent number of the DVDs, I've got all of 2010 left to watch. But lord above, going on their board to read the results and generally whatever else news pops up can be a real chore sometimes because of the self-aggrandisizing bullshit that gets posted.

Some mong wrote this :

For the largest wrestling company of all time (and a 'global entertainment company') you have to laugh at the lack of stars in WWE. You realise that WWE has TWO bona-fide main-eventers left, Cena and Orton. If either of those two guys get injured what TRUE stars do they have left? CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, Miz are and some others are stars but they are not true main-eventers like Orton and Cena yet, in terms of drawing power.

 

Now look at the supposed-minor leagues, ROH. If Eddie Edwards goes down you have Davey Richards. If Davey goes down you have Roderick. If Roddy goes down there's the Kings of Wrestling. If KoW are down there's WGTT. If they go down there's Christopher Daniels. Then there's still Homicide and the Briscoes. That's not including the young guys in ROH like Cole and O'Reilly who are not buried but a built as future stars.

 

One company takes in a net profit of millions each quarter, the other draws around 900 fans to most of its shows. One company constantly makes new stars and rolls with every blow, the other can't keep the best wrestler in the world over (or even give him a cool name). You tell me who the real minor leagues are?

That last paragraph made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Yeah, by their own standards WWE have had difficulty building new stars. But to even compare the two companies in the manner the bloke has is pathetic.

ROH is the minor league. That's not to say it doesnt produce a good product at times, but to even ask the question is pathetic.

"Blue eyed babyface" is another extension commonly used in days of yore, and I've read both different shortenings, as in "maybe it's time for Cena to turn, he's getting stale as a blue-eye." Bit old fashioned mind.

In everyday life I've also heard people that a turncoat or two-faced referred to as a "shitheel."

That's all I can think of from the top of my head, there might've been another one or two but the above were definitely shown when the actual channel first aired.

Don't forget The Bagpipe Report! I had an email read out on it once, it was awesome.

So how come most regular magazines with way more content are below