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I'm new to the Prichard podcast and am just picking and choosing. And skimming the intros and ads too so I might have missed a lot of context, but who's Conrad, in the grand scheme of things?

Bingo, that's it! Found it on Google straight away, one of them no-sells a top rope brainbuster and suplexes the other to floor. Daft. Thanks a lot!

There was a gif doing the rounds on here a lot a few years back that had a bit from an ROH match where two guys do big move after big move without selling a thing until the end. Might have ended with a hurricanrana to the floor or something like that? I can't even remember who was in the match, I'm just keen to see it again. Can anybody help? Sorry for the totally crap description too. Cheers.

 

Any idea what that 'The Return' vignette was for?

My guess would be Elias Samson

Oh shit, you're probably right. Best not to get too excited for that now then.

 

I don't read NXT news in case I accidentally spoil taping results, but I thought I heard someone on Live Audio Wrestling say one of The Revival were injured? Can anybody shed any light on that without giving Dusty Classic spoilers?

Not really, no.

 

Ha, cheers for not knackering this for me. Scott Dawson's delivery of the promo on this week's episode was fantastic as well.

Yeah I remember thinking The Revival was worse than the Mechanics, but again, I've sort of got used to it now.

Mind, I think in my head I still call them 'Dash & Dawson' which is still what I think they should have just stuck with.

I don't read NXT news in case I accidentally spoil taping results, but I thought I heard someone on Live Audio Wrestling say one of The Revival were injured? Can anybody shed any light on that without giving Dusty Classic spoilers?

Great show tonight I thought. Well paced out with just about perfect match placement throughout, and nothing disappointed. You could tell they wanted the table spots to go slightly better in the main event and I have to pick a bit and say I think it was probably the wrong result, but the match was still a great effort and spectacle.

Maybe I'm getting lenient in my old age but 2016 WWE is pushing all the right buttons with me. I don't subject myself to the full 5 TV hours in a week but through YouTube, podcasts and Talking Smack I feel fully informed without being bored, and I can't remember the last time I didn't enjoy a PPV. These single brand PPVs have all been pretty satisfying so far too.

Have I ever seen photos or videos of Davey Boy Smith carrying Dynamite Kid to the ring when he was too fucked to walk and they dropped the belts to the Harts? I feel like it's in a memory somewhere (curiously from when Sky Sports were showing 1987 episodes of Challenge in the early-00s) but equally I may have made up ever actually seeing it. Ta.

I know DX happened almost immediately as he came in, and Shawn was batshit about everything then anyway, but I think I would have liked to have seen more of Rude as HBK's hard-nut insurance policy.

He was just another run-in buddy with HHH and Chyna but ignoring those two and strictly imagining them as a pairing offers up yet another fresh and potentially interesting person to pair with Shawn after Sherri, Diesel, Sid and Lothario. I'd have enjoyed seeing that play out. Rude was aesthetically over the hill, but yet it was still apparent he'd kick the fuck out of you for a sideways look. If anything, the formation of (and his involvement in) DX cut the legs of that character almost instantly.

DIY felt another instant failure to me as a name too, but I felt exactly the same with Jordan & Gable and Dash & Dawson but both team names grew on me eventually. I imagine it'll seem fine soon enough.

More great stuff this week as usual, up and down the card. Except Hoho Lun, he's the pits isn't he?

Big recommendation for Spandex Ballet from me, but I was going to watch virtually every IWF show between about 2007-2009 and Lee Kyle was always one of my favourites. His move to comedy is unsurprising actually, he was absolutely piss funny to watch even back then. I won't spoil them but some of the backyard names him and his mates had as kids were hilarious and had me laughing out loud. Agree with Lister too, there's a positive level of detachment from wrestling that makes his analysis more interesting than a lot of usual craic.

They spoke abit about a few really bitter shoot interview Billy did around 10 years ago when he first left the WWE. I want to go back and listen to them now.

I remember this well because it was the first thing I ever saw on primitave Youtube and was excited for the prospect of that sort of thing without realising it would suddenly become one of the biggest sites in the world. Remember recommending it to my housemate but then only really having porn as a fallback use for it because he wasn't into wrestling, and nerd content seemed to swarm it early doors.

It's slowed right up though hasn't it. I remember when Bret had his mates on a porch fantasy retirement and all those fuckers were popping off midway through his sentence. As it stands, if, I dunno, James Storm said 'cor, looking forward to life on the ranch when we're all retired' he'd probably have most his mates there. New era for living to be old now.

Pissed myself at 'Houchenisagrass'!

On the subject of great matches Jeff Jarrett really knew how to get the best out of Kurt Angle. None of Angle's bad habits in those matches, I assume Jarrett called them. Fantastic bouts.

YES! They had spectacular chemistry, even more so because it didn't matter who was face and heel, both worked in different ways. My favourite was with Jarrett as a babyface, fighting heroically from underneath the whole match when Kurt must have been top bollocks in the Main Event Mafia, unless I've got my eras arse about tit. Jeff still had his long hair before he buzzed it in the Double J MMA era.

In a year full of remarkable stories on and off WWE screens, the arrival and ascent of AJ Styles probably has to be #1. I hope he's a lifer now, he put a fucking mad shift in paying his dues at TNA for all of this. That sort of run would have killed lesser talents, or at least killed their mojo. It required some luck with the John Lauranitis era of talent development being phased out for HHH's internet gratification generation, but AJ was truly one who deserved it either way.

His WWE TV age is about 25 though, isn't it. A ready made star just about to hit his prime. Plus unlike a lot of daft lads from the indies, he was mostly smart with his bumps in TNA and hopefully isn't carrying too many hidden injuries.

I wonder that about AJ actually. I fucking love him and want him to have 5 or 6 good years at the top but he's nearly 40 isn't he?! His style can't have garaunteed him the longest shelf life can it. And Joe, for that matter.

The TM61 hand signal pose thing is absolutely shite. I think it's a great part of any presentation to have something like that, but they look a right pair of berks when they do it.

Lex Luger's '94 music was always too quiet. Just another thing that made him seem a total mug once the title push was well and truly down the pan.

Is there a possibility they're barking up the wrong tree with Roode a bit? I absolutely love him and we know he's a dab hand at anything they'll ask of him, but I just cannot see this character getting booed in 2016, no matter how great a heel he plays.

I don't care if he's brilliant at the snivelling arrogant heel, the second that music hits before his match with Tye at Takeover (if we assume that's where this is headed?), the fans will blow the roof off. And not just in the way where they quite like Joe, or can't help enjoying Owens. In Brooklyn he got a MONSTER response. I had fantasy booked Roode and Dillinger winning the whole thing to be honest, I was excited for a few weeks of their makeshift chemistry before the inevitable turn.

Great show as per. NXT, man. The safest bet in the game since two thousand and redemption.

I don't mean to be a bit of a SJW, and I'm no huge fan of Paige as a wrestler, but I wonder if some of the Internet responses would be the same if the genders were reversed in this story? There feels an awkward sexist vibe to the idea that Paige is a dumb little girl being lead astray by an older bloke as a sweeping generalisation to the whole story.

On the surface, there's an argument that this relationship has possibly damaged her relationship with WWE, but framing it differently, you could argue she loves her boyfriend more than she loves her job, and is simply in a position to make choices in favour of him, instead of them. That's not *that* bonkers is it? Just seems very patronising to see her as incapable of rational thought because she's some young girl and he's a bit older.

I mean, in the event she splits from WWE, it may not end up the wisest move she ever makes, but equally if they've been married 20 years this time in 2036, it will probably just form a nice part of their story together. Nobody (IIRC) accused AJ of chucking her whole life in the bin when she decided to commit to her husband instead of her job, is that because more people like Punk and thus don't immediately paint him as a corrupting influence? People seem awfully cross with Paige personally for the decisions she's making, that's a bit of an odd connection to the character isn't it?

All that said, if she wants to go, could she not just go? Three Wellness busts and a firing seems unnecessary when surely as an independent contractor she can just say 'Nah, I'm off, cheers.'

Daft as this sounds, but that Glasgow Smackdown will be going head to head (sort of) with the Election itself. Maybe this is the start of loading that show up to make at least a tiny attempt to get people to pay attention when they'll be otherwise engaged. A Smackdown Night of Champions with all titles on the line or some shite. That's the only reason I could think why they picked that exact show seemingly out of the blue.

 

Soon to be made redundant from an admin job in the North East, and privately a bit frightened. Only 31, but skills all lie seemingly in jobs being gobbled up by corrupt apprentice schemes paying 10 grand a year or less.

Can somebody tell me it'll work out okay in the end please? Or at least how best to suffer while it's not fine. cheers.

Remember that your skills are transferable to many other sectors. It's daunting, but you'll have a good reference and a good CV. I'm aware that I'm having trouble getting work so I may not be the most reassuring of advice givers! Start looking now, as they'll honour any interviews you'll get.

Cheers Keith! Having been comfortable and relatively happy in my job for yonks, it's intimidating and massively time-consuming getting back on the job-applying bus, especially whilst still having to get through a day at work in a morale-sapped place and then sneak some quality time with the kids in before getting going on a form at 9pm! It's going to be an uphill climb for a bit but I'm hoping even just getting the odd interview here and there (in anything, tbh) will be a big confidence boost.

Some might say Kama but Dynamite is no Supreme Fighting Machine.