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Summerslam Chat was my favourite UKFF chat of all time, all while a phenomenal card was going on too. Honestly one of the most fun evenings of wrestling I can remember. Maybe all the other usual buyers were instead furiously trying to log on to hang out with the good guys and take a trip down Ryback Passage.

I don't know about Bray Wyatt's arse, but a feud of the year brewing in chat between D-Young and Ryback will live long in my memory.

Weird, my phone did very separate double posts there, sorry chaps.

 

Anyway, yeah, bollocks to being any use tomorrow at work and/or as a dad, I want to have a catch up with you lot while the midcard does stuff in the other window and we all wait for Nash to show up and stick the winner. Should be good!

Came on to see if chat still happened, as I'm also right up for Summerslam. Short of Vince doing a screaming intro like 89/90/91, I think they've nailed this build up. Very much looking forward to it.

David Von Erich has had a hard fucking shift, hasn't he. The poor cunt.EDIT: KEVIN! Blimey, that many corked it, I couldn't even remember which one was left.

Re: Koko as a heel, didn't he work that weird babyface match with Tito Santana at MSG as a heel. I remember really enjoying that match because one of them played a really good, slightly snide baddie, and I think it was him.

Watched a few things in the last few days and enjoyed them all tremendously:

 

The Stuff. Fucking brilliant. Michael Moriarty was a piss funny lead and did well to compete with Paul Sorvino and Garrett Morris, who both tore it up every second they were on screen. The best kind of low budget flick, it was entertaining without being obnoxiously shit, and had some charm in it's satire. Should have got round to this a long time ago.

 

Extract punched well above its weight, with loads of Mike Judge trademarks, Ben Affleck stealing the show, Jason Bateman playing Michael Bluth and understated but enjoyable turns from Kristen Wiig and Mila Kunis. The gentlest of dark comedies, but it was a really nice one for an easy watch. Todd Packer from the Office pops up as a brilliant irritating neighbour, which leads to a fantastic payoff and a raging film rant on annoying people you have to deal with that you'd love to use one day in your real life.

 

How to Be a Serial Killer was a cute comedy about a murderer (obviously) that really picked up towards the end when shit got real, like it always does. Wasn't over keen on the infomercial device which they clung onto for too long, but the relationship between super cool and super friendly Mike (the murderer) and Bart (the smart-but-not-actually-so-smart) apprentice was ace. A good lingering sense of tension between them made for some realism in an otherwise ludicrous scenario. A really fun watch.

The Austin stuff was even worse because it wasn't that removed from him being revealed from being a legit wifebeater. I'm sure he was giving Stacy a kicking around a year after he was rumbled for giving Debra the Lou Thesz press with fists and fire.

Full on nice guy babyface Randy Savage, live on commentary on Raw, shoots on Hulk Hogan, from October 1993. I'll pick my jaw up off the floor in a minute. There's a nice use of a joke from The Office too, for fans of that show. This is terrific. It starts from around the 2:40 mark.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...;v=bp1ax3StZdY#!

Was Colt Cabana shagging ODB at some point?

Something I've noticed about TNA is how the monthly PPVs going hasn't properly enhanced their telly. Instead of being able to play out their longer term angles without the pressure of monthly pairings getting in the way, it seems like they start pairings off but then fail to pay them off properly without a monthly PPV. That's totally arse about tit. They nailed it with the Bully/Jeff rematch, and Hogan and Sting's angle is following the necessary formula, but the rest of the card has fallen into a bit of a holding pattern, and I bet they'll end up rush building to the next PPV anyway.

Fucking brilliant. Cheers!

I was just listening to an old Review a Wai where Jimmy Hart told a story of Hogan and him meeting Simon Cowell in '94 to do a cover of "Leader of the Gang" for a UK release. I'd have loved for that to have existed, if only for a video that, in all probability, would have featured Hogan grabbing Gary Glitter in a headlock as children stood around and cheered.

http://www.barbedwirecity.com/

 

It's excellent. Rather than another "then Sandman hit Tommy ten times with the cane, then he wasn't blind, then Dreamer couldn't pin Raven, then Taz and Sabu never touched etc etc", it's more of a story of the style of ECW's product as a sub-culture. Lots of interview footage with wrestlers, fans and insiders that includes various bits from the 90s & 00s when the company was still alive as well as recent stuff and a shit load of behind the scenes stuff on that dreadful Douglas show from last year.

The most recent Review-A-Wai is a review of that new (excellent) ECW documentary, with a long and really interesting interview with the filmmaker after the review. It's a great accompaniment to the film.

Which turn? They were both disasters really. The babyface turn was obviously very organic, but they compromised far too much of his obnoxious side when he won the title. Then the heel turn on Jeff Hardy was probably a unnecessary evil for that feud, but really all that you had left was the wisecracking smug cunt of early 2012, but without the winning streak, credibility, and sense of cool. It went from the bes the worst combination of things. TNA is dreadful for that.

Aries vs Joe in the opener at Slammiversary was my favourite A Double match of 2012, and one of my favourite matches of the year. The organic star aura he was gaining around that time was electric, and it's a superb contest. Aries cut a promo later in the show basically saying "Joe was hard, but enough's e-fucking-nough, I'm class and it's about time I won the main belt, thanks", and you completely believed it.

There hasn't been an MS Paint contest in ages. Somebody think of a good one and get it on the go.

Chest, you gave me aggro for sticking with Parks and Rec because I thought it would get good (and it fucking DID, so 1-0 to me), but I can honestly say jacking in Community was one of the best TV watching decisions I've made. That fucking programme destroyed any love I had for the characters, the stories, and anything else to do with it, that I watched episodes 1 and 2 of this season, and then just...stopped. I should have saved 20 minutes a week half way through Season 2, but I didn't. I was critical of it on here for a long time too, doing so in the face of the glowing praise it was still getting for being meta and clever and bollocks and bullshit.

 

I hate Community so much you know. I hate the wasted potential. It should have been a grounded sitcom that was able to be the coolest show on the air by using all the clever devices sensibly and carefully, in between jokes and actual sitcom tropes. It overindulged in everything, until nothing was subtle, nothing was clever, and nothing was fresh. The #6seasonsandamovie cult online pissed me off too. A crew of fans who desperately wanted the show to fulfill it's initial potential and went into denial overload about the show collapsing in front of everybody.

 

Fuck Community loads.

His old bird Debra wasn't much to look at. Though I did agree with her "I don't want Jim to wrestle" stance.

Late to this, but congratulations Branquey! Gorgeous little girl you've got there. Hope your missus is doing great, I know after Mrs NEWM's section I wouldn't want her to go through that again if we ever had another. I've heard that "Too Posh To Push" thing before for celebrities but they'd be better off wrecking their front bums if you ask me.

Just read something Scooter Keith said on his blog that WCW were contractually bound to never physically or verbally associate Bulldog and Anvil with Bret as part of some settlement on their release with the WWF. I never knew that, and the more I think about it, it's possibly true. They must have had absolutely no problem pissing the money away to agree something like that. What a rotten deal.

I've bummed it on here hundreds and hundreds of times, but I've just spent an hour bouncing from video to video watching it back because it's so class. Can we all talk about HHH's Smackdown run? Fucking great, just great. A nice call back to the Stephanie/Test wedding when he busted Edge, a virtually forgotten PPV feud between the two, rocking up at Unforgiven to piss about in a Scramble match, and in my opinion one of his finest moments as a pro-wrestler - the match with Khali at Summerslam.

 

I'm no mega HHH fan, nor am I a hater of his stuff (anymore), but I think that has replaced 2000 has my favourite period of his work. It's phenomenal.

I wasn't keen on the initial Austin one but the HBK one was better than nearly every AOW ever, and the mani-pedi one was fucking piss funny. Well worth a subscribe.

Fuck me, Shane Douglas just popped up as a talking head on the new Foley documentary. WWE have got loads less petty paying a couple of quid to flesh these DVDs out properly these days, it's good to see.