jonnybgoode82

I have some more, not very good. Taken on an early Olympus Digital Camera.

I should have a small piece I wrote for the local paper somewhere too.

On 7/25/2018 at 2:35 AM, jonnybgoode82 said:

I have somewhere. Will try and dig them out. 

 

6 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

I'm going to keep saying it, this is absolutely what's happening.

I'm convinced Brock will be walking into the Aussie show as champ

I always remember Vampiro being bigged up in the Apter mags in the mid-90s to the point where I just had to see this guy in action, the character strength of an Undertaker coupled with the high-flying Lucha style that was becoming insanely popular. He never seemed to show up on the Galavision TV shows either. Imagine my utter disappointment when he waddled into WCW.

On 7/20/2018 at 11:02 AM, fwa2 said:

Has anyone got any pics from the first few cleethorpes shows 2003-2004? Had some great times there. Was gutted when I heard the building had been demolished. 

I have somewhere. Will try and dig them out. 

Imagine the scenes when Owens win the case from Strowman, Reigns beats Lesnar, Owens cashes in and Reigns beats the snot out of him too

I could go for Ziggler and McIntyre hooking up with the former Miztourage in a disgruntled stars sort of stable 

What about Big Cass for Braun’s partner?

I guess they think Asuka v Charlotte is the top match they can do at the moment. It actually feels like there’s some long-term planning in the women’s division for a change. 

Asuka wins the SD belt at Mania. 

Whatever happens on the RAW side I think that Charlotte ends up there in the draft, they’ve teased enough with Charlotte/Alexa, we’ve not had a proper Charlotte/Nia feud and then there’s the Ronda factor. 

It may actually be a good good time to give Carmella a run on the RAW side as the bigger names are all tied up and don’t really need the title. She can Honky Tonk her way around for a few months before someone beats her.

On the SD side, I’m seeing Asuka work her way through the roster for the year and Ronda wins the 2019 Rumble to get to that showdown. 

Presuming they break up these god-awful stables they’ve got in the draft too and reboot for the proposed tag belts, which seem tailor-made for Alexa and Mickie. 

13 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said:

Carmella will cash in and lose, that Asuka streak will still be alive for a while yet. 

Nia to fluff it against Alexa, destroy her after the bell and Carmella cashes in omnibus Alexa 

20 hours ago, Uncle Zeb said:

Lego, obviously. With wheels and a hinged lid.

Look, if you're going to go to the bother of making a clay briefcase for IRS, you're not going to half-arse it with the Deadman.

I made one in Year 7 woodwork technology classes. Nice veneer for finish. Didn’t put any wheels on it though. Got some funny looks when I handed that in. 

1 hour ago, PunkStep said:

If WWE are persisting with the Reigns/Brock match, they're running a huge risk of having the crowd completely shit on it. Brock has lost a lot of his heat and they're now doing their best at turning the crowd against him...in a vein of hope to get them behind Reigns more. The problem is, Reigns' promos are making him out to be a whiny bitch rather than somebody preaching about 'being there for the fans', like you had with Cena during his feud with The Rock. The fans may give this the 'oh fuck off' treatment during the match. Can't see it going down well at all.

They absolutely need Strowman to save this. I really hope there's a big twist down the line to have him a part of the match. Even something pretty mental like winning the tag titles at Mania, then being a surprise last-minute addition to the match by Kurt. Who knows how that can be explained without an easy assist from a MITB briefcase and suchlike, but fuck it- it'll be an ideal outcome.

One thought I had is that Kurt steps in and says they can’t have a singles guy wrestle a handicap match for the titles but Braun has earned a title shot with his performances, so he’s now in the main event as part of a triple threat. 

I'm still not convinced Kurt ends up in the Rousey/HHH/Steph thing. I think if they played off Kurt not getting clearance for Mania and Steph and HHH gloating that Ronda can't beat them both and Kurt then introduces ROAAAAAAARRRRRRR - BRAUN! as the tag partner.

That would leave an IC four way between Elias/Miz/Finn/Rollins (perhaps even chuck a ladder in). Maybe Jeff comes back for this but I think they may save him for either something to do with the Woken storyline or a move to Smackdown as a singles guy.

I think we end up with Bray and Matt teaming up against the Bar.

Cena probably challenges Shinsuke to put his title shot on the line tonight and that goes on Fastlane and Cena gets distracted by a ~GONG~ to lose the match.

Some of these UK connections during the WWF's first boom period over here are amazing. Merlin stickers, Simon Cowell, I'm sure there's others where the WWF dragged them out of the shitter and allowed them to grow into household names later on.

Just now, Kaz Hayashi said:

I’m so happy you have mentioned this. I wasn’t aware but will defo check it out. Nice one.

It's an absolutely stunning programme. Who would have ever guessed that the humble sticker had such a storied background and was such a big part of the huge tabloid war of the 80s.

Anyone watching the programme on ITV4 about sticker albums? Long story short, after Panini was bought by Robert Maxwell, he stuck it to the breakaway Merlin group with a series of writs about how they'd planned this for ages and forbid them from selling football sticker albums.

It was the WWF that saved them, shifting £80,000's worth of stickers on its first weekend. Spoke about how great the WWF were with them, doing an ad featuring Savage, Sherri & Lord Alfred. 

Never thought I'd be tuning into ITV4 and seeing Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Bastion Booger, Diesel, Jake Roberts et al featured on a documentary about stickers.

I think the middle ground may be Braun winning the belt by absolutely destroying Lesnar on Sunday, stretcher job, the works.

Brock returns for the Rumble and has his rematch against Heyman's wishes and wins the belt back. I would prefer AJ to win the Rumble and face Nakamura and Reigns wins perhaps Elimination Chamber to get the title shot at Mania.

Braun gets to either win the battle royal at Mania or they do a cross-promotional stinker with Baron Corbin.

20 years today since One Night Only

If the WWE's UK plans are on the backburner then I am begging them to book the Hydro for a Takeover and have Drew v Pete Dunne title for title.

3 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Superstars in 96 also gave us that HHH match were he tried to pedigree a jobber into another dimension, good times

Marty Garner?

11 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

 Early 97 Superstars is full of all kinds of weirdness/awesomeness. My personal favourite is Stone Cold Steve Austin doing the J.O.B. to Joey Abs after the Bulldog interfered.

There's some absolute gold on late 96/early 97 Superstars. I always enjoyed the Mero/Undertaker match, just because it was so random and then they had Sable get physically involved.

There was always plenty of stuff going on with Austin too. After the barren period of most of 95 through to the middle of 96, Superstars really upped its game for a period there. 

On 07/08/2017 at 5:55 PM, wandshogun09 said:

That was a really good match. Wasn't there something in a shoot interview that they had nothing planned for that match and Triple H laid the whole thing out for them the night before in a hotel room or something like that? 

I never had Sky at the time, how was it explained on TV the switch from the original Shawn vs Sid match to Shawn vs Razor ladder match part 2? Of course, what we got was way better but they'd been building to Shawn vs Sid since the night after WrestleMania. 

It was billed as a Gorilla Monsoon decision. He'd just started his run as the 'fan friendly' president and basically said in a promo that it was a miscarriage of justice that Sid was getting the shot because he'd had two shots at Diesel for the WWF title and lost them both and that the fans didn't want to see Shawn v Sid, what they wanted to see was a rematch of one of the greatest matches in WWF history - the ladder match from Mania X between Shawn and Razor and thus the match was made. 

Then when DiBiase started booting off, Monsoon said Sid would get the winner of the ladder match in a title shot on the 11 September RAW (the first head to head with Nitro and the infamous 'he beats with a kick that wouldn't win a yellow belt at your local YMCA' match). 

I thought the show was a complete shambles last night.

 

Joe/Zayn could've been accomplished in half the time. Surely Zayn is SmackDown bound after Mania?

 

They've built up or got at their disposal five fairly solid, over acts in the last few months, namely Owens, Charlotte, Strowman, Enzo/Cass and Nia Jax and the solution was to job all five out on the same show. It's like they can't build their own storyline arcs or just get tired of things halfway through and pull the trigger at the wrong moment.

 

Owens and Jericho should not have split up yet. Goldberg should've taken Jericho out a couple of weeks ago to negate his presence at Fastlane. Owens takes Goldberg out earlier on in the night but Bill overcomes the odds, spear, jackhammer for the win. The next night on RAW, Jericho returns and says he's not going after Goldberg but instead he's holding his Festival of Friendship for Owens next week, then you do the big turn and have a hot US title match at Mania.

 

Which means Reigns/Strowman can end in a distraction. Reigns finally gets him down, sets for the spear ~GONG~, Reigns is distracted, turns around into the powerslam for three. You start Reigns/Taker on RAW and then Strowman asks Foley for competition and gets put in the battle royal and destroys that field to win it and then probably batters Foley the next night on RAW to get rid of him as GM.

 

They took the belt off Charlotte too early. They should have had Bayley lose a couple of shots and be told that she's not up to the task, she goes to the back of the line and has to work her way up, so she goes through Dana, Nia Jax (at Fastlane) and then, crucially, Sasha on a RAW before Mania to earn the shot. Charlotte could've carried on her record at Fastlane by beating Emma(Lina) or bring an someone in on a one-shot deal and then at Mania, Nia beats Sasha to keep her moving in the right direction and Bayley finally wins the big one but with help from Sasha. The next night Sasha fucks Bayley up to turn heel and they run that feud through the summer and Charlotte says she has nothing to prove to anyone because she's beaten everyone - enter Nia Jax.

 

If ever there was a time to bust out a Dusty finish for the tag belts, this was it. They seem determined to run Cass getting sick of Enzo's shit and booking Enzo to be a completely annoying geek, when that's not what people want. Again, have them finally win the big one at Mania in front of a hot crowd that's doing their shtick.

 

As for what they do with all the loose ends at Mania, it's either battle royal time or maybe they do an interpromotional 10/12-man with the GM jobs on the line? RAW loses and it gives Stephanie an excuse to jettison people to SmackDown.

 

At the moment, it feels like they have all the tools for a stupendous WrestleMania but they're either a) determined not to deliver or b) incapable of working out how to get everyone worthwhile on the card without the show running two-and-a-half days.

Wasn't that the show were they tried to fix the tournament brackets so that RVD and Sabu would meet in the semi final, thus doing the match before it could happen in the ECW PPV-era which they were building to do at some point, only for RVD to twig onto what they were to pull and then refuse to do the match

I think that's right. They started the night with a promo about how Sabu was a heavyweight so he was vacating the European Junior Heavyweight title and it got put up for grabs in the same tournament that he was competing in, which makes no sense.

 

Then after the interval, they cut another promo saying they wouldn't fight and that Whipwreck/Dirtbike was now the final. RVD/Sabu wrestled Ulf Hermann and Michael Kovac in a tag match instead.

Anyone got the WWE 50 book? I'm just about to get rid of mine and was having another flick through it. Head to the page about Vince's ledgers and you will see four cards pencilled in for WrestleMania X. Some of the writing is illegible but what is there makes for interesting reading (no indication at what times Vince penned each card):

 

Card 1:

 

Lex Luger-Yokozuna (WWF Title)

Bret Hart-Owen Hart (Guest Referee: Jerry Lawler)

Big Boss Man-Ludvig Borga

Razor Ramon-Shawn Michaels (Ladder Match, IC Title)
Steiner Brothers-Quebecers (WWF Tag Team Titles)

Randy Savage-Crush

Tatanka-IRS

Doink/Dink-Bam Bam Bigelow/Luna

Mr Perfect-Jeff Jarrett

Alundra Blayze-?

123 Kid/Smoking Gunns-Diesel/Headshrinkers

 

Card 2:

Lex Luger-Yokozuna (WWF Title)

Bret Hart-Owen Hart (if Bret wins, he gets a title shot later in the card)

Randy Savage-Crush (Crush would have faced Luger earlier in the show had Luger lost the coin toss for the first title shot)

Doink-IRS

Razor Ramon-Shawn Michaels (Ladder Match, IC Title)

Alundra Blayze-?

Earthquake-Bam Bam Bigelow

Tatanka/Smoking Gunns-Ludvig Borga/Quebecers

Men on a Mission/123 Kid/Marty Jannetty/Sparky Plugg-Headshrinkers/Jeff Jarrett/Rick Martel/Adam Bomb

 

Card 3:

Lex Luger-Bret Hart (the winner faces Yokozuna for the WWF title later on)

Razor Ramon-Shawn Michaels (Ladder Match, IC Title)

Bret Hart-Owen Hart

Lex Luger-Crush

Tatanka (w/ Randy Savage)-IRS

Doink/Dink-Bam Bam Bigelow/Luna

Alundra Blayze-?

Earthquake-Ludvig Borga

123 Kid-Jeff Jarrett

?-Quebecers (WWF Tag Team Title)

 

Card 4: 

Lex Luger-Yokozuna (WWF Title, Mr Perfect as the guest referee)

Bret Hart (w/ Donny Wahlberg)-Owen Hart (w/ Mark Wahlberg)

Razor Ramon-Shawn Michaels (Ladder Match, IC Title)

Randy Savage-Crush (stipulation)

Earthquake-Ludvig Borga

Doink/Dink-Bam Bam Bigelow/Luna

Men on a Mission's WrestleMania Rap

Alundra Blayze-?

Steiners-Quebecers (WWF Tag Team Title)

123 Kid-IRS

Tatanka-Jeff Jarrett

Marty Jannetty/Smoking Gunns-Adam Bomb/Headshrinkers