Richie Freebird

Chris Masters kicking arse in Egypt.

Wait a sec, that is Sick Nick Mondo in 2013?! When the fuck did he come back? I'm stunned. What a blast from the past that is. That would actually make me watch CZW just out of curiosity.

Yep, that's Mondo in 2013. he came back for the Cage of Death the other week. The stream is available at the RF on demand site.

I'm sure I saw somewhere that he was doing some stunt work for one of the Iron Man movies recently. Could have been nonsense though, I think it might have been posted by another old deathmatch wrestler on Facebook.

Is Rory Mondo wearing some sort of a mask? That's a very interesting unique look he's got going on

Face paint. Here are the Mondos recreating that scene from yeas ago...

I had a dream that I was off to see ABBA live in Blackpool and I had a couple of hours of free time before the gig. Just as I was looking around at all the amazing stuff there was to do before the gig started though, I woke up.

It was mad, because it was nothing like the real Blackpool, but I knew my way around. Like I'd been to the same fictitious version of Blackpool before in a previous dream.

Do you ever get that? Feeling like you know your way around somewhere that is completely made up?

I have XJ220 on the Mega CD. While I'm still to this day amazed by hearing CD quality music and sound effects on the Megadrive (via the Mega CD) I did find the tracks to feel a little bit uninspiring on the game. The 3D illusion was still half decent though, and the handling / controls reminded me a little bit of my beloved Outrun.

I stumbled across a half decent Megadrive racing game earlier this year actually. I'd never played it before, but found to be jolly entertaining - Top Gear 2. I'd never even heard of it, to tell you the truth, but when blasting through any old ROMs that sounded remotely like racing titles, I decided to give it a shot. It doesn't quite have the impressive Mode 7 effects of the likes of F-Zero on the SNES, but for a Megadrive title, it does give you quite a good illusion of driving round a 3 dimensional track.

Obligatory screen shot

I'm not sure how well known it is, but if you like the Megadrive and circuit based racers, it's definitely worth checking out.

Altered Beast is all right. I had a spell of really trying my hardest to get anywhere on it a couple of years ago. For some reason, no matter how easily I got battered on it, I got quite determined to have another go and try again. For that reason, I don't think that it's inherently a bad game. It's just overly hard. If memory serves, the furthest I got was to a level where the beast was a yellow version of the werewolf off the first level, but I only got that far maybe once or twice, and I was always on the last life by then.

The Splatterhouses could be a bit like that. Especially on the bosses. Fucking solid and required loads of "pattern memorisation" but even though they were dead hard, they were still good fun too.

Streets of Rage 2 and Sonic 2 are certainly my favourite games on the system though.

I watched Golden Dragon Silver Snake (1979) last night. More kung-fu madness from my hero Dragon Lee and nut case director Godfrey Ho.

Standard plot: Bad guy kung-fu gangsters try to terrorise locals and force them into selling their farmland so that they can somehow exploit it to evil ends. Meanwhile, revenge seeking, homeless wanderer Dragon Lee ends up working on the farm and finding out the same gangsters hassling the farmers are the bastards that killed his brother some time previously. It's just too perfect isn't it?

Original Korean artwork

There's a good chunk of fighting in this one, which ranged from decent, to absolutely physics ignoringly daft (at one point, a goodie throws a chicken's egg up in the air, and Dragon Lee twats the egg with a baseball bat, but the egg doesn't break until it hits the baddies face). The final fight scene sees Dragon Lee take on about 20 henchmen in a Game of Death inspired yellow jumpsuit. This was quite an entertaining mass brawl, and marks the first time I've seen a fight occur on a moving speedboat in one of these micro-budget exploitation flicks. The final fight scene seemed to last over 20 minutes. It was certainly a comprehensive showdown, for sure.

The dubbing, editing and cinematography are terrible. Sometimes the person talking is half (or completely) out of the shot, and you only see the backs of other people's heads. If you like your kung-fu flicks to be bizarre and strangely comical though, with a splash of half entertaining action dotted through the madness, you might just find Golden Dragon Silver Snake to be watchable.

The boys are back in town...

CZW legend Nick Mondo with the current crop of deathmatch faith keepers. I'm not sure about Havoc's facial hair. If he wants to marry me any time soon he can get that fucker shaved right off.

You'll want to keep an eye out for films where Tommy Lee's the bad guy. He usually directs them himself, and will give himself a gimmick of being a cripple, or blue skin, or speaking with an echo.

 

The Hot, The Cool and The Vicious is a perfect example, but is unfortunately let down a bit in some scenes by "Flash Legs" Tan Tao Liang phoning it in.

Fantastic, thanks a lot for that Surf. I'll

Part of that mind numbing absurdity is what draws me to those films. I love them. I'm certainly not looking for sterling acting performances or even a logical plot when I pop my kug-fu flicks in the video player. I want wild costumes, fighting so elaborate that its practically a dance, and for the whole thing to be a mildly baffling ordeal. A lot of Dragon Lee's films give me that weird fix.

Apart from The Big Boss (which I must have seen 20 odd times) I think I've re watched more of Dragon Lee's material than I have Bruce Lee's. He's certainly my favourite of the imitators. I actually bought a book about the series of

Featuring fellow comic Sully O'Sullivan as a genuine foreign object. I doubt I'll ever get tired of that.

Was that who got body slammed onto Trav at ringside?

So many absolute crackers on that match listing. You forget just how many barn storming classics we've actually had at PCW in the promotions young history.

Bizarre choice of person to give the Wild Samoan Lion Heart Commitment Award to.

Posted by Samu Anoa'i.

I watched the utterly bat-shit insane Enter the Invincible Hero (1977) the other night. Directed by notorious Kung Fu Z-movie nut case Godfrey Ho (described on Wikipedia as the Ed Wood of Hong Kong). Wow, what an awesome but baffling affair that film was, I totally fucking loved it.

Bruce Lee clone exploitation superstar Dragon Lee is the hero in this whacky flick, in which he is tasked with defending a village from an organised crime ring that pose as some sort of security or delivery service that keep nicking all the villager's money. The top hard case for the baddies has a metal circle on his forehead, and a necklace that lights up, makes a little noise and somehow makes him turn dead hard. He also has an inexplicable little penis coming out of his belly button which seems to be somehow connected to his source of power.

It's Dragon fucking lee, bitch

After the usual whitewash of fabulously camp kung-fu fighting scenes, Dragon Lee batters the top baddie and then has to fight the big boss of the gang, who takes a cotton glove off to reveal he has little metal circles embedded into his finger tips. Naturally, Dragon Lee rips these out and kicks fuck out of him using his (admittedly very flashy) taekwondo skills. As soon as the last baddie dies, the viewer is hit with a blue screen and the word

Looking ace La Goosh. I imagined you to look like the next door neighbour off Aqua Teen Hunger force, but you're obviously much cooler than that!

Pity, have we ever seen a proper photo of your good self? I just recall you saying you looked a bit like matey boy out of the Magic Numbers?

Found myself quite attracted to Helen Czerski, watching

Sod AJ Styles. I

Nice, I didn't realise Uhaa was on the card!

Dar and Kirby looks a potential show stealer tomorrow night. We're fucking lucky to have wrestlers of that calibre performing for us so regularly around here. PCW is literally the only wrestling I watch and give the slightest fuck about these days, which is a testament to the level of talent they exhibit, month in, month out. UK guys alone, the roster is packed with class acts.

What are the chances of the loser out of Trav and Joey running away after the decision without going through with the hair cut, and then Brutus Beefcake turning up at some point in the future and enforcing the stipulation with a sleeper hold and a pair of decorated hedge trimmers? Probably zero. But a man can dream.

Whenever I visit our chippy during the "dinnertime rush" half hour, I'd say a 3rd of all orders taken are chips, cheese and gravy. That's always the terminology too. Never "cheesy chips", that sounds terrible.

Anyone who is against even trying this delicacy is just robbing themselves. Then again, I'd never eat jellied eels...

I counted another 12 this morning, although they were all positioned along the same "axis", in contrast to the grid formation they took on Saturday. As I say, I don't believe in the chemtrail theory at all, and I'm not for one second suggesting there was anything sinister at work. I was merely pointing out that, for believers, the patterns in sky that day would have provided a textbook bit of "evidence" for their crack pot theories.

The ones this morning looked brilliant. The horizon was a really powerful orange, fading out into shades of pink at about 7:20am, and the contrails reflected these colours even brighter. They almost looked like trails of fire as I was walking into work this morning. Quite a picturesque sky, it was.

The ref. annoyed me all night, it's all well and trying to keep fights clean but there was a point in the 7th (i think) where Groves committed an offence (punch being the head), Froch shrugged it off and hit Groves with two clean, solid punches and the ref halted the action to issue a warning...fucking let it go!!

My exact thought at that point was

Chemtrails - One of the most easily dismissible and almost laughable theories of them all. I'm actually quite a fan of Rational Wiki's satirical take on the "phenomena".

Now, as indicated above, I don't believe in this one whatsoever, but if anyone did and saw what I did in the sky on my way to work early this morning, they'd have themselves a biohazard suit and gas mask wearing field day! As I took the same early morning stroll that I take at least 5 times every week, I gazed up to the skies and counted at least 18 distinct contrails. Some looked quite thick and "spread out" if you will, and they were distributed in the kind of criss-cross patterns that are usually shown in the "proof" photos presented by theorists. Obviously the colder weather is going to contribute to contrails being more prominent and lingering for longer. Still, so many of them hanging above the sky at one moment in time, in such a seemingly uniformed layout, was actually something to see.

Ah right, cheers. I'm glad somebody stole my DVD of that show this weekend.

Here you go Sheffers:

Edit - And yeah, I agree with Surf.

What was the main event on that show 'Raid? Was that just randomly shouted out during the match or in a fan interview clip of some sort?

Are we ever getting this favourite computer game countdown thread?

PCW has quite a few shows before then though.

Is there anything announced for March, that I've missed? The only ones I know about between now and April is the Vader show next month and then the Riddick Bowe show in late Feb. Of course, it's very possible that I'm behind on event news.