Cannibal Man

Yeah it's early days for Reigns, relatively. I'd gone off him a little bit because of the promos and non descript matches, but I remembered a bunch of shit like the "THIS MY TABLE NOW FOOLS" shout from a few years back and how fucking cool he was as a mute pumpkin brooding badass. He hasn't had some enormous nail in the coffin ala Sheamus and the 18 second match/RAW crowd the next night. He's probably got a good future rather than a half shite one if by some miraculous chance they can reign in the usual bollocks they give top babyfaces these days

People just hate the idea of what he is, rather than him I reckon. People most likely to boo him have had to watch guys they absolutely want on top go through all sorts of shite over the years and get given Lashley, Sheamus, a returning Batista instead. I remember at the start of all the Shield stuff people were pissing and moaning about him being the odd one out among the two indy guys, but soon enough people were pretty excited and surprised he'd become a breakout star in his own right, but at some point it became obvious that Vince was basically cupping his balls and might aswell have put a sandwich board on him saying THIS IS YOUR NEW FAVORITE NOW YOU FREAKS and at this point people are smart enough to realise the sort of utter shite that entails.

Coupled with the obvious paranoia over Bryan either retiring or never getting back to the top of the mountain after they somehow managed to force WWE into giving a 5ft10, pale hobo who looks like a Safety Dance extra a spot meant for the love child of Gary Strydom and Peter North  who's just starred in a movie that's made enough money to keep the leccy meter running til the sun implodes, you've got a recipe for trouble.

Reigns has almost certainly got a big future whether anybody likes it or not, and I reckon people definitely want to give him a chance, it's just the WWE standard for the past few years of star making has been a comedy of bollocks.

I'd love to see SID JUSTICE in the Hall of Fame as soon as possible, His name never comes up in these sorts of discussions among the usual suggestions of Savage, Rude & Owen but I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't do it, or have done it already. Multiple time world champion, headlined every Wrestlemania match he was in, tried to kill Arn Anderson once. He's got the criteria.

I also missed City Hunter as a child because it wasn't included in the video shop's 3 for a quid offer. I made sure I paid the full 1.50 as soon as I got my first paycheck though. If I remember rightly, he had a cool "City Hunteeeer" jingle accompanying him through the film. That's probably where the extra expense went, and rightly so.

I got to see City Hunter as a child after borrowing a Jackie Chan boxset from an uncle which for whatever reason packaged the light hearted anime adaptation together with Master With Cracked Fingers, a period piece made up of re-edited footage, and Island Of Fire, which as far as I remember is an incredibly grim and hard boiled prison drama.

I dunno whether it's part nostalgia, but I rate City Hunter higher than most seem to. It's not Police Story like, but what is!

Think i'm in the minority with this, but I wasn't into that Ryback promo at all. At least, I wasn't up until the point where he credited a fucking self help book that teaches you the power of positive thinking and harnessing good energy to get all that you desire, at which point I started pissing myself laughing.

I'm not his biggest fan in the first place, but sincerely going on about fucking space magic, particularly when he's supposed to be some invincible nails bastard cokehead bouncer from fucking hell, is absolutely demented. No wonder the guy seemed like such a head the ball all these years - he is.

Just enquired at the box office and there's still expensive and less so but still fuck me up the arse priced tickets for RAW tonight. Never attended one before but does anyone know the likelihood of them reducing tickets or giving them away at showtime given it's TV and they'll presumably want it full

Yeah as a diehard WWF kid I was gutted Flair won the '92 Rumble because I perceived him as looking skinny and ancient, especially compared to fucking SID JUSTICE, coupled with the fact that just after seeing it I was shown a tape of him tapping Neidhart out, who I loved because he was a head the ball, on Superstars or something. I couldn't get my head around how he could batter any of the people he was going up against because he seemed so boring. I still don't think my dad's forgiven Piper for not launching him over the top rope in that Rumble when he gets him up for the gorilla press.

Did all those WWF rings come with that electronic thing? My version definitely didn't and it looks identical. It's either a different version of my parents dropped it in the mass brawl that broke out and subsequent dash to escape when they stumbled upon a motherload of unsold WWF Hasbro toys that year on the bottom floor of WH Smiths.

Enjoyed the Bret Timeline. Loved hearing more about 1992 because i'd count it as the year I became a full fan, but the highlight had to be his couple of Bulldog impressions. That "AHM FOOKED" from Summerslam was a brilliant surprise, but later on when they're talking about Doink and Davey's reaction of "AHM NO WERKIN WITH A FOOKIN CLOWN!" slayed me. I can't get rid of the mental image of a cracked out, red faced Davey who hasn't lifted a weight in months and doesn't know what day it is, half asleep and being introduced to an evil clown smoking a fuck off snout and being told this is who he's wrestling every night for the next few months.

I found that Nailz page the other day. I'm really hoping the blog they're talking about gets going because Nailz's (Nailz'z?) story is something i'd really love to hear. He seems like such a mental bastard and I can't think of any instances of him talking out of character. It's a travesty you can get all sorts of shoot interview tat from every fucker but nothing from a guy who panned Vince McMahon's head in and accused him of bumming him.

Didn't Bret mentioned in his book that some of the lads admired Nailz for covering his tracks over the Vince thing? That's probably why he didn't stop him. Too busy pissing himself laughing in the corner. It's the same logic as when my dad watched an old man go arse over tit off his bike and onto the bonnet of a parked car in Talacre Holiday Park and instead of getting up to ask if he was alright he ran off into the caravan to guffaw himself soft. Sometimes you just have to take a little time out to enjoy yourself.

Was looking forward to this interview anyway but now I know they mention Nailz it's tripled my interest.. 

That opening promo was fuck awful, and Cena just repeating BUCKET OF SHITE as the big conclusion was fucking madness. What were they going for with that, like?

I know Cesaro walloped Kofi all over the shop after it and thus might be prematurely shitting it since they could go for the angle of Cesaro fucking off Paul E. for not being of any benefit to him whatsoever, but someone as useless and on his arse position wise to just have Cesaro off like that clean was a bit worrying.

Khali/Sandow/Jericho/Miz/RVD/Sheamus/Uso's/Ziggler/Fandango can all fuck off. Utterly pointless.

Cannot be arsed with the Cena/Orton/Kane bollocks at all. Cena can and has had some of the best matches in WWE history and can be fucking exciting to watch, but not against those two bags of shit. Orton's about as interesting as a Poundland CD aisle and Kane main eventing and going for world titles in 2014 is demented. Going to be forwarding all of that foolishness until Lesnar comes back and hopefully challenges Cena for the title.

Enjoyed watching Reigns, even if he is interacting with that mess of shite. Liked Ambrose/Rollins and can't wait for the eventual feud ender. Paige/AJ wasn't bad. Wyatt's deserve someone more interesting than Jericho and the Uso's but obviously there's not much choice right now.

EDIT - Swagger/Rusev was great, but is Swagger still a survivalist head the ball?

Aye, if rumours are to be believed they're basically teaching classes down at NXT now on how to not Briscoe yourself with regards to your future in the WWE. For a while they were one of the best tag teams in the world, so fuck only knows how far they could have gone in this climate of six mans and fuckers jumping all over the place and off stuff and into people.

Some of us teach, some of us become doctors or nurses, some of us run entire countries. Dave looked in the mirror one day and knew he was going to look like a tithead forever, and nothing was going to stop him.

CM Punk's old BITW shirt is the only i've seen in public more than once since seeing a Jerichoholic shirt in Llandudno in 2001, so using that scientific application i'm going to say his visibility in public is vaguely higher than we might suspect

I can understand people on at Punk for kind of making mountains out of molehills with fan interaction, because as mentioned there's just no two ways around being the face of an internationally broadcast entertainment show that thrives on fan participation and having to meet and greet people at every turn, but people turning up at your house is absolute madness. I don't understand how any sane bastard could think something like that was alright whether they had a reputation as sunshine and lemonade, or a sour faced head the ball like Punk or what.

I've seen other people on various forums (not here!) going OH I'D BE MADE UP IF KIDS SHOVED SWEETS IN ME LETTERBOX but you don't know what sort of lunatic bastard has stuck a load of Freddo's through your slot and whether they're poisoned or soaked in poo or whatever the fuck. He's definitely a bit of a miserable prick who plays up his Luke From Gilmore Girls image a little bit too much, but the way people have been reacting to this on the internet you'd think he had absolutely no right to privacy, among the usual moans about how people who are well off have some magic shield that keeps them happy forever.

It's just convincing me both him and WWE are better off without each other.

I remember being completely gutted about that weird muscle suit he wore at Summerslam '92.

I wasn't allowed many wrestling tapes as a kid, because we were too poor for one but most of all because my mum fucking absolutely hated it and we only had the one VHS machine, so I didn't get to see it much or the Warrior who I fucking adored. After ages and ages of borrowing tapes off my richer cousin who had Sky just to see Warrior and being told "fuck off no" by my dad when I wanted Royal Rumble 1990 from Woolworths because i'd already borrowed it and conned a babysitting family member into sitting through the whole fucking thing, I eventually got enough money to get my hands on Summrslam '92, which i'd bought solely because Warrior was in it (and a highly recommended Kamala match from a cousin who informed me that when he sees the Undertaker he "fucking shits himself and runs off"). I can't explain what it was that let me down. Either i'd gotten so used to your trad Ultimate Warrior look and built up some stylised version of him in my mind that anything other than a human version of the Hasbro figure running down to ringside was going to disappoint me, like Bill Drummond finally seeing the Residents live and realising it was just four blokes in shit suits, or he just looked like a legitimate bellend.

Faith No More!

I really hope they make some sort of attempt at new music if they've decided to keep playing. I fucking love them, but to have them just going through the same 30 songs since 2009 is a bit disappointing given what they're all capable of.

HHH is way too much of a knobhead to not stick his fat arse in the main event in some capacity. No part of me is ever going to believe he's going to let Bryan have him off and just leave it at that. The thing is though, it makes total sense if he does, presuming they let Bryan get a feelgood moment over him and the world of dogshit that he's been living in twice, Stephenie, Orton and Batista. Everybody's an insecure wreck at the moment thanks to one little troll faced gremlin, and seeing the lot fucking implode at Wrestlemania and setting up a summer of feuds between the lot of them thanks to Bryan kneeing every cunt in the face would be perfect.

I like HHH inserting himself into the stipulation of the title because even though most of me thinks it's totally telegraphed to fuck that Bryan's going over, this whole meta-bastard thing he's got going on guarantees a lot of people are completely convinced the big leathery tit is stupid enough to try and steamroll over the lot of it just so he can prove himself as the ultimate heel or whatever and then go for the payoff at Extreme Rules or something so everybody forgets about it. I am fucking terrified about the outcome of both matches. It's brilliant.

Batista coming out to Cult of Personality now that he's a full on knobhead again would be absolute fucking Newport City Centre Of A Saturday chaotic magic. Get him out there pissing himself laughing, slapping himself on the thigh/his Youth XL Hollister jeans with pre ripped knees, lifting his pink tinted Oakley aviators to do blag BOO HOO tears and downing a refreshing Dr Pepper and fronting people in the front row shouting WHAT WHAT LAD WHAT. Fuck having him talking off all together and just get him doing one handed press ups with a clap between each lift and making COME ON motions at people like an inverse version of that Jericho come back. People would want any fucker to kick his head off at Mania. Bryan, Orton, Baryr O. Anybody.

Thought about going for the standard Camping, but from a personal standpoint I think i'd have to go for Abroad.

I had an uncle who was well into the Carry On films, and collected all the old Cinema Club VHS releases in the very early 90s and pretty much every Saturday or Sunday would be spent going through as many as we could. Abroad was probably the only one out of the lot that, at the time, I wanted to rewatch over and over again. I think at the time what sealed it for me as a however-old was Hattie Jacques swearing and twatting Peter Butterworth with a spoon/pan, but by the time I picked it up on DVD a few years back I was pleased that it held up beyond all the very hazy memories I had of watching it as a kid. A proper last hurrah for the classic cast, plus an amazing support line up, especially Jimmy Logan and John Clive. Jimmy Logan's character is still the reason my mind occasionally wanders to the phrase "IS THIS FER THE DIRTY WEEKEND?" upon hearing or seeing the word 'Weekend'. I think Abroad is ingrained in me, no matter what.

Shepard Fairey doesn't really have any fucking business to be accusing people of plagiarism and co-opting for profit, so I reckon he'll keep his mouth closed.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/

Reminds me a lot of the Bo Selecta send up of Marilyn Manson. If it means we get him asking Eric Bischoff if he has a quim then i'm all for it.

From the Botchamania site

So Chas and Dave are at Sonisphere lol

Chas & Dave are fantastic live. It should be brilliant. About fifteen years ago a gig of theirs got invaded by most of the regulars of the local rock pub in town after they discovered tickets were still available for the gig that night, and it got to the point that my mate was told to calm down by Chas after he asked him for a blowjob.

Ah bollocks. It bloody well should be! Cheers for checking

Has the Savage/Steamboat match from Feb 15th 1987 in Toronto ever made it onto an official WWE DVD or tape?