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Middle of WCW 89 and Terry Funk is holding the fort as the top heel in the company. There's not many to choose from really. After piledriving Flair through the table at WrestleWar. He's out injured whilst Funk is mowing down jobbers every week on TV. On 17th June show, he's got Cougar Jay to annihilate. Straight from the tie-up, Funk grabs Jay's head and launches him through the middle ropes. His foot catches the rope on the way out and he flies face first to the outside. After Funk's customary win, he gets out of the ring and stands nose to nose with a fan, not saying a word. His mate starts hollering "get out of his face boy, get out of his face." Funk's 45 at this point. Then the fan just shouts "Fuck you" at Funk as he walks off without saying a word They then cut to Funk's famous jackass promo about Ric Flair.
Also on this show is the debut of Mike Awesome as a jobber, with his partner Rock Hard Rick. Can't go wrong with a name like that.
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Slowly watching through WCW 1989 at the moment. I'm up to the 1st World Championship Wrestling episode in June and it's the introduction of Scott Hall.
They hype up his debut with this vignette.
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On 1/14/2022 at 2:53 PM, jazzygeofferz said:
They're all pretty much a blur because they're so similar. The tasks are ostensibly the same, the candidates are slightly different every time though. Once a series is done I struggle to remember what's happened.
Last night's episode showed me why I'm not looking for an apprentice. Aaron really shit the bed with that task, and is lucky he didn't go. As soon as Poundshop Cornette ends up in the boardroom he'll find out that he's the EST of the dole queue because he's done next to nothing so far. It'll be shit or get off the pot time for him soon enough.
Watched the task part and sales results of this weeks show and that was enough for me, for levels of ridiculousness. Design a toothbrush and App, targeted at 6-8 year olds.
Girls go into the pitch, Superdrug complains they don't like the App, the box or the toothbrush. Ahhh but this is only a prototype all of this can be changed, they said. Fair enough says Superdrug, we will order 10,000 units.
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On 1/5/2022 at 8:45 PM, DCW said:
I only use this laptop for torrenting & old saves of FM 07 (which apparently doesn't work/fiddly on newer windows versions) so not arsed replacing the damaged board, just want rid of its functions!
Had the same problem with FM08 on Windows 10. I got it working again by running it in comparability mode. I think I set it to Windows Vista.
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Haven't seen much British boxing this year apart from the big, big fights. Good to see the refereeing and judging is as shit as ever.
Ruling a foot tangle in the Eubank/Algieri fight as a knockdown.
Then this week the scoring on the Parker/Chisora fight. One of the judges scored it 114-112 to Parker. Chisora was down 3 times!!
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Saw Australian Pink Floyd the other week in Nottingham. They put on a really good show, their lighting was excellent for the budget they have.
No fucker bothered wearing a mask and there were about 2000 people there.
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19 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:
A Norwich supporting friend of mine hears they've had an eye on Kjetil Knutsen?
I doubt they would get him. But whoever does looks like they've got a football innovator on their hands. From what I've read about him, he's all about the mental and physical well-being of players. Bringing in nutritionists with a fish based diet. Bringing in psychiatrists to instil a winning mentality into the players. Focusing on the team aspect and galvanising a squad who will play out of their skin for the club. It's obviously working, winning the Norwegian league last season for the first time and nailed on to win it again this season. I don't follow the league. But Mourinho's Roma getting battered 6-1 by them in the Conference League made front page news on the BBC website. That was just the cherry on the top of two/three years of hard work paying off. A bit like the old guard, getting schooled by the new style of manager.
Never really rated Lampard as a manager. He took Derby to exactly the same spot as Gary Rowett did the previous season. And that was with Mason Mount, Harry Wilson & Fikayo Tomori in the team. That somehow warrants you to be good enough to manage Chelsea.
The problem for Norwich is that they've spent a lot of money on young players pinpointed by Farke. It's a right mixed bag of a squad. It's going to take someone with experience to bond this bunch of players together.
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9 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:
Completely agree with all this. To Catch a Thief is such a waste of a great cast and setting. Frenzy still remains ridiculously under-appreciated to this day, and The 39 Steps was the template film for so many 'on the run' action films even to this day.
Frenzy was supposedly born from another film Hitchcock wanted to make in the late 60's called Kaleidoscope. He had seen what Antonioni did with Blow-Up and wanted a more free-style avant-garde style of shooting for his next film. He envisioned an idea where an American bodybuilder would lose control and strangle women whenever he got close to large amounts of water. They shot an hours worth of footage, then showed it to Universal Pictures. They baulked at the idea because it was just relentless nudity and gratuitous violence.
BBC piece on it here: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180620-why-hitchcocks-kaleidoscope-was-too-shocking-to-be-made
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Paul Mullin to Wrexham, the only real winner in this is him. Mark Bonner took a player who was shite at Tranmere. (and bang average at every other club he's been at) Managed to mould him into a goal machine in one season. Mainly due to his fast press, high intensity football he employs in the team and with help from Wes Hoolahan's creativity.
I don't know enough about the Wrexham squad to comment if they have the players to supply Mullin with goals. But I do know from the way Phil Parkinson makes his teams play, it won't be to Mullin's strengths. From the press release, Parkinson said: He brings goals and is also a good team player. Which to me, translates to, he's going to be running around a lot chasing after a long ball.
As for Phil Parkinson himself, no-one here listens to the Undr The Cosh Podcast, where they interview all the ex-pro's? His name is mud on there. Their stories make him sound like an absolute bell-end.
This is my favourite story about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC4x4Xr8lg8 - skip to 45:40 - ex Derby striker Steven Davies, talks about Parkinson's tactic tricks at Bradford. The phone trick, I've heard him do with other players as well.
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On 5/13/2021 at 1:46 PM, Egg Shen said:
This weekends boxeo:
Comfortably the best fight of the weekend on paper. Im unfamilar with both outside of their names, but if i get around to it i'll check this out
Nery should be a bigger name than what he is really. 30 fights, all wins, 24 stoppages. Attractive action fighter, two weight world champion. Demolishing the lineal bantamweight champ, Shinsuke Yamanaka and then failing a drugs test afterwards (eventually got overturned) didn't help him. Then when he came in overweight for the title rematch, it looked like he had a didn't care attitude.
I haven't seen Figueroa fight but he's got a good record and is a big puncher. If he's anything like his brother Omar, he will love a good war.
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Billy Joe's going to be sore in the morning. A 1 punch fight really. As much headway BJS made in the middle rounds, it was negated by an uppercut.
It was a fight ender and a career staller. Not an easy injury to come back from. It's not like BJS has fought at the top level anyway. Out of his 31 fight career. He's only ever faced 2 fighters who have held a world title. Andy Lee & Canelo Alvarez. And he's had 8 world title fights in that period.
Saunders was the 7th British fighter to face Canelo. Out of the 7, 5 have been stopped. The two who went the distance were Callum Smith & Matthew Hatton.
Canelo is still only 30 and now has been having world title fights for over ten years.
Good to see a fight with a capacity crowd again. Canelo ramping up the atmosphere in round 8 was a great sight to see.
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Efe's looking good with these knockouts. But previously before he joined Top Rank, he faced a stronger level of competition. In Efe's previous fight, he took on Jonathan Rice. Another heavyweight prodigy, Tony Yoka, beat him in his 2nd pro fight.
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Enjoyed the BT Sport Documentary about Frank Warren. It follows his life from getting into boxing, his unlicensed fight promoting, taking on the boxing promoting cartel, him getting shot & his tax evasion trial.
The big fights they go into detail about are, working with Joe Bugner & ITV to get his break. Benn vs McClennan, Bruno vs. McCall & bringing Mike Tyson to the UK.
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6 games to go in the Bundesliga and it looks like Borussia Dortmund are going to miss out on Champions League football for the first time in 5 years. Eintracht Frankfurt are having a glorious season and they are 7 points clear in 4th. Frankfurt beat Dortmund last week and this week, pipped 3rd place Wolfsburg in a 7 goal thriller. Spearheaded by their Portuguese talisman, Andre Silva with 23 Bundesliga goals (Erling Haaland has 21) and scoring vital winning goals too. Manager, Adi Hutter (full name, Adolf Hutter) has done a marvellous job so far this season.
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Samuel Vargas should be a good test for Benn. He's not infallible because he has been stopped by top level fighters like Danny Garcia & Errol Spence Jr. But he's fought at a higher level than all of Benn's previous opponents.
Don't really follow much women's boxing but watched the head to head thing with Courtenay & Bridges. Bridges was really getting under Courtenay's skin. Courtenay was trying to portray herself as the purist boxer whilst downplaying Bridges as just a model. They spent half the argument, disagreeing on what pants they were wearing.
Was there a legitimate reason why this is for a world title? Going through the rankings, they're ranked 8th & 9th with the WBA.
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The WBC will crown its first bridgerweight champion when Colombia's Oscar Rivas faces Philadelphia's Bryant Jennings in a card tentatively scheduled for June 18 in Canada, sources confirmed to ESPN KNOCKOUT on Friday. The Athletic's Lance Pugmire was first to report the fight.
The bridgerweight division will have a weight limit of 200-224 pounds. The WBC is the only organization that offers that division and ranks Rivas No. 1 and Jennings No. 3.
What a load of bollocks. Another weight division set up so the WBC gets paid more in title sanctioning fee's. If this was such a problem they could expand the cruiserweight division. And that division was set up because the size difference between light heavyweight and heavyweight was too large.
Also putting Jennings in there, who hasn't won a fight in two years. Instead of no.2 ranked Kevin Lerena who hasn't lost in six years is a sham. Was anyone urging for Rivas vs Jennings 2. I don't even remember the first fight.
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Marvellous Marvin was a great man. Everything about him, shows that. The loyalty, dedication to his craft, sheer desire to never give up, attitude to win. He was that feared, it took 50 fights before he was even given a title shot and then he was still robbed.
The urban legends about him are all true, the thick muscle in his head, doing his road-work in military boots in the freezing cold. Getting paid $20 for his debut pro fight. Compare that to Sugar Ray Leonard who got $40,000. He couldn't wait another 3 years to go to the Olympics, he said "gold medals don't buy groceries".
Staying with the Petronelli's through his whole career, they trained him from the moment he stepped into the gym to the end of the15th round against Leonard. Nowadays, a boxer can put a loss down to the trainer wasn't a right fit or I can't make this weight anymore. Hagler stayed at Middleweight his whole 14 year career.
And when he was done, he was done. He made his money and left on his own terms. No flashy, underwhelming, pay-day comeback. He got out when he wanted to.
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Enjoyed Estrada v Gonzalez for what it was. Really one of those fights where it's scored on what you enjoy from your boxing. Gonzalez threw and landed more but Estrada had more power on his shots. Gonzalez was so tight in the pocket, his punches were counted as power shots but he was so close they were like little pops on Estrada.
It was a very close fight but I thought Estrada won it. Dazn's American commentary was very pro Gonzalez. Constantly reminding us he's a living legend and ready for the hall of fame. Their scorecard was also favourable for Gonzalez.
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Strongroom keeps popping up on Sony Classics most weeks in the small hours. They also had The Pumpkin Eater on a few times, last month.
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Fighters taking mandatories or stay busy fights during the pandemic is a wise decision. Those who haven't fought since 2019 are going to be at a disadvantage once everything gets back to normal. We saw it with Josh Warrington the other week, mentally and physically not prepared for it.
Don't think I can look past a Canelo victory in May. For as slick as Saunders can be, the engine is not there and he goes wanting at times. The laboured win over Martin Murray who's been threatening to retire for the past 5 years, shows what level he's at. I expected David Lemeuix to wipe him out a few years back, so he can pull something out the bag when needed but Canelo is top echelon at the moment.
The timing and preparation is also interesting. After Kovalev had a hard fought win over Anthony Yarde. He was back in the ring fighting Canelo 9 weeks later. The roles are reversed in this scenario. But again it's another 9 week gap and still in Canelo's favour. There's not enough time for a full 8 week training camp and press. (I guess this is going to be on PPV) If it's in the US, that's another few days to be acclimatised to the time difference and jet lag. Hopefully this has been in the pipeline for a while and Saunders has been fight training in the background. Knowing if Canelo gets through Yildrim the unification fight will happen. This is the biggest fight in his career and probably biggest payday. If it doesn't go well, he may be looking to cash out.
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That was a wonderful performance from Valdez. The sticking and moving worked to perfection. Berchelt could not get himself set to launch any big bombs because Valdez was getting out of harm's way too quickly. Round 4 was crazy, I still don't know how Berchelt did not go down. He was chicken dancing all around the ring for most of it. When he got launched into the ropes they had to give it as a standing 8 count otherwise, he would have been in the front row if the ropes were not there. Then when the ref told him to walk to me, Berchelt looked like he was hula-hooping with an invisible ring. He had no control of his body.
There were two rounds in the middle, where Valdez looked like he was trying for the knockout, trading more with Berchelt which is a deadly game. Berchelt was like the Terminator he would not go down or take a back step. Luckily Valdez went back to moving and slipping. Popping with the jab and then ripping across with the left hook. Round 9 was the big one. Berchelt finally went down from a five punch combination. A buzzsaw of an uppercut and peppering Berchelt with lefts and rights. Valdez was now switching from orthodox to southpaw stance to confuse Berchelt even more.
By now Berchelt needed a knockout to win he was too far back on the cards. I had him at best winning two rounds. Going into round 10, Berchelt's corner said they need to see something otherwise they're stopping the fight. Andre Ward said Berchelt is two big punches away from getting knocked out. The writing was on the wall. Valdez was bossing with ease, Berchelt's head was fuzzy but heart still strong, he wasn't going to give up. At the end of the round, two bells were rung. Berchelt wildly swinging and jumping into punches. Valdez coolly waited until he was in range, slipped the shot and launched the ill-fated left hook to slay the champion.
Not the Mexican war which was anticipated. If it was, we would be seeing a different winner. Valdez's team got the tactics spot on and found the way to win where so many have failed.
Berchelt is big enough to move up to lightweight next. After rehydrating in this fight, he was 1lb off being welterweight.
Watched the Josh Kelly fight this morning. Don't really have much sympathy for him, with the way he boxed after round 2. He got into a dogfight with an educated brawler. His style, trying to be slick with the hands down low doesnt really work if you abandon it after a couple of rounds. To do that for a full fight, you need super human reflexes and he doesn't. He was getting hit too much with unguarded shots which ultimately became his downfall.
Did have a head shake when the Sky Analyst was saying after a few rounds, Kelly was not adverse to going in the trenches, he's been in deep water before, he will slug it out..... Round 6, Kelly's on the floor, towels been thrown in and he's having gas and air.
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19 hours ago, Egg Shen said:
Live on Boxnation.
All you need to know is, it's two blood & guts Mexicans going to war. People are fully expecting this to be an all time classic. Suppose if you only watch 1 fight this weekend, make it this one. Just a shame its in the Top Rank bubble with no crowd 😔
Looking forward to this one, there's not much that separates the pair of them in terms of ability and successes. Both aggressive big punches and high knock-out rates which should turn this into a great fight. I think Berchelt may tip it with his reach advantage but then Valdez is also quick launching combinations on the inside. It's a big shame there is no crowd for this.
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A couple of interesting transfers coming out of Sao Paulo and to the MLS. With everyone being cautious with transfers and opting for loans. Sao Paulo have sold their 21 year old wonderkid, Brenner to FC Cincinatti for £10m. Jaap Stam is their manager and they have the brilliantly named keeper, Beckham Sunderland. Sao Paulo have just appointed Hernan Crespo as manager and Rui Costa as assistant. They have also released Alex Pato and he's linked up with Nani at Orlando City.
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Whoever gives Josh Warrington managerial advice needs to stop. He switched from Warren to Matchroom in search of getting the big title fights at featherweight. He doesn't want the mandatory title defence against Kid Galahad so vacates the belt. Again reason being, he wants the big fights, even though he doesn't have a belt now as a bargaining chip. Takes a stay busy fight against an unknown, hard hitting, Mexican. He gets beat and is now left with nothing.
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There were times Classic Nitro was aired instead of a new Nitro. But it wasn't a regular thing. I used to tape Nitro on long play and whatever was left on the tape recorded Thunder which aired after it.
In 1999 Thunder was moved to Saturday nights. I do remember seeing Thunder and then TNT showing Classic Nitro or Classic Thunder after that too.