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Thought that Matt Striker was a breath of fresh air on commentary this week. If only they managed to get Josh Matthews out of that announce booth....

Yeah, IPTV for me too. The idea of watching a live Tyson fight in 2020 is novel enough for me to give it a go.

I don't get how some people are so fucking gormless tbh. You'd think that everyone would be more aware of spacial awareness these days, but I popped to Asda at lunchtime and there were so many people wandering around aimlessly and blocking aisles in every way possible thus forcing people to brush past them. Also, are we not bothering with the arrows telling people direction which direction they should travel in now? Seems totally pointless if everyone is ignoring them anyway. Honestly I feel ten times more Covid secure in the pub on a Friday night than wandering around a superma

12 hour shift (2020) The Nice Guys (2016)

Off topic sorry, but this seems to be a particularly English trait. I wonder if its because England qualify pretty easily for every major tournament that they see it as a big waste of time? Because by the time tournaments roll around its all "Its coming home" and everyone on the bandwagon, so surely its not that bad? But the idea that qualification is seen as just a major inconvenience strikes me as more than a little odd. For the likes of Wales and every European nation outside of the big six or so, qualification is a big deal and a genuine national achievement. It took us 58 fuckin

The Godfather seems to agree it was shite too. https://wrestlingheadlines.com/the-godfather-reacts-to-fan-criticism-over-the-undertakers-final-farewell-at-wwe-survivor-series/

Bob Ryder's died after a battle against cancer. I think he was with Impact from day one, and WCW previously. He ran 1wrestling.com too from what I can remember.\ Edit: A pretty comprehensive obituary - https://www.pwinsider.com/article/141670/bob-ryder-passes-away.html?p=1

Definately a flawed genius, but what a genius. Made Shilton look like a tool even before Twitter was a thing.

The entire Turning Point show is on Impact's Youtube Channel.

Have a lot of time for Jordynne Grace's new theme tbh, with Eric Young's also among the best in Impact right now.

Love clips like this. Setting up a pretty innocuous backstage segment in WCW, but the whole channel is full of this kind of thing.

He lost me at "I heard from Jim Neidhart."

I don't necessarily think its a bad thing either, and is certainly better than my childhood when wrestlers just disappeared off the face of the earth overnight. I'm convinced I spent the whole of 1993 wondering why the fuck the Big Bossman wasn't on WWF Superstars anymore (and those WWF Magazine bastards lying that he'd be back soon). Flair's retirement was pretty unique but just because it worked for him (only for Flair to be still standing on turnbuckles having his tights pulled down by Doug Williams and showing his saggy arse on TNA house shows 18 months later), it needn't be the case

Being the nostalgia perve that I am, I obviously sought out this segment this morning just to see the state of some of the old guard by now (with an eye on next year's deathpool). Fuck me, they might as well have wheeled out the Godwinns in their Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce getup, at least Ric Flair would have had a fighting chance of knowing who they were then. But echo was a lot of others have said really, the Undertaker's farewell belongs in front of a crowd. I know this was the 30 year anniversary and all, nothing comes across as it should in an empty arena and everyone wou

People are probably bored of me going on about this, but its criminal that Diesel only got interesting after his heel turn in late 95/early 96, and six months later he was gone. His smiley babyface title run was total cack, its hardly surprising and not really his fault that 1995 didn't smash any box office records. Its a bit similar with Jake Roberts for me. Was never arsed about face Jake the Snake but that heel run from the summer of 91 to the sping of 92? Another fantastic incarnation that was prematurely ended. That said, without Kevin Nash leaving for WCW in 1996 we may never