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Owen was in a strange spot from 1995 onwards really where he was all over the card.

He was stuck in a brilliant tag-team with Davey Boy for a large chunk of the time, but could have slotted in nicely into any spot on the roster. I'm sure he main evented a few Raw's and houseshows chasing Shawn for the WWF title, but fit in just as well in that memorable feud with Austin for the I-C belt.

Add me to the admirers of Clough and Taylor (both the painting and the duo, when it comes to that). Some fantastic stuff there.

I wasn't even a fan when WM3 took place, but whenever I think of the WWF/E, the massive Silverdome and Hulk slamming Andre is the first thing that comes to mind.

The last significant angle on WWF Superstars?

 

Fucking hell. When I think of 1990 WCW, they still had a stacked roster. But that lineup is bloody terrible! Even Doom and the Rock'n'Roll express couldn't be there.

Just listened to the Gorilla Position's interview with Todd Pettengill this morning. Well worth a listen if you were into wrestling during the early 90's. 

She's a late replacement for the original guest. Not sure why Hogan was switched out, tbh...

I wish those revelations would have held out for another few weeks. That show had the potential to be great.

Randomly watching the old WWE events on the network and still amazes me how the security at ringside stood out back then as well as the photographers leaning on the ring during the show. Although it looked cluttered it kind of adds to the show. These days its all too polished for my liking.

 

EVERYTHING on WWE TV these days is too polished for my liking.

What is Jeff doing? Only last week he was getting universal praise for the GFW TV taping, and now he's back fannying about with all this shite.

 

My thoughts exactly. I usually defend TNA to some degree, but he's getting some traction with GFW and has had his chance to plug the promotion. What does he have to gain now?

Of course, it could be that TNA are only willing to allow Bobby Roode, EY etc to appear on GFW on the proviso that Jeff also does this.

TNA is like a shit drug for me at the moment. I never watch Raw, NXT or anything current on the WWE Network. But yet, like bloody clockwork, I find myself watching Impact on a Tuesday night and actually enjoying it. Whereas there's nothing but negativity surrounding the company, the actual two hour block of programming isn't too bad. 

Like many of us, I grew up with wrestlers trading between the WWF and WCW all the time, so that's a strange concept to get used to.

Scott Steiner is brilliant.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQmjxZgIM8

I grew up in north Wales, which was obviously Orig Williams territory.

The first show I remember was at Holyhead Leisure Centre, which would have been around 1992 or so. My memory is quite sketchy but I remember a fake Ultimate Warrior on the card as well as the "third" British Bulldog, who used to team with Dynamite Kid in Japan but his name escapes me. At school the next day though, we were all convinced that Sean South was actually Road Warrior Hawk, and "not a fake like the rest."

 

I remember going to a few "Reslo" TV tapings in Beaumaris as well as more of Orig's summer shows in Llandudno, and was lucky enough to see Giant Haystacks wrestle.

 

My first American promotion show wasn't until the first ever UK Raw taping in Manchester, October  2004. I forgot that I'd seen Shawn Michaels wrestle live until I searched for these results now. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/041011.html

Not for me. The GFW roster is desperate for some star power, so seeing as TNA's roster is already pissed off at only working for a day or two every month, they might as well come to a working arrangement and utilise them a bit more.

 

TNA has been a show where nothing of much consequence has happened since Hogan and A.J left really. At least this rocks the boat a little!

 

Agreed, I love a bit of hype and stir in wrestling, it can be bloody boring without it.  

 

 

It probably says something that one of my favourite wrestling shows of the last 15 years was the January 4, 2010 Impact where Hogan, Flair and everyone else turned up.

TNA has been a show where nothing of much consequence has happened since Hogan and A.J left really. At least this rocks the boat a little!

This is brilliant. There's nowhere near enough batshit crazy episodes of Wrestling these days.

 

Why did Mark Zuckerberg even bother?

 

I've got a massive problem with things like that. I've never been convinced that soldiers should be hero worshipped. 

My Dad was in the Welsh Guards for 6 years but he openly admits he joined up because he had no job prospects and wanted to join up with some of his mates and see the world. He gets more wound up about this kind of thing than I do.

Ah, fuck it then. Manic Street Preachers gig on BBC2 it is!

 

To be honest, I thought the WWE had got out of their 'everything that happens now is the best thing since sliced bread' phase, but apoarently not. I have an irrational hatred of that.

 

When was the first time a Hogan-Piper match ever had a decisive finish? WCW or The Mr America era? At the time it was big business, Piper wasn't taking a pin. It loses big points for the lack of a decent ending.

Well, its supposed to be greatest rivalries and it basically got Wrestlemania off the ground.

Watching the 'Top 25 Rivalries' documentary on the network now. I know these lists are bullshit, but Hogan v Piper is apparently the 21st greatest feud of all time. Any post 2002 feud that comes on now will cause my blood pressure to rise just a notch!

I remember that Gladiators came on straight after WWF Superstars had finished on Sky One. But even though I watched both, I always thought it was a bit of a wrestling rip-off tbh.

For the record, I was a weird kid and preferred Lightning to Jet.

 

Come to think of it, would Bulldog have been much cop as a Gladiator anyway?

Yeah, it was August 1992 so I think it would have been.

Mind you....

 

Watching Impact on Sky+ now and the travesty really is that its a perfectly good wrestling show apart from the lack of atmosphere, where it sounds like there's about 50 people in the Impact Zone. I even liked the intro where Angle was waiting for Eric Young as he drove to the arena.

 

Edit: Must mention Mickie James' incredible knockers.

 

Oh for fuck sakes, make me look stupid why don't you? Thanks for that.