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I'll have a go at being heterosexual.

Heres a new one!

 

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TNA expands relationship with Wrestle-1; One Night Only pay-per-view to be taped in Japan on March 2. Great Muta to appear at #Lockdown

That's bigger than pretty much all of Dixie's 'major announcements' so far.

I hope you told Kevin Kelly to get out of Rob Bartlett's seat.

I'd love to have gone to one of those early Raw's at the Manhattan Centre.

Great roster depth

Theres still 2 spots in the Chamber to be decided. Anyone see Lesnar doing what they did with Edge a few years ago and belt one of the remaining two on the way to the ring and take his spot? Or better yet, imagine if they did that to Bryan, the meltdown would be even worse than at the Rumble

I quite like Daniel Bryan but must admit it would be pretty funny seeing the internet explode! In many ways Wrestling is pretty unique. Can't see any Coronation St fans organising petitions because Dev Alahan's character is being given the Zack Ryder treatment while Roy Cropper is being given a big singles push after his barber shop window moment with Hayley.

I think a tour like that would also have a lot more mileage in Britain. A lot of people I know, around my age, don't give a shiny shite about most of the modern day wrestlers but would lap it up to see Hacksaw and IRS hobble down to the ring.

Wow, its amazing how much stuff from your childhood stays with you. I remember most if not all of those. Does anyone actually remember a match where Repo Man wore that singlet? Remember thinking that back in 1993.

That steroid scandal thing was a bit of an eye opener too.

No, I don't think he has.

Listening to the Meltzer/Austin podcast now and even half an hour in, they're still talking about MMA. I was just wondering how much general crossover there is between both of them. As someone who has no interest whatsoever in UFC of any type of non-choreographed combat (excluding Boxing), do the majority of Wrestling fans watch it?

I love Sid.

BECAUSE YOU ARE FEARED OF ME!

Haha, quality post Kaz. I agree.

 

 

Here's Brie and the girls at her bachelorette party.

Bah, it's a hen night.

I've listened to more of these now. They're definitely better talking about old wrestling than newer wrestling, because once they get to 2003, they stay there.

Bit like me then....

Thanks for the recommendation

I've been reading Lordsofpain since 1998 when we used to sneak a look on the school computers inbetween the obligatory searches on altavista for 'Spice Girls nude'.

Has Bret ever done anything for KC commentaries before? That sounds great, one of the most interesting years of my fandom anyway. Maybe even a 1998 WCW timeline too (although that might be a bit too bitter even for Bret Hart standards).

Wasn't Russo Double J's guy? I fucking hope not anyway.

I understand the reasoning behind turning the NAO heel (i.e for a short term storyline) but it reminds me of when TNA turned Hulk Hogan heel. In 2011, no one wanted to boo Hulk Hogan as he was a novelty act, unlike 1996 when people were getting sick of him.

In 2014, no-one wants to boo the Outlaws. The longer term fans are just happy to see them, and the newer fans will just sit and watch largely bemused. I can't see what's to gain there.

Hardly missed an episode in 2012. Early 2010 was at least fun to watch too.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was Dr Zahorian and Eric Embry.

Doubt that Rude and Bulldog will go in anytime soon as being a pair of roidy-magoos who died before their time.

Yet Eddie fits both criteria there- roided magoo and died before his time. He's in.

So's Curt Hennig.

I particularly enjoyed his Reslo/Orig Williams references and there being fuck all to do in North Wales

Here's hoping it goes ahead. I'm reasonably assured something will happen with it but as to how big it will be, who knows? How big of a network is CMT in the USA? As Ian said, this probably deserves its own thread.

The rumour last week was that Mason Ryan will be replacing Reigns.

 

I'd rather it ended than got watered down to that extent.

Oi, leave Big Barry alone.

I was really unlucky as we lost our Sky dish to a thunderstorm in the summer of 1998 and my Dad didn't get round to getting our connection back until 1999. So late 97 and early 98 is an era I look back upon fondly, but am still relatively in the dark about what happened during the rest of the year.

Going back to the discussion of wrestling's fallen popularity in the mid-90s, I believe that 'War Zone' PlayStation game had a massive role in making wrestling cool again over here. People got into that game off the back of its reviews and became familiar with the characters as a result. Looking at the release date, its summer 1998, which seems late, but then there weren't even any figures in the shops over here that summer.

Summer 98? That's mad! They still had Bret Hart in the game and moves were being made to ship him out around a year before it was released. I'd argue the boom in this country started before then though. Wrestling started to become a talking point again by late 97.

I think it's the case of the old saying that you only make someone a Superstar by having them beat other Superstars.

Bret had it hard in 1992 and 1993 because of guys like Hogan, Sid, Savage and Flair leaving. If he'd had been put over by some of those guys on major PPV events maybe he'd have been seen as a bigger deal? Not to knock their actual talent, but beating guys like Owen Hart, Bam Bam, Razor and IC Champ-level Shawn Michaels is hardly a list of megastar victories. Had he beaten Flair and Savage in (surely epic) PPV matches it would have done wonders for his stock.

Exactly. Bret's whole 'Respect' push at the time was that he was a fighting champion, so was defending the title every week seemingly. But what that meant by late 1992 was he was defending the strap against Papa Shango (who's push had long gone), Virgil and Skinner (who never had one).

I still think they dropped a bollock by not going with Savage v Bret at either the Royal Rumble or Wrestlemania. I'm sure Savage would have been happy to do the job given the way he was being written out of storylines.