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17 minutes ago, lanky316 said:

It's depressing but not a surprise. Thomas Partey was publicly outed as a rapist. We saw evidence in which he admitted to it and laughed about it. No punishment, played on and largely forgotten about. It's bullshit and add in the pathetic partisanship of football support and "our lads can do no wrong" type mentalities just paints a more depressing picture.

Ongoing police investigation, as per probably best to not start throwing names out there. This is not a private forum. 

9 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

KO is asked about this weeks returns

 

In fairness, Punk was gone by the time Owens made it to WWE, and Orton has been a mainstay for the majority of his main roster run, so while I appreciate there is a backstory there, it's probably far more a case of he likes and is close with Randy (who he has worked with loads) and hasn't worked with/seen Punk in years, than something necessarily indicative of a beef there.

Owens seems like a pretty professional dude, I doubt he's refusing to do business or starting aggro with anyone unless provoked.

That interview question, and the follow up has very much been framed in a way to shit stir (and I'm not against such tactics but it's very deliberate) for clicks. 

7 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Typing Like This Is Embarrassing.

 

The way that's written, with the first letter of every word capitalised is hurting my brain. Flair needs to get in the bin. It's been embarassing for years, it's just in a different company now. 

EDIT: DOUBLE POST

17 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’d say this was when I saw the Dubs in a different light. Whenever we’d have visitors come over from Ireland my dad would make us stick this on as we recorded it. The whisky and the songs were flowing. It’s a long watch but some great stuff on here, including The Pogues joining them for Irish Rover (with Christy Moore on bodrhun!)

 

This has brought back a weird childhood memory of this show being on a recorded VHS (back when Channel 4 used to show The Late Late) that my dad later also recorded an episode of WCW Worldwide on for me where the future Raven debuted as Johnny Flamingo (as well as an episode of Get Stuffed and McLeod because there were on before/after at stupid o'clock in the morning). I must have watched that tape a hundred times, including the episode of TLLS as I got older, and less for the wrestling as time went on. 

4 minutes ago, Loki said:

And isn't that amazing for a lad born and raised in Kent, who went to public school, as Shane McGowan was?  He had an even posher upbringing than me, he went to Westminster School!  

I have a couple of Irish friends who are a bit down on The Pogues because of this, but that's rubbish isn't it.  Yes, most of the members were British, but the music is deeply rooted in Irish nationalism.  They're hardly singing about cider and King Arthur.

Not to be a pedant, but I think "second generation Irish" is probably more accurate tbh. I'm not sure how Shane McGowan or indeed any members of the band would appreciate being called British. 

Proper gut punch this one. The Pogues were a huge part of my childhood, and although it was coming (recent pictures of him were a pretty heartbreaking indication that he wasn't long for this world) it's still terrible.

I was lucky enough to see The Pogues live not far off twenty years ago. Even then, a shadow of his former self Shane McGowan was a presence like no other. But, seeing him in his heyday must have been something else. I think you get a bit of that from this. Just a whirlwind of a man. RIP.

Wardlow's hair looked a bit messy. almost like he's had a hat, or even say, a mask on. I don't know if he will be under the devil mask, or part of the angle but that's a great little easter egg if it turns out he is involved. 

Was it the Wrestle Me lads who described him as a "Dark sex wizard"? There was definitely a phase where that accurately described Taker. 

Apparently it's a smaller set up due to Taylor Swift doing a couple of extra dates at Wembley.

https://wrestletalk.com/news/aew-taylor-swift-eras-tour-all-in-london-2024-tony-khan/

1 minute ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

I think this is the key to how they handle it… https://www.instagram.com/p/ChgNoAyNQt4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

He has to go down the route of ‘I fell back in love with professional wrestling, and the truth is once you’ve been bitten by the bug - whether its the first time or the twentieth - all roads lead back to the WWE. This place has the best talent in the world, performing on the biggest platform, and if I truly believe I’m the best in the world, then this is where I’ve got to be. There’s a lot of water under the bridge, some of it toxic to drink, but as my new best mate Paul said it’s a clean slate. It’s 2023, this is a new company, under new management, and I’m a new CM Punk who’s standing in this ring saying… I’m going to be the new World Heavyweight Champion.’

Enter Rollins. Big fight. Away we go. ‘YOURE A CANCER YOU HAVENT CHANGED’, ‘FUCK YOU I JUST WANT TO WRESTLE.’ Blah blah blah.
 

I don’t think there’s much else they can do. I think there instinct will be to have him almost apologise to the WWE universe (‘I may have had problems with individuals, but I never meant for you guys to get caught in the crossfire, you’re the best fans in the world’), but that’s such a hard line to walk. I think he has to just be positioned as the guy that fell back in love with wrestling, and position it as completely logical that anyone who thinks they’re any good has to be in the WWE.

I largely agree with this, and I think that's roughly where they'll go. Punk is too stubborn and too smart to make it an apology, he'll talk about how much he loves the fans, and there will be some allusion to having worked somewhere else and things not working out but he wants to wrestle, and he wants to bring things full circle. There will almost certainly be some chat about unfinished business and wanting to main event Mania, and then Rollins can get involved and they're off to the races. 

4 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Blitzkeith Bop?

Rockaway Keith 

3 minutes ago, The King of Old School said:

https://twitter.com/wrestlelamia/status/1728651002658910511?s=19

😂

There's another video doing the rounds where you can see Randy is waving at Punk, so I imagine he was waving back, although admittedly it's far more hilarious if he's waving at a seemingly irate Rollins. 

I know it's been done before many times, but sticking the signature up on screen, seemingly going off the air and THEN playing the music was a tremendous touch. 

Ebook ordered!

I know it's inextricably linked to Punk, but it's also the 35th anniversary of the song's release, so might be totally unrelated. 

I'd want the Tonkotsu Ramen I had in Tokyo that was so good we went back 3 further times while we were there. It's legitimately something I've never been able to get anything close to in the nearly 8 years since meaning I'll just have to go back eventually. 

But I'd also want a garlic goat curry I had in the Isle of Wight at the Garlic Farm earlier this year. Homemade garlic naan, it was just out-of-this world. 

These are the two meals I think about most, occasionally dream about so that seems appropriate. 

Then maybe just a massive, inhumanely large pile of profiteroles for pudding, until my body gives out, thus robbing the state of a chance to do it for me. Fuck 'em.  

1 hour ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

On that, AEW should really try and do the funniest thing ever and hint that CM Punk is back for Collision-o-Page this Saturday.

If by some ridiculously minute chance Punk was the masked devil (fairly sure he's not, but wrestling is weird), surely they'd do it tonight in Chicago right? If not then they should definitely hint just to mess with people on Saturday for a bit of fun. 

2 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Yeah obviously that's true of any opinion and I wasn't trying to be a dick or anything. But some opinions are definitely more true than others e.g. if someone says Michael Bay is a better director than Martin Scorsese that's just their opinion which they are entitled to but I'm pretty confident they are wrong.

I totally get what you mean, and appreciate it wasn't intended as a dig at anyone. Although again that example you've given depends on your criteria, so in that scenario commercial success/mainstream appeal vs artistic excellence (Bay is that latter, naturally, Scorcese is a hack, and those Transformers movies are the peak of cinema history).

It's all a subjective experience, and I'm not trying to drag us down the blind "just enjoy wrestling" road either, of course there is ample room for a discourse on all aspects of wrestling. I think it's just important that everyone is able to feel as though they can have their personal preference on what they enjoy without it being a default "good/bad" situation. All wrestling companies, are a mixed bag in terms of their output and people enjoy different stuff, which is great too. 

13 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

I feel comfortable saying that it's made the majority of WWE matches pretty generic and average. I didn't say WWE don't have good matches, of course they do. However AEW has definitely had significantly more good matches on there shows than WWE have.

In fairness, that's a matter of personal taste and preference. You are supposing that your criteria for a "good match" is the same as someone else's. I'm not even necessarily saying I disagree with your assertion, it's just a little too subjective to quantify what is "good" when really it's a matter of opinion rather than fact. 

In a wider context, I also feel this also applies to the Meltzer ratings, which always seem to be hilariously over-analysed given it's just a guy giving out stars for what he liked. 

2 hours ago, The King of Old School said:

Nakamura/Cody then to get him through to the Rumble is my guess.

Orton RKOing Cody after the match to go to that programme was my initial thought, but maybe they save that for after Mania and he keeps busy with Nakamura for now. 

18 hours ago, JNLister said:

It's a series they did of 10-minute clip shows of different elements of World of Sport, including this episode on wrestling. It gets shown fairly frequently as it's designed as a filler whenever they have a 50-minute show in a one-hour slot, or similar.

Not for ITV, but I used to work in scheduling and these fillers are part of a big list on the scheduling system that can just be dropped into the slot to fill the time and ensure the next  programme starts on time (or at least no more than 30 seconds early), so there's a good chance whoever puts these in has no major insight into the content and they will just rotate the 10-minute fillers so they aren't played out too often.

Likely means the person in that role isn't necessarily a wrestling fan and how often the wrestling WOS filler goes out is entirely based on the duration required to fill around ad breaks and interstitial elements. 

Not wildly interesting, but a bit of a peak behind the curtain I suppose.

1 hour ago, Supremo said:

Now The Bucks have turned heel, I like the idea of Adam Cole and the Young Bucks being revealed as The Devil and his accomplices. Pays off the Cole/MJF feud and gets The Bucks back in a top position where they’ll hopefully continue giving a fuck.

Hangman attacked Swerve at the Revolver show last night. Check it out! The fucking fire of this man! What a reminder that this is the guy. Top babyface stuff. Texas Death is going to be nuts.

 

This was the Hangman that I wanted to see. So full of fire, a proper angry babyface. Beautiful to see. 

EDIT - Already mentioned in the Full Gear thread. 

16 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

He is all about business.

The more I think about it, I reckon this new signing will be Sami Callihan. I believe he's a free agent after leaving impact, and has ties with Moxley. Also the wording of TK's tweet "known and respected by virtually every AEW fan" makes me think it's not a Goldberg level signing (not that he's such a game changer now either in fairness, but thinking former world champion level), and I don't know who else is out there that's a megastar who isn't under contract.