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Just got the Shane Helms shoot to watch. I know he was outspoken about Shawn and has a bit of a gob from some podcasts I've heard him on so this could be pretty good.

Shit, just read on wrestlezone that Bray Wyatt injured his shoulder at an FCW taping last night early on in a match. Really hope it isn't serious enough to hold him back.

And the Bray Wyatt gimmick is tremendous. It's the best new WWE gimmick in a long time, and it's almost a shame it's 'wasted' on NXT and isn't on Raw or Smackdown. This is a main roster gimmick, and Wyatt is a good enough talker and wrestler that he should be on tv each week, with a decent midcard push.

 

FWIW, the same promo was aired on Superstars this week, so there's a chance he might start showing up on the main shows as well as NXT sooner rather than later. I very much hope so.

Jeez between Wyatt and Dean Ambrose (any news on him?) there are some great menacing personalities on the rise.

Also I'm loving the Ascension guy's shaky head thing he does.

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Only posting for the "where's Trent" segement

That was so disturbing but funny too. Great stuff and the kind of comedy I would love more of in WWE here and there, even just for WWE.com.

Also liked the tease of Kane only to be Hawkins' cane.

I've only watched the first 10mins but Rollins seems to be showing a hell of a lot more personality in terms of facials and movement than he did when I saw him in ROH. I liked him in ROH but that may have been down to Gabe's booking and the great AOTF angle I liked as a 16 year old. Still at least with the dyed hair he seems a bit different in look from the cookie-cutter type.

Lead single of the new ICP album will be titled 'Chris Benoit'. They're filming a video for it too.

Brilliant stuff from Corino there. Some of his lines to Nigel were class.

- I can't tell if it's wrong to want to fuck Hayden Panetierre or not. She's got some weird almost-dwarfism thing going on.

 

- The guy playing Mohinder might be a worse actor than Milo.

 

 

Hayden Panetierre has a whole host of rumours about her going on, including numerous 'blind' items (including this one) and part of some elaborate Hollywood black book thing.

 

Mohinder is wooden as owt in the first episode of Ultimate Force. Oh, your brother has died... No emotion whatsoever

Can you link/elaborate more on those rumours?

Yeah I watch Legend LRB2 and Total Nonstop Attitude. I don't why I do. They're peculiar fellows but dammit they love it so damn much to spend so much on a consistent basis.

Waiting for Zodiac by Robert Graysmith to arrive from Amazon. I LOVE the Fincher film and watched two docs on the case but fancied picking this up to go through to get back into reading. Not a big crime fan but this case really piques my interest.

First saw The Room through my uni housemate, and have since seen it live in Brighton and London (the latter Tommy and Greg were there for a Q and A, though I didnt get a chance to meet them. Probably seen it about 15 times or possibly more. I await Greg's book if indeed it is a tell-all.

I've watched Series 1 of Desmonds on 4OD. I saw sporadic episodes as a kid watching with my Grandad and remembered liking it. No idea what started me watching it again. It's as good as I remembered. It's cruel and bigoted in places but has great warmth. Desmond and Pork Pie are like Alf Garnett in some ways in that they're probably dislikeable if you think about it but yet you do really like them.

My parents worked with the guy who wrote Desmonds. Going to watch some eps now that you mentioned it, still remember watching it as a kid here and there.

With no Mad Men and GOT to watch now, and all the NBC comedy finished, I'm without something on retainer to watch till Breaking Bad in July. Thinking of getting into Justified. Worth it?

Sorry to bump this but I just had a quick question about the latest London and Kendrick shoot. Highspots have said on their site that they've pushed back the release to July with something like "must reach 250 pre-orders". Does this mean that they won't ship them till they get that number of pre-orders? Theoretically, if no one really cared about hearing about these two, and they didn't get 250 pre-orders by then, would they just wait till they did?

Also what are people's experiences buying from Highspots and RF Video?

Is the Death of WCW worth reading? Or is it the same old "Russo killed it" stuff you can hear elsewhere? Is there much insightful content?

Didn't she hang out in Paul London's backyard for a while when he was regularly putting videos up?

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I'm about half way through the Russo shoot and I think what prevents it being any good is two things:

1) He doesn't want to give any of his ideas away which could apparently bring wwe into 2012 possibly for future projects where he reveals his secrets or to get him a possible job in the future (which is quite smart).

2) and most importantly, he probably has so much stuff he says taken out of context and jumped on by people, that here he has to reiterate and build stuff up with so many prefaces so he's not mis-represented, with wild hand gestures, that it dilutes a lot of what is said.

There's also Feinstein's terrible interviewing style; though with someone like Russo who admittedly jumps all over from one thing to the next, it is kind of justified here.

Overall I quite like the guy. He doesn't sweat stuff and has the "kill 'em with kindness" philosophy. It's actually quite funny that Cornette hates the guy which such a ridiculous passion by comparison. He's managed to work consistently in this business from the mid 90s to now having gone from running a video store so he's doing something right. Cornette can fuck off in my opinion, the petty git.

Russo also understands that wrestling alone isn't very cool, watching men prance around in their underwear. The kind of presentation which Cornette seems to have enforced in ROH where everything is super serious is not liked by the normal person sat at home (especially with MMA being so popular and simultaneously real). He realises that to get the big numbers of the Attitude era, like that time, it takes getting the average viewer watching to make wrestling the "in thing" through ratings. It's a two-way system. I also feel he has a good point about committees in wrestling being backwards in that they mean various directions and ultimately compromise. He admits that in WWF and TNA they booked week to week, so he makes no bones of that criticism even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

I would really like to hear more about his take on what he was met with when he briefly returned to WWE in 2002. Is there anything about it in his YouShoot, or is it just fattys accusing him of killing wrestling?

After seeing some negative stuff about his You Shoot, decided to get the RF Shoot instead with Russo. Usually I have preferred KFC over RF but maybe without the gimmicks of a live crowd, this one may be better. His first one back in the early-mid 00s was pretty good from what I remember and this will cover his most recent TNA run from 06.

The Dudleys one is terrific too.

Nash's story about the Kliq at the place with all the police while on pills is brilliant stuff.

We probably have a Mad Men thread somewhere but this week's epsiode was all sorts of wow.

Agreed. Absolutely gutting for me and another blow for Don following Peggy leaving the week before.

I find it hard to care about kids in dramas but Mad Men nail it with Sally; the actress is absolutely charming.

I don't think he'll necessarily burn his bridges with TNA. If it doesn't work out for him, in a year he can join the 15th relaunch of the X Division or reunite with Sabin. Like someone said, he can use his WWE "fame" to up his price tag on indies in America or abroad.

My mum was reading the Daily Mail and suddenly asked if the Undertaker had the longest streak in sports? Someone wrote in that question.

 

But surprising to me was the fact the answer was almost complimentary. Going into detail about Taker they said '... But this is not to detract from the achievements of the wrestlers, who have it very tough. Wrestling puts huge demands on the wrestler. He has to be an athelete, stuntman, choreographer, director, actor, 'Stand up' microphone man, and ensure he knows where his opponent, the referee and any other props/personnel in and around the ring at all times.'

Was just coming to post this as well. Raised a chuckle out of me.