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The National is a funny race. The marked improvement of the quality of horses have changed it a lot. Personally I wouldn't back either of those @thevestofdeanambrose Tiger Roll won that Mickey mouse race at Cheltenham which is no guide for the National. Davey Russell as pilot is a interesting booking though. Total Recall is class but fell last time. Not ideal preparation. I had a few quid each way earlier in the week on Baie Des Iles at 40s, and it is currently 16s so I'm not the only one. Perhaps a year to early but will love the ground. 

I love Elias. He's got that look in his eye that says "Absolute mayhem could break out at any minute, but only if I want it" The same sort of look Oliver Reed had when he'd had a drink and someone had asked him a stupid question on a chat show. 

15 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

Still on iPlayer is a docudrama about the comedian Dave Allen, "Dave Allen at Peace." Littlefinger from GoT plays Allen.

It's a mix of biographical stuff and r reenactments of sketches and monologues.

Littlefinger played Allen and Varys played his brother. 

It was very good I thought. If you watched the documentary afterwards you could see how well Aiden Gillen played him. 

Call the police because Jack Miller was robbed. MotoGP ignoring its own start procedure rules cost Miller that race. As for Marquez,  @Harry Wiseau Is right. Could have been black flagged at least twice. Rossi's team telling him to fuck off when he tried to go and apologise made Neil Warnock look like a saint the other night. The look in Lin Jarvis's eye as he came into the garage would have killed an elephant. That really was Moto2 Marquez today. 

All fighting isn't MMA though is it. How long has MMA been around. UFC since 93 and at a push you could say MMA has been around since 1980. How long has wrestling been around 100+ years. 

Wrestling seemed to do pretty well in all those years up to the invention of MMA as a concept, and no one was promoting it as anything other than wrestling. If anything the reverse if your argument is true. MMA is copying  wrestling. They took all the things that help make wrestling great and used them to make their often dull fights better. Look at the amount of vehicles destroyed in backstage wrestling angles, then look at McGregor and his bus. If anything MMA is stupider than wrestling because they don't get some trainees to dress up as cops and pretend to arrest the person who did the damage. 

21 minutes ago, Pier Six Brawler said:

Pro wrestling absolutely should pretend be MMA, if not, what should it pretend to be?

 

 

How about it doesn't pretend to be anything other than Pro Wrestling. Its changed over the years but pro wrestling at its best still better than MMA every day of the week. 

DeGale's problems go all the way back to his first fight. Degale is a really good boxer, but in that first fight he got booed because it wasn't very exciting to watch. I think that in his mind after that he had to fight more than box so the crowd didn't boo him. Then this is magnified when he loses to Groves. That was an exciting fight, even though he lost. Every big fight he has had since has been tougher than it needed to be because his ego wont let the booing from that first fight go. If he had boxed through his career he wouldn't be quite so broken down now. I think Truax will beat him tonight. 

Canet (In the blue) had been mad with Yurchenko (in the green) earlier in the lap because Canet felt Yurchenko wasn't going quick enough and that he ruined his lap. Canet then catches him up and does that. The commentators actually called it. He didn't mean to crash himself, just to knock Yurchenko off. Its just madness. 

The guy in the green race suit is trying to turn in to the corner and the guy in blue just drives straight across the track to take him out. You can't do that. 

Motorsport overload this weekend. F1, MotoGP, and Touring Cars. Have only watched the MotoGP FP1 so far. Controversy already in Moto 3 as Aron Canet who is one of the favourites did this clearly on purpose 

And received no penalty from the stewards. If you can get away with this bullshit it will end up like the game Road Rash. 

12 hours ago, Uncle Zeb said:

 

Tommy'd Ream 'Er - found stroking his kendo stick during women's matches

 

Surely you would go for Tommy D:Ream-er where things can only get better. 

1 hour ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

 

Velveteen Bream - Annoyed that nobody says his name, he changes it and joins Bobby Fish's new faction that also includes Hake Roberts and Yokotuna.

 

Yokotuna has just done me in completely. Well played. 

Sasha Wanks. Highest rates segment on every WWE show. 

Kill Ospreay. A man who really hates all avian life. Feuds with Koko B Ware, The Red Rooster and Raven. 

Jim Cornetto. Manages El Hijo Del Ice Cream, Ice Cream Jr and Officer Magnum in Chikara. 

HGH. ITS TIME TO PLAY THE GAME! but this time all use of human growth hormone is perfectly acceptable.

Bubba Gay Dudley. Not wrestling the Briscoe Brothers any time soon. 

Spike O'Sullivan will be a big draw for the Mexican crowd. 

17 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said:

People like Cole were forced under company policy to attend an awareness class because of it, the Bristol’s weren’t.

Spell check is not your friend, although to be fair he has acted like a massive tit. 

As an umpire myself Tom I can tell you that umpiring is like that everywhere. I genuinely despair at some of the umpires who stand around here. I thought the new version of the laws over the winter might encourage some of the worst umpires to pack in, but if you didn't know the old laws then not knowing the new ones isn't a problem. 

Price should pack it in now. That was a scary KO. He was out on his feet from the previous punch and to be honest Povetkin could have knocked him down with a feather at that point. 

To be fair to the ref in the main event all either of them did in close was hold. He split them up and got them boxing again. Perhaps he was over eager a couple of times but that's all. It certainly aided Joshua though. 

8 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Apologies as I am obviously missing something - is NJPW doing shows in the UK?

 

https://www.njpwuk.com/

That is very true David. No one likes a dull build up to a fight. 

1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said:

I thought John Goodman died in Roseanne, did he just fuck off somewhere or have they just ignored that?

Option B. 

As has already been said in this thread, Hearn is loveable slime. Bricktop, sorry I mean Warren is just slime. If whoever it was who shot him has used something other than a Luger the course of boxing history would have been different I'm sure. The problem is that as wrestling fans we all know that Luger never wins the big one when the chips are down. 

Typical England. Get bowled out for 58 so they drop 2 bowlers in Moeen and Woakes. Then they add that paragon of resolute batting James Vince to the squad. Trent Boult is adding the 2 wickets of Vince to his career stats already. Good to see Leach get a call up though. Now they just need to give him a bowl. 

Could be worse Dev, we could be cheating and still getting stuffed. As for the cheating Aussies, Warner and Smith have lost their IPL money as well. That's where it will really hurt them. Interesting to see that Warner won't be considered for the captaincy ever again if he plays and that Smith can't be captain for 2 years.  Warner was obviously the ring leader.