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I was listening to a Colt Cabana podcast recently and he mentioned that he was driven out of ROH by Jim Cornette and Delirious. What's the story there?

Fucking hell, imagine Roman winning a match and then telling Steph to stick on a clown suit.  Attitude Era-like ratings ahead, I'd imagine.

I haven't listened to it yet, but I found it quite lazy that HBK was the latest guest considering he's already done a two-parter on Austin's podcast, and recently did a two-parter on Jericho's too.  I don't feel like there's anything new to talk about.

 

And now Flair is the next guest, who's also done a two-parter on Austin's podcast and has recently had Austin on his.  Surely there are better options?

 

She's a horrible bitch, that's her character and she's great at it, IMO. People want to see her show some arse (williams.jpg) and whether she does enough is clearly the issue, but maybe they're looking at this with a view of doing something big at 'Mania. Surely the fact she's remained so strong throughout the year only leads to a hotter and bigger pay off down the road? It worked brilliantly for a while during the Bella feud and the Rousey angle was dynamite.

 

There's not going to be any pay off and you know there never will be. 

 

 

Spot on.  People were saying this all the way through the Daniel Bryan angle, and it didn't happen.  She got in the ring and slapped the fuck out of him after he beat Triple H instead.  There was a brief period at the end of 2014 after Survivor Series where the faces had the upper-hand, but she was back on TV a few weeks later to continue her status as the top heel.  She's fucking dreadful, probably the worst thing about WWE at the moment, and definitely one of the main reasons I don't watch Raw anymore.

Worst Wrestler of the Year

Big Show

 

Worst Match of the Year

Royal Rumble Match

 

Worst Event of the Year

WWE Survivor Series

 

Letdown of the Year

Roman Reigns winning the Royal Rumble

The build-up to Wrestlemania 31

 

Stupidest / Worst Moment

Big Show winning the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal

Big Show and Kane dumping everybody out of the Royal Rumble

Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose calling Daniel Bryan a turd

Match of the Year

Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins vs. John Cena - Royal Rumble

Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe - NXT Takeover London

 

Event of the Year

NXT Takeover Brooklyn

Wrestlemania 31

 

TV Show of the Year

WWE NXT

Breaking Ground

 

Feud/Angle of the Year

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens

 

Best Moment

Samoa Joe's NXT debut

Seth Rollins cashes in MITB at Wrestlemania 31

Sami Zayn's Raw debut

 

Funniest Moment

Royal Rumble 2015 match

 

Best Podcast

​The Steve Austin Show

Talk is Jericho

Wrestler of the Year

John Cena

Seth Rollins

Finn Balor

Babyface of the Year

Sami Zayn

Bayley

Heel of the Year

Kevin Owens

Tag Team of the Year

Jason Jordan & Chad Gable

Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady

Female Wrestler of the Year

Bayley

Breakthrough Star

Kevin Owens

Yep, that was ridiculously harsh, and twat would have been too. I've never heard that term before and I was just as confused as Nonce. No need to have a pop at him.

 

And it seems there's a lot of Stephanie haters in the UKFF house. So how did she win best heel of 2014 on the UKFF Awards?

Because a year is a long time for someone to go from good to absolute shite

 

 

She was shit in 2014 as well, I think it speaks volumes about the quality of heels that year.

If they want Reigns to keep getting cheered, surely putting him against Brock Lesnar, arguably the most over man in the company, is a terrible idea?

Ending sounds good, but how was the opening segment with Stephanie slapping Roman?  Was it as dreadful and "WWE" as it sounds?

 

What is she doing??

Maxwell, how do you know where to find all these horny bisexual women you constantly talk about? Asking for a friend.

I can't remember sorry, this was a while ago and I've closed the account since.

That happened to me one month completely out of the blue. I tweeted them and got no response. I think it went back to normal the following month.

My sister shares stuff like that far too much. Her phone bill kept rising each month earlier this year to the point it was about £50 a month. My parents pay her bill and they asked me to look through them and see if I could find the reason. Turns out she'd been texting those 5 digit numbers where you put your name next to a bloke's name and you'll get a reply telling you whether or not you're meant to be together.

 

She's 18.

This week WOOOOO Nation features Flair interviewing Sting. Could be some good stories in that one

 

I listened to my first two (well, one and a bit) episodes of Flair's podcast the other day.  The first one was the Hulk Hogan one out of total curiosity.  Hogan was on the phone for the interview which I absolutely hate, but I understand it's not always possible for the guest to be there live, but even Flair, the fucking host, was on the phone!  It was horrendous, and Flair is difficult to understand at the best of times.

 

The second was the one with Austin from just before Summerslam.  This time they were both there live which was nice, but Austin couldn't get a word in for the life of him.  It was as if Flair was the guest and Austin the host.  I don't think I'll bother with it again unless one gets a rave review.

 

I'm still peeved that there is no Glasgow date in 2016

 

Pretty sure tommyboi is banging a drum about this somewhere. Banging it with a large bottle of Heineken.

 

 

While eating his free nibbles.

The wrestling fans that post on reddit are my worst wrestling fans, it's unbearable there.

 

It goes through stages.  A few short months ago I could happily spend an hour on there, but at the moment it's completely unbearable.  DAE ROMAN SUCKS??

Rick, do you watch Raw live every week? You're absolutely bonkers if so. Get some sleep man, it's probably more fun anyway.

 

Yeah, it seems fucking mad that people have watched the full show before 8am.  Do you have young kids that refuse to sleep beyond 4am?

That happens a lot on mine, mainly with Genesis. It's very hit and miss, some days it'll work like a dream, other times the exact stream I was watching the night before will refuse to work. What app were you using?

Mine came with all the add ons it seems. Only I can't find the robocop one. Also, long shot, but are there are free add ons for USA Network and HBO?

 

Phoenix has live US TV with both of those channels on there.  They don't work particularly well for me, but they have worked on occasion.

The only indication that anyone in WWE knows who Conor McGregor is was Becky Lynch stealing his, "we're not here to take part, we're here to take over," line earlier in the year. I wouldn't be surprised if Lynch came up with that herself though. Other than that, I highly doubt anyone of importance knows who he is. They clearly don't watch the UFC. They know who Rousey is, sure, but they haven't actually watched any of her fights if their attempt to make stars out of their own women is any indication.

 

Even if the WWE brass knew about Conor, and had followed or studied his UFC career, I've got zero confidence that they'd be able to successfully take from it or manage to emulate what he's achieved. They're in completely different businesses, doing completely different things.

 

I'd be surprised if Vince knows who Conor McGregor is, but surely the writers would.  It may be as simple as a writer telling Vince about an Irish fighter who is becoming something of a mainstream celebrity, and Vince's shrivelled brain has decided that Sheamus could do the same thing.

If there's heat on screen, there's nothing going on off-screen. Did you not listen to Joey?

 

Does that work the other way around too?  If so, Ziggler must have been balls deep in Lana a few months ago.

 

Hes a top UFC fighter

 

I expected his push to be mid next year too, hopefully he isnt on top til then

WWE aren't going to push someone because they are the same nationality as some UFC bloke.

 

 

What makes you so sure?  WWE are desperate to cash-in on any pop culture trend, and at the moment Conor McGregor is arguably MMA's biggest draw - a large part of his persona is that he's Irish, and I'd be surprised if Sheamus' current push isn't slightly related to McGregor's popularity.