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WWE are moving their Main Event B show from Youtube to a platform called Rumble, which is apparently a far right/conservative video sharing site. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/wwe-main-event-youtube-rumble-1236873674/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/what-is-rumble-the-video-sharing-platform-immune-to-cancel-culture

Actually surprised WWE never got Swagger and Dutch back, would be right up the current owners street. Maybe he's doing this idiotic slapping craic to try and keep his name out there or he's really bad with money.

I only know his WWE run. He was one of the few ex WCW lads brought in properly and treated like a star by WWE, which singled him out as already a cut above most of the SD roster in 2002. I enjoyed his first year or so and the Matt Hardy feud, and Big Show swinging him for the fences, but he became very stale very quickly with the same matches, crap promos/no personality and becoming increasingly muscular and less mobile. His 06 main event run was in such poor taste with all the Eddie stuff that I'm surprised he managed to escape from it pretty much unscathed, except for the crowd shitting on him at One Night Stand. He did very well to become a WWE lifer considering their traditional aversion to the smaller lads, though I imagine all the merch money for the masks helped with that so fair play I suppose.

I joined in 2011 apparently. Scary how quickly 15 years can go. I used to use the old pro wrestling forum on boards.ie, but I got fed up with the awful design of that site (it is somehow still going and still horrendous!) and I'd also grown out of my smarky indie Power Slam days of fandom, whereas most posters there were still complaining that Tyson Kidd hadn't beaten Cena for the title or whatever. I've not met anyone off here in person, but I've never had a cross word with anyone off here either. Quite the opposite. A lot of you folks have been really supportive and kind throughout the years and it really is a lovely little community here, which is a testament to you all especially in these days of poisonous social media.

I'm enjoying Troy Parrott's adventure in La Liga. Scores a tap in to beat Jose's Madrid, scores a lovely goal in the Champions League and nearly scored from the halfway line against Getafe tonight. He's thankfully been the opposite of our previous great white hope, Evan Ferguson, last season at Roma.

Christian's opera entrance after he split from Edge in 2001 was lovely & made him look a proper star. Way better than Edge's 'Never Gonna Stop' Rob Zombie one. Edge's entrance back then still irrationally annoys me cos it was never shown in full on the Sky One Saturday morning SD cos of the strobe lights when he's on the ramp. They'd do the crowd shot instead, same as when someone was hit with a chair.

I was watching Mania 19 there. I had forgotten this, but I can't believe they used pictures of Booker T with his mother who died when he was 12, him as a kid and then his jail photo in the pre match promo and then still had him lose to H, while King on commentary slagged him off about being a jailbird. That awful delayed pin finish is just salt in the wound. Awful stuff.

In my old job where I had to go to court a few times a month to get things signed by a Judge, the best name I ever heard when I was waiting to be called was Hubert Haddock. There was also a Judge called Pauline Codd.

After waiting 3 months for an appointment with a psychologist in the community and then and lots of different tests and interviews with them, I have been given a diagnosis of complex PTSD largely down to incidents in my childhood. I'd not really heard of it before outside of it being a trope in war movies etc, but the way it was explained to me it makes a lot of sense. We are now going to see which therapy might be the best for me, the two the psychologist has in mind is schema therapy or EMDR. It feels good to at least have a reason for how I've been feeling all these years. I am still on a rake of medications for depression, anxiety and sleep but hopefully I will eventually be able to reduce them at the very least.

Does Rey do much commentary? he's bloody abysmal. Carcinero looked great though, cool mask too.

Link to Rovert's memorial page apparently. https://rip.ie/death-notice/trevor-woodhouse-dublin-clondalkin-639725