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I can recall Colt Cabana having a single semi squash match against The Brian Kendrick on Smackdown, where they inserted a crap vignette of him in the little entrance video box acting like a mime during his entrance, and then never seeing him again. When Punk won the title after the 'pipebomb' promo there were whispers of him coming back to WWE as a commentator, but it never made telly if he did.

Is that Scott Stanford doing commentary? he's bloody awful whoever he is.

Terribly sad. Apparently his ex manager nicked the money she was supposed to be paying in taxes on his behalf and he ended up owing more money to the IRS than he made in his entire run in Breaking Bad. He was excellent as Walt Jr. The scene where he protects Skyler and his sister from Walt towards the end of the show was really well done.

We're going on strike on Wednesday, unless the government agrees to negotiate and accept discussing pay rise at the beginning of any talks for new public service deal. We've been work to rule since end of September doing no overtime, training or filling in for vacant posts. I thought government would have coughed by now, but looks like they're going to try and look strong. Reckon that will change when their constituents start complaining about kids being off school etc. Good thing to come about from all of this is loads of my younger colleagues who previously had no interest, have joined up and are now participating actively with the union. Great to see.

Cheers. I never heard of him before. I watched Welfare today and thought it was excellent. The variety of the people and the staff and how they interact was so interesting. Also amazing how much more capable people seemed to be able to converse respectfully back then for the most part, even people obviously living in desperation and on the bones of their arse.

Jaysus, I can't believe they're doing the shooty bollocks in a B feud between Reigns and Knight. It sorta makes sense (but is obviously still shit) when Punk does it. But having Knight do it is so bloody lazy. Triple H genuinely only has about 3 storyline ideas he cycles through, where his only real creativity seems to be reserved for choreographing wrestlers entrances in minute detail.

WWE just can't do comedy. They never could. If they get even a hint that a performer is getting genuine laughs, they latch onto the wrong thing in that performers act and proceed to beat the audience over the head with it until it's not funny and becomes irritating. I feel sorry for the wrestlers who get laughs having to try and deal with Prichard, Hayes and H's ideas of humour r when they get backstage.

Ireland beat Israel 3-0 in a match that nobody here really wanted them to play and Gavin Bazunu, to his credit, didn't. Unfortunately, the FAI had another Saipan level shambles and their utter mishandling of the situation heaped all the pressure on the players 24 hours before the game and has probably led to fractures in the squad. Looks like Israel won't be disciplined for their fans making monkey chants at Adam Idah too, which is pretty disgraceful.

Jesus, I'm only really getting a chance to sit down and process this now. Just so bloody sad and as has been said, no age to pass away at. Neville was one of the few highlights in my fading fandom of WWE in the mid 2010's and he always looked and sounded hard as nails whenever I saw him in AEW. Rest in peace, gone far too young.

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.