Pier Six Brawler

RIP. Little known fact is that Dave Hebner never refereed another match after the Hogan Andre angle in 1988. Earl refereed as "Dave Hebner" for many years until they started acknowledging him as Earl in the Attitude Era.

If Esparza's first challenger is the winner of Zhang vs Joanna 2, I think she'll lose. And if Namajunas's next fight is the loser of that fight, I think she'll lose, despite beating both of them in the past.

I didn't realise that they'd brought back so many old characters in Neighbours. Plain Jane Superbrain, Melanie who was married to Joe Mangel, Dr Clive Gibbons, Gemma Ramsay, Glen Donnelly, Amy who went out with Lance. Much like wrestling they've been relying on nostalgia too much. It's telling that the main picture on most of the news stories about Neighbours being cancelled is of Kylie and Jason who were on the show a third of a century ago.

Is she a US citizen?  Could she have to return to Australia?

I see she's engaged to Juice Robinson so maybe they'll get married sooner rather than later.

All 3 people involved in the infamous "stocks" incident with Bobby Davro are now dead.

1 hour ago, 69MeDon said:

I was 50/50 on opening this thread whether it'd be about limbo.

Thread title instantly brought this to mind:

5 hours ago, 69MeDon said:

I hated X-Factor at the time. I'm wondering though if it was they just worked me really well or were they really bad?

X-Factor were all decent enough workers but Waltman wasn't cut out to be the frontman of a stable. It was a stable made up of 2 Buddy Roberts's and 1 Terry Gordy but no Michael Hayes.

They should bring back the Royal Samovar Trophy.

A lot would depend on how much they'd charge for tickets. If they charge the equivalent of what they do in the US for SummerSlam and the other big PPVs, I don't think they'd come close to selling out any of the large stadiums in London. I think a secondary PPV in the O2, where they can sell 20,000 tickets at high prices to die-hards, is far more likely.

6 hours ago, Pier Six Brawler said:

Bockwinkel had another great match with Dory Funk Jr. at WCW Slamboree '93. He'd have been 58 then and Funk 52.

Best one I can think of with two 50+ year olds, 57 year old Nick Bockwinkel vs 53 year old Billy Robinson in UWFI in 1992.

Bockwinkel had another great match with Dory Funk Jr. at WCW Slamboree '93. He'd have been 58 then and Funk 52.

11 hours ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

Not just a former team, a founding member

Luton Town came close, they were one of the clubs that voted to form the Premier League but were relegated at the end of the 91/92 season and never got to play in it, they were subsequently relegated from the league but have since come back and are now in the Championship.

I see Oldham are at the bottom of League 2, if they go down they'll be the first former Premier League team to relegated from the league. 

Michael K. Williams (Omar from the Wire) dies aged 54.

I remember all my family gathering round the TV to watch the Simpsons in 1990-91 or so. Probably the only show we'd all watch together every week. There was some awful talent show hosted by Keith Chegwin on before it, I forget what it was called.

Was there football on Sky One before Sky Sports started? I remember watching the Zenith Data Systems cup on Sky (this was before the Premier League) and I can't think what other channel it would have been on.

Two worlds collide as the 1983 Tampa Bay Rowdies subs bench features Kato of the Orient Express alongside Big Sam Allardyce.

12 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:

It's a good movie. It was on Amazon Prime at one point. Its got a rare appearance of fat pre plane crash Ric Flair in it. 

It's on Youtube:

Having ECW return in the WWF in 2001 and then form the alliance with WCW later in the same episode of RAW.

Hogan winning the WWF title at Backlash 2002 because of getting a nice nostalgia pop at WrestleMania the month before. Beating HHH who they'd spent so much time building up the return of as a babyface after his injury the year before.

5 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Grumpy man actor Ed Asner has died at 91. What a career 

He was great in (the original) "The Wrestler" where he effectively played Verne Gagne, wrestling promoter (while Verne himself played Verne Gagne, wrestler). RIP.

I'm sure Beach Blast '92 had palm trees etc by the entrance way.

I definitely remember GAB '92 looking very bare bones, another thing was there was no interviews or backstage segments that I recall either (maybe they were edited off the VHS), it was just match, match, match.

The TV was great under Watts but the PPVs seemed to suffer, Beach Blast was great (that might have been before he really started running things), Halloween Havoc '92 was poor and Starrcade '92 was just a mish-mash with too much going on (two world title matches, plus the King of Cable final, plus the Battle Bowl) and the likes of Sting and Vader had to do triple duty and work three matches. SuperBrawl III was great though, one of the best WCW PPVs.

I liked GAB '92 but I can understand why it didn't go down too well at the time. The Arena looked very basic and sparse WCW normally had elaborate set decorations for PPV, nothing for this event, just the ring in a dark arena, and no mats surrounding the ring either. The PPV was the world title match and the NWA title tournament, Vader pretty much dominated Sting and pinned him clean to win the title, and Williams and Gordy won the tournament, also cleanly.