Pier Six Brawler

Someone posted the JLaw pics and the CIA siezed control of the site for 24 hours.

Compton should take over the series.

 

Still, Fin Martin > Bill Apter.

Really?

 

KENTA signs with WWE, live in the ring, with Hogan and Jimmy Hart there to broker the deal.

Is

the most controversial WWE tag team ever?

RF Video bought the rights to release ECW footage back in the 90s. That agreement still holds even though Vince now owns the library.

Last week's Colt Cabana podcast with Rip Rogers is the best one since the Cliff Compton Nigeria one years ago.

Alex's dad Steven Wright is one of the great forgotten about wrestlers. Here's a gif of him in action against Tiger Mask:

 

IIRC Hulk was ranked in the first PS50, somewhere in the low 40s. Like most people, Martin was excited about Hogan going to WCW and working with all the WCW guys, then somewhat less enthused when the whole promotion was changed to accomodate him and his buddies and it just became a second rate retread of 80s WWF.

How much would the mag be worth as a going concern? Would it be worth FSM buying it and becoming "FSM & PowerSlam" in the same vein as "Whizzer and Chips" or "Dandy and Hoot" when the old kids comics started merging with each other back in the day?

20 year anniversary of the mag soon. I have fond memories of buying the first issue with Owen Hart on the cover after winning KOTR. It was a breath of fresh air even though it only semi-broke kayfabe, since it had news only a couple of weeks out of date compared to the about 3 months of the Apter mags at the time. And it covered Japanese and Mexican wrestling which weren't really covered elsewhere for the most part. It's been a long downward slide since then. I really don't know why Fin doesn't sell up, he's clearly beyond jaded with wrestling. What magazine covering any other form of sport or entertainment would be so constantly down on what is currently happening and so in love with the past?

Latest RF Video shoot interview is with

, Matt Striker hosts. Should be interesting. I've always thought the shoot interview format could be used in other areas of entertainment or business besides just wrestling.

What was Misawa doing over here in 2005? I don't remember that at all, I thought the 2008 NOAH event was his first appearance over here.

Where's Warrior in that pic?

 

That's Batista, Mr Belding from SBTB, rapper Action Bronson (with gun and pizza box), members of Bronsons entourage, and a couple of strippers.

Backstage footage from the last ECW event in pine bluff, Arkansas, Tommy Dreamer gives a tearful speech to the boys as it finally hits home that this is indeed the end for ECW.

Jericho is like Mick Foley in that the more of his real personality he shows, the more unlikeable he becomes.

How old is Arya supposed to be at this point? 12? How much time is supposed to have passed between the opening episode and latest one?

I watched NOAH tonight in Imax. Pretty good, better than I expected tbh.

The whole fantasy booking bit of the GB releases is utterly pointless IMO.

I work in telesales and today got a Thomas Billington in Leigh, Lancashire pop up onscreen. It was an answer machine though.

Starrcade '83 is interesting because it's from the pre-Dusty Rhodes era of JCP. It's really a Mid-Atlantic PPV, not like the later big events and PPVs which were national Expansion "NWA" shows.