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C&Bs stuff holds up lot better than the alternative comedy that followed it. Plaza Patrol was a good show and the Boys in Blue is probably the best British comedy movie of the 1980s. RIP. 

The Midnight Express vs Southern Boys match at GAB'90 is one of the greatest tag matches of all time. RIP Tracy. 

I always thought TNA's six sided ring looked ridiculously tiny. I remember going to one of their house shows and not being able to get over how small it was compared to the WWE's ring. I assume it was 18' in width  like the WCW ring but with the corners removed it made it far too small. They should have made it 20'. 

In comparison the UFC Octagon is huge. 30' across. It seems far bigger live and in person than it comes across on TV. I think they're using a slightly smaller one at the moment though.

Greatest tag team of all time, both taken from us before their time, RIP. 

Craig Cash, of the Royle Family, Early Doors, and plenty of other stuff turns sixty today.

Cornette's been using that line for years (I'm fairly sure he used it on Baby Doll in the 80s) and I'd be very surprised if he didn't steal it from Lawler. And Lawler probably stole it from a comedian,or got it from his joke book. 

Put the young talent over those that have been there 3-7 years. Those are the old-timers in this paradigm. Look at AJW in their glory days, the retirement age was 26 and their crowds were packed full of screaming young girls. Young viewers are worth a hundred OAPs to the TV executives. WWE should become the voice of the new generation, just like Pepsi was back in the day.

1 minute ago, King Pitcos said:

They’re all allowed one full body cell replacement cycle.

WWE has come to terms today on the releases of Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Daniel Bryan, The Miz, the Usos, New Day, Randy Orton and pretty much everyone else that anyone cares about.

Do Rey Mysterio, Jeff Hardy, John Morrison and Drew McIntyre count as they’ve had over seven in total, or does it just count from the last time they re-joined? 

I'd fire all of those guys.

The seven years is based on the traditional average turnover of fans. They drastically need to push some under 30 year old stars, just strap a rocket to them and see where it lands, they can't keep going where they are going where the big stars are the guys from the Attitude era and the up and comers are in their mid-30s. Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy were selling out the Louisiana Superdome aged 21 and 19. That's pro-wrestling in my eyes. It's no wonder the average age of fans is about 65 when the likes of AJ Styles (who is the same age as old-man Bob Backlund was when he made his WWF comeback in 1992) is being promoted as an "up and coming hungry tiger".

They can bring back some of the younger (sub-35) older stars as enhancement talent after a couple of years or so.

WWE needs to cut a lot more guys, once the Corona Virus is over of course. The roster is so stale it's untrue. Wrestling was far more exciting when there was a rapid turnover of talent. If it was up to me I'd cut everyone that's been there over 7 years. Including NXT.

Always loved TBT's scene in the original "Willy Wonka" film. RIP.

I think if Boris goes, it's time to get serious. Coalition "wartime" government, rationing, martial law, no more pussyfooting around with people being given "stern reprimands" for having barbecues in the park or birthday parties with friends and family in attendance.

Having Boris die of it is going to send shockwaves throughout the country - and an extent the world - he'd be by far the most high profile casualty yet and you know as PM he'd have received the best possible medical care. 

At my work anyway it's 80% of basic only. 

Are they going to do it for an interim title? I hope not.

I spoke to Roy Hudd on the phone at work about a month ago, RIP. 

Scott Steiner is an awesome man. The Steiner Bros absolutely blew me away when I first saw them and its amazing that Scotty is still out there doing it 30 years later. He really should have got an extended WWE run, he is exactly the type of genuine character they are sorely missing nowadays. 

They won't do it without a crowd, it's too big a fight. They'll do this weekend's event because it was too late to cancel it and everyone was already there but I think next weekends London event gets cancelled and so does UFC 249.

Has anyone seen this fabled Midnight Express vs Fantastics match from WCW Pro in May 1988 that Meltzer's going on about? I thought I'd seen it but what I've seen is the match from a month earlier from Worldwide which is the Fantastics title win. That match is incredible, so if there's a better one I'd like to see it.

"T&A" meaning "tits and ass" was never really a British thing but it certainly was in America. The name was a massive hindrance to the promotion, everytime anyone said it on any kind of mainstream media thing there was always raised eyebrows and the wrestler would always have to explain it stood for Total Nonstop Action.

Impact Wrestling isn't the best name but it's better than TNA. I liked GFW the best of the name they used.

In retrospect they should probably have just bought the rights to the NWA in 2005 or whenever it was when they seperated.

Meltzer should get his underlings to cover the current wrestling and spend his time writing a comprehensive history of the wrestling business.

On 1/13/2020 at 8:49 PM, sevendaughters said:

He had a wife until recently.

Did Dave get a divorce? When did that happen?

A lot of the tours of Africa back in the day were run off the back of old American tapes that ended up being shown on TV over there, a promoter would try to gather some of the name wrestlers from that territory and run a tour based on wrestlers the people knew from TV, despite that TV being close to a decade old. I remember reading an interview with Bill Eadie where he talked about doing one in the early 80s that was based off IWA TV (The Eddie Einhorn group) tapes from the mid 70s.

There's probably many other similar examples, such as the Israel tour in the early 90s that Lance Storm went on which had Chris Adams as the star name (based on WCCW being big there a few years prior). I doubt any of this type of tour did TV but they might have gotten spots on local news to promote the shows.

1 minute ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

😮 Fuck off, no way!

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Paul Orndorff has a 51 year old son.

The 7 day week is definitely outdated, theres no reason why a week has to have 7 days, IMO we should have metric time and a week should be 10 days and everyone can work 5 days on, 5 days off.