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Anthrax have cancelled their appearance at Bloodstock next year due to “logistical issues beyond our control”

Triptykon have been announced as their replacement, playing a Celtic Frost set

The latest episode of the always enjoyable Crime In Sports is focused on Big Poppa Pump

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/crime-in-sports/id1082678396?i=1000588042115

The Fake Celebrity News Twitter account.

Theres been a running gag of Jessie J owning and operating her own abattoir, while Katie Melua was recently spotted boarding a plane to Beijing to conduct the annual Bicycle audit

On 12/4/2022 at 1:04 PM, wordsfromlee said:

It’s almost as if the Daily Mail have to include the buzzwords in every article, regardless of topic. 
 

 

A Che Guevara tshirt? I honestly don’t think I’ve seen anyone wearing one of those for about 15 years

I only ever bother with nominating for Match of the year.

WWE - Gunther v Sheamus at Clash at the Castle

AEW - CM Punk v MJF on Dynamite #122 (February 2nd)

Yikes. Obviously gouging the festival goer isn’t a new concept, its to be expected, but that’s steep by any standards.

The Cranberryfication of everything as soon as it gets to mid November

16 minutes ago, RalphyV2 said:

Not sure if Family Guy is on TV here anymore but I streamed some newer Family Guy episodes the other day and I wish I didn't

Not funny at all anymore and it's a shame, I used to really enjoy it

It’s on ITV2 every night for about 5hrs, with about an hour or two of American Dad (which is also pretty awful these days after a good first few years) and The Cleveland Show (which ended early a decade ago and was shit from the start)

32 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

I can definitely say that Bloodstock is just not made for me with that lineup, it feels like they're going more towards the Download market while Download is pushing younger and slightly more out there artists next year.

I’m quite happy with that lineup to be honest, but I agree with your assessment of each festival’s respective directions.

Helloween followed by Biohazard (because fuck MegaDave) is the one-two combo I never thought I’d be watching, but I’m looking forward to it regardless.

I’ve given a couple of listens and yeah, I’m digging it. Interesting to know how much “studio engineering” has gone into James’ vocals though, cos he hasn’t sounded like that in a live setting for years now.

Everyone walking around Download next year looking like The Nexus when that merch is released though

Well that’s come from out of nowhere

11 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said:

Corklife.

So give me Corky & TV

2 hours ago, Loki said:

I think Supes mentioned it earlier, but... I have never heard a crowd less interested in a match and a finish than the Rousey match.  I saw her at the O2 when she came over during her first run, and she absolutely tore the roof off the place.  Now she's met with complete indifference.  What a fall.

Probably because she was in there with Shotzi Blackheart, who in addition to being fucking awful was never winning that match, so what was their there to get invested in?

Solid classic booking having Belair lead from the front while Bayley waits her turn. I quite liked the Rhea/Lynch tease too, that could be a decent match somewhere down the line. 
Alexa Bliss did absolutely fuck all (apart nearly gorerot herself with the camera cable on the way in) until she’d been in for about 20 minutes and it was time for her and Nikki to piss about with some handcuffs.

Sami v Roman is absolutely the match to go with. I know there a lot of people back in the summer fantasy booking a Royal Rumble return & win for Cody, but assuming he does return, I’d hold off anything to do involving him in the main event until they’ve concluded this story with the Bloodline. 
For all the talk it being Rock v Roman at Wrestlemania, any other time I’d be fine with that as it’s a huge match. But with how this Bloodline story has been going,  how can you go with anything other than Sami v Roman. 
I know they don’t tend to have people work both nights of Wrestlemania, but you could really build the entire weekend around the Bloodline’s story. You could have Sami and Owens v The Usos, doesn’t even have to be for the Tag belts, have it be for Sami’s #1 Contendership, while you can have Roman v Rock, then have Sami v Roman close out Night 2

I like to think that Rey keeps a mask next to the door just in case the postie knocks 

“That’s Dijak!”

”WHO!”

Oh Booker, don’t ever change 😄. And Dijak needs to tighten up that knee strike, you could’ve fit a bus through there.

I’m not against Reggie getting repacked as Scrypts, but that gear is fucking horrific

“Let me just invite other colleagues if there’s anything they want to add” the new code for “HELP! HELP! SAY ANYTHING! SAVE ME!”

12 minutes ago, Tsurutagun said:

Because of how awesome the Takeovers were when Triple H was in charge, everyone forgets how forgettable the weekly shows were. 

Isn’t NXT from 2014-2020 largely considered to be some of the best Wrestling TV there’s ever been? I know I rarely missed an episode during that time and looked forward to it every week

21 hours ago, DEF said:

Thought I'd give this a quick shout out. Easily the best new comic I've read this year. Do A Powerbomb does a better job of selling pro wrestling than most pro wrestling. It's superb. The art is fantastic and makes the action pop off the page.

Will give that a go. I tried Ringside a few years back but gave up after about 6 or 7 issues. The artwork was pretty awful and the story wasn’t particularly great either

On 11/18/2022 at 9:12 PM, Kfogg1991 said:

I'm not a fan of football at all but I got told tonight that apparently it's up too 30 years in prison if you get caught with drugs in Qatar.

 

Have they fucking ever met half the fans that will be paying too get over there for the tournament to support England.

The prisons will be full by the second game 

Midnight Express missed out on the remake trend a few years back. Relocate to a Middle Eastern held Football tournament and off you go

Latest trailer. Lots of Entrance footage compared to actual gameplay, but there’s a few new snippets in there

I know cost of living crisis, run up to Christmas and all that, but yikes that’s an empty building. I do think they need to move away from running Chicago every 6 weeks, but I think it’s safe to say that Bridgeport, Connecticut is not a strong market for them

2 hours ago, Rockbus2 said:

If a British promotion wanted to get the Dailys Place vibe they could do worse than hold a show outside here 

“Very cheap to make, do it in Aldiss’ Car Park. If you don’t do it then SKY will”

Added to Bloodstock:
MAIN STAGE:
Sacred Reich, Heaven Shall Burn (first ever UK Festival appearance), Seething Akira, Crowbar, Urne, All Hail The Yeti, Dead Label, Uuhai
SOPHIE STAGE:
Brothers of Metal, Gutalax, Cobra The Impaler, InVisions

They had me at Heaven Shall Burn, been wanting to see them for years but never had the chance

5 hours ago, Statto said:

IIRC Sandman came out to the BBC golf music:

 

I’ve never heard about this before and I’m absolutely in bits. I want all his entrances on the network overdubbed with this now