Jon-Carr_92

Got to get this in while I can.

1, 2, 14, 19, 27

Coming round again for this. Wouldn't be the same without this bit of fun.

1, 6, 14, 22, 30

Just to get it in because this gives me a reason to enjoy it. Especially if WWE isn't at its best at the moment.

2, 8, 15, 22, 30.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. I'll be up for the quiz.

1, 7, 14, 23, 28

Figured I'd come back to do this as its a rite of passage to cheer on my picks.

4, 9, 16, 23, 30

What's the biggest paid outdoor show ever done by a British company? Worth remembering PCW's outdoor shows on the Flag Market were free to attend. Best of luck with this.

I had a go at an open session years ago. Could not keep up with the group at all in the warmup. It wasn't Louis Theroux with Sarge at the Power Plant levels of awful, but it felt like I was getting there. I knew it would be physical, but being someone who's always found exercise a struggle in various aspects, it was always going to be a struggle There wasn't a lot I felt good at. Back bumps were easy enough and running the ropes takes some getting into, but rolls were so hard for me. They still offered me a spot, but I turned it down.

I don't think it helped it was boiling that day, but better to have a go and fail than not have a go at all when I had the chance I guess. If there was ever any other openings that ever took my fancy, I'd have sure looked into it.

What was everyone's thoughts on the name changing from FU to the Attitude Adjustment at the time? That definitely occurred in the timeframe I was out of the loop with wrestling. I know that was when they went PG and they obviously can't call it that.

Best Wrestler

• Kenny Omega
• AJ Styles

Best Female

• Ronda Rousey
• Becky Lynch

Best Match:

• Men's Royal Rumble Match: WWE Royal Rumble
• Johnny Gargano v Tommaso Ciampa Unsanctioned Match: NXT TakeOver: New Orleans
• Kazuchika Okada v Kenny Omega 2 out of 3 falls: NJPW Dominion 10/7

Best Event

• WWE Royal Rumble
• NXT TakeOver: New Orleans

Best Show

Best Feud/Angle

• Johnny Gargano v Tommaso Ciampa
• Who Attacked Alestair Black?

Best Moment

• Kenny Omega wins the IWGP Championship ending Kazuchika Okada's near 2 year long reign.
• Elias and Kevin Owens get booed intensely.
• Ricochet's Double Moonsault off the WarGames Cage.

Best Face

• Becky Lynch
• Seth Rollins
• Braun Strowman

Best Heel

• The Miz
• Elias
• Tommaso Ciampa

Funniest Moment:

• Titus Worldslide
• The ref not realising Carmella trying to CASH IT IN!!!

Best Team

• The Bar
• The Usos

Best British Wrestler

• Walter. He does do a lot over here, and he's had quite a year in Progress for example, so if he's not eligible, please take my reserve in his place.
• Tyler Bate
• Zack Sabre Jr
• I'll have Will Ospreay in place of Walter if he's ineligible.

Best British Match

• Will Ospreay v DBS Jr: WOS Wrestling Episode 1. I can't afford another streaming service besides the WWE Network right now and it's tricky to keep up to date unless I subscribe. But I can always get in the habit of renting shows to watch online. For example, I intend to see Will v PAC when that's online. Unlike the last 2 years, none of the matches I've seen live I feel make the cut. Just a shame the series didn't pan out perfectly.

Best British Promotion

• Progress
• Attack Pro Wrestling. These were only half of the companies I attended this year. I've not been to any live wrestling since the last Birmingham Progress show which was July. Fallen out of love with going a bit lately which is a shame because I'd usually get as many in as possible.

Worst Wrestler

• Brock Lesnar
• Baron Corbin

Worst Match

• Brock Lesnar v Roman Reigns: WrestleMania XXXIV
• DX v Brothers Of Destruction: Crown Jewel

Worst Event

• Crown Jewel
• BackLash

Biggest Letdown

• WOS Wrestling
• AJ Styles v Shinsuke Nakamura. Although they did get a great Last Man Standing Match in the end.
• Shawn Micheals coming out of retirement.

Stupidest Moment

• Shane McMahon wins the World Cup Tournament he wasn't even in.
• Universal Championship back to square 1 (Lesnar regaining it.)
• Lashley's sisters.

I've seen it happen in person and it still sticks with me. Guy I knew had it pretty severe. He cut his throat on the fall. Not nice at all. He was ok, but he passed away about a year later from SUDEP. He went off in his sleep one night. Whilst I never really talked with him much, I do think about him a lot of the time as I remembered him when he briefly attended a youth club I went to. Horrible, horrible thing to happen to anyone in any way.

I feel Progress' Chapter titles latelty don't seem to have much imagination outside Camden. It's almost always a pun on a local band. In all the time they've been running Manchester, I'm not sure they've ever had one that isn't one. I just do the Birmingham Chapters as they're the only ones I can feesibly go to and they started out with Chapter 42: Life, The Universe & Wrestling. They saw the opportunity with the Hitchhikers reference and too damn right, they were going for it. But since then, it's just been the band references.

• Chapter 51: Screaming For Progress as in Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengence. Sure as hell cant complain as Judas Priest are epic and the graphic with the Progress Eagle in place of The Hellion was brilliant. Terrific show this one. This was when Walter won the Atlas Championship from Matt Riddle the first time.
• Chapter 61: Don't Touch Me...Don't...Don't Touch Me: A lyric from Fit And You Know It by The Streets. This was one of those ones I had to look up to find out what it's referencing. First time seeing Will Ospreay after breaking out in Japan and after he won at Wrestle Kingdom.
• Chapter 73: Fourth Shade Of Green: A play on Third Shade Of Green by Ocean Colour Scene. Didn't quite understand what the extra shade in reference. This wasn't the best Chapter I've seen to date, but was glad I finally got to see Toni Storm wrestle.
• Chapter 86: Corrupted Harmony: The next one in March plays on Napalm Death's Harmony Corruption album. Looking forward to it as I finally got an elusive Front Row seat as each time I've gone online at Noon to secure my ticket, I go for it and click through only to be told they sold out, so I settled for the Gold or Spandau Ballet Section (Get it?) as I call it.

Whilst not much love has really been lost for Progress. It's tricky to see what direction they'll go in next. The Wembley show's buildup wasn't the best, but it certainly didn't let Will Ospreay and ZSJ's absence due to NJPW needing them and people were even more gutted over the latter with some Ultras getting rather hostile about NJPW for doing so when that's simply the risk any promotion takes booking someone signed to a company that has right of first refusal re: Indy bookings. One talent a show doesn't make. They salvaged it perfectly with the 3 And In series over the US Tour and the 2 Chapters in between. Although I found the final flawed as they put Tyley Bate v Mark Haskins in a match together to guarantee Walter had a challenger and Jimmy Havoc got his planned match with Ospreay sooner rather than later when he also need one more win when surely it would've been fairer doing it as a Triple Threat with them all.

What if Triple H didn't get injured prior to The Invasion and how would he have fit in? It's one thing they couldn't get all the big WCW names seeing how they were contracted to Time Warner and they opted to sit their contracts out, but of all the guys in WWE at the time, he was the biggest guy who wasn't around.

The last 2 F&Ls did have some A List imports which was aiming them at a more casual fanbase who wouldn't normally watch it. They had Kurt Angle, Finn Balor as a guest replacing Mick Foley, Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam for example. This year's seems more aimed at their regular fans. The big names they have are British Strong Style and Noam Dar on loan again. Progress didn't go down that route when they did Wembley when they just as easily could have and they still got a very respectable turnout nonetheless. Both drew very well on their first go at an arena show in their own right.

Surely that means getting the ball rolling on next year's Royal Rumble Lottery running because wasn't the rule @Glenryck Pilchards made if a number has been drawn, you can't choose it.

10 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

So what does AJ Styles get if he wins as WWE Champion?

I'm guessing the male runner up would get it instead.

3 hours ago, Accident Prone said:

Bloody hell, how did I forget this gem! We were hanging outside the NXT venue waiting for doors to open when Bayley fan walked past. She had a few guys stop her for a photo which I found to be very odd (and the Dad just seemed to be happy to let random adult strangers hug his daughter).

Then, later on in the arena, there was a grown man wearing that Bayley fan's merch. Fuck, I almost shat myself where I stood. Either she has her own line of shirts or this fuck had made it himself. Either way, it's disturbing.

I'm sure this will all be turned into a thread soon enough, but I'm going to bow out as I'm coming across as quite cuntish. Genuinely, the amount of great people I've met at shows out numbers the amount of eerie ones.

She did actually have IzzyMania shirts made. I just don't understand what her parents must be thinking at times with the recent clip of her taking a big Chokeslam on a show that caused debate as another example.

I so wish i could make that. I mean it's the frickin' Undertaker. How pricey is that going to be for the top tickets?

I still remember him when he was on that short lived Sky 1 Gladiators reboot. He got to the Semi Finals.

It seems strange why they'd get someone else in. You don't need to go to a studio to do voice acting. You can actually get it done over the phone. Surely, they'd have had enough time for him.

Just a heads up that The Entertainer have Pop Vinyls if that's your thing for £6:66. Too bad Kane hasn't got a new one for that price and they include the WWE ones. I got Finn Balor and the Chase Variant of Iron Sheik. Already got the regular one of him, but I spotted that and had to get it as well. Always good when a Chase makes it to the shelf rather than stay in the stock room and be destined for eBay which is what I think happens most of the time. The comic stores usually bump up the price.

8 hours ago, ColinBollocks said:

You fancy Neville/PAC will look like an absolute superstar outside WWE. Considering what a rubbish afterthought 205 Live is, he very nearly dragged it to a watchable level. Very much hoping we see him in NJPW. Ibushi v PAC would be some feud.

I'm content with this. He's returning to his roots. I suppose as long as it wasn't straight to Bullet Club, no worries. Mind you, I think him and Marty Scurll could make quite an interesting team and just the ticket for them in the Junior Heavyweight Tag Division now the Young Bucks have moved up to the Heavyweights. Maybe he turns up at some stage. Perhaps a guest in BOSJ.

I think the main scramble will be who's going to book the Will Ospreay match. I think Rev Pro will likely do that at some stage. It does have great potential. One of the top UK high fliers in recent years vs one of the biggest breakout UK stars of the boom. Who also happens to be a high flier. So it's all great on that front.

Yeah. I got The Dudley Boyz Straight Outta Dudleyville with the limited edition slipcase that has fold out table legs. I also saw a while back they had the Sainsbury's exclusive slipcase edition of WrestleMania XXXI which is the main 4 matches and the Brock Lesnar v Roman Reigns quarter has a image of Seth Rollins inserted in the background in reference to his cash in during that match, so I got that. It's mainly a load of the comps they have in that sale, but not a bad choice.

I was thinking Progress would have announced they'd be doing it when they were in New York last month. Given how most of their regulars are signed to NXT UK, I imagine they'll be effectively represented anyway at Axxess.

So going to the UK tapings route owing to the time difference where it's 205 (Not) Live then.