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22 minutes ago, iPumaPants said:

It's Florida law that he can't be fired whilst in rehab, and he entered rehab voluntarily. AEW might be in a bit of legal shit if they even suggest they plan to fire him. I should imagine, once his rehab is done, he'll be gone. I'm by no means a fan, I think he's awful, and if the allegations are true, he's an even worse person.

It's shocking that it takes this kind of thing for someone to realise they have a problem, and to get help, especially when they've been handed such an incredible opportunity. 

This has been mentioned to me a few times. Absolutely fair enough. Is it fair AEW worded him such initial support? 

I've never suggested he should be fired (I'm sure he will be?),  but the wording of the statement bothers me. 

 

I'm a bit concerned about that AEW statement to be honest. I went a bit wild on twitter after I saw it and have been fending a few Jimmy Havoc fans off since.

I may well have overreacted here but I'm so sickened by what's going on, and having a close friend in the BritWres industry who is pretty upset too, I just went for it. 

 

I'm a bit concerned I may have just seen the statement and commented without reflecting on it! 

First post in about 3 years I think haha. Enjoyed reading though. 

Edit: as a sexual assault victim myself, i may have overreacted. I have nothing to do with the wrestling industry other than attending a few shows in Cardiff and being a massive fan and my mate being a wrestler who has tweeted his own experience. I won't name him here but it's out there. 

Sorry for being angry! 

As had been said by others, your drinking seems to be the main thing that you want to get under control.

Also ask yourself how strong your feelings are for your co-worker? Do you (for lack of a better term) 'love' them and visualise a future with them or do you just really fancy them and feel your giving in to the lure of someone different for your current girlfriend?

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with fancying other people, I quite fancy a lass I work with but I'm never going to throw my marriage away for her

 

Obviously your the only person who can make those final decisions, but your always going to need to have a relationship with your current girlfriend with children being involved.

I don't think it's a case of just fancying her. There's certainly a strong connection there with feelings. We were very good friends before any of this happened. I'll hesitate to say the word love because I think after the week I've had I don't think I really understand the term.

 

Whatever happens myself and my girlfriend would always put our daughter first. That much I'm very sure about. She's an incredible little human being! Also, she is the reason I've tried to work things out but I've been told by people that isn't always the best idea. I have said many times over the past few years I would have left if it wasn't for her... Christ, I feel like a really awful person.

Cheers for the early advice fellas. Obviously the alcohol has a massive part to play in this and should be addressed. I'm not someone who drinks every night but when I drink I most certainly drink. I very much keep it away from my kid, who really is my world and I'm trying to think clearly what is best for her in all of this.

 

A large part of me is just wondering how my girlfriend could even take me back to begin with? Without me having to really work for it. I don't think I'd have done the same. The problem I have is that if she is to turn around with a bit of strength tomorrow and maybe end things with this ultimatum I don't think I have the fight in me to chase her back. Does that mean my mind is already made up though? As you can tell I'm extremely confused.

 

Flattery is great, especially as it's from someone I've been extremely fond of since day one and I've no idea if she would be capable of taking a kid on at her age. Obviously thinking about a long term relationship hasn't come into my thought process quite yet. I did take someone else's child on at exactly the same age and look where we are now.

 

Stuff has been good for the most part at home as I've said, but I think I've had underlying issues throughout. I really didn't want to take her kid on, but I did because I really wanted to be a good guy and be loved at the time. Also things moved really fast at the beginning and I felt like I had little choice. 4+ years on and while I have a decent relationship with the child it's always played on my mind.

 

Another thing is I really think I've got a bit of a quarter life crisis going on. The minute I hit 25 (7 months ago) I started to question a lot in my life and indeed with the relationship, I just didn't realise there was someone at work who was really into me back then which is the major contributor here!

 

What a mess.

 

Okay, so I never thought I'd end up asking for relationship advice here (not sure that's what I'm doing but I haven't really got anywhere else to vent/talk about my current situation.) This is a bit of a long one I'm afraid and I'll have to add more detail if needed.

 

I have massively messed up my relationship of nearly four and a half years in the past week or so.

 

A few weeks ago I developed very strong feelings for a co-worker who had been off for several months with illness, she's 21 years old and was in a relationship until a couple of months back herself. Me and her and always been very good friends in work and always looked forward to working together.

 

I've mentioned here previously that I've battled alcohol problems for many years and last week after finishing work early  (we all work in a bar) me, said girl and many others stayed to get royally shitfaced in celebration of a departing manager. Me and said girl are chatting more than anyone else with some flirting thrown in but nothing ridiculous. After we've all called it a night I return home to recieve a message from the girl that just contains a heart emoji. In my drunken 'loved up' state I reply saying 'I wish I could say the same.' She's obviously gone to sleep by the time I decide to send that and it's left alone... that is until I decide to spend all night drinking alone in my flat while my girlfriend, daughter and step daughter sleep. My girlfriend finds me absolutely paralytic in the mid hours of the morning half asleep and sees my open phone messages to the co-worker and it all kicks off naturally. She then took our three year old daughter to my parents in the hope we could have it out when she returns.

 

In the time she left and returned from my parents (about a 2 hour round trip) I've gone into work still absolutely wrecked to declare my love for this co-worker and find out where she stands and to warn her of the repercussions. She amazingly doesn't tell me to fuck off and says that she has always felt the same... for the two years we've worked together. So I start throwing out potential scenarios about maybe leaving home and could she handle a guy with a kid etc (should mention now that I'm 25 and my girlfriend is 34, so lots of age gaps here.)

 

After deciding to leave the pub I work in and go to my parents to have a bit of space and sober up I call my girlfriend and end things and she is obviously absolutely devastated as this is all so out of the blue (things had been really good at home as far as she was concerned.) As I sober up and realise I'm not a completely heartless bastard and much begging from my poor parents I call my girlfriend once again to say I'll return home to talk things through... So that happens and things are weirdly okay when she realises that she has little power. Of all things she tries fighting for me rather than me begging for forgiveness. I love her and decide I want to try and make it work despite my feelings for the other girl simply because hearing and seeing my girlfriend that upset was just awful.

 

Things are okay between Tuesday and Saturday last week with my girlfriend completely smothering me with affection and sex and basically anything to make me love her. In my head though I'm still extremely confused and upset, as well as feeling guilty and of course still having these feelings for the other girl who backed off per my request (which she understood even though she's disappointed.) Saturday comes and I simply cannot function in work because of all of the shit going on and ask to finish early. I go to the pub and get obliterated with one of my mates and then get home about 6am to be greeted by my once again distraught girlfriend (little one at my parents again as we both work Saturdays). I have it out with her telling her the smothering has been too much as I'm confused and we both have a cry and I have to shoot off to work but before I do I ask for some time to myself to try and get myself together. As she wants to do anything to keep me she accepts this even though she's worried.

 

After a night apart I told her that I feel a bit better and more ready to fight for the relationship  (this was yesterday, but 24 hours on again my head is all over the place and I'm really unsure of what I want.) I think part of it is I'm feeling really guilty for how things have gone down because hurting someone who has been so good to me is a shitter but I really wanted out at that moment and had she not been so devastated I may have gone through with it.

 

We've decided to have clear the air talks tomorrow evening but she did mention there may be an ultimatum about continuing friendship with the other girl in work and that sort of thing, which selfishly I'm not prepared to give up as it would make work life extremely difficult so I have a feeling things may come to a head once again tomorrow. Is it maybe best if we just call it a day and focus on making sure our little one is put first? Or am I just being a fucking idiot here and throwing it all away? I took on her 6 year old daughter when I was 21 years old and we had our own child less than a year after getting together and I fear a lot of this has all caught up with me. Obviously throw in the boozing and another person and this is the situation. There's so much to this but I've just tried to outline it so if more detail is needed let me know. Thanks for reading and call me an idiot!

The autobiography is decent enough, though it's more a few stories than a life history, and the ghostwriting doesn't always feel like his natural voice. But the self-help one is fantastic in blending Heenan's humour in with the advice.

 

http://www.prowrestlingbooks.com/bobby-the-brain-by-bobby-heenan/

http://www.prowrestlingbooks.com/chair-shots-and-other-obstacles-winning-lifes-wrestling-matches-by-bobby-heenan/

Cheers Lister. Shame the first book isn't the epic it should have been but the second one sounds like a tonne of fun. I think I'll end up picking them both up though as you can never have enough Heenan!

 

 

 

 

Also available to pre order....

 

No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling But Succeeded in Life

by Chris Jericho - 9th August

 

 

Another Jericho book??

 

Assuming its a continuation of his autobiographies This will be his 4th

 

I have the other 3 and will probably end up getting this but he could do with leaving it a few more years in between books

The new Jericho one looks to be more like Heenan's second book where it's a self-help guide based on incidents in his life rather than a chronological autobiography.

Genuinely had no idea Heenan had books out. Are they any good?

Yes. His stuff with DiBiase is great in Mid South, and he has a super brawl with Vader at Starrcade'94

The brawl with Vader was good stuff, I'll give you that. I really need to get on Mid South when I have the chance. I've seen very little but it's always been good and from what I've heard it's right up my street.

Bit of a random one and I'm not even that eager to see the matches (unless they're really worth watching), but I'm just curious to know was Hacksaw Jim Duggan ever any good?

 

I haven't seen any of his Mid-South stuff but I'm assuming that's where the good matches would be if they exist? Fair play to the guy, I don't hate him (other than for beating Austin in like 10 seconds in WCW) but he has never appealed to me and is bordering on the annoying most of the time.

 

Just wanted to know, as I've been trawling through every PPV/large event (WWF/WCW) event since 1987 (up to 1996 now) on the network and have seen more of Hacksaw than I had ever wished or planned to.

I suppose the only way TNA can look at it is that every subsciber represents a clear profit. Being a TV company, they probably developed it in-house.

Count me in as one of those who downloaded the app on Amazon Fire but hasn't subscribed yet.

How did you download it on your Amazon Fire? The app doesn't show in the App Store and if you try to do it through Amazon's shopping app it says it's currently unavailable.

Yeah sorry I thought it was Exodus that has NJPW and ROH stuff but I got it wrong, Watch Wrestling is your best bet for that type of stuff. I have Ultimate Mania and they have a Sport On Demand section which always has wrestling stuff on there, like NJPW and ROH stuff as well as WWE and TNA.

Nice one. I'll have a look at Ultimate Mania.

 

 

 

No worries, it is the best add on for everything, tv shows, movies, the downside is no live sport but I have Ultimate Mania for that.

I've personally not had too much luck with NJPW or ROH with Exodus. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing?

http://redeneobux.com/en/tutorial-install-addon-watch-wrestling-online-kodi-xbmc/

I've got Watch Wrestling man but their NJPW stuff is well out of date. Everything is except for TNA and ROH. However, on the website it's all up to date.

No worries, it is the best add on for everything, tv shows, movies, the downside is no live sport but I have Ultimate Mania for that.

I've personally not had too much luck with NJPW or ROH with Exodus. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing?

Has anybody bothered to get the app yet? If so, is it any good? I just can't imagine what TNA's version of the network is like...

That sounds absolutely sublime Gus. If I wasn't cooking curry for myself right now, I'd be straight over to the Lebanese across the road to order something similar. Looking forward to seeing the photos.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1ebLN9dIhySNHQzT2Q5SDZXRms

 

Similar to the Real Hero archive, it's the Ring of Honor version!

Is there a way to download the files and save them to a USB, or are they purely for streaming?

Yeah man. Double click on the video to stream the video and above it you'll see a download button. I've spent the best part of a day going through them and downloading to my portable hard drive. I'm delighted this is a thing because I've wanted to get my hands on some classic ROH that I can play on my TV for a while.

Terrorizer put out a Black Metal special about five years ago, wasnt that was it?

Sadly not man. 100% Metal Hammer. And yeah absolutely Wyatt, unfortunately all the special issues I can find online aren't the one I'm after.

That really is sad news. Metal Hammer was a great magazine.

 

Actually, I have a question relating to an issue of Metal Hammer that I can't seem to find online. Bare with me as my memory is a little bit hazy about it but it was a special issue that focused on the satanic aspects of Metal. It featured a large spread about Black Sabbath, Norwegian black Metal and other various bits and bobs. This issue came out about 10 years ago, I think? Sadly when moving house a couple of years ago my parents got rid of a lot of my old magazines and that was one of them. If possible, I'd love to find it online and buy it again. Again, sorry for the crap info but I imagine if you've read it you'll know what I'm on about.

Looks like they're doing these dates with Deftones & then onto Euro fests (inc Download). Surprised they're supporting as I thought they'd be playing big rooms themselves given their lack of activity over here.

Yeah, thought as much. I'll consider doing the day of Download that they're playing depending on who else plays that day.

AFI have been confirmed as support for Deftones on their upcoming UK dates. Winner.

I doubt I'll be able to get to any of the shows unfortunately. I've seen Deftones before (fantastic live) but I've always wanted to see AFI live, and I don't think I've heard of them touring in the past ten years. Any idea if these few dates in the UK will lead to a tour of their own?

Tickets (£25) for it go on sale Tuesday

There's a pre-sale for Live Nation members on Monday too.

Ghost have announced a European leg of their Popestar tour for next year.

Mar 24th: Norwich UEA

Mar 25th: Cardiff Great Hall

Mar 26th: London O2 Forum Kentish Town

Mar 28th: Leeds O2 Academy

Mar 29th: Glasgow O2 ABC

Mar 31st: Manchester O2 Apollo

Apr 1st: Birmingham O2 Academy

Apr 4th: Brighton Dome

 

I'm definately off to the Leeds show. Love the sound in O2 Academy and was gutted they didn't play their last time they were over.

That and then Mayhem two nights later in Manchester is going to be a hell of a week

I'll be at the Cardiff show. Cannot wait.

I think I may have posted about this before but I'm not sure.

 

Does anybody else get a painful roof of the mouth while eating when you're hungover? It only seems to be when I was absolutely battered the night before and not if I was just a bit drunk.

 

I've only just managed to stomach some food, but I've had to stop after just a few bites because the pain is absolutely unbearable.

Yeah I've encountered this a couple of times after being absolutely battered the night before. I've put it down to dehydration and smoking like a chimney the night before (although if you're not a smoker then that's that theory out of the window).

 

Not a pleasant addition to the hangover at all though.

Oh god, I had forgotten all about that. Just absolutely horrific.

I was planning to get a day ticket because I haven't been to Download before. All depends if AFI and SOAD are on the same day for me now. I've seen SOAD before and they're ace but I've never seen AFI and they were such a part of my teens that I'd be willing to head there to see both them and SOAD. The other headliners don't interest me. Haven't seen Slayer yet either, but they'd have to be the same day as the other two I'm interested in too.