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34 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

This is ridiculous. Someone getting their day in court and having the wrongdoing against them being legally recognised is incredibly important in itself and it doesn't necessarily have to be tied to the punishment that the person who wronged them receives. I can give a million example of this off the top of my head but hopefully just stating it like that makes you realise how wrong what you've said is.

Another example of flame baiting/trolling. It's getting incredibly tiring now so I'm done here. I'll give you the courtesy of a reply though without resorting to name calling, attempts at "humour" and sarcasm.  

Both Safechuck and Robson had ample opportunity to take Michael Jackson to court, yet they didn't. They could have assisted the FBI with their in depth multi year investigation, but didn't. Both had lawsuits against the estate thrown out of court. So obviously they are looking for money. 

That they weren't successful in their attempt to extract money from the estate and a new documentary appears with sensationalist allegations should say it all. But everyone is free to believe what they want. Personally I don't believe a word, not because it's Michael Jackson and he should get a free pass cause he made Thriller, Off the Wall etc. 

Its because both are known liars and have fabricated stories to masquerade as the truth. I think if they were questioned in depth their stories would falter under questioning. If they are telling the honest truth, which I strongly doubt, but if they are, they have my sympathy and full support. Sexual abusers are the very lowest form of pond scum and should be brought to justice and punished to the fullest extent of the law, celebrity or not. What they were saying sickened me but I couldn't buy a word because they said it so matter of factly and showed not one iota of aggression or distress. No one would want to publicly talk about abuse in front of millions where the alleged abuser cannot be prosecuted as he's deceased. Again they had at least a decade plus to speak out and actually go into court during the Gavin Arvizo case and put Michael Jackson behind bars. But they didn't, Wade Robson testified on his behalf saying he never touched him. 

Here's a good example of how the media can sway opinions just by a video title alone

Theyve headlined this video to put across that Corey Feldman isn't defending him anymore. Yet he says their friendship was innocent. A guy called Ron Newt was offered $200,000 to say MJ abused his children but spoke out about it. Plus one of the accusers is now accepting donations apparently with the minimum being $250, so make of that what you will.

Feel free to dissect everything I've written, take it out of context etc. I'll not be around to read it or reply because I see no sense continuing on a forum where if you have a different opinion you're trolled and made fun of. 

13 minutes ago, gmoney said:

You can scratch any royalties of his own work - remember this was *your* point. 

My *point* was they are or will likely both seeking damages from the estate which has already generated $825m since 2009. "Your" point was there was/is there's no money to get a cut off if I'm not correct saying he was bankrupt or near to it.

Their "story" has nothing to do with getting justice, what are they going to do exhume his remains and lock them in prison?. Wade Robson if he is telling the truth has commited perjury as he said, in a court of law, he was never even touched inappropriately by Michael Jackson. Plus they both had ample opportunity to testify during the Arvizo court case. 

The whole mob mentality here of attacking someone with a differing opinion is telling also. 

23 minutes ago, gmoney said:

So what royalties does a sold publishing catalogue generate? 

The Jackson estate currently owns his Epic Records catalogue and all unreleased recordings. Epic (a division of Sony Music) still distributes this catalogue.

The estate also owns all of Jackson’s songwriting credits, as well as the catalogues of several other artists. These songs are all sub-published by Sony/ATV, of which Jackson owned half between 1995 and 2016.

32 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Here's a thing. He was nearly bankrupt before he died. If he is blackballed from all radio stations/Spotify etc, what royalties exactly are they going to get a percentage of? Seems to be a bit of a flaw in that argument. 

He still had a net worth of $500m (£350m) before he died. He owned half of the Sony/ATV publishing catalogue which his estate sold to Sony for $750m in 2016. 

3 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It's almost as if Michael Jackson is globally more famous than Harvey Weinstein will ever be, and that people are more interested in Jackson than Weinstein.

That isn't the point though. They aired both documentaries at the same time yet one documentary has received a gigantic amount of press (Leaving Neverland), whilst the Weinstein one hasn't even registered on the radar. If we're drawing attention to sex abuse then both documentaries should have been equally highlighted.

That Harvey Weinstein is good friends with other high profile people shows he has enlisted their help to cover his back. There's 80 women who have made allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against him. Yet as soon as Leaving Neverland come out there's nothing really about his forthcoming court case. 

Call it conspiracy theory whatever, but if you look further into this, as I have, then you'll find a lot of supposed conspiracy bullshit does make sense. Case in point

https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com/2016/12/26/victor-gutierrez-and-his-role-in-the-allegations-against-michael-jackson/amp/

7 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

This is absolute cobblers. Jackson had to accept an o2 Arena residency near the end of his life to make ends meet and died $500 million in debt. Widely known, verifiable facts, not some conspiracy theory drivel trotted out by some obscure blogger.

He's earned $825m since 2009

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2018/08/29/michael-jackson-at-60-the-king-of-pop-by-the-numbers/amp/

Great points David. I do believe it will affect Michael Jackson though in terms of attempting to destroy his legacy and for the accusers to try and get a percentage of his royalties. They said they weren't paid for participating but they don't need to be if they end up potentially getting hundreds of millions from his estate in damages. TV stations have already dropped The Simpsons episode "Stark Raving Dad" and no doubt Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, YouTube etc will probably drop his music from their services. 

At Sundance there was a Harvey Weinstein documentary at the same time as Leaving Neverland.

https://www.sundance.org/blogs/2019-festival/untouchable-how-harvey-weinstein-got-away-with-it

There is little to no coverage about the Weinstein doc whatsoever, especially in the British press. I believe it only aired on PBS in the US. When Rose McGowan spoke out about Weinstein they said she was crazy etc. Corey Feldman has tried to speak out about the sexual abuse that goes down in Hollywood but was portrayed as crazy etc too. 

As for Oprah, yes she's very close to Harvey Weinstein, same with David Geffen and her best friend is Gayle King. Weinstein apparently paid gossip website/mags to plant MJ stories to stop his own wrongdoings make the press. Oprah said she watched Leaving Neverland with Geffen. David Geffen wanted to sign MJ to Geffen Records. Oprah of course famously interviewed MJ in the 90s. She also interviewed Katherine Jackson and his children after he passed away so she used him and his family for TV ratings yet has thrown him under the bus to protect her friend Harvey Weinstein. 

Very interesting article here

https://tiffanyfitzhenry.com/2019/03/06/whos-really-behind-leaving-neverland/

Seems it could be all smoke and mirrors to protect Harvey Weinstein and he's allegedly one of the funders of the Leaving Neverland documentary. As are Oprah, David Geffen, Gayle King (who interviewed R Kelly and is Oprah's friend) and TMZ founder Harvey Levin. If you dig deeper than what the media is portraying as facts you can find the real truth.

The latest Cage Warriors is on FreeSport.

From a reply on

http://www.britishwrestling.co.uk/forums/topic/screensport/

Screensport showed a lot of wrestling during its time. Mainly at 11pm each night. Regular promotions were NWA (Mon/Thurs) and AWA (Weds/Fri).

They also showed Stampede, World Class (WCCW), South West Championship Wrestling, Satellite (Sp?) Wrestling which was British stuff, Global (Texas) and the odd other promotion including Jackie Pallo’s WAR (Sp?).

Lifestyle used to show wrestling too. At times they featured Glow, PoWW, Global (Florida), and Pro Wrestling This week on Saturdays and Sundays at 12pm.

I believe they've left the door open for Kenny at least to come back in. He spoke about it with Dave Meltzer that it's stipulated in his AEW contract he can still work for New Japan. Jericho I believe has a similar stipulation too. I'm not sure if the Bucks, Cody and Hangman have a similar deal but Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho definitely do. 

On 2/15/2019 at 9:02 PM, Egg Shen said:

nah, i dont think it is. I think 5/Spike still get the European Series as well as a few others (probably the ones that air on Paramount in America, like 215).

OK thanks Egg. 

23 hours ago, BomberPat said:

I tried playing this, and it's somehow even more blasphemous and unplayable than ever.

Disappointed that his companion piece about the life of Muhammad hasn't been released for mobile too - in which, in the development notes, he said he attempted all he could to make sure that it was a respectful interpretation of the life of the Prophet, but that he found the Islamic restrictions on depicting Muhammad to be "too restrictive" for a programmer or something like that.

I tried playing YouTestament last month. I got as far as this;

That's me, playing as Siddhartha Gautama, getting crucified. Because while you can choose to play as any number of historical and holy figures (and Donald Trump), you can only actually live out a version of the life of Jesus as interpreted by a lunatic.

What I find particularly amusing about this image is that it was followed by a "Game Over" screen. A New Testament Simulator/Christ 'Em Up in which being crucified is considered "Game Over". A game in which, playing as the Buddha, death is the end.

Anyway, here's the Buddha knocking about in Nazareth with an axe while a Roman Centurion accosts Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka.

I played as the Iron Sheik character so far. Got the bottom part of his arm cut off by a Roman solider then found a piece of bone in a vase. Someone this attached itself so he was walking around with this bone as a replacement arm. Then a roman solider comes says they wanted to him to join them so Sheiky baba becomes a Solider. A few seconds later though idk what happened but Sheiky met his maker. Also this part of the game is hilarious I'll spoiler it in case it hasn't happened yet

5spike are showing Bellator 215 Saturday 16th Feb, so I'm assuming that's the last show they'll be airing on that channel.

13 minutes ago, Jonny Vegas said:

Oh my word. Imagine signing Dean Ambrose who should seem like a big deal as a former world champion from WWE part of their biggest faction of the last 10 years and someone who for me has a tonne of untapped potential only to put him into a program with Jimmy Havoc haha

The same guy who did death matches in CZW, doing hardcore matches again against Penta, Havoc et al and putting himself over as a legit badass...

Then you put him up against Cody, Hangman, Kenny Omega. You rush it then you've essentially blown all that potential. WWEs "now, now, now" booking philosophy has messed up the whole dynamic of wrestling booking. You instantly put Dean in a program with say Kenny where does he go next?. Or he comes in as a babyface, you have four guys going for the #1 spot. Him coming in as like his old Jon Moxley gimmick where he wants to fight his way up the ranks would be much better, in my opinion anyway.

Mdickies YouTestament has made it to mobile. It's even wackier than ever.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyo9uNfLptg

If NXT and NXT UK weren't around AEWs talent pool would be much larger so I think all things considered, they are acquiring quite a solid roster of talent. Plus there's wrestlers under contract with ROH currently too like Marty who is part of The Elite and Flip who's buddies with them all.

I've read mixed things about Marty's contract, supposedly it's up in April, or August and there's a possibility if he's getting a good push in ROH he'll stay there or WWE come calling. Flip Gordon's deal is up in 2020 so that's quite a while til he becomes available but I think he'll join up with them down the line and that's something that they can work with storyline wise since he was a big part of the BTE storyline arc.

Kenny is a huge signing for them, but he'll need quality opponents to go up against otherwise he'll get stagnant. Jericho/Omega II should be fun, their match in New Japan was really good. I think Hangman has real star potential. Pac's promo work has improved a lot too and that match along with Y2J and Kenny is of most interest.

Page I think could be their top babyface who does the weekly shows to build up his rep and get experience so there's less reliance on Omega and you keep Kenny fresh for the really big marquee matches & big shows.

Since they have three potential top babyfaces in AEW with Adam Page, Kenny and Cody I don't know who's going to be the top face. Do they push Hangman to the top but you don't sign Kenny Omega without him being your Ace. Will be interesting to see how that works out. I have a hunch Cody will turn heel and side with MJF. 

By Double or Nothing they might have signed some big names from WWE (apparently a few big name deals are up in April plus Deans not re-signing). But again they don't want to be WWE lite. But if AJ, Good Brothers, Finn become available then you definitely sign them up. Imagine them all turning up and standing across from Kenny, the Bucks & Hangman at the end of Double or Nothing.  Bullet Club v The Elite angle writes itself. Even if you just get Dean, him vs Omega could be good and you have a solid heel who can work the hardcore style against Havoc, Pentagon and Joey Janela.

I think Rey has answered why he hasnt visited Eddies grave in his post. He mentions that the memories of that day flooded back to him but he felt Eddies presence and could cope & regain his composure. I'd imagine Chavo feels the same way and perhaps even more so since he found his uncle & did CPR. They also likely still find it tough that Eddie passed  because he was only 38 too. 

Argos have a "AJ Stiles" figure

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8721697

You're welcome. Hopefully it's just a UTI and antibiotics will sort it out.

On 1/16/2019 at 1:37 PM, SuperBacon said:

Can’t remember if we have an general illness thread so I’ll whack it in here. 

You know when you’re sleeping and you dream of weeing because that’s your subconscious telling you you need a wee in real life. Well last night I nearly didn’t make it. Was actually pissing on the run to the loo, when I woke up.

At 34, I’m far too young to be incontinent, and I hadn’t had a lot of fluids to drink before bed, so was wondering whether anyone had any advice on what it could be? 

I will say that I do have a fairly weak bladder and have always had terrible “dribble willy”, when you think you’re done and it just comes dribbling out again. 

Really not up for bed wetting in my 30s...only stopped in my 20s

I would definitely get it checked out by the GP but it does sound like a weak bladder issue. Have you ever had a cystoscopy?, if not, the GP might do a referral to have one done to check your bladder is emptying correctly. Do you get urine/kidney infections as they are usually a sign the bladder isn't emptying correctly?

Having to urgently go I would bring up to the Doc also. A bit TMI, but is your pee steady or does it stop/start, or you just pee a bit?. Do you have any pain/difficulty going?. I doubt it's prostate related, but men in their 30s can get prostate issues, but they usually affect men over 50. 

I wouldn't worry too much if by chance it is an incontinence issue. The cystoscopy looks at the bladder and if the bladder muscles are weak (they can get damaged) they'll give medication to help fix the problem. It's recommended to cut down on alcohol and caffeine too.