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crowd sounds up for it which is usually the best thing in a show

I haven't seen any of the MK animated movies. Have you seen any of the others? Might pick up the Scorpion one.

I remember the animated SF2 movie was ace (that was 30 years ago mind).

47 minutes ago, Jonny Vegas said:

I don't really keep up to date with Impact other than through this thread but the news of the return to the TNA name on twitter had me watching the promo for it.

Really hope they bring the 6 sided ring back, I think it's something that really set them apart and would be a nice difference to WWE/AEW now too.

Something that did really stick out to me also was Jordynne Grace's physique and also her voice. I don't remember her speaking like that previously. Am I mis-remembering?

An incredible physique however between that and her voice it was hard not to believe she must be quite a heavy user of steroids.

Watch an interview from over a year ago and hear the difference. That type of voice is common in female bodybuilding. 

She was actually always muscular I think, just not an 8% body fat and more likely 30 something. She got a lot of abuse and I wonder if this is her trying to combat that.

2 minutes ago, TheScarlettChad said:

Wrestling was never not scummy. You either accept that and watch it for what it is, lowest form of trash tv or you don't, there's good people in the biz, but there's plenty of scum, Sniff included. Bans Hulk but brings flair out and employs a lad who took his name from GG Allin, a rapist and general scumbag. Its all dirty. 

Most industries have always been scummy, they have at least somewhat tried to clean up or at least try and give an image. Wrestling seems to never be held accountable and doesn't seem to want to clean up, it probably only has done because the wrestlers themselves are generally not so bad rather than anybody trying to clean up.

The all Wrestling is scummy, it's accept it or don't watch is an excuse. An excuse the wrestling industry doesn't give a fuck and an excuse fans use to cover their conscience. Fans that tune into Flair, McMahon or Michaels, would they accept it if it was a musician, an actor, director or producer. Probably not.

I went to All In, I'm not sure I'll bother next year now. I'm going to be honest seeing the Bevis family paraded as heroes in August already had me not sure if I would go but hoped I might get more enthusiastic. It's obvious that he doesn't give a fuck. 

28 minutes ago, MVP RULZ said:

So no UK PLE for next year I'm guessing but this should guarantee a good red hot crowd again

Too early to predict this as Gunthers crowning as World champion? I know he is Austrian but its as close as they'll get to a home PLE for him.

 

American's count Drew Galloway wrestling in Wales as a hometown hero, so I'm sure they can make it work. 

13 hours ago, Bellenda Carlisle said:

In the 3rd episode when they showed a flashback of Frasier hosting that undignified Dr Phil style TV show it just made me wonder why they didn't set the revival during that period. Hope we see more flashbacks or an episode set then.

Frasier's son's a bit bland so far, not gonna be too critical 3 episodes in but I do hope he develops a bit.

Kelsey still has it as Frasier and the character was always so formal and fussy that him being 20 years older doesn't make that much difference. I like how he's even more successful and rich now and smells great.

I used to fancy Lilith, I wonder if she's still hot 

She's 64 and she looks it, but not in a bad way she's still a good looking woman. However she was hot, I would say hottest in a film called Tadpole, which is a very low budget film but has quite big names in it with her, Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter and Aaron Stanford. 

I'm on episode 3 of Frasier. It's okay, Frasier is often funny, sometimes Lyndhurst is but he still has that very punchable face (which worked for Rodney). Freddy I'm torn on, he has moments but he comes across as a bit of a nob even though he's supposed to be the guy who helps out the single mum and cared more about saving people than getting a degree. I kind of feel they've tried to mirror Marty moving in with Frasier where he was a bit of a nob about it. So far he hasn't got the warmth of Marty but that may come. David Crane is just forced and feels out of place and to be honest not very funny. 

I feel it lacks the charismatic side characters, but that comes with time so it's probably unfair making comparisons with a series that ran for a decade. 

I feel they need to do a King of the Mountain match at hard to kill

1 hour ago, andrew "the ref" coyne said:

The announcement is bizarre. It dosent actually mean anything... IMPACT is pretty much the exact same as TNA in concepts and presentations (excusing natural modernisation over time).

Like.. what is it going to do except for just, you know, a change in colour scheme and using a different set of belts.

Will get some people talking I suppose and maybe create a bit of buzz. 

They are changing the name to TNA. Personally I think Impact is better. TNA sounds like a name a 13 year old came up with in 1999.

This was a month ago but still entertaining

2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I started another rewatch, and had the subtitles on as the kids were sleeping.

Never realised before that Kramer was called Kessler in the pilot, as they hadn't got the real Kenny Kramer to agree to using his name yet.

It's always weird to see the original Morty Seinfeld as well.

The original Frank Costanza is a bit different too

Got told a few months ago they wanted to create new jobs in our department, I think it was 2 permanent managers, 2 fixed term managers, 6 permanent officers and 1 fixed term officer. Quite a lot of members considering my department at the moment is only 5 permanent managers, 8 perm officers and 3 fixed term officers. The Head of Service was going to write a business case for them. It seems it's gone through teh first hoop and my manager told me he was now writing the job descriptions for some of the jobs. The job descriptions get analysed and put into a banding. So HR may say actually that person needs to go in a lower or higher meaning either more money is needed or possibility of cutting a couple of the new positions. Many of the jobs are aimed at people already here, some move into managerial and others moving to the side to allow people to function in a specific area rather than work across a couple. 

I got asked what I actually do that should be in my job description. The part I wanted on their was budget holding, I do that anyway as an option as I quite enjoy it. I do it for specific contracts relating to a service that this new job would focus on rather than another huge £60m per annum contract I assist with. The runs I run myself are worth about £1.6m. I was honest I said I recently saw a Band 4 job (I'm a band 3) in the same directorate as me and said the only thing it did that I didn't was manage anybody and I'd hold a bigger budget. I'm the only band 3 in our directorate who holds a budget and I wanted recognition. Is that dicky of me? The budget holder thing would make me either a band 3 level 2 (an extra 2.5k minimum starting and easier to go up in pay) or a Band 4 level 1 (extra 12k starting). Many have had band 4s created specifically for them, I didn't complain I just said I'd be happy with Band 3 level 2, I just want recognition for what I do.

I rarely watch wrestling, I'm always aware what is going on hoping something might pull me in. I watched AEW on Youtube pre and post All In but it wasn't enough to keep me interested. It was fun but nothing to make me want to find the time to watch it weekly. I watched some WWE youtube and apparently it's the best they've been in years, thank fuck I didn't watch previous years then. However I'm always going through spells of watching and not watching and a spell can last years so I wouldn't be surprised if I start again. Something needs to grab me though, I started watching again in about 2014 when the UK scene really started to grow again and ICW and RPW helped me get back interested and in turn got interested in New Japan. New Japan got a bit tedious as they've struggled to replace main event spots filled by Tana, White or Omega.  

For all you Frasier fans with a Gameboy colour

play in browser or download for GBC or Analogue Pocket here https://edward-la-barbera.itch.io/frasier-fantasy?fbclid=PAAaYbGwCi0gRpoWgEKcgQKrcKDgQYNLv9ehP7SfVPisXR9X2HRN1SUM-xskU_aem_AVzMU0E-_HQx6bIHRThZNqvdNnjX1xTOQrIX7fWYDnhdFobYbSCjcLbMa1ClZfYvHhE

During the Elizabethan period infant mortality rate was 14% and 30% died before turning 16. Most mothers would give birth between 5 and ten times in their life. I'd assume that was pretty similar around the world.

If groping two blokes doesn't class as sexual harassment or misconduct then what level did those who got accused of it stoop to?

The in-laws love Pete Bone, never been sure why, always comes across as a right cunt.

8 hours ago, Nostalgia Nonce said:

Getting ready to duck........

Dusty Rhodes. I just never saw a star, or someone that couldn't have been replaced by any other name of that era. I keep wondering if I've not seen his best work, but I've seen him against Flair, against Harley Race, against Dory Funk, so if his best matches aren't among those, which ones are?

My guess is that he was the everyman, the person that southerners especially could get behind in the 70s and 80s. I dunno, I don't see it myself but maybe he's just an act that was very much of its time.

I think The Rock as a face was very much of its time too. It was a time where you had cheap comedy movies coming out all the time such as Sandler or Schneider movies or American Pie movies with dodgy humour to say the least. People latched on to this cool looking bloke being a bit of a cunt.

1 hour ago, Shy Dad said:

This is key I think.

There was no way I was going to be able to put a holiday request in and find suitable travel and accommodation and sort tickets all in one go so short on time and I expect the same for many others. Hopefully the next time around is in a better time frame as it is something I really want to experience live with a bit of better planning.

I also think many had travelled for wrestling this year for All In, MITB or both. You then have a WWE tour in 2 weeks which went on sale ages before New Japan. 

I miss light guns, I had a Superscope and the Namco one for the PS1. Great days. I'm not sure a lot of the games were particularly great but many fun.

Sadly the switch gyro just isn't good enough to pull it off properly.

28 minutes ago, LWOLeN said:

I really enjoy the venue. It's an A+ location next to the Olympic Stadium (West Ham United) and the Westfield Mall. Public Transportation is perfect.

A show like this could also attract fans from Germany, Netherlands etc. as it is so close to London City Airport. I don't think these markets were part of the promotional plan.

Just book someone from WXW Germany also next time and not only British talent.

I took my 10 year old son and I could easily entertain him all day before the show with the cinema, bowling, dining  etc.

Fantastic.

The show was fun and had some really good matches. He loved it.

The crowd was hot at times but less hot compared to RPW's AEW show.

I think this show lacked some buzz. Some more hype. It needed a more 'cant miss' vibe to attract more fans.

I'm worried NJPW wont return any time soon to CopperBox because of the empty seats, but I really hope they will continue to come back for many years to come.

 

 

if they got 3 to 4000 they probably did decent. Ospreay was the only big name in a singles match really. They used quite a bit of UK based talent too so cost of the show likely wasn't as heavy as 2019. 

It was quite short notice and with lack on hype I doubt they expected a sell out crowd. 2019 had Tana winning a singles title and Kenta winning the Openweight match plus Okada winning a title match in the main event. If they gave 6 months notice and treated it as an important show they could easily get 6000 again. 

1 hour ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

I bow to those who know more about New Japan than I do but am I right in thinking Tanahashi is one of the few New Japan talents that never did an excursion anywhere?
I know he worked Mexico for a couple of months with Nakamura but that wasn't counted as an excursion was it? Is there a reason why? I thought it was/is essentially a ritual to have an excursion for New Japan wrestlers?

Not everyone does it and some do it when they are already recognised. Possibly though because he came in in 99 after a couple of years there was t anywhere to send him and Mexico can only accommodate so many. By 2001 WCW was done and weren't working with NJPW by that point, RoH wasn't available like it would be to people like White or EVIL. 

48 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

 

Reading that they haven't banned members, they've advised against it because there could be some dodgy people speaking at these rallies, anti-Semitic groups will try and use this war to try and stir Jewish hatred. Being pictured with or associating with these people is not a good look. I can also understand why they wouldn't want any Labour party flags from its members.

9 hours ago, garynysmon said:

Personally I was a Bret fan from a young age, but I think it was more down to thinking he was cool as fuck rather than buying into the 'excellence of execution' in-ring stuff. But totally get what you mean about the characters.

WWF Superstars/Challenge were the perfect shows for me as a kid really. You got the wrestlers making their entrances, a quick 2 min match and you got to see their usually cool finisher. Rinse and repeat, very little wastage.

I seemed to skip my teenage workrate period altogether. And while pay per views were great as culminations for feuds, truth be told, I usually found a lot of matches to be a bit long for my liking.

There have certainly been periods when I've questioned if I'm a fan of the actual wrestling at all, or simply the characters, pageantry and bollocks surrounding it.

Even during my teenage workrate years I enjoyed the outright coolness of Kevin Nash, a triple cage match with David Arquette, stuff involving Vampiro, The Godfather, The Brood and Gilberg. Even in recent years I've enjoyed the sillyness of MJF, Rosemary and who shot John E Bravo, a 60 year old Sting bumping and no selling and a mental Russian girl squashing the impact roster. The characters and pageantry are wrestling and if you book a match right it doesn't have to be some 7 star classic.

57 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

Oh christ, I have so many against the grain opinions!

There are several guys I was just never able to accept as main eventers as they just screamed midcard to me. The ‘Ruthless Aggression’ era was terrible for this as they scrambled to fill the void after the proper stars had retired/gone to Hollywood.

The Guerrero/Benoit Wrestlemania ending made me lose so much interest. What a drop off… I could never buy any as a world title threat, let alone holders. With Guerrero I could at least appreciate that outside of the ropes he had a rounded skillset and was versatile. But fucking Benoit (other than being a scummy piece of shit), a personality vaccum so lacking any mic skills that he had no business being anything other than a solid midcarder.

I’m tempted to say Razor Ramon/Scott Hall as, again, he was a fine IC champion but seems to have been retrospectively given this mythical main event status he never achieved when active.

I’ve never understood why his ‘punches’ are so universally beloved and thought they were just open handed slaps that looked shit. Decent Scarface rip off but was a bit one dimensional for me and his career obviously stuttered due to his substance issues.

But Edge, I mean… solid enough hand and I enjoyed the Brood when he first popped up. A career built on good timing or what?! Decent tag team act but never main even calibre for me, let alone building a cumulative 15 year run on top or thereabouts. Was never sure what he was meant to be good at.

I thought about Edge but I really enjoyed his tag stuff, Edge and Christian were a great team. Christian is better for me. His mic skills are far superior to Edge.

On 10/9/2023 at 5:42 PM, SuperBacon said:

Ghosts

No idea why its taken me so long to start this, but I blitzed the first series yesterday whilst ill (have I mentioned I'm ill?)

Absolutely lovely stuff. Simon Farnaby is one of the most underrated comic actors in this country. He is just brilliant. His expressions as he concentrates to physically interact with something "sent me" as the kids say.

Although I did think of something whilst watching it. If ghosts have to physically concentrate to interact with something, and can walk through walls/doors etc, how are they able to walk then? As surely by this logic they would just fall through the floor and keep falling forever?

 

Ghosts is fantastic, the characters are funny yet touching as you find out more about each as the show goes on, the ghosts are friends and have grown to love each other. Even Julien in the final episode of this series shows his human side.

I didn't enjoy the American version, the ghosts are based on their history so you don't get a dirty bastard mp, a gentleman army captain and a sausage roll loving scout master. Our version probably wouldn't work for Americans.