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Maybe it'll be like 2004 when the Rumble was on Smackdown the Thursday following the Rumble PPV that was won by Eddie. I can't for the life of me remember why they didn't have one at the Royal Rumble PPV, though.

I was pondering this earlier. It'd be one way to keep the Survivor Series as the only place Raw & Smackdown wrestlers can wrestle each other, but then each rumble would have some absolute nobodies involved in it.

Best Christmas Movies Channel 5 could afford the rights to show?

Raw once again felt like a late-era episode of Nitro. The Goldberg plugs, cruiserweights, nothing matches thrown together. Shark Cage match? Will the other horsemen been banned from ringside? Strowman looked great again, but I've got this feeling of dread that he's going to get fed to Roman Reigns at some point. Reigns's persona was great in that opening segment with Steph. They're trying, but I can't help feeling the damage has been done. He needs a proper heel who can get people behind him. Miz, hell see whether Bubba Dudley fancies a little Bully Ray type run against him. Mind you I remember the massive pops Tripper was getting earlier in the year while he was trying to do the same thing. It might just be as simple as giving him new music to divorce him further from The Shield? I can't help but think some of the booing might be because they hear the music and are upset they don't get to see the Shield. It feels a bit like they're trying to get him over on the back of that, while Ambrose and Rollins have carved their own niches.

I used to be Ed Anderson when I was backyarding with my chums. People used to compliment me on my spinebuster.

It was pretty much the same story for this guy. Flubbed the general knowledge round in a big way, after sailing through the piss-easy WWE questions.

 

Edit: Nice avatar by the way.

Cheers. When I grow up I want to be Arn Anderson.

Oakwell Leisure Centre in Barnsley. Establishing shots of the Sheffield-Huddersfield train (single carriage) chuffing out of the station and some pensioners shuffling into the Alhambra Centre/milling about outside The Courts Hotel on Eldon Street. Horwich LEisure Centre as well.

Hoe did they do on the general knowledge round? I always recall Myleene Klass going on Celebrity Mastermind about ten years ago with a specialist subject of "Sex & The City Series 3". She aced the round (17/18) to the point that she was in the lead going into the general knowledge then only got a single question right. And like the guy above said, it's not like the celebrity mastermind questions are anywhere near as challenging as the ones on Mastermind proper. 

That Severn theme was monstrous.

I don't get why they didn't just try to offer it up to Netflix or Amazon Prime instead. I'd maybe partake of a random TNA show if it turned up on there and I wanted to kill a couple of hours because some of them are good, but I don't think I'll be paying a fiver a month for the priivilege. The app probably won't work properly and/or be chock full of ads anyway.

I thought you meant that cup of coffee he had in the WWF at the arse end of the 80s/start of the 90s where he was just called "The Dragon". My mistake.

I think he had it when he teamed with Piper & Snuka against Jericho at Mania, but I didn't realise he'd had it at any other point.

The track listed as Ricky The Dragon Steamboat on that WWE Uncaged album is Ultimo Dragon's WWE music. Steamboat came out to an instrumental version of Eye In The Sky by the Alan Parson's Project back when he was in WWE, they usually dub it over with his WCW music that wasn't his "Family Man" song on the network now. That was a good song. Well, both his WCW themes were interesting, for different reasons. There's a verse in the Family Man song talking about how good his feuds with Flair and Rude were. One of the lines is "His matches with Rude were beyond compare." they rhymed "Compare" with "Flair", but the other lyric escapes me at the moment.

Hopefully the Neville heel turn helps the cruiserweight division, and doesn't come off as "Neville can't cut it on the main roster so has to settle for the cruiserweight division". Sheamus & Cesaro are tag team champions. How long do we count down until they're feuding again now?

KOTR 2000: Vince goes for the People's Elbow on Rock, who gets up and gives him a Rock Bottom for the pin and the belt.

If Balor's fit for Rumble time I could see him maybe winning it to set up a match against Owens at Mania, but can they run with Owens as champ until then?

What would make Reigns Vs Owens interesting would have been announcing Jericho as ref a few weeks ago when he and Kev were on the same page, then watching the scenario unfold with Owens trying to keep him sweet in order to try and retain the advantage during the match. Is Jericho going to side with Owens, is he going to call it straight down the middle? Will he favour Reigns out of spite? Will Rollins get involved to try and counteract what he perceives as a screwjob for Reigns? There'd be potential for some interesting moments during the match.

You have to pay for the package that contains Dave if you've got Sky or Virgin. I know you can literally visit their website and watch it, but I'd also imagine there may be a touch of revenue to be had from there. Josh MAtthews would be well out of his depth on a channel that prides itself as "the home of witty banter" though.

£2 a month isn't too bad. I'd maybe want to know exactly how much "classic" TNA is one there though. If you're ostensibly getting the "TNA Network" for that it's a somewhat inviting proposition.

Cap's a little short on patched there. Unless there's a selection of bum bags the size of Guatemala hidden behind that shield.

I can deal with grey hair but the creation of a hair island. Its like watching a small iceberg pull away from a larger iceberg and knowing global warming caused that but in my case my global warming is age. Bless you for your kind thoughts Keith brought a tear to my eye.

Is it a full blown Shearer's Island, or are we still at the Zidane Peninsula stage?

 

 

Maybe Bertie was giving Alan a lovely traditional Norfolk welcome.

 

Hey, we're a peaceful bunch.

 

Anyhow, anyone working under the name "Alan Xtreme" post-2001 deserves a kicking.

 

 

 

It sounds like a Hardys knockoff who should be wrestling against a fat lad in a tiedye t-shirt calling himself Dudley 3D or something equally phoned in and derivative on a card from a leisure centre sports hall headlined by the UK Undertaker.

 

 

He should wrestle with a fishbowl on his head.

Rob Liefield looks like he had a hell of a time drawing that fella.

A personality like Aries could be a big help to the cruiserweights division. An "indie darling" will surely help get eyes on them? And I know we don't like the term "indie darling" but surely Aries is a guy for whom that term was invented. He's pretty high profile and can wrestle a variety of styles. I say have the cruiserweights complain about them being segregated and stick some of them in matches with "non" cruiserweights as well to take away from the novelty.

 

That all seems reasonable to me, quite honestly. There's sound logic behind each item.

 

Absolutely, I don't see a problem with this whatsoever. Some indy promotions should have something along these lines in place. They should also add something in here about only one superkick per show. Interesting to see D-Von is a producer, I didn't know that.

 

I'd take one superkick per match for a start...

Maybe Bubba's sitting out his no compete by the phone waiting for Bully Ray's summons back to TNA. I reckon he could still have a decent singles run. Stick the US title on him and let him get Reigns over.

You reckon Dave Mastiff would be up for it? the taped up glasses and dungarees would take some getting used to,

I hope Byron Saxton's a better ring announcer than he is commentator. I guess you can't have all the exciting stuff happen at the house shows.