BrodyGraham

So one of the most interesting/bizarre things going on in wrestling is David Arquette's weird quest for respect on the indies. He's booked to wrestle Nic Gage at the next Janella show. There is no sense in which this is going to be good.

The standard chapter shows are uniformly great. The problem with Progress for me is that they only really suffer by comparison to themselves. Whilst it feels like this year hasn't been the best year for them, every show has at least 1 match that's worth the price of admission alone. I'll admit to feeling deflated sometimes at the state of some of the 'big' shows recently but that's as much to do with the cards not feeling like a significant upward bump for the occasion, if that makes sense. I think I'll always make an effort to see them in Manchester because realistically for me it's a cheap day out and The Ritz is just about perfect for wrestling. One negative, can someone explain the appeal of Lana Austin to me? That's the second time I've seen her live and I seriously don't get her popularity.

Got to go to today's Manchester show at the last minute. Absolutely blinding show. Probably the best show I've seen from Progress live. That's not to say that it had the best matches, although 4 of them were genuinely excellent, but it flowed as a show fantastically and more importantly it felt like they are telling stories again.

Is there such a thing as having too much heat? I'm a huge Gibson fan, I think he's the best all round wrestler in Britain. The thing is the crowd get so focused on Gibson that the baby face is largely incidental. When he points out that no one is chanting for Amir Jordan he's not wrong. He had a cracking match with Mark Haskins in Progress a couple of years ago but you'd have been hard pressed to notice because the crowd were so on top of Gibson that Haskins, who was Progress champ at the time, was essentially a non entity.

Probably because a lot of those 16 to 30 year old who wanked themselves dry to Sunny and Beulah are now 35 to 50 year olds with wives, daughters and public social media profiles.