Lorne Malvo

7 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Forgot to mention Wheeler Yuta being an absolutely wonderful little dickhead throughout the six man. I think he's going to turn into a really fun to watch annoying nasty little shit.

I mentioned this in the ROH thread last week. Yuta is going to develop into a tremendous nasty bastard annoying heel. He's almost as punchable as Sammy too.

I thought this was a mostly great episode that improved upon alot of the shit on last week's show.

The QTV segment was something different and gave me TNA 2010 vibes which isn't a bad thing.

The Fatal Four-Pillars Way is going to be incredible. Although the fact Orange Cassidy isn't considered a pillar is a crime, regardless of how old he is compared to the rest.

31 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

I'd have taken 4 shoved in

9 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

Wrong thread mate.

I couldn't be arsed trawling through the hundreds of food threads to find the correct one. It'll be even worse when I post my Tunnocks delivery in Chippy Tea later.

I went to a cafe Saturday morning and had what they called a 'protein breakfast'. The traditionalists will scoff but it was more filling than any fry-up I've ever had. I had it at 10am and didn't even think about food again until 8pm. Scrambled eggs, avocado, smoked salmon, sautéed mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes, turkey rashers, beans and a side of brown seeded toast.

The place has a predominantly Muslim clientele so I'm guessing the turkey rashers are their substitute for bacon. I actually preferred it as I often find bacon overdone and too crispy.

It was my first time ever having avocado. I don't get the hype. It didn't really seem to have a distinctive taste at all, it was just there.

It was bang on though. Next time I'll take pics!

I'm really enjoying it so far. It's probably too long but I reckon if it settles down to the 60-90 minute mark a week it'll make a quality weekly show. 

They're doing a good job of establishing the roster at the moment and Riccaboni is great at bringing us up to date on the non-AEW guys. 

Willow vs Athena was brilliant. It took ROH's new show exactly two weeks to produce a womens match which is better than 90% of the ones we get on Dynamite. Shows what can happen when you give the women a bit of time and the crowd a reason to give a fuck.

Aussie Open vs ROH lads and Yuta vs Thatcher were both strong matches. If they do run with this BCC heel turn I can see Yuta being a quiet revelation as a dickhead heel, similar to Guevara in 19/20.

I've quite been enjoying Christoper Daniels old guard of ROH act but him being saddled with Sydal is an absolute gut-punch, Sydal is the worst. 

Blake Christian still looks like George Costanza's dad.

Someone in the crowd was wearing an 'I'm a Matt Tavern girl' t-shirt. I reckon he sold a grand total of one of those. 

All I got was a fucking 'thank you' email. Fuming.

I'll preface this by saying I'm a big AEW fan, I rarely think they have a bad show and I think a lot of people can be overly harsh on what is still a relatively new company. But even so I think this was a duff Dyno.

I know they like to do their own thing and not take any pointers from WWE, but coming out of a show like Revolution you have to start the show with MJF, or Danielson, or even something like FTR or Wardlow. Just going into another All-Atlantic title defense like its business as usual makes it look like the PPV wasn't newsworthy.

Ricky Starks doing the 'where am I going?' was tiresome and him going from Chris Jericho to Juice Robinson, a man who has done nothing in AEW so far except underwhelm in the dullest TV matches of the last year, is crazy.

QT Marshall is one of my favourite guys in the company, he's the undisputed king of Dark/Elevation. But that is absolutely his level. Showing arse for younger lower-rung guys and getting the crowd warmed up for the main show. He shouldn't be intefering in Dyno main events and mixing it up with the likes of Hobbs/Wardlow.

Hangman vs Moxley was done at the PPV, it doesn't need to carry on. I would welcome a BCC heel turn but I'm not even sure if that's where they're going, it just seems like more muddy shades of grey shit where they're faces one week then heels the next. (On a very minor note, Danielson still coming out of the heel tunnel and Saraya/Ruby/Toni coming out of the face tunnel this week completely wrecks my head. Sort it out!)

It wasn't all bad. The Homegrown vs Outsiders thing finally seems to be clicking now Ruby has chose a side, and her promo was well done and moved things on logically. Jeff Jarrett is feuding with OC in a candidate for 'dream matches you didn't know you needed'. And The Elite are finally feuding with other people! That 3-way will be insane.

So yeah, a couple of bright spots on the show but coming out of Dyno and Revolution last week which I thought were both excellent, this just seemed like a damp squib of a show.

13 minutes ago, David said:

I could easily say "My wife knows a cleaner who works at the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh and she overheard one of the complainants laughing about how they were stitching Salmond up." 

 

Sounds about as believable as said cleaner getting gifted a PS4 for Christmas.

3 hours ago, Merzbow said:

It's a crime that JD Drake wasn't made into a bigger deal, he's such a good hard hitting fat lad in a time when they are rare as hell. Not sure why he left The Wingmen either.

I'm sure I read that his knees are knackered, which might explain why they haven't done more with him. You can see at times he looks like he would collapse if it wasn't for his knee braces.

9 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

 

As Chris Hero once put it, if everything you do is a "false finish", then nothing is, they're just moves. It's part of the problem with WWE - everyone has a dozen signature moves, but they never win matches, because matches will only end after a finisher, so you never believe that Sami Zayn's winning after the Blue Thunder Bomb, or Edge after the Edge-o-Matic or whatever.

It's one thing I really like about AEW, to be honest. A lot of acts have multiple ways they can win the match. The Coffin Drop doesn't always get the job done but the Last Supper might. Danielson won his first 5/6 AEW matches with different moves. Then even lower-rung guys like Chuck Taylor have moves like the Awful Waffle which you hardly see but are really well-protected.

10 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Lads, I don’t think it’s weird to get emotional at a beloved broadcaster finishing their final show.

It's a bit weird when I can just carry on listening to him next month on another frequency. Popmaster and all!

Bring back downvotes.

@Hugh Thesz Was just coming in here to post that!

I only just found out he's being replaced by Vernon Kay which makes it even more depressing.

Wait For Me by Kings Of Leon. 

I don't like Kings of Leon at all. And I've never paid enough attention to the lyrics to know what it's about. But something about the vocals and music together just reduces me to tears every single time I hear it. 

The only explanation I can think of is that it may have been playing in the background during some sad event in my life and now my brain subconsiously associates it with crying?

2 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Another great Jarrett/Satnum/Lethal squash and a fantastic OC/Danhausen vs Workhorsemen match on Dark this week are very worth watching.

A hot crowd too! I hope these new ROH/Dark tapings can keep the energy levels up as the previous AEW Universal atmosphere was like a graveyard.

22 hours ago, air_raid said:

 

The Rainmaker reverses into a short-arm RKO really nicely. In fact, Rainmaking cutter is exactly the kind of indyriffic stuff someone should be using as a finish in a leisure centre somewhere.

I'm pretty sure Madison Rayne has done a ripcord cutter a few times in AEW. I only remember it because it's been the only notable thing about her AEW run so far.

14 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

What I’ve always found fascinating about Orton is how well rated he is by other wrestlers/people within the business. He’s like the Michael Carrick of wrestling in that way, not always great for a spectator but the Manager is going to feel safer with him in play.

Yeah, this is something that always surprises me. As recently as 2021 JR was calling him the best wrestler in the world.

Eddie Kingston, as much as I like him as a talent, is a fucking idiot. He's got nobody to blame but himself when AEW fuck him off and he's back selling his wrestling boots for dinner money.

Actually, all of AEW having a Twitter ban would be fantastic. 

Emi Sakura vs Billie Starkz on Dark this week is a low-key cracker, if you can put up with the terrible AEW Universal atmosphere.

Dak Draper vs Brady Booker (???) might be the weirdest match AEW have ever booked in terms of 'heres two people with no introduction having a wrestling match'.

24 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

 

There's always a space in wrestling for big lads doing big lad things.

Someone on here once suggested that Ryback vs Mark Henry at Wrestlemania 29 should've taken place over a model city of New York with them knocking buildings down like Godzilla vs King Kong, and I'm still gutted this never happened.

9 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

 Ali Mighty sounds like a mid to late 80s cartoon character era character. Lashers would certainly have fitted in with his look 

They could dig Neville's cape out of storage for this gimmick.

15 minutes ago, Gay as FOOK said:

 

One of the finest low key runs of it ever. 

I reckon this was the last great series, when models and minor celebs were the exception rather than the norm. 

IIRC, Halfwit was a bit of a tedious dickhead for the first few weeks and then overnight he turned face and cut a massively over-dramatic promo on the shit-stirrers. 

It had two of the all-time great villains in Bea and Lisa. And it also had the most uncool 'definitely used to post on the UKFF' contestant ever in Marcus. 

Brilliant series. 

3 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said:

Found this YouTube channel today where Karl Pilkington annd other celebs are added into video games, it’s hilarious.

Funnily enough I also found this channel a few days back. Karl Pilkington talking to the Fallout 4 salesman slayed me. 

The Adam Project also had that weird Netflix thing where some of it looks incredible and other scenes look like they were made for 50p.

I thought it was a perfectly fine Friday night film at the time but I don't remember a single thing about it.

Do we reckon Cody is coming down to the Wheel Of Fortune theme at Mania then?