Lorne Malvo

16 minutes ago, air_raid said:

then made him twiddle his thumbs for nearly 2 years between losing the title to Rollins and winning it at SummerSlam 18 (including multiple defeats to Lesnar and spending near a year wasting time with Strowman which also involved multiple losses),

This period involved him losing the IC title clean to The Miz on Raw 25 too, which was maybe the nadir of them half-arsing Reigns push.

1 hour ago, Loki said:

 

Personally I think there's only one guy on the roster with the sort of charisma you need to stand up to The Rock, someone with undeniable kavorka.  Rocky may have the flowery shirt, but he has the shoes of a champion.  Yeah.

CM Punk's injured, isn't he?

Yeah!

During Covid I used to go running on the canal at the same time everyday, and would always pass this old bloke who I assumed was out on his daily walk. It got to the point where I'd give him a nod and a wave as I ran past him and eventually he'd come out with little one-liners like 'get those knees up' or 'bloody hell, slow down!' One time I jogged past him and he went 'you can go faster than that lad, get a move on' or something and I replied with a jovial 'haven't you got a home to get back to?' To which he replied 'I'm homeless you cunt!' It suddenly made sense why he was in the same outfit and on the same patch of canal everyday.

I had to change my route after that.

I watched The Persian Version last night and now I'm in love with Layla Mohammadi.

I missed out on the first two Spyro games but really liked the third. The skateboarding sections were ridiculously fun.

Cosmo Jarvis is great, and for me his performance in Calm With Horses is more impressive than anything Tom Hardy has done (saying that, I'm not a massive Hardy fan).

Had no interest in Shogun initially but didn't realise Jarvis was in it, so that's getting added to the list.

My first time seeing Mina Shirakawa and I'm instantly a fan. Seems to have the goods in-ring and as soon as she came out she had a ton of infectious personality.

The ROH womens division is pretty great right now actually. Athena, Starkz, Aminata and Shida all doing really good work. And they're even making a go of Hirsh/Ellering and giving Diamante and Kiera Hogan mini-feuds to keep them busy. Good stuff.

Red Velvet vs Aminata was a really good match. Aminata seems to get better with each passing week.

Oh, and Eddie Kingston saying he has been too nice lately and needs to bring back the nasty Eddie? Yes please!

I know one thing. He's going to be Reigns 'American Nightmare' at Wrestlemania, and there's nothing Reigns can do about it!!

8 minutes ago, Supremo said:

 

Considering they had to follow the I Quit match, that Main event was nothing short of a miracle. They managed to do a wild, weapon-based brawl in a way that still set it apart from what Christian and Cope had done forty minutes earlier, massively overdelivering.

It came to mind watching this main event just how wrong those podcast experts are. The types who say things like 'doing two piledrivers in a match weakens the DDT in another match' and all that shit. Here you had a blood-soaked intense feud-ender which involved a 2x4 filled with nails being driven into another blokes cock and bollocks. Their logic would dictate that the rest of the show would play out to silence as nothing could match those levels of violence, yet people were still going wild for a completely different type of hardcore match in the main event, and were even marking out for Shibata doing a sleeper hold and a kick.

It's almost as if those people are chatting absolute shite.

Also, Cody Rhodes once beat Sammy Guevara for the TNT title on a Christmas day episode of Rampage, but it was during that hot potato TNT title spell so it's no surprise nobody remembers it.

23 hours ago, Supremo said:

Between his promo and then the match, does Swerve feel a bit cold to anyone else?

I woudn't say so. A few months back he seemed like the hottest prospect on the planet and the shine has come off a tiny bit due to Okada, Ospreay etc coming in, but he's still massively over and him winning the title would still be massive.

I sound like a broken record at this point but thought that was another great show. Will Ospreay is just on a different level. From the moment he comes bouncing out of the tunnel, he's just got this infectious enthusiasm to everything he does that you can't help but grin at.

I love him, but I wish Eddie Kingston would tap into his hardcore brawler mode that we see during Stadium Stampede/hardcore matches a lot more. He's been in All-Japan cosplay mode since the Continental Classic started and I find it infinitely less interesting than mad brawler Eddie.

2 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

'lesbian trilogy', with Qualley, Aubrey Plaza

Sold!

Poor Things - I'm not sure why, I had a suspicion I was going to hate this in a 'mother!'-esque way. Happy to report that I was wrong, I loved it. Emma Stone is terrific and Mark Ruffalo is funny as fuck. Great stuff.

Argylle - It's really daft but I had fun with it. A few twists and turns caught me massively by surprise and it was just a good time. Probably a bit too long and wears its welcome out by the end, but nowhere near as bad as I'd heard.

Drive-Away Dolls - Somehow simultaneously better than most reviews suggest while also being quite disappointing. Perfect running time and some good jokes (the two enforcers are good comedy value), but I always expect a bit more from a Coen. 

Werner Herzog: Reluctant Dreamer - A documentary about the career of Herzog... it's perfectly fine but if you know anything about Herzog this won't tell you anything new. 

Origin - A film about the author Isabel Wilkerson and her writing of the book 'Caste', I think at times it's a bit muddled and doesn't know whether it wants to be a biopic, a family drama or a look at historic caste discrimination. It is undeniably moving though and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is great.

Fast Charlie - Pierce Brosnan in an Elmore Leonard rip-off isn't as good as it sounds. It's shit. (Also, this was my first time using Amazon Prime Video in years and can confirm it's still a dire service compared to Netflix//Disney+.Lightyears behind in terms of UI, video quality etc. Terrible!)

I also watched Soul and Fight Club on the big screen. Both are great.

I managed to 100% all 3 games on the N-Sane Trilogy but gave up about 2 hours into Crash 4. It got incredibly hard very early - there wasn't a difficulty curve, more a difficulty mountain. And it just didn't have the 'one more go' factor of the original 3.

10 minutes ago, The King of Old School said:

Feel like this would have happened on Smackdown in 2004 or something.

I would've assumed so, but a quick scan on Cagematch says they were in an Eight-Way Elimination match together (no memory of that at all!) but never had a one on one match.

I have a lot of random matches that flash into my head as 'that'd be cool to watch'. Just a few I was thinking about recently;

Billy Gunn vs RVD (they could easily do this on an episode of Rampage or something)

Fit Finlay vs Darby Allin

Shibata vs Paul Wight

19 hours ago, Loki said:

Tag Match
Young Bucks v Undertaker & Kane

 

I really want to see this now.

He's a moron.

Everybody knows that the best team is the one that the most people watch.

(Add something about McDonalds here)

I've got nothing to add except this thread is ace. Good work BomberPat and JLM!

Lucha libre seems equal parts fascinating and infuriating.

Apologies if this is the incorrect thread, but does anyone have any recommendations for a good smoothie maker/blender? It doesn't have to be anything particularly high-end, just something I can throw a bit of fruit in in the morning to keep me off the bacon baps.

Thanks in advance!

10 points - Gears Of War (It came around at the peak of my gaming fandom. Fantastic campaign and still the best online shooter I've ever played)

9 points - Pro Evo 4 (I debated long and hard over which Pro Evo to include but I probably put the most hours into this one)

8 points - Super Mario 3D World(The platformer has probably always been my favourite genre, and nobody does it better than Mario)

7 points - God Of War (PS2) (Combined platforming excellence with a smooth, satisfying combat system and some great gore effects. Still disappointed they went the sub-RPG skill-tree route on the new franchise)

6 points - Crash Bandicoot Trilogy (Did a brilliant job of remastering 3 platforming greats)

5 points - Mario Kart 8 (It helps that I got really really good at this online, which is rare for me!)

4 points - Burnout Revenge(It was a toss-up between this or Paradise - this one just about won out due to the superior soundtrack)

3 points - Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (One of those games absolutely perfect for unwinding)

2 points - Smackdown 2 (I probably wouldn't be a wrestling fan today without this game)

1 point - Mercenaries (Just a game I have a lot of fond memories of, and instantly takes me back to a simpler time. Life was good when this game was out!)

Dominic Mysterio was quite impressive at Summerslam 2020 against Seth Rollins. Probably been overshadowed by Logan Paul's debut since, but at the time I remember thinking he looked really good.

I'm only watching AEW and ROH at the moment (and ROH is mostly a 'on in the background while I do my tea' kind of watch, unless it's somebody that I like wrestling). AEW is on fire for me at the moment, I'm having a good time with it.

I tried Impact but, while a fun watch, it lacks that 'must-see' factor. And I'll watch the odd New Japan show/match if I hear good things but I find they put on way too many shows with way too many inconsequential tag matches for me to keep up to date with them.

I'd like to check out more AAA/CMLL but have no idea how to even go about it. Their shows rarely turn up in the usual places.

I keep going back to WWE a couple times a year and always end up feeling like I've wasted my time. Fair enough people are enjoying their shows now, but I still find the vast majority of it to be a terrible pro-wrestling show. They did put a few good shows on around the Rumble but then The Rock sapped my interest for it and that shite Elimination Chamber PPV killed it stone-dead. But like the dickhead I am, I'll check it out again in another 4/5 months then be back on here to moan about how shit it is!

9 hours ago, JLM said:

Extremely vanilla promo from Lee Johnson. Again though, I appreciate that they're doing the thing with him. Six wins in a row, getting promo time. Would like to see more of this sort of thing in ROH, even if Johnson himself isn't winning me over just yet.

 

I quite like him in-ring, but this backstage promo was the pits. Just the most generic, don't-really-say-anything-at-all babyface promo. And he delivered it like a CAW on a Smackdown vs Raw game. Like I say, I like him but I think putting on bangers on ROH TV is absolutely his level.

Instantly a fan of Jacoby Watts Southern preacher 'the good book' gimmick. Lets hope they actually do something with it, unlike The Righteous who are meant to be a cult yet never do anything cultish and just wrestle wrestling matches like very ordinary wrestlers.

Kingston vs Briscoe and Shida vs Athena should both be crackers. Does make me feel sorry for the amount of people who turn up on ROH TV every week who never get a shot at the PPVs mind.

58 minutes ago, Callum1993 said:

One for this could be Ted Dibiase Jr. Going into Wrestlemania 26 the consensus seemed to be that hopes for him were high and he’d be the break out star of Legacy. I don’t think anyone expected Orton to still be in such a prominent position in 2024 and for Cody to be the star of the company. Even by Wrestlemania 27 the following year Orton was still in a prominent position against CM Punk and Cody got a win over Rey Mysterio. Meanwhile Ted was in the pre-show battle royal won by Khali. These days he’s facing jail for fraud. 

It's mad looking back that at the time, a lot of online fans/forums etc had Ted Dibiase down as the man who would end Undertakers streak (I've no idea where the idea came from but I remember it gaining a lot of traction online at the time). And then he faded into obscurity whereas his bland tag-team partner who didn't wear kneepads is on the verge of being the next WWE megastar.

Fandango beat Chris Jericho in his first Wrestlemania appearance, then spent the next 4 or 5 arsing around in the Get Everyone On The Card Battle Royale.

Thought that was another cracking Dynamite. I'm a big Mercedes fan so excited to see what she can do in AEW.

The company is in a good place right now. A loaded roster, the vast majority being used well and it seems they are slowly picking up steam and momentum every passing week.

Ospreay is incredible.