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13 minutes ago, False Alarm! said:

Rather worryingly from what I've read, nobody really seems to have taken an issue with Bubblegum, and there does seem to be a bit of a 'no problem at all' attitude attached with it. The vast majority of wrestling fans utterly disgust me.

I would be more worried about his colleges. He was popular with his fellow wrestlers & they do tend to hunt in packs, sharing all their stories later on for the ones who "missed out".

It does disgust me,but the nature of being "in the wrestling" does tend to desensitise you to all but the very worst. There was also a really warped sense of humour that could cloud your judgement at times,too & an almost "playground" type of atmosphere at shows/training.

Will most fans have any real idea what is really going on? It is hard put across how mental the wrestling business is, unless you have lived it to some degree. Obviously the nonce stuff is very bad, but when i have tried to tell people about the day to day stuff, you start to think that people assume you exaggerate.

21 minutes ago, Nostalgia Nonce said:

I've never heard any specifics about Al Vipond beyond "young boys", but he's really, really hated by the WOS generation of wrestlers. By all accounts, a real nasty piece of work.

Yeah i heard he was always on the prowl for boys. Could be wrong, but i think he died of aids?

23 minutes ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

Mad Eli was a nonce as well. Apparently loads of wrestlers knew it, but just laughed it off as "the mad old sod." Anyone who keeps WrestleMania XI in the cooker is definitely the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

I visited Mad Eli's home on once. It was a strange experience! Full of ornaments & wrestling memorabilia (covered in dust) with his bed in his kitchen. I never heard the rumours about him, nor did i ever suspect anything. But he did try to cover me in badges & swear some kind of oath about being in "Mad Eli's wrestling gang"? 

He did say that he spent his entire childhood in care & had seen & been the victim of every kind of abuse you could imagine. From my limited contact with him, he came across as rather nice & not nearly as "mad" as he would lead you to believe. Not that i am saying any accusations are false, just that he only gave me the impression of a lovable old eccentric.

I did hear rumours about the rather aptly named (for it's time) Gay One Al Vipond & M.C. John Harris.

Back to today's crop of wrestlers. I was heavily involved in a promotion for six years & have to say it was full of sleazy characters,with a whole load off dodgy stories & rumours. Not nonce stuff, just grubby situations that normal people would be shocked by. I was never actively involved in such activity & for that reason,not in any clique. So I probably only got to hear about a very small percent of what went on. It was never ending, every week or two there were new whispers of shadiness.

 

How many British Wrestlers have made a stand & said "The abuse within British Wrestling is wrong & i have never participated in any of it" or words to that effect?

Very few so far! & IMO for very good reason! The vast majority of them all piss in the same pot, at least to some degree & dare not risk putting a target on their backs by making any sort of hypocritical denial. 

For anyone looking for abusers of trust, i would suggest you start by looking at all those who have a lengthy involvement within the "industry" as from my own experiences, they are a lot more likely to have become "one of the boys" or whatever you want to call a culture of sleazy behaviour?

On 2/21/2016 at 11:03 PM, Stunner said:

Viv Albertine is still remarkably attractive... and she's 61.

 

Seconded!
Viv Albertine is the most stunning 61 year old i have ever seen 

2 hours ago, SpursRiot2012 said:

Did you guys know that Kane (real name Glen Jacobs) used to be the wrestler known as Isaac Yankem? My cousin works backstage for the WWE and he told me. 

Hang about!

Are you suggesting that The Undertaker & Kane are not blood brothers?

42 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

The massive news that Glen Jacobs is Kane's real name, I'm so glad he pointed that scoop out to us.

Thanks for pointing out the news i missed. I can only apologise for thinking he is a total weirdo, with no direction in his life.

24 minutes ago, NoUseforaUsername said:

Dreams, eh?

Had a dream recently where Glen Jacobs (Kane) was found sodomised to death and decapitated in a dank motel room.

Yeah, I should probably stop drinking coffee after midnight.

A therapist once told me to write down what happens in my dreams every time I wake up in the morning so I can analyse them and discuss what they mean.

I'm struggling to comprehend why I would have such an upsetting dream. The trigger may have been a video I saw on YouTube ages ago from when WWE were touring in the UK and a couple of fans videoed Kane staring in awe and taking pictures of a gay nightclub event poster on a building wall while said fans heckled him, but it's quite a jump from that to the snuff dream I had.

Where is the news in this post?

1 hour ago, NoUseforaUsername said:

Is Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches by Oliver Martin any good?

It's another one i would stick in the "OK" department. Just a photo & a brief description of the match in question.

The best way i have found to judge the quality of wrestling books is to visit Amazon.co.uk & go for the ****+ scores from the reviews (make sure there are plenty of reviews because just a couple of reviews could be hype by the author or someone without a grasp of what a good wrestling book is).

Like so many folk on here, probably the best new book out is the Brian Pillman one. Apart from Amazon, Crowbar Press (Scott Teal) only ever seem to release quality books.

I bought myself a tonne of wrestling books for Christmas including the Sean Oliver one.

The book that interests me the most is  "Teeny: Professional Wrestling's Grand Dame" the story of Christine Jarrett.
I have no idea if it is a good book or not ( yet ) but am hopeful it delivers. It has good reviews & it is from an era that interests me, with a different perspective than most other books being it coming from a woman who was probably on her own in a man's world back then (The Original Sheik's wife may have had a similar job though?).

Yeah i read it about a year ago.

It was "OK", but i would not recommend it because the author came across rather self important/smarky & massively overplayed his importance within the era that he sat at ringside with his mates.

49 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

There's a playlist of every episode here: 

 

Thanks. It's Series 1 Episode 5 (41 minutes in) 

You don't see anything, but it is one of my favourite scenes. I don't suppose too many blokes find Kathy Burke sexy, but given half the chance i would push her shit back a fortnight 

Anyone remember a BBC drama about binmen "Common as Muck? There is a scene where Kathy Burke gets shagged in a pub toilet.

I only watched it the once, but seem to remember it was quite good. Can anyone help me relive this with a link please?