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Vince: "I'm not really happy with how this Becky push is going, pal! Get Judy Bagwell on the phone RIGHT NOW!"

The one in front of young Roman is the one who was on Raw in '97 telling Father Christmas "You ain't Santy Claus!", isn't it?

It's Christian faith, you know, so I'm not as, you know, interested. 😉

7 hours ago, BomberPat said:

AEW could do a lot worse than pick up Arn, particularly if they're getting TV. But in the short term he can make a small fortune doing guest ref/"ringside enforcer" spots on indie shows, managing/endorsing wannabe Horsemen teams, training seminars, and the convention circuit. As much as the market is oversaturated, I'd be interested in him starting a podcast - either just telling road stories and behind-the-scenes anecdotes about working as an agent or ideally (and this will never happen) something in the style of Mike Quackenbush's podcast giving advice/suggestions to aspiring wrestlers. 

I don't think you'd get it out of him, the kayfabe is strong with this one.

They look a lot more even than her tits!

He's certainly got his dad's tits, hasn't he?

2 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

He doesnt get on with Flair these days. Flair talking about Arn shagging about in real life in his book was to much for that friendship. Arn will pretend to get on with him for the good of kayfabe, but I'm sure he's not to fussed about not being there on Monday.

Although, I'm 99% certain I heard from someone recently that Arn was a total weirdo in real life, and would grab arses and get his cock out in front of staff in WCW. Forgot who said it, though. So, maybe WWE wants him gone in case there was a bit of uproar.

I like Arn (think he's better than Flair, honestly), but Court Bauer told a story one time on MLW Radio about him coming into their room and having a conversation with them while having a shit and talking about how some programme or wrestler was "sucking a nigger's dick", in Arn's words (and self-edited by Bauer). I put that casual bit of racist language down to him being a bit of a Georgia cracker.

Weird shit stories permeated that podcast, actually. Court got unfriended by Dusty Rhodes seemingly after he told a story of him taking a writer into the bathroom with him to continue a conversation while he had a "big ol' country shiiiit!". More exposure as well when he told about Dusty mooning him in a writing session and getting a look at his "elephant skin balls".

Heard Raven knock Arn too, putting most of his behaviour down to "Was he drinking? Thought so!".

3 hours ago, BomberPat said:

I refuse to believe there was ever a young Jimmy Valiant.

You've got to watch this match, where he's in his early twenties, just to see him go for a side headlock on the wrong side and how he runs off the ropes:

The more modern footage where he's got the stick in his hand will involve him wearing a wig and a fake beard and moustache, because he'd cut and shaved it off by then in his retirement.

Also, the blonde jobber in the blue trunks that he's mauling is a very young Jimmy Valiant.

4 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

He's either filled his nappy from the back around or he's hung like a donkey.

3 hours ago, bigfoote said:

That's pretty inaccurate, we know Jake's got far more gaps in his teeth than that.

6 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

I'm challenging you to beat this monstrosity. Go.

 

Looks like an amputee with bandaged stumps, among other indignities.

19 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said:

Wrestler takes advantage of desperate obsessed wrestling fans and kids who can’t read good... Shocker

He wants to get in to the ‘mentoring local promotors’ game, that’s where the real coin is.

Does that mean he'll have to learn to talk with his hands a lot?

It's part of the AWA Team Challenge Series.

P.N. News, although I think he's denied it (as you would).

Is that Rambo/Luc Poirier with the purple Brutus Beefcake look in the "We Are Dynamite" video?

Maybe Paige had pulled the "spikes" off and was playing with them.

Beyond strongmen and bodybuilders like Alan Dennison and Johnny England, weren't the most muscular guys in British wrestling pretty much Steve Regal and Dave Taylor?

European wrestling is a goldmine for this kinda weird stuff.

I love how the girls cavort far dirtier than any divas or Nitro Girls but still get called the relatively bland "dancing girls".

There was a card up on YouTube that I can't find now with a main event of the Superflys against Robbie Brookside and Frankie Sloan with Fit Finlay as kind of the international guest underneath against Danny Collins. Seeing him coming out to "Belfast" was just as bizarre there.

I saw Takayuki Iizuka at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Cannock against Steve "Buffalo" Breheny, who they never got the name of right on the programme. Most often seemed to be Buffalo Beaney, prompting baked beaney chants!

Here's another Colonel Brody match I remember from back in the day, same YouTube channel, against Steve Regal. Brody, despite being a supposed South African, is out to "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" and gets to swear in his pre-match promo:
 

10 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

Well, life has changed dramatically today. Voices of Wrestling has a podcast called "Music of the Mat" where two musicians (not famous ones, just guys who known the song structure of these things) discuss a wrestlers history of theme songs, and breakdown the progression of it. Well, they discuss Bret Hart's first WCW theme, and I had no clue that the main part is a talk box with Jimmy Hart (I assume) going "HIT-MAN, WOAH! HIT-MAN, WOAH!" over and over. You cant unhear it.

 

Definitely right. Isn't that an old musical trick where you write the music so that they fit the name of the show or theme? For instance, the Blind Date theme tune can have have "Blind Date! Blind Date! Blind Date, Blind Date, Blind Date!" sung along to it even though there aren't any lyrics.

Doing the "victory pose" that they did, he and Lance Storm looked like the council estate version of Diesel and Shawn Michaels.

4 hours ago, Porkchopcash said:

Jesse used to rip him non stop on Superstars, calling him an ugly looking troll. Humperdink is the absoloute worst. Whoever thought putting Mr Wonderful with him would work needs shooting!

There's a part of me that wonders if he was a replacement for someone else. I like Hump too, but someone like Captain Lou would've made much more sense.

5 hours ago, Yakashi said:

Newest Talk is Jericho is all about how he signed with new Japan and AEW. It’s interesting but the lad is living in a fantasy land. He’s completely delusional about his own worth and accomplishments in wrestling. 

Can you expand a bit on that? I've no interest in listening to him but keen to hear what he had to say.

34 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

It's not a minor news item but I read this on Wreddit's Observer Rewind from October 2000:

The little twerp is second gen! No wonder he's bulletproof. 

His dad apparently was driving the Allentown tapes back to the office one time when he crashed. The car was on fire but he still endangered himself to get them out of the back, showing his loyalty and lumbering us with Bucky Beaver forevermore.

Why do I get the feeling that Orig Williams is the sort of man who everything in his cupboards was Kwik Save No Frills?

3 hours ago, garynysmon said:

I remember going to a show in Llandudno where the Boston Blackie was playing a Rock knock-off complete with "Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?" in what sounded like a broad scouse accent.

Rock Steadfast? Still can't work out what Steadfast refers to, sounds like a mix of a ripoff of the Rock and Brock Lesnar via predictive text.