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  1. Jinder was runner up in the Andre battle royal at wm33 on the pre show, losing to Mojo after Gronk helped him, and by the next Mania he had won and lost the wwe title, competing and winning a 4 way for the US title at wm34 so a slight improvement on his mania spot but a bit of a comedown from the summer in between.

  2. Been to a few shows over the years and steadily progressed each time from house shows to tv and then a ppv.
     

    Wanting to go a Wrestlemania and also a royal rumble at some point if possible, would like to go with my mates like I’ve been to the other events but funds and time off is an issue. Wouldn’t mind doing one of these Facebook group ones but the ones from pre Covid don’t seem to be running any more?

    First was at excel arena in London, smackdown house show in April 2005 headlined by Undertaker vs Kurt Angle. Loved seeing Scotty 2 Hotty live as he was my first favourite when I started watching in January 2000. Lost my signs I had made for JBL & Mark Jindrak (loved his knockout punch finish, shame he lost to Rene Dupree that night), then my mum left the Stone Cold unleash hell t shirt she had bought on the train home.

    Next was Raw house show at o2 London in November 2011, chuffed to see Kevin Nash teaming with Awesome Truth and hearing the Nwo theme for his entrance.

    Then went to Smackdown tv taping at o2 London in May 2014, Hogan’s return, and had Batista vs Ziggler in a street fight. Was soon into Cesaro’s run with Heyman as well so I remember hearing an initial version of the twat sirens multiple times in the evening and was already sick of it by the time I went home, he had an arm wrestling match with Mark Henry on Main event and then did commentary on a Sheamus match on SD.

    Next was Raw tv at o2 in May 2018, at the end of a meet up with schoolmates in which we’d been drinking all day, did swingers golf in the afternoon. Not much of note at the show ( except Nia Jax & Ronda Rousey hyping their title match at MITB by being in the US at some premiere or press event instead of in person, oh and Braun Strowman’s Saudi royal rumble trophy fell over when he did his charge around the ring) not that I can remember much either. Had a guy sitting in front of me at the end of the evening say I had been spilling beer on him to which my defence was I thought I had been sitting on the other side of the arena to him.

    Lastly went Friday to Sunday and stayed in an Airbnb to see Clash at the castle. We went out the Friday night to the pub near to the stadium and briefly saw Charles Robinson walking home, wished I’d got a picture. Great show and then followed it watching nxt uk the next night at the Airbnb in the curiously timed worlds collide event.

     

  3. 3 minutes ago, AndyDemmo72 said:

    If it was an illness or an accident then it's a shame. If he was a junkie then he shouldn't be missed.

    Not sure if you have watched the Nash podcast about it or read up on what had happened, doesn’t sound like you care but Kevin said they had both agreed to stop drinking recently and that Tristan had a seizure a few days later, and that bought on cardiac arrest.

  4. Last night was the first time since having crowds back that I’ve found the fake crowd noise really noticeable throughout the whole event, and it was really off-putting. I just couldn’t get invested in the matches at all.

  5. I know a friend of my brother in law that is full on like those guys, has an Instagram page with a few thousand followers (onto his 4th page now as the others have been deleted for misinformation etc). He goes to these meet-ups in London and has been doing the same thing recently, serving whatever these papers are. He also does the posh/ respectful speak when shouting about.

    He shared a video he was in a few months back where he was following Jon Snow into the tv offices, started out ‘I respect you sir, but you are being complicit in all of this etc’ before he finishes it by calling him a rat c**t as he left.

  6. Just now, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

    Who was the MITB holder during Jinder Mahal's title run? I vaguely remember Jinder beating a cash in with a distraction schoolboy but for the life of me can't think who did the cash in

    Baron Corbin, Cena distracted him to cost him the match on a smackdown before Summerslam, think it might have been the last sd before the ppv.

  7. People are allowed to have different opinions on here, seems to be against the majority though to say if you don’t enjoy aew.

    I try watching it on itv on Fridays but only see 1-2 matches/ segments before I switch off, it’s not for me.

    Out of the mass firings, I think Miro and Tay Conti were the only immediate/ soon after hirings, and considering Miro’s first promo on dynamite had a reference to brass rings, it’s an assumption that is easy to make.

  8. I’ll echo the kofimania run, a particular favourite moment was during the gauntlet that Big E and Woods had to win to finally get the title match for Kofi.

    The Usos were out as the second to last team, and Sheamus & Cesaro had attacked Woods & E after their match. Instead of competing though, the Usos cut a promo saying about how they and Kofi had earned their respect, the locker room and the fans respect, nice callbacks to their great feud and series of matches for the tag titles that carried through the latter half of 2017’s ppvs. Usos then forfeit the match.

    Lovely simple storytelling, no convoluted twists or turns and the crowd went made for it.

    I liked also how following this, the Usos then went to mania 35 and had the fatal 4 way tag to defend their titles, that also fitted in as if that was their punishment for forfeiting, and was good to have the Usos get a match and more importantly a win on the main show, rather than pre-shows (Mania 34 being their first main show appearance in a triple threat also against New Day and Bludgeon Brothers).

  9. Jeez the reaction to that fox tweet! Nice to see Dewey Foley following in his dad’s footsteps with the white knighting as well. 
    It’s supposed to be a bit of fun discussion about the characters, I guess Undertaker had a point about them being soft if it caused these responses.

  10. I’m ok with manias each year but the ppvs in between have become a blur to me from 2014 onwards, like David said I’m similar in that either watching tapes of the ppvs from 2000-2005 when they were on sky sports or watching the dvds afterwards on repeat I can remember all the matches,  but then from the network era I can’t pick them out the same.

  11. 5 minutes ago, SpiritOfTheForest said:Also, I'm sure I read somewhere in this thread that Natalya was facing Tamina the other night for a spot in the Rumble (2 names I was familiar with and I still think Natalya's great)....and then both end up appearing in the match? If so, then what was the point? To get the #30 spot I'd guess, but I can't remember if that was specified. 

    The match was for the guaranteed spot at #30 but not sure if they announced both would be in the rumble anyway. Tamina was #25 so the ‘random drawing’ aspect of it in laudable wasn’t too bad for her in terms of having a later number.

    They did a similar thing with Miz & R Truth for 2012? Truth beat Miz on Raw so Miz was #1, and then Truth ending up being #3 if I remember correctly.

    Aside from that I enjoyed the show overall. I had to restart the network countless times watching it live and then gave up and watched It this morning, that’s more because my Sky broadband is shit though.

    Natalya and Ziggler are so poor, the mind boggles they’ve been in the company so long, and have nothing redeeming about them to justify having them there.

  12. I looked that up too as I didn’t remember Nese being in this years rumble, he was in the greatest royal rumble in Saudi, didn’t do anything of note then either though so I wouldn’t want the commentators bringing it up.

  13. On 6/13/2020 at 7:35 PM, Pogue said:

    It's not even the first time they've ripped it off, they did it with HBK and the McMahon's in 2006

    I went back and watched the Michaels/ Mcmahons one from then and it is a carbon copy almost, even to the part where Sheamus talks to the camera while Jeff is in the stall, he says the line ‘if you are a user, you are a loser!’

  14. 1 minute ago, WyattSheepMask said:

    Do we reckon the Stadium Stampede Match has replaced the Blood & Guts Match, or do you think they’ll try and built to that again at some point?

    I guess they could hold off on the feud for a while now, they could always bring it back once they have fans back in attendance and can involve Cody next time for the match.

  15. I did training with IPW:UK in Swanley in Kent for a few months in 2010 and Jimmy Havoc was a guest trainer that would be at most sessions.

    We did a drill where two people would be in the ring and the aim was one of them to ‘get heat’ on the other for 2-3 minutes. Then the person being beaten up would remain and get heat on the next person, rinse and repeat until everyone has played both parts.

    Jimmy comes in after I’ve had the 2 minutes being beaten, so now my turn to do some moves. I started with a snapmare to get him into a seated position and thought I’d do a few elbows as well, except Jimmy loudly shouted ‘I’M NOT SELLING THAT SHIT!’. I think I just put a chinlock on for the rest of time.

  16. 1 hour ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

    Did they always explain away Rock disappearing to make films, or was it just because I only watched SmackDown back then and they would write him off on Raws so I don’t remember?

    I seem to recall that Vince ‘suspended’ Rock shortly after Wrestlemania 17 to explain his absence then and it actually built into his return when he was going to choose to either side with wwf or the alliance when he returned in the summer, Shane using that action to curry favour.

  17. 1 hour ago, Mr.Showtime said:

    Braun Strowman: "I know Bray Wyatt inside out. His mind games won't work with me."

    Not even 10 seconds later - monster immediately shits himself at obvious mind games. *switches off*

    Ha at least this seems to be consistent for both new world champions.

    Drew McIntyre last week ‘there is nothing you can say or do Big Show that will make me fight you right now’

    #Show slaps McIntyre’s face

    ok lets have a title match now.

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