Chili

Sister sent the memorial photo to me so that's what I woke up to. Absolutely mad news, honestly no idea how to process it yet. What a massive tragedy, always a tremendously intense performance whether it was having those mad trios matches with the Elite or having a proper fun piss about with Orange Cassidy. Always an incredibly believable act.

Thank fuck he threw a paddy then because we got Sid in his best run ever. Best thing Warrior ever did was giving us Sidney walking out at Survivors 96 looking like the absolute business.

I see it as Okada is the bigger more accomplished star BUT he's a fucking arsehole, so by proxy because Ciampa is a heel but not as decorated and with something to prove, he takes the more tweener underdog role in it.

I don't mind Britt as the mean girl arsehole because she's extremely good at it. I always loved the subtly of her in early AEW when she portrayed herself as this great success with wrestling and dentistry, but underneath she was this rather sad mean girl incapable of having proper friends so she'd end with her makeup assistant as a pal and Tony Schiavone who she was subtly gaslighting before they realised how fun the chemistry was and altered it all a bit. No problem with her being a player/coach type manager for others if I'm honest.

Revolutionary wrestler, to me in 1996 he was absolutely mind blowing to watch as were many of the cruiserweights, but he stood out so much. He has such an incredible body of work, plus Bret Hart loved and wished he could have worked with him, so you literally can't argue with God. Shut up! As @tiger_rick says he's a right fanny though. He has the same syndrome Kurt Angle had in that whatever they gave him to do even if it was a fucking weird Vince thing or tasteless, he'd just nod his head and do it when he probably had enough pull to say "actually, nah mate". That skit at the Rumble where he gets No. 1 and looks up to "Eddie" and pulls a face is up there with "I'm sorry, I love you" for overdone WWE cringe.

Dean Malenko had loads of bangers in WCW but he has such an odd build that it's difficult to understand it against bigger opponents. Against your Rey's and Ultimo Dragons of that ilk, he's quality.

The Silver Vision theme at a wild guess must be a production library theme. The voice over is a genuine mystery as it sounds, I don't think it's a yank doing the V/O either, it sounds like someone doing an accent. I'm not sure where to begin trying to find out who would actually know. Whoever worked for Clear Vision at the time. @JNLister would you know a contact?

This pretty much. I mooch at a few other places but I wouldn't sign up for them, zero interest. It's genuinely the quality and internal personality of the posters on here that I like, if anything because pretty much almost everyone doesn't take this shit that seriously, it's almost an on topic pub chat, but all about wrestling and full of wrestling fans, so the pub reeks, but it's my local and I really wouldn't enjoy anywhere else.

My personal favourite is about 0:45 seconds into this. Tojo Yamamoto, Sato & Gato have bloodied Jeff Jarrett and Eddie Marlin after Tojo got a tin of yellow paint on his head. Post commercial, a paint splattered, very angry Tojo confronts Russell with his kendo stick, so Lance fearing it kicking off arms himself with the bell hammer and is not fucking about. "I may only get lick, but I'll hit you right in the face with this!'

A pathetic fucking nerd and thank god he was.

I've made my way through 1984-1987 of Memphis Wrestling and I just wanted to once again bang on about how absolutely wonderful the weekly host Lance Russell is. I enjoyed every random clip I ever saw him in, but watching it all in sequence and following everything, it shows how vital and important he was to that territory. I can't properly explain what it is that makes him work. Sometimes he doesn't take stuff a heel says very seriously and you'd think that would be a negative, but he has such an approach of incredulity about the behaviour of the villains in the territory that it completely works. He's biased as fuck, always palling about with Lawler or whoever on set, but he's such an affable personality that it never clouds your opinion or his lack of neutrality. His likeability but also earthy realness is a big selling point. He knows about 10 wrestling moves but again, it doesn't matter because he's such an engaging presence with a real genuine air of believability to him. His reactions to heel turns or big angles feel genuine and without any prompts. He's especially great when a big brawl happens, not going over the top, merely sounding more like an extremely disappointed Grandad. Poor Lance just wants to host his 90 minute studio show without a hitch and go for a round of golf after. After watching a solid 4 years of the weekly Memphis studio show, Russell is easily one of my favourite non wrestling personalities ever. There's not one segment he's involved in where he isn't great... Christ Chili, why don't you bloody marry him. Also in one of those mad passage of time comparisons, I was trying to think of how much passed between Lance & Dave Brown starting as a duo and when Russell retired in 1997 (obviously there was a 5 year gap when he was in WCW). Basically when they were first paired up, The Beatles were about a week away from releasing Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane, and by the time they wrapped up, Bret Hart was going to get screwed and the first GTA game just came out. ...and breathe.

Ugh, someone hasn't changed his settings, probably lost the instruction manual.

Just getting this out the way as he refers to himself as a comedian and in reference to this thread and @IANdrewDiceClay having his work cribbed by him... I'm not him 👍

Honestly, when you first brought it up I thought it was a reference to Gatso (think that was their name). Don't really want to go into what he admitted but I recall it being fucking awful. Anyway, sorry to bring it down a tad there, I sometimes love a peak on UKFF Gold and that Anarchy Pro Wrestling thread with Kris Sprules always amused me, and that guy asking for a specific wrestling show about a type of ring because his missus 'got invited in the ring to try the moves'... And finally, that bad boys wrestling thread. God I wish the pics all still worked in that, I remember dying laughing during the time it was posted.

Classic modern cover a subject by being as basic as possible about it but with enough clickbait.