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    UK wrestling in 1993

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    6 hours ago, Dean Ayass said:

    I would have gone with the All Star assumption for the big crowd, as they often drew four figure crowds at points, though that would more likely be in the late 90s as attendances were way down by 1993. Tony Earnshaw would probably know more though.

    Andre Baker could hold his own with anyone in the ring. When I was working closely with him, he recognised that there were two new styles of wrestling that were becoming popular, namely hardcore and shoot-style, and he brought both of these styles into his work. In places like Maidstone and Ashford, where Danny Lynch had been king of the previous generation, it wasn't much of a transition from the wild, bloody brawls that Lynch would have. When he flew to New Jersey to challenge Dan Severn for the NWA World title, Severn allowed Andre to last longer than any of his previous challengers due to his respect for Andre's own legit background and ability. But most of all, Andre was a masterful heel, who knew how to wind up a crowd, how to banter with and insult ringsiders much like the Pallos (who he was very close to) did. We had at least one riot and several crowds right on the cusp of rioting with Andre! Andre was also very smart - he recognised that Doug Williams was his best student by a mile and so booked himself in a feud with him so that he had the best matches of the night! But this also helped Doug greatly, as he would work with an experienced pro rather than fellow rookies. And then when Doug left Hammerlock, Andre repeated the process with Johnny Moss, who has gone on to be one of the world's leading trainers now with the WWE Performance Centre.

    As far as people who could've gone further, I do think that Jody Fleisch came around about 15 years too early. He is without a doubt the greatest aerial wrestler I have ever seen in my life, ahead of the likes of Pac and Will Ospreay. If Jody was in his prime now, I can see him being a sensation in somewhere like AEW and/or New Japan. And out of everyone who came out of that school, I think Andre would have loved what Zack Sabre Jr has become now - a British style technician without comparison, combined with a cocky gobshite attitude that has huge elements of Andre's character work in it. 

    Thanks for taking the time for such a detailed response.

    UK wrestling in 1993

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    Posted · Edited by Browser Brady

    Thank you lads……

     

    Last few questions ….

     

    Was Andre Baker much of a worker ? In-ring that is ;)
     

    What ever happened to Gary Steele and why did he stop wrestling ?

     

    Was there anybody else from the hammerlock era that potentially could have gone a lot further than they ultimately did ??

    AEW London 2023

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    Posted · Edited by Browser Brady

    16 minutes ago, sirdobbo89 said:

    Was sat near the bottom end of 113, must have got lucky as didn't have any drunken pillocks or folk trying to get themselves over or anything. The energy in the crowd for me never seemed to wane the entire time. Saw some scrapping and somebody getting ejected at the very back of the floor seats, can't remember what match this was during.

    Everything from start to finish was just really enjoyable, loved the main event and the panto of it all, came across really well in such a huge venue. Sting's entrance and just arse dropping Swerve when he didn't break the table the first time were personal highlights. Tony Khan losing his voice going absolutely fucking mental at the end was hilarious. 

    100% off back next year, as are the lads I went with. Will hotel it this time and make a weekend of it. 3 hour drive to Wembley and 3 hours back was a killer. 

    Pay MJF whatever he wants in 2024. He's a megastar.

    How was the sound/acoustics in the building itself ? 
    I watched it on the Dazn app on my iPad with Bluetooth headphones and i actually noticed how good it sounded…

    The music was mixed perfect. I could hear the crowd perfectly fine and even the ring sounded good.

    I noticed the large line array speakers hanging in the stadium so i was wondering how was the sound in the venue itself ?

     

    The set and lighting were decent too. The cameras missed some stuff, understandably ,in the Moxley match but i didnt notice any huge blunders otherwise ???

     

    How did it all go for other people watching online ? The Dazn app worked like a champ and didn’t freeze once for me… i didn’t see any major reports online about people having technical issues so no news is good news there. 

     

     

    AEW London 2023

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    Posted · Edited by Browser Brady

    41 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

    Still not sold on Ospreay. I find him a horrendous button-basher inside the ring, a tosser outside it, and it still bugs me he was ever allowed near the fucking IWGP title.

    He's the Joe Satriani of wrestling. Stellar ability, and no fucking sense of when to reign it in to actually entertain.

    I wouldn’t have too much exposure to him outside the Omega matches , which   i found to be too “by the numbers” or formulaic in terms of their psychology and pacing..

    I did however , enjoy the Jericho match tremendously. Jericho really deserves credit for being able to hang with a younger, faster  spot-monkey and having a very entertaining match with him. 

    CM Punk chat

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    Is there anything suss about the timing of the reports all coming out this week ?

     

    As I understand it, some of these happened weeks ago but are only surfacing now.

     

    Or did the CM Punk post match comments kick all this off .

    CM Punk chat

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    1 hour ago, SaitoRyo said:

    It's a reference to the popular Chappelle's Show sketches about Rick James in the 1980's, as told by Eddie Murphy's brother Charlie. 

    If you haven't seen them, basically in one of them James (played by Dave Chappelle) shows up to Eddie's house high as a kite and purposefully destroys his new couch with his muddy cowboy boots. 

    Bix is just making a (bad) joke about the latest Punk drama and how it is seemingly escalating week after week. 

    Thank you.

    Another football kit thread

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    Posted · Edited by Browser Brady

    31 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

    Yeah, it's lovely. Would look even lovelier with an Adidas trefoil and no sponsor. 

    Still can't quite get on board with that Adidas logo.

    The Team Viewer logo is shocking .

    Darkside of the Ring season 3 discussion

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    On 8/4/2023 at 7:04 PM, Supremo said:

    Haven’t watched much of this season but just saw that next week is about Marty Jannetty. How much do you think Shawn Michaels is shitting his pants about that episode? From what Marty has let slip in the past, this could easily be his, “Plane Ride from Hell.”

    Reading Vader’s book at the moment and he talks about Marty and Shawn in the AWA essentially drugging women and doing stuff like drawing on their pubic areas with markers before throwing them out of the hotel room with no underwear on for all to see.

     

    It’s lucky Shawn is a religious man because it’s a miracle he was never ‘Me Too’ed’

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