Kaz Hayashi

13 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Disappointed that it’s already gone

I haven’t even opened my popcorn yet.

In a nutshell. He explained a bad transaction between the 2 of them 3 years ago. He send a box of figs and accessories, one of the accessories got a crease during transit, Matt called him all the names under the sun, and it just went downhill from there.

This lad apparently reached out to say... “let’s bury the hatchet, life’s too short, let’s move on and I’ll happily donate a wedge to your Toy Drive charity”. Matt apparently said no.

FF to today, the lad has just found out that Matt has tried to discredit him and sabotage his business deals with Nick Aldis (distribution of his new figure) and his deal with Edge (custom making him a title belt). Matt apparently told people “he’s a scammer” which apparently isn’t true.

The video above last 25 mins, him calling Matt “piece of shit, asshole” and a host of other things, and threatened a law suit for deformation. Matt’s mate suggested he take it down, it’s now down.

Bloke on Insta called JB Toys. Big collector, designs merch for wrestlers, distributes figures for companies etc.

VS.

Matt Cardona 

Long story short, Matt acted like a child during a trade they both had 3 years ago, and since then has apparently tried to sabotage this KB Toys business deals with Nick Aldis and Edge.

KB Toys has now made a video and it’s all levels of cringe, hilarious, eye opening and I’ll be getting some popcorn.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJV62MVnknB/?igshid=1kh532vpz3hw9

42 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

Incredible stuff Kaz. 

I appreciate that, cheers man. I’m incredibly lucky to have access to a great workshop.

Me and my workshop partner made these at work as part of a commission for a towns Nativity scene. Joseph is 6ft for reference. They were happy and the money goes back in to our workshop for our homeless activity sessions. Happy all round.

Alongside that, I needed a new craft/work desk for home. I’ve been rocking an awful, cheap 90’s shit coloured chipboard desk for years, so that needed to change. I had loads of scrap off-cuts in the workshop, including an old battered bar top. Needs a final oil but it’s come out canny.

Can’t help but imagine the potential of these two tagging when looking at this. Chris, Owen with Sunny in 95 would’ve been amazing. They defo should’ve dressed like this with their bum bags too.

On 12/12/2020 at 12:40 AM, Merzbow said:

Put some respeck on his name, the two time #341 ranked wrestler in the PWI 500.

The idea of reaching #341 again, but then dropping off completely.

“I’m going to try exactly the same for one more year, then that’s it”

My Chella Toys, signed Nick Aldis figure arrived today. Styled on Hasbro figures as discussed in the past. It’s better than expected. The figure is decent, the packaging and bubble are really good quality, there’s also some pics on the back of a greyed out tag team with rumours of it being Rock n Roll express. 
Nick posted them out directly, opting for a bubble envelope rather than box. I was one of the lucky ones who got it in great condition, others weren’t as lucky, but Nick’s apparently sorting them out, fair play. Wouldn’t be a bother if they were all being opened, but he’s signed them, so they’re all bound to be for display. Anyway, it’s solid. I’ve ordered the Blue Meanie pack from them too. 

The owner/promoter of New World Entertainment (new U.K. fed) has been outed being noncy. 
Along with this, he also apparently sent pics of him self harming to female talent, and booked an Asian wrestler to meet quota.

He sounds lovely.

When Series 3 came out over here, it meant we had had 2 of the 3 Warriors in our collection. Naturally the newest, purple one was the Ultimate Warrior, but series 2 White trunks had to change, to his brother, Michael Warrior.

Michael Warrior.

Yeah, we tend to be more accustomed to star leaves WWE, wrestles elsewhere then comes back (Angle, Christian, Hardys, RVD etc).

Some of those then obviously leave again to check other places out. Free roaming after short term contracts and enjoying their senior years. I do like that aspect if I’m honest and think it would help everyone if shorter contracts were generally offered. 
1-2 years with WWE/AEW, if they develop a great story and character/run, then there’s the option extend/leave/let go. It would prevent someone from sitting and rotting in the back for several years and would create more of a ‘must utilise’ mentality for the writers, rather than, “we don’t have much for you”, which is fine if they don’t because you’ll be parting company in a quicker fashion. Dream world stuff, I know.

To answer your question, I’d like to see MJF head to WWE. His personality alone would dramatically change the landscape. Other than Miz (who isn’t at his character peak at the moment, no knock on him), I don’t think WWE truly has an outright charismatic machine. They’ve got characters, sure, but most of those have learned to be characters. MJF was born this way and I can’t help but think he’d make the absolute top.

He’d have to be allowed to do his thing though. Whether they let him or not is another story. People waxed lyrical about the potential future of Roode & EC3 before they signed with WWE, hasn’t exactly worked out. Saying that, I think MJF pisses all over them in that department.

1 hour ago, quote the raven said:

I wish Kevin Sullivan would invest in a better setup, his task master talks podcast could be great but a few episodes ago his dam dog barked in the background for the whole hour. A real shame as i could listen to him for ages 

We did an interview with him a while back and it was really difficult to capture due to that very reason. He kept drifting in and out of character too, answering questions in 3rd person occasionally, then stopping to pet and talk to his dog. Madness and thoroughly entertaining.

The new AEW releases have been a mess in fairness. Sold out everywhere immediately due to lack of product distribution globally. They RRP at £19.99 over here, but then a few legit, online stalls recently got more stock in this week, which sold out immediately, but they all hiked the prices up to £28 in some cases. 

*Not a fucking chance John Menzies would have done that with hasbros. 
 

*probably would’ve 

3 hours ago, stewdogg said:

Deep fried rampant rabbit?

 

Always get hungry afterwards, so you know, saves a walk down the 24 hour garage 

2 hours ago, Supremo said:

I know I shouldn’t read anything into Twitter or Facebook comments but the negative reaction to Goldberg’s name being mentioned in the plans never ceases to amaze me. It was the same when he rightly beat Bray Wyatt earlier in the year. Everyone complaining and saying they’re not watching anymore. Genuinely can’t figure out if people are just saying what they think they should say to sound SMART TO DA BIZ. Honestly wish I was a fly on the wall when these people watch Goldberg segments. Did they truly sit with their arms crossed, sulking, as he demolished Dolph Ziggler in that brilliant Summerslam match? Were they really rolling their eyes when he and Brock Lesnar had one of the best feuds and some of the best matches of the last decade? Sat stoney-faced during each of those belting babyface promos where he outshines everyone and feels like the greatest hero who's ever lived?

Weirdos, the lot of them.

Not all, but in a lot of cases, I think If those kind of fans don’t control the narrative, then they shit on it. They don’t invest real thought or feeling in to their beliefs either. No proper justified reasoning, just retweeted opinions. It’s just flippant reaction from learned behaviour, “Don’t tell me who to cheer, you’re pushing him on us”. Those kind of fans are the equivalent of people who share click bait headlines without reading the content. 

Mattel have made their best figure to date.

1 hour ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Nice! I had a Merlin Premier League Collectors' Club pencil case, but that can't compete with the bag.

I’d like a pencil case, would have been perfect to keep your swaps in a school.

There’s a blue and yellow version of this big bag too. Colour scheme is more fitting with early 90’s WWF merch.

Where do you keep your footy stickers eh?

I’ll post my daft card and sticker collection another time, but thought I’d post this from my collection of shite for now. It’s so crap it’s brilliant.

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

Lovely stuff. You got a link to that?

I think Merlin was set up by a couple of renegade Panini workers who'd had enough. Of what I'm not sure. 

We had a chap called Rich on our BBG wrestling pod who worked for Merlin. I’ve just listened back to it today and he briefly discusses it on the show. 
18 mins in - https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/PnKPNc7S5N1aB8rT7

TIL that the Panini and Merlin sticker offices were directly opposite each other in Italy and any time a celebrity was spotted on the street, staff from the offices would rush to the window to see what door they walked in, as not everyone at every level was privy to licensing agreements at early stages.

This was perfectly summed up when Pierluigi Collina was walking down the street, loads of Merlin staff ran to the window, watched Collina walk in to the Panini offices, so they all started shouting abuse at him, calling him all sorts.

We had the brother of Chris Candido on this week and what a chat that was. Covered loads including ECW, Bodydonnas and Bam Bam Bigelows private parties ‘Bamfest’. 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Fyc3epU9ZpXJLg129

Also, keep your eyes peeled for the release of the new Chris Candido book, ‘No Gimmicks Needed’, due early 2021.

Can’t resist posting the reason my wife married me...

2 hours ago, IronSheik said:

Hasbros are pure nostalgic joy. My mate has recently been collecting them all and displaying them in his office. I also love the mystique of things like the x3 mail away figures, the legend of moon belly Kamala, purple heart Bret, Macho "man" without the crown and scepter and the ridiculously rare final series etc. They're the best ever wrestling toys.

I’ve never owned the mailaway undertaker, but sold the other 2 mailaways to an Australian collector a year ago. I assumed we desperately needed a new front door and I assumed we reached the peak of their value. I was wrong. 

My mate has just text “need a walk this evening, fancy it? Is there any chippys round your end”.

Safe to say I’m putting my trousers on.