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As I mentioned in the Convention Appearances thread, it’s because of this stupidity that Swagger/Hagar had to pull out of his show with Inside The Ropes and his team match at the Manchester leg of the NWL that were due to take place in a couple of weeks It’s akin to say a boxer or MMA fighter doing charity football/American football games on the side and breaking a bone or tearing a knee/muscle during a fight camp, you just wouldn’t do it

Woke up to go the loo in the night, looked at the time on my phone and it was exactly 3:16, pretty sure in my hazy state I heard some glass smashing too

He’s also pulled out of the Manchester leg of the National Wrestling League tour. Two more worth while contracts gone for getting injured in one of the most ridiculous attempts at a ‘sport’

Well worth the experience, if nothing else for the fact they didn’t put up a cleaned up transfer of the film, it looked and felt like it would have done in 86. The second that Lion theme kicked in sent goosebumps down my arm Really loved the Awakening short as well, a perfect send off for Peter Cullen, especially having Frank Welker alongside him as both Soundwave and Megatron

Quick glance of my profile shows that I’ll have been a member on here 23 years on November 22nd which means I was a sprightly 18 when I signed up, holy Jesus This in turn makes this place the longest surviving form of social media I’ve been on since the age of the web so thanks everyone for keeping the gaff so damn entertaining all these years

They have no problems pivoting stuff with other titles, but when it comes to Roman it’s like the Samoans put the fear of god up them to not have him lose clean in any sense

Which is why Bret will always be a hero in this household, especially with his 94-97 theme, that electric guitar screech always got crowd popping before the theme even kicked it

Given I dip in and out of AAA, I bloody loved both nights of TripleMania. The 3 fatal four way matches were all superb but I think the tag one just shades the other two for best match One of the best things they could have done was putting together a new iteration of LPDM, it’s kept Los Garza from getting culled, got Karmen away from the Kill Bill sword welding gimmick and got Daga over with a wider audience. Giving them their old theme back last night on top of having them win the Trios titles on Friday was the icing on the cake It was obvious they’d go down the road of having Liv, JD, Omos and Los Americanos involved in the main event but despite that and Rey near enough no selling (bar the neck brace) being demolished on Friday to count the winning fall, the crowd still blew the roof off for El Grande winning Credit btw to Corey Graves for fighting through his vocal issues that started during the Copa Bardahl. He and JBL done a great job calling both nights in person and without Rey bogging things down

Unfortunately yes, running at £25-30 a pop, with the LJN style ones from Cardona and Myers’ group running close to £40-45

Fun show, the two four way matches in particular were excellent and the closing angle was very well done

Yeah the stuff Epic, KWK and others put out are incredible, not just Hasbro style but Galoob, Remco, LJN and even now the O-Ring style

Just finished watching this documentary from I guy I watch called Adam Martyn on the as it happened coverage of 9/11 to mark the 25th anniversary of the tragedy. Some utterly incredible footage on here of various news shows reacting to the events, particularly the second crash

Come out on BluRay and 4K this week so not that mad

Haven’t watched any of the show, I’m a fairly emotional guy so it would have set me off but the clips I saw of Rebel were really heartwarming, she still has that beautiful smile on her despite everything she’s going through Also on Steven Borden, are we sure that’s Stinger’s actual son and not just the man himself brought through from the 80s? Hell slap some neon paint on him and he’s effectively 95/96 Sting pre Crow transition

Todays Vault upload, every PPV main event from 1996, including the Iron Man from Mania, HBK’s title run and Sid winning the big one in MSG

Devastating news about The Butcher, hope Blade is being supported well, can’t have been good watching your best friend and tag partner collapse in front of you same for the fans/crew at the promotion they were working at last night As others have said, Wednesday’s Dynamite was already going to be emotional but today’s news is going to make it even moreso

To follow on this, I ended up getting my ticket for the Odeon in town which hadn’t been on the list on that website, which was a relief as it’d been a pain to get to the other local Odeon and the Showcase screening I didn’t fancy as I used to work for them so have really bad memories of my latter months there Really pumped to experience the film on the big screen for the first time, not just because of how emotionally awesome it is but also to see just what this newly created short is like

I’d be offended if it wasn’t absolutely true, already talks of protests at Sunday’s game against United

The one thing that surprised me was that despite being in the US, they still did remote commentary by Graves, JBL and Rey and had the AAA commentators at ringside as well as the AAA ring announcer I’m guessing that might be the case for the Vegas half of TripleMania but with Lillian Garcia on ring announcing and have the full team in person for the Sunday show given Graves will likely be at Raw the night after

Couldn’t even be bothered to change out his Cactus scruffs for the pre show

Great show highlighted by the three way between Fraser, Cartwheel and Mini Vikingo. Sucks it went to a draw but the 4 way with Fenix at TripleMania should be fantastic

Very happy to see they’re doing a PPV here in February, even moreso that it’s in Liverpool. Might have to look into getting tickets for it if they’re decent pricing

Weighing up wether to watch it live and watch the AAA/NXT shows on Monday or vice versa given they’re all on at the same timeish

Lovely tribute, as a big TF myself it was a massive thrill that Monopoly brought Peter and Frank over to Liverpool for Comic Con a few years ago. I made it a priority to go to their panel and it was half an hour of pure magic, culminating in them doing a two hander segment as Optimus and Megatron that they had written that day, which I was fortunate to capture on film and post to my socials. You genuinely could hear a pin drop as the whole room was awestruck for the 2-3 minutes they performed I don’t know if it will work well but the link to my page (the post I made is pinned) if anyone wants to view it https://www.instagram.com/stevied34?igsi=bG50YnNyeDA1YjIz&utm_source=qr