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1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said:

Everton wives run for your lives! Doomed I tells thee.

Less of that 

9 minutes ago, Shy Dad said:

I have to say Meltzer fucking hating so much of the weekend to the point his tweets became like live updates from a radio station about travel updates was fucking amazing. The guy makes being a twat so entertaining for us all. 

He forgets that not everything in wrestling has to be an x amount of stars flips and finisher fest

8 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:

I've been at my Mum's for the past week. Just spotted yesterday she's got a tiny Optimus Prime stood amongst her towers of Hanoi. I took it down to get a better look. 

I have that exact figure on my shelf, it’s from the short lived die cast Titans line, I also have a robot mode Grimlock in the same style

Very very satisfied with the entire weekend from WWE, Night 1 was better from a wrestling stand point but last night was great from a ‘moments’ stand point

That said my matches of the weekend were Becky/Bianca from Saturday and Knoxville/Sami from last night for those reasons

The only real bummers for me were the SD Tag Title match because of Boogz’ injury, New Day v Weaky Blinders for being an utter burial and Omos/Lashley

Thought it was a great show overall, considering the show was given an late morning/early afternoon time slot over there with 1/2 surprise booking decisions

Night Fever was great Saturday night telly, used to have the UEFA Cup rights for English teams as well, most of Everton’s 2007/08 run was shown by them bar the Fiorentina tie which went to ITV

As is the case every year, COVID aside, Wrestlemania weekend isn’t just about WWE as other companies both major and Indy use the weekend to put on their own events, usually in partnership with the Wrestlecon convention. This is the guide for the key events, most of which will be broadcast on Fite TV

Thursday 31st March

The first Indy event of the weekend is presented by GCW with Josh Barnet’s Bloodsport 8. The feature matches on the card include AEW’s Jon Moxley take on the former Oney Lorcan, Biff Busick, the legendary Minoru Suzuki taking on Chris Dickinson, Barnett himself faces Impact’s JONAH, formally Bronson Reed in NXT while there’s a battle of two former WWE names as John Hennigan faces Simon Gotch

Next up is AAA’s offering as they present AAA Invades Wrestlecon which has a double main event of Laredo Kid defending his AAA Cruiserweight title against ROH champion Bandido and Flamita while La Rebelion defend the NWA World Tag Team titles against former Lucha Underground favourites Drago and Aero Star

MLW are taping a special called Intimidation Games to air at a later date on BeIn which will have a main event of MLW Heavyweight champion Alex Hammerstone defending against Jacob Fatu and Mads Kruger

New promotion Control Your Narrative hold their second show Awakening - Dallas which features Adam Scheer and EC3 take on Eric Redbeard and Big Damo, Austin Aries against Westin Blake, Killer Kross against Vincent and Flip Gordon v Dirty Dango

The second offering from GCW is Joey Janella’s Spring Break 6 Part 1 which has a main event of Mox defending the GCW title against AJ Gray, Nick Gage and Matt Tremont defending the GCW Tag titles against The Briscoes and the team of Mance Warner and Matthew Justice, Janella himself faces WWE Hall of Famer Sean Waltman while Mickie James faces Allie Katch

The final show of the day is the annual Wrestlecon Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow, featuring Suzuki v Busick, Tomohiro Ishii v Timothy Thatcher, the Briscoes against Low Ki and Homicide, a battle of 2 former WWE women as Mia Yim faces the former Ember Moon, Athena and a battle of the sexes as John Hennigan faces wife Taya Valkyrie 

Friday 1st April

Day 2 begins with another GCW offering in Zicky Dice’s Trouble In Paradise 2 which features Scotty 2 Hotty against Rich Swann, Effy against Speedball Mike Bailey and Black Taurus against Lince Dorado

New Japan are next up with their US brand Strong presenting Lone Star Shootout, featuring Ishii v Dickinson, Jay White v Bailey and Suzuki v Kross

The main feature of Friday night is the return of Ring of Honor, who begin the new era under Tony Khan with Supercard Of Honor the main event of which will unify the two Ring of Honor World Title belts as Jonathan Gresham, who won his version at Final Battle, faces Bandido who had to miss the event due to travel issues. Elsewhere the 12 time ROH Tag Team champions the Briscoes defend against AEW’s FTR after their face off at the last event, another AEW talent in Wheeler Yuta challenges Josh Woods for his Pure title while an interim Women’s champion will be crowed, due to Deonna Purrazzo’s unavailability, as Willow Nightingale faces Mercedes Martinez

The other big show comes from Impact Wrestling with Multiverse Of Matches, the main event sees the NWA’s Nick Aldis compete in an Impact ring for the first time in 5 years, teaming with wife Mickie James to face NWA World and Impact Digital Media champion Matt Cardona and his wife Chelsea Green. Trey Miguel defends the X Division title in Ultimate X against Rich Swann, Jordynne Grace, Vincent, Chris Bey and Blake Christian, Impact Tag Team champions the Good Brothers face the Briscoes, Impact World champion Moose teams with HNM’s PCO to face Josh Alexander and Jonah, Jay White faces Chris Sabin and The Influence defend the Knockouts Tag Team titles against Impact Knockouts champion Tasha Steelz and Savannah Evans, Decay and the team of Lady Frost and Gisele Shaw

Impact follow this up by opening the vaults to another show from the Impact Provincial Wresting Federation 

The final show of the night is part 2 of Joey Janella’s Spring Break 6 which features the traditional Clusterfuck Battle Royal, Matt Cardona v Chris Dickinson, Minoru Suzuki v Effy and Mike Bailey v PCO

Saturday 2nd April

Not much happening for Day 3 as, understandably focus will be on NXT and Night 1 of Wrestlemania 

Wrestlecon presents a supershow dubbed USA vs The World, which features 2 title matches, the UK’s own Rev/Pro will see their British Cruiserweight champion Michael Oku defend the title against Rich Swann while the Warrior Wrestling Tag Team titles are on the line as Sam Adonis and La Hiedra face Mr Iguana and Abismo Negro Jr 

GCW present the annual Effy’s Big Gay Brunch with matches including Allie Katch vs Dango and Dark Sheik vs NWA star Parrow

For the late night crowd post Mania there is a show from Black Label Pro, matches include Jake Something defending the BLP Heavyweight title against PCO, legends The Faces of Fear take on the Work Horsemen, Charlie Haas faces Effy and Big Damo collides with Warhorse

31 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

Again: if you speak regularly to his dad, and apparently have enough contacts with other people who know him that they can give you extensive details of his business ventures, why would you think strangers online would be a better source of information than them? And why are you so desperate to hang out with a thieving nonce anyway?

Because he is the thieving nonce most likely and trying (badly) to disguise the fact with some made up horse shit

Lashley vs Omos added to the Sunday card and, unless something else gets added on Smackdown, is the final match announcement for Mania

Rollins against someone who may or may not be Cody and The New Day against Sheamus and Ridge have been added to the Saturday line up (the latter may be the pre show match that night)

Currently watching the classic Roger Corman version of The Raven, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff as part of TPTV’s Cellar Club block, first time watch as I’ve been trying to get it for years and put off buying it

Gutting but not surprising reading how serious the heart issue was. Some great moments in the ring and a big legacy outside the ring with how NXT evolved from the game show format to its own thing

I hope he can return to a non in-ring role but if he gives it up for good I wouldn’t blame him, especially for Stephanie and their girls’ sake, they must have been so terrified when it happened 

So after last night’s show the card for Stand and Deliver looks as follows 

NXT Championship 

Dolph Ziggler (c) vs Bron Breakker

Fatal 4 Way Match For The NXT Women’s Championship 

Mandy Rose (c) vs Kay Lee Ray vs Io Sharai vs Cora Jade

Triple Threat Match For The NXT Tag Team Championships

Imperium (c) vs MSK vs Creed Brothers

5 Way Ladder Match For The NXT North American Championship 

Carmelo Hayes (c) vs Santos Escobar vs Solo Sikoa vs Grayson Waller vs Winner of Triple Threat Second Chance Match

LA Knight vs Gunther

Tomasso Ciampa vs Tony D’Angelo

Triple threat match for the Raw tag titles has been added to the card for the Sunday 

19 minutes ago, Scott Malbranque said:

Honestly going to get sick, Frankie. 

Never seen the likes of this evening. Picked the wrong game to go over to. 

Absolute limbs though eh Branquey, we’ve needed a night like tonight this season

2 hours ago, Infinity Land said:

Not sure on that unless it's in Saudi.

MITB will be early July and in the Las Vegas NFL stadium they held last year's SummerSlam.

SummerSlam end of July is going to be in the Nashville NFL stadium.

Now this UK PPV in the Millenium Stadium.

They're going all out on stadium scale PPVs this year.

Making up for lost time after the bulk of 2020 and 2021 were in empty arenas 

Heartbroken, for how well he done getting over his demons and being at his happiest to have that taken away so so tragically from a simple hip surgery 

I really really regret not going up and paying for an autograph from him at the first For The Love Of Wrestling convention 2 years ago, my nerves got the best of me that day just merely seeing him and Big Kev up close 

I think at some point this week, once I can process it, I’m going to dig out as many of his matches as I can to watch in tribute

RIP Chico, thank you for the memories

Hard not to get a lump in the throat reading Big Kev’s post, praying for the biggest miracle of all time but it’s unlikely to happen 😔

Stop Hulk from politicking Bret out of the title at Wrestlemania 9

Stop Cena from burying the Nexus at Summerslam 2010

Not have Sheamus go over Danielson in 18 seconds at Mania

Amended the OP to add the SD tag title match that was made on Friday for Night One

Watching The Batman in the cinema yesterday, during a scene that I had seen being shot outside St Georges Hall in Liverpool, there was an amusing, to me anyway, editing error as during an overhead shot of the crowd there was the visible presence of a MerseyTravel bus stop that used to be located outside the venue before it was removed during the butchered and ongoing roadworks being done on Lime Street 

Was never one for drinking in the park, being a holier than thou goodie two shoes so my early experiences of drinking were being allowed 1-2 Bacardi Breezers at family parties when I was 13/14 then my first proper hammering was the legendary night out in Paris on a school trip when our French and IT teachers chaperoned our entire French class (and a couple of hanger ons) to an Australian themed bar where we were buying 10-15 Franc pitchers of Fosters by the bulk (like 5 pitchers per round)  which resulted in one of the lads talking to a statue at the end of the bar like he was an patron, 2 lads getting slapped for hitting on girls and 2 of my mates being ill outside the bar and accidentally bending palm trees over by leaning too hard on them, also discovered my toleration for booze as I'd virtually sobered up by the time we got back to our hotel (despite knocking back several pints) and casually strolled down to the local market the next morning for a bottle of Sunny D while the rest of the group were struggling to even stare into the lights of the lounge area. It also led to the rumour weeks later that the oldest looking of the lads had shagged the French teacher (who was fit btw) and knocked her up

I'm partial to the Chicago Town frozen pizzas, my go too's being the Cheesy Ham and Bacon Tiger Crust, the Honey BBQ Salami Tomato Stuffed Crust or the Loaded Pepperoni Tomato Stuffed Crust, the latter drizzled with maple syrup once cooked

On the odd occasion I get a Dominos I get either the Meateor or the New Yorker

I've not had an Asda create your own in years but when I did I got it with ham, chicken, pepperoni and spicy beef

My local pizza place does a really nice but greasy meat feast comprised of doner meat, chicken, pepperoni and turkey ham

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Imagine the scene. Scott & Rick go into the Hall Of Fame on the Friday (allegedly) then their boy Bron wins the belt from Ziggles over the Mania weekend. What a great feel good story. Hopefully it's only Rick that turns up to accept as I dread to think what Scott's acceptance speech would be like. Probably delivered in Morse code. 

I wonder if that’s part of the reason they’re doing the HoF after Smackdown so they can get the bleeper ready for the amount of F bombs Scotty drops

3 hours ago, Callum1993 said:

It’s such a WWE move that after heralding NXT 2.0 as this place where new stars are made and they are getting rid of all the old and stale talent on the roster they 

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Put the NXT title on Dolph Ziggler. Can’t wait for Kofi to get brought down there for a really fresh feud. 

 

It makes sense from a booking perspective though, a short reign through to Mania weekend then put Bron over in front of NXT’s biggest crowd in 2 years