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I respected Flair as a pro wrestler. For me, he’s up there as one of the all time greats. 1980s and 1990s Ric Flair more often than not gave the fans more than their money’s worth. He’s also been through a lot. I can’t begin to imagine what losing a son must feel like. But seeing as Flair very nearly died in recent years and judging by his past drunken antics over the decades, you’d have thought he’d look in the mirror and give alcohol the wide berth. He’s really doing himself no favours. And judging by his name and shame social media posts (something that I personally despise), he thought he was in the right. It’s really quite sad to see.

1 - Renationalise the rails, gas and electricity. Something is seriously wrong when it costs more to travel by rail than it does by plane.

2 - Abolish the Monarchy and Britain becomes a Republic. The Monarchy is an archaic and unfair system and there’s no way it should have a place in modern society. Unlikely I know.

3 - Fund and manage the NHS and the entire public sector better. The organisations often have too many managers and not enough staff doing the actual work. I know this first hand because I’ve worked in the public sector for over twenty years.

4 - Rejoin the EU customs union. The country voted to leave the EU and I accept that. If we were still in the EU Customs Union, perhaps importing and exporting goods would be a lot easier and cheaper.

5 - Put a price cap on live sports and entertainment ticket prices and ban ticket scalping above face value. So many people are taking the piss with ticket prices these days.

3 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

400! Even worse!

I stand corrected (it’s been a rough time lately). Yes, far worse.

50 photos of Simon Le Bon? Crazy stalker vibes.

1 hour ago, Factotum said:

I completely understand their fans not wanting to win it, but the most Spurs thing ever would be to win that game

I agree. Spurs have a history of being one of Man City’s bogey teams. Spurs away is definitely City’s toughest remaining league fixture this season.

Nunez looks clumsy AF and a liability a lot of the time yet still occasionally contributes important goals and looks like a decent player when he’s in the mood. Unfortunately for Liverpool, it was the former last night.

I really don’t think that wrestling would’ve been what it was, at least internationally without Vince McMahon. Other promotions have tried but haven’t had the same level of popularity as WWE. Even when WCW was America’s number one promotion for those 83 weeks, they were still seen as very much a US based wrestling promotion with limited TV deals and touring outside the USA. WWE toured more often internationally and generally had the better overseas TV deals, even when they were struggling financially in the 90s. So no, I don’t think anyone else would’ve made wrestling what it was if Vince hadn’t.

I’ve not always been Owen Jones’ biggest fan either but he did raise some very good points in this X post (he needs better closed captions though).

I’m expecting Labour to win convincingly at the next election but I’m just not excited about it. Sure, it’ll be great to see more Tory wipeout on election night (hopefully) but for what exactly? To hand power over to a party who’ve decided to do the same things? Pro Brexit, anti-nationalisation, pro austerity and pro privatisation? It’s bloody depressing.

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

Boy he is really going after THAT vote isn't he?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/21/keir-starmer-calls-for-england-to-scrap-euros-kit-with-new-st-georges-cross-design-football

Good God. How petty. I’ve actually ordered one. It’s the first footy shirt I’ve bought since around 2010 and it’s a fake Chinese replica at a fraction of the price but I actually think it’s a very good shirt.

Noticed Owen Jones has withdrawn his Labour Party membership. The reasons he gave (basically carrying on with the same Tory policies) were valid in fairness.
 

I watch WWE PLEs (never live if they’re in the States) and the occasional AEW PPV. I haven’t got the enthusiasm for modern wrestling to be watching all of the weekly TV shows from either company. I’ll watch an occasional episode now and again if something major happens but that’s about it.

Lex Luger was (kind of) part of the Wrestlemania 10 main event in ‘94 and dropped down to the opening match the following year teaming with Davey Boy Smith to face the Harris Twins.

Recently read the Wrestling by Simon Garfield. It was a revised edition as the original must’ve been written during the mid nineties. The British wrestling industry was on its arse when the original book was released (still reeling from wrestling being axed from ITV). Wasn’t a bad book and I managed to learn a few things that I didn’t already know. Not sure I could recommend anyone to go out of their way to get a copy though.

7 hours ago, Jazzy G said:

EDIT: Ignore me. I didn't read the dates. 

I remembering being at that TNA show where Hogan wrestled his last match. Bully Ray had his Liverpool shirt on and was ripping on United to try and get some cheap heat and it backfired spectacularly. 

I was also there. Not sure if that was intentionally Hogan’s last match  but seeing as Manchester was perhaps TNA’s biggest show of the year in terms of gates (I would guess given the capacity), then maybe it was.

I’ve heard the term “dynamic pricing” being used where the price becomes higher the more demand there is. I’d rather use the term “fleecing”.

Not sure if you’d class this as rock (maybe more grunge) but has anyone seen the ticket prices for Pearl Jam with support from Richard Ashcroft? They’re playing at Tottenham’s Stadium in London and Co-op Live in Manchester. The prices are disgusting. I get that bands don’t make the money off CD sales anymore but from the band who fought Ticketmaster for fleecing fans back in the 90s, it’s very disappointing. It’s a hard pass from me.

15 hours ago, Loki said:

I'd also gently remind people when they're calling people out here that there's a person behind the screen name.  People might have stuff going on in their lives, health issues, personal issues, divorces, whatever.  If I'm being completely honest, it's one reason I'm not a fan of the UKFF forum awards as we're still voting people the "worst" this or that.  It's meant to be in good humour, but it probably stings quite a bit.

This all day long. I’ve read some pretty shitty comments from certain forum members over the years that I’d class as bullying. Some aimed at me, some aimed at others. At the end of the day, we’re human beings who deserve to be treated with respect. If a person wouldn’t make certain comments to another’s face, then don’t make those comments online either.

Exceeded my expectations. Not many people in my local cinema watching (but then that’s normal - it’s a very expensive Odeon). Thought the acting was superb, even if some of the cast members didn’t look a lot like the people they were portraying. Thought they covered the story well during a fairly limited amount of time (I agree that an extra hour would’ve been nice as others pointed out). Overall though, I thought the film was a great watch. It’s up there with the best pro wrestling films I’ve seen. I know that Kevin Von Erich was on a podcast around the time of the US release and seemed very happy with the film which to me speaks volumes.

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

The lad who "played" John Squire in particular nailed it, but considering he just had to stand there looking at his shoes while he played, maybe I'm being generous.

His name is Tony Scott. He used to be my guitar teacher. Nice bloke and bloody brilliant guitarist.

Noticed that Hasbro have re-released Soundwave and Blaster complete with their cassettes to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Guessing they’re from the original casts. Suppose nothing is more 1980s Transformer than a robot that transforms into a micro cassette recorder.

Sadly, Nicola Charles is even worse.

Troy Beckwith who played Michael Martin in Neighbours as well as one of Pugwall’s band mates has passed away. Think he was troubled in recent years (he went missing a few years ago). No word on the cause of death yet.

19 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

OK, who had Klopp leaving Liverpool at the end of the season on their football bingo card this year? Now the speculation as to where he is going and who will be the new manager will begin in earnest, unless its already done deals all around. 

Xabi Alonso has to be in with a chance. Top of the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen and still unbeaten this season. He’s about the only ex Liverpool player I can think of who’s actually doing well in top flight football management right now anyway.

Plus Vince has got to be the richest Carny in history, right?

A lot of us probably wouldn’t have seen or cared about American pro wrestling had he not had the ambition to market the WWF internationally. And therefore we wouldn’t be on a message forum talking about wrestling. Kind of makes this whole thing seem worse in a way. Like a lot of us only care about pro wrestling because of him. And look what he’s been up to. We’re all a bunch of mizarks!

2 hours ago, mim731 said:

100%, conpletely, absolutely unrelated to any recent posts, but worth remembering this is a public forum and easily searchable on the Internet, as such probably best to avoid anything libellous. 

As some Blackpool FC fans talking about Karl Oyston on a message board once found out.