LCJ

2 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

Meltzer noted on WOR today that the archives will also move over to Netflix (outside of the US) beginning in 2025. 

He didn't say how much of the archive will be moving, but Netflix will be the sole source of it. 

if it’s anything like what happened when the Network moved to Peacock in the States, then pretty much the entirety of the archive will move to Netflix. When the archive was migrated to Peacock in 2021, it look about five months for everything to move across.

11 minutes ago, deathrey said:

So it's chocolate Horlicks?

You could say that but you can’t taste the malt as much. It just tastes like a decent hot chocolate to me.

I know that some of you have boycotted Nestle but has anyone else tried Milo? It’s back in the UK (it’s mainly popular in the Asian market). It’s a chocolate/malt powder that can be drank with hot water, milk or both. I find that Milo tastes fine with just hot water. For me, it’s the best hot chocolate drink available.

26 minutes ago, Shy Dad said:

Harley Race and Beefcake I must admit I don't know enough about their history for why it would make a Dark Side episode but I guess that's why it'll make an interesting watch. 

Without giving too much away, both Harley Race and Brutus Beefcake were involved in separate terrible accidents outside the ring that impacted their lives. I’m guessing there will be a lot of focus on the accidents.

7 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

I’d say the fact that blokes are incrementally more enlightened now than 30 years ago and there were virtually no consequences for being an abusive twat, or rogue/playboy as they’d have been labelled back then that it would have been a lot worse back then. Especially at the height of lad culture where tricking women in to having sex with you was the publicly accepted norm as seen through most sitcoms and other forms of mainstream entertainment.

That’s fair comment. The world is a different place now. I definitely recall Stan Collymore and Gazza being in the tabloids due to beating their partners though. Gazza seems to be largely forgiven and forgotten because people think he’s a “good laugh” and he was a great player for England. Collymore not so much though.

As has been said, I doubt a lot of UK wrestlers would be of any interest to DSOTR with the exception of the ones who’ve worked in the States. Regal would be an interesting one with his drug and health issues over the decades but he wouldn’t be able to talk to them now that he’s back in WWE. 
 

Davey Boy Smith would surely be of interest too. The last few years of his life were particularly tragic and I’m sure they could get a lot of friends, relatives and fellow wrestlers to talk about him.

29 minutes ago, Steve Justice said:

Forgive me, but what's the issue with the Mason Greenwood stuff? I know about the allegations, I'd heard the audio, and from a very distant view, I could see that he was dropped from the team and subsequently sold. 

Appreciate I'm probably being very ignorant here and I have maybe missed some vital information, or I'm just not close enough to the story/situation. 

You’ve pretty much summed it up. This might give you more information https://news.sky.com/story/amp/mason-greenwood-will-not-play-for-manchester-united-after-attempted-rape-charge-dropped-12934726

Greenwood hasn’t been sold though. He’s on loan to Getafe.

I do wonder if social media and smartphones been a thing twenty to thirty years ago, whether more of this kind of thing would’ve been exposed by footballers over the years. Like this kind of thing has probably happened multiple times, it’s just now a lot more people find out about it.

54 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Nestle for a very long time. Those cunts make everything and its hard, but no Nestle product has passed my lips, or the lips of my pets since the mid 90s. It was a joyous day in 2004 when they sold Branston Pickle to those lovely ethical Japanese lads. I love Branston Pickle and no other pickle is the same. 

Nestle also ruined Honey Nut Cheerios. Guessing they went for cheaper ingredients. The General Mills version are far superior.

3 minutes ago, LCJ said:

I believe so. I still need to watch that Post Office Documentary as I don’t fully understand the whole story but they are heavily involved.

*I should have said drama.

Just now, SuperBacon said:

Aren't they also responsible for the current Post Office scandal?

I believe so. I still need to watch that Post Office Documentary as I don’t fully understand the whole story but they are heavily involved.

Fujitsu. I work in IT support. They make shite PCs and are a corrupt organisation. They also sued the NHS for 750 million. 

The Telegraph. A really nasty newspaper which is basically just the Sun in posh clothes.

The Sun. Needs no explanation.

Warburtons. Tory Donors.

1 minute ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

He didn't run it in the same way that HHH doesn't run WWE now. He always has to answer to a higher up. TK has no-one to answer to, and if he does it's his dad. Therfore he is a nepo baby. 

Not disputing that TK is a “nepo baby”. Just pointed out that not all major promotions have been run under the same circumstances.

I never said Eric owned WCW. I’m fully aware of the fact that Ted Turner owned it and Bischoff applied for the job to run it, and got it. My point was that not all major wrestling promotions were run the same way in the last 40 years by “nepo babies”.

15 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

How is this different from any other major wrestling promoter of the past 40 years? Nepo babies run wrestling and always have.

I don’t recall Eric Bischoff inheriting wealth when he was running WCW. He applied for the job and got it and cut his teeth in the AWA years before. So sorry, I have to disagree with you there.

31 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

Joe Kinnear would have been all over that.

With lots of swearing thrown in.

10 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

Good lord, the man's a billionaire businessman and he's still such a loser.

Gets his wealth from his father and is clearly surrounded by people who don’t tell him no. His lack of self awareness is something else. 

8 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Could the unthinkable happen where WBD gets the rights to Raw? Would this mean the end for AEW, or would they instead be moved to TBS and Raw is exclusively on TNT?

It’s definitely a ruthless business move that WWE are capable of making (like when ECW were homeless when WWE kicked them off TNN). I heard that WBD’s main priority is NBA though and a lot of their money is tied up with that.

Nintendo took Codemasters to court in the States over NES Game Genie. Codemasters won.

7 minutes ago, BigJag said:

Didn't the Megadrive debut Desert Strike?

Yes. EA seemed to debut a lot of their big titles on Megadrive. FIFA being another.

4 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

Khan probably needs to be less vocal about the skeezyness of Connecticut moving forward. The whole industry is a pit of vipers.

Without a doubt. We’re talking about an industry that evolved from traveling carnivals. It’s scummy AF.

50 minutes ago, TildeGuy~! said:

Live stream for her sentencing below

 

And I thought poverty porn on Channel 4 was bad. “Tune in to watch someone who was once rich and famous get a long term jail sentence”.

7 minutes ago, Gay as FOOK said:

Spare a thought for poor Adam Edgeland. He's got to be the real loser in this. His AEW debut now seems about twenty years ago, and there's just realistically so, so much less to potentially be excited for there. 

From a fan’s perspective, I’d agree with you. I can only guess that AEW offered him more money though.

I know Cornette has his critics on here but God I like this.

2 hours ago, Dai said:

It was probably the best pay day of every man's career, so I think it's fair to say they were the real winners, despite how bad the match quality was. 

Think Shawn got 3 million USD for that. Probably didn’t have to pay any tax either.

49 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

One of my last jobs in TV was Piers Morgan’s Darkside of Fame, a precursor to Life Stories. One episode was with Les Battersby himself Bruce Jones. The poor sod found one of the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper and was considered a suspect for a short time. I’m sure he’ll have no problem in the ring.

Yes I recall watching a Netflix Documentary about the Yorkshire Ripper and Bruce Jones was on it explaining what had happened.