dopper

Reminder: this topic is about a guy who wrestled for no more than four or five years (to very little acclaim), before retiring due to being a nonce well over a decade ago. 

It's 2022 ffs.

Today they announced the first match for this comeback show:

Rob Van Dam (with Katie Forbes) vs Mark Haskins (with Vicky Haskins).

Other wrestlers announced to be on this show so far:

Overseas blokes: Alex Hammerstone, Ace Austin, Nick Aldis

Ladies: Ruby Soho, Mickie James, Session Moth Martina, Lizzy Evo

1PW originals: Ulf Herman, Doug Williams, Greg Burridge

Local talent: Robbie X, Ricky Knight Jr., Nathan Cruz, Scotty Rawk, Will Kroos, Big F'n Joe

Other UK talent: Michael Oku

I think "God first, family second" is a common mantra among religious folks.

I'm sure I've heard AJ Styles say exactly that in multiple interviews over the years.

This tweet is not by the guy doing the move(s) selling himself to potential promoters, it was posted by the guy who sits still for the first spot and got slammed in the second spot.

I’m not done sleeping on him yet.

She will do. Absolute mess.

Thanks for looking into that, much appreciated.

After a quick Google search said he was still wrestling up until the end of 2006, but a look at Cagematch suggests he only wrestled twice in 2004 and twice at the end of 2006.

Even if he couldn't have worked, it would have been great to have seen him at one or both reunion shows though.

Same goes for Perry Saturn, who I believe didn't fully disappear off the grid for a few years until after 2005.

Been re-watching the 2005 reunion shows again and I got thinking about which of the bigger ECW names that were still around at that time didn’t appear on Hardcore Homecoming or One Night Stand.

The biggest I reckon was Bam Bam Bigelow.

He was still wrestling (occasionally) up until the end of 2006, so I wonder why neither side got him to show up.

Has anybody heard anything in shoot interviews or anything about that? 

I’m torn on this.

Pro’s: A guy I know & trust is involved with this, Doncaster is very close to where I live.

Con’s: Tickets are not available online yet, despite their big press release saying they are. Already not delivering on their promises.

We are going to Orlando for a fortnight and fancied visiting the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge park for one or two days.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or is the one & only way to get in there to buy a 14 day ticket for all 6 Disney parks?

No superkicks, tope suicida's, or Canadian destroyers .... but crescent kicks, dives through the ropes, and flip piledriver's are allowed.

Even with people considered jobbers like Koko B. Ware they all have SOMETHING.

He, for example, had a good run in Memphis before spending a few years getting decent babyface reactions in WWE. Also, there are gifs all over Twitter of him doing excellent missile dropkicks and the ghostbuster suplex.

Sharmell however is remembered for being one half of TNA’s worst ever match, and saying “All hail King Booker!” for a year or so. That’s pretty much it.

On 1/14/2022 at 11:03 AM, dopper said:

I remember her saying the DUI came about because she bought herself a convertible and just had to try it out (despite having no license).

From PWinsider:

Movie posters which show the main cast all stood in a line, with all their names listed… in a different order.

This could be really interesting.

They have already announced loads of good interviewees for this such as Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, & Jon Stewart.

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

We have booked to fly out in that first week of November and were hoping to experience the Christmas stuff in the fortnight we are over there.

Somebody told my wife that at Universal Studios in Orlando they have the final night of "Halloween Horror Nights" and then the very next morning all of the Halloween decor is gone and all of the Christmas decorations are up.

Surely it doesn't happen that quickly, does it?

Has anybody been there at that time of year and can shed some light on this?

Looks like Jeffrey Dahmer sitting two rows behind HHH.

On 2/4/2022 at 5:44 PM, Devon Malcolm said:

Whitehall and Bishop and McIntyre rightly get pelters for being terrible comedians but how has Jimmy Carr escaped such hatred for so long? He's an absolutely terrible comedian. At least with those three you could at least see some comedy timing in them and the ability to pick out an opportunity to get in a joke. Whenever I've been subjected to 8 Out of 10 Cats, I can't honestly recall him ever ad-libbing a decent joke and he rarely even attempts to. He's fucking shit and I hate him and his Daphne from Neighbours laugh. Racist cunt.

This post is a disgrace, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Melanie had the silly laugh, not Daphne.

From the places I’ve looked after typing her name into Google, Tessa Blanchard hasn’t wrestled in well over a year.

Does anyone know if she has deliberately moved her focus to other things, or if she is just an out-of-work wrestler now?

She was a guest on Francine's podcast last Summer, not long after being released from jail, and it was very clear that she was still blaming everybody else for her issues and taking responsibility for none of it.

I remember her saying the DUI came about because she bought herself a convertible and just had to try it out (despite having no license).

Her parole officer was an arsehole because when she turned up late for EVERY meeting he would keep reporting her for it.

She bragged about all of the prison staff asking her for autographs and begging her to date them.

When this story came out last night a lot of people on Twitter were saying "I hope she can get the help she needs" and it reminded me that people have been saying that about her for almost a quarter of a century.

That time Paul E. got her to talk about her constant drug & alcohol issues on ECW TV was 23 years ago!

Bronn Breakker wins the Royal Rumble.

Cody Rhodes wins the AEW World Championship.

It was Goldust vs Savio Vega, right after WM12 in 1996.

They had a match which Savio won. But then Gorilla Monsoon changed it to a no-contest and vacated the I-C Title.

They had a rematch a week later which Goldust won and became champion again.

It all happened on Raw, but I suspect you thought Action Zone because it was the era where they recorded everything in the same similar-looking buildings.

Jim Smallman only recently relocated to Florida to be a NXT producer.

I’ll be curious to see if he’s one of the current crop they are getting rid of or one of the newer gang they have brought in at the expense of Regal, Road Dogg, etc.

1 hour ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

Surprised but not mad that Brock won, it opens up a range of challengers in the Raw side with Big E, Lashley, Rollins, Owens, Balor, Edge and Miz whereas if he had dethroned Reigns there was only likely Roman, Drew (but he’s injured), Kofi and at a massive push Sheamus and Corbin

I expect Big E to be in the WWE Title picture going forward for as long as Kofi was after Brock beat him for it in 2019.
 

Then in 5 years time Bruce Prichard will be telling Conrad how Big E was given the ball and he didn’t capitalise on his opportunity.

As last year’s topic was closed a few hours after this morning’s episode aired, I’ll complain about it here:

That streetfight was the worst example of backyard wrestling I’ve ever seen on a proper wrestling TV show.

Conti was hit with ONE kick before laying motionless on a table long enough for Ford to climb up to the top rope for a moonsault. 

When Conti crawled under the ring for, presumably, the same person down there who had bladed Bunny to blade her - they did it on the other side of her head from where Bunny smashed the bottle.

Many of the moves looked like the person doing them took the brunt of the impact.

If they can capitalise on the momentum the crowd reaction suggests they now have, and if the crowds react to these ladies future matches, it will have been worth it. 

We will see.