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Super face Steve Austin's music hitting at the exact perfect moment, the climax of the chaos, on the Jan 4th 1999 Raw (the night Foley won the title), has to be in this discussion. Unreal.

I refereed a Fans Bring The Weapons match once. Someone brought a big cardboard tube thing, which turned out to be full of drawing pins. They went fucking everywhere. It was almost certainly someone on here as well. 😂🙈

Have an interview upcoming for a writing gig I'm more than capable of. Unfortunately, I am completely drowning in anxiety about the interview and the judgment that goes with it. I completely suck at interviews. I write, that's my thing. But the interview will be a mess. It always is. Sorry, just venting.

I preferred the Sound of Raw Underground.

I thought Nikki was brilliant in the snippet of this I saw on YouTube. She'll make it work.

7 hours ago, JNLister said:

Big deal now would be a comparative term, but Zack Sabre has only wrestled Kenny Omega twice in singles matches. Once was in the G-1 Climax. The other was for 4FW in Chipping Sodbury Town Hall.

Would be interested in seeing footage of the Chipping Sodbury match, if anyone has it.

Brian Pillman having plastic surgery to become...

...caught me by surprise this week, that can't have been a real idea, surely! 😂

If in doubt, handle and spout.

On 4/10/2021 at 6:22 PM, LSM said:

Britt Baker has been announced for Wales Comic Con: Telford Takeover that's taking place 20th & 21st November.

Any chance of emergency appointments in the afternoon if you ring up, first thing?

On 4/11/2021 at 10:33 PM, SkinnersHat said:

Have to mention Hulk Hogan guy that was at KOTR 93 & certainly a handful more.

It's probably not entirely accurate, but it seemed they were there every time Hogan had a big defeat. Taker at Series 91 springs to mind as well as the Yoko one.

1 hour ago, Hoptimus said:

Feeling sorry for Nikki Cross. She got new gear made and posted to Twitter to watch Raw. She stood on stage at Wrestlemania crying but never was on the actual mania card. She's a great hand. What a worker. Nice girl. Remember talking to her in the street in Glasgow. She very down to earth.

Possibly the nicest person in the world.

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

I don’t know what that means?

That trainer story was a big deal last week and people were talking about it. I don’t know who Lil Nas X is particularly, but he released a satanist pair of Nike’s, lots of celebrities threatened to boycott Nike and Nike had to clarify they weren’t involved and sued the production house that made them. It was a huge, huge story.

Us not caring or knowing about it is irrelevant too, by virtue of being on this website we can probably be safely categorised as part of the sub-section of internet weirdos I mentioned earlier.

Max Caster’s act talks about stuff that people who don’t debate wrestling shows online, debate online about.

Sure and I completely understand your point. But 90% of pop culture today remains dire. And that's not even me being old and weird, haha!

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

it is utterly thrilling to hear someone interact with actual popular culture.

Lil Nas X releasing satanist trainers

I'm out.

Speaking of WrestleMania VI, here's where it could have been...

Modern day fans: 'We don't want 50/50 booking, give your stars a sustained push, full of victories'.

Also modern day fans: 'If you get a sustained push, full of victories, we will fucking turn on you'.

Anyone booing big Drew on Saturday needs to question what they're doing with their life.

I think it's mainly people holding on to a part of a past life that was better than today.

Just now, Perry said:

Puzzles me how that was meant to be Borga, he hadn't even been on TV for months prior. He was also meant to face Tatanka at the Rumble that year. Surely by WrestleMania they knew he wasn't going to return

Broke an ankle or something against Rick Steiner at MSG, just before the Rumble.

Can't recall if the Borga/Quake match was promoted as a post-return match or if it was all set up months in advance, for magazines, etc.

It was originally set to be Quake vs Borga, which begs the question, would they have squashed Borga in a minute after he'd ended Tatanka's mighty unbeaten run?

Man, this is a shame, that slot on 5Star was actually ideal for lockdown insomniacs like myself. 😞

Wonder if David Coleman was there, filling in for Todd...

David Coleman Goes To Peterborough

Brilliant miscellany from this night on Ian's Twitter, if people haven't seen it.

Rewatched the show tonight. It's very watchable still. Sad though.

That montage of former world champions had slipped my mind. 

Interesting to think about so many viewers just walking away from wrestling after this night.

Stunt double Sandow was something else, saw him do it on a house show once and it was genuinely hilarious.

One of the biggest reactions I've ever heard was D-Lo Brown coming out to do a promo in Birmingham in 1999.

Think Kerry made some shots as IC champ in 1990 after he'd already dropped it back to Mr. Perfect.

1 hour ago, air_raid said:

I know discussing criteria for going in is total bollocks, but on the scale of guys like Rikishi and Godfather getting in for “being over for a bit during the last boom” then Kane going in is completely merited. That run of match-cancelling walk ins where he annihilated the Hardys in their plaid jobber leggings, Ahmed, Flash Funk and Dude Love was some of the most effective introductory booking/writing of the late 90s.

Still has heat with me for kiboshing that Flash Funk vs Shawn Michaels match, haha!

Am watching this... no wonder they called them WWF superstars. Hogan, Savage and Piper absolutely bursting out of the screen with personality.

The Savage interview, which is second on this, is particularly interesting. It's from right before WrestleMania V, but he comes across as a fantastic babyface at points. Well worth a watch.