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Low Ki is a weird one isn't he? He looked every bit as big a star as Joe, AJ, Danielson and Punk about 10-15 years ago. You have to wonder whether it's his attitude that's prevented him from reaching the level of his former peers.

Great show in London, I thought. Regarding pricing, just everything was super expensive- tickets £60/£70 on the floor, most t-shirts £35, Daniels trying to flog comics for £20. I suspect ROH just switched up their currency for dollars to sterling but not the price.

Not sure why it bugs me so much, but the yellow type on Nakamura's entrance video really really annoys me. Much preferred the red type.

Was going to say really, it's tougher than it looks to intervene. Paige seems absolutely fiercely independent and I suppose would resist any kind of intervention. Add to the mix people with conflicting interests/agendas in Paige's career spilling over into her personal life pulling her one way or the other, and you have an extremely messy situation where it's tough enough for Paige to understand what her own best interests truly are let alone for a family intervention to work.

I know I speak for everyone on here in that we really, really hope for a positive outcome, it's just overcoming the quandary of how you get there that must be tough on the whole Knight family.

They should just cancel 205 live and distribute the talent between NXT and Raw/Smackdown. Creatively, 205 live seems a bit early NXT for my liking.

If Rollins is heading over to Smackdown, there's potential for some utter brilliance. AJ, Rollins, Nakamura... Ace

Can we not just leave total strangers space to deal with their grief however they want? I'm finding ShaneApollo's behaviour fucking weird more than anything.

Would the fact Maddox was the Jizzee Rascall with the belt make any difference, or would Paige be considered culpable?

I remember having a Kurrgan figure from the oddities days actually. Had him doing that weird neck tense pose he did and a tye dye T-shirt. Well worth £6.

Still can't believe they gave Sandow MITB. Imagine if he won the title!

TBH, not a fan of Paige, but, the comments on here are a bit out of order to say the least. I certainly wouldn't be able to bite my tongue if it were my daughter people were commenting on.

 

On the suspension, I'm not at all fussed or especially interested in what the tests picked up on.

Just responding the the critiques of centrism in the Labour Party on the previous page.

 

Personally, I don't feel the issue is where on the spectrum you might identify the Labour Party to be. I believe the reason the centrists are failing is that they have a lack of conviction and a lack of fresh ideas. Without conviction or new ideas you have a set of politicians micromanaged by media trainers spouting either policy that is hopelessly out of date and out of tune with the challenges we face today or are just spouting waffle that they think people want to hear.

 

I don't believe centrism and principle to be mutually exclusive qualities. I'm a member of the Labour Party, probably just to the left of Blair. I have my own beliefs that are consistent with most of the core Labour beliefs in the manifesto, that may differ from the beliefs that supporters of Momentum might have- I don't have any reason to abandon my principles for any specific agenda, so I assure you, it is possible to be both principled and a centrist within the Labour Party.

 

On Corbyn, I didn't vote for him. I agree with him on some issues, disagree on others but he has the mandate and I do recognise efforts to reach out to other areas of the party. I feel it's time for some of the more vocal members to the right of the PLP like John Mann to pipe down and focus on getting rid of the Tories rather than the leadership. The time will come to challenge the leadership, but there is no appetite for that yet and I'd suggest that said members follow Chuka Umunna and Stella Creasy's lead in developing a new direction for the right of the Labour Party (Umunna has been campaigning for federalism and electoral reform, Creasy has been championing the role of Co-Operatives and mutualisation as an alternative to nationalisation) that attempts to face the social and economic challenges in 2016, rather than the challenges from 1997.

Timelines are especially ace. I've listened to all the timelines from Q3 1997 onwards, so it'll be good to check out all the earlier stuff and of course the later timelines as they come out. Great work, Liam and co.

Probably a typical smark comment this, but I'd have an hour hype show with analysis (like they do on the Network), more sit down interviews directly followed by two hours of wrestling and in ring, backstage segments. Have it all move at a break neck speed and don't be afraid to be edgy. Doesn't have to be gratuitous, but you need to look at what else is on TV at the same the Raw 2nd and 3rd hours are on.

 

Behind the scenes assign specific members of the creative teams to specific characters, I feel this would allow for real character development and would hopefully bring out more conviction from the wrestlers in question.

Majorly clutching at straws here but with 24 hour tubes coming in, could they do it before the clocks change in the States, start at 8pm, kick people out at Midnight for 4pm-8pm ET, 2pm-6pm PT. Given the Mayor would need to bid for it anyway, perhaps they could delay curfew by an hour or two.

 

It's all so unlikely, though, I concede.

That discussion that went on before hand should have ended with nixing that comment being made in the promo. Yes, it's wrestling, but there are places to draw the line- I don't blame Paige for this by the way, more whoever decided it was acceptable to throw that line in. 

Christ on a bike, those banners are horrific.

 

Speaking as a designer myself, I have absolutely no idea how they've ended up with that. If they were that desperate, I'm fairly confident that there are several people that are relatively proficient with Adobe CS and would produce some stuff for them for free.

 

I can only imagine Borash has been doing their graphics as they sacked their designers.

Seemed off his nut at Wrestlecon this year.

I remember him being miserable at the meet and greet before International Showdown, he was the only one there that charged for autographs (baring in mind, off the top of my head, CM Punk, Raven, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe were there too). Going off track a little, you'd never be able to organise a meet and great like that now without wrestlers charging for photos and autographs. It was a virtually free version of Wrestlecon in a more confined space. Excellent stuff, really.

 

But yeah, Foley was miserable as sin. Ended up going to a couple more meet and greets with him since- one at a TNA show a few years back and one at his stand-up show. He only came across well at his stand-up show.

Read Holly's book recently. I really enjoyed it. Are there any other major new autobiographies in the pipeline? I know Jericho has a third book coming out soon. Would love to see Paul Heyman autobiography. A JBL one could be interesting too but only if he were outside the WWE. I'd imagine he'd pull no punches.

Pretty poor start from the Nets. Hopefully Garnett and Pierce gel with the side a little better over the coming weeks and they get a bit of a streak together. At the moment, though, very disappointing.

Nothing wrong with grown men being worked. That's why we still watch it isn't it? Obviously there's a line to be crossed and the sort of guy that Ant has eluded to clearly crosses the line.

Did a bit of a meet and greet with D-Lo at PWS in New Jersey last week. Nobody was really interested in meeting him. As soon as he heard my accent he couldn't stop talking about how he supported Liverpool and football in general. He knows his stuff. That explains the YNWA thing.

I was starting to feel sorry for that Mab bloke until I saw what he was posting in that pregnancy thread. What an absolute knob.

Undertaker is clearly inside of the house. Someone is coming into the house, and the candles go out as he approaches. I read that as that someone has come to try and end the streak. Undertaker is definitely coming back as a result of this, but I reckon that there may be someone else. Sting/Shawn Michaels perhaps.