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One thing that may be an issue if WWE does come under these rules is that the most recently-public standard booking contract has a one-year no compete if you are fired for a disciplinary breach (as opposed to WWE just giving you a 90-day notice release). That sounds like exactly the thing these rules would stop.

Yep, that's right. (The old contracts used to auto-renew for another year unless the wrestler specifically gave notice to end them during a particular period, though that's not the case in the most recent ones made public.)tm

Note the FTC ruling is for employees, not independent contractors, so it wouldn't affect WWE wrestlers. As noted, it wouldn't make much difference to the standard WWE release anyway. They'd just switch from "we're ending the contract but we'll pay you for 90 days if you don't go on TV elsewhere" to explictly stating "here's your 90 days notice of us ending the contract; we won't be booking you in the meantime so you just get your downside."

Bit late replying to this, but the answer's no. The TV network owns the rights to the footage and hasn't shown any interest in making it available in any way.

Forgot to mention, I did the Lord's tour and saw the driest display caption ever:

The County Championship is back, baby:

FWIW, Terry and Dory Funk sold the Amarillo territory in 1980 because they'd figured out cable TV would mean somebody went national and there'd be no room for local promotions.

Oof. Showed the BBC News report of this on Gogglebox and somebody described him as "The Mick Hucknall Forrest Gump."

I think it's generally a workplace rule that if you're in a fight with colleagues where you're the first to get physical and you get suspended and then you come back and less than a year later have a fight with a colleague (three feet in front of your boss) where you're the first to get physical, you're probably not getting the benefit of the doubt.

Surely it's as simple as the guy who takes out Rock has to be clearly established as retired/immortal/legend, otherwise you question why Rock isn't having a match with him next rather than wrestling either Cody or Reigns.

Played Tokkaido: Crosswords, aka the first expansion for the base Tokkaido. It's pretty simple stuff: each location now has a secondary option that adds a little twist. For example, at the farm where you get cash, you can instead gamble your money on a dice roll. The hot springs (where you randomly get either 2 or 3 points) has a bathhouse where you pay a coin for a guaranteed 4 points. Most of them are along the lines of "instead of normal thing, pay a coin for something better" which makes the money management more key. It really doesn't dramatically change the gameplay, just adds a little variety if you've played the game a lot.

It's heavily rumoured to be Minneapolis but it's an indoor stadium (albeit with a glass roof and most of one end.) But supposedly they haven't yet chosen between there and Vegas.

Unlike in the actual McIntyre-Rollins match.

The fundraising has absolutely shot up. Probably just the publicity but I like to think a lot of people were thinking "I'll thrown in a tenner, but only if he finishes" like it was a sponsored fun run.

To be fair, Hardest Geezer defined "length of Africa" as "from the Northern-most point to the Southern-most point" which this guy didn't do. He "only" did North coast to South coast.

Played Wyrmspan which is somewhere between a (fully authorised) remake and a spinoff of Wingspan. It's themed on dragons rather than birds and uses many of the same mechanisms, but with a few rule changes. You now have two types of card, cave excavations and dragons, and you need to play an excavation card in a space before you can put a dragon there. Meanwhile laying eggs and getting new cards are no longer actions in themselves and instead you can only do them as a benefit of playing a card. There's also a little "quest" tracker that you can move up as a benefit of some cards. Each space on the tracker gets you something (a resource or card or extra go) and going right rounf the tracker lets you claim an end game bonus, most of which are limited. The upshot is that it's slightly more streamlined than the original and less likely to fall into the "last round is just laying eggs" trap. I wouldn't call it better however: if you like Wingspan, this doesn't significantly improve it, and if you don't like Wingspan this probably won't make much difference.

Just announced that in January he attempted straight line across England. Video coming May. (To be fair, Hardest Geezer probably now holds unassailable records for both straight line and no roads.)

(From the Wall Street Journal)

So we've got the thread for posting individual clips, but I thought it would be useful to put together a directory of good channels for reference. Up to people what they add here, but I'd recommend sticking to ones which: * Are well established with a pretty big collection of videos. * Have some sort of theme. * Contain relatively rare footage (as rare as 'being on YouTube' can be.) For starters: TraderJack 641: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ICN2wl80l1i45GVy1YOwQ Complete Memphis TV episodes including playlists for 1985 through 1990. Wrestling Collector: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDjwPjvzrJhAx4wvRmKdRg Complete W/WWF TV episodes and house shows Monsoon Classic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyREM7mfS-lW4brd7fPmLpw Individual TV matches and segments from mid-80s to mid-90s WWF and NWA shows, then stuff from WWF/WCW C-shows from 95-2000ish. Richard Land: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq6_0hFCpIZ5hMDdV-86HHQ WWF house shows from mid 80s to 1990. Rassle Reel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlHekzcdePco4aKxHiP29w CompleteTV shows from many major territories, mainly 1980s Buckshot LeFonque: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAQ2QqsQAKaZhK6_aMexoQ Complete TV shows from 80s territories, 90s All Japan, 90s WWF C shows, LPWA and more. Billy Gunn: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9XQL8A2Ax7oMRBsPjSGg4A Pre-shows for WWF pay per views Professional Wrestling Preservation Society: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzKMa9zvx4rQn7-TPewu6zQ Complete Mid South TV episodes RagingBull 1935: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn-lKXBOSp8AezWsT3wjtzg Pre-war newsreel footage ArthurPsycho: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYRqU2G_RxGJDWBBVRaS-Ww: BritishTV stuff including World of Sport, Reslo and Screensport Chicago Film Archives: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXxP_rvXryBPpjIw7Dl9Tg 1950s TV matches including lots of big names Tell Em Hawk: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzttD23OW3w_5xwxyuvWgSSGlyFy0yMbB Playlist of Jim Crockett Promotions glory period house show matches Memphis Wrestling Video Vault: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTim1Uvfvm86blvU4inQhEw Mainly individual matches, but goes from mid-80s into mid-90s dzmatty: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SjVaK8E7GRAW1AL_mwEbw Sadly not playlisted, but a whopping 177 part history of Mid-Atlantic TV from 1984. GoldenAge2008: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoldenAge2008/videos 1950s-60s TV matches Rolochoshu: https://www.youtube.com/user/rolochoshu/videos Weird mix of clips from Memphis and Japan