Fatty Facesitter

Watching Mrs Michaels being helped to the back as her face swelled up on camera was one step too far for me. I don't want to see that kind of thing at all. If you're more comfortable with man-on-woman violence than I am, good for you.

 

For someone who has apparently been watching wrestling for 25 years, it seems surprising to me that you seem to be unable to differentiate between fantasy and reality. You say the Jake thing was a work, so basically man on woman violence in that context is fine but yet you're treating the HBK/Jericho/Rebecca incident as if it's some kind of shoot, and that Chris Irvine the performer intentionally put extra force behind his punch for the sake of an angle!

 

Do you actually think a person like Chris Irvine/Jericho would intentionally hurt a woman, much less the wife of one of his most trusted peers? Were you seriously considering abandoning the profession you've watched "religiously" for 25 years over human error? Note: By human error, I don't mean the character of Shawn Michaels ducking the blow, I mean Chris Irvine/Jericho accidentally landing and connecting with the punch.

 

Having re-watched the footage of the actual punch, you can't even really tell at first that it properly even connected. So in that context it's no different from the Jake/Elizabeth stuff. It's only after people like yourself discovered she had actually been hurt that y'all got up in arms about it. It was a mistake, it happens. I can't believe (especially in the context of the Y2J/HBK storyline, which was tremendous) that you would think about giving up 25 years of fandom over an innocent mistake in an otherwise magnificent wrestling angle. By all means I don't expect people to feel comfortable about man on women violence, but trying to make out that they were going too far, but then defending the Jake Roberts angle, your point basically has no substance.

 

just horrible.

 

Admittedly not the wrestling world's best creation. But after his initial appearances on Smackdown, he then started popping up in random places backstage and frankly it was pretty awesome. Like during the Raw vs SD rivalry around Survivor Series 05 where Bradshaw goes to a truck which he thinks is full of Raw guys, only to find the Boogeyman. And when Cena is walking around backstage interacting with people, and finds him in the closet. Some of those backstage bits were pretty cool. Then the wrestling started and well, yeah it was a bit cack. But he had his moments.

Shawn Micheals uploads a

 

Christa Miller, aka Jordan from Scrubs. 46. Apologies if posted.

1) I'm guessing they check beforehand anyway, but what the hell do you do when you're that high up and all of a sudden it starts to rain?

I actually noticed that when he's getting near the top the voiceover guy points out that he's checking the weather because there's no quick way down if there's a storm... wouldn't you be checking that shit BEFORE you're 1600 feet in the air and unable to get down quickly? The latest possible time to be checking the weather forecast would be as you exit the lift, any point after that is just too damned late.

 

Exactly. I'm no weather expert, but I'd imagine depending on the length of time it takes to climb the damn thing there's a strong chance that there could a shift in the change of weather, like the wind mph could increase or it could start to lightly shower or even worse. Plus, what if their weather forecast turns out to be wrong? What the hell do you do then? I'm guessing just start climbing down at the earliest possible sign of trouble and then just gutting it out with lots of rest stops along the way?

 

I can safely say I'll think twice now about complaining about my working environment!

Wankers have taken it down, so here it is again for anyone who's interested.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuzrIN_x2M

 

Absolutely mental. Few things that really struck me.

 

1) I'm guessing they check beforehand anyway, but what the hell do you do when you're that high up and all of a sudden it starts to rain?

 

2) I love in the narration when it says "Now we've reached the top of the antenna, it's just another 60 feet to the top!" Just ANOTHER 60 feet?! After all of that?!

 

3) Just the sheer lack of safety equipment and serious danger. There's a couple of bits in that video where they are basically switching platforms, like kids in a play park on a climbing frame. Surely in 2010 this could be improved somehow? The helicopter idea was pretty good I thought.

While we're on the subject of William Regal being awesome i figure i'll post this:

 

Outstanding. "People buy this crap you know?"

 

I'm legit in tears! The absolute best bit is just his face at the start when the camera first catches him. Glorious. "Oh oh look at me look at me! I'm a hulkamaniac and I've got my silly little Hulk Hogan cup and my hat, and my silly little doll and I look like a complete bloody pillock!"

 

Give that man a medal.

I'm no huge fan either (he's been really good most of this year but the prospect of him vs Orton again has made me hate both of them a bit), just commenting on the "I'm too old and male to like him!" superiority complex. Although I feel like I'm too old and wise to just go along with what Fin Martin and Wade Keller spout, so I'm just as guilty of being condescending.

 

Only women and kids like Cena/Hornswoggle/WWE etc, only virgins and losers like cruiserweights/Shimmer/indies etc.

 

Fair enough. Your harsh words have upset me, though, so I'll cheer myself up by watching Cena get massacred by the fappers at One Night Stand:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhHDoarORU

 

Now THAT'S why I fucking love wrestling.

 

Great moment for sure...but massacred? Cena had that crowd in the palm of his hand with the whole T-Shirt deal. And he walked right into the crowd mid-match to brawl. Not that the ECW fans would've dared do anything to him anyway.

 

Great shoot, makes a lot of excellent points and compares a lot of his theories to stuff like other professions.

 

Thanks for the link, really enjoyed listening to Al made a lot of sense although the interviewers were terrible, they didn't know whether the agree or disagree with him.

 

Yeah, the actual interviewers weren't the sharpest tools in the box in that regard. Their best technique was actually silence, where they just let Al talk for ages. That wouldn't work with everybody as some would have a tendency to ramble, but in Snow's case he never strayed off point and was virtually always bang on the money.

 

I'd still check out some more of those interviews from the same people, as there's some good ones floating around where similarly the wrestler in question just speaks his mind with little interruption. I think there's one with Ron Simmons on their channel and also Kevin Nash if that floats your boat.

 

Great shoot, makes a lot of excellent points and compares a lot of his theories to stuff like other professions.

 

 

 

These in particular baffle me. Cena vs HBK at Mania 23 was a cracking match and I didn't think Cena vs Batista this year was was half bad either. Plus, how awesome is that last photo of Cena posing with the haters? It just goes to show that John Cena is an absolute class act. Fair enough if you didn't want to see Cena win, but did they seriously make you consider actually stop watching altogether?

 

Back to JBL, all is certainly forgiven now and in hindsight I'd actually say they definitely made the right decision. For instance, they could've fast tracked Cena to an even earlier title reign and he could've gone the way of Randy Orton, who took seemingly ages to recover from his own capitulation. Some of JBL's matches, like the two big PPV bouts with Undertaker for instance, were a bit ugly, but he really shone through as a character and made for some entertaining television.

 

I was incensed at the time, especially with Eddie being an all-time fave of mine. But actually I grew to like him as a character in the end. Some of his matches were utter shit though.

 

Lesnar destroying Funaki.

 

That actually looks dangerous. One of the first times he scoops him up he just kind of lets him drop, then rams him into the turnbuckle and the back of his fucking head hits the pad at full force. Mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igIBnzeZLIM...feature=related

 

cant wait for part 2.

 

No matter how many times I see that Undertaker dive onto the cameraman I still say "holy shit!".

 

Here here. I'd forgotten how ace that match was actually.

Santino ~

I watched Casino last night. What a tremendous film this is. The acting is utterly brilliant. I liked the little touches they added like shouting over each other in arguements. This happens in real life all the time but in movies and television you don't often see it because the focus shifts from one person to another. Pesci in particular is fucking awesome in this film. On top of the great acting the direction is top notch and there are some truly beautiful shots to behold in it. To be honest I think it's a crime I didn't pick this up sooner than I did. It's 3 hours of your life you'll be happy to put to the side. 10/10

Finally, in a digital format, my university TV feature on backyard wrestling. Made in April 2002:Guts and GoryFeaturing some WWE wrestler called Paul Burchill (name spelt incorrectly on the video), as well as Mark Sloan, and James Tighe's in there as well.Oh, and it was researched, filmed, written and edited in three months.It might look a bit like that Lock Up Your Sons documentary on Channel 4 from 2003, but mine was made public first.Any comments are welcome.

Really enjoyed watching this. Also, I thought it was excellently edited together and the shots in general were really good. Being a media student I tend to naturally look out for these things more so than I used to and I see you really put some effort into this. And all that in three months? Damn baby.At College right now our final project for the course is a 30 minute documentary on the subject of our choosing. Last month I chose to do British Wrestling, looking at it's past and looking into the future as well. We've got a deadline of around five months (Which started in Janurary) and I've got my first interview lined up next Saturday. My biggest problem will be getting enough footage to fill the 30 minutes without rambling on too much. But nevertheless I'm looking forward to it. Have you tried entering this into any little film festivals or anything like that? I've been to a few as part of my course and seen plenty of documentaries and such like, and this would eat most of them alive.

Picked up Superbad on DVD last Tuesday. Lots of fun to watch and seemingly endlessly quoteable too, especially the pearls of wisdom coming from Fogell. I also watched Bad Boys 1 & 2 over the past week. Again, fun is the key word and I think both films deliver it in spades. Sure, the second one in particular is pretty over the top and the actual story has it faults. But as a popcorn action movie, it does its job well.

Santino

Hornswoggle. I hate him!

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