Carbomb

I'm similar, but with an opposite outcome - he doesn't affect me, and it's clearly six of one and half a dozen of the other with him, but, aside from that brief "Best In The World" run in WWE, I've never been particularly bothered about him; I don't like him, and I don't hate him. I'm just not emotionally invested in the guy, and never have been - he was in the first ever live wrestling show I went to, FWA New Frontiers 2004, facing Raven, and it was a fun match, but I wasn't overly bothered about it; was more interested in the British guys because I felt like I was discovering something new. Consequently, I'm finding this stuff a bit tiresome. I find people's discussion of the drama interesting, but not the drama itself, odd as that might sound.

It's amazing how he made such a small role so memorable. Every so often, my sister and I have a pattern where, if either of us does something stupid, the other will say "Ya djack'ass!" the way he did. Or, if we're trying to do something difficult, the other will say "You WILL NOT [insert action here]...ya djack'ass!"

Bloody hell, @wandshogun09 - my short-term memory has always been shit, but that's upsetting. Damn.

Yeh, that got him fired, but remember they were pushing him hard first, even planning to make him Vince's illegitimate son - then he got done and they gave that to Hornswoggle instead. After the scandal, he was essentially a midcard jobber.

Didn't know they'd let Taila Santos go either.

Yeh, it was what did for Kennedy's career - he'd gone all-in on slagging off everyone talking about it, defending WWE to the hilt. Then he got done, and looked ridiculous.

Also, with all the advancements in sports science, there's probably either a lot more expertise in treatment, whether it's in-house or simply the wrestlers having more self-knowledge about which injuries they can't afford to leave and how to address them.

Literally

The UFC marketing team have been working on the intricacies of matches that haven't even happened

Looks like something Bob Mortimer would rib Andy for about Mackems.

Yes and no. I'd say he would've been a good main event heel - an excellent one, actually, because he didn't pop anyone. He came across as a brutal, nasty bastard that you just couldn't root for, and therefore root for a face taking a beating off him.

Had these recently. Very odd, but like those peanut puffs you can get, very moreish.

Is Ryota Hama still going? He'd be good to see.

Any fat-man monster would be, as there's almost no-one like that nowadays. Earthquake would've shone, for sure, Big Daddy V probably, King Kong Bundy, One Man Gang, Bam Bam Bigelow, they would all have been really intriguing with all the fast guys bouncing off them and the big guys trying to move them.

Not films as such, but Dennis Potter wrote a couple of plays as TV mini-series in the mid-90s just before he passed, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. Currently re-watching Karaoke, and I didn't realise back then the cast it had - obviously, a lot of these were early in their careers, or were just before they made it big, but it's still impressive in retrospect: Albert Finney Richard E. Grant Roy Hudd Ian McDiarmid Julie Christie Alison Steadman Anna Chancellor Keeley Hawes Saffron Burrows Ewan McGregor Ralph Brown Stephen Mackintosh Hywel Bennett Liz Smith Natascha McElhone Fay Ripley Neil Stuke Matthew Cottle (if only they'd had Samantha Janus in this, they'd have got the Game On hat-trick) Stephen Boxer BTW, you can find all of both plays on Youtube. EDIT: Forgot to include the most surreal cast member there - Charley Boorman playing a yuppie.

The Cult of Personality

You mean you would if you didn't?

Wankind. Lorne, hold the door a sec.

First thing I thought when I saw that pic. Looks like a fusion of Ricky Tomlinson and John Goodman. Jocky Goodlinson.

I'd tell him to give his head a wobble, but it'd just be playing into his hands.

For me, it's probably Marco Pierre White. A Tory and a temperamental dickhead, but I can't help but like how he comes across - he's intense, but also mixes in humour when you don't expect it, leaving you wondering if he's actually joking or serious about something ridiculous.

This talk of clubbering has me thinking that Haku might have been a world champion now. Not a talker, but wouldn't need to be. I think Steve Blackman might have had a higher profile too, though not main event level. Probably IC.

If we're doing the AJPW Giant Gram game series guys, I'd have liked to see "Jungle" Jim Steele in his role of Wolf Hawkfield from Virtua Fighter - in this day and age of Kenny Omega and videogame references, he'd have fit in nicely. Wonder how Stan Hansen would've done as well?

Ah, of course! I'd forgotten about DJ Gabriel - had just folded him in with Justin. He's known for his Sledgehammer

DJ Gabriel is from Saath Effrica