Quentin

Forget the shirt. Those are the world's greatest sunglasses.

"the story called for me to be planted in the crowd like a mark and then at some point Jerry Lawler was supposed to hit the ring and kick Bret's ass. At that point I was supposed to hit the ring and kick their asses... The whole charade was easy but got a hell of a pop. In fact Dave Meltzer later wrote that there was something seriously wrong when a walk-on wrestler who'd never been in WWF got the biggest pop on the show"

Insane.

I knew he was a sub but no idea about his after school activities. As a family they're pretty much all scumbags. No real dirt on Owen has ever surfaced mind. 

What's the stories there Ian? Sex offender and the Doink rib? I read Bruce's book recently and it's fucking nuts but obviously neither of these were mentioned. He's quite a fascinating character. Even for the Harts he's the mental one.

When I met Virgil I asked him if he was still wrestling at all. He went "Pfft. I don't need to wrestle. I make $150,000 a year teaching part time". Then he tried to sell me an NWO t-shirt for £25 as he pulled a hand full of Zubaz out of his arse.

When this thread runs its course, it should be archived in Gold. Some really fun stories and observations in it. Could do with more photos though.

 

With all this talk of Batista slipping her one it's pretty appropriate that it says "TROPHY ASS" behind her head.

The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser I think.

That's crazy to see he could have been around from 98-03. I would presume if the attitude era still happened some sort of Sting-like reinvention would have been on the cards. That's got my mind going mental.

I think you'd have an impossible task trying to create an alternative to WWE. You can't just upstart something like that. It's like going up against Coca Cola or McDonalds at this stage. This isn't at all like a WCW that came with a history and people who were raised on the notion that it was better just because of their postcode basically. WCW was the last territory that WWE needed to knock out of business and they hung in there so long primarily because they already had some credible stars who people identified with the company while there was still a shred of doubt as to who the number one company was. Now you've got an uphill struggle to create stars in what people know for sure to be the 2nd best company and anyone they pick up who already have a bit of name value are only there because WWE had no use for them. Like someone said, WWE now covers every corner of the market and they have all the best people too. It's not all that different to the territory days, only it speaks volumes that they've never made a serious play for any TNA guys.

Did Sandow piss someone off? They've stripped away everything interesting about him to the stage where he's now black trunks guy who comes out in his own t-shirt, rarely gets his entrance shown and isn't allowed near a microphone.

Just watched Jennifer Hudson on Jonathon Ross and they talked briefly about David Otunga and showed a couple of photos of him in the ring. The conversation of her son came up and they mentioned his future being the child of an oscar winning actress and singer and a "wrestler, body builder and Harvard educated lawyer".

Is there any reason he's not on TV right now? I know he's not the best hand they've got but he's got a hell of an interesting and real story about him away from the ring for them to use him as occasional fodder.

Someone's scanned up the itinerary they gave to the wrestlers and crew when they came over for Summerslam 92.

 

http://imgur.com/a/AoyBD

 

I'm assuming the L.Henning is Larry, was he an agent with WWF at the time?

Just read Jim Duggan's book and he mentioned taking his dad over there so don't know if the company let a few of them bring guests. J Hart I would also assume to be Julie which I seem to remember being mentioned in Bret's book.

Was Tony Chimel working there as early as that or is T Chimel someone else??

A guy at my work reads Lords of Pain and tries to have overly loud conversations with me about wrestling across the office. I get incredibly awkward looks from the normies when he starts.

He's not wrong about the match on Raw. There were times in that I thought he was trying to sabotage Rollins.

Roman Reigns is really a super-photogenic guy. There's no way he's not going to be The Man in the next three years.

Strangely really enjoyed the Uso/Wyatts tag match. The last 30 seconds or so especially. It's very cliche to say they should do something with the tag division but there's a few good double acts around at the minute.

As someone who finds Cena incredibly irritating pretty much all the time, he was brilliant on Raw and the whole closing segment was enjoyable.

The Slammy's are a total waste of time. Weird set up too with wrestlers standing around in the ring doing sod all while they announce the winner.

Holy shit is that Anvil? Man he should have always wore trunks. Absolute unit. Completely forgettable face without the goatee though. Good find.

And they never do vignettes (I wouldn't call that shite with ECIII a vignette). They need to build characters before their debut and unleash people. They need some ideas. They need a Boogey Man. Or a Hornswoggle. Or a Great Khali. Or a Umaga. Or a Vampiro. Or a Bray Wyatt. They might be shit, but they are like train wreck to watch. Which sometimes is better than great wrestling. If you build someone like these via vignettes, you generally go "I need to see this bloke debut". Even if they turn out to be a disaster.

We all know what needs to be done...

"I figure it's some guy's name. Some guy named Gabbo."

It'll probably turn out to be Devon though.

Realistically though all these are really insignificant - the only standalone project that I imagine that they would consider - weighing up the potential revenue against the cost of buying the library - would be a "The Inexplicable Beginnings and Spectacular Failure of TNA" DVD set, with all the notable worst garbage - tag team of wrestling penises, Shane Douglas throwing up, R-Truth winning the belt, Randy Savage pinning Double J after a punch, Pacman Jones, a cock being drawn on Samoa Joe's face, RVD being dumped on in his debut, Mr Anderson - lovingly embellished by a huge array of the WWE's big wrestling family chiming in to talk about Russo being worthless and Jarrett being a twat.

 

I'd definitely pay for three discs of the WWE's world class production team showing me how bad it was at its worst, and Vince's boys all having a collective laugh and circle jerk about it. Especially if it involved Mick Foley saying "I let them think I was joining them in 2005, but that was only japes" Flair likening Fortune to if all the Horsemen had been Paul Roma, and the Hulk stroking his fu manchu and chuckling "I was laughing all the way to the bank, brother."

The money I would pay for that. It sounds amazing.

Anyone else clock Heath Slater with a cancer awareness ribbon on the bottom of his boot? Top jobber jokes right there.

Jesus Christ. Think there's something in my eye.

Coronation Street has really nailed the soap. It's just untouchable for me. From some of the the saddest scenes ever to Steve McDonald doing comedy in a split second and succeeding at both.

The is going to be unbearably sad for the next few months. Corrie can hang with the best of them when it comes to creating villains but the base of it is always pretty decent human beings which is why it's going to be a right tear-jerker all the way. Eastenders couldn't do anything like this story. Not since Nana Moon. The problem they've got is that nigh-on every single character in it is a total piece of shit. I can't even watch Eastenders any more because I just hate basically every single character and they're never going to give Patrick a push at this stage of his career.

Jesus. I thought Lawler would have packed in actually doing matches by now. At least doing singles. Has he had many matches since the heart attack?

The chap on the right here is Wilhelm Von Homburg. Vigo from Ghostbusters in his wrestling days (The other bloke is his old man).

Former WWE developmental talent Brian McGhee, who worked in developmental under the name DT Porter, is being charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a woman in Tampa, Florida last night at an apartment complex.

"I stayed up listening to Queen..."

Anyone have any examples of the kind of decisions Triple H was influencing at that time he had a load of heat from around a decade ago?

It really was wasn't it? I'm a big fan of both guys but that was my favourite Ryback match I've seen so far.