Polish Dad

Pretty much the only strong argument is the financial one, with oil value dropping the Scottish economy would have even more trouble sustaining as I understand it.

That's getting whacked on immediately. Thanks!

It seems alright now I'm searching event names, but when I was trying to find matches involving two names it was throwing completely unrelated stuff at me.

On the positive side, I've now also watched a bunch of Wrestlemania X-8, and Brainbusters vs Hart Foundation as recommended earlier. Fantastic stuff.
Now watching nWo Wolfpac vs Four Horsemen from an episode of Nitro, so far featuring a confusing promo from Scott Steiner about DDP's wife.

Genuinely thankful for the recommendations (especially as the Network search function seems a bit wank).

 

Ended up watching Anderson/Flair vs Doom w/ Teddy Long which turned out to be a fun little tag ending in a double count-out brawl. Ron Simmons was an absolute beast back then.

Looking to watch some more Arn Anderson stuff, is there anything on the network from when he was belting?

For people who sign up for Tinder via Facebook, it automatically populates the pictures & even the description fields. So if someone signs up just to look at other profiles & never checks their own, you often see wedding photos, or pictures of their kids etc.

Not really. It's two kids stabbing one of their friends and claiming they were doing it 'for Slenderman'. Creepy as fuck, but not really related to the Slenderman story at all.

Haven't watched the doc yet, but I imagine it's about how unsupervised kids can be influenced by the media they consume.

Aren't they 'Furries'? Don't see what the problem would be if they did.

He did a fantastic turn in the latest DC Animated Movie: Return of the Caped Crusaders. Involves almost getting cooked as part of a giant ready meal at one point.

Nothing gets me amped up quite like BBC's F1 theme

 

To my discredit I only recently started listening to Fleetwood Mac & realising that it was an existing piece of music.

 

The last few progress shows since brixton have all been really good. I've watched chapter 39 at least 3 times and I haven't done that with a show in years.

 

Ospreys turn will be really good, but begs the question of who wil go against BSS if havoc is busy with swords of Essex?

I think the thing to remember is that with BSS in WWEUK and Will with ROH and NJPW, they aren't likely to all be available for every show. So Havoc just feuds with ALL THE HEELS. 

 

 

PROGRESS use so many great wrestlers, and generally book them so well, that missing wrestlers for a show or two has never harmed them for me, even champions. They haven't even started booking storylines for the Atlas belt yet, just running the open challenge gimmick which has made it easy to drop in and out, but Rampage is a fine headliner if they wanted to go that route on nights Dunne is AWOL.

Keep them busy with a London Riots rematch and some smaller teams/imports while they split Cruz from the Origin, then have Banter Edition go for a run at the belts? 

It was incredible. I'd already gotten excited at the prospect of the two working together, so when the turn came I may have gotten a bit too emotionally invested. Sat in my living room, head in hands. 

The flight case reveal has to be one of my favourite surprise wrestler entrances too. For some reason I didn't put two & two together to get the obvious - got a squeal out of me.

Fantastic show.

NGW has the contract according to a few people on Facebook, which is probably where the Alex Shane involvement has come from.

She looks like she's got Danny Devito's chest.

What happened to the old documentary thread in Off Topic? Was using that for recommendations but can't seem to find it now.

Haha. In fairness, it may have been residual joy over Jimmy Havoc's surprise return (after I'd flown to Glasgow the week before to see him, the bastard) and knowing we were going to get a Havoc/Scurll program off the back of it.

Not really the fault of Marty Scurll, who's won me over as a wrestler in the past few years. Just happened at the wrong time. Following up Havoc's long reign with another heel champion who cheats to win felt like a watered down version of what I'd just seen. He was also hurt by not having an Ospreay to go against; I like Haskins well enough and was jumping for joy when he won, but I was almost in tears for Ospreay when he finally did it. They were always going to struggle to top that for me, which is why that I'm excited Dunne seems to be going in a different direction.

The Bad
Potentially taking the biscuit on racist family, my mother is UKIP's Lisa Duffy. Mayor of Ramsey and notable runner up in their first go round at a leadership election before the winner abruptly fucked off and Farage wombled back into his standard position. Doesn't believe in climate change, believes immigrants are ruining the country (when I first got engaged to my Indian fiancee, she refused to speak to me about it, and asked if she was only with me for a VISA), and has five other horrendous children, one of whom I recall hitting her teenage rebellious phase and fucking off to do heroin for a bit.
Haven't spoken to her since Brexit, except to throw a witty one-liner in response to her asking "What do you want for your birthday?", coming back with "Access to the common market." Still proud of that one.

The Good

My grandad, who has essentially been my parent since I was a child. Took me away every weekend, giving me peaceful respite from my parents domestic abuse saga, and has supported me in anything I do. Got me into wrestling, then supported me when I wanted to make it a career. Continued to support me when I left it ten years later to go into esports & live events which has finally worked out wonderfully for me. He's 73 and completely unstoppable. Kind, gentle, with some of the meanest wit I know, and always ready to go out for a drink. Absolute gem of a human, and the reason I turned out alright.

Yeah, Marty's come on leaps and bounds in the last few years. I never bought into the LDRS, or his 'Party' Marty gimmick. Solid hand but nothing special. If you'd told me three years ago that Marty would be one of my favourite wrestlers I'd have thought you were mad, but he's excellent nowadays. If you're interested in seeing more, his rise to champion in PROGRESS is well worth watching.

I'm a huge fan of EU Drake.

It's just an unlucky impact, from the looks of it. Nakamura's a bit further out than he thought he was, so his foot wasn't flat, and Aries was spinning into it so didn't catch where it was until he'd rammed his eye into it.

Fuck me, Nick Pisa reveals himself for the absolute cunt he is in that documentary.

In fact, Amanda is the only one that seems remotely relatable throughout. Nearly cried at the end watching her react to the second acquittal. I didn't follow the original story that closely, but watching the obvious farce of the Italian police was making me so angry I had to pause it a few times.

Also, good shout from Butch earlier on Death of a Gentleman. Have been recommending that around as a result.

This was my first live PROGRESS show, but I've been following online for around a year (having gone back and watched all the old shows from Chapter One onwards).
 

The big arena definitely made the atmosphere feel different, with my section being quite quiet compared to the more central one (I was on the right hand side of Stalls), but I was okay with that considering the length of the show it would have been quite tiring being on my feet shouting for the whole thing. The exception to that was Zack Gibson's promo, loved that guy since he was pissing about in 21CW as Zack Diamond (and was absolute dogshit) and he's blossomed into the most fantastic unlikeable heel while I was gone from wrestling.

There are two things that brought me back into wrestling properly; one of them is Jim Smallman. I love how genuine his emotions are, and find his enthusiasm infectious. I think PROGRESS would feel lessened without him out front ring announcing. The other was Jimmy Havoc's heel turn and title run. I watched PROGRESS from Chapter One when I got On Demand. It was interesting, but felt very much like the BritWres I remembered from before and wasn't incredibly appealing. It was from the moment of his heel turn that I was completely hooked, to the point where I'm comfortable saying that Jimmy Havoc made me love watching British Wrestling again. I flew from Southampton to Glasgow the week before just to see him appear at the hardcore show held in his name by Mikey Whiplash.

I say this so you know there's no overstatement when I say that to be there for his return is one of the best moments of my life. I've rarely given myself so completely to an emotional moment, but I was screaming like a schoolgirl for this.

 

For me, Scurll's run on top hasn't been as compelling. I think he had the tools to be an intriguing PROGRESS foil, a heel champion who was more concerned with just winning than he was with Havoc's "Fuck PROGRESS" mentality. Despite that, it never quite clicked for me, so it was a joy to see Haskins take the belt. Could see Gibson being the next man to dethrone him.

Really enjoyed the show, and really glad I chose this to be my first PROGRESS live show.