Glen Quagmire

Thanks.

As someone out of the loop of TNA/GFW/Impact Wrestling for a while, what was Lo Ki doing wrestling in a suit?

Rumour going around the twitterati that Linda McMahon could end up as Trump's Commerce Secretary.

On the subject of wrestlers appearing on TV to pimp live shows, one time in 1994 the Undertaker & Paul Bearer was on QVC helping sell WWF merchandise and my sister, whose birthday was coming up, got through to speak to both of them. As well as getting an Undertaker shirt for her birthday, my sister also got free of charge a framed autographed picture of Undertaker & Paul Bearer wishing a happy birthday - except that the birthday wishes were to my mother instead! Presumably because the account was in her name.

Thinking about it, the situation TNA has now come to is comically like something that would be planned by an insane booker. Have a delusional head of the company turn down repeated offers for the business because she refuses to give over day to day cpntrol, burns bridges with Spike & Destination America, use ownership the wrestling company as collateral for production costs (I mean who makes those kinds of loan deals that don't involve a bank?) and when she fails to pay the latest costs loses ownership with two neo-nazis taking over Dixie's role on the day of Hitler's birthday.

 

Vince Russo would give his right nut to book an angle like that.

If the Harris Boys are involved I really can't see Jarrett and Russo not being too far behind.

Swastika on a pole match?

Totally

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Apprently Balls Mahoney has passed away according to Johnny Candido's Twitter.

Balls.

I heard the Hardy Boyz’ theme on one of those police chase clip shows, too.

I'm pretty sure their entrance tune was used by the WWF during the mid-90's for promo clips in-between programming. A similar way that the entrance music for Linda McMahon was also originally used for several Wrestlemanias during the same decade.

 

A few WCW themes turned out to be stock music from porn movies right? I know Benoit's WCW theme was and the nWo theme just had porno written all over it. That nWo theme is still one of my fave entrance themes of all time.

Again I swear I remember Scott Hall, in nWo character, once referred to their music as coming from "your favourite porn movie" or something along those lines.

I bet this story of "talks with outside investors" will end up something like this...

 

I still think that by the end of this year Roman Reigns will be the World Heavyweight Champion.

 

 

 

I could have swore that back in 2013 or 2014 that Barrett said in an interview that he reckoned he has about 2-3 years left in the WWE before retiring from wrestling so he can get out in time before injuries etc. started to take its long term toll on him.

She's taken it down now, but the internet does not forget...

 

 

didnt a morbidly obese wrestler break the rope on their very first dark match and they had to frantically put in all the non in-ring segments at the top of the show?

Cheexs I think his name was. If I remember right you can see Ron and Don shitarse fixing it in the feed in from the title sequence.

 

I wonder if Muhammed Hassan will make a comeback at SS?

Is there anywhere in this country now that doesn't have a high enough internet speed to not be able to utilise services like the Network and Netflix etc?

 

I was told that to stream standard definition content, you need speeds of at least 2Mbps, I have rarely dropped below this to test it though. My thinking would be fans who want to see it but don't have a strong enough internet connection for the Network perhaps.

Quite a fair bit around my neck of the woods. The general urban/rural population profile in Northern Ireland is much closer to that with the Republic than with Britain. In Britain around 12% of the population is classified as living in a rural area. In NI it's over 35%. And in the council area I live in, it is close to 70%! As you could imagine this puts a spanner in the works in getting xDSL broadband to quite a few spots. FTTC or BT Infinity is fairly widespread (my parents have had it since 2011) and is available in the main towns and most villages, but it's those who live out in the open countryside at least 1.5 to 2 miles from the nearest town or village that are getting left behind, FTTC isn't possible and most struggle to get 1-1.5 Meg download speed, some can't get anything as the phone line is too long from the exchange. There is a fixed wireless provider locally but it's regarded as a bad joke with terrible customer support and a service that goes down more often than your neighbourhood slut despite getting funding from Stormont. Mobile internet via 3G or 4G is very much a limited option with EE or 3 with their download caps unless you're willing to fork out a large amount each month (and forget about O2 or Vodafone unless money is no object) but even 2G coverage can by patchy in many places; and that's outdoors. Different reports I've read state that anything from 10% to 22% of properties in my area aren't able to get a DSL service that provides the minimum 2Mb/s download speed that the government have proposed as a USO. Meanwhile looking over the border, the main telecom incumbent Eir (née Eircom & Telecom Éireann) as well as Vodafone are rolling out Fibre to the Home quite quickly and plan to even reach fairly remote communities by the end of this decade, with some places also getting local fibre networks from private ISPs. The vision there is a lot more forward thinking meanwhile back north BT are still stuck in the mindset of having copper wire as king, and they'll ring every last drop out of it until they're forced to either by regulation or by an eventually savvy population that want services that BTs rusting network can't provide them with.

 

Damn, those jihadis and their fight against western decadence...

If they wanted to do it easiest way would be through the WWE phone app. Download that, stick your own headphones in and done. Suppose it would depend on signal in the arena which is usually a bit shit though.

Not really practical, as the time taken to encode the audio, latency, buffering and decoding the audio will not be able to sync right with the action happening. A delay of several seconds. It's the same trying to listen to radio commentary at a football match using an internet stream, always several seconds behind and you'll give up quickly.

A radio earpiece link might be doable for WWE events in the UK, but they would likely be relying on the arena supplying most of the tech to comply with UK & EU rules. There are several ways to approach this, some stadiums and arenas in the country use transmissions either on a very low powered (0.3W maximum) FM broadcast transmitter specially licenced for the venue, another alternative is to use a licence-free part of the spectrum (e.g. 863MHz), though you might require several flea-powered transmitters to achieve adequate coverage. For larger, outdoor venues running events over several days e.g. music festivals, they might get an RSL FM licence for the course of the event. At some other sports venues they have special MW licences where they can broadcast up to 28 days in a year, they are often seen for football clubs and racing circuits but they're now a dying breed.

 

While it would not be expensive for the WWE to purchase a business radio licence in the UK and get someone to manufacture earpieces tuned to their licenced frequency, I'd say it would not be worth much to them to do that over here.

As humours the allegations are over the PM having once gotten head from an expired pig (and if photographic evidence of that somehow crops up, whoever owns the photo is going to be a very rich person), I'm a bit more concerned about the claim from a non-dom that he felt entitled to buy his way into the cabinet.

Corbyn may be a bit to the left from my own political viewpoints, but let's see how he actually performs and acts as Labour leader first before proper judgement of his capabilities can be made. This idea now that with Corbyn in charge that Labour are "...now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security" is something I'd expect from the clown car looney tunes tea-party wings of the US Republican party, not the Tories.

Wouldn't be surprised if MVP went to GFW.

Bosco and glen you both need to grow a set. What a load of pish. He didn't kill him, nor was his life in danger. He was in the good 5% and none of that is on joe.

Yeah, I'm shit scared of internet tough guys all right.

That's not quite what Meltzer said. He actually said that from what he's been told only about five percent of people with that injury survive and almost all of those who do are left quadriplegic. The way I interpreted it was "Kidd is incredibly lucky not to be in a wheelchair" rather than "It's almost certain he'll end up in a wheelchair".

That would make "Joe is going to kill you" chants as eerie as fuck.