Snitsky's back acne

I was thinking about this kind of thing the other day and realised that Sami, Seth and a few others have been with WWE for well over a decade now. Apart from a handful of very notable exceptions, almost nobody used to have unbroken decades plus long runs in WWF/WWE. Seth has been around 15 years now. That's longer than Bret ever was, or Hogan, or Austin. Rock was broken in, wrestled and retired in less than 15 years. They are REALLY long tenures and perhaps that's why it feels like Sami and others are so stale. Everything, and then some, has been done with them. Heel turn? Done. Face turn? Done. Are they demonstrably different from when they first came in all that time ago? Not particularly. I'm not saying they should be released or leave just that they have been around so damn long, doing the same basic thing, thar it's no wonder people are like 'M'eh".

Is he? They never mentioned it.

Not even a shite build. Absolutely no build. Just matches thrown together and a battle royal to get everyone on the show. Iyo v Rhea at least has a reason to happen I guess. Just shoddy stuff all round.

Nash and Cornette finding some common ground.

It comes to something when you have to hide the wrestling magazine in between FHM and Nuts magazines just to avoid dodgy looks. I remember buying the first couple of In Your House tapes because they had 'Bonus matches' on them, which were just the dark matches from the event but IYH 2 had Bret v Jean Pierre Lafitte and Kama v Undertaker in a coffin match. 13 year old me was all over that!

I think Marty wrestled all of the Hart Brothers who wrestled. He worked Smith, Bret, Keith, Ross, Bruce and Owen. Raven/Scott Levy is an interesting one given the amount of places he worked and how long he worked. He has wrestled: Brian Adams Mitsuharu Misawa Austin Idol Jushin Liger Ricky Steamboat William Regal Dave Taylor Kaz Hayashi Larry Zbyszko Owen Hart Doink The Sandman Masahiro Chono Superfly Jimmy Snuka Terry Funk Virgil Villano V Kevin Nash Johnny B Badd Steve Williams Terry Gordy Bill Goldberg Typhoon Haku Low Ki AJ Styles Samoa Joe Mr Anderson Brock Lesnar Alex Shane Tatanka Teamed with Sheamus Mascarita Sagrada Sensational Sherri Mad Man Manson Disco Inferno Doug Williams Norman Smiley Billy Gunn Tajiri Stan Hansen Col DeBeers

Don't all punks end up becoming hideously cringe in their 40s?

How did Mistico v Dean Malenko become a rumour of a match that happened? Apparently Cima v Jamie Noble DID happen, however, so I would like to see that if they can find it.

It would need to be a sad git with a tiny penis so... Seth Rollins?

Agreed. Her storyline could be that she has to marry the first stupidly rich aristocrat she can find or else her whole family will be impoverished forever - and she hates poor people.

As has been said, it's more Punk laying there motionless for ten minutes that made me roll my eyes. Sell. Hold your ribs. Try and crawl out of the debris towards Cena. He can kick you or whatever. Just laying there is bullshit but nobody cares these days so, whatever....

I think I had hip hop beef from my local Chinese the other week. Very nice.

It's sad watching Kerry v Martel from MSG about (not even) a year later. A totally different wrestler.

I've just read the last two pages and am completely confused. Why does this Pusha fellow not like Travis Scott and why should I care? Where is Clipse? I need a lie down.

I'm sure I read that Kerry was being considered, along with Dusty Rhodes, as Vince's "All American Superstar babyface' prior to him getting Hogan. No idea how true it is but Kerry had the looks, the charisma (and I don't mean mic skills he just had a presence to him that screamed 'star') and talent to be that guy if used right (and I am talking early 80s pre-bike crash here). Women absolutely threw themselves at him and he was tough enough for the men to support him too. Plus, as has been said, he seemed like a thoroughly nice bloke. He was also a high level athlete who was denied his Olympic dream, so had a great, built-in "USA! USA!" story that people could get behind at the time as well. In a parallel universe, Kerry could have been a huge star for Vince. Sadly, it was never meant to be.

I always saw it more as Kerry wanting to make a good impression and being motivated due to getting a push. I think it was Bruce Prichard who said that WWF 'knew what they were getting' with Kerry at that time. He was a big time drug addict by this point who, by all accounts, was an absolutely lovely bloke but lived life in a constant pilled up daze. Had he been clean then the sky absolutely could have been the limit for him.

One of a handful of female trailblazers for the UK scene Carole "Rusty Blair" Taylor has passed away. I do not know if she was the first Scottish women's wrestler but she was certainly the only one in the 1970's and 80s and was one of four women to be the first to main event the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1987 after the city lifted its ban on women competing in the city. I believe she is the first/only woman in the Scottish Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. Just 67 years of age. Very sad news. RIP.

Big Van Vader vs Tatsumi Fujinami from Germany in 1991. Notable mainly for the entrance of Vader, in full headgear, on a hydraulic platform. Looks the absolute business.

Isn't he meant to have signed a 10 year deal with AEW a few years ago?

Ricochet with the tweet and delete.

Cool. It wasn't.

Early Bubba Ray Dudley, rocking a mullet.

Why do they use the dubbed music? I'm assuming it's a copyright/ownership thing? His WWF theme was boss and they never use it.

Good job I wasn't comparing the two then.

We shall obviously agree to disagree but to me it's a massive indicator of 'we have three hours to fill, this match with four people will kill twenty minutes'. Plus, it's obvious who is there to take the loss. It's lazy. I don't blame them per se, they have an absolute fuckload of hours to fill, but unless there is a strong build multiple person matches have always been a miss for me. Maybe it's the over reliance on them that puts me off. Shawn Michaels is notorious for it in NXT. I think one recent NXT PLE had nothing but multiple person matches that had been built to by a slew of other multiple person matches on TV. I'm sure Shawn even got asked about it at a press conference or something. Not my thing, dawg.