Snitsky's back acne

1 hour ago, LWOLeN said:

 

You fly from Holland to London, takes you 55 minutes aswell.

 

You actually get back to London about 5 minutes before you leave Amsterdam due to the time difference, brother. 

Yeah I can't bash WWE on this one.

They had an arena full of people who bought tickets and will have wanted to celebrate Bray's life/mourn his loss along with the wrestlers. I have to give them credit for keeping Bray's private issues private too. We were all speculating but none of us knew and that is a credit to everyone involved.

A tough watch at times but I give them a thumbs up for what I am sure has been a tough few days for everyone involved. 

Emi said AEW are coming to Wembley every year...

Honestly do not believe this.

Absolutely crazy. I couldn't stop shaking my head and saying 'Fuck!' when I read this.

36 is no age and the fact he has a young family is just tragic.

I loved cult leader Bray Wyatt. It was so fresh and different. It's crazy to think two of the Wyatt family are now no longer with us 

I thought the Fiend debut was incredible too.

He was clearly a creative guy with a passion for what he did. This is such a shock.

RIP Bray Wyatt.

On 8/21/2023 at 11:57 PM, HarmonicGenerator said:

That was Paul Heyman’s stint of booking it I think. I used to get all the DVDs from his run there - Johnny Jeter as a despicable main event heel, Damien Sandow coming out to ‘Brick House’ with Beth Phoenix and Ariel on his arms, CM Punk and Brent Albright having a cracking series of matches, Ken Doane as the teenage prodigy, Osama Rodriguez Alejandro and Robbie Dawber bringing the backstage comedy along with Dean Visk and his ridiculous OTT promos … it was good stuff. I think I sold those DVDs to Marc from Wrestle Me last year and I hope the quality held up, some great one hour episodes of TV there.

Yeah Heyman's booking stint in OVW was great. It gets slammed by the OVW diehards because it was not the Southern 'rasslin'' they had come to know but, as has been said, Jeter became a brilliant prick heel at this time, Matt Cappotelli (RIP) was the ultimate white-meat baby-face, Ken Doane shone as Heyman's mid-2000's version of the Franchise, the pairing of the over-the-top Mr Kennedy and the serious shooter Daniel Puder was great and Dean Visk's shouty 'roid-rage' gimmick was funny as fuck. Shame that never made WWE TV.

As he usually does, Heyman managed to hide the weaknesses and expose the strengths of the talent that was there at the time.

I have those shows on DVD somewhere. May need to dig them out and give them a watch. 

Just read Meltzer's obituary to Terry and the fact he gave up the NWA title to get back with his wife brought a tear to my eye.

I always think the measure of someone is what people say about them after they die and, just like my idol Rik Mayall, it seems like nobody has a bad word to say about Terry Funk. That, to me, speaks volumes and is the best legacy anyone can ever leave in my opinion. 

25 minutes ago, Statto said:

Terry, politely but firmly, absolutely refused to let that happen until he'd met/signed for everyone. "These folks have come out to see me and I'm damn sure gonna shake every one of their hands".

Proper legend.

Edit: and I always forget to add, no money changing hands here so there was no financial incentive for Terry to not just let it get called off.

Never heard that before. What an awesome guy. We've lost one of the good ones. 

Ric Flair has confirmed Terry Funk has died aged 79.

A true legend Funk was a total one of a kind and truly made you believe what he was doing.

I remember first seeing him on German channel DSF at Halloween Havoc 1994. He was going after people in the crowd and made 12 year old me believe he was legitimately out of his mind. He also got piledriven on a pumpkin. 

RIP to the Funker. 

1 hour ago, Louch said:

Chelsea Green was going through this recently and had to give up her passports during it, wasn’t able to go back to Canada for a family wedding or do Raw there 

Pardon my ignorance on the subject but in order to be considered for residency you can't leave the country, even if you own/rent property there and work there? Is that right? 

18 hours ago, Daddymagic said:

 

- Dan Edler (yes, him) reveals he is behind the payments to people and is seemingly now part of 1PW. Or so he claims. 

1PW really need to dismiss that quickly if it's not true.

If it is.... sheesh...

I'm predicting Zak Knight will be one of the mystery men.
You heard it here first.

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

Vince McMahon hadn't run a wrestling company before WWE, the money mark.

Indeed he hadn't, yet before he bought it he had many years of experience in and around the industry due to his father, and his fathers close friends, running a successful wrestling territory for decades.

Not quite the same thing, in fairness. 

13 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Just a little bit of kind advice for you and this applies not just for posting on wrestling forums but for all life. Regardless of whatever point you're making and whether what you're saying is right or wrong - saying stuff like "treacle, calm your tits" makes you come across as a COMPLETE DICKHEAD and no one will care from that moment onwards what the actual point you're trying to make is.

It was intended to be light hearted but I see it's bothered you so, my apologies. 

14 hours ago, Louch said:

You clearly have no clue what a money mark is, you have just heard someone say it and parroting it. Dearie me this is a bit desperate, mute it is 

He had the same level of experience running a wrestling company as Dixie Carter had prior to her running TNA (i.e none).

I'm sure he's a lovely guy and means well but he, much like Dixie before him, is a clueless money mark. 

As for AEW turning a profit, no, with the expenses for the video game, music rights for certain songs and the inflated contracts they hand out I think there is not a chance in hell they have turned a profit. I'm happy to be proved wrong, however. 

7 hours ago, air_raid said:

My favourite fact about Lacey Evans is how when Lacey Lane (who goes by Lacey in real life) was starting to get regular appearances on NXT, they changed her name from Lacey Lane (which sounds a bit like a pornstar) to avoid confusion with existing Lacey (who doesn't go by Lacey in real life), to Kayden Carter - which sounds even MORE like a pornstar's name, in fairness. Real "Garrison Cade" vibes. "Fuck her, we've already got a Lacey, call her Kayden."

'It could confuse the audience, pal'.

3 hours ago, Louch said:

Calling him a clueless money mark like he’s gonna end up on the street after being carnied out his last dime is just silly 

Never said that, treacle, calm your tits.
Nobody's making Tony destitute out of this but he is a clueless money mark. 

1 hour ago, The King Of Swing said:

Unlike other promotions run by money marks though, AEW has actually been successful.

So I honestly don't give a fuck how much Sniff is paying out.

How are you defining 'success' because if it's 'turning a profit' then that's a big no.
If it's that you and other people like it, well, that's hard to argue - although on that criteria TNA was successful at one point too.

1 hour ago, Vamp said:

Is that really anymore or less true than it was in 2019?

Oh, it's absolutely no less true than it was 2019 but the public narrative has certainly changed from 'These guys really want to make the business better for everyone' to 'These guys are clearly just bilking this clueless billionaire of as much money as they can'. It was ALWAYS the latter, it's just less people were inclined to say/believe it in 2019.

 

30 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Who the fuck wouldn't try and milk their boss for all they can?

Even Randy Orton pretended he was interested in going to AEW to get more money out of Vince.

Not saying it's a bad thing, just saying it's classic pro wrestling. 

Everybody loves the company they work for as long as the massive cheques they are getting still clear. 
 

11 hours ago, RedRooster said:

It’s incredibly stupid. I can’t say I disagree with Punk on this one. 

I tend to agree. I’m wondering if the anti-Punk camp leaked a bunch of stuff on the back of the Hangman comments.

Whatever the case, so much of this strikes me as childish, and not just from Punk’s side.

I think that's the thing - BOTH sides are being incredibly childish, it's just the Bucks, Matt Hardy, etc do it by feeding stories to Meltzer so they can go 'I've never said anything about Punk myself...'. Same with the Britt Baker - Thunder Rosa stuff.

If people think it's just Punk that's the problem they are not seeing the bigger picture.
As with any toxic work environment, it starts at the top. AEW is WCW in the late 90's all over again with overpaid talent who have too much power and don't have to do anything they don't want to do, while management are busy putting themselves over and saying 'There's nothing to see here'

As has been said, Wembley is papering over a lot of cracks. People are starting to open their eyes and see that AEW is just another promotion where the wrestlers are milking the clueless money mark for all they can.

It's a shame.
 

I only just found out that Yota Tsuji has an identical twin. 

That is all.

5 hours ago, RedRooster said:

i think they need a ‘first time’ match of some sort - a dream match

They've got Grado Vs Jarrett, man. 

3 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

WWE don't leave their biggest matches off Wrestlemania so they can save them for Backlash. 

Except Foley Vs Orton. 

1 hour ago, Gay as FOOK said:

Rock/Hogan is better than almost all five star rated matches. Easily. 

Meltzer disagrees. It was too predictable. 

1 hour ago, Supremo said:

He’s the new Kevin Nash. 

Not as sexy though. 

I'm really split over the main event.

I have no issue with death match wrestling. I enjoy it and have been to several death match shows.

It just felt.... excessive and unnecessary.

I suppose it's an unfair comparison but I think back to War Games 92 and how intense it was and just feel like this was 'shock for the sake of shock'.

It felt cheap and made me think 'where can they possibly go from here?'. 

I dunno. I struggle to put thing into words sometimes but I really hated this and felt embarrassed for everyone involved.