Doctor Whos Next

I suppose this means that there is every chance there might be a live special on the next UK tour. 

 

Return of Insurexion anyone   

Re: WWF in the UK

 

I liked the way Mean Gene name checks Wembley as a possible venue for WMIII in a special report before the event (shown on that Mania Documentary).    Probably bull that it was ever considered of course, but nice that the UK was getting a nod.  

Thing is, this company just seems to survive, even if it doesn't thrive.  

 

Wouldn't surprise me if TNA ends up as a restaurant in Nashville, that shows its archive on big TVs and might put a match or two on over the weekends.  

 

Dixie would then still find a way to put a positive spin on it...

Anyone else going to the Michaels (and JR) night in Manchester?

 

How do PSI normally do their paid photos at these things?  Do they have their own photographer, or do you use your own camera/phone?

So, if I've read his Facebook right: 

 

- The teeth he's had knocked out (and put back in) have gone all nasty and he's had to have them removed. 

 

- Except, the dentist won't let him keep them, so he's going to pull them out himself in order to preserve them as keepsakes. 

 

- The one that went thru his nose at KOTOR has come out, but there is another that he plans to remove with a hammer.  

 

 

So, assuming I've read it right. that leaves four possibilities

 

1) Foley's lying about all of this

2) He actually believes his wrecked teeth are museum worthy

3) He's too tight to pay for the dentist/wants to sell the teeth

4) After seeing his ear chucked away. he's got some sort of aversion to parting with parts of his body when he's separated from it.  Wouldn't surprise me if there is a draw full of toenail clippings in the Foley Christmas Room. 

Shop zone needs a BSK shirt

So that's Taz doing the convention circuit now until the day he dies, as I can't see WWE every dreaming of bringing him back in any capacity. A long shot might be having him down at the performance centre, but I can't even see that happening

 

I can see him coming in as a talking head for WWE Network stuff about ECW or covering his stint in WWE.  

 

He's one of the few surviving ECW crew I can see getting in the Hall of Fame,

Just watched the bit where the Cobra bites Randy Savage. That really is some dark stuff. I reckon it would have been pushing it in the attitude era

I notice the latest update to the iOS app allows you to toggle between full and widescreen

Reminds me of the 1988 (I think) Royal Rumble.  A lad brought his own Megaphone to counter Jimmy Hart.  I just felt like cringing.  As I recall he used it once, Jesse Ventura commented on it, while Vince was less than keen.  Surprise surprise, he didn't have it for the rest of the night. 

 

It is a thin line.  A great crowd makes a show work.   You don't want bored folks in the front row messing on their phones when they're supposed to be reacting to entrances of your best acts (See Action, Total Nonstop) but you don't want lads trying to get themselves over as pseudo parts of the show. ECW has had a lot to answer for with its crowd stuff.  By acknowledging the "gimmick" fans I think it put a lot of ideas in people heads that if you turn up and do something "zany" you'll be seen all over the world. 

 

And as has been said, they got free merch.  Its not like they were dragged to the back and  had a bunch of heels threaten to break their fingers or anything. 

This continues to be a cracking little show in my eyes.   Loving the way that you don't get everybody on every show, so the whole thing has a certain level of freshness every week. 

 

Anyone else reckon that Kevin Owens looks like a younger Father Fintan Stack off of Father Ted? 

I'm trying to watch every PPV in order on the Network.

 

I'm at the halfway point of 1990, and I have to confess I prefer the WWF to WCW/NWA. Obviously the Flair main events were pissing on what the likes of Hogan could do, but overall I found the WWF product easier to watch. It seems like in WCW they get some interesting peices on the board in terms of characters and feuds but before I can blink, the next month, everyhting changes.

I won a poster for the night of champions with CM punk with the WHC belt from SV - I reckon it was a FB caption contest

I saw that Vinny Ru put the interview for free on you tube

 

Watched the first two minutes of the vid... I turned it off after he said how shit NXT was

How successful were UMDs?  What was it like producing the actual physical discs? 

Was there anything that SV ever did that got you into bother with WWF/E? 

Not sure how much Grado figures into the rest of the TNA tapings after this week, but if TNA were smart they would be all over this with taping interviews about this and editing them into next week's show. 

 

 

 

 

The Newsbeat link is third most-read on there at the moment, just below Adam Woodyatt and Foo Fighters, and well above the announcement of the new Alien film.

 

Link to the Buzzfeed article mentioned above: http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardhjames/this-scottish-wrestler-is-begging-madonna-to-let-him-use-lik

 

Lister can fill in gaps here, but he was apparently meant to originally come back in 2001 before WM X7 but was off his tits.

 

Stumbling around backstage, bumping into Chris Jericho applying the Doink make-up (for his surprise attack on Regal), cue Shawn being too smashed to understand it was just for one angle.

 

"So Chris.... they've got you doing the Doink gimmick now?"

"Ah man, you should never have let them make you be Doink!"

"I just don't understand why you have to be Doink....."

 

Cue Vince telling Hunter "Get him the fuck out of here."

 

 

I'd forgotten that story!  

Sam O Joseph

Joe Island

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Jonard Nutt

I've always been a WWF fan since we first got Sky in October 1990.  Despite badgering my Dad, we never subscribed to Sky Sports.  After I starting making my own cash, I found that I couldn't justify the costs of a sports package, just for Wrestling (I don't care for any other sport really). 

 

I used to have a great tape trading thing going with my mate.  I'd tape Thunder and Nitro off TNT, he'd tape Raw and Smackdown off of SS. 

 

A few years later, I started getting every WWE PPVs from Silver Vision, and forked out for Wrestlemania on Box Office as an annual treat.  Up until the Network came out, I'd go round my brothers with a crate of beer, watch PPVs on a Monday night, and go halvsies when they are on Box Office.   

 

As things stand now, catching up with Raw and Smackdown with results. then seeing highlights via Superstars and this Week on WWE is more than enough to keep me caught up for Pay Per Views.  

Did I dream it, or could you buy PPVs on WWE.com at one point before the Network launched?   Was this available in the UK?

Is there a reason why Roddy Piper ripping off Brother Love's Kilt is edited off of the WWE Network showing of WM 5?

I thought his honesty about how difficult it is to write for a three hour Raw was particularly interesting.

Does anyone else get a warm feeling when they hear the ppv music first used on Summerslam 88?

Yeah that was interesting. DDP couldn't excuse the Arquette angle but he did well to explain the decision as to why it happened. He was a bit obsessed with the Karl Malone thing though and was adamant it was not only great, but the best celebrity crossover in wrestling. You could see Jim Ross dying a little bit inside each time he mentioned it.

 

 

To be fair, DDP was saying how great Karl Malone was, and JR and everyone else was responding with "it was bad because Hulk Hogan was selling a Jay Leno wristlock"  which is a bit like saying Police Academy 1 was bad, because Police Academy: Mission to Moscow was so crud.