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I could just about understand Heavy Machinery been there, to say congrats, and Triple H (despite him mostly being a heel when hes on Raw) but Charlotte?! why? she's the biggest heel on the women's side.

well. thats made me want to see a Braun/Drake tag team more than anything in the world.

1 minute ago, air_raid said:

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I know it's cheating a little bit but I'm leaving it there!

Rellik is infact killer spelt backwards

This is so sad. I've not spoke to him for a long time, but I was part of the reason he came into 1PW with the other Scottish lads, and was always a nice guy, easy to deal with and courteous. hell of a talent aswell. awful news.

RIP Lionheart.

43 minutes ago, Pinc said:

I'm not sure you understand my post. And/or what a Strawman argument is. 

I spent a good few minutes wondering what the heck Braun Strowman has to do with this debate til I realised what it said.

I enjoyed Raw this week. less Shane McMahon, Seth Rollins had more of an edge which is a good thing because their babyfaces have been happy smiling, spineless cowards for years it seems like.

Roman was presented well. the Firefly fun house is decent stuff each week - and I'm still finding the 24/7 title stuff pretty funny.

David Brightwell

On 6/14/2019 at 2:34 PM, Chest Rockwell said:

Been watching the latest series of Brooklyn Nine Nine. It has drastically reduced in quality. The writing is much worse, it seems a bit all over the place. They are trying to do a lot of character driven plot stuff that feels out of place, rushed and/or unearned. It still has its moments but overall it's a huge disappointment.

sorry for the DP

I still think it's quite amusing, but there's definitely a bit of Flanderization at play with it now.#

not on a par with earlier seasons but still an easy fairly amusing watch.

On 6/16/2019 at 8:24 PM, PowerButchi said:

I've started watching Ear4ly Doors again. Forgot just how great a sitcom it was. It has the edge over Royle Family for me as regards Craig Cash and Phil Mealey's stuff

this.

it's sensational. one of my favourite sitcoms. so well written.

subtle things you don't catch first time round crop up on every repeat viewing. it's genius.

genuinely bewildering that no body at all is interested in commissioning a third series.

yep, Sausage, Bean and Cheese melt. outstanding.

...I quite like Baron Corbin. his new introduction schtick is quite comical.

8 minutes ago, Louch said:

I get the roster are desperate for this to be a success, but it’s hard to see people as stars when to help with sales they are quite tweeting about how you can get a hotel in Newport for 50 quid a night. 

I must admit, I've seen a couple of NXT UK performers tweeting about how tickets are 'flying out already' and to buy now to avoid missing out.

all I can think is "I'm fairly sure they can't be if you're all tweeting begging folk to buy tickets"

I have no idea what to expect. literally no clue how this match will play out but by god am I intrigued. i can't wait to see it.

there are few things in life I like more than a UKFF thread about having a shit. so I'm reminded of the UKFF every time I go take a dump.

I've got film maker Tony Richardson for Shipley.

other notables nearby are the Yorkshire Ripper for Bingley, Dave Taylor for Queensbury, Zain Malik for Bradford, and Richard Whiteley for Baildon.

I tend to moan about WWE output ever week - but I'd miss it if it wasn't on.

it's not all bad - this weeks had some good bits. Truth lying on the table under the ring was genuinely funny. the firefly funhouse is intriguing. I'm enjoying Brock Lesnar the last few weeks. I know it didn't happen this week, but I'm also pretty fond of the new introduction Baron Corbin gets. I hope they announce him as Saudi Arabia's favourite son. there's a good match or two pretty much every week aswell.

20 minutes ago, Whistling Skull said:

Well, it's not as if the way i shared said views made the piling up a hard thing to do. It's all good, though. I hope no one takes it personally.

@BomberPatThat said, my love for Jimmy Hart does not blind to seeing him cover for a coworker. 

Neither does my love for Ron Simmons blind me to him being a company man, through and through.

Still find the story very very hard to believe.

if you'd just said you find it hard to believe and left it there you wouldn't have got the response you have.

it's calling her a liar, coming to the conclusion she was obviously drunk with no evidence to suggest she'd taken any kind of drink, saying she had had a pop at Maria when she really hadn't, and diagnosing her as having a personality disorder with no evidence to support that that's caused the problem.

I don't know if what Ashley has said is true, I don't know if it's not true. so I aren't commenting either way.

however, what I am definitely not doing is labelling her a liar, saying she was probably drunk, that she has slagged off Maria (although there is nothing in it that can remotely be considered slagging her off) and saying that she has a 'malicious personality disorder'

I never met Ashley Massaro - maybe you did, in which case you might know her better than I but unless you have it's really really disrespectful and pretty disgusting to start saying these things about her when for all any of us know it might be entirely factual.

I completely respect the fact it is just your opinion @Whistling Skull

I reserve the right to think your opinion that Ashley had a malicious personality disorder, was hammered, is lieing about being raped just to get a form of settlement from WWE is abhorrent and I think you're a twat.

its just my opinion so by your logic you can't have a go at me.

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

You came to the conclusion that she was drunk.

You came to the conclusion that she has a "malicious personality disorder".

You came to the conclusion that she would take the time, during an affidavit about her sexual assault and treatment at the hands of WWE, to insult a co-worker for no discernible reason.

You came to the conclusion that Gary Hart attempted to cover up the "fact" that she was drunk.

You came to the conclusion that she wasn't raped, because you didn't like the way she described her own experience.

 

But aside from that, none at all.

Better than I could have put it. thank you.

1 hour ago, Whistling Skull said:

@tiger_rick In her affidavit, she says that the Gary in question was Gary Hart, not Gary Davis. It confused me too, when the reports came out, but I double checked and she only mentions Gary Hart. He was the one that supposedly wrapped her in the quilt and carried her out.

@Hannibal Scorch  The fonts are gonna get all fucked up, but such is life. Here's a summation of some of my reasons.

I am also very friendly and personable by nature so I developed a strong rapport with the many veterans and active service members that I encountered in my work with the WWE.

In my experience, people who describe themselves in this fashion have a malicious personality disorder. Not "I see myself as a.." or "I've been told that I am...", but  just straight up telling the court what kind of person she is, in her own opinion. She seems oblivious as to how that would come across, in court or anywhere else.

While I was initially thrilled to have this opportunity, I began experiencing issues from the outset. At the beginning of the trip, I received harsh treatment from several men in Saudi Arabia, even while wearing a burqa. Maria Kanellis did not receive this type of treatment, so I suspected that it was related to my fair skin and light eyes. This made me very uncomfortable, but I brushed it off and was still looking forward to the tour.

This statement points to the same disorder. It seemed off that a female would say this amout a female co-worker, but i thought it was a stretch to call it an insult. I have discussed this with a female and came to the conclusion that there is a fairly large chance that this was all just put in there as a dig to Maria Kanellis. Conjecture at best, so let's move on.

Then, after we had arrived in Kuwait, I began to suffer from menstrual cramps. I had asked to rest in the Humvee, which was air-conditioned during a break, and the US Army soldiers insisted I was suffering from dehydration, notified Gary, and insisted on taking me to a nearby military base in Kuwait. I was told at the base that I needed an IV for dehydration. I protested but they insisted that I needed it and it was very common due to the hot weather.

Knowing her past, it is a lot more likely to me that she was inhebriated beyond a point she was comfortable with and it was actually her that claimed that she was dehydrated. As you probably know, this is not unprecedented. Gary Hart, having been around this business and it's excesses for a very long time, most probably saw the state she was in and arranged for the hospital stay (probably also claiming her to be dehydrated).

Another couple of hours went by and then a man appeared in the sickbay, dressed in an orange t-shirt and cargo shorts, and I had heard others comment that it was his birthday. He represented himself as a US Army doctor but I observed that all the other doctors at the facility had been wearing scrubs so I do not know whether this was true. He was with a woman who was dressed in full military fatigues. While I was still in the sickbay, he approached me and almost immediately administered an IV of an unknown substance in my other arm. Almost 6 immediately after, the alleged doctor and the woman in fatigues moved me into a room that did not appear to be a treatment room and placed me on a table. The woman guarded the door while the man proceeded to inject me with a drug that caused me to be unable to move my body or to scream. The man then proceeded to violently rape and sodomize me. I was completely helpless to defend myself against this attack as the drug he injected rendered me temporarily paralyzed. Despite being unable to control my movements, I remained fully conscious for every second of the attack. I felt excruciating pain as a result of this man penetrating me by force and against my will, in a violent and aggressive manner, while I was completely defenseless.

Each second that went by was excruciating and I have never felt more helpless or been more terrified in my entire life. The experience was a living nightmare. I don’t know exactly how long this went on for but if felt like an eternity. The suffering I endured far surpassed all the injuries I had ever suffered in the ring put together; I was experiencing not only severe physical pain but severe emotional and psychological trauma. I have always considered myself to be a fighter and survivor so I can’t even find the words to describe what it felt like to be thrown on a table and stripped and then brutalized in the worst possible way that one human being is capable of brutalizing another - all while being unable to move or speak. In addition to the pain and terror, I felt almost dehumanized, and was extremely disturbed by the feeling that I was somehow given to this man as some type of sick birthday present, and it also made me sick that the female soldier willingly guarded the door for him while he raped me without blinking an eye.

This took the cake for me. I have never heard a rape victim describe her assault in such a manner. Mostly because the kind of trauma we're talking is not something you'd compare to anything else. Comparing the pain of sexual assault to the pain of wrestling injuries is insane, to em. It seems to me she just tries to bring the story back aroud to the lawsuit against WWE.

There were also many people in WWE who I am very sure truly cared about Ashley. If this really happened, no matter what bitterness there is between them, I'd assume that Paul London or Matt Hardy would have spoken up. I think Reby Sky's comments on her would have also been a lot different if she believed the story and she's very close to the source. I also have a lot of trouble just assuming that everyone that was in WWE at the time and knows of the story is a liar, a coward and an allround bad person.

It comes down to this: If i'm being (what i consider) a rational adult, I can't take this story as the truth.

I've been lurking on this forum for a number of years so I've read my fair shit of tripe but this is one of the most ridiculous, pie in the sky posts I've ever seen.

not only has Ashley not been raped, she invented it, insulted Maria Kanellis by pointing out she didn't receive harassment (?!) had a 'malicious' personality disorder, and was inebriated! that is a hell of a leap to come to that conclusion.

and then, to end the post, you describe yourself as a 'rational adult' !!

in fairness to NXT-UK - Blackpool takeover was an excellent show. now granted, I don't watch the weekly product either, but I'll tune in for the next Takeover.

I don't know how quickly Blackpool tickets went - but I'd envisage a similar take up for this, despite the NJPW show in London.

Disco Inferno probably gets a gig.

I love ECW but Dreamer, RVD, Sabu and The Sandman standing tall at the end of a TV wrestling show in 2019? terrific.