Paid Members Tommy! Posted January 19, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2014 Yeah to be fair, a lot of good has come from Alex Shane too, the ROH tours over here and the Coventry "Superstore" for example probably being the highlights in the mid 2000's. Â Suppose you have to throw a lot of shit at the wall though and the mentalist has thrown his fair share of it. Â Is that the one which was a small room above a games shop? Didn't the NOAH guys gear go missing for the first trip over here and went from the Sky Dome to JJB Sports instead of there for some stuff for the show as they didn't stock anything of any use? Â I popped in once, they had a headbangers T shirt, which some bastard from here bought, and about 3 Million copies of 1PW shoots dvd's. Â I still hold a grudge for the time that we had to pay double for a training session because he was a guest, and he spent the entire session spouting inane mythological shit about how HHH is like Jesus and the Nazis. Didn't learn a fucking thing aside from don't listen to Alex Shane. Â I had the miss fortune of meeting Alex Shane a couple for times, and he had this wonderful double whammy of just never shutting the fuck up and never saying anything of note. Â Anything I watched of him training people was laughable, I felt dirty after the one I opted into. Dirty and cheated. 1 hour, which felt like 5, made up of 55 minutes of talking shit about mythical inner souls and leaning on each other without any explanation as to why. Â And when are we getting that Moss Vs Ryan match you were building on the FWA shows when they were back for a cup of coffee Alex. When? Â God, he's such a massive cunt. Â On a side note I also still have an E-mail from the FWA shop with an attachment some how sent to me from Helen to Tony with a to do list and a list of who had ordered what and how to contact them. The bit that gets me is " fault with online system, blah blah blah lol!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted January 19, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2014 As far as I'm aware, Shane had absolutely nothing to do with the shop in Coventry (Ringside Live, IIRC). Majik ran it. It might have sponsored one or more of the Skydome shows, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Benno Posted January 19, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2014 Wasn't implying he did, was just making light of the earlier poster mixing up "Supershow" with "Superstore". Â Was the Coventry Supershow I was on about being a thing Alex did I have found memories about (although I did win the raffle for a free trip to ROH and went to Joe/Kobashi, so I'm particularly biased here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majik Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 As far as I'm aware, Shane had absolutely nothing to do with the shop in Coventry (Ringside Live, IIRC). Majik ran it. It might have sponsored one or more of the Skydome shows, though. Â I don't think Alex ever step foot in the shop when I was there. I'd invited him to come in a few times and had some good dealings with Mark Sloan, including having a stall at one of the supershows. If memory serves me right we did provide some emergency gear for one of the Noah boys (I may have dreamt this) as we always had quite a bit in stock on rotation. I bloody loved that shop... Â Â Â Â And of course, the EPIC famous Hardcore Bargain Bin. Gimmicks FTW... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Majik that shop looks bloody fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majik Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Majik that shop looks bloody fantastic.  Cheers Ant - it took loads of setting up, and was doing quite tidily until Ikea arrived in Cov and killed the City centre overnight. Gutted  Had a great time on the road with Ringside too - auctioning off random 90s t-shirts to entertain some seriously bored visitors at a wrestling convention at Old Trafford with Gabe Grey was a particular highlight. I think the original Sunny t-shirt I had went for a stupid amount as Sunny was there of course. I also managed to sell a Warrior IC belt in blue I had promised to myself as a reward for being awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Rage Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I loved that shop too. We stood on tables flogging t-shirts and forcing people to take Lita and Chyna t-shirts as "Free Gifts" for the ones they actually wanted. Â On an Alex related note, I drove him and Raven round the country for a day, which was the first time I met either of them properly. One particular highlight was Raven phoning Alex from the front seat, whilst Alex slept in the back, putting on a very dodgy Indian accent and trying to buy Alex's Mum's car, as he'd been banging on about trying to sell it for her. Â Conversation lasted four full minutes before Alex woke up enough to cotton on. Â I also remember him doing a seminar for Kris Sprules somewhere by the sea. That was possibly the funniest moment in wrestling history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 What really pisses me off about stuff like this is that getting Cornette over here is a big, big deal considering his hatred of flying but if it gets fucked up then he's never likely to make the effort again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Majik, where did you get the old WWF shirts from at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted January 20, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2014 Had a great time on the road with Ringside too - auctioning off random 90s t-shirts to entertain some seriously bored visitors at a wrestling convention at Old Trafford with Gabe Grey was a particular highlight. I think the original Sunny t-shirt I had went for a stupid amount as Sunny was there of course. I also managed to sell a Warrior IC belt in blue I had promised to myself as a reward for being awesome  God, I'd complete forgotten about that.  That fat bloke who had loads of WCW taped of DSF was there too, the one who sales autographs which you know are legit because he prints his own certificates on his Lexmark inkjet at home which authenticates it.  Did you sell that on as a going concern and some one else ran it for a while, or have I mixed that up. Like I said, I was really stoked to pop in, and when I did felt a bit deflated. High expectations and all that I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majik Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Majik, where did you get the old WWF shirts from at the time? Â I wish I'd kept the guy's contact details as I'm pretty sure I could still make a killing of it all. He was warehouser in the US and would ship me boxes and boxes of shirts that worked out about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Four Horsemen Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 You had some cracking Japanese figs. I still have the Kenta Kobashi in his orange gear on display in the house. Miss that shop I do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond_dust Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 It might be my poor memory but do those pics of Majiks shop easily look like they could've been taken in ECUK? Looks pretty much the same layout. I know it's hard for shops selling the same stuff to look massively different but it's uncanny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Mayhem Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 If Jim Cornette doesn't have a camera stateside, how the hell did he shoot the promo at the top of the page explaining the project and asking for pledges? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted January 20, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2014 If Jim Cornette doesn't have a camera stateside, how the hell did he shoot the promo at the top of the page explaining the project and asking for pledges? Â Could this all be not completely above board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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