Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 6 hours ago, David Mantell said: P.S. 107 million is out of the entire planet, population 7 billion if I recall correctly. You didn't answer the question though Dutch. You were comparing ITV viewing figures in the late 80s to today's viewing figures like they have relevance. They don’t. So I was asking you to compare ITVs YouTube numbers to today's WWE. They have the same relevance as like you I'm not comparing like for like to make my point. I've seen a few of the people you have put up videos of live myself over the many years of watching live British wrestling. Holding up.the likes of Tony Spitfire as a paragon of the British scene will get you nowhere, he has been dogshit every time I've seen him. Also like so much of this narrative you have created for yourself about British wrestling you don't recall correctly. There are over 8 billion people on the entire planet. That extra billion though hate British wrestling because they've never heard of Alan Kilby.
David Mantell Posted March 19, 2025 Author Posted March 19, 2025 15 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Holding up.the likes of Tony Spitfire as a paragon of the British scene will get you nowhere, he has been dogshit every time I've seen him. This bout is BRILLIANT. Kent Walton would have loved it.
David Mantell Posted March 19, 2025 Author Posted March 19, 2025 (edited) 2 hours ago, davertfnewman said: You're going to get a reply back saying News was only in his thirties, so DEFINITELY not old(!). and didn't wear "swimming trunks" (in the Shane-intended sense) and was an American who main evented dates of an American promotion touring here and who spent most of his career wrestling for the most American-friendly promotion in Europe before the New Schoolies turned up - so what does that say about American Wrestling? .... Edited March 19, 2025 by David Mantell
David Mantell Posted March 19, 2025 Author Posted March 19, 2025 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: There are over 8 billion people on the entire planet. Well that's an even smaller proportion subscribed to WWE's official YouTube. 0.013375% of the World, 0.03962%of the World's 2.7billion YouTube users. (versus about 5% of the UK population .tuning in each week in 1988) Edited March 19, 2025 by David Mantell
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 Jesus christ, learn to multi-quote.
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 10 minutes ago, David Mantell said: Well that's an even smaller proportion subscribed to WWE's official YouTube. 0.013375% of the World, 0.03962%of the World's 2.7billion YouTube users. (versus about 5% of the UK population .tuning in each week in 1988) You still haven't answered the question. What was WoS YouTube subscription in 1987? 25 minutes ago, David Mantell said: This bout is BRILLIANT. Kent Walton would have loved it. It's not. Tony Spitfire is shit.
David Mantell Posted March 19, 2025 Author Posted March 19, 2025 1 minute ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: You still haven't answered the question. What was WoS YouTube subscription in 1987? The same as the WWF's YouTube channel that year. Or TV viewing figures for Hack-Gotch in 1908 3 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: It's not. Tony Spitfire is shit. It's Brilliant. Watch it.
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 4 minutes ago, David Mantell said: The same as the WWF's YouTube channel that year. Or TV viewing figures for Hack-Gotch in 1908 It's Brilliant. Watch it. But you are comparing WoS viewing figures to today's WWE viewing figures to try and make the claim that WoS had better figures. You are talking out of your arse. I've watched that match. Dean is a very good wrestler, Shitfire isn't. I've seen them both lots of times over the years and Shitfire has always been rubbish and Dean has always been a good wrestler.
David Mantell Posted March 19, 2025 Author Posted March 19, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: But you are comparing WoS viewing figures to today's WWE viewing figures to try and make the claim that WoS had better figures. You are talking out of your arse. Not just better figures exponentially but proportionately too. Even WWF's big exalted one-off peak was getting matched regularly as a market share by Britain just a few years earlier. Wrestling's overall popularity in Britain during the early 90s boom was starting from a far greater existing high than in America during the mid 80s boom and the situation in 1988 Britain wipes the floor with the situation for WWE and ÀEW in modern America. 1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: But you are comparing WoS viewing figures to today's WWE viewing figures to try and make the claim that WoS had better figures. You are talking out of your arse. I've watched that match. Dean is a very good wrestler, Shitfire isn't. I've seen them both lots of times over the years and Shitfire has always been rubbish and Dean has always been a good wrestler. They both produce a fantastic clean technical bout there. They BOTH come up with some splendid counters and reversals. I use that bout regularly as a shining example to show people that Trad Brit wrestling lives on in the C21st Edited March 19, 2025 by David Mantell
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 Keep drinking the Kool Aid sunshine.
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 Remember when Rick Rude beat Frankie Lancaster with a face first suplex instead of the Rude Awakening, and it aired on WCW Worldwide on ITV on a Saturday?
davertfnewman Posted March 19, 2025 Posted March 19, 2025 (edited) It was that or have your opponent fuck up going up for a backbreaker and turn it into a Colonel DeBeers pancake piledriver. Tony Spitfire wouldn't have fucked that up! Edited March 19, 2025 by davertfnewman
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 On 11/3/2023 at 7:46 AM, EJ86 said: Also why do Allstar still use Tony Spitfire he lost them Butlins for Rasict behaviour and I've been told he lost them Haven Holiday Camps because he put something up his backside an was caught doing it. That would be this Tony Spitfire would it? Sounds like he would get them thrown off TV for been a racist.
theringmaster Posted March 19, 2025 Posted March 19, 2025 It always fascinates me how often Tony Spitfire gets mentioned on this forum. Never in a positive light.
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 19, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 19, 2025 8 minutes ago, theringmaster said: It always fascinates me how often Tony Spitfire gets mentioned on this forum. Never in a positive light. He's the one Spitfire that Grim Peter wouldn't proclaim his death a tragedy.
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