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I nearly bought a Bullet Club one off Jeff Jarrett in Wrexham until he informed me it'd be £25 and I informed him that was going to be money better spent in the pub. Not paying more than £15 for a shirt. He took it well though, as he was drinking bacardi from 10am.

I've almost several Hulk Hogan shirts. I also have a Scott Steiner shirt which is so terrible I can't wear it in public, and I've an nWo shirt too.

Hizee's tizalking Kizarny lizike izzeh prizzoper wizzorker.

Also see "6 year old Butch and Jim Powers as his favourite"

THE NEW HENCHMEN!!!!

Yeah, I think Orig's draw was more his respected place in Welsh speaking culture than abilities as a wrestler, what with him him being a chair of the Urdd and appearing in other S4C programmes quite regularly.

ORIG WILLIAMS, PLAS MADOC LEISURE CENTRE, 93-94 Tournament: Tony St Clair b PN News Tournament: I forget vs Dunno Legend of Doom b Stone Crusher (Skull Murphy) Dynamite Kid b Fit Finlay Tournament final: Tony St Clair b Someone They had a WCW ring. Being an Orig show the ones I've forgotten are likely Drew McDonald (I think. I'm pretty sure it was him) and he was probably against Gary Welsh or Boston Blackie as they were local to the area. The card might be jumbled up too.

John Eales could have been Tenryu.

"Ikkle" Shane Williams as Rey Misterio Jr. Thoughts?

You could argue Lex Luger, but as much as I like Lex Luger I'm not really comfortable comparing the AB's to him.

Budro is certainly up there for the Buzz Sawyer award for services to "Bollocks is he only 30. He's 40 if he's a day!"

Woodward's Lions! The dropping of some of the world's form players (especially Martyn Williams, who was the world's form 7 after McCaw that year) in favour of any man from England he'd shaken hands with since 1999. Iain Balshaw instead of Kevin Morgan? Bringing Neil Back, and Lawrence "Cunt" Dallaglio out of international retirement? Taking such international no-marks as Andy Titterell and Ollie Smith? Yeah, alright then Clive. Along with it just being a whole exercise in corporate management bullshit manouveures. Team building, media relations from Alistair Campbell, commissioning a new anthem and trying to mate the players learn it, going on motivational talks... It' the Lions. Let them get pissed together for a week and let them just play Rugby after that. It should be like playing for the Barbarians. It says a lot for Clive Woodward's mentality on the squad he should pick when after an injury he called up the aged Simon Shaw who I don't think had been capped since the days of Wrexham's Own Dorian West at that point in time (despite a renaissance late in his career). And, of course, taking Wilkinson despite having not playing in 2 years, then breaking up the very successful Jones/Henson 10/12 partnership as there was no way he could have fairly dropped Jones but Lord Knows, Wilko had to play. The Irish were indeed guilty of that during the same period. Their solid back row, and boiler room of O' Connell and O'Callaghan/O'Kelly was perfectly primed for picking up penalties around the contact area, and ROG and before him 89 year old David Humphreys would band them over from everywhere, but there was some real incision in the backline with Dempsey, Hickie, Horgan, BOD, D'Arcy. I mean, as predictable as they were, there was never a Mike Tindall standing in the midfield like a fat electric charge, sucking rugby away from anywhere near him (unfortunately for Robinson and Lewsey.)

On those lines, the strategy the British Lions invented in 1974 to counter the South Africans being dirty bastards was called the "99 Call". So when one of the dirty attacked you off the ball you'd shout "99" and all of your teammates would knock fuck out of the closest South African, leading to the wonderful sight of Respected Surgeon, World-class Tennis Player, wearer of the world's greatest sideburns, and hardnut who'd stitch himself up without anaesthetic JPR Williams running the whole length of the pitch to fill in a South African. He's number 15 in the red. The one taking on 5 people on his own towards the end of the video. In a fight between JPR and Meng, I probably would have to take JPR. He's just fucking hard.

Has wrestling ever produced a face off or stare down that creates as much anticipation or sends shivers down the spine and a tingle in the cock quite like this one? Wales vs New Zealand, Cardiff 2008.

Especially for Brian O'Driscoll's teary eyed and balled fist impression of Dennis Stamp. "BUT I'M NOT IN THE TEAM! JONATHAN DAVIES IS GOOD, BUT I'VE BEEN PLAYING AND BEEN UP MY OWN ARSE FOR YEARS AND I WOULD HAVE TWICE THE CENTRE PARTNERSHIP WITH JAMIE ROBERTS THAT HE HAS. I'M NOT IN THE TEAM! I'M NOT PICKED!"

Alain Rolland is Earl Hebner. Steve Walsh was also Earl Hebner, but more the attention seeking than the screwjob element. I honestly believe whoever wins our group will at the very least reach the final. So I think we'll make the final, the All Blacks will beat us, and then they'll steal our coach for their 3rd consecutive time. The majority of my English friends have the same views as you on the England team, and will follow Wales in Rugby but not any other sport (except for the recent jumping of the Gareth Bale bandwagon). They're just so pragmatic. And having arseholes like Will Carling, Austin Healey, Matt Dawson, Lawrence Dallagio, Clive Woodward and Brian Moore in the setup over the years just rubs salt into the wound. Just amazing how unlikable they are. I blame the way they played to win the 2003 WC.

New Zealand - A dominant promotion which has scoured the smaller territories for their finest talent and signing them onto high paying contracts, and is a monolith which is the clear #1 in the Wrestling world, and is a brand respected worldwide. Wales - The Barry Windham of Rugby. Size, grace, technique, and almost orgasmic to watch. Fluid movements, masses of which is arguably the greatest natural talent in the biz, but never reaches the top spot due to circumstance. Some in their control, some not. (Also have the nicest shirts, best National Anthem, best stadium, best sideburns in the 70s, and who real men like) England - Ron and Don Harris. Boring to watch one-paced lumpers, who since the start of the 90s have somehow consistently found themselves in prominent positions to the chagrin of the viewing public. Dull as dishwater to watch, show no flair, grace, or inspiration. Australia - Dolph Ziggler. They're quick, can do the spectacular, are always towards the top, but in the cold light of day, they aren't really that good. South Africa - Dirty bastards. So, anyone else watching? Watching Wales finally bring it on home?

@NWalesGigolo It's mainly drunken meandering and moaning.

This was absolutely superb, I was dreading it when I saw it was 4 hours, but it passed in no time at all. A real fountain of information.

I think Paul Orndorff was the Manager, and Sarge the Head Trainer with help from people like Pez Whatley, Mike Winner, and for some godforsaken reason, Ron Reis if wiki is to be believed.

And weren't able to work because Sarge was too busy making sure they could do a thousand squats to actually teach the Power Plant guys some, you know, wrestling.

I suppose Reslo finishing in 95 leaves a massive gap for wrestling where we won't be able to know now how good things were atb the time due to lack of footage. That's a bugger. I mean by '99 Orig Williams was doing "WWF Tribute Shows" instead of the Reslo type stuff. Boston Blackie was The Rock. It was dire.

Sgt Buddy Lee Parker probably chased of a load of people with potential.

Are the towels signed or at least monogrammed like Ron Garvin's or anything?

I love nights like that. Me and Paul London went drinking one night, and he was holding court in front of about 10 people in a pub car park at one point telling hilarious road stories. Hilarious night.