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  1. Shane McMahon vs Undertaker Hell in a Cell for control of the company. Seriously. Control of RAW, more specifically. Perhaps Shane is just looking for 3 hours of TV a week to run all those movies his Chinese distribution company bought the rights to?
  2. Lee

    WWE Fastlane

    Same as Grimmas, I had literally no idea this was tonight, which I'd say is a sign of how much attention I've been paying to WWE lately, but I know the entire card off by hand. Maybe they just don't drill the dates home hard enough? Perhaps only following it through podcasts and YouTube clips because 3 hours is mind numbing has an effect? Perhaps the FA Cup games not being on Sky had something to do with me not seeing a single commercial this weekend? Or maybe WWE just isn't that interesting to me right now. I think it'll be a sleeper show based on the line-up, one of those shows where there's little anticipation going in because it's entirely predictable, and no doubt people will moan about it tomorrow when LOL Reigns wins, but I imagine it'll be good matches top to bottom. Even that six-man, as long as Luke Harper works most of it and it's just big dudes clobbering each other without reaching double digits, should be watchable.
  3. I used to think he was one of the coolest wrestlers in the world in the 90s, then I remember when he got all worked up because some online fans had the nerve to suggest a (really average) match he'd had on PPV wasn't a four-star classic. Ever since then I've noticed an increasing tendency from him to come across as incredible insecure about who he is and what he does, and seems to respond to (what I've always found to be) perfectly valid criticisms by spitting his dummy out and whining about it because he's Chris Jericho and Chris Jericho can literally not put a single foot wrong in the world, and how DARE anyone say otherwise. It's a shame because I still enjoy watching him wrestle, loved his first book, and I like his podcast when he's got interesting guests on, but I can't stand to listen to it when he's on by himself or reading his plugs, and I had to unfollow him on Twitter because of how smug, self-absorbed and self-important he comes across as. Also, for a guy in his 40s, I find his bragging about what a fun, sloppy drunk he is incredibly immature, where I'm sure he thinks it's endearing.
  4. I think it might have been public access or something like that? Unless they were just taping stuff for the sake of it. (EDIT: Having had a look around online, the footage seems to have been produced as a demo/pilot to try and get TV). There's a couple of "Best of 1992" compilations out there (some used to be on YouTube but vanished years ago) with Dick Graham and Stately Wayne Manor as commentators (Bob Smith from PWI replaced Graham after a while). I presume it was TV since guys like Jim Neidhart are there cutting promos to camera and they had on-screen graphics. It's from the sports bar era, and I think there was also an unaired pilot shot in 1993 that I've never seen, prior to the April '93 Sportschannel debut.
  5. I've seen a couple of people moan about those shows not being in separate categories but I actually prefer it the way they've got it now. With the purple/yellow graphics, the episodes are easily distinguishable, and I'd rather the convenience of them being laid out chronologically than having to flitter back and forth between two categories and find the spot I was up to. That being said, I couldn't help but notice the airdates for some of the episodes starting in 1998 are all over the place, particularly with regards to some of the missing episodes, and I wonder if this is why they've not been uploaded yet? Some dates jump around wildly as far as what day they're on, and there are sometimes gaps much longer than 7 days where there should only be a single episode missing. Also, I hope when they get done with the current uploads, they go back and finish 93-95. I also wonder if they've got any of the '92 TV, and if we'll ever see that?
  6. Daniels did ECW shots as well.
  7. While climbing the stairs last week, my gran suddenly buckled upon suffering an agonising, debilitating pain in her knee that left her unable to climb the stairs without assistance, only able to make use of one of her legs. A couple of minutes later, she was walking around on the flat surface of the landing/bedroom floors as if nothing had happened, and, at almost 80-years old, even stood in the crane position with her bad knee to demonstrate that she was fine. Then she was unable to bend her knee again when heading back downstairs, but was again fine once she reached the living room. Although this incident 100% genuinely happened, my years of exposure to the art of professional wrestling left me utterly sickened to my stomach that the old bad couldn't be arsed to sell her leg. It's as if she had absolutely no regard for such conventions being the be-all and end-all of legitimate injuries, that somehow she instead chose to acquiesce to the notion that you can hurt a body part one moment but find it perfectly workable the next, and clearly that just won't do! It was easily the worst performance I've ever seen from an octogenarian caught in such circumstances, and I've seen some truly five-star classics in my time. I really liked the four-way, Shibata and Tanahashi matches.
  8. Lee

    The Warlord

    Also, let's not forget the story that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall both tell about Warlord asking Shawn Michaels to inject steroids into his arse, only for Shawn to squeeze with all his might, not to be able to do it and conclude "Dude... I think you're full."
  9. Lee

    The Warlord

    My favourite bit of Warlord trivia is that time I noticed his PPV run with Davey Boy Smith - If you include Royal Rumbles where they didn't necessarily interact but were both officially part of the match, they were on opposite sides of the ring at Royal Rumble '91, Mania VII, SummerSlam '91, Survivor Series '91, This Tuesday in Texas and Royal Rumble '92, and in fact, were also on the same team at Survivor Series '88 - the last PPV Smith was in the WWF for until Rumble '91. That's a run not even John Cena and Randy Orton can match. Or anyone in PPV history, for that matter.
  10. I've watched the majority of Savage's career for a History of Wrestling book project, and while we agreed that Savage was one of our all-time favourites and probably as good as anybody when he was on, he's also overrated in the sense that most of the praise he gets comes from people having seen all of his great, legendary matches and moments and him being a standout personality. On the flipside, if you watch him from match to match to match (and I'm sure this is true of mostly everyone), he's incredibly repetitive, and spends a lot of time stalling and farting about at ringside, something he doesn't do so much in those more famous bouts. Then there's the period after his retirement/divorce where again, he has great matches on the big shows, but just goes through the motions the rest of the time in really uninspired fashion, until he reaches WCW and goes into a shocking decline after the Flair run (save from the DDP series). One of the things we also found was that he'd come up against someone and you'd think "Oh, this'll be good", whether it was DiBiase, Santana or Steamboat, and it never reached our own perhaps lofty expectations, but contrary to that, we all found the Hogan matches from their first run to be really good when we were expecting something more like the usual Hogan routine. As far as those other three feuds go, the Steamboat matches are consistently the best, then Santana, then DiBiase. The Honky Ton Man run is pretty average. All of them follow the same basic "three match" booking formula of count outs and DQs building up eventual blowoffs, so comparing them is pretty easy. -- As far as a Warrior vs. DiBiase debate, I'd agree that Warrior has more classic matches than DiBiase does as far as their WWF runs go, but DiBiase also gave you a good, solid match most of the time, while Warrior was rotten for long periods (Hercules feud, Andre feud, Undertaker feud).
  11. Robert Llewellyn did it several years ago with Car Pool, and it worked really well as a weekly short-form video podcast, but didn't really translate when UKTV gave him an over-the-air deal. He was also interviewing his passengers in an informed, anecdotal manner, this has the Bella Twins going on a road trip, so fuck that.
  12. I mean, I know we all already know this, but you search the WWE Network for Nick Bockwinkel and you get precisely one match, and it's from WCW, and well past his prime. Brilliant.
  13. Are there enough top babyfaces to justify an Ambrose turn at this point? I think they'd be better off going with Del Rio as the closest thing to an established top level heel they've still got, or elevating Kevin Owens if Vince can get over his anti-fat stance. You could easily go with Del Rio for a couple of months, put the title back on Lesnar at the Rumble and go with a Lesnar-Reigns rematch at Mania, with the promise that Rollins won't be around to cash in this time. You could even have Sheamus cash-in that night and have Reigns beat him to really solidify things.
  14. I kind of think it's a bad idea to give Reigns the belt because with all those other guys gone, he's basically only winning it because all of his obstacles have vanished rather than "earning" it. Better to put it on someone else, let him win it later, and then do the "unfinished business" stuff I think.
  15. If there's a complaint, it's that I could have lived without the constant "whoosh" effect every time they cut to and from a clip.
  16. Meanwhile, there was a period around 2007 where he was doing Batista's ring entrance, complete with machine gun pose but entirely lacking in pyrotechnic explosions.
  17. I once talked to someone who claimed to have a copy of an episode (the talk show version, not a PPV broadcast), but wouldn't send me it (or make me a copy) to digitise. He could have been full of shit, but if he wasn't then my presumption would be that the standard episodes would have more chance of being circulated by collectors (I'm amazed the one where Randy Savage shoots on Hulk Hogan isn't out there, but I've seen a transcript of it), since PPVs would require a couple of cassettes each. I've always wanted WWE to put them up as alternative commentary tracks on PPV DVDs or the Network (along with dark matches), but imagine it's about the lowest priority they've got.
  18. I kind of feel like we're at a point where message board guys who should know being outraged and/or ambivalent to the PWI 500 being archaic and outmoded is almost as archaic and outmoded as the PWI 500. It's a fake list, get over it. There's better things to worry about in life.
  19. Why is nobody mentioning the unintentional hilarity pushed by the original tweet sent to Dana? The one about how Vince is winning because he only charges $9.99 for his shows instead of $60? Hell, if the goal is to make the least amount of money possible, TNA pisses all over WWE.
  20. It's all showbiz pizazz.
  21. I know that the author probably thought he was a genius for his awful hacky Titanic reference as the title. I'm picturing him sitting back and going " Yeah....that's it." 😆 You know wrongly then, because he didn't come up with it... although he did sign off on it, obviously. There's a sequel coming up covering 1996 that is as yet untitled, so if you have any ideas on a title I'd be glad to pass them along. Obviously they'll all be really first-rate, top drawer suggestions that you'll be able to judge the whole book by! Sounds interesting. I just added it. James Dixon has about twenty other books, so I assumed he was a hack pushing out quick cash grabs. I may be wrong on that (or I may be right). I know nothing about the author, to be honest. As John noted, Titan Sinking (and All or Nothing) is/are completely different to all the other books with his name to them, which are reviews of Coliseum Videos and Raw seasons from a small (three-man) team. They have a tendency to get a bit smarky at times (I know James wants to rewrite two or three of the earlier ones), but the Coliseum ones are, at my own insistence, particularly comprehensive. That's partly why there's five volumes to that series, since there's so much to cover (as in, literally every official WWF VHS release ever), and as they also get published as actual physical books, there was no way to fit it all into one volume.
  22. Having the World champion also hold the TV title seems like a solid excuse to vacate the TV belt and run a tournament for it, what with them having this new run on Destination America and all.
  23. I think you're making a flawed argument here because whether you liked something or not doesn't necessarily make it "better". I could tell you that I liked Plan 9 From Outer Space more than Citizen Kane and you could probably see where I was coming from even if you didn't agree with me, given that it's a matter of taste, but you'd probably still think I was an idiot if I gave Plan 9 a higher rating. I know Kane is better. You know Kane is better. I know why it's regarded as a groundbreaking masterpiece. Doesn't mean I don't get a bigger personal kick out of Ed Wood and his nonsense.
  24. I think calling it "lazy" when they had four days to get it done after hearing the news of their colleague dying late into a week with a PPV plus Tough Enough work to worry about on top of the usual multiple hours of live TV is more bothersome.
  25. Lee

    Current NXT Roster

    Based off TV this week, I thought Ryder looked a lot more suited to NXT than he did to the main roster. Conversely to that, based on the Prime Time Players and on his last run with Sami Zayn, Titus is way more equipped to be a main roster guy and just doesn't suit NXT at all, especially not with the influx of quality Japanese/indy workers.
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