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A great list Loss, when was the last time you updated this?

Saw Robbie Dynamite last night vs. Davey Richards, and to be honest I didn't see any evidence of him being a TOP TIER UK guy. To me he was devoid of any charisma and just plodded along in his match; maybe it was an off day?

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Wonderful thread.

What show is this on? I thought Barry Windham vs. Bobby Fulton was from NWA TV 12/3/88. It's on one of Will's Barry comps.

Enjoyed this weeks show with Joey Styles. Never knew how Joey entered the business which is told on this show. Thumbs up!

Who has been known to knock people out with a slap during his bouncer days.

Danny Hodge. The thread starts and ends with him or Meng. Also Billy Robinson had a bit of a rep.

I can't wait for the fathers day pod cast! So many awful fathers in Wrestling!

From the top of my head some famous carry jobs would include: Bret vs. Diesel (Survivor Series 1995) Regal vs Goldberg from Nitro (2/9/1998) Bigelow vs. LT (WrestleMania XI) Those are the first three off the top of my head, I am sure others are going to provide better examples than this.

A modern day journeyman would be someone like Chad Collyer in my opinion, or Joe.E.Legend. Both of them are constantly touring the world, working dates in the Middle East, Europe, Africa as well as the US.

Excellent, will listen to this if I am unable to watch the show this evening. (I will probably listen to it anyway as I really enjoyed your G-1 output).

I jumped in and listened to this show first as I have a soft spot for Starrcade '89, as it was the first NWA/WCW VHS Commercial tape I got as a kid. Great show, really enjoy the in depth analysis. What's great about discovering these pod casts recently is I have a wealth of stuff to come back too that won't age any more.

Listened to the first part of the pod cast and already, thank you for reminding me of the Don Muraco squash with him eating a meatball sub whilst destroying a jobber; good memories.

My current list of pods is all the Observer stuff (apart from Wrestling Weekly), P2B, Good Will, Titans, Wrestling with Past, Wrestling Culture, Big Boys, AOW, Steve Austin, Torch, Angry Mark Radio, Voices Of Wrestling, MLW Radio, Mauro Ranallo, DDP Radio, Wrestling With Depression, Indie Corner, Interesting People Talking Wrestling (PHEW!) Don't get me wrong; I don't listen to all this weekly, just the things that peak my interest.

Does anyone have a copy of the DVDVR best

Nowhere NEAR an early 90's WWE audience. The modern product you hear PLENTY of adults, all of the time. "Cena Sucks..." being the obvious rebuttal to your own suggestion. Apples and pears. The crowd is mic'ed differently now compared to how it was in the early 90's, and also as we know crowd noise has been known to be added post production on some occasions over the years.

I forgot about Rampage, but wasn't that a similar deal as MVK. Valkabious or did he actually sign and make it over to Florida? Regarding Travis, I think he has come into his own over the last couple of years. Highlights for me include his matches with Chris Masters and Kevin Steen. The match with Steen was so fun, especially the flip bump Travis took from a Steen clothesline on the apron. I hope that Martin Stone has a fair crack of the whip, because at the moment in NXT the main Brit who is getting the attention is PAC (and rightly so to be honest) - I just hope WWE doesn't have a limit of how many British guys they have at any one time or something equally as stupid.

GRADO is the best entertainer in British Wrestling in aeons and aeons and I will repeat the sentiments of Alan regarding him. The stuff with Cabana is tremendous. I think, for me, the appeal of GRADO is that, with all great gimmicks he is just extenuating his own personality a notch. Marty Scurll just doesn't do it for me; I find him so unlikeable, to the point if I am at a show he is on I will just go to the bar and chat. He is the only wrestler ever in years and years that has that effect on me. Like Alan touched on, the UK is such a great melting pot of talent and imports at the moment. In the next couple of months alone I will be seeing Ultimo Dragon and Jushin Liger for the first time as well as the likes of Steen, Masters, Bob Holly?!, Johnny Kidd~!, Kharma, Uhaa Nation, D-Lo, Shannon Moore, Davey Richards and the The Pope. Don't get me wrong, I will happily see import free shows; I just love the randomness of the people brought in to work the U.K at the moment. In anyone's opinion, out of the current crop of UK guys who do you think could slot in nicely in NXT with a reasonable chance of being called up and getting a mid-card run on the main roster? For me I'd go with Dave Mastiff and Rampage Brown due to their respective 'looks'.

A different slant on this; does anyone feel they have too much audio content that the like and enjoy to listen to, to digest? I for one love to listen to all types of podcasts from the standard Meltzer output to some of the fine podcasts that a number of you on this board do on a regular basis as well as numerous others. I try and listen to between 1-2 hours or so a day. The advantage of audio over video is of course you can listen to it whilst commuting, working out / running amongst a host of activities which tends to make it more accessible to me on a daily basis than watching things does.

For me CJ Banks has come on leaps and bounds over the last 5 or so years, he is very crisp indeed but to me he is lacking something intangible for me to place him in the top tier of current UK workers. I haven't seen enough Mason and Dynamite stuff to really comment, but I do have to say that Rampage Brown has impressed me physically, he has a good brawling style but again I don't have him in my top tier of workers. Dean Allmark is a glaring omission from my original post, and who I definitely see as a current UK top tier guy. He and Ligero work an insane amount of shows during the summer for Dixon, and just last month Ligero did a TRIPLE shot on show for Dixon in the Blackpool area.

I thought I'd start this thread because I believe there are a host of great workers currently working British Indie scene. Currently, in my opinion some of the best workers plying their trade in the UK are: El Ligero, Martin Stone, Kris Travis, Dave Mastiff, Zack Sabre Jr, Johnny Moss, Martin Kirby, Joey Hayes & Noam Dar. I think the guys listed above are all great workers who can tell a great story in a match and have match quality that is very good. Have any of the non UK posters on this forum been exposed to any of the current British guys work outside of the ones that have been brought in to WWE via NXT or in Zack Sabre Jr's case worked in Japan? My U.K MOTY from 2012 was also the best match I have ever seen live which is El Ligero vs. Akira Tozawa from Preston City Wrestling's Guild Wars card on June 2nd 2012 which I'd rate at ****1/4 and it showcases what a criminally underated talent El Ligero is. (PCW have released this via YouTube if you want to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKyrOCR2i0) I know that another great talent is Jack Gallagher who is working and training over in Japan currently who I didn't at the mention at the beginning of this post, that some of you may interested to keep an eye out for. At the moment I'd say the best talent in the UK is a shade or two below the top tier talent elsewhere in the world, but I still feel that a lot of them are completely under the radar to most people. I am happy to recommend other matches which showcase the rich talent that the UK currently has to offer if anyone is interested.

Great show, really enjoyable especially the Star Ratings vs. Age discussion that raised some interesting points with people like Christian, Rey Jr. etc.