C.S.

I finished this. See above for my first impressions. Overall, Mosh is an immature dickhead. He was his own worst enemy at times, which he acknowledges in a roundabout way. His mentality seems limited to a simplistic Bob Holly "give us the titles" mindset. He was also naive about Vince McMahon being a ruthless billionaire who never really cared about him, but Vince successfully pulled that Jedi Mind Trick on almost everyone, so I can't fault someone as clearly simpleminded as Mosh for falling for it. Mosh buries Jim Ross in the book, and while J.R. has a reputation as a Grouchy Hateful Vile Human Being on PWO, this made me almost sympathize with him. Imagine dealing with dumb fucks like Mosh 24-7, on top of Vince's bullshit. Mosh's fatphobia continued against his own partner, who got injured and came back "fat and out of shape." The Headbangers lasted a lot longer than I remembered, and I always liked them. This is a good read, but Mosh comes across as an idiotic malcontent in general and someone I'd hate to be stuck in a car with for ten hours. To be fair, I'd say the same about most wrestlers. It sounds awesome! Is this the full run or is more coming? https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/wrestle-heist-tp

I feel like that never really happened on PWO, or it happened before I joined. Is (was?) this forum simply more well moderated?

I found out from a Reddit thread, which I won't link to here, because the comments are...not nice. This is apparently his obit: https://rip.ie/death-notice/trevor-woodhouse-dublin-clondalkin-639725 I just checked rovert's PWO profile, and he hasn't posted here since 2023. I won't pretend I was close with him or anything like that, but I'm sure we had occasional interactions in threads. R.I.P. and my condolences to anyone here who was friendly with rovert.

I still have KU for a little while longer, so I started reading Chaz "Mosh" Warrington's book, Beneath the Skirt. I appreciate that it gets right into his wrestling career. No boring bullshit about his childhood. Some of his ribs are downright infantile, and his toxic fatphobia and open disdain for some of his "toothless" fans in the Southern territories (even when they were paying for his apartment) are massive turnoffs IMO. I get that a large part of this is "wrestling culture" and it was glorified for so long, but...yuck! Chaz seems like kind of an asshole, but the honest truth is, this has always been par for the course with wrestlers and wrestling biographies. It's my tolerance that has changed for the "boys will be boys" arrested development of the wrestling industry at large and the staggering stupidity of these overgrown children who never had to grow up and are still stuck in high school mentally. Road Dogg's recent temper tantrum on Twitter over not being hired by AEW is a perfect example of what I mean. What a dumb, dumb fuck. (Ditto for the Arik Cannon "RUHSPECT DUH BIDNESS" public Twitter tantrum because AJ Styles' son refused to be used as free slave labor by building the ring or setting up chairs, or whatever the fuck it was, when he was brought in and paid to wrestle - nothing else. Hire a professional ring crew or don't run shows, period. I have zero respect for bitter bitch indie lifers like Cannon who run to social media and start crying like little children instead of handling their grievances privately like a fully functioning adult would.)

Vince Russo, is that you, bro?

Oddly worked match, with Trick and Lil' Bitchy cast as the heels and Corbin as the face - even though that's certainly not how the fans perceive them.

"This is a much different Baron Corbin." Seems like the exact same dude to me. 🤷‍♂️

This is already better than Night 1.

Yep, this board really is dead... Guy doesn't watch the show, comments anyway, tells us something we all already know, adds nothing of substance. Thanks, "Duke."

SummerSlam Saturday Undisputed WWE Championship: CM Punk © vs. Cody Rhodes Hell in a Cell: Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar WWE Women’s World Championship: Liv Morgan © vs. IYO SKY Grudge Match: Gunther vs. Nick Aldis Six-Man Tag Team Match: LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, and Royce Keys vs. Jacob Fatu and The Usos Six-Woman Tag Team Match: The Bella Twins and Paige vs. Fatal Influence SummerSlam Sunday WWE World Championship: Roman Reigns © vs. Seth Rollins Ladder Match for the Interim WWE Women’s Championship: Tiffany Stratton vs. Jade Cargill vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Chelsea Green vs. Lash Legend WWE Men’s Intercontinental Championship: Penta © vs. Chad Gable WWE Men’s United States Championship: Trick Williams © vs. Baron Corbin Undisputed WWE Championship #1 Contender’s Match: Sami Zayn vs. Finn Bálor Human Monies on a Pole Match: Danhausen vs. Dominik Mysterio

@Blehschmidt I finished the Wolfie D book. I see what you mean now. The last few chapters are definitely more humble and reflective. A couple of questions: Do you have any idea which Disciples of Synn member he had heat with and refused to name? Google isn't really any help. Do you know if he and Jamie Dundee ever patched things up? Bill Dundee seems like a massive head case, so I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Kid me was surprised to find out Regal's stubby little butler was the same legendary dude I read about in the magazines.

Wolfie definitely acknowledged his fuck-ups, but every match was the best match, every storyline was the best storyline, every territory was popped by PG-13's presence, every veteran was impressed by them, etc. I'm sure there was a lot of cool stuff and it's okay to be proud of your work, but when Barry Darsow is less braggadocios despite having every reason to be, you might want to tone it down a little, Wolfie, ya know? Again, reading the Darsow book right before might be affecting my perception of Wolfie. Either way, this is still a super fun read with tons of crazy stories.

I'm reading this now. I agree it's a lot of fun. However, Wolfie is clearly his own biggest fan, which can become utterly exhausting to read after a while. It reminds me of Vince Russo in a way. Maybe I'm unfairly comparing this to the Barry Darsow book I just finished, but Darsow comes across as much more humble despite being a much bigger star and better wrestler.

No such thing in the TKO era.