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Thank you, much appreciated,I have a Tabe Vader in UWF compilation from many years ago, which I remember as being awesome, will do some digging! I did think the match length on the Bloodsport fron this weekend (none over 10 min iirc) was interesting. I always know to come here if I want intelligent info!

Regarding Bloodsport, and apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this, I watched it for the first time yesterday and was very impressed by the style. Can anyone signpost me to matched from previous Bloodsport events that are worth watching, or any articles explaining the history and origin of it? Many thanks!

Is Gordy the guy Foley mentioned in his first autobiography, where he said they'd hired an unnamed legend who was totally washed up, and he asked Funk why, and Funk told him that it was just Vince being nice, or something?

That would be awesome, now if only they could be persuaded to start uploading classic content to the network again!

Is the Flair/Backlund match taped anywhere? Just finished the Ric Flair biography and I'm gutted WWE never released a 'Ric Flair Unreleased' blu ray before they stopped making physical media, like they did with Piper, Hogan and Michaels. There's so much out there!

I've always considered myself extremely blessed to have seen so much quality wrestling from all over the world, despite living in the UK. The first show I went to see was WWE, May 2004, at the Birmingham NEC. First match I saw was Edge vs Batista, but the card also had HBK vs Flair on it, which totally stole the show, and the main event was HHH vs Benoit. Later that year, I got to see the first Raw and Smackdown tapings in the UK, which had an amazing crowd for the Regal/Eugene Dusty Finish title switch, and the next night a hardcore match with Hardcore Holly walloping JBL with a cricket bat. Then in 2005, I got to see The Wrestling Channel International Showdown at Coventry, including Misawa wrestling, Joe vs Punk, and Styles vs Daniels in the main event. The sequel to this, Universal Uproar, also at Coventry was in November, and included Cabana vs McGuiness, a rare Foley match as part of an 8 man tag, Low ki vs Homicide, and the main event was Doug Williams and Jun Akiyama vs Go Shiozaki and Kenta Kobashi! In 2006 I saw a couple of the early 1PW shows at Doncaster, No Turning Back, which had Sabu, Abyss, Jeff Jarrett and Masato Tanaka amongst many others on there Also ROH's debut tour of the UK in 2006, the second night, which had Roderick Strong vs Bryan Danielson and an absolute sprint of a match with Sydal and Richards vs the Briscoes, and Danielson wrestled again against SUWA! And in October 2006, an IPW show at Broxbourne with Pac vs El Generico. Then in 2008, we got to see the NOAH UK debut, with Zack Sabre Junior in the dark match, a brilliant KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs Bryan Danielson & Eddie Edwards and main event of Mitsuharu Misawa & Naomichi Marufuji vs Go Shiozaki & Kenta Kobashi. From 2009-11 I managed to get to several of the Dragon Gate UK shows at Broxbourne, which were all immense! Also managed to see El Generico again at a random indy show in 2011 in Wales, and Ultimo Dragon of all people, at a show in Penzance in 2016! When NXT and NXT started touring, it was brilliant to see at the Plymouth Pavilions, The Revival against American Alpha, Asuka vs Nia Jax, and main event was Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura vs Austin Aries and Samoa Joe. In 2019 at the same venue, got to see Kasius Ohno vs Ilia Dragunov which was just epic. And then finally this year, we got to see Shingo vs Will Ospreay and the Jericho run in at Rev Pro at the Copper Box, and All In at Wembley Stadium the next day. Enough said! Looking back at it all, I'm so lucky to have had so many awesome memories and experiences, particularly experiencing them with my Dad when I was younger and now my own boys these days. Couldn't ask for a better selection, although I'd certainly be up for going to see Wrestlemania if they ever bring that over here! Thanks everyone for posting your own memories, it's been good to see them all and spark my own!

This show was absolutely amazing. Having never been to any type of stadium show before, it really was an experience like no other. Have lost my voice now after so much shouting, as has my 11 year old, who has picked up Will Ospreay as his new favorite wrestler over the past couple of weeks. It was brilliant to see Joe-Punk in-person again, 18 years after I last saw them at the Skydome in Coventry. It speaks volumes how far they've come on since then. From where we were, it sounded like the crowd were mostly against Punk, but we were cheering him. Thought the Funk tribute was brilliant, having just watched Funk do the same stick in the main event of No Way Out 1998! The Omega and friends match was solid. Crowd really wanted Omega etc to win and he was over like a God. Ibushi seemed better than his first appearance. Robinson and White are phenomenal live. Callis got incredible heat whenever he appeared on screen. The Stampede match seemed bonkers. Brilliant to see Eddie live. Will be rewatching this show on TV primarily to see how this match came off, as there was so much going on that we couldn't see. FTR - Bucks was just outstanding. I don't think anyone saw FTR retaining and we were jumping out of our seats when they did. Bucks were definite heels from where we were. Didn't get the Queen reference! Women's match was predictable. Don't how it came off on TV but it seemed a very mixed reaction for Saraya. The Sting/Darby match was exactly what I thought it would be. Just amazing to see Sting go at this stage of his career, and I think Jericho needs to call Darby and have a word like he did with Ospreay, the guy's a lunatic out there! My wife is a bigger Metallica fan than a wrestling fan, so loved the Seek and Destroy entrance. Ospreay- Jericho was fantastic. Having seen Ospreay at Rev Pro the night before, it is absolutely crazy what this guy does on a day in day out basis. The Jericho entrance was perfect. Jericho must have ticked off a bucket list item there. Again, we went ballistic when Ospreay won, which was absolutely the right result for the crowd. How was it played on TV, as they had Callis managing Ospreay, so he was presented as a heel? The Acclaimed match was nothing special, but it was brilliant to do the scissoring stuff etc. Almost wish they could have kept the Gunn return for the night itself, rather than having it take place on the previous Dynamite. The main event was perfect. I don't think I've ever seen a match with such a brilliant story running throughout. No one turning just felt right. The double clothesline spot and restart was amazing. Strong played his role to perfection. Who would hsve imagined these three headlining the biggest paid attendance ever just a few years ago??! Already looking forward to next year. Here's a photo, hope my son's language didn't offend anyone. He's autistic and had the time of his life, we agreed 'what happens in Wembley stays in Wembley' He certainly enjoyed joining in with the chants and heckling! https://ibb.co/BGLBdQq

I went to the Rev Pro show last night as a last minute thing with my son. Heck of an event, with Ishii stealing the show, and the Jericho surprise appearance blowing the roof off. Can't wait for today's experience!!!!

I'm going, seats to the side of the entrance, and really looking forward to it. Taking my wife and two sons, and hopefully my Dad, so it's a bit of a family outing. Just for the atmosphere and experience, although I hope they will have a strong card and plenty of merchandise to go along with it.

I thought this show was brilliant, as others have said, the Bullet Club Gold vs FTR was just extraordinary and quite unexpected in terms of the time it was given. Joe/Punk was pretty much what I expected it to be, although I'm hoping the post match stuff will lead to a rematch at Wembley (because I'm going!). As someone who saw Punk/Joe 4 when it took place in 2005, also in the UK, I did think they got the name of the match wrong though. I'd love to see that show reviewed on Segunda Caida, it was a heck of an experience watching it from the second row at the time. The Joe/Punk match is about 1h5min in. https://youtu.be/pd7PIptHLos Edit, and remembering that we got Misawa on that show sent me off down an unrelated rabbit hole to find the 'sequel' to this show, Universal Uproar, from later in 2005, where we got Kobashi, linked below too in case anyone is curious: https://youtu.be/h_pQQeibliA

I got some tickets this morning via their early access sale and with the whole seemingly random seat chooser, and got 5 seats in Sec 142, Row 33. Seemed decent value with full ring view and restricted entrance view - hopefully they will be good. Really looking forward to this!

Hi all, with the rise of AEW and the month long delay of putting Raw and Smackdown on the Network in the UK, I've got massively out of touch with any decent matches on these shows over the past few years. I recently caught AJ Styles vs Rey Mysterio from Raw at the end of January and thought it was a great little match and that's made me think about finding some more to go back through. Looking at the WWE moty thread from last year, they are 90% ppv and Nxt, would anyone mind naming some of the better Raw and Smsckdown matches from the last few years that it would be worth while hunting back through the Network to find? Thanks in advance!

Regarding Last Airbender, being British and watching it with my children at the time, it does have an unfortunate title, which is then used over and over again to make the less mature of us crack up into coughing fits of laughter... 'he is a very talented bender' for example. Seriously, I think this review puts it far better than I ever could: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/12/the-last-airbender

Agreed, what an emotional listen! I guess that put paid as to whether he will ever have a comeback, although with his skills I'm sure he could easily adapt to a no bump low impact style aka Johnny Saint if he so chose. Interesting also to hear that he has another last match out there, against Sami Zayn in 2014. I wonder if that was filmed? Edit - am now watching the UK Superstars match vs Bryan that he mentions and cringing at the German suplex bump he took on his 'neck that was held together by jelly' as he put it!

After watching Bryan Danielson's first match for AEW it's really got me thinking about what a vast and varied body of work he's had going back over 20 years now. I used to have all the ROH DVD's including his stuff right from the beginning of the promotion, matches against Chad Collyer and Donovan Morgan as well as the more highlighted stuff like the first main event with Daniels and Low-KI the 2005-2006 title run which included loads of fun stuff we don't see talked about too much any more - like the match vs Rocky Romero from Steel Cage Warfare or vs SUWA from Anarchy in the UK (which I was at), and right up until he left in 2009 with matches against Morishima, KENTA and new talent like Tyler Black, and I'm gutted a lot of that no longer seems to be readily available. And there's tons of other material as well including his early Japan stuff, visits to England wearing a mask as American Dragon, NOAH, DG-USA, PWG, WXW, Chikara, FIP and Evolve. And that's not even taking into account his WWE stuff. While I don't think they are really the thing now, I would love to see an excellent, in-depth compilation of his career so far, like the sort of dozens of DVD sets we used to get from Goodhelmet for Regal/Finlay etc - I would certainly buy it!