Happ Hazzard

Severn was the referee.

Arsenal are the Premier League champions after Man City can only draw with Bournemouth.

The famous 5/4/81 Patterson vs Slaughter alley fight, one of the two greatest pre-expansion (W)WWF matches, the other being the Backlund vs Patera Texas Death Match from 5/19/80/

Has anyone read Dan Spivey's book? I'm put off by the fact that it's only 234 pages and not available on kindle. The Dangerous Truth: A Life of Chaos, Consequences and Sobriety: Amazon.co.uk: Spivey, Dan: 9798251972641: Books

Almost 10 years to the day after being crowned Premier League champions, Leicester City are relegated to League 1 (third tier).

Where would WrestleMania in the UK be held? The only huge indoor stadium is in Cardiff and I really don't see WrestleMania being held there. Having it outdoors would be an issue with the British weather in late March/early April, plus it's towards the end of both the football and rugby seasons so the timing is bad.

Italy fail to qualify for their third successive World Cup.

RIP. She was also in the only episode of "Tag Team" with Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura.

The real issue is that you have to be a subscriber to vote and Meltzer has run off so many non-AEW fans.

Apparently Steve Regal (the AWA wrestler, not William Regal) died in July and it's not been reported until now R.I.P.

"The Big Time" 1980 UK TV documentary series where ordinary members of the public get to fulfil their dream of stardom. Here, church-organ playing schoolteacher Keith Rawlinson is trained to become "Rip Rawlinson", British wrestler. Probably more behind the scenes footage of the "world of sport" era UK scene than has ever been seen before or since. I'd heard about this in Simon Garfield's "The Wrestling" book years ago but have never seen it before now. Definitely worth a watch. Recently also discussed on the "Wrestle Me" podcast, also linked below.

They hardly had any singles wrestlers to push. The first couple of PPVs in 1990 had a total of five singles matches in total over both shows, one of which was Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long in a boxing match. The territories had largely gone and WWF had pretty much anyone of note locked up. They could have had Sting feud with either Stan Hansen or Vader but they were full-time in Japan and only working WCW dates between tours. Sting's first title run was dire though, between the Black Scorpion feud and the "Fake Sting" debacle at Halloween Havoc.

I bought Darsow's book on Kindle and have read about a third of it. Most notable story so far is that he got his break into wrestling because he rang Stu Hart looking to get booked, Dean Hart picked up the phone and pretended to be Stu and as a rib, told Darsow to fly to Hawaii because he was booked on a big show there, Barry was told he would later be reimbursed for the plane tickets. Not only was Darsow not really booked on the show but the show itself had been cancelled, but Mark Curtis took pity on Barry and got him booked on some smaller shows in Hawaii, which led to bookings in New Zealand, which led to getting booked in Florida, and his career took off from there.

There's a new Barry Darsow biography out.

https://www.youtube.com//watch?v=I5skFO7ir2A