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  1. I always enjoyed Blackman. He was the world's best action flick goon. He'd be the assassin hired to take out Jason Statham, and would ambush him in a hotel room and in the first few seconds break all of his fingers. The rest of the fight writes itself.
  2. It doesn't help that he has legit heat with Panera Bread.
  3. ECW One Night Stand 2005, Chris Jericho v Lance Storm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42Kz19iSfs This might be Storm's best match that isn't against Jerry Lynn. It's the show opener and as you'd expect from these two it's mostly technical wrestling. Story is that these two have wrestled each other over so many years that there's no way Storm can outfox Jericho so first he tries being vicious, and then he goes for the outside interference. I'm a sucker for a match built around clever counters, it's the style I grew up with, and this really delivers. There's a genius bit for the fake finish that I've never seen elsewhere. Storm's on his back, Jericho goes for the Lionsault, Storm raises his knees. Jericho's figured out this is going to happen, and is ready to catch Storm's knees in mid-flight, stand up and turn him over into the Walls. No punches or missile dropkicks I'm afraid, but Storm does a standing one where he gets so high that he'd be up above the fourth rope if there was one. It's a hell of a thing.
  4. Biggest draw must surely have been Dara Singh? Add to that his 60 year film career and there's nobody from the subcontinent who was a bigger star. Trouble is there's so little footage of him.
  5. Joe's American, isn't he? Otherwise I'd take that suggestion seriously.
  6. Yeah, Triple H's tastes are pretty niche. Fucking hipster.
  7. Albright had one title match against Morishima that I thought was just terrific. Absolutely in a different class to anything else I've seen from him. Morishima had been falling into a fairly predictable match structure at the time, and the story was the Albright was the one who made him change it. August 2007, I think.
  8. Much as I wanted to see Bryan walk out with the belt, I've got to admit this is a better finish for him. This allows him to stay face and gives him the justification to turn into the psychotic bastard that he can do so well. Fucking heads will get kicked in. It's going to be marvellous.
  9. It's Cooper Black, which would be one of the greatest wrestling names ever. A big rawboned fellow with hands like legs of lamb. Cooper Black would always be up for some good clobbering.http://www.bluecotton.com/visual-history-cooper-black
  10. https://twitter.com/UGeneDinsmore/status/367028547317399552
  11. House of Pain: Evolution 10th August 2013, Britannia Hotel, Coventry What a strange show this was. I thought I was going to some low budget little indie but it had 26 wrestlers spread over 7 matches and lasted a shade under 4 hours. The venue was a city centre hotel which can't have come cheap, and it was advertised as free entry for kids. I'm useless at estimated the size of crowds. 100 maybe? We were a noisy bunch, but that doesn't mean squat at the box office. It's not like all the wrestlers were scrubs either, star attractions were Mark Haskins and Doug Williams. Gotta worry about the financial acumen of anyone involved in this. An early highlights was "Textbook" Dave Breaks. With a picture of a schoolbook on his trunks, "Textbook" (or "Textbox" as the kids behind me were chanting) Dave is a bit of an Achibald Peck figure. Played cowardly technical heel tonight, and was loads of fun. Apparently he's usually face, where his cries of "Textbook, baby!" seem pretty over, and his act is a man charmingly deluded by a unwarranted sense of adequacy. He's a legend in his own mind, and a lower-card guy in the ring. The sense of disconnect is oddly lovable. But if you want lovable, then the night belonged to the phenomenon that is GRADO. The camp, chubby Glaswegian danced his way into the ring to Like a Prayer and the audience went nuts. He had to pause for a breather on the way down the ramp and he sat on my lap, so there's no way I can be impartial about the guy after that. But as underdog fatboy babyfaces go, he's gotta be one of the best around. He taps into the whole end of the pier/music hall side of British wrestling. He won his match against "Loco" Mike Mason (who is a dog - no, really a dog) by getting Mason to chase a ball into a cage at ringside and locking him inside. If you're not a fan of Grado's after watching the ring entrance in the match below, you're dead to me, man. And if you're not a fan after watching the match and how the crowd respond to him you're dead to yourself. Then, after 6 matches of family-friendly wrestling, the ring was stripped down for the main event. In front of a really mixed audience, we were treated to a "no canvas bare boards deathmatch". Wild brawling, staple guns, a giant corkscrew and blood. This was the weirdest experience I've ever had attending a wrestling show. How can you enjoy a spectacle like that when you can see kids getting upset by it? Just a colossal misjudgement. Solid performances from Clint Margera and Jack Jester, but let's just say the superplex through two steel chairs onto tacks on the bare wood wasn't the finish.
  12. Somewhere, Teddy Hart is looking on in envy.
  13. I'll believe it when I see it in the schedules. That press release states viewing figures of 18 million for Daddy vs. Haystacks. If that's accurate, it was a shade under a third of the entire population of the UK. I remember it being a big deal, but not THAT big a deal.
  14. Is that Necro vs Jack Evans from the second(?) Unscripted show? That was all kinds of excellent.
  15. Going to watch the wrestling as a kid, it always seemed suspicious that the shows would end at exactly 10pm.
  16. Team 3D vs. Curry Man and Shark Boy in the one and only Fish Market Street Fight. Hitting people with giant cod IS pro wrestling.
  17. If it helps, I have an awesome new idea for a Randy Orton gimmick.
  18. Let's be realisitic here. I will mostly lurk and post a couple of lines every week or so. It seems to be how I like it.
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