Decent card. There’s lots I like and bits I’d pass on.

I’m not sure a UK show is the setting for the end of the Reigns reign. Or that Drew is the man to do it.

I got the impression Lashley/Ciampa will be a TV rivalry.

Not down for Ziggler and Styles as a team. I don’t know what you go with Ziggler at this point but not this. Wasn’t Ziggler doing something with Theory??

Is Ziggy a face again?

Yeah.

Lashley vs Ciampa is planned for Raw next week. Nothing to say they can’t run it again at the UK show though.

He was doing something with Theory. An earlier “draft” I had in my head saw him facing Ziggler or defending the briefcase in a bonus MITB, but I’m happy to put that on ice and move forward with Styles & Ziggler for a short run.

I thought the same about Lashley/Ciampa. Didn’t know it was going to be on PPV next week. I like Lashley’s streak at stadium shows though. Wouldn’t mind this being elongated somehow.

Agree with Drew. I’m not there. I’m just not sure they can beat him in the UK. Well, I guess there’s always a way. But it would feel like modern WWE where very little matters if we’re just asked to accept this loser. But I wouldn’t put it past them.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Triple H speaking straight facts ������ <a href="https://t.co/6yfIqCuSyT">pic.twitter.com/6yfIqCuSyT</a></p>&mdash; Wrestle Features (@WrestleFeatures) <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestleFeatures/status/1554549448109326339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Imagine if Stephanie hadn’t married a wrestling fan.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">hansen knocks dusty out cold as hes trying to get back into the ring <a href="https://t.co/wtlbdcC0lh">pic.twitter.com/wtlbdcC0lh</a></p>&mdash; crash and burn holly (@gifapalooza) <a href="https://twitter.com/gifapalooza/status/1554628190231994369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I take your Hansen, and raise you Sags.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Left the sound on for this one - Jerry Sags absolutely annihilates this poor dude. <a href="https://t.co/fqHzeTZYii">pic.twitter.com/fqHzeTZYii</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1554513502110375936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Oof

Been using the big budget movie comparison for a while.

Triple H tapping my conversations confirmed.

Dale, you don't raise a Stan Hansen lariat with anything but another Stan Hansen lariat.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I live for stories like this with wrestlers....<br><br>A bad night at a gas station with Iron Sheik in Watertown, New York in 1985 <a href="https://t.co/U50xQBXFYj">pic.twitter.com/U50xQBXFYj</a></p>&mdash; Kris Zellner (@KrisZellner) <a href="https://twitter.com/KrisZellner/status/1554649923357970432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Cactus bumping like a maniac for Jumbo

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Even in the post UWF/FMW world, Cactus Jack began turning the heads of fans and media, alike, with his shocking brand of brutality during his 1991 tour of Japan with AJPW, which was already considered by many to be the hardest hitting traditional wrestling company in the world. <a href="https://t.co/BI72cFLOGe">pic.twitter.com/BI72cFLOGe</a></p>&mdash; Vintage Puroresu プロレス (@vintagepuro) <a href="https://twitter.com/vintagepuro/status/1554651131166474240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Apparently a fed called "Fantasy Super Cosplay Wrestling" exists

<iframe width="1620" height="1080" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoUr3f_QsRg" title="FSCW Wrestlers do the Peacemaker Dance" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I’ve been journeying through ’95 WWF lately, following by month and day (i.e., Friday is August 5, so that’s when I’ll watch it the 8/5/95 episode of Superstars , etc.), as I really haven’t ever watched the majority of it. I do hope they add the November and December episodes of Superstars before I get to where I would be watching those, though, as I’d like as complete a “snapshot”, so to speak of 1995 WWF as possible.

Stan's my favourite but Sags fucked that guy up.

I’ve been meaning to do something like this. Would probably give me more of a kick than the modern stuff. My current viewing habits are eclectic though. It might benefit me to order them a bit.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Running back my 107 second Manami Toyota Highlight Reel. Arguably the BEST WRESTLER EVER - AJW (1993-2002) <a href="https://t.co/J6weWV3OH8">pic.twitter.com/J6weWV3OH8</a></p>&mdash; Dark Puroresu Flowsion (@PuroresuFlow) <a href="https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow/status/1554576452150038529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

There's a bunch of Nov and Dec full episodes on YouTube.

Was just about to post this, in there is Kaleb Konley, Kris Statlander and Leva Bates.

1984 AWA still put on amazing cards despite Hogan leaving.

Damn what was Regal like 15 at the time?

That is not good -- I wonder if it gives NBCUniversal more or less motive to potentially just buy WWE one day


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Peacock added no paid subscribers in Q2 and lost 1 million monthly active accounts on the free tier. There's help — and options — on the horizon: <a href="https://t.co/q7HTWtymo9">https://t.co/q7HTWtymo9</a> <a href="https://t.co/sFH71cjcfY">pic.twitter.com/sFH71cjcfY</a></p>&mdash; IndieWire (@IndieWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1552858957441425409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

*french kiss*

Different Regal. This was Mr. Electricity Steve Regal lol

Funny thing is William Regal really did start training and wrestling in the UK when he was only 15, but was still working under his real name (Darren Matthews)

Didn't take on the Steve Regal name until he'd come to the US in the early 90s, and the other Regal had retired.

Yeah, but I’d rather not have to rely on YT.

Would the spoil what they have with Roman just to send the UK fans home happy? Ultimately they’ll still be the #2 promotion in the UK.

I don’t know if they’d consider it spoiling.

Oooo does this include the wrestling shows?

No problem. It's pretty reliable nowadays. I'm not seeing accounts get zapped like they used to

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WCW did their first German TV special in Oberhausen in 1997, sending a crew of stars.<br><br>They did not send the correct nWo entrance song. It was the instrumental without Neal Pruitt’s “new-new-new world order” soundbytes. <br><br>So, someone backstage improvised to hilarious results. <a href="https://t.co/xJZdzmJO2R">pic.twitter.com/xJZdzmJO2R</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1555238483580559367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New favorite wrestler. <a href="https://t.co/7nJaOr5vZ8">pic.twitter.com/7nJaOr5vZ8</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1555339244952059904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some glorious French Catch clips from 1968 with Michel Saulnier vs my fave, Le Petit Prince. Mind-blowing stuff - decades ahead of its time. <a href="https://t.co/NbtfbFZkJI">pic.twitter.com/NbtfbFZkJI</a></p>&mdash; Rob Naylor (@NINaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/1554946482805030915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

One of WWEs top NIL prospects, A.J. Ferrari, a rassler from Oklahoma State University, has been removed from the school and charged with sexual battery.

Fun stuff. So much for guys today “evolving” it, huh? And these guys at least made it seem like they were actually trying to do stuff to each other.

I remember him standing out on the collage of all their NIL signings. Unfortunately, that’s going to be the downside to giving untested young athletes publicity — some are bound to turn out to be total dickheads.

Random thought: If the WWE had of never done the roster split in 2002, we could have had a tag team division of Angle & Benoit, Edge & Rey, Los Guerreros, Booker & Goldust and Vitamin C. I could have seen Heyman putting together an ECW team of RVD & Tajiri which would have been fun as shit too.