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[Kota Ibushi with Kenny Omega] World domination is just days away!! Had a golden practice after a long time. We are still far from done! Next AEW!!!
hellothere 1 day ago • 100%
All I want to see is for them to rawdog it in the ring be healthy and live long and happy lives.
UK Politics
Starmer to give millions to far-right Italian PM Meloni to tackle migration
hellothere 3 days ago • 100%
As I cover in my final paragraph.
UK Politics
Starmer to give millions to far-right Italian PM Meloni to tackle migration
hellothere 3 days ago • 100%
Incase you didn't know, Rwanda was for settled claims, not processing.
As in, they would be sent to Rwanda if they were successful in their asylum claim.
Processing asylum seekers in a country they are already in, like Albania, is significantly safer than forcing them to get in a dingy.
Now if we are taking people out of dingys in the channel, and taking them to Albania, then yes fuck that absolutely.
SquaredCircle
Fuck Ticketmaster.
hellothere 5 days ago • 100%
So that's what Jeremy was speaking about!
Fuck Carshellothere 6 days ago • 100%
Love me some Tim!
UK Politics
UK Treasury refuses to disclose key details of £22bn fiscal ‘black hole’
hellothere 6 days ago • 100%
A full itemised breakdown is a different level of rigor than a "to the closest billion, what's going on?" request made civil servants as part of an incoming government. Given the statements made by the OBR themselves the idea that 22bn is inaccurate or false is pure cope.
Also, the FT not actually linking to their FOI request means you cannot see exactly what they requested, and a high level of detail could well lead to other disclosure problems (eg if overspend occurs in front line military).
UK Politics
UK Treasury refuses to disclose key details of £22bn fiscal ‘black hole’
hellothere 1 week ago • 94%
Good to see the FT continuing to absolutely destroy their credibility:
The response from the Treasury’s information rights unit said details would be published respecting agreed timelines “to allow the relevant officials time to complete the preparation of the information to ensure it is accurate and correct prior to publication”.
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A spokesperson added the Treasury intends to provide more details of the overspending, either at the Budget or in separate spending releases.
Not exactly sure how this can be considered a refusal....hmmmmm.
UK Politics
Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'
hellothere 1 week ago • 100%
Respectfully, I didn't ignore the rest of what you said.
I agree that representatives need to explain to the electorate why they are best placed to elect them for what comes ahead.
But the key point is that we don't actually know what comes ahead. They have a manifesto, etc, but there will always be unforeseen circumstances which arise.
In those moments in a representative democracy the representatives make the decisions. Your vote for them has allowed you to have your person at the table, but they don't need to consult with the electorate again.
If they do, you're moving towards direct democracy.
There are good arguments why governments should look to keep the electorate informed, explain actions, and justify decisions, but the popularity of a measure shouldn't be the sole factor.
UK Politics
Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'
hellothere 1 week ago • 33%
Simple fact, if an opinion is popular. Completely ignoring it is anti-democratic.
This is an incredibly simplistic definition which describes delegates, not representatives.
A delegate must do what they are instructed - think of them as your hands - whereas a representative is someone who makes decisions on your behalf - a second brain.
Delegates are extremely susceptible to tyranny of the majority, whereas representatives - in theory - seek to balance actions across all the people they represent, as well as their expertise and knowledge.
Populism is that thing your mum was on about where if your friends all jumped off a cliff, would you?
It might absolutely be the right decision, depending on the context, but if it isn't then you shouldn't do the wrong thing just because it's popular.
SquaredCircle
Sonjay Dutt announces he's undergoing shoulder surgery
hellothere 1 week ago • 100%
Clearly from too much pencil throwing.
UK Politics
Labour accused of pitting workers against pensioners
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 85%
There is a difference between being pro-austerity, and being pro means testing.
Do I agree with the bar being set at being in receipt of pension credit? Fuck no, that's far too low given you're talking about a scenario where pensioners have less than 10k/yr and would be spending over 10% of their money on heating.
But, pensioners with a full state pension, and a private / workplace pension on top, sitting in a big house they bought in the 80s to raise a family in, all of whom have since moved out, and is now worth several hundreds of thousands of pounds, really don't need the extra cash.
So there should be a cut off, but not where it currently is. Ultimately, this shows the state pension is still too low if an extra payment is required so people don't freeze. If the state pension was higher, to the point this payment wasn't needed, then I think it would be a sensible place to put the limit, because pensioners with extra income (like private or workplace pensions) fundamentally shouldn't need it, because the state pension should be the base line.
I'm fully expecting a level of wealth taxing to be announced in the budget - it really isn't something you want to leak before hand because the ultra wealthy will move their money elsewhere, cos they're parasites - but if Reeves doesn't bring one in, then she and Starmer are going to have a very tough time.
UK Politics
Labour accused of pitting workers against pensioners
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
And Graham fits the description very aptly.
How a trade unionist can claim authority based on 4% of the membership is beyond me. No wonder she's so incredibly unpopular within the union.
Ask Lemmy
Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 96%
Be the change you want to see.
Technology
The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 98%
Pop pop!
SquaredCircle
Ricochet says he blames himself for how WWE run ended
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
2.0
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Ricochet says he blames himself for how WWE run ended
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
Tbh I haven't watched WWE since NXT went to shit, so I don't really feel I'd have a good pick.
SquaredCircle
Ricochet says he blames himself for how WWE run ended
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
I think there is a lot of good story to be told if Callis recruits him to get back at Ospreay.
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Hulk Hogan: I Am A Big Fan Of CM Punk; It's Almost Like He's A Truth Teller
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
Eeehhhhhhhh
SquaredCircle
Kevin Kelly & The Tate Twins file lawsuit against AEW.
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
To be fair, the independent contractor stuff is absolute bullshit.
Beyond fuck, Qevin can do one.
SquaredCircle
Hulk Hogan on the stuff he's done: “If Chris Benoit can do the crap he did and the fans still love him, you know, they're very forgiving."
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
What the fuck?
SquaredCircle
Ricochet says he blames himself for how WWE run ended
hellothere 2 weeks ago • 100%
There are so many things that can be done with a Manager though. Sure, he may never be able to be a white meat baby face world champion, or always in the hottest fueds, but he can easily carry a workhorse belt for a decade.
SquaredCircle
[TNA Emergence Spoilers] A surprise appearance after the main event.
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Punk's politics seem to just be an extension of his narcissism, and wanting to be seen as anti-establishment.
Having allies is helpful - and I'm glad he's a vocal supporter or trans and women's rights - but none of his actions make me believe he's left wing in a political theory usage of the term. Liberal, sure.
SquaredCircle
[TNA Emergence Spoilers] A surprise appearance after the main event.
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Legit my first thought after reading your comment was "oh, is Bubba back?"
SquaredCircle
[TNA Emergence Spoilers] A surprise appearance after the main event.
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
If you still believe Punk is a lefty I have a bridge to sell you co-op that would love to have you as a member.
SquaredCircle
[Bash in Berlin Press Conference] Champion is asked about Netflix's Vince documentary & the roster's reactions to the allegations
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Giving him his dues, Cody is a very good politician and corporate mouthpiece.
But fuck that, absolutely.
SquaredCircle
Kevin Kelly claims AEW gave him severance package but took it back because he didn't sign 'some form' (probably his severance agreement lmao)
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
How can you have issues with Riccaboni?!
UK Rail and Trains
Gareth dennis' evidence about the lord Peter Hendly / systra / Euston situation
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
As if I could love Gareth any more. Hero.
UK Politics
Tory MP Esther McVey criticised for 'repugnant' smoking ban tweet
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
This is like, through the looking glass levels of shit satire actually being real. Fucking clown.
UK Politics
Four-day week for workers under Labour shake-up
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Fwiw a 4 day week, and a 5 day week compressed in to 4 days, are different things.
SquaredCircle
Stokely Hathaway on Bryan Danielson, a story in 3 parts
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Second greatest ha(y)ter.
Technology
Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
The lack of PsyX cards is upsetting.
SquaredCircle
Jesse Ventura Says He Won’t Bury the Hatchet With Hulk Hogan; ‘He Betrayed Me’
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Oi, jabroni marks reading this, join a fucking union! Much love. -HT
United Kingdom
Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
The system is old cos you've done nothing but extract money for three decades, you fucking brass necked cunt.
UK Politics
Downing Street officials draw up plans for announcing death of Larry the cat in similar manner to Queen Elizabeth II
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 93%
What bullshit, Larry is immortal, how dare they question his glory.
I found this to be a really interesting listen, and I'm a lot more interested in what D'Amore does with MLP now than I was 3 hours ago.
SquaredCircle
SquaredCircle's 'Meme Monday' Thread! (August 26th 2024)
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
Welcome traveller!
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SquaredCircle's 'Meme Monday' Thread! (August 26th 2024)
hellothere 3 weeks ago • 100%
yeah but taylor swift breaks glass ceilings punk just breaks glass windows. his bones.
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SquaredCircle's 'Meme Monday' Thread! (August 26th 2024)
hellothere 4 weeks ago • 100%
Please tell Mandy I said hello, please and thank you.
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SquaredCircle’s Weekly Pro-Wrestling Discussion Thread! (August 25th 2024) (Spoilers)
hellothere 4 weeks ago • 100%
Am on the way back home after All In, my thoughts as follows:
- First and foremost I had a really good time. Pretty much everyone was super friendly and chill, a bunch of people had dressed up, and there were very few dickheads. In the boxpark earlier in the afternoon the DJ had an entrance music playlist, which was pretty much all WWE themes, but everyone was really positive and having a good time. Actual wrestling fans are not tribal dickheads.
- The only two bits of genuine pride I have in the UK is our ability to form a queue anywhere, and how loud our crowds are. I wasn't able to get a picture (because I don't like taking pictures in public with other people's faces visible) but all the queues leading in to the entrance ways were snakes with multiple turns, with no barriers. It was a thing of beauty.
- The faces got cheered, the heels got booed, and pretty much everyone got a big pop, and some of them you could actually feel the vibrations in your chest. Any ironic chants - like a few CM Punk ones - got drowned out very quickly.
- A couple of guys near us tried to start an En-ger-land chant during Ospreay vs MJF, and they got booed out immediately. The complete lack of nationalistic chants (except the cheeky booing of the USA during Martha's speech) is such a welcome departure from insipid USA! USA! nonsense.
- I'm still coming down from the dopamine high of Hayter's return 💪 and I'm so happy for Nigel.
- While The Learning Tree has been really fun, this programme has done nothing for Hook. Jericho really needs to take a 6 month break and come back in a reduced capacity. I'm sure there is a lot of value we don't see behind the curtain, but he just distracts from everyone else.
- We will always love Big Willy - be that Bill, Ospreay, Hobbs, Starkz, Gunn, Mack, or any others I've forgotten
- Having the TBS belt at the top end of the card, and the Women's so much lower, is bad from a pure kayefabe perspective. A few people mentioned in the live thread about it being a piss break match, but I cannot stress how easy it is to go for a piss in Wembley, I managed to get a pint and go to the loo between every second match, and only really missed the entrances, and the lines for the ladies toilets were even shorter. In short, there is not a need for piss break matches, and I can only assume it was there because of Mercedes' contract. Which is something TK needs to handle much better, because the crowd did not care at all.
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SquaredCircle's 'Meme Monday' Thread! (August 26th 2024)
hellothere 4 weeks ago • 100%
Plus he seems like someone who would give great cuddles.
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Saraya went OFF after All in [vid]
hellothere 4 weeks ago • 100%
If she could stay off, that'd be great.
- Team Faust (**Henry Faust**, **Kegstacker**, **Lou Nixon** & **Trent Seven**) vs. Team Kayman (**Kemper**, **Myles Kayman**, **Reece** & **Rogan**) - **Mark Haskins** (w/Vicky Haskins) vs. **Michael Oku** (w/Amira) - **Allie Katch** vs. **Debbie Keitel** vs. **Natalie Sykes** vs. **Eve Bateman** - **Elijah** vs. **Joe Hendry** - **Emersyn Jayne** & **Rhio** (c) vs. **Rampage Brown** & **Will Kroos** vs. Landed Gentry (**Benji** & **Zeo Knox**) vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (**Liam Slater** & **Rory Coyle**) - TLC for the NORTH Tag Team Title - **Gene Munny** & **Grado** vs. Lykos Gym (**Kid Lykos** & **Kid Lykos II**) - **Miyu Yamashita** vs. **Lizzy Evo** - **Clint Margera** (c) vs. **Ace Matthews** - NORTH Ultraviolent Title - **Leon Slater** (c) vs. **Man Like DeReiss** - NORTH Title
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**Zero Hour** - **Kyle O'Reilly** & **Tomohiro Ishii** vs. **Gabe Kidd** & **Roderick Strong** vs. **Private Party** vs. **Kings of the Black Throne** - **Tam Nakano** & **Willow Nightingale** vs. **Kris Statlander** & **Momo Watanabe** - **The Lucha Brothers** & **Mistico** vs. **Los Ingobernables de Japon** (*Hiromu Takahashi*, *Titan* & *Yota Tsuji*) - **Saraya** (w/ *Harley Cameron*) vs. **Mariah May** (w/ *Luther* & *Toni Storm*) - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Women's Tournament Quarter Final ***Main Card*** - **Hook**, **Katsuyori Shibata** & **Samoa Joe** vs. **The Learning Tree** (*Big Bill* & *Chris Jericho*) & **Jeff Cobb** - **Hiroshi Tanahashi** & **The Acclaimed** (w/ *Billy Gunn* ) vs. **The Elite** (*Kazuchika Okada*, *Matthew Jackson* & *Nicholas Jackson*) - **Hechicero** vs. **MJF** - **Bryan Danielson** vs. **Shingo Takagi** - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Men's Tournament Quarter Final - **Orange Cassidy** vs. **Zack Sabre Jr.** - **Toni Storm** (c) (w/ *Luther* & *Mariah May*) vs. **Mina Shirakawa** (w/ *Mariah May*) - AEW Women's World Title - **Mark Briscoe** vs. **El Phantasmo** vs. **Konosuke Takeshita** vs. **Lio Rush** vs. **Jack Perry** vs. **Dante Martin** - AEW TNT Title Ladder Match - **Mercedes Mone** (c) vs. **Stephanie Vaquer** (c) - AEW TBS & NJPW STRONG Women's Titles - **Jon Moxley** (c) vs. **Tetsuya Naito** - IWGP World Heavyweight Title - **Swerve Strickland** (w/ *Prince Nana*) (c) vs. **Will Ospreay** - AEW World Title
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::: spoiler Spoilies It's yersel! :::
Card as follows: - Medusa Complex vs Lykos Gym - Debbie Keitel vs Emersyn Jayne - Postmodern Sick Boys vs Rampage Brown & Will Kroos - Gabe Kid (NJPW) vs Jet Martial - Natalie Sykes vs Eve Bateman - Sunshine Machine vs The Landed Gentry - #1 Contender scramble match - to face Leon Slater at Thunderstruck 2 (13th July 2024)
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Surely not?!
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This match is for NORTH's Ultraviolent Championship, and is from last year's Thunderstruck event, which is the biggest crowd so far with ~700 attendees. If the venue looks familiar, it's because it's in the Walker Dome, where Impact/TNA held Turning Point last year.
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...but today, on International Workers' / Labour Day, what is your excuse to not join up? Graphic by Equity, the UK Actors' Union.
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Self-aware silly wrestling is my favourite type of wrestling, and this was the pre-show match before All Roads Lead North a few months ago. To paraphrase a poet, you can keep your 5* classics, I just want big meaty men slapping meat, and draining cans.
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This may be the most wholesome wrestling thing I've ever seen.
Get your picks in, and show how off the mark you are! **Zero Hour** - **Matt Sydal** vs. **Trent Beretta** - **Katsuyori Shibata** & **Orange Cassidy** vs. **Shane Taylor Promotions** - **Billy Gunn** & **The Acclaimed** (c) vs. **Bullet Club Gold** (c) - Unification of AEW World Trios / ROH World Six Man Tag Team titles **Main Card** - **Hook** (c) vs. **Chris Jericho** - FTW Title - **Roderick Strong** (c) vs. **Kyle O'Reily** - AEW International Title - **Kazuchika Okada** (c) vs. **Pac** - AEW Continental Title - **Toni Storm** (w/Luther & Mariah May) (c) vs. **Thunder Rosa** - AEW Women's World Title - **Adam Copeland**, **Eddie Kingston** & **Mark Briscoe** vs. **House Of Black** - **The Young Bucks** vs. **FTR** - AEW World Tag Team Title Tournament Final Ladder Match - **Julia Hart** (c) vs. **Willow Nightingale** (w/Stokely Hathaway) - AEW TBS Title (House Rules) - **Bryan Danielson** vs. **Will Ospreay** - **Samoa Joe** (c) vs. **Swerve Strickland** (w/Prince Nana) - AEW World Title
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A match from the North Vault for the title, Liam Slater defends against surprise opponent Gabriel Kidd in Kidd's second apparence in North since 2019.
"First you steal my glorious idea to lash Cody. Now you try to cop art from my ex. I’m a fan. But please Leave me be, Dewey."
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Before the world ended, the future King of the Bums decided to pop over to *a small mining town north of London* to fight the resident Sick Boy, and beat the absolute shit out of each other.
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**Zero Hour** - Tag Team Match - **Kris Statlander** & **Willow Nightingale** vs. **Julia Hart** & **Skye Blue** - 12 Man Tag Team Match - **Jay Lethal**, **Jeff Jarrett**, **Satnam Singh**, **Private Party** & **Willie Mack** vs. **Bang Bang Scissor Gang** **Main Card** - All-Star 8-Man Scramble - **Chris Jericho** vs. **Lance Archer** vs. **Brian Cage** vs. **Magnus** vs. **Powerhouse Hobbs** vs. **Wardlow** vs. **Dante Martin** vs. **Hook** - **FTR** vs. **Blackpool Combat Club** - AEW TNT Title - **Christian Cage** (c) vs. **Daniel Garcia** - **Konosuke Takeshita** vs. **Will Ospreay** - AEW Continental Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Title / ROH World Title - **Eddie Kingston** (c) vs. **Bryan Danielson** - AEW Women's World Title - **Toni Storm** (c) vs. **Deonna Purrazzo** - AEW International Title - **Orange Cassidy** (c) vs. **Roderick Strong** - AEW World Title - **Samoa Joe** (c) vs. **Adam Page** vs. **Swerve Strickland** - AEW World Tag Team Title Tornado - **Darby Allin** & **Sting** (c) vs. **The Young Bucks**
**Zero Hour** - Tag Team Match - **Kris Statlander** & **Willow Nightingale** vs. **Julia Hart** & **Skye Blue** - 12 Man Tag Team Match - **Jay Lethal**, **Jeff Jarrett**, **Satnam Singh**, **Private Party** & **Willie Mack** vs. **Bang Bang Scissor Gang** **Main Card** - All-Star 8-Man Scramble - **Chris Jericho** vs. **Lance Archer** vs. **Brian Cage** vs. **Magnus** vs. **Powerhouse Hobbs** vs. **Wardlow** vs. **Dante Martin** vs. **Hook** - **FTR** vs. **Blackpool Combat Club** - AEW TNT Title - **Christian Cage** (c) vs. **Daniel Garcia** - **Konosuke Takeshita** vs. **Will Ospreay** - AEW Continental Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Title / ROH World Title - **Eddie Kingston** (c) vs. **Bryan Danielson** - AEW Women's World Title - **Toni Storm** (c) vs. **Deonna Purrazzo** - AEW International Title - **Orange Cassidy** (c) vs. **Roderick Strong** - AEW World Title - **Samoa Joe** (c) vs. **Adam Page** vs. **Swerve Strickland** - AEW World Tag Team Title Tornado - **Darby Allin** & **Sting** (c) vs. **The Young Bucks**
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This is from North's December show, and is absolutely incredible. Do yourself a favour and watch it.
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🎶 Wheeler's got a gun 🎶
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I'm so ridiculously hyped for this match, it's going to be incredible. Oku has been on the Jericho cruise this week, where he's beaten Mike Bailey, Johnny ~~TV~~ Cruise, and Matt Cardona to become to new Oceanic Champion. He's also the current RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship - the belt Ospreay made famous - although, as to being the undisputed title for all of Britain, well Slater (and everyone north of Watford) would have a thing or two to say about that.
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I'll admit I have not watched the Rumble this year so I don't know for certain, but I'm posting this because it feels like a pretty even handed take from a self-confessed AEW mark. The last line - just because something isn't for me, doesn't mean it isn't for you - is very good advice.
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This is the full show, with commentary, from a couple of weeks ago. The main event is Leon Slater vs Speedball Mike Bailey, and is incredible. It was a family friendly show so the crowd is a bit less sweary and drunk than usual, and there is also no bleeding. Card is as follows: - Rumble Match (lots of local unknown talent and trainees, might as well skip) - Tag Team Match: **Rampage Brown** & **Will Kroos** vs. **Reece & Rogan** - Singles Match: **Joe Hendry** vs. **Gene Munny** - Singles Match: **Rhio** vs. **Emersyn Jayne** - Six Man Tag Team Match: **Liam Slater, Natalie Sykes & Rory Coyle** vs. **Ace Matthews, Benji & Zeo Knox** - NORTH Title Match: **Leon Slater** (c) vs. **Mike Bailey**
In a singles match, if wrestler A gets disqualified, then wrestler B has no one to wrestle, so the match is over and they win. But with 3 (or more) wrestlers, wrestler B would still have wrestler C, etc, so the match could continue without wrestler A. So why doesn't it? I've never understood this, and would appreciate people's thoughts. (Pic barely related)
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If you want to understand the current state of BritWres, there are few better places to start than NORTH. Running since 2016 in Newcastle upon Tyne - a city of 300k in the north east of England once described by Michael Cole as "a small mining community" - they are a great example of what I love about BritWres, small passionate companies looking to put on great matches and build the next generation of talent, in front of very loud and usually drunk crowds of a few hundred people. Speaking of drunk crowds, NORTH run their shows out of a small craft brewery - Anarchy Brew - and have their own beers as well. It's great. Anyway, the card is: - NORTH Tag Team Tournament First Round Match - **Natalie Sykes** & **Session Moth Martina** vs. **Che Monet** & **Visage** - NORTH Tag Team Tournament First Round Match - **Myles Kayman** & **Vusyk** vs. **Sunshine Machine** (Chuck Mambo & TK Cooper) - **Man Like DeReiss** vs. **Emersyn Jayne** - **Gene Munny** & **Kid Lykos II** vs. **Grizzled Young Veterans** (James Drake & Zack Gibson) - **Lana Austin** vs. **Eve Bateman** - NORTH Tag Team Tournament First Round Match - **Landed Gentry** (Benji & Zeo Knox) vs. **Act Two** (Benjamin Harland & Jack Knudsen) - NORTH Title Match - **Leon Slater** (c) vs. **Rhio** If you only have time to watch one match make it the main event. Video package starts at 2h14m20s, do yourself a favour and watch from there.
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I think this is a very fair review of Full Gear 2023, absolutely agree that Hangman vs Swerve is one of the best matches AEW have ever done.
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> It’s midnight on the edge of Clapham Common in early September. The streets are eerily quiet as a shadowy figure in black shirt, shorts and baseball cap emerges from the common. He is wearing a red face mask, his features, except for some blond locks, hidden from view.
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> Petrified fucking terror. That's the first thing you think when you look at Labour. A barely-concealed, buttoned-up, can't-sleep-at-night anxiety, lurking just behind the eyes. They're scared they'll fluff it. They're scared that in the white heat of the election campaign, the Tories will find some policy in their manifesto to weaponise against them and the whole thing will come crashing down.
**Main Card** - "Dragon Bollocks" Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. - "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland - FTR (c) vs. Aussie Open - AEW World Tag Team Championship - MJF (c) vs. The Righteous - 2 on 1 handicap match for the ROH World Tag Team Champsion - Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi vs. Konosuke Takeshita, Sammy Guevara, and Will Ospreay - Christian Cage (c) vs. Darby Allin - 2 out of 3 falls, for the TNT Championship - Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata - ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship - Kris Statlander (c) vs. Julia Hart - TBS Championship - The Young Bucks vs. The Gunns vs. The Lucha Brothers vs. Orange Cassidy and Hook - for a future AEW World Tag Team Championship match - Ricky Starks vs. Wheeler Yuta **Zero Hour** - The Acclaimed(c) vs. TMDK - AEW World Trios Championship - Luchasaurus vs Nick Wayne - Josh Barnett vs. Claudio Castagnoli - Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Diamante, and Mercedes Martinez vs. Satoshi Kojima, Keith Lee, Athena, and Billie Starkz Prize is the same as always, some bragging rights and maybe Tellum's appendix..?
A few clarifiers: - by Bad, I mean gimmicks the "IWC" were broadly negative towards - by liked, I don't mean ironically - no one ever actually liked the Gobbledy *removed*er
Who you got? **Main Card** - Orange Cassidy vs. Jon Moxley - International Championship - Luchasaurus w/ Christian Cage vs. Darby Allin w/ Nick Wayne - TNT Championship - Kris Statlander vs. Ruby Soho - TBS Championship - Kenny Omega vs. Kenosuke Takeshita w/ Don Callis - "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson w/ Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs. "Absolute" Ricky Starks w/ Big Bill - FTR & The Young Bucks vs. Bullet Club Gold - Better Than You Bay Bay vs. Dark Order's John Silver and Alex Reynolds - ROH World Tag Team Championship - Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Miro - Samoa Joe vs. Shane Taylor - ROH World TV Championship - Eddie Kingston & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta - The Acclaimed & Daddy Ass w/ Dennis Rodman (yes, really) vs. Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh & Jay Lethal w/ Sonjay Dutt & Karen Jarrett **Zero Hour** - Athena, Mercedes Martinez & Diamante vs. Hikaru Shida, Willow Nightingale & Skye Blue - Over Budget Charity Battle Royal
A bit of silly fun, no prize other than bragging rights. **Main card** - MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole – AEW World Championship - CM Punk (c) vs. Samoa Joe – “Real World Championship” - Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Saraya vs. Britt Baker – AEW Women’s World Championship - FTR (c) vs. The Young Bucks – AEW World Tag Team Championship - House of Black (c) vs. The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn – AEW World Trios Championship - Darby Allin and Sting vs. Swerve Strickland and Christian Cage – Coffin match - The Golden Elite (Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega and “Hangman” Adam Page) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and Juice Robinson) and Konosuke Takeshita - Chris Jericho vs. Will Ospreay - Eddie Kingston, Penta El Zero Miedo and Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta), Santana and Ortiz – Stadium Stampede match **Zero Hour** - Aussie Open (c) vs. MJF and Adam Cole – ROH World Tag Team Championship match
If so, what do you think? The idea of a modern No Mercy sounds very tempting.
Eddie's got a mic! Time for some enemies to get addressed!