So @Ben, thoughts on Collision with Kevin Kelly back in place of Ian Riccaboni? It feels like it’s gone back to unwatchable for me.
Shoutout to Taz and Excalibur for having the best sports commentary chemistry since Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan.
So @Ben, thoughts on Collision with Kevin Kelly back in place of Ian Riccaboni? It feels like it’s gone back to unwatchable for me.
Shoutout to Taz and Excalibur for having the best sports commentary chemistry since Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan.
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Is Kevin Kelly not good? I haven't watched much wrestling with him commentating but I thought everybody loved him.
Like JR, his legacy seems to do him a lot of favours. He’s boring and zaps all excitement out of the action.
Collision has certainly picked up since the first episode - mostly thanks to Bullet Club Gold - but I think a lot of that is due to the Riccabone Zone and Nigel having great chemistry, while the former filled in for Kevin Kelly who was in Japan for the G1.
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I’ve not watched yet but I like Kevin Kelly. On the other hand, I find Excalibur excruciating so I expect our opinion to differ on Kevin as well. Although I think Riccaboni is excellent but apparently he didn’t want to do it full time.
Is Nigel McGuinness still ace?
I like him. Overdoes the “heel sympathiser” bit slightly, whereas Taz nails it.
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I think in this day and age the heel sympathiser trope feels very outdated generally. I've not heard Taz's but really I think it'd be better if commentators just adopted a stance that contrasts with their regular announce partner but doesn't leave them having to justify objectively horrible cunts unquestioningly regardless of what they're doing. (Or vice versa for faces.)
Taz is good. Agree with Baz on Nigel, generally tremendous but leans into the heel stuff too much at times.
The guy from Wrestletalk has been suspended for noncing again. Time for another very believable apology video.
Assuming you mean Adam it's a bit of a weird situation.
I don't watch Wrestletalk but he has another channel under the same umbrella(partsfunknown in there too) that does board game stuff. The only reason anyone knows anything now is one of the girls who guests on it now wont work with them and replied to a youtube comment explaining why. She states he's currently suspended, which does seem to match up as he has just vanished completely from all 3 channels.
Makes me wonder what's gone on as she states they're taking steps to protect female cast members now. In truth, he should get the boot again. Cultaholic were lucky in a way that they cut him before the channel really started. They've been able to move on quite well. Might be a bit trickier here though. His face is plastered over every bit of content of the two non-Wrestletalk channels. He also likely has some kind of stake in them as well.
I saw this. Was he ever actually noncing / is that what it is now? Or is it the "I'm internet famous-ish, show us yer tits, love" which is what I thought he'd actually done the first time?
But yes they should be binning him. He doesn't do that much WT stuff these days anyway, Tempest seems to be doing just fine on PFK and NRB might lose some viewers but will be fine.
"Show us yer tits, love".
Before he was using his fame to pressure women into sending nudes and shit.
Seems this time he was a little too forward with Carley (she is stunning tbf but come on lad) and possibly in a creepy way as she's refusing to play board games on the channel with them now.
Everyone thought he was on holiday but she claimed it was bollocks in one of her latest videos in the comments.
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They never actually stated how far it went, but he was pushing this on women while insisting his girlfriend of the time was fine with it. It sounds like there's been another incident of him either trying it with, or trying to force himself on one of the female cast members.
I don't think there are many, if any female members on Wrestletalk and Partsfunknown. So it's probably the No Rolls Barred channel. Given 3 of the female cast suddenly vanished a while back, I'd hazard a guess it was one of them. One has since returned, one has gone back to the USA and the other is the woman who posted the youtube comment.
I had noticed Carley hadn't been on but had no idea where she lives and if that was related but I did think when I saw her post yesterday on top of his current absence that that all tallies.
4 main ones.
Carley, Blair, Brooke and Holly who has been active on NRB for a while.
I'm assuming they record these weeks in advance and as such Holly has been about regularly on the channel so I don't think it is her.
Carley only ever came on flying visits to record and seems unafraid to speak up or speak her mind(I did notice a fair few times Adam was trying to be the game guide while she was on and she'd come in offering other players advice and he didn't seem to like it), so I don't think it would have been kept hush if it were her.
Blair vanished around the same time, if not just before Brooke left. And she suddenly left Sully and went to America.
Blair was on 2 of the last 3 Adam videos on the channel though.
Could be one of the "guests" who haven't been on for a while.
Someone like Isa or Izzy.
NRB have finally said something:
Thank you to those of you who have contacted us in recent days. We are fully aware of the concerns that are being shared on social media.
We take all such matters incredibly seriously. We can confirm that when this was first brought to our attention we immediately began an investigative process. We have been diligently working with a number of leading companies including, but not limited to, those that specialise in human resources and internet law. The fact finding part of that investigative process is still ongoing.
Until the process is concluded, we are very limited in what we can share publicly at this time, due to our commitments with regard to both UK employment and data protection laws. We’ll provide further information if and when we can, while at all times respecting our legal and other responsibilities, and our commitment to the well-being of our cast, crew and community.
This is an incredibly difficult period for all involved and unfortunately several of our team have been subjected to harassment on social media, despite having nothing whatsoever to do with the matter in question. We are of course doing all we can to support our team, including offering 24/7 access to therapy sessions should they want it. While we believe that such communications come from a well-intentioned place, we deeply urge everyone to fully consider the impact on unrelated cast and crew’s welfare.
It is due to these concerns that we decided not to post this statement on social media, and instead host the statement here. It is publicly available, so anyone can read it.
We very much appreciate the continued support that you are showing us as we endeavour to handle this matter in the right way for all concerned.
Why is a place with 10k followers releasing a statement like theyre a Fortune 500k Human Resources department if theyre not trying to protect a sex pest?
Wait are they actually taking Gable seriously and building him up to be the one who takes the IC title off Gunther?
This makes me laugh every time it pops up on the TL
Sean Oliver's productions were always incredible viewing in one way or another, whether it be Jim Cornette recalling WCW booking meetings verbatim, RVD doing Shawn Michaels' lazy eye or New Jack verbally destroying Jasmin St. Clair.
Al Snow was actually great on it too. Very articulate and knowledgeable, but yes that question was hilarious.
He’s genuinely insane. I hope they get a proper 20 mins or so at the PPV.Wait are they actually taking Gable seriously and building him up to be the one who takes the IC title off Gunther?
Need him to lose but then win it off Gunther after the streak is over so the latter can take the belt off Rollins
I was talking to somebody recently about who should beat Gunther that would actually benefit from it and we settled on "Gable but like fuck will they do it."
So DQ win for Gable at Payback as a "next step" after the countout then beat him whenever after that? I'd be into that.
Something like Kaiser accidentally fucking Gunther over by flirting with Maxine would do. Keeps Gunther strong even when he drops the belt so he can go onto being the top guy on Raw.
I’ll always like Rollins but he needs a break. Go away for a few months and come back as a psycho heel for mania
Shorty G nearly finished him off, but they can get proper Chad Gable with less of the shoosh and more mad slow motion suplexes on people twice his size.
RIP Terry Funk by the sounds of it
Apparently his wife dying a few years ago was the beginning of the end for him. What a legend.
Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie getting pushed off the stage in that wheelie bin seemed like the maddest thing ever at the time.
Friend of mine who is going to AEW on the Hard Cam has dedicated a sign to me but am desperately trying to get him to change the sentence calling me a Mark to Smark to retain my ironclad internet reputation.
I tried to get him to take this but he refuses:
Just tell him to put a controversial gaming opinion on it for the Botchamania moment.
Someone needs to take a "PORK" sign like back in the day.
Punk’s “We lost Terry but at least I can still text Bret Hart every day” speech is just fucking weird.
I don't know if it's one sided or it'll come to fruition eventually but it sounds like he's working an angle with The Elite (he's been referencing them in most promos on Collision). Bret Hart said in an interview last month that he offered to be an agent for AEW when they started up but got a "nah we don't need you" response from The Elite. So Punk is leaning into that I guess, because him and FTR are noted big fans.
Just watched this episode. I thought it was brilliant. Kevin was decent but I'm used to his schtick from New Japan. Even though most of the matches were pretty average, absolutely everything on the show progressed interesting storylines and that's exactly what you need from your TV when you have two PPVs back-to-back.
Big marks more like.
Everyone in AEW is a mark unfortunately, which is its biggest problem.
Tony is a mark for 90s wrestling, hence the constant ECW and WCW vibes. The Bucks are marks for Excalibur, hence the prick is on commentary every week. Kenny is a mark for Japan, hence his anime voice and ridiculous booking of the womens division. Moxley is a mark for Nick Gage, hence his constant blading. Hangman is just a mark for himself, hence he's shit.
Every time I see a clip of Christian on Twitter he’s speaking about people’s Fathers and whether or not they were famous/dead lol
Bray Wyatt has died.
We've still got Bret Hart though, right?
What the fuck.
Fucking hell.
I'm not going to pretend I liked Bray Wyatt as a wrestler but this is a cracker:
I saw that he was out with a condition that was potentially life-threatening but then the news was he was near a return so this is a shock. He was involved in some nonsense in his time but he was always worth a watch
Yeah he only occasionally got it right with matches because he wasn't much of a worker but he clearly had a lot of ideas that I always felt if they paired him with somebody to effectively act as an editor (for both the stories and increasingly rambling promos) but there was some great character and promo stuff scattered throughout it.
And I maintain that the Firefly Funhouse with Cena is the only good cinematic match.
Can't remember the tags for YouTube and I'm on my phone but always enjoyed little things like this finger gun-spear as well. https://youtu.be/jHwgcWNhb6o?si=P51sPD_fUDH875Ns
(Stupid WWE video title aside.)
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