Toxxic

'Shatter' by Feeder, aka the closing credit music from 'Night Watch'.

Right.

Do the WWE have any wrestlers left that aren't dead or injured? Uh... Paul London.

I'm with the guy who says that Cryme Tyme is more offensive than Silverback.

Blow, presumably.

Well, Sly and I are intending to hound you for the titles until we win. I guess that can be considered a feud.

I think we can safely assume that Spike knows how to treat a woman. It's also possible she was on the other side of town, away from where his computer is.

I'm afraid I must claim part of the blame for Spike's decision. I informed him that if he was even thinking about typing instead of having sex, he must be at least partially gay. Of course, at the time I didn't consider how many gay guys I know who always think about sex, just with men.

Gah. If I'd have known for sure that the show would be pushed back I might have managed to sleep last night...

Well, when I see 'Thursday July 12th' and Thursday July 12th has already taken place, I tend to look for another clue. Such as the date in the subtitle of the thread.

In all seriousness, it seems a sensible idea to me to list the smallest unit of time first, then the medium unit, then the largest. Day, month, year. Or hey, do it year/month/day if you want. I just don't see the point of putting the month first, it just confuses me. But anyway - how many people will actually have a match for tonight?

Shortly before Storm… SWF World Heavyweight Champion Alan Clark approaches his dressing room in the corridors of the Stade de France. Sure enough, it has on the door a nameplate saying ‘Alan Clark - SWF World Champion’, so he knows it’s his. Apparently, even the French are in awe of the SWF. “So Walter,” Alan says, halting before the door, “what do you reckon is behind this? Snakes? Spiders? Wombats?” “I wouldn’t like to guess,” Walter Reynolds tells him. Clark shrugs, unlocks the door and pushes it open without stepping inside. Not out of fear, but with the air of a man who has had too many things land on him over the last couple of weeks to be careless. “Well?” Reynolds asks, keeping an eye on the corridor in case someone is looking to send inflatable mammals towards Clark while he’s distracted. “It’s… Spike.” Walter looks around at that, to see that in the middle of the dressing room floor someone has placed… “A cardboard cut-out of Spike Jenkins,” Reynolds corrects his charge as the two men enter the room. “Ah, yeah,” Clark laughs, “so it is. For a moment I thought it actually was Spike.” “Really?” “Yeah, but then I saw it had too much personality.” Clark places the World Title down on the bench and regards the cardboard cut-out steadily for a few seconds. “Walter, you know what I’m going to do tonight?” “Not really.” “I’m going to win,” Clark says. “I’m going to beat Spike Jenkins and show everyone that you can’t jump in line and take a shot at the World Title just because I’m holding it. And then tomorrow…” a wide grin creases his mouth. “…I’m going to have a magical day.”

They should have Kennedy squash him for the title, then Edge finds out that actually his injury wasn't that bad and he could wrestle again in a couple of weeks.

It did. It said Thursday 12th June. However, the subtitle of the thread stated 7-18-2007, in that weird, mixed-up-date way that you Americans favour.

Oh, and I call opening promo.

It'll make a change to have a simpler character around - by simple I don't mean stupid, but a guy who's just decided to try wrestling to see if he's going to be good at it. I mean, the New Blood Division right now consists of a whirling dervish in a mask, a Canadian superhero impersonator in a mask, a journeyman evil genius heel who's some sort of technical wrestling god, and a giant juggalo - none of which I have a problem with, but that's a damn mixed bag. A farmboy character will be a pleasant change of pace.

I'm with Muzz. It's got that little extra zing to it.

Raynor, is it fair to say that, given that it's scheduled for July 12th, this show is a little overdue? Or are we looking at Wednesday 18th?

I don't watch it anymore really, and haven't done for quite a while. I sometimes catch Heat or the highlight shows at the weekend, and every now and then I'll record one of the free PPVs if I remember, but mainly it just bores the shit out of me. I keep meaning to watch ECW to see Punk, but I don't even know where it's been shunted to on Sky's schedule now. That said from what I saw today it looks like they might be giving Matt Hardy a push, I might tune in more to follow that. I watch TNA because despite all the shit that's going on in the main event, I get to see some of the better X-Division workers, and Joe. And the Christian Coalition amuse me immensely.

Seconded with the birthday wishes. And the wonderings. Jakey isn't exactly the most involved community-wise, but I believe he has been busy getting ready to move to NYC for the new academic year.

It's where the whole straight-edge thing started, with Minor Threat. Evolved out of punk in the early 80s. I'm no expert but I'd say bands like Black Flag and Bad Brains, guys like that, were among the frontrunners. But yeah - hardcore punk is probably by favourite musical genre, and that is probably my favourite album. Tied with New Maps of Hell.

Raynor, Rise Against are hardcore punk. Probably more hardcore than punk, maybe. But they are definitely NOT nu-metal. Wash your mouth out, young man.

When do we find out if we're squaring off against the New Blood champion or not?

Ah, well that's where I'd disagree, you see. As far as I'm concerned, unless a camera crew is explicitly stated to be present, it doesn't appear on SWF programming. Landon for one makes up for this by having Landon 'notice' camera crews who have been inplausibly hidden behind a bedroom door for several minutes, or something, but I've never really gone for that. It's like the idiocy of heels discussing their plans in front of a camera. Obviously this has to happen in real wrestling or no-one would ever know their plans, but we can employ different methods. So yeah, for any promos I write, unless a camera is mentioned being present (normally with Ben Hardy), then the fans don't see it.

I don't know if you noticed, but the last show featured Badger On A Pole. ...OK, I see what you're getting at. The point is that no-one in the casual audience will hear about these things, they're not being filmed, these are simply events that are occurring. Unless Rev-0 go out and say 'hey, we played all these tricks on Alan Clark' the crowd won't know.