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    #2372
    oneilla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭oneilla


    Wasn't too impressed with the Bischoff podcast. It's risible hearing him try to defend some of the awful stuff that WCW did.


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    #2373
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    The positive of Eric is he is willing to admit something is **** a little more readily than Prichard, but the negative is that whereas Prichard sometimes defends things a little tongue in cheek and adds in humour, Bischoff gets aggro and goes off on Meltzer or Time Warner instead which makes him come off as worse and less credible.

    The Bret Hart show was an abomination. He claimed to have never offered Bret a deal in 1996. There's transcripts of his Prodigy interviews from early 1997 where he openly spoke about offering Bret that deal in September 96. Once he's getting **** wrong at the very outset of the show, it's hard to take anything else he says seriously.


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    #2374
    jaykhunter
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    oneilla wrote: »
    Wasn't too impressed with the Bischoff podcast. It's risible hearing him try to defend some of the awful stuff that WCW did.

    His book is a great read but with the same problem - takes zero responsibility and spins things to make himself look impeccable. My guess is that he believes every WCW wrestler is listening and doesn't want to give 'em an inch!


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    #2375
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,518 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    oneilla wrote: »
    Wasn't too impressed with the Bischoff podcast. It's risible hearing him try to defend some of the awful stuff that WCW did.

    I'm not sure, the one quote I remember from the podcast is Eric saying his head wasn't in the game/he'd lost interest in WCW at that stage. Sounds like it was a ship without a Captain if you read between the lines. That's pretty much taking full responsibility as far as I'm concerned?


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    #2376
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    He has for years relied on the idea that the AOL-Time Warner merger killed WCW, while the dirtsheet line has been that it was Bischoff, Nash, Russo and those who booked it into oblivion.

    The truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. I have no doubt that the anarchy behind the scenes and the changing dynamics Bisch had to deal with really hurt the business. Equally, if you watch WCW from late 1998 through late 2000, it is the least coherent and most illogical weekly wrestling ever produced, save maybe for 05 - 08 Impact.


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    #2377
    Blue_Dabadee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Blue_Dabadee


    You would never think someone like Bob Holly would be an episode topic. His book worth a read since he did not hold anything back in it.


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    #2378
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,348 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Bruce and Conrad will be doing a live show here in December tickets go on sale Friday.


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    #2379
    sirmanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Bruce and Conrad will be doing a live show here in December tickets go on sale Friday.

    Yeah I heard that at the top of this weeks show. Any word on a date/prices?


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    #2380
    spektorfive
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    I just checked it's on in the Woolshed. Odd venue. Looks like it sold out already. Think they could have done a bigger room.


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    #2381
    sirmanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    spektorfive wrote: »
    I just checked it's on in the Woolshed. Odd venue. Looks like it sold out already. Think they could have done a bigger room.

    You sure that isn't last year's show you were looking at?


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    #2382
    brick tamland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭brick tamland


    sirmanga wrote: »
    You sure that isn't last year's show you were looking at?

    Yeah he is

    UK tour is 6th-9th of December so it'll be a day or 2 either side you'd think.

    Venue wise I'd imagine it'll be Vicar Street if available. Can't think of anywhere else it may be.


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    #2383
    spektorfive
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    Did you just assume my Gender? Lol


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    #2384
    sirmanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    Any update on the STW live show in Ireland. Haven't heard or read a thing. Tickets are supposed to be on sale today according to last week's show.


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    #2385
    sirmanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    Date has been announced for the STW live "Irish" show.
    December 5th in.... Belfast.


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    #2386
    soiseztomabel
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭soiseztomabel


    What's Conrads obsession with AJ Styles age ?

    It seems like he manages to show horn it in to almost every episode


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    #2387
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,527 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Becky was on JRs podcast last week and Christ JR said he wasn't but he was flirting with her badly. I mean nothing really new from Becky, other than she addressed the fact people see her as charlottes sidekick which she seems to not be happy about.

    Does anyone listen to Lilian Garcias podcast anymore ? I used to listen it as she had wrestlers who I'd never heard doing podcasts anywhere else and it was interesting. The only thing that I found annoying is she seemed to have every female guest in tears by her bringing up bad memories they had. She was joe Duffy with the misery.

    I don't think Conrad has an obsession with Aj's age, I think it just to make a point of how in better shape wrestlers are now compared to years ago.


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    #2388
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    AJ is clearly his go to guy for that point but he should defo change that up. Lesnar is in his 40's too, wouldn't be a bad reference point. Whenever he even BEGINS to reference someone's age, you think "here comes AJ..." :)


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    #2389
    sky88
    Registered Users Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Becky was on JRs podcast last week and Christ JR said he wasn't but he was flirting with her badly. I mean nothing really new from Becky, other than she addressed the fact people see her as charlottes sidekick which she seems to not be happy about.

    Does anyone listen to Lilian Garcias podcast anymore ? I used to listen it as she had wrestlers who I'd never heard doing podcasts anywhere else and it was interesting. The only thing that I found annoying is she seemed to have every female guest in tears by her bringing up bad memories they had. She was joe Duffy with the misery.

    I don't think Conrad has an obsession with Aj's age, I think it just to make a point of how in better shape wrestlers are now compared to years ago.

    Jr has been kinda creepy with the women on his podcast lately been a hard listen to.


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    #2390
    soiseztomabel
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭soiseztomabel


    Anyone check out How It Ended? It's alright like, really liked the Marty Janetty and Paul Roma episodes. Matt Koon is pretty good but I feel Robbie E is just a lure for listeners. He adds very little to the podcast and just sounds really stoned the majority of the time.


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    #2391
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Wait what? He lures in listeners but he adds very little & sounds baked? Wouldn't that repel listeners rather than lure them in?


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    #2392
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Conrad did a Reddit AMA which is interesting, lots of cool nugs.

    Someone asked him if the arguing on the Bruce/Eric shows ever lead to real life bad blood and he said just once - after the Pillman show with Eric a couple months back, they got so hot at each other he thought the show might be done, but they talked it out in the end.


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    #2393
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    A couple more pertinent notes from that AMA with Conrad:

    - He has an ECW show in the pipeline. On hold until after Starrcast but there might be some movement then.
    - He has plans to do a 'guest' series. If you heard the Talk Is Jericho with him, that's the basic idea. He'd go through guys careers with them in deep dive form, but obviously it would be more a one off than a recurring show. This would be super interesting to me. Feel you'd learn a lot about the guys, and you'd hear some cool stories.


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    #2394
    bot43
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭bot43


    soiseztomabel wrote: »
    Anyone check out How It Ended? It's alright like, really liked the Marty Janetty and Paul Roma episodes. Matt Koon is pretty good but I feel Robbie E is just a lure for listeners. He adds very little to the podcast and just sounds really stoned the majority of the time.

    It like it. Nut hated the Jannetty episode. A self obseesed tool was my take away from it.

    Do Koon and Conrad have real life heat?


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    #2395
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    bot43 wrote: »
    It like it. Nut hated the Jannetty episode. A self obseesed tool was my take away from it.

    Do Koon and Conrad have real life heat?

    Nope, they work together. Koon helps Conrad on his shows.


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    #2396
    spektorfive
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    I don't mind Belfast. Any word on venue/prices?


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    #2397
    TheQuietBeatle
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭TheQuietBeatle


    Are there any live wrestling shows / live podcasts shows coming to Cork in next few weeks? I have a Ticketmaster voucher to use or it will expire.


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    #2398
    sirmanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    Having listened to the most recent Something to Wrestle, it appears that Conrad and Bruce have begun to run out of ideas.

    Conrad ran through all of the upcoming episode topics through to early 2019.
    One of the episodes will be a two in one, it's about the Hardcore Title for the first half and then about Daniel Puder for the second half.


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    #2399
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,764 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    sirmanga wrote: »
    Having listened to the most recent Something to Wrestle, it appears that Conrad and Bruce have begun to run out of ideas.

    Conrad ran through all of the upcoming episode topics through to early 2019.
    One of the episodes will be a two in one, it's about the Hardcore Title for the first half and then about Daniel Puder for the second half.

    Was always going to happen, that format would only sustain for so long. It's like watching the Network from the first Raw episode... eventually you'd catch up to date.


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    #2400
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Conrad and Bruce are the goats of wrestling podcasts.

    Still enjoy it more than ever before. Although im a bit indifferent to 83 weeks with Bischoff.


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    #2401
    Sirsok
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sirsok


    Reckon they will get to the stage of offering their opinion on the current product. Still some folks to mine like Yokozuna, Luger, Godfather would be interesting, Rikishi.


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