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Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

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  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Great, a wrestling documentary will help me relax and knock off a couple more hours

    Oh. Oh no...


     
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    A bad combination of head injuries and drug abuse.
    It makes you wonder if people like him and OJ Simpson will be viewed differently in the future, once there's been more research.
    There's quite a correlation between murderers and head trauma. Fred West is a good example.
     
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    Roid rage was ruled out, as Benoit was using steroids basically as a form of hormone replacement therapy due to his testosterone levels being nearly nonexistent - which of course was caused by a decade's worth of steroid use beforehand as he was deemed "small" by the size-fixated attitude that both WWF and WCW had

    The main issue in the Benoit case was a combination of concussion protocols in wrestling being little more than expecting wrestler's to sleep them off as they were little more than a nagging headache, coupled with the punishing schedule wrestlers work as WWE's schedule often has them work five days a week all across the country coupled with the cutthroat mentality that taking time off will see somebody take your spot

    There's a passing comment in the first part where it was clear than Benoit was falling apart in the wake of Eddie Guerrero's death and clearly needed to be given time off, yet instead as soon as Eddie's funeral was done Benoit was flown out for a European tour with the rest of the roster - and that's straight up scummy on WWE's part, but hardly unique
     
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    Great performance, for anyone that hasn't seen it.
    Currently in the post-fight ****e, so rewind it to the start if you watch it now.
     
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    Fun fact, when I was a student in Sheffield I regularly saw Prince Naseem's car parked along Ecclesall Road

    The thing is, there's aren't any parking spaces along Ecclesall Road...
     
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    On the plus side, it's not as depressing as the Benoit episodes

    On the minus side...well you know those Chuck Norris facts? Imagine the Dario Argento version of those

    You've been warned

     
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    R.I.P Lewis of Duckworth-Lewis <rose>
     
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    Somewhere on the internet, David Vance is getting very angry that WWE has had an Irish and now a Scottish champion, but never an English one...
     
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    irony
    noun

    a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.

     
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    NASCAR has held virtual races to fill the gap during the shutdown.
    Kyle Larson, who is one of the top earners at over $10m a year, just committed career suicide by saying the N word on stream.
    He has been suspended without pay while his team investigate his idiocy.
     
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    That's odd, I would have thought he'd get a pay raise for going above and beyond to appeal to NASCAR's core demographic...
     
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    So WWE has been deemed an "essential service" by the state of Florida, allowing them to continue filming shows and definitely not putting anyone at risk

    I'm sure this has nothing to do with the Florida state governor patterning himself after the mayor of Amity Island

    Or the wife of the bloke who runs WWE being in Trump's cabinet

    No, nothing dodgy at all there...
     
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    It'll be interesting to see how they maintain social distancing during the bouts. Not impossible, but interesting...
     
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    Well they haven't bothered with that for the last three weeks...
     
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    So here's a seedy little story...

    Vince McMahon told WWE's stockholders that their money wasn't being funnelled into the XFL, stating that the money was coming from a combination of investors and his own pocket

    Yeah, as soon as XFL went belly up (again) it emerged that WWE had a 23.5% stake in the venture which the stockholders were not told about

    This may be related to WWE laying off a bunch of employees this evening...

    Oh yeah, nearly forgot, this all came the day after a documentary all but stated the guy running WWE covered up a suspected murder

     
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    Former England batsman Brian Bolus has died at the age of 86.

    R.I.P. <rose>


    ( showing my age- as it happens a year older today - amazing how that works, one year older but it is only a day on from yesterday.)
     
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    Happy birthday B&W
     
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    TA
     
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