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Ambrose was off shows for a number of weeks and Daniel Bryan is out injured.

Set to be back in December for the TLC PPV. Bryan and Reigns should be back at the exact same time. There's thought of delaying either of their returns until the Royal Rumble. Barrett will back at that same time frame too.

AJ Styles in his shoot interview this year put Christain over as the professional's professional. Like W2BTD said he gave TNA a good faith effort he was neither slumming it and conducting a cash grab like so many other ex-WWErs.

If I see Kofi in November I will quiz him about Murdoch and send him your regards.

Atn: goodhelmet; http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/wwe-mma-wrestling/kofi-kingston-adrian-neville-could-be-the-greatest-wwe-superstar-of-all-time-9781963.html

His entire ballot from the Wrestlers category. I'll need to take a rain check on the Non-Wrestlers.

Mark Madden's ballot (source http://www.wrestlezone.com/editorials/516249-wrestling-observer-hall-of-fame-ballot ): Bruce Mitchell's ballot or what he disclosed in the Torch this week:

Heard it is as good as the new Flying Lotus record.

Brian Christopher has released an album (available to stream on Spotify) featuring guest vocals from Rikishi and Jerry Lawler.

Lana on social media is kind of loosing up too. She is actually following people on Twitter now! But the most interesting thing was her Tweeting Emma Watson's He for She speech.

Corey is in the game as 2K took the scans of the Wrestling either at NXT Arrival (February 2014). Corey Graves suffered a really serious concussion in a match at WWE Fan Axxess Wrestlemania weekend a month or so later. There's a lot to that. The talents sign Non Disclosure Agreements. Graves gets interviewed all the time and there's no mention of him being injured even. Assume Corey tells the interviewer he can't legally mention it. I talk to a few people in NXT even operating on that limited basis of knowledge believe me that's a lot of stuff that really gets kept under wraps. The type of stuff that if I was to post online that would change the perceptions of wrestlers/trainers there that would result in a flood of abuse or in me being aggressively pursued to prove it. Which I can't as it would reveal who got the information from. WWE does amazing job keeping the public perception of NXT as positive and bouncey. Yep Graves works in Creative, is the sound guy at Live Events and apparently is training to be a commentator. That was the case in Deep South Wrestling at least. I think people have got it wrong when it comes to the Head Trainer role. Bill does very little hands on training. It is more of a management position. Why Bill Demott replaced Tom Pritchard was that Triple H wanted one of his guys, Tom took the side of talent over management, Triple H wanted drill instructor type training and Bill had better computer skills than Tom. I don't know who would replace Bill to be honest.

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The crowd shots were another level of grim tonight:

Rob has a lot of information to convey so these are probably omissions rather than things he didn't know. But Tough Enough was planned to be taped inside Full Sail and the NXT tapings he attended was seemingly the first from new (old) Writer who was a bit more internet/smark friendly.

ROH alumni Lacey appearing on the China EVOLVE shows is a turn up for the books. She is in China anyway as she is study towards a PhD in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine there.

Only been listening the past month but I really have enjoyed it which is a reasonable decent complement as I am very much in the mode of dear god not another Wrestling podcast. You know I am all about this particular episode given all the NXT focus.

Things have died down thank goodness. I am all about the lazers. It makes no sense when you quote half a sentence. You seem to think it is just a strength of an opinion issue. When I was referring primarily to the point that the spirit of the discussion can be non-productive and personal. Such as the name calling and goading experiences I cited. I am flat out work and study wise this week. I am not prodding the beast again just clarifying what you wanted clarified.

And his wife AJ Lee is as pushed as ever and hasn't had to do a punishment type angle - you know having something poured on her or a really cutting verbal dressing down on screen.

Howard Brody's book covers what it is like to run China. 10 day trip, 3 Wrestling shows and endless meetings, handshaking and socialising.

I don't want to cause further rancor by replying to this thread. But Dylan seems too stuck in defending the accusation that the board is unwelcoming due the strength of opinion. Where all I have ever cited was the spirit of it at times. As I've said previously I have my doubts about how good natured, sincere or without fallout it might be based on my negative experiences. Even if they admittedly are far from day to day occurrences. Whether it is Matt D's following me to another forum to troll me on an endless xenophobic basis for months, WKO's nonsense and what myself and others felt was goading at the time by Will. When have I done this before? I certainly don't remember it. I am not really looking for or asking to change things. I am not looking a new rule or mod change or anything like that at all. Largely I think the admins and mods have gotten it massively right. The positives of all this drama is that a good handful of posters who never looked at the subforum and people Twitter know (more) about the Greatest Wrestler Ever project and have expressed interest. To give Dylan credit he kind of channelled the loose chatter on Twitter to a productive end. The negative is that again the last two posts and thread locked kind of played into my criticisms contained within that thread. Which I am massively bored of talking about at this stage.

Had to read this headline twice a couple of months ago: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/girl-who-cut-her-forehead-in-tesco-fall-awarded-18k-in-damages-30270471.html

I did drop the subject essentially in my last post of the locked thread. A lot of out of respect for Loss and I didn't want to be redundant. The thread lock got a number of people contacting me. I spread the word about Good Will Wrestling as much as anyone all over the place. I am genuinely not trolling and I've never gone out to troll on PWO. A troll would probably say the same thing obviously but I am being strictly truthful. This weekend I just gave my honest thoughts. That's it. Once again I will emphasise in general I really enjoy the board and appreciate my membership of it. There's far, far, far right then there's wrong about it.

Then why solicit feedback? Seems like the Devitt thread all over again which myself and others took as goading rather than genuine.

Whatever you do don't waste 4 1/2 hours on the Bischoff shoot it is everything you have heard before in other forms, he has little memory of WCW etc. The full shoot interview which is very candid states that he and Curtis Axel were available and were considered "good hands." So the office called them to be Rock's tackling dummies no more glamourous than that.