Wheeling out JR for a match is cute and all but him constantly referring to KOR as "that kid" was kinda sad.

Blackpool

After watching the two-part A&E Von Erich documentary and letting it sink in, they absolutely have my Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame vote moving forward.

My neck of the woods in Blackpool

Really looking forward to doing the Loughrigg Fell circuit walk from Ambleside in Cumbria on Sunday with my oldest and dearest friend.

@chloecumming.bsky.social QQ, have you ever done any Terry Funk art?

RIP Dick Parry, his soulful saxophone gave Pink Floyd’s greatest masterpieces their literal heartbeat.

Currently listening to the Shine on You Crazy Diamond from David Gilmour's Live in Gdańsk and it may be the best version of the masterpiece.

Arsenal, premier league champions for the first time in 22 years

Looks like the end of the Man City golden era. Good.

Let’s get violent for fun! (Or something) Here are some NEW WRESTLER DRAWINGS which are two Adrian Streets, a B Hart and an MJF. Ooo such colours, such colourfulness 🤼 www.chloecumming.com/wrestlerdraw...

I wonder if Mike and the Mechanics ever fixed anything.

The A&E documentary on The Von Erich's is such a difficult watch but is a must watch nevertheless. Maybe the "best" documentary ever on the subject of professional wrestling ever made.

I'm watching a best of 1987 TOTP on YT, hence the tweets. We've not got T'Pau's China In Your Hand which was basically the song I'll always point to as right place, right time. Carol Decker has put her kids through college on this song alone.

Terence Trent D'Arby would have gotten more over if he was American. Hell of a talent.

1987 Belinda Carlisle.

Barry Gibb always reminded me of a lion.

Fat Old Sun is probably David Gilmour's opus as far as writing a song goes.

Insightful and passionately sketched thread on Bret Hart, craftsman

I wish Romy did a live non DJ set tour. Hell of a talent.

The recent Seth Rollins and Will Ospreay discourse began with a few awkward moments from Rollins at Backlash, but the reaction quickly became about something larger than execution. It became a debate on taste, age, style, reputation and the strange permanence of fan judgement. 🧵

When wrestlers talk about Owen Hart, they rarely begin with the accident that took him. They begin with the person: how he changed the temperature backstage, how he worked, how he joked, how he made other people feel safer inside a business that often rewards the opposite. 🧵

Happily listening to John Miles perform Music live on Top Of The Pops from 1976 and wondering if the song could have been covered by ABBA and have been better (yes). Sunday night thoughts.

@davidbix.bsky.social have you been able to add to your record collection in 2026, and if so what have you picked up?

I am watching the May 23 1985 Top Of The Pops episode and to go from Animotion's Emotion to Depeche Mode's Shake The Disease in one fell swoop is jarring. One was of the time, one is of all time.

Go West were a band of their time, and were excellent.

this whole thread is the best summation of Bret Hart's mindset re: wrestling I have ever read.

Giant Baba as a fake beer brand. A tourist-shop parody of Suntory Super HOP’S, with “Super AOP’S”, karate chop, 16-mon kick and 32-mon kick worked into the design.

Bret Hart is often reduced to one word: bitter. It is an easy way to dismiss him, because he has never made peace with the parts of wrestling he thinks cheapened the craft, rewarded politics, or left people broken for someone else’s payday. 🧵

Vader and Antonio Inoki after their war at the Tokyo Dome in January 1996.

My working theory for a while now was that Brynn Jade was really Abby Arthur. But in fact it's some guy. Oddballs, the lot of them.

I'm going to have to fight Dave in August.

#OnThisDay in 1992: FMW: Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto vs. The Sheik & Sabu in a Barbed Wire Fire Match. Sheik almost died in this match, he was hospitalised for weeks. In this match, there was a lack of oxygen in the ring and the heat was crazy. They could bear only a few minutes.

Tom Burke, Koji Miyamoto, J Michael Kenyon and Steve Yohe pictured together in 1991. A who's who of pro wrestling historians.

Ted Turner has died aged 87, and a wrestling obituary that begins with Nitro starts too late. Before WCW became his problem child, wrestling was one of the forms of programming that taught him what cable television could become. 🧵

#OnThisDay in 1989: All Japan Women: Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Kanagawa: Chigusa Nagayo retired on her 26th birthday. It was not her call. AJW’s mandatory retirement rule forced it. She returned in 1995 and later founded GAEA Japan.

"Pro Wrestling can be thankful that [Ted Turner] has always like the sport. If not, the only alternative would be the WWF." RIP

A follow-up to the WWE pay-cut thread, because the company-side defence now being discussed deserves a more serious answer than the outrage I've noticed. The argument is that some talent work far fewer dates than when older deals were signed, so WWE sees the old number differently. 🧵

Jushin Liger removal company

Antonio Inoki with a young Uday Hussein. 😬

Tatsumi Fujinami being sick of Antonio Inoki being so vulnerable near Vader, and made it clear that he has no business being in his corner, so he cut his hair by proving the end of a linking between them. This was after their disqualification win over Vader and Masa Saito.

Inoki whispers in to Liger's horn: "shh, you'll be asleep soon, don't fight it".

The WWE pay-cut story is not best understood as a morality play about greed, or a simple test of whether talent should walk away. It is a story about bargaining power: who has it, who thinks they have it, and who discovers the contract was not the real protection. 🧵

Medium John Tenta & Giant Baba

Dynamite Kid talking about retirement and passing his boots to "the superstar of the 1990's" Chris Benoit.

A lonely Jumbo Tsuruta watching Harley Race, Cyclone Negro and Gordon Nelson in Amarillo in July 1973.

Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid in the WWF in 1982 was state of the art and the fans had never seen anything like it before.

Johnny Valentine aged 19, during his debut year in 1947.