Help me understand why folks are upset at a Dragon Ball reference on AEW TV ?

#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Lake Akan, Hokkaido: Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi posed with a remarkable young class, including Keiji Mutoh, Masakatsu Funaki, Akira Nogami, Masahiro Chono and Keiichi Yamada. A quiet tour photo packed with New Japan’s future.

Casual Baba.

In 1992 WCW held a press conference for a tourney for NWA Words Tag Team Titles. If you look closely there was a WWF microphone.

WWF Wrestling in 1990.

A little more pre-broadcast footage, this time from Going Live! Gordon and Hacksaw Jim Duggan have a bit of a stand-off on 7 November 1992. #saturdaymornings

The Ultimate Warrior Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC December 2, 1989

Houston, TX, 1971: Mil Máscaras at the Sam Houston Coliseum, captured by Geoff Winningham during Paul Boesch’s Friday night wrestling era.

Houston, TX, 1971: At the Sam Houston Coliseum, a vendor sells wrestler 8*10 photos for $1 during Paul Boesch’s Friday night wrestling. Geoff Winningham’s camera caught the era beautifully.

Great Fuji vs. Pat Patterson Uptown Arena, Modesto, California 1976

Sammy Lee (Tiger Mask) whacks Sid Cooper with his cane.

"Fuji Yamada" and "Flying Funaki" aka Jushin Liger and Masakatsu Funaki whilst both on excursion for All Star Wrestling. Bath, England February 15, 1989.

Drew "The Ultimate Chippendale" McDonald August 3, 1988.

#OnThisDay in 1982: Talk Talk released their debut album, The Party’s Over. Still rooted in synth-pop and new wave, it introduced Mark Hollis’s voice through singles like Talk Talk and Today. The start of a wonderful run of music, with each album better than it's predecessor.

The gang. Rhonda Sing with Stu Hart and Terry Funk.

olaroid from the set of Paradise Alley (1978) featuring Associate Producer Arthur Chobanian, Terry Funk, and Sylvester Stallone. This marked Funk's film debut as Frankie "The Thumper," where he also choreographed the movie's wrestling sequences.

Just watched Tomohiro Ishii vs Katsuyori Shibata from August 4, 2013. An absolute slugfest. ****3/4

Watching last night's AEW Collision rather than battle this heat. Hangman Page is such a great babyface. Glad he's back in the fold.

The lads. Skandor Akbar & Jack Brisco

A young Eddie Gilbert in a Dory Funk Jr. t-shirt

Early 1960s: Dory Funk Sr. hosted a Sunday country-and-western variety show on Amarillo’s KVII-TV, sponsored by Falstaff Beer and featuring local singer “Honest Jess” Williams. It aired at 12.30pm, before wrestling at 5.30pm.

Ted DiBiase and Terry Funk having a smoke together.

September 1987: Big Daddy returned to the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth just two weeks after Mal “King Kong” Kirk died during their match in the same ring. A coroner later cleared Big Daddy, finding Kirk had a serious heart condition.

Going to be a late night. KO moved to 2am BST

Then. Now. Forever.

Paul Jones vs. Wladek Zbyszko 1932. Pro shot footage, most likely for a movie.

Wrestling fans in Madison Square Garden watching a WWWF show. "Albano is a bum" The show drew 9,639 February 17, 1969

It is traditional on Friday for me to say: perhaps someone would like some original art, and to support a person who is me. www.chloecumming.com

#OnThisDay in 1986: New Japan: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo: John Tenta, the former sumo wrestler Kototenzan and future WWF Earthquake, attended a New Japan event. Born on June 22, 1963, he had just celebrated his 23rd birthday a few weeks prior.

#OnThisDay in 1988: TBS, Omni Center, Atlanta, Georgia: Antonio Inoki met Jack Petrik, the Turner executive connected to TBS wrestling operations, months before Turner bought Jim Crockett Promotions and created WCW.

#NowPlaying Boards Of Canada Inferno 2026

Advert for Vaux Breweries filmed at The Fairfield public house at Stockton-on-Tees featuring both English professional wrestler Jackie Pallo and ITV sports commentator Kent Walton helping with a delivery of beer to the pubs modern conditioned cellar.

Listening to VOW Flagship and they brought up the time Dave's Casio alarm used to go off at like 1.24am and Bryan would lose it. Fantastic audio each time it happened.

I'm a big fan of Garlic Sausage, it's harder to get hold of than it used to be for some reason, not all supermarkets sell it anymore. Stinky processed cold meats heck yeah!

A little sad that the world cup group stages are now over. Sunk my teeth in to the tournament this year after the debacle that was Qatar in the winter. I've had a blast watched 2+ matches a day for the last couple of weeks. Round of 32 kicks off later with South Africa vs. Canada at 8pm BST.

I met my now wife through this wonderful website many years ago. Glad it's free from it's corporate overlords.

18/18 😜

Abdullah The Butcher vs. Nobuhiko Takada was a match that happened where Abby decided to do some limb work.

#OnThisDay in 1988: CWA: Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee: Antonio Inoki shook hands with UPI photographer Jim Reed, who had photographed him in Tennessee 23 years earlier.

#OnThisDay in 1988: CWA: Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee: AWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Jerry Lawler placed his crown on Antonio Inoki backstage.

Sting with a very young Katsuyori Shibata.

Iconic.

Tibor Szakacs vs. Kurt Stein Royal Albert Hall, London, England 7 December 1960 Kurt Stein (Willi Kurt Rutkowsky, Lithuanian) went on to wrestle in the US as (the second version) of Kurt Von Brauner and Kurt Von Stroheim. Clip unfortunately doesn't have any sound.

In 1962 Britain's 15-month-old "Wrestlers' Alliance" under wrestler Harry Fields attempted to unionise. They didn't succeed. France was more successful and had a wrestlers union starting in 1928, in 1930 it was renamed as Association des Lutteurs Professionnels Français.

Raven in 1990.

Joe Doering was a throwback. He was a hell of a talent that landed in the wrong era. Same age as me, no age to go. RIP the cowboy with the most fire I've seen in years.