Fast Three Count

This Fast Three Count is from @JamesPowers33

Bell

Louder than Vickie Guerrero and makes more official wrestling history than any champion ever. Once the bell rings we get to see wrestling. Mics down and wrist tape up time!

Some great things have happened between bells but no one wants to hear it toll ten times.

Fight

Every so often, not so much since the Attitude Era , we get to see a fight in wrestling. Be it a match, a boiler room brawl, bar room brawl invitational or a straight up slugfest of a segments like Edge and Matt Hardy or JBL and Blue Meanie from One Night Stand.

Me? I do love a good fisticuffs betwixt honourable gentlemen!

Pin

In 9.9 out of 10 times the 1-2-3 means Goodnight Irene. The other .05 refers to Sean Waltman's old character and the last .05 refers to a shady call to stop Bryan from winning and keeping the gold.

This part of the match brings on emotions ranging on a huge scale from disappointment, anger, happiness and a almost shameful love.  

#SexyBoyNo1

That's the hashtag! #SexyBoyNo1. Let's make it quite trendy. As some of you may know I have a little goal to try and get the IWC masses, novelty lovers, old wrestling fans, music buyers to get Shawn Michaels' WWE theme music to get to Number 1 in a music chart, at the least grab a Top 40 spot.

To make this ....Boyhood dream a reality we all need to spread the word and keep in mind Monday 31st March. This is the date that purchases of the track will count towards the official chart and make that dream come true.

All you gotta do to help achieve this is just download the Sexy Boy track on iTunes on Monday 31st March or before April 6th.

There are a handful of supporters and IWC corner stones who want to see this done including @AEPodcast, TeamRock Radio @Beez_says, 4CRs own and IWC HOF @BunnySuicida, the UKs Sunday staple @SundaySegue and good friend of mine and yours, Erik over at the The Wrestling Chronicle!

I don't really have any motives for starting this than just something fun that the IWC can do together and just get wrestling noticed by the people who would normally pass on by, get remembered by those who have forgotten and just to celebrate Wrestlemania week with Mr.Wrestlemania himself good ol' HBShizzle Shawn Michaels.

We've got a couple of weeks to get this moving and noticed, so help spread the word, its 99p, use the #, use the link, get people on it!

KingBingus

The Royal F'N Rumble...

*Warning: This may come across as rantish, nonsensical and not the usual style I post. That's because I'm going on 3 hours sleep, being robbed of 20 quid from a billion dollar company and just going on a bender on twitter with anyone that'll listen!*

Now by the Royal F'N Rumble I don't mean it like EC F'N W but more like Miley F'N Cyrus.
Normally I am upbeat, positive and always try to find the silver lining, but watching this years Rumble has got me, well, wanting to trap my wobbly bits it the kitchen drawer.

To Benoit or not to Benoit - @HulkingLungfish

This post comes to you from @HulkingLungfish on Twitter. He's a great follower of mine and someone I consider to be one the good ones. Lungfish has a great mind for wrestling and is like many of us is frustrated with the 140 limit. 

I'm honoured to have been asked by HulkingLungfish if he could post something on KBW and without further a do, here is his thoughts on Chris Benoit and his inclusion on the soon to be WWE Network.

To Benoit or not to Benoit 

I'm going to discuss possibly the most controversial issue in the history of professional wrestling. 
On WWE TV a couple of weeks back, a very brief shot of someone being pinned was shown on an advert for a WWE DVD. That man was identified as Chris Benoit. 

Chris Benoit murdered his wife and child and then killed himself in 2007. That is a fact that can not be bent or changed in any way. That is the truth and there is no getting away from it.
He was also an exceptional professional wrestler, World Champion and participant in some of what rightly should be called the greatest matches of all time.

Monday Night Carlo

This week over in Twitterland I've stumbled upon on someone new. Yeah sure we find all kinds of new stuff all over the internet daily, hourly if not quicker but this fella is one the good ones. One of the good ones of the IWC.

Carlo is a gent and a great wrestling fan. As per many of my fellow IWC members he's a friendly guy and just wants to join and build wrestling communities. It's such a great quality to have anywhere in life but here in the IWC I honestly do feel a little more positivity is needed to actually help celebrate what we love rather than berate it.

Make 'Sexy Boy' A Wrestlemania Number One!

So we enter a new calendar year which is the same old bag of new starts and resolutions to which we fail and make ourselves feel miserable and unaccomplished. But to keen WWE fans it could be considered the first junction on the Road to Wrestlemania.

I love simply love Wrestlemania. As an adult that doesn't really follow football or NFL the F.A Cup and the Superbowl doesn't do much for me but Wrestlemania is my World Cup Final. I've grown up looking forward to Wrestlemania Sunday for 15 years now and the whole build up for the months before just gets me so hyped for the Grandest Stage of All. 

Once we get into the final stretch, the last week, the go home shows, Wrestlemania is ALIVE! 

This year I want to make it different.

We all remember the night of IZOD and how Fandango went on a chartbusting mission. The IWC plus one, almost got the Fandango theme song to crack the UK Top 40. 

As it was unfolding I got thinking. If 'Killing In The Name' could be Christmas number 1 why couldn't 'Sexy Boy' become a Wrestlemania week charting track?

Shawn Michaels is Mr. Wrestlemania, his entrance theme is one of the all time best, it will be Mania week and maybe just maybe, it will be a fun thing to celebrate with IWC, wrestling fans and non fans alike.

So I would like to get the ball rolling, get the word out and try and get a few people on the band wagon with this. Please do spread the word and help achieve something great for the IWC.

Does it matter if The Rock comes back?

Recently on an episode of the @SundaySegue Podcast Kinny asked me about my feelings towards The Rock returning...again. Since he asked me it's been whirling around in my head.
To me it is a bit of a mixed bag of thoughts, pros and cons with swings and roundabouts.
Do I dislike The Rock, nope. He's done nothing to offend me, infact all he has ever done is entertain me and literally millions.... AND MILLIONS like myself.

(Don't worry, I'm not putting a Hogan/Warrior WCW mirror joke here)

So why would I not be too bothered if we don't see the great one back in the squared circle?

There is no pleasing some

To paraphrase the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln,

You can please some of the people some of the time, All of the people some of the time, Some of the people all of the time but you can never please All of the people all of the time.

Right now in within the IWC this is true in regards to the WWE and it's a great shame. 2013 has shaped up to be a truly remarkable year for WWE with the use of new talent, making good use of established names and heading in a new direction. Keeping well within their PG shackles they have proved they can still make for brilliant TV and top flight action.

Prior to 2013's momentum the IWC and the Universe was up in arms, screaming for a new face to take over from Cena. Of course we had the Summer of Punk but Cena was still taking charge in most of that, champion or not. 

Many of us felt disgruntled, feeling like the WWE was ignoring its "key & most important" fan sector. Truth being WWE was just doing what its always done in cycles and thats pull in its new fan base. The future fan base, without which they wouldn't be able to entertain anyone let alone the "key & most important" fan base.

If you're a twitterer there's a very good chance you've seen a tweet or two today professing that the Attitude Era needs to come back and use "real" wrestlers.

KBW on the Sunday Segue Podcast

Today I had the pleasure of recording my first podcast to be broadcast with the @SundaySegue lads. 

Kinny and Sugs gave me the opportunity to chuck in my two cents on the WWE from Wrestlemania to now.

I was so happy that these guys went out of their way to invite me on their show, it's this supportive, positive and friendly side to the IWC that gives me hope in wrestling fandom.

Kinny and Sugs normally will run down the weeks happenings in the WWE, mostly RAW with  Smackdown in 60 seconds and a brief touch on nXt and news and rumours. They have a very honest opinion and don't shy away from what they think! 

That's right. Wrestling fans who not only think for themselves but will actually voice their opinion. You don't need to agree with them on everything they say, that's what is great about opinions, you can have your own. 

But I do urge you to go and give Sunday Segue Podcast a listen on iTunes and get to know the guys from the UK. 

Thanks again to Kinny and Sugs for giving me the chance to guest on their show!

Attitude Era Podcast got me thinking.

Over the last couple of episodes from @AEPodcast they have pointed something out that has got me thinking.



Now let's not get it twisted, these guys are genius. The whole format has got such a brilliant hook, niche....gimmick? Kevin, Billy and Adam take a step back to the beginnings of some the WWE's best years and tell the stories of the Attitude Era's PPVs and touch on the RAWs and I'm guessing Smackdowns to come. The trio from England and Ireland (maybe N.I, I'm not too sure? Sorry Kevin) are as funny as the idea of a pet coon, whipping a government mule until he's God damned broken in half!
Each episode is seamless with telling us how each PPV unfolded with a nice pace of comedy and, well, almost a play by play commentary.
I personally would like to ask Attitude Era Podcast if they would ever do a minute for minute full commentary, to say, Wrestlemania XV? I would love it and I hope other AEP supporters would love it too.