Post by The F'N Legend Lbm on Mar 14, 2016 6:50:35 GMT -5
The F'N Legend Lbm's Blog 14th March 2016
Fuck I miss this... And I miss them; the wrestlers. So many times over the last 2/3 years I've sat down at computer and tried to be LBM again. LBM was fun! LBM was so fucking messed up some times. He could have been the nicest of guys but he could also so damn bad at other times. What we did back in the day... Gentlemen it was fun. Nowadays life is about working long hours to pay the ever mounting bills. Getting home and trying to spend time with a wife and my baby girl while doing 101 other jobs to try and get through to the next day. What time I do get off - its spent trying to recuperate the daily grind and to struggle to find the energy just to get up off the sofa and make a cup of tea.
Damn I just realised the intro to this sounds to fucking depressing and its not meant to be. I am just getting loose on the keys again. Now a days the only typing I do is on my phone. I forget what a keyboard feels like. Anyone else out there in my fellow FHT Alumni ever cut promos to themselves? I find when I am shaving my face engineering the extra chin I developed and then my head (yes I am bald now also) I will go into LBM mode. Usually starts with "FOURTEEN YEARS... I... ". FHT for me was a great time. I found it when / it found me at a time when I on my own - dropped out of school - my friends were all going off to university while I was working part time in a super market and had become the last of my siblings to still be at home.
It was comsuming though... During the day mild mannered checkout operative - at night time I was the FHT Franchise. Or as I became later - The F'N Legend LBM. Little Big Man - kinda of ironic now because I am still the shortest guy you'll ever meet only now I am carrying around not so much a 6 pack but a box of 20 beer in my gut. Fuck I need to do something about that. Am I rambling? I'm sorry - it really has been a long time. I was saying about the promos...
I don't know if I could ever have a match again. Believe it or not when you think of career highlights - the matches have faded for me replaced with the stories we told - or more so the emotion I felt when a plan came together. As it goes for anyone wondering what my favourite match is - and no one is... in fact if your reading this now your probably thinking what your favourite match was instead of mine. My favourite matches have to LBM / ULSTER, LBM / REAPER "legend vs legend" and of course the battle into the River Thames - Big Ass Extreme Bash vs "Sick" Nick.
More than the matches I enjoyed telling the stories. LBM vs Ulster we told this story of two friends who grew up together / steeped in truth - we knew other before FHT but we weren't the greatest of friends and I don't mean that in a nasty way - we just didn't hang out - we worked together and went to the same school. But for those who missed that story it was year one ELITE - great time. LBM & Ulster were both trained by the same trainer - Chris McMullan (our boss's name from work). We had come together and were tag teaming and our trainer was dying of cancer and he wanted to see us lift the belts and we did in his name. He got to come out in front of the crowd and soak it all up... But LBM wasn't a good guy remember. He was out for himself as per... and he was holding down the hot rookie Ulster. We lost the tag belts - our trainer died while LBM stopped Ulster from being there at the end and saying goodbye. Steeped in grief Ulster mourned while LBM manipulated himself into getting ownership of his trainer's gym smarming up to the widow and her grown up children. Ulster/LBM was a great natch and it wasn't for any title. Just told a great story. A month after Ulster beat LBM - Ulster became world champion and was the hottest ticket in wrestling. Though in retrospect we balls that story up. We had written a great story with a happy ending. But Harry Potter - how many books were there in that one. We only ever had one one on one match and I believe there was more to that... We were stupid.
The NIN Horror / LBM story was perhaps was my favourite. It came 3 years after the Ulster story at a time when FHT and ELITE had merged the previous spring and much like the WCW/WWF merger had tanked. Finally freeing ourselves from the FHT vs ELITE storyline and having a feud based on personal differences rather than alleigiances allowed me and NIN Horror to create magic. Why it was so creatively fulfilling is me and NIN didn't really know each other. Sometimes you can have good matches with your enemies but great matches with your friends. We didn't know each other. At the time everyone was all about the promo. You could have had a Monday night legacy with 89 promos and 2 matches. So we decided we wanted to let these men wrestle. I think we went 3 weeks in a row on tv and then a pay per view. Another thing was guys bogarting title reigns... so we basically had the FHT Hardcore and ELITE Global Honored and we swapped and swapped them back and forth. Then the story grew around this...
LBM's sons were on the front row one night and NIN attacked them. NIN attacked a couple of kids - unheard of in wrestling. Though I seen them young bucks did it on a kid there not so long ago. LBM and Sally Wilson who at this point were divorced but had reunited were due to be married again - thing is LBM was being nasty - we were going to go round a route of LBM battering her ala Marc Mero / Sable but somewhere along the way LBM became a sympathetic babyface ( don't ask me how ). Sally and NIN started an affair... All this playing out weekly on the show and LBM having no bloody idea (if only he watched it back at the time). Sally got pregnant. LBM and her were to marry in the ring. Weddding happens... NIN interrupts and drops the bomb / somehow they still get married. Fight breaks out outside the building... Sally in the middle of the road as a truck about to run her down and LBM saves her pushing her out of the way only to die to close that episode of Monday Night Legacy. I am literally laughing at that.
I wish there was a dvd that I could go and watch this storyline play out. It was brilliant right up until that point - but then it went to shits. I had to play dead / NIN Horror and Sally Wilson together on screen in LBM's absence were exhausted of the whole thing. Half heartedly LBM returned from the dead 4 weeks later in the most anti climatic moment in history and the whole story was deader than LBM was. Sally had the baby of course about 16 months later (neither of us wanted to go back to that place again) and there was some sort of DNA test blink and you miss it and the daughter turned out to be NIN Horror's. It died on its arse...
I have probably bored ya - just like old times ehh... Its good to be LBM again though. I have a few ideas and blogs I wanna do. Maybe you'll read them / maybe you'll not. But this is kinda like therapy. Let me exercise a few of LBM's deamons here. I think finally after years and years thinking about how I could be LBM again I foundly found it. This is my outlet. A blog here in the year 2016. I got a ton of stuff I want to talk about... I would love to talk about what I did wrong back in the day. I would love to talk about my current relationship with with wrestling in 2016 - it sucks now don't it. I would like to talk about the friends I made. If you read this - don't be shy - offer up a little comment. I should really spell check here but for whatever reason the keyboard is deleting the words if I try and add something in the middle - why does that happen?
Going to edit in a little t-shirt here too....
This has been my blog.
The F'N Legend Lbm's Blog episode1...
Fuck I miss this... And I miss them; the wrestlers. So many times over the last 2/3 years I've sat down at computer and tried to be LBM again. LBM was fun! LBM was so fucking messed up some times. He could have been the nicest of guys but he could also so damn bad at other times. What we did back in the day... Gentlemen it was fun. Nowadays life is about working long hours to pay the ever mounting bills. Getting home and trying to spend time with a wife and my baby girl while doing 101 other jobs to try and get through to the next day. What time I do get off - its spent trying to recuperate the daily grind and to struggle to find the energy just to get up off the sofa and make a cup of tea.
Damn I just realised the intro to this sounds to fucking depressing and its not meant to be. I am just getting loose on the keys again. Now a days the only typing I do is on my phone. I forget what a keyboard feels like. Anyone else out there in my fellow FHT Alumni ever cut promos to themselves? I find when I am shaving my face engineering the extra chin I developed and then my head (yes I am bald now also) I will go into LBM mode. Usually starts with "FOURTEEN YEARS... I... ". FHT for me was a great time. I found it when / it found me at a time when I on my own - dropped out of school - my friends were all going off to university while I was working part time in a super market and had become the last of my siblings to still be at home.
It was comsuming though... During the day mild mannered checkout operative - at night time I was the FHT Franchise. Or as I became later - The F'N Legend LBM. Little Big Man - kinda of ironic now because I am still the shortest guy you'll ever meet only now I am carrying around not so much a 6 pack but a box of 20 beer in my gut. Fuck I need to do something about that. Am I rambling? I'm sorry - it really has been a long time. I was saying about the promos...
I don't know if I could ever have a match again. Believe it or not when you think of career highlights - the matches have faded for me replaced with the stories we told - or more so the emotion I felt when a plan came together. As it goes for anyone wondering what my favourite match is - and no one is... in fact if your reading this now your probably thinking what your favourite match was instead of mine. My favourite matches have to LBM / ULSTER, LBM / REAPER "legend vs legend" and of course the battle into the River Thames - Big Ass Extreme Bash vs "Sick" Nick.
More than the matches I enjoyed telling the stories. LBM vs Ulster we told this story of two friends who grew up together / steeped in truth - we knew other before FHT but we weren't the greatest of friends and I don't mean that in a nasty way - we just didn't hang out - we worked together and went to the same school. But for those who missed that story it was year one ELITE - great time. LBM & Ulster were both trained by the same trainer - Chris McMullan (our boss's name from work). We had come together and were tag teaming and our trainer was dying of cancer and he wanted to see us lift the belts and we did in his name. He got to come out in front of the crowd and soak it all up... But LBM wasn't a good guy remember. He was out for himself as per... and he was holding down the hot rookie Ulster. We lost the tag belts - our trainer died while LBM stopped Ulster from being there at the end and saying goodbye. Steeped in grief Ulster mourned while LBM manipulated himself into getting ownership of his trainer's gym smarming up to the widow and her grown up children. Ulster/LBM was a great natch and it wasn't for any title. Just told a great story. A month after Ulster beat LBM - Ulster became world champion and was the hottest ticket in wrestling. Though in retrospect we balls that story up. We had written a great story with a happy ending. But Harry Potter - how many books were there in that one. We only ever had one one on one match and I believe there was more to that... We were stupid.
The NIN Horror / LBM story was perhaps was my favourite. It came 3 years after the Ulster story at a time when FHT and ELITE had merged the previous spring and much like the WCW/WWF merger had tanked. Finally freeing ourselves from the FHT vs ELITE storyline and having a feud based on personal differences rather than alleigiances allowed me and NIN Horror to create magic. Why it was so creatively fulfilling is me and NIN didn't really know each other. Sometimes you can have good matches with your enemies but great matches with your friends. We didn't know each other. At the time everyone was all about the promo. You could have had a Monday night legacy with 89 promos and 2 matches. So we decided we wanted to let these men wrestle. I think we went 3 weeks in a row on tv and then a pay per view. Another thing was guys bogarting title reigns... so we basically had the FHT Hardcore and ELITE Global Honored and we swapped and swapped them back and forth. Then the story grew around this...
LBM's sons were on the front row one night and NIN attacked them. NIN attacked a couple of kids - unheard of in wrestling. Though I seen them young bucks did it on a kid there not so long ago. LBM and Sally Wilson who at this point were divorced but had reunited were due to be married again - thing is LBM was being nasty - we were going to go round a route of LBM battering her ala Marc Mero / Sable but somewhere along the way LBM became a sympathetic babyface ( don't ask me how ). Sally and NIN started an affair... All this playing out weekly on the show and LBM having no bloody idea (if only he watched it back at the time). Sally got pregnant. LBM and her were to marry in the ring. Weddding happens... NIN interrupts and drops the bomb / somehow they still get married. Fight breaks out outside the building... Sally in the middle of the road as a truck about to run her down and LBM saves her pushing her out of the way only to die to close that episode of Monday Night Legacy. I am literally laughing at that.
I wish there was a dvd that I could go and watch this storyline play out. It was brilliant right up until that point - but then it went to shits. I had to play dead / NIN Horror and Sally Wilson together on screen in LBM's absence were exhausted of the whole thing. Half heartedly LBM returned from the dead 4 weeks later in the most anti climatic moment in history and the whole story was deader than LBM was. Sally had the baby of course about 16 months later (neither of us wanted to go back to that place again) and there was some sort of DNA test blink and you miss it and the daughter turned out to be NIN Horror's. It died on its arse...
I have probably bored ya - just like old times ehh... Its good to be LBM again though. I have a few ideas and blogs I wanna do. Maybe you'll read them / maybe you'll not. But this is kinda like therapy. Let me exercise a few of LBM's deamons here. I think finally after years and years thinking about how I could be LBM again I foundly found it. This is my outlet. A blog here in the year 2016. I got a ton of stuff I want to talk about... I would love to talk about what I did wrong back in the day. I would love to talk about my current relationship with with wrestling in 2016 - it sucks now don't it. I would like to talk about the friends I made. If you read this - don't be shy - offer up a little comment. I should really spell check here but for whatever reason the keyboard is deleting the words if I try and add something in the middle - why does that happen?
Going to edit in a little t-shirt here too....
This has been my blog.
The F'N Legend Lbm's Blog episode1...
