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𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝟣𝟩𝘵𝘩, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟢.

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WWE Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode

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Most Beloved NJPW Wrestler Tournament

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Robert Roode

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This is really random but do you know a tag team that I kinda miss?

Beer Money.

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Glorious!

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Reports: Former WWE US Champion Expected To Remain Out Of Action For "Quite Some Time"

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HHH: "Are you ready? I SAID, ARE... YOU... READY?! Then, for the thousands in attendance, and the... few guys that actually follow this blog, lllllllllllllllllet's get ready to S-"

Storm: "Hold on, hold on, hold on a minute! Don't you guys have a company up north you need to be running? Now, I don't care who you are or where you came from, but around here, me and my partner Roode, we rule this tag team division!"

Micheals: "Well, funny you should say that, because if I remember right, we've ruled over all tag teams for over 20 years!"

HHH: "That's right. Maybe you guys ruled over small, lesser-known feds in your heyday, but us, D-Generation X? We're among the most iconic and legendary tag teams/stables in all of wrestling history! You can read a history book if you don't believe me."

Michaels: "Oh, that's funny! I believe I have one right now! Let's see, we got... the Road Warriors, Harlem Heat, the Rockers, the Midnight Express, the Steiner Brothers, the Hardys, Edge and Christian, the Dudleys... oh, here's us, right here! D-Generation X! It also says our name under legendary stables right under guys like the Four Horsemen and the nWo. Huh, that's two teams I was in that appear here."

HHH: "Know who doesn't appear, though? Your... what do you call your team? Beer Money? Huh... well it's no wonder no one takes you guys seriously with a stupid name like that!"

Roode: "Plenty of guys take us seriously! We were among the top tag teams in TNA's revered tag division!"

Storm: "And if you still don't believe us... we'll we can always come down to that ring and show you why we're the best! BEER!"

Roode: "MONEY!"

HHH: "Man, are you hearing these guys, Shawn?"

Michaels: "Loud and clear."

HHH: "Now, listen, "Beer Money"... you guys may have ruled the roost in one or two small time feds... but we are pro wrestling history itself! As Shawn clearly demonstrated, look up the names of any top tag team in wrestling history, we're bound to come up at least once!"

Micheals: "And if you're not down with that, we got two words for ya..."

Crowd: "SUCK IT!"

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Happy St Andrews Day.

As part of our Patron Saint’s Feast Day the Scottish Saltire is proudly flown and many people add it to their posts on social media to celebrate the day, but how did Scotland adopt the saltire? 

There is no actual date, or in fact nothing in our written history of the time, but legend has it that in  AD 832 the king of the Picts, ‘Aengus MacFergus’, ( Anglified to Angus but some stories say Hungus) with the support of ‘Scots’ from Dalriada, won a great battle against King Athelstane of the Northumbrians. The site of the legendary battle became known as Athelstaneford in present-day East Lothian.

St Andrew visited the Pictish leader in a dream before the battle and told him that victory would be won.  When the battle itself was raging, a miraculous vision of the St Andrew’s Cross was seen shining in the sky, giving a boost to the morale and fighting spirit of his warriors. The result was a victory over the Saxons, and the death of Athelstan. Thus, after this victory, according to the tradition, the Saltire or St Andrew’s Cross became the flag of Scotland, and St Andrew the national patron saint.

While there is no written reference to the battle in Scotland from the period it was said to have taken place, this is not surprising, as it was a time for which we have little or no documentation for anything. The earliest written mention of the Battle of Athelstaneford in Scottish history comes from years later in the newspapers of the day, if you follow my posts then you know I dip into these “Chronicles from time to time, the first one to mention  Athelstaneford is the Scotichronicon, written by the Scottish historian Walter Bower. 

The Scotichronicon has been described by some Scottish historians as a valuable source of historical information, especially for the times that were recent to him or within his own memory. But he also wrote about earlier times, and this included the battle at Athelstaneford.

Bower’s account includes the scene where Aengus MacFergus is visited by St Andrew in a dream before the battle. He was told that the cross of Christ would be carried before him by an angel,  there was no mention of a St Andrew’s Cross in the sky in this version. It was in later accounts, from the 16th centuries onwards, that we have the description of an image of St Andrew’s Cross shining in the sky.

Bower was writing in the early 1400s. The bitter and bloody struggle to retain Scotland’s independence was not just a recent memory but also a current reality for him. Parts of Scotland were still occupied by England, and Bower had been involved in raising the money to release Scotland’s king, James I, from English captivity.

Also, Scotland’s early historical records and documents had been deliberately destroyed during the invasion by the English king Edward I. This was done in part as an attempt to remove historical evidence that Scotland had been an independent kingdom. The idea was simple: take away a nation’s history and you strip it of its identity and justification for its independent existence. The theft of the Stone of Destiny was part of this process,  the Black Rood which was believed to contain a piece of the Cross Jesus was crucified on was also removed, I have covered both these in previous posts.

Part of Bower’s motivation in writing his Scotichronicon was to help restore this stolen history. He was a scholar and a man of the church. In his time, the figure of St Andrew had become a prominent presence in Scottish society.

The greatest church building in the land during his time was the Cathedral of St Andrew, which housed relics of St Andrew himself. It had taken over a hundred years to build and wasn’t formally consecrated until 1318, just four years after Bannockburn. The ceremony of course included Robert the Bruce and at it thanks was given to St Andrew for Scotland’s victory.

Less than 100 years after this, in 1413, the University of St Andrews was established and Walter Bower was one of its first students. By this time, the Cathedral of St Andrew was a place of pilgrimage, with thousands travelling there to venerate the saint’s relics. A pilgrimage route from the south took in the shrine of Our Lady at Whitekirk, not far from the site of the battle, and many pilgrims took a ferry across the Firth from North Berwick, where the ruins and remains of the old St Andrew’s Kirk can still be seen close to the Scottish Seabird Centre.

So as he sat down to write his history of earlier times, he was able to trace this connection to St Andrew, using the limited earlier written accounts, such as those of earlier Chronicler I’ve mentioned before, John Fordun, who lived in the 1300s. While Fordun doesn’t specifically mention the location of Athelstaneford, he records a battle which took place between the Picts led by Aengus and a force from the south led by Athelstan, and said the location of the battle was about two miles from Haddington. The account of St Andrew appearing in a dream to Aengus is also described by Fordun.

This creates a powerful link to the development of the written version of the story. Let’s remember Bower came from what is now East Lothian. Let us also remember that people in the early centuries stored and passed on much of their historical knowledge not in the written word but in memory and handed down oral traditions. People told stories, remembered them and told them to the next generation. Undeniably, some details would be forgotten or changed over time, but the bones of the story would be handed down. And that would include reference to locations of significant events in the local landscape.

Bower will have had access to this rich oral tradition of local stories based on handed-down collective memories of past events, which is perhaps why he was able to name the location. The later writers who added to the story of the battle will likewise have found new sources in the oral tradition to add to the narrative. Even in the 19th century, cartographers mapping the area were able to identify locations traditionally associated with the battle from local people who were custodians of ancestral memory.

This is how the story of the Battle of Athelstaneford and its connection with St Andrew and the Saltire has evolved.

The village is home to the National Flag Heritage Centre which occupies a lectern doocot built in 1583 and rebuilt in 1996. It is at the back of the village church. Today the village is surrounded by farmland and has little in the way of amenities. Tourists can follow the “Saltire Trail”, a road route which passes by various local landmarks and places of historical interest.

Athelstaneford Parish Kirk has a connection with the subject of my post last week, author Nigel Tranter, who was a prominent supporter of the Scottish Flag Trust. He married in the church, and in April 2008 a permanent exhibition of his memorabilia was mounted in the north transept of the church. Items include a copy of Nigel Tranter’s old typewriter, a collection of manuscripts and books, and other personal items. The display was previously at Lennoxlove House, and prior to that at Abbotsford House, the home of Sir Walter Scott.

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GIF Set Masterlist

Main masterlist.

Roman Reigns

[Leakee] FCW TV. June 5th, 2011. (w/ Big E., Mr. Florida & Titus O'Neill vs. Conor O'Brian, Damien Sandow, Lucky Cannon & Mason Ryan)

[Leakee] FCW TV. October 23rd, 2011. (vs. Ricardo Rodriguez)

[Leakee] FCW TV. January 8th, 2012. (w/ Dean Ambrose vs. Leo Kruger [Adam Rose] & Damien Sandow)

[Leakee] FCW TV. February 12th, 2012. (vs. Leo Kruger [Adam Rose])

[Leakee] FCW TV. May 2nd, 2012 (vs. Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose)

Money in The Bank 2013 (The Shield vs. The Usos)

Monday Night RAW. October 14th, 2013. (w/ Seth Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust)

Elimination Chamber 2014 (The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family)

SummerSlam 2014 ; debut singles match (vs. Randy Orton)

Royal Rumble 2015

Fastlane 2015 (vs. Daniel Bryan)

SummerSlam 2015 (w/ Dean Ambrose vs. The Wyatt Family)

Monday Night RAW. July 25th, 2016. (vs. Chris Jericho vs. Sami Zayn vs. Sheamus)

Monday Night RAW. November 28th, 2016. (vs. Kevin Owens)

Clash of Champions 2016 (vs. Rusev)

Hell in a Cell 2016 (vs. Rusev)

WrestleMania 33 (vs. The Undertaker)

Great Balls of Fire 2017 (vs. Braun Strowman)

Monday Night RAW. January 29th, 2018. (vs. The Miz)

SummerSlam 2018 (vs. Brock Lesnar)

SmackDown. January 17th, 2020. (vs. Robert Roode)

Royal Rumble 2020

Survivor Series 2020 (vs. Drew McIntyre)

Money in The Bank 2021 (vs. Edge)

SummerSlam 2021 (vs. John Cena)

Extreme Rules 2021 (vs. "The Demon" Finn Bálor)

Survivor Series 2021 (vs. Big E)

Royal Rumble 2022 (vs. Seth "Freakin'" Rollins)

Rhea Ripley

NXT UK. July 3rd, 2019. (vs. Piper Niven)

SmackDown. November 22nd, 2019. (vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks)

NXT. December 18th, 2019. (vs. Shayna Baszler)

WWE Worlds Collide 2020 (vs. Toni Storm)

NXT Halloween Havoc 2020 (vs. Raquel Gonzalez [Rodriguez])

WrestleMania 37, Night 2. (vs. Asuka)

Monday Night RAW. March 7th, 2022 (w/Liv Morgan vs. Carmella & Zelina Vega)

Monday Night RAW. May 9th, 2022. (vs. Liv Morgan)

WrestleMania 39 Saturday (vs. Charlotte Flair)

Monday Night RAW. June 19th, 2023. (vs. Natalya)

Payback 2023 (vs. Raquel Rodriguez)

NXT Heatwave 2023 (w/ "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio vs. Lyra Valkyria & Dragon Lee)

Survivor Series: War Games 2023 (vs. Zoey Stark)

Elimination Chamber 2024 (vs. Nia Jax)

WrestleMania XL Saturday (vs. Becky Lynch)

Damian Priest

SummerSlam 2021 (vs. Sheamus)

Extreme Rules 2021 (vs. Sheamus vs. Jeff Hardy)

Monday Night RAW. April 11th, 2022. (vs. AJ Styles)

Monday Night RAW. November 4th, 2024. (vs. "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio vs. Sheamus vs. Seth "Freakin'" Rollins)

Paige/Saraya

Night of Champions 2014 (vs. AJ Lee vs. Nikki Bella)

Hell in a Cell 2014 (vs. AJ Lee)

Survivor Series 2015 (vs. Charlotte Flair)

IYO Sky/Io Shirai

Mae Young Classic Final, WWE Evolution 2018 (vs. Toni Storm)

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Most Beloved WWE Wrestler Tournament

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Robert Roode

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Cocky Stud Robert Roode tried bullying his partner. This didn't sit well with Eric Young. To add insult to injury Eric decided to pants Robert during his temper tantrum. He and the whole audience bursted out in laughter at the sight of Robert sporting a stringy little White Thong wedged in his cheeks. Robert Panicked desperately trying to pull up his trunks and cover his bare ass. The audience laughed, Eric and Gail Kim laughed Robert was stunned.

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