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Post by BRAINFADE on Mar 28, 2021 23:13:23 GMT -5
This has made me so sad. Like so many others, I've been here since the Wrestlecrap days, but more than that, Wrestlecrap was pretty much my introduction to the IWC. I admittedly haven't listened in years, but I used to be a weekly listener to Wrestlecrap Radio, and there were times that RD and Blade had me in stitches from laughing.
RIP Blade.
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 28, 2021 23:22:10 GMT -5
Oh, wow. R.I.P.
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Post by Bobeddy on Mar 29, 2021 3:35:03 GMT -5
Wrestlecrap Radio was literally the first podcast I downloaded and listened to regularly. And as a direct result of listening to WCR a few months later I decided to join the old Wrestlecrap forums and been here ever since, which to date is the only forum I'm a member of.
I think it says a lot that a wrestling podcast that doesn't talk about wrestling could still be stupidly hilarious to a teen in Ireland that only understood about half of their references to 70s/80s American pop culture. A big part of it was down to the chemistry between RD & Blade and just how natural a character Blade was.
It's making me smile seeing on Twitter and FB the amount of people affectionately saying "I didn't even know he was sick" and how Blade is probably looking down laughing his ass off that the 'big announcement' continues to be unannounced.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 29, 2021 4:02:11 GMT -5
Some news you never expect to wake up too.
Me, like a lot of others here, joined the forum because of Wrestlecrap, I'd drifted away from the main site in more recent years but still have a lot of affection for it which included Wrestlecrap Radio
RIP Blade
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Post by 67 more on Mar 29, 2021 4:55:59 GMT -5
WTF?
Got Blade on Facebook and this is just out of nowhere
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2021 6:43:25 GMT -5
I was lurking (even a member for a bit? I forget already, argh) back when these were still the WC Forums. And a fan of WrestleCrap before that. Fell away from WC around 10 years ago and so I feel a real.....sadness for not having stuck around, or have gotten into online radio / podcasts earlier than I did, so that I coulda kept being entertained by him, and RD. (the thing they don't tell you about getting old is how guilty you feel about a lot of things that you didn't technically do wrong.) A Twitter acquaintance I talked to now & then also died this week (of COVID) and the same sorta disconnect happened there; hadn't talked for a while, wasn't seeing his updates and his death... was a complete bomb blast of sorrow I might've seen coming if I'd seen/talked to him more. Anyway, he & Blade were both around the same age - which is my age - and that's really impacted me more than I thought it would.. I loved seeing this pic last night. Loved that this "meeting" happened. Thank God it did. RIP Blade.
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Post by DoubleDare on Mar 29, 2021 7:35:36 GMT -5
I always enjoyed Blade's stories of even getting gas station pizza, even inspiring me to try to finally do a road trip and stop and random places along the way (I'm probably going to finally do it in June). I found out last night and waking up its still hard to believe. I will miss Mr. Breakstown alot.
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Post by Branimal on Mar 29, 2021 9:07:57 GMT -5
This is such awful, awful news. Brought back a lot of memories for me from the early days of WrestleCrap Radio with Blade referring to Edge as "Ed G". He will be missed.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 29, 2021 9:36:36 GMT -5
I realized last night that Thursday is Wrestlecrap's 21 Anniversary. How bittersweet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2021 9:36:56 GMT -5
Stunned. Wrestlecrap radio was the first podcast I ever listened to. Joining the original proboard forum was a big key in me coming out of my shell after being a complete introvert. I've met people on the forums who made me become a more tolerant person. Blade and RD were a big part of that.
RIP Blade.
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Post by XIII on Mar 29, 2021 9:43:42 GMT -5
Never really knew him but remember him being around way back on the old old WC forums and seemed to be a good egg. He’s one of the reasons that were all here.
RIP
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Post by government mule on Mar 29, 2021 9:45:06 GMT -5
RIP Blade, and thank you for everything
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 29, 2021 9:47:39 GMT -5
RD has been naming one important person from his life each day of the year on his Facebook. One day last week it was the late Harry Simon. It remind how hilarious the interactions between "John Thomas" & Mr. Brakeston..err.. Braxton were on WCR.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 29, 2021 9:50:36 GMT -5
My condolences to his family and many friends. RIP Blade.
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Post by nisidhe on Mar 29, 2021 10:45:38 GMT -5
So sad to hear. RIP, Blade.
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Post by nickcave on Mar 29, 2021 10:49:49 GMT -5
Wrestlecrap Radio got me through a lot of high school, he always seemed like a really nice guy in the interactions we had and he lived not to far from me. He will be greatly missed.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 29, 2021 11:00:05 GMT -5
This is a shock. RIP.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Mar 29, 2021 12:07:49 GMT -5
Damn, this sucks. Used to love his write ups.
Without him I wouldn’t have had this forum I’ve looked at pretty much every day for half my life. RIP
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 29, 2021 13:31:11 GMT -5
RIP Blade
That has come out of the blue! Remember reading a lot of funny stuff on the ‘crap back then that he did and a few of the podcasts too.
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Post by Chainsaw on Mar 29, 2021 16:38:23 GMT -5
I seriously wish there was a Godfather's Pizza around me so I could properly honor Blade.
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