President's Bulletin:
Updated 7th June 2026
What a weekend! ARMGODS ENGLAND saw title defences, changes & qualification paths. Some new blood established themselves as contenders whilst other champions cemented their positions. The crowd were spirited & attentive. When Noah Burton walked out children held up signs that read "Come on Mighty Noah" People stood in the rain to watch & the cheering for him can only be compared to the love shown when Candyman Scott James walked out dressed as Willy Wonka in Tredegar & Nathan Davey entered the arena in Ebbw Vale. Balsall Common inhaled Noah's battle with Mitch Tutt & it intoxicated them. Dean Bolt was the first to declare it as match of the year & I agree.
These are moments that will be remembered by hundreds & talked about for years to come. It will leave a legacy. Noah, Scott & Nathan are from communities that celebrate the success of local heroes. This is an age of actors, soon to be redundant to the whims of computer nerds who control AI - themselves threatened with extinction from the robots they think they control. That visceral atmosphere of what we saw & felt on Saturday night doesn't reach out through the screen easily & nor should it. You have to be there in the moment. I've been lucky to be close many times to see it as referee, wrangler, commentator, mc & many times in my life I've been the entertainment - the man in the arena that Roosevelt generally wrote about.
Elsewhere two of our top exports were putting the UK firmly front & centre on the world armwrestling scene. Tom Holland beat Justin Bishop whilst Bogdan Stoica unseated existing world champion Toddzilla to add that belt to his collection. How did they do it? Dedication, willingness to learn, improve. Falling forwards. They haven't won everything they have ever tried to attain - what they did was learn. Perseverance goes a long way, an inner happiness come what may also helps. Noah Burton has all these qualities. We're going to see more from him I'm sure.
EUROS TEAM are off to Romania this week, updates will be on page of the same name on this site. Have a look who is going & wish them good luck.
And so to other things.
They said it would all go off for Y2k but instead of the end of the world when the clock turned midnight on 31st Dec 1999 the WWF gave us Chris Jericho with Y2J. He wasn't my favourite, but the attitude era that followed was. Wokism gradually dumbed down Pro Wrestling, with a few exceptions - Big Poppa Pump endures with Roy/Steve/William Regal (whichever era you remember him being) still involved albeit behind the scenes now. When the world didn't end with the Millenium Bug, it all became about the Mayan Calendar & 2012. I used to hang about with a guy called the UK DON & he was sure that a rogue planet was going to crash into the Earth that year. Well it didn't. I swam to France in 2013 & didn't notice that the planet had been destroyed at all - it must have been a hoax.
Two decades ago crazies like me would listen & call in to Talk Radio & it was funny. I nearly fell of a ladder decorating my office in the early hours of Christmas day 2009 when it was declared that the Planet of the Apes, Independence Day & Morons from Outer Space films weren't science fiction - they were documentaries. Celebrities with mental disorders & extreme paranoia weren't cancelled or quietly sidelined - they would get hour long interviews after 10pm with James Whale. After an 18 hour stint on the farm the low tones of Mike Dicken would sooth & scold & those of us of a certain age all know what happened to him. I got called a dodgepot by Ian Collins once, but it was me who solved the identity of the Phantom Braker of the M4, all these years later - Chopper Haddock admitted it on the way back from Motherwell this April. I haven't had the chance to inform Collins yet, so if you're following this Ian you can take it all back via the GET IN TOUCH button above.
Talk Radio is rarely funny anymore. Iron Maiden bought back that sort of nonsense to Monday nights a while back but it suddenly stopped when I became a regular guest. I put forward the theory last night that Paul has been replaced by an AI controlled clone. He didn't deny it. It's why we hear out of tune Karaoke during important matches. We should be told what happened to the real Paul, because the channel is still there but the Monday night show is gone. The Iron One's AI controller will read this & will likely put a show on Monday night as if all is okay again, see if I'm wrong. I heard a rumour that Spielberg is going to usher in the aliens we used to talk about on late night talk radio & make it look like another blockbuster movie.
There is some reasoning behind this tale I am weaving & it is this: Pullers attending the Newcastle Warzone on the 4th of July should wear tin foil hats & urban camouflage with dayglo base layers. Oto is ahead of the curve - as well as knowing that Dayglo improves the chances of Armwrestling, it also repels extra terrestrials. Winston Churchill might be long gone, but in Britain's Hour of need Earthquake will lead the counter attack. Disclosure is again indicating that Independence day is the date, so when the mothership hovers over the Three Mile Inn at Gosforth to deploy their forces to take the PAA ROAD WARRIOR WARZONE BELT away from this planet they'll get a "Welcome to the Toon" forearm smash from me & the road warriors. The real Paul Maiden will be found, the AI clone thrown into the Tyne & his old Donk music will be broadcast upwards to make the UFO's crash into the North Sea. After the presentation of the medals all the pullers will march on foot to London & we'll demand that Talk Radio be made funny again. Watch the skies.
See you down the road.
