From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The LilsBoys
The LilsBoys
The LilsBoys grap game. The LilsBoys were hired and wrote their first
piece on King Of The Ring 2001.
They have been penning a weekly column ever since,
which appears on the sports pages of The Sun’s website
each Thursday.
They have interviewed almost lots of big names in the
wrestling business including Hulk Hogan, Ultimate War-
rior, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Dynamite Kid, Stone Cold Steve
Austin, Mick Foley, Booker T, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guer-
rero, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, Edge, Batista and John
Cena.
The two biggest controversies were Flair calling Foley
a “stunt man”[2] and then-Raw star Batista saying Smack-
down “makes me sick” [3] - which led to real-life and
WWE storyline bust-ups between Foley and Flair and
Simon and Richard at WrestleMania 22 Batista and Booker T.[4]
Tag team
Members Simon LilsBoy TalkSPORT: Nov 2001 - Nov
Richard LilsBoy
2002
Hometown London, England
Shortly after starting their Sun Online column the boys
Debut 2001 were invited to be regular guest experts on Tommy
Promotions WWE, TNA, ROH, RQW, 1PW, IPW:UK Boyd’s talkSPORT wrestling radio show, co-hosted by
Alex Shane.
The LilsBoys Simon and Richard, are online wrestling
LilsBoys, After Boyd was fired by the station, Simon took over
columnists for The Sun newspaper in the UK since June hosting duties with Alex, Dean Ayass and female grappler
2001.[1] Nikita, who is now in the WWE developmental territories
It is not known where their ring name comes from, wrestling as Katie Lea.
but the close friends used it in E-Feds in the late 1990s After TalkSPORT bosses decided they wanted to bring
and decided to take it with them to The Sun as their real an older demographic to the station, the wrestling show
names made them sound “more like a pair of middle- was dropped for an easy listening programme fronted by
aged accountants than hot young wrestling writers”. 73-year-old actor Gerald Harper.[5]
In real life Simon is a showbiz journalist, while Simon is still good pals with all the team, including
Richard is in banking. Unsurprisingly given this Simon contributors like Greg Lambert and Mo Chatra, and
does the writing, interviews and live reviews for The Lil- dreams of bringing it back one day.
sBoys column, while Richard provides guidance and sup-
port. WrestleCast: June 2006 - Pre-
The two most common questions they are asked by
wrestling fans are “when are they going to put your col- sent
umn in the paper” and “are Kane and Undertaker really Simon returned to the airwaves in June 2006 with a grap-
brothers”. pling podcast.
He and Radio 1’s Joel Ross record a show roughly once
The Sun Online: June 2001 - a month when a big star is in town to join them. Previous
guests include Randy Orton, Mick Foley and Chris Benoit,
Present in one of his last interviews before he died in June 2007.
With the popularity of wrestling growing all the time in Simon and Joel also conducted a controversial interview
the UK, The Sun spotted the need for a column about the with Mr. Kennedy about the WWE’s Wellness Policy, re-
leased shortly before Kennedy was suspended by WWE
for obtaining steroids over the Internet.
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Simon and Joel also attended WrestleMania 23 to- [5] Anon. "A-Z Of Hawksbee & Jacobs".
gether, along with Joel’s Radio 1 partner JK, Dean Ayass talksport1089.com.
and others.[6] http://www.talksport1089.com/glossary.html.
[6] LilsBoy, S and Ayass, D (April 12, 2007). "On the
References road to WrestleMania 23". The Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/
[1] Sibley, A (August 18, 2003). "Celebrating a year of 0,,2003560001-2007160631,00.html. Retrieved April
those LilsBoys". Wrestling101. 12, 2007.
http://www.wrestling101.com/101/article/
UKInterviews/97/. Retrieved August 18, 2003.
[2] LilsBoy, S and LilsBoy, R (April 17, 2004). "Ric is
External links
naughty by Nature". The Sun. • The Sun’s Wrestling Page
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/ • The Sun’s Sports Section
0,,2003560001-2004180004,00.html. Retrieved April • The Sun’s WrestleCast
17, 2004. Persondata
[3] LilsBoy, S and LilsBoy, R (January 10, 2006).
Name Lilsboys, The
"Batista’s Bombshells". The Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/ Alternative names
0,,2003560001-2005031802,00.html. Retrieved Short description
January 10, 2006. Date of birth
[4] PWTorch.com (June 10, 2006). "What Started The
Place of birth
Booker T-Batista Fight". Headline Planet.
http://headlineplanet.com/home/2006/06/10/ Date of death
what-started-the-booker-t-batista-fight/. Place of death
Retrieved June 10, 2006.
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