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A WWE article worth reading: WWE Superstars headline six Oscar movie mash-ups

And a taste of the glory:

 

Message me if you guys are interested in the WWE 2K17 Xbox league.

 

Oh Tom...

 

If they do a re-draft after Mania my fantasy booking would be Zayn to SDL and Dean to Raw - reunite the shield to take on HHH's new stable

 

Watching WM12 because I dont think I have since I was actually 12

 

Id love for Sami to have been moved to Smackdown a few months back, through like Summerslam, but back in time to face KO at WM next year.

Actually, my ideal is moving Cesaro to Smackdown. Clearly not gonna break through on RAW, but his work rate would be perfect for Smackdown mid-card. And worst off, he could form a tag there that gets a run. And my ideal would be moving Alexa to RAW and Nia to Smackdown. Smackdown lets their women sink or swim through promo time, so Nia would get a lot of time. And Alexa is a way better foil to Bayley than Nia is

 

NXT Miami was such a blast tonight. Was Nak's birthday

 

Show was so fun. Seeing Nak live is a hell of an experience.

Also, El Vagabondo rules.

 

Are they throwing a mask on Samson?

 

Just for the next month of house shows I imagine. It would be fun to see him play this on TV but I expect him to be on the main roster after Mania.

 

The league we had back in 13 or 14 or whenever it happened was pretty fun while it lasted. The problems you'd have today are the same ones we had back then. Crafting and updating a full league without a reliable online universe mode is just too daunting.

edit: I'm pretty sure that league killed at least 2 or 3 thread regulars. They stopped being active in the league thread and never posted again.

 

Aw, I wish I had known you were going to be there. Could have said hi!

 

I didn't know you were going! I haven't come on much lately so I'm out of the loop haha

 

Haha last time they did NXT Miami last year it was Joe's birthday and the crowd would sing Happy Birthday to him and he'd get pissed

 

Haha, that's awesome. Nakamura tagged with Ohno aginst Sanity, and the crowd kept singing happy birthday to him then. After the match, Ohno grabbed a Burger King birthday crown and happy birthday sign from the crowd, crowned Nak, and walked around with the sign. Pretty great stuff.

Then at the very end of the night, after the main event where Nak made the save as Eric Young and Roode beat down Tye, Tye led the whole crowd in singing happy birthday to him with the other faces from the card. There's a video of it floating on WWE's Instagram or Twitter, I think.

 

Really really surprised this is something that happened today. I'd LOVE for Maria and her husband in the WWE.

 

Didn't they just resign with TNA?

 

Probably. I'm just surprised they even acknowledge it given how critical she's been at times.

 

Yeah, especially given how petty they tend to be with these sort of things

 

Kenny is returning to NJPW tonight. Over the next two nights they're doing crossover shows with RoH. 4:30 AM EST.

Here are the cards:

Night One (February 26, 4:30AM Eastern)

• Chaos (Gedo & Jado) & Silas Young vs. David Finlay, Juice Robinson, & KUSHIDA
  
• Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL, & SANADA) (c) vs. Delirious, Jushin Liger, & Tiger Mask IV (NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship)
  
• Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Roa, & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay, & YOSHI-HASHI)
  
• War Machine (Hanson & Ray Rowe) vs. Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson)
  
• Dalton Castle, Hiroshi Tanahashi, & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) & Punisher Martinez
  
• Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes & Hangman Page) vs. Jay Lethal & Katsuyori Shibata
  
• Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. Bullet Club (Adam Cole & Kenny Omega)

Night Two (February 27, 4:30AM Eastern)

• Chaos (Gedo & Jado) & Silas Young vs. David Finlay, Henare, & KUSHIDA
  
• Dalton Castle, Delirious, Jushin Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi, & Tiger Mask IV vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, & Tetsuya Naito)
  
• Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa) vs. War Machine (Hanson & Ray Rowe)
  
• Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Hangman Page, & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jay Lethal, & Juice Robinson
  
• Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Punisher Martinez (NEVER Openweight Championship)
  
• Adam Cole (c) vs. YOSHI-HASHI (ROH World Championship)
  
• Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) & Chaos (Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay) vs. Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, & Nick Jackson)

 

I feel like I'm the only person who isn't high on Yoshi Hashi. His gimmick is bad and his wrestling is just okay.

 

I kinda miss John Morrison

 

I've come to realize over the last month or so that the dude botches quite a bit. I give him a pass since his stuff is pretty high risk and he is an amazing heel.