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This weekend's flurry of WWE Talent releases may not be over yet

  The announcement of Duke Hudson’s release last week should have been the big clue more talent releases would be coming. As of 3PM EST, these are all the confirmed talent cuts that began Friday evening. Bold Italics indicate they were previously released during the Pandemic Era: Sonya DeVille Akam Rezar WWE Hall of Famer Paul Ellering Cedric Alexander Blair Davenport Isla Dawn Luke Gallows Karl…

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Joe Hendry beats Nic Nemeh to become the new TNA Champion at TNA Genesis, Jordynne Grace headed to WWE and other related updates

  Say his name and he appears! Do you believe because he is the NEW TNA World Heavyweight Champion:     The day after WWE and TNA separately announced their new unprecidented multi-year partnership, TNA announced several NXT Superstars were booked to appear at the event and some did. Cora Jade came out after the Knockouts Championship match to challenge Masha Slamovich. NXT Tag Champions Fraxiom…

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Just in time for their 25th Anniversary, EA rereleases The Sims 1 and the Sims 2 but STILL screws it up

  Seriously HOW did EA manage to successfully completely screw up rereleasing two 20+ year old games?! This is coming from someone who still owns physical copies of both games and thus do not need to buy these abominations that they dropped without warning overnight this past Friday. I checked out some review videos of people who did and some are rightfully getting refunds. The games were…

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Here's some additional Pre-Royal Rumble 2025 News and Updates

News and updates have been coming fast and frequent since Wednesday. As of yesteday it’s been confirmed NXT’s Lash Legend, Jakara Jackson, Stephanie Vaquier and Roxanne Perez as well as Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair will all be in the Women’s Royal Rumble match. CM Punk “accidently” confirmed his wife and former WWE Superstar AJ Lee WILL be in the Royal Rumble match as well. This morning he…

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Would you prefer the price of eggs and poultry to continue to rise...or would you prefer its cause to ravage the human population instead?

  Ladies and gents, the first option is and always should be the correct answer. As of this week, the H1N5 Avian Flu is devastating the two largest poultry farms in the United States. There have been a handful of confirmed human infections in the U.S. but fortunately, it hasn’t exploded into an epidemic. The latest estimates indicate millions of chickens nationwide may be infected before this…

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JD McDonagh to be out for months after a scary spot on RAW; Triple H to be inducted into the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame

If you watched the January 27 episode of RAW on Netflix that you already know why. In case you missed it or haven’t watched the episode yet, McDonagh overshot a Moonsault from the edge of the ring aiming for Ivar. You could tell from the high arc–and he probably knew it himself–McDonagh landed behind Ivar, hitting the back of his head on the edge of the new commentators’ desk. Despite the scary…

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My Royal Rumble 2025 Predictions

  As of this writing, the 2025 Royal Rumble is this coming Saturday night (WOOT!). About half of the 30 Mens entrants have revealed themselves and about a third of the 30 Womens entrants have revealed themselves. I’ve seen a lot of people express their annoyance with knowing half the entrants in advance for the last 15 or so years but we still don’t know everyone’s order. That and the entrants…

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President Trump signs an Executive Order stating there are only two genders: Male and Female

If this doesn’t make it any more clear Obergafell v. Hodges is being targeted, I don’t know what is. I’ve mentioned it a few times before but for those who might not know, that was the 2013 Supreme Court decision that legalized same sex marriage nationwide. Prior to this, same sex marriage was only legal–and recognized–in about a third of the states by 2013. Mostly Blue states on that…

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Anime Boston's price for a Weekend Pass breaking $100 means I'l have to pass on going this year

    Even if I had income, I would definitely hesitate to pay the current asking price of $110 for the weekend. I mean I get it, there’s operating costs and the convention is run by a non-profit organization–The New England Anime Society or NEAS for short–but the one thing Anime Boston had over bigger conventions like PAX East was the entrance fee was affordable. I remember when it was $50 for the…

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I recently got my hands on Tales of Graces f Remastered and it raises some important questions about Namco Bandai's Project Remastered

  Originally released in Japan on the Wii, Tales of Graces got a western release on the Playstation 3 as Tales of Graces f. It was also the first of three mainline Tales of games the PS3 would get, the other two being Xillia 1 and Xillia 2. Graces f was also the third main series Tales of game to have DLC content after Vesperia and Hearts R. Some free, some paid. Like Vesperia Defitive Edition,…

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This blog now has a new name to better reflect expanded news and updates

  The name change comes five years later than it should have to say the least. While I still intend to give WWE preferential treatment on this blog, I plan to also start giving news and updates on things going on in other promotions. Not just other wrestling promotions in the U.S. and Japan but wrestling promotions in other parts of the world such as India and Europe. Along with the name change,…

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I'm not going to echo the chaos flowing out of The New Administration here

We’re only on the 3rd day into the new Administration but it’s probably fair to say we are now living under a Constitutional Autocracy: Legal protections will now only apply to some, not most. That was made official when Trump pardoned everyone convicted for 1/6/2021 including very violent and deranged people. Those celebrating the pardons as “restorative justice” will soon change their minds…

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Trump's Inauguration Speech is a foreboding reminder big lies and disinformation will be made manifest in very disturbing ways starting today

As winter weather descends upon the eastern half of the country this week, a different kind of storm is about to descend upon the city of Chicago. A few days ago, word from Trump’s team announced they had selected a “Sanctuary” city to be the first in the country that will have ICE–short for Immigration Customs and Enforcement for those who don’t know–conduct raids in various locations across the…

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It's now been confirmed Corey Graves' commmentary issues this past week is being turned into a storyline

  For those who might have missed this bit of self-inflicted backstage drama, veteran commentator Corey Graves got himself suspended over some social media tweets he made about 8 hours ahead of this past week’s episode of NXT. The week before, Graves was added to NXT’s commentary team. A week later, he made some cryptic tweets expressing his dissatisfaction with what he viewed as a promotion and…

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Ukrainians lash out against Western Europe and the United States online as Russia steps up its atrocities in their country

  …A paradigm shift is coming and Western nations are not going to like it. Ukraine has been in a nearly 3-year fight for its own survival largely on its own at this point. More so after Putin’s allies in the Middle East pulled the media’s attention away from Ukraine last October and more recently, American voters put Trump back in the White House. The Kursk Offensive earlier this year was as…

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Breakthroughs in Nuclear Fusion Energy Research over the last 3 years signal it may be harnessed as soon as this year

All I can say is Science Fiction is now real. As of this month it’s confirmed the UK, South Korea, Germany, China, Japan and the United States are all separately working to build a Nuclear Fusion power plant. The race is on to see who will be the first in the world to bring theirs online. For context, Nuclear Fusion is different from Nuclear Fission which is what the world has been using since…

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MLK Day being overshadowed by Trump's Inauguration in the media is 100% intentional

  More so given how heavily politicized MLK and the day in his honor were made in recent decades by both parties. For context, MLK’s birthday is actually January 15. Making the third Monday of January MLK day was done simply for the sake of consistency. I don’t know if this is the first time Inauguration Day happened to fall on the same day as MLK Day before but I do know that if it originally…