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Raziya Was India’s First Female Muslim Ruler and A Brave Warrior

Given the fact that Shams-Al-Din Iltutmish entered the court of the Delhi sultanate as a Turk slave and died as Sultan of Delhi, might have been the first indication that his daughter, Jalalat-Al-Din Raziya was destined for greatness. In 1236, Jalalat-Al-Din Raziya, historically referred to as Razia Sultan, ascended the throne as the first female ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. Though, her story might be perceived as romantic in popular culture, reality was anything but romantic. The First Female Successor for the Throne Iltutmish arrived at the Delhi sultanate as a Turk slave. He grew to be a great favorite of his master, Qutb Al-Din Aibak, the first Sultan of Delhi and so was married to the sultan’s daughter Qutub Begum becoming an actual part of the ruling family. With Qutb-Al-Din Aibak, he had a son Nasiruddin Mahmud and a daughter Jalalat-Al-Din Raziya. When Raziya was still a child, her grandfather Aibak died and her father became second Sultan of Delhi. During the final years of his life, Sultan Iltutmish had to make an important decision. Whom would he hand-over the administration of the sultanate? Based on qabliyat (i.e. capability), Iltutmish would have chosen his son Nasiruddin Mahmud, who at that time also ruled as governor of Bengal. Yet, under mysterious circumstance, Nasiruddin Mahmud died and Iltutmish was at a loss. None of his other sons, born from his other wives, were too young to be crowned his successor. His daughter Raziya had already shown her capability of managing the sultanate. When her father left for business or campaigning affairs, she took charges as a competent regent with the assistance of the Sultan’s trusted minister. She had become a well-educated woman, both in formal education as in the Qu’ran. Moreover, she was skilled in martial arts and, thus, an excellent trained warrior, rode both horses and elephants with an exquisite accomplishment and exercised authority with great dignity. Without consulting the ulama (i.e. scholars within the Muslim law), Iltutmish appointed his daughter Jalalat-Al-Din Raziya as his successor, for he saw “the signs of power and bravery” in her. Whenever someone questioned his decision he would reply: “My sons are devoted to the pleasures of the youth, and not one of them is qualified to be king […]. After my death, you will find that there is none more competent to guide the state than my daughter.” As such, Iltutmish became the first Sultan to appoint a woman as his heir apparent.

A Devoted Leader of her Empire and Subjects She established schools, academics, research centers and public libraries where both Islamic tradition manuscripts and Hindu works shared places. As a woman, Raziya was not given full support from the noblemen. She only managed to secure her control over the throne by dividing the opposition. After her official accession, many nobles opposed her. Ultimately, she won the majority over and the kingdom slumbered into peace again. She could extend the power of the state widely through the obedience and submission of maliks (i.e. kings) and amirs (i.e. state leaders). By building a system of roads, she could easily inform herself of the affairs in the distant parts of the empire. She linked towns up with villages and built small forts as guard posts around these routes. In addition, she established schools, academics, research centers and public libraries where both Islamic tradition manuscripts and Hindu works shared places. Only one of the many examples that showed that Raziya considered the Muslim community and the Hindu community on an equal footing. Raziya was clearly a devoted leader for her empire and subjects. She listened to her people’s complaints and demands, trying to reserve herself as a guiding hand among them instead of an indifferent ruler. By stating her title to be officially Raziya Sultan, rather than Raziya Sultana, she underlined her rightful credibility as a powerful sovereign leader of the Sultanate of Delhi. As her desire was to keep close relations with her people, Raziya Sultan substituted her female attire with that of a man’s head-dress and tunic, abandoned the veil and rode out on elephant without purdah (i.e. covering of the face). A Conspiracy That Secured the Existing Opposition of Raziya’s Noblemen Letting Raziya assume power, her noblemen had expected their female ruler to be a puppet in their hands. Instead, Raziya openly confessed herself to be an independent leader which caused much dissatisfaction among her nobles. With the arrival of Jamaluddin Yakut, a Habshi (i.e. Ethiopian) slave, the last straw was drawn. Yakut had a calm and dependable nature, something that lead to Raziya favouring him so much to elevate him to position of Amir-i-Akhur (i.e. intendent of the royal stables). This position was a strategic position, very close to the sovereign. Raziya Sultan had basically made a non-Turk commander of her army. She did not intend to counter the power of her Turkish nobles whom, at that moment had monopolized that position, but her choice eventually led to their decision to dispose her. Together, Malik-i-Kabir Ikthiyaruddin Aitigin and Ghiyasussin Balban, set a conspiracy into motion against Raziya Sultan and a key chess piece in their plan was Malik Ikhtiyauddin Mirza Altunia. Malik Ikhtiyauddin Mirza Altunia, a prominent noble man under Raziya’s father reign, had supported Raziya’s accession. Raziya favored him and had him rewarded with governorship of Tabarhinda (Bhatinda). Before his departure to Tabarhinda, he offered marriage to Raziya which she refused stating that her priority was taking care of the empire. Aitigin and Balban took advantage of Altunia’s absence and told him rumors about Raziya’s and Yakut’s intimacy. The fact that Raziya and Yakut were always together, discussing affairs concerning the empire and she asking him advice about strategies, Aitign and Balban could arouse Altunia’s jealousy by telling them that Raziya was in love with Yakut. In anger, Altunia joined the opposition of the rebels, offered his help to depose the Sultan and by doing so, he would receive a portion of the empire. A Prisoner Who Wins Over Her Captor to Win Back her Throne The noblemen could not oppose Raziya in Delhi, as she had joined most her subjects in support for her rule, therefore rebellions were started in the distant provinces. One of the many rebellions came from Tabarhinda, Altunia’s government, a place she never expected rebellion to be stirred. Still, she asked Yakut to prepare the march against Altunia. At that moment, the army was exhausted, having put down a different rebellion in Lahore and Yakut was afraid that victory would come so easily this time. Due to his loyalty, he did not discourage the Sultan. During the battle, Altunia realized that to defeat Raziya and to gain power for the nobles at Dehli, he had to kill Yakut. With the death of the commander of the army, soldiers lost their confidence and eventually surrendered to Altunia. Still trying to inspire her forces, Raziya sultan failed and was taking prisoner. Meanwhile, the noblemen at Delhi assigned a new sultan, Raziya’s stepbrother Muizuddin Bahram Shah. He was a drunkard and finally could serve as the puppet the noblemen wanted. During his reign, the people were oppressed and opponents of the empire were unmercifully killed. Th promise that the noblemen had made to Altunia was forgotten. Raziya, still captured, realized that in order to restore her throne, she had to convince Altunia of fighting against a common enemy. Alluring him with the promise of power and rule in the sultanate, Altunia decided to help her. After their marriage, Altunia and Raziya recruited an army to win back Delhi. A Story Made Romantic It is not known who made the offer of marriage first. In any case, it did not last very long. Nearing Delhi, Bahram Shah knew that the only way he could win was killing Raziya. The people of Delhi were still allied to Raziya Sultan and merely her presence was enough to harden their love and respect for her. Unfortunately, Raziya Sultan was defeated. Not much is known about the cause of her death. Some believe she fought as a valiant warrior on the battlefield until an arrow struck her. Others say she was defeated and fled where her survival was depending on a man who gave her bread and a place to sleep. During her sleep, the man saw a tunic of gold and pearls under her male army garment and realized that the man he had helped was a woman. He killed her, buried her body and took her valuables to sell on the market. Popular culture turns Raziya’s life into a romantic story. The supposed love triangle has been source for various on-screen adaptations: Raziya having an affair with her noblemen but growing overly dependent on the Abyssinian slave, leading to a jealous lover and her subsequent defeat. How many inaccurate versions may exist, we should never forget Raziya Sultan’s true story: that of an independent female ruler who fought until the bitter end for her Empire! Sources Brijbhushan Jamila: Sultan Raziya: Her Life and Times: A Reappraisal (Manohar Publications, New Delhi : 1990) – Chandra Satish: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals : Delhi Sultanat [1206-1526] (Har- Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi :1997, rpt. 2015) – Dasgupta Shahana: Razia: The People’s Queen (Rupa & Co., New Delhi : 2001) – Eraly Abraham: The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate (Penguin Books, India : 2014) – Fatima Mernissi, The Forgotten Queens of Islam (Polity Press 1993, 1993)

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Val Armorr was the son of one of Japan's greatest crime lords, Kirau Nezumi, also known as Black Dragon. When he was born, his mother, the American secret agent Valentina Armorr, tried to hide him from his father, but she failed and was killed for her effort. Japan's greatest hero Sensei Toshiaki (the White Crane) eventually killed Black Dragon for his crimes and adopted the infant Val. He raised Val as if he were his own son, and trained him in all manner of the martial arts. Val became the youngest warrior ever to earn the title Samurai, and he went to work for his local shogun. However, after trying his best and failing to please his supervisor, he quit and searched the galaxy for new forms of battle to master.

Legion of Super-Heroes

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When Val returned to Earth, he found that the Legion of Super-Heroes was searching for new recruits to battle the Khunds. He applied, and, although he had no superhuman powers, was accepted when he challenged Superboy to single combat and so impressed the Boy of Steel with his unexpectedly formidable skill that Superboy vouched for his admission to the Legion. His Legion career almost ended ignominiously when fellow recruit Nemesis Kid framed him for betraying Earth to the Khunds, but Nemesis Kid's own treachery was discovered in time, and Val went on to become one of the greatest Legionnaires ever. As Karate Kid, Val was the Legion's leader for one term[4] and once took on the entire Fatal Five single-handedly, clearly defeating the Persuader, Emerald Empress, and Mano (though Mano was largely a matter of luck as the Kid admitted to himself). At one point or another he launched solo flying kicks at villains whose power level far exceeded Superboy, including Validus, Mordru, Omega and even Darkseid. Though they had little effect, they showed the degree of his fearless courage. Karate Kid's best friends in the Legion were Timber Wolf, Chamelon Boy, Dawnstar and Ferro Lad. Timber Wolf's acrobatic abilities made him a natural sparring partner against Val and Karate Kid had a calming effect on Brin Londo with his discipline.

Val fell in love with Princess Projectra, who joined the Legion at the same time he did. In order to prove his worthiness of the princess' hand, he took a leave of absence and spent about a year in the primitive 20th century (during his visit there, Karate Kid was featured in an eponymous, short-lived comic book series: Karate Kid #1 debuted in March 1976 and lasted for 15 issues). He returned to find Projectra's father dead. With Val's and the other Legionnaires' help, she won the throne from her cousin Pharoxx. Val officially became Projectra's consort soon afterward and resigned from the Legion.

Wedded bliss did not last long. He and Projectra returned from their honeymoon to find that her planet, Orando, had been taken over by the Legion of Super-Villains. Val, Projectra, and several other Legionnaires were captured by the villains. When the heroes escaped to oppose the villains, Val fought their leader, Nemesis Kid. Nemesis Kid beat Val almost to death, and Val wanted to continue to fight so that he could die in battle — the ultimate honor by his cultural standards. But at Projectra's urging, Val instead used his remaining strength to destroy the power source for the machines that were moving Orando into a strange dimension. In revenge, Projectra killed Nemesis Kid soon afterward. A memorial to Val was built on Shanghalla.

Myg of Lythyl, one of that planet's Three Judges, later applied for Legion membership and dedicated himself to carrying on the name of "Karate Kid." Like his predecessor, he possessed superior martial arts skills. He became a member of the second Legion of Substitute Heroes while training in the Legion Academy. Myg later joined the Legion during the "Five Year Gap", the gap in-between Legion books before he resigned.

During the "Five Years Later" storyline following the Magic Wars, Earth fell under the covert control of the Dominators, and withdrew from the United Planets. A few years later, the members of the Dominators' highly classified "Batch SW6" escaped captivity. Originally, Batch SW6 appeared to be a group of teenage Legionnaire clones, created from samples apparently taken just prior to Ferro Lad's death at the hands of the Sun-Eater. Later, they were revealed to be time-paradox duplicates, every bit as legitimate as their older counterparts. However, this version of Val Armorr was killed in battle (along with SW6's Princess Projectra and Chameleon Boy) fighting Dominion troops. Myg, however, resurfaced as one of the many people mindwiped by the Dominators. They unlocked his meta-gene, giving him sonic abilities.[5]

In his 2007 return in Justice League of America, Starman (Starboy) refers to Val having previously died without elaborating on how he returned from death

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4R’s: Encantadia Season 2 (April 12, 2017 mid week-ender episode review)

Episode 193

Recap:

Haliyah, goddess of two moons

Just as Cassiopeia hoped for, a beautiful goddess descended from the moon. Her enchanting voice immediately caught the attention of Cassiopeia, from the way she looks, Cassiopeia already knew that she was a goddess, and she’s none other than Haliyah. But when the latter saw her, she immediately went back to her home. Cassiopeia pleaded and tried to summon Haliyah back but failed, Cassiopeia heard another voice and told her she won’t be able to talk to Haliyah because she is elusive, she doesn’t like getting in touch with other creatures which is why she chose to live in the moon. Cassiopeia wondered who that was, not long after, a strange creature emerged from the stream.

Why, why love?

Alena was angry at what Memfes did with the Adamyans and immediately searched for him. Memfes appeared and made a deal once again with the sang’gre, marry him in exchange for the Adamyan’s freedom, once again, Alena refused his proposal and fought him instead. Because of her anger, Alena unleashed the power of the water gem and accidentally hurt Memfes, Alena realized what she did and became worried about him. Turns out, Memfes was actually fine and was unaffected, the chief of the Gunikars vowed to make Alena fall for him.

Ariana has been training non-stop in Lireo. Ybrahim has been watching her every move, and it reminded him so much of how Amihan fights back then. Manik came and told him how proud he is for having a beautiful wife-to-be, something which surprised Ybrahim. Manik explained that Ariana was betrothed to him as part of following their tribe’s customs, Manik knew Ybrahim feels something towards Ariana and low-key stated to stay away from his woman.

The thief in Etheria

Pirena and Deshna went to Etheria, the younger Hathor warned Pirena not to make her a bait once again. Hitano came and found the sisters, he also found out what the two had been up to. Pirena and Deshna wanted to make it to Etheria without anyone noticing and came up with a plan to make Hitano a bait to trick the Etherian soldiers, Hitano agreed, but only in one condition, if the sisters does not make it back right away, he’ll follow them. The three proceeded with their plan. Hitano made the soldiers run after him while Pirena and Deshna sneaked inside. Pirena and Deshna already made it inside and fought the soldiers guarding Avria’s room, not long after, Asval and Andora came and called their queen to tell her that there was an intruder in Etheria—Hitano. Avria reminded Hitano about the deal Etheria made with Lireo, Hitano bluffed that he was just strolling around Etheria which Asval refused to believe and even accused him of being a spy. Andora suggested to punish him or kill him (which was impossible since Hitano is an ivtre) but Avria did not allow that and set him free instead, after all she made a deal with Danaya and she still has the water gem to obtain.

Hitano went back to Lireo and informed Danaya about what Pirena and Deshna has been up to, and through the help of Imaw’s cane they found out that Pirena wanted to obtain Etheria’s golden hourglass which has the power to turn back time, Danaya already knew Pirena wanted to go back to the time when Cassiopeia’s island was under attack to save Mira. But it wasn’t the time for Pirena to do such thing for it will ruin their plans and the temporary ceasefire will be voided.

The sisters went to Avria’s room where the golden hourglass was but Pirena got disappointed to find out that the hourglass was no longer there. Avria sensed that there is another intruder in Lireo and immediately ordered her soldiers to search the entire palace. Avria went back to her room and found out that the hourglass has been stolen and suspected that it could be the diwatas to committed the crime.

Pirena went back to the camp and was very frustrated, all of her hopes to save Mira has vanished. Deshna calmed her sister down and thought that Avria might have placed the hourglass somewhere else, desperate, Pirena went back to Etheria and confronted Avria. Pirena demanded for the hourglass and warned Avria of how their meeting will end up if Avria does not give her what she wants. Danaya came and stopped Pirena from whatever she was trying to do and apologized to Avria, Danaya took Pirena away. Another misunderstanding emerged between the eldest and the youngest daughter of Mine-a, Danaya reminded her that her decision to back out from the war was for the safety of everyone and told Pirena to stop being selfish. Pirena resented that idea, for all she ever wanted was to regain what she lost. Until now, she hasn’t accepted her daughter and Lira’s deaths and will do everything to get them back. Danaya and Pirena engaged in battle, Avria who has been watching them through her staff was fascinated at how the sisters were trying to kill each other, but still wondered who stole the hourglass.

In the woods, Hagorn was all alone, carrying something. Etheria’s most powerful tool, apparently he was the one who stole it for his own purposes.

Rave/s:

💛 I.love.Danaya’s blue and gold warrior costume! Reminds me so much of Amihan and Danaya’s sisterly moments together, is this a sign that Danaya will ultimately be chosen as the air gem’s keeper? What do you guys think?

❤ Danny and Piry are fighting again, although Danaya has a point, Pirena’s side is also understandable. She’s a mother, and she’ll do anything to bring her daughter and niece back. That aside, I love the pain and tension between Glai and Shai (Sanya), both queens owned the scene. Also special shoutout to Pirena and Deshna! More sisterly moments please.

💀 Hm…so if Hagorn is the one who stole the golden hourglass, I’m pretty sure he’ll make a deal with Pirena before letting her get a hold of it, surrender Hathoria most probably, or I don’t know, Hagorn seemed to be less of a greedy bastard lately and is more focused at eliminating Etheria, it’s hard to tell from his emotionless face.

💎 Guys, I think Avria has already summoned Odessa, Andora, and maybe Animus back from the past before the hourglass was stolen? Nevertheless, I’m excited to see Juvila, kind of curious about Odessa but she’s a bitch so…whatever, and Avisala to bathalumang Haliya! I’m familiar with Valeen but I wasn’t expecting that she’s gonna play the character, well, it’s not that I am that excited for the big reveal, actually I am no longer excited for some new cast member reveal because this tactic to win the audiences is so overused. The only thing that I want to see is Juvila, Raquim and Mine-a’s return along with Lira and Mira (hopefully).

Rant/s:

🤔 Don’t you guys think that Ybrahim is hanging out in Lireo way too much? I would understand if Lira was still there, like I haven’t really seen him doing some kingly stuff, like dude, I know you lost your beloved and your daughter but you have a kingdom to look after, I want to see more of Ybrahim as a king and a leader in action rather than a love sick man. I think this arc is getting way more Lireo-centric. I miss seeing Sapiro and I haven’t really seen Hathoria’s interior in Hara Pirena’s reign and I want to see that.

🙄 STIFF. STIFF. STIFF. Is how I would describe Arra in her training scene, she’s making it so obvious that the routine is choreographed, very unnatural, I’m not a martial artist and she’s not as well but she can always get away with the struggle with GOOD ACTING, understandably Kylie is effortless because she has been doing martial arts since childhood, but there are so many cast members who have no background in martial arts but they can still make people believe that they are excellent fighters, and she had lesser time to train but like I said, she would have pulled it off with acting. Unfortunately she can’t even make her acting natural so why expect right? Her face was so blank, it lacks the determination, her eyes doesn’t scream passion, she lacks fire, her body language doesn’t tell people how badass she has become, but rather she’s letting everyone know that either sword fighting is not her cup of tea, or she’s just playing around. Honestly I would rather go for a Manik-Ybrahim bromance than this love triangle that only involves two actors.

Best performer/s for this episode: Glaiza de Castro 🔥 Sanya Lopez 🍃

Rating: 8 out of 10💎s

Mid-week thoughts:

Overall this week has been exciting but not EXCITING, exciting. I think this whole getting Haliyah’s attention will be prolonged to give way for new characters which is kind of annoying, and I guess the whole plot of the season 2 will revolve around Emre getting Devas back. It’s annoying how these so-called guardians have yet to prove themselves, if you ask me Lira and Mira are the only ones who deserve the title, what’s the whole point of letting the three others live yet they haven’t done anything to be of help? At least Deshna is doing something, but right now, I feel like Muyak, Pao Pao and the most useless of all useless Ariana are just mere scene fillers, this arc failed to emphasize the story of the new guardians and just like book 1, this second season is still more on the sisters’ stories rather than a transition from the four daughters of Mine-a as saviors of Encantadia…or Amihan rather to “passing the responsibilities” to the seven chosen. Narrative-wise I think that the seven guardian’s plot was just a mere arc filler.

Have a blessed Holy Week and enjoy the long weekend! E correi diu mga bes! As always, thank you so much for the love 😘

Overall best performer/s for this week: Gabbi Garcia 🌊 Sanya Lopez 🍃

Overall rating: 8 out of 10💎s

Photo credits: From Twitter: @GMAEncantadia (Encantadia 2016-2017 official twitter acct) @gmanetwork (GMA Network); official website: gmanetwork.com @GMADrama (GMA Drama)

From Facebook: Encantadia 2016; official website: encantadia.com.ph

Video credits: GMA Network via YouTube & dailymotion

#tv series #encantadia #encantadiapaghingi #pirena #ybrahim #ybriana #ybramihan #4Rs

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The Kid Veteran: Brad Wheeler

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The Kid Veteran: Brad Wheeler

One of Cage Warriors top fighters, ‘The Crazy Kid’ Brad Wheeler has been a staple of the European promotion for well over half a decade.

Wheeler, who fights out of The MMA Clinic in Romford has shown a fantastic amount of development since his debut for the promotion, while also delivering some fantastic fights and finishes.

The Romford native has been covered in MMAUK in the past, however, now seems to be a fitting time to revisit his career as he has hinted that it is nearing an end.

Following his most recent victory against UFC veteran John Maguire at Cage Warriors 102, Wheeler stated on his social media platforms that he is “currently not looking to fight anytime soon” but also “not officially retiring”.

Whether this was Wheeler’s last professional Mixed Martial Arts fight or just the beginning of a long break it seems like a fitting time to shine a light on the London fan favourite’s fantastic run.

Wheeler made his professional MMA debut over 10 years ago now, going 3-4-0 in UCMMA. It was a rough start, but Wheeler was facing off against some of the UK’s top fighters such as Dino Gambatesa and Paul Reed.

He then began his Cage Warriors career in February of 2011 at CWFC 40, he won his promotional debut by way of rear naked choke.

Wheeler has always been an established dominating grappler with I high finishing rate. 11 of Wheeler’s 18 victories coming by way of submission.

With a brown belt under Michael Russel, Wheeler has finished fights mainly by way of rear naked choke or triangle. Somewhat notably submitting a then-undefeated Ian Entwistle in 2011 via. inverted triangle prior to Ian’s 3 fight run in the UFC

It has been his that striking has looked exceptional as of late however, Wheeler is one of the fighters in MMA who reaps the benefits of going to the body. In 2017 he scored a liver shot knock out over Warren Kee.

His most recent outing against John Maguire last March Wheeler’s experience that he had collected over his previous 30 fights was on show.

His composure was apparent from the first bell, he maintained distance well and invested with shots to the body in the form of a long jab. By the second round, Maguire began to fade and Wheeler turned up the pace, finishing the fight by TKO just under seven minutes in.

Wheeler is a game fighter, he undoubtedly deserves his nickname, ‘The Crazy Kid’, as he is more than happy to take on anyone even in today’s age of unblemished records and favourable matchups.

With 18 wins and 13 losses, Wheeler’s experience in Mixed Martial Arts is undeniable. And at only 28 years of age; Wheeler has garnered hours of cage time and is one of Cage Warriors most active fighters. He always brought excitement to both the lightweight and welterweight divisions.

Having fought for Cage Warriors 18 times he always brings a huge crowd, especially at the shows that Cage Warriors have in London. Wheeler is true Cage Warriors veteran and the London cards will seem like they’re missing something without him.

‘The Crazy Kid’ also had success in other promotions, such as Cage Fighters Championships as well as Warrior Fight Series in which he picked up the Lightweight title which he earned by a three-round decision over Jefferson George

Brad Wheeler is a fantastic fighter with perseverance to match his skill which will unquestionably benefit him in whatever he is choosing to peruse in life at this point.

If this is the end of the road for Wheeler’s career as a professional Mixed Martial Artist, he can walk away with his head held high. Wheeler has had a roller-coaster career in which he always brought an exciting fight, all topped off by his spectacular finish of Maguire.

#Brad Wheeler #Cage Warriors #The Crazy Kid

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08. Warriors Struggle - Bobby ‘One-Punch’ Portis - Lonzo Ballin’ - Hornets & Jazz Update - Hashmojis

Greg: Hello and welcome to another episode of Double Drivel. We are a weekly podcast offering a fan's perspective on the news and issues surrounding the NBA. Thank you for joining, us my name is Greg and I am joined as always by my co-host JT. You can find us on twitter @doubledrivelers or email us at [email protected]. JT what up my friend? JT: Not too much Greg, having a great week. My favorite time of the year, just a few days away from my birthday. Did you know that? Greg: I was quite aware. It's not just that I have you in my calendar like I always have, it's every social media platform on Earth that tells you your birthday is coming up.You really really can't miss it these days if it's a friend of yours. JT: Things are good, and the NBA season is in full swing. It's so great already. It's been fantastic. Greg: It has been very good. We got some great stuff to talk about. We got Golden State struggling, Lonzo Ball and his progress so far, we're gonna check on the Hornets and the Jazz and how they are doing, we have the NBA Twitter hashmojis, and we got a bunch more. We're gonna start with Mr. Bobby One-punch Portis. I know you were really excited about this story. Why don't you talk about what happened with Bobby Portis? JT: At Chicago Bulls practice Greg, not even during a game, Bobby Portis apparently- Greg: as the great Iverson would say, “we're talking about practice man.” JT: He fucking cold cocked his teammate Nikola Mirotic and fractured his orbital bone Gregg. The bone setting that holds the eyeball of your face, which is in your head. It's cracked. He cracked this part of his team mates’ face bone. Greg: And gave him a concussion right? JT: Yeah. With that kind of trauma you're talking concussion no doubt. Greg: What is going on at Chicago Bulls practice? Do you think Fred Hoiberg has any control of what's going on? Are there any assistant coaches? What exactly is happening that this can actually escalate to this point? JT: I have a take that is of course 100% speculation. Greg: The best kind. JT: You don't see this type of injury too much in the NBA. You do see this, I won't say often, but more regularly, in mixed martial arts. Those guys are punching each other in the face with four ounce gloves. I don't think this type of injury happens if two guys are squared up with each other in the NBA setting flapping their gums, pushing, and throwing a little shot. I think Portis sucker-punched him. Greg: Wow, that's a hot take. JT: I don't think Mirotic saw this coming at all. I think Portis loaded up with the big dominant hand, came up from from behind, and blasted him. Greg: You're obviously assuming he had his guard down. What if he’s assuming because he's at practice and he's with his teammates he can let his guard down a little bit? JT: Well my idea is that you don't receive a shot like this without seeing it coming, at least a little bit. There's gonna be some type of build up. Greg: Oh there was build-up. They said were going at it. JT: If two guys who are building all this tension towards this one event you would think that they're also on the defensive a little bit. They’re not going to let their guard down completely. Maybe Portis snuck up on him and gave him a haymaker from Hell. Greg: With all the build-up it got to the point where they're punching each other. You don't feel like anyone should have jumped in at that point and realized things were escalating? No one got between them before this happened. That's where it's completely out of control. JT: That's a less fun avenue to talk about.You would think there's plenty of fucking handlers and assistant coaches monitoring these millionaire athletes making sure they don't get caught up in this petty shit. What's going on in Chicago I have no idea.Who knows what's really going. It could be anything. Greg: For real. It's a mess. The Golden State Warriors are one and two right now. I don't think anyone expected them to have two losses at this point. Everybody blew smoke up their asses all summer. They told them how great they were, how they weren't going to lose anygames next year, and how they’re gonna get handed another title. I was skeptical of that. It looks like there was a reason that they don't seem to have their shit together. Curry and Durant ejected together last night in a loss against Memphis. Curry threw his mouthpiece like a little bitch. There's no other way to put it. He threw his mouth piece like a little bitch. JT: He threw it at the ref Greg! Greg: Did you see Steve Kerr and his sarcastic reply, “They need to you get rid of him for 10 games for doing that.” That's fucking bullshit. Everybody else in the league can keep themselves under control and not throw their mouthpiece, none the less in the the the direction of an official. It's insane. You can't let that shit go down. You can't let them get special treatment. Their heads are getting big. You can see how it's going. Durant thinks he is unbelievable. Curry does too. They're not playing that great. They're losing. JT: Something's up there. Something is up in Golden State. This is not the way it felt or looked last season. I think something's up with Durant, something having to do with the way the team views the way he spent the off season with his silliness on on Twitter. Greg: He spent too much time and that Cole Cashwell guy. It's been nothing but an anchor at his neck. JT: If you think there's only one Cole Cahswell, and there's gotta be more- Greg: There’s probably a Colisha Cashwell. There's at least one female that was defending him. JT: They're not playing great basketball. They're losing to Memphis and getting their best two players ejected in the process at the end of the game. Getting ejected at the end the game is the worst you could do in that type of situation. Sometimes like a coachwill purposefully say something to a ref to get himself ejected to you motivate his team. That's a tactic, but for your two stars, you're gonna check to the end the game. You're not in control there. It's spiraling a little bit. It was starting to derail. Greg: This was a very "me too" way of getting kicked out. It was tag-along. It made no sense. JT: That's exactly what you don't want someone like him to do in that situation. You would want that other heavy-duty offensive power to be there. They need to check themselves a little bit. This isn't what you want. Greg: It's one thing for Draymond to act like that, but when Durant's responding that way, that's not cool. To flip off or flash his ring finger to the crowd on the way out? Other people have titles. LeBron doesn't handle himself that way. As they say, act like you've been there before. Get your shit together. Act like a man. Flashing your ring at the crowd in in Memphis? Those people have nothing. They have some barbecue, and they have Fed Ex. What more do those people have? You need to shit on them and show them a ring? JT: That team needs to settle a little bit. They need to settle into being who they are, which was is mostly a super team. Everyone was talking about them being a dynasty and it hasn't showed up yet. Straighten up boys. Deflate those heads a little bit. I don't think Steve Kerr helps. He looks like he's just enabling it with his replies. If they want to keep losing games, keep going that way. Greg: Did you see the Lakers at all? Have you watched Mr. Lonzo Ball play any of the two games? JT: I haven't watched them play live. I've just caught up in the highlights. Greg: We all saw the highlights on opening night when Patrick Beverley tore him up, but Patrick Beverley is an unbelievable defender. I couldn't judge the young man by that. JT: I can judge Patrick Beverley, and I would say that he is an animal. That guy played defense like you want people to play defense. Greg: Before the game standing outside the locker room screaming that he wanted a piece of him? He was a little bitch. He didn't say exactly who it was, he just referred to him as the guy he wanted. JT; I think that's really great. If you're gonna get things going that's how you do it. That's the kind of stuff I would expect from Patrick Beverley. That was wonderful. I loved that. He did get things flipped around against Phoenix, which is an awful team, an absolutely terrible team. He was one assist away from a triple double. Greg: Phoenix might be the worst team in the league. It seems like watching them play the one game, and then seeing some highlights, they're not doing well. They're disgusting. JT: They're pretty terrible. Do you remember they were one of the teams Kyrie was meeting with, and there was a chance he was going there? Could you imagine? Greg: What the hell kind of reporting is that? Did he really ? Was there a possibility? JT: There's no way. Maybe he got a phone call. If he did take a phone call I guess it's fair game to report that. Why not? It's not going that much better for him in Boston than it would be in Phoenix. Greg: You're really down on Boston, we should talk about that a little bit. JT: They had the horrific injury. Kyrie left the court the other day, when they were playing the76ers, and a fan was yelling something about him and LeBron. Kyrie told the guy to suck his dick. What are these people? They never responded to fans. We've talked about how many things so far? Three different things. We've talked about multiple people responding to fans or interacting with fans somehow. That's insane. Kyrie told that guy to suck his dick, the guy got it on video, and the league find him $25,000. It's the second game of the season. What do you think every fan's gonna be screaming at this guy for480 more games? Have you been to Philly? Those are the biggest bunch of assholes on Earth. That's their job. I haven't decided which game I'll be going to this season, but if I might have to yell that myself. Greg: If he's gonna get it from anybody it might as well be from you. You know the people around you high five your ass if you're right by the tunnel. If you're screaming at him on the way out, that's beautiful. Don't give us any ammunition man. That's something you're sensitive to. They come on thin-skinned. Little bitch. That's him man, that freaking guy. All right, after the break we will check in on the Hornets and the Jazz, and we got the NBA hashmojis. We're gonna go through some of the best and worst of those. JT what do you have a Utah Jazz update? JT: At three games into the season we stand at two wins and one loss. Last night we won an upset victory versus OKC, and the defense Greg was amazing. Stifling defense. Greg: Though to be the Jazz. JT: What's that supposed mean? Greg: It means you guys are weak in other places, like offense. You have to stand up on defense. JT: We did, and we won a game that people thought we wouldn't. The Jazz are developing this identity. They don't have a superstar per se, but it's turning into a balanced offensive effort. We got four guys all averaging about 14 points a game, which is kind of okay as long as the defense is amazing, which it has been. Things are good. Greg: That's what we said was gonna have to happen in the West. There are some high scoring teams out there, and Oklahoma City is one of them. If you guys kept them down then that's your first test and looks like you passed it. JT: Yep, and kept Westbrook cranked to six points. That's pretty damn good. Not a lot of people did that last year. No six points on two for 11 shooting, which we'll take that all day. Greg: If there's any other questions I could ask, whether the Utah Jazz, I don't know- JT: Don't be a shithead Greg: Did anyone have the poops possibly? Anything like that happen? Any sort of issues with any players that miss any games for any reason? JT: I think I know what you're talking about. We did have a player who missed a little bit of playtime with some gastric distress. Greg: It's just slightly important who that player is. Who was that player? JT: Rodney Hood Greg: Rodney I don't show up for the playoffs but I show up for this toilet seat Hood. What is up with this guy? What is going on? What is up with Rodney Hood? You need him. All we talked about is the lack of offense on your team, and this guy does this to you? Was Michael Jordan ever out with the poops? Michael Jordan had something called the flu okay? What is this guy doing? Was eating at the same sandwich place Gordon Hayward ate last season? What is going? JT: Better for it to happen right now in October, than for them to have these issues in the spring. He has an emotional stomach okay? I can relate to this. It's not his fault Greg. He just cares so much that it affects his body. Yes he had the poops, and he couldn't play this- Greg: You know, there's nothing better than saying the poops. It may be the most juvenile thing on the planet, but you know that's why he was out. One of the tweets we saw said that, and it made me laugh. It's still making me laugh. JT: We will not fault him for this. He will come back stronger because of this/ Greg: We'll move on to Charlotte. They are one-on-one at the moment, and they lost to a decent team. I'm telling myself Detroit Pistons is decent. They won against a very bad team, the Atlanta Hawks, and watching them play they're a middle team. I'm staring at the most middle of teams, and I can't imagine that they're gonna be anything higher than an eighth seed. A lot of these teams are better, especially in the East. I've watched Orlando beat the Cavaliers, that was a great game. They tore up the Cavaliers. They beat them. The Magic are better than people expected. There's a lot of teams in the East that are gonna be sleepers. The Hornets are not one of them. JT: What does that mean Greg? Greg: Sleepers? Did you expect Orlando to be good? To make the playoffs in the East, I don't think that makes you good/ JT: You keep saying that. These are decent teams. They're not just gonna be walkover teams like everybody thought. They play reasonable teams. They're gonna get wins like they always would have. I don't think they're automatic w's if you play the magic. The magic look good, they look solid. Last night I was impressed. Greg: They're not that good. JT: They scored many more points than I ever thought they could possibly score. They look pretty alright. Greg: We'll see. Also not impressed with the Hornets. Buzz City, not where I want to be. That's what happens, highs and lows. That brings us to the hashmoji. The Charlotte Hornets have their hashmoji. I'm not sure if the team's pick these or the NBA. The teams must have submitted them. I'm sure the NBA reached out to them and said you need a hashtag name. I think they started this last year. Some of them still seem to be the same as last year, but some of them have changed. There are some lazy ones on this list JT, and it is pretty bad. There's teams that just put no imagination to this at all. The Celtics, Knicks, Rockets, and Pacers, it's just their names. It's just Pacers, Rockets, and so on. That's completely lazy. Why do that JT? JT: Yeah tag me in on this one. I got the fire. This is a Twitter thing. When you type it, the hash tag and then whatever the phrase or word is, your team's logo pops up right alongside of it. I love that. I think it's cool. It looks great. A lot of these fuckers just mailed it in. Some of these teams have really clever things that speak to a larger picture, and some of these teams just use their name. Yea man, so that is weak but it gets way worse. What if you couldn't even think of something as plain as your name and you wanted to have something that was way worse than that? Some of my favorite teams want us to hate our hashtag. Heat culture? I don't know what that means. what the fuck does it mean? is it a Pat Riley thing? should I be slicking my hair back? I'm not sure. I don't know what heat culture is. Is this like a warm-blooded group of people that think about things that make them hot? Don't tell me it's a Miami thing, because then it has to be like Cubano sandwiches and meth. Greg: I thought they were more bath salts. JT: You think more people do bath salts in Miami than meth? Greg: I thought so JT: We'll get Mitch on that. We didn't even factor cocaine in but whatever. Other especially shitty hashmojis: #doitbig Greg. Who do you think that's for? I don't like it. Without knowing anything, what city or region does that spark in your mind? Greg: I don't know. JT: It doesn't make any sense for who it is. You shouldn't know because it's stupid and it makes no sense. Greg: I don't know. I don't know who that is. Which one is it? JT: It's the pelicans. You didn't automatically put that together? Do it big and the pelicans, come on. Greg: I thought for a minute was this other stupid hashtag we got, the stupid Brooklyn Nets one. JT: it was also the hashtag of several porns that were released last year. That's two letters away from we get hard which is very awful. One of these is far above the biggest piece of shit. I had to google this, which I don't like to do. Hashtag capital letters MFFL. What the fuck does that mean? What does it mean? Greg: I wouldn't even look it up. I didn't even want to. I'm gonna tell you, I'm here to hate it. I got banned for life from the Mavericks. JT: It is indeed Mavericks. Greg: I solved the fucking puzzle. That's great. JT: No, that's really bad. Who in the world thought of this, said it was okay, and convinced a bunch of other people that it was okay? This is stupid marketing. Genius Mark Cuban has this as his hashtag. How would Mark Cuban think this is okay? Greg: I can't imagine it's the worst one. JT: it's the worst one by far. Sacramento proud is on that list too. We didn't even bring that one up go Spurs. They put no effort in. It says go Spurs go, and MFFL is still worse than that. Give me anything to work with. Just tell me something about you and your story. But just letters? MF is motherfucker right? Greg: Yeah, and FL. Motherfucker for life. It looks like motherfucking Florida. That's what it looks like. JT: Whatever Texas, sucks for them. We've been very negative. We took a shit on this pretty hard. So far anything positive you like there's two great ones that are better than the others, no, there's three. You put one on here that's not good. Greg: Don't tell me you don't like pure magic. I thought that was pretty good. What else are they gonna put? I thought that was fairly slick. Pure magic. Pure fucking magic boom! JT: That's not good. What does that mean? That that's just your name again. You're saying you are indeed the team you said you were. Greg: I am confirming that we are indeed the magic. JT: To me it almost makes me think that up until now you were not in fact the team you said you were. Greg: I don't think that's true at all. That doesn't imply that in any sort of way. It's just a word or two. JT: They have a pretty big definition. That one sucks. It's pretty bad. Greg: Compared to the rest of the list that one actually bubbled to the top, because there's some really bad ones on here. JT: Yeah I'll give you that. It's not terrible, but some of the ones that are great, and maybe even in competition for the first place lot is Milwaukee with hashtag fear the deer. I absolutely love it. Fear the deer, the best one, hands down. Greg: Yeah it's cool. JT: The Jazz who have hashtag take note. That's a reference to their jazz note symbol which is their logo. They use it usually based around that singular Jay note. I like a nice pun. I like your team's also Greg. I like buzz city. Greg: I think buzz city works because a little pun works in there. There's rip city for a Portland. That was actually named that. They get to use that, and it works very well for them. JT: There were two things that I wasn't aware of. I knew that Toronto claims some sort of ownership of the north as it were, and they have the we the north. I've seen that the past couple playoffs when they got eliminated. The Timberwolves also have one, all eyes north. Greg: That makes no sense to me, because Toronto is the north as I've been told. I'm very confused. There seems to be some ownership issues of the northern section of things. JT: I always liked we the north for the Raptors because they are in Canada, and a bit isolated. They have this kind of Game of Thrones house stark tie-in, which is like the most popular show that you don't watch Greg. Greg: Yeah, makes me sleepy. I don't like it. JT: Minnesota slipped in the back door and I don't think it works for them. They had this cool thing, I don't remember exactly what it was last year. The herd or the pack or something? That made more sense, the wolf pack kind of thing. If they don't have a wolf reference they fail. Greg: This is another example of piggybacking. The idea doesn't quite suit you, so suck an egg Minnesota. Get your own hashmoji. There were too many assholes in the room trying to make a decision. That's a groupthink answer right there. We are going to do predictions right now. What do you got JT? JT: Do you think the professional basketball team from Boston will make the playoffs? Greg: The Celtics? Of course they are gonna make the playoffs. I don't think that you really you think- JT: You were battling me before saying there weren't good teams in the East. You were telling me that the Orlando Magic, that I know are good because I've seen them play- Greg: I was there. I watched them play, and they're good, but they're not better than the Celtics. Celtics are gonna play hard. Kyrie is obviously pissed off. He's telling fans to suck his dick and shit, that guy's fired up. if he doesn't get injured maybe he can keep shit together. He was the one who I thought was gonna get injured. JT: You felt an injury coming? Greg: There's too many people in the league. I've been watching football this year, people have been getting injured left and right. We had this in the first week of basketball. We had some season enders right off the bat, with some big people, and you're playing the numbers. If you have a bunch of superstars on your team and everybody's playing like they're playing, especially in Boston, they're playing hard. Somebody's gonna get injured. I didn't think it was gonna be anything like that. I'm not gonna act like I saw something like that coming, but Kyrie's knees have always been a problem. I thought they would've been the first thing to act up, almost like Chris Paul. He played the one game for the Rockets, and now he's like old man Chris Paul. He's got to sit out a couple weeks, and get his shit together. JT: That whole thing in Huston, I don't know if that's gonna workout. I'm right on the fence with Boston. I'm gonna go way to the other end of the spectrum. I don't think they're gonna have what it takes to pull together and make the playoffs. If they do, seventh eighth seed maybe. Greg: I don't think there's any way. Even if there are better teams in the East, I don't think there's any way they drop below fifth. JT: It's on tape now so, it's on like Donkey Kong. We can always jump back and say we're gonna see what's up a couple months from now. Greg: We're gonna be back next week with another episode. In the meantime you can follow us on twitter @doubledrivelers, you can email us at [email protected], subscribe to the show on iTunes, Podbean, or GooglePlay, and until next week, see you on the Internet

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A Tactical Guide to Conor McGregor Storming the Cage at Bellator 187

On Friday night, the bizarre career of Charlie Ward took another turn. After being ejected from the UFC following his last loss by TKO (Canvas), Ward was snatched up by Bellator. At Bellator 187, fighting in Ireland for the first time since June of 2016, the man with MMA’s worst sleeve tattoo got back in the win column. Ward winning a fight isn’t an everyday occurrence, but it’s not remarkable in itself. The immediate aftermath of this fight , however, was remarkable—so remarkable it overshadowed everything else on the show. Ward’s teammate, Conor McGregor had been seated next to the cage and upon seeing Ward getting the stoppage, he vaulted the fence, sprinted to Ward and jumped a closed guard that would have made Shinya Aoki proud.

As McGregor made a scene in the Bellagon, getting between officials and the knocked out fighter and in no way meaning to take attention away from his teammate’s win, he found himself locking horns with old rival, referee Marc Goddard. Most will recall Goddard putting McGregor in his place from inside the cage during Artem Lobov’s bout with Andre Fili a few weeks back. McGregor made a nuisance of himself from the VIP seating throughout that fight, but if you only follow the UFC that’s about all you will know. The truth of the matter, however, is that Conor McGregor played a major role in the origin story of one of MMA’s best refs.

Birth of a Hero

June, 2012 was a simpler time. Marc Goddard was a bright eyed young cornerman for Dave Hill. Hill was about to fight Conor McGregor for the latter’s second Cage Warriors world title. In recent years it has become fashionable to slate McGregor for never defending either of these belts, but in fact it is funnier to point out that he won neither of them from men who had actually held the belts in the first place. In what has become a key UFC play, Cage Warriors was experimenting with slapping random belts on matches. As Hill and McGregor set-to, Conor looked sharper than at any point in his career. He was blasting Hill on the feet and Hill could not take him down.

Finally a groggy Hill seemed to fall into a decent shot and had McGregor losing his balance. The Dubliner reached out, took a hold of the fence directly in front of the referee, and dragged himself into the mount. The referee acknowledged the fence grab but did nothing to punish the foul or remove the position.

This is purely conjecture, but perhaps it was on that rainy night that Marc Goddard swore a blood oath to become a force for good in mixed martial arts and the only referee that does jack shit about fence grabs. Flash forward five years to when habitual line-stepper Yoel Romero took a fistful of fence as Jacare Souza tried to drag him to the mat, then wound up mounting the Brazilian, there was Goddard—standing them up. “You got top position because of the fence, I’ve taken it away, do it again and I’ll take a point.”

The Basics of Siege Craft

Returning to Friday night, after some argy-bargy and the antics that McGregor usually saves for weigh-ins (any erection mercifully hidden by his trousers this time), the absentee UFC champ was ejected from the cage. While he hasn’t been able to give us a lesson in ringcraft inside the cage in over a year, the Irishman was about to deliver a televised lesson in siege craft as he paced outside the cage, unable to re-enter. Goddard is a big lad, but with four more fights on the card starving him out was off the table. Perhaps McGregor could use a dry ice machine to smoke him out? After a brief semi-lap of the cage, McGregor charged up to mount it. In the aftermath naysayers have painted this to look like attention whoring, but you will recall that McGregor was only attempting to steal the spotlight in the first place to thrust Charlie Ward further into it.

One of the most basic principles of warfare is to take the high ground. It gives a better view of surrounding terrain, and it forces the enemy to strike upwards while the man on the high ground is striking down. This is, of course, old hat to a savvy vet like McGregor but the basics are the basics for a reason. The flipside of the high ground is that while the opponent might not be able to reach your head, he can get to your base.

When McGregor stormed the cage, some dastardly egg-head bean-counter from the commission tried to push the one-time Moneybelt challenger out by his leg. Had McGregor been thrown off the top of the cage he could well have plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table. Seeing red, McGregor smote this clown with the left hand. That paradoxical left, the Celtic Cross, Schrodinger’s Punch: the one that no man can take, but the one that fans simultaneously brag about McGregor landing more on Floyd Mayweather than anyone else.

The commissioner wobbled, questioning his life’s purpose, but McGregor was still forced to dismount the cage. This wasn’t about the fence though, this was about Charlie Ward. Seeing his friend in trouble, Ward climbed the cage wall and McGregor pulled him over the top of the cage to the outside like he was boarding the last chopper out of Saigon. The crowd were riotous at the local lads getting one over the on pencil pushers from the commission, right up until everyone realized that Charlie Ward needed to be in the cage for the official decision.

All of the silliness aside, Bellator 187 confirmed the Machiavellian genius of promoter, Scott Coker. Most fight fans would look at the card ahead of time and call it “so-so.” You would think that no one outside Dublin is revved up to watch Charlie Ward or Sinead Kavanagh fight. And slapping Kimbo Slice’s name on his son hasn’t made him a draw yet. But by placing Conor McGregor in a lawn chair, in front of the rest of the audience and with no obstructions between him and the cage, Coker basically assured that McGregor would get in the cage. It is unlikely that he could have relied on such a scene, but this was the first fight on the televised card. With an SBGi fighter in all but one of the fights after this, a good few viewers would have stuck around on the off chance that McGregor did do or say something. The fact that such a hullabaloo took place right at the start of the main card must have been a dream come true for Coker. Immediately the clips were up online and Bellator itself was keen to push them. The clip at the top of this article is from Bellator’s official Youtube channel, where this has already become the most viewed video they have posted in the last year in just a number of days.

And what happens to Conor McGregor after all of this? Someone extremely charming must have turned up to make excuses for him because the man expected to throw the book at McGregor, Mike Mazzulli went on the MMA Hour to tell Ariel Helwani that McGregor’s punishment was to be withdrawn from the UFC’s December 30th card. “He’s not gonna be making any more money this year and I commend UFC for that. I really do,” said Mazzulli, apparently appeased by McGregor not appearing in a fight which had not even been announced yet. McGregor gets column inches, Bellator gets views, the UFC can still get McGregor in to make up the pay-per-view numbers before the end of the fiscal year. One major MMA website has already squeezed ten stories out of the brief scuffle. Everyone’s a winner and we have all been played for marks.

Except McGregor’s agent just came out to undermine that story, making Mazzulli look even worse and inviting him to actually take some action for what amounted to assault. But don’t let any of that distract you from the real story here: at Bellator 187 Charlie Ward came home, and announced himself as a force in Bellator’s middleweight division.

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Fire Pro Roster Recap #2 : Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag

People seemed to enjoy the first one of these, so I thought I’d do it again! This time instead we are going back to basics. This time looking at the very first game in the series that released on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.

It has the smallest roster of the series as far as I know which is part of the reason I decided to do it next. Fire Pro Returns, I think has over 100 people in it and even some of the SNES games have huge rosters.

This one will be a good building block for later installments which retained many of these people that appeared in this 1989 original. I should point out that most of these games were not official and had these people under fake names, despite it being plainly obvious who they were suppose to be representing.

Akira Maeda : A wrestler who worked for many companies and is credited with being one of the pioneers of the shoot style. He worked for NJPW, Japan UWF(Which he co-created and was a promoter for) and he was even featured on World of Sports working for all 3 of those companies in the 80′s before 1991 rolled around Akira Maeda would found the wrestling promotion Rings, that would later shift focus in 1995 and become an MMA promotion.

Bad News Brown : The first talent on this list who was well known in North America. Bad News Brown was a pioneer for black talent in the industry often times called the first black heel. While that might be hyperbole, Bad News Brown’s effect on the industry should be well noted. He was most often a wrestler in NJPW starting there after his Olympic performance in Judo where he won a Bronze medal in 1976. He also won 2 gold medals in the Pan American games in 1967 and 1975.

Bruiser Brody : Another wrestler known by North American fans. He worked throughout the states and over in AJPW. He is a pioneer of the brawling style and considered one of the best if not the best brawler of the 80′s. Of course he cannot be brought up without talking about his tragic death in 1988 when he was stabbed several times by José Huertas González(promoter/booker) in a Puerto Rican shower for the show that night. One of the brave souls that tried to help Brody out was Tony Atlas, though because of heavy traffic outside the arena Brody didn’t get the medical treatment in time to save his life.

Dos Caras : The first person on this list who has wrestled a match in 2017. Dos Caras is a legend of Mexican wrestling and one of the first talents from Mexico to travel outside of North America and wrestle regularly elsewhere. Throughout the 80′s he wrestled in AJPW and NJPW while also working with UWA. He also innovated the Dos Cara’s clutch. He is brother to the other luchador in this game(Mil Mascara) and father to one of the biggest names from Mexico of the current generation Alberto Del Rio/El Patron.

Antonio Inoki : Oh boy! Inoki, how can I sum up such a massive and important career in a paragraph? Truth be told I can’t for him or any of these men, but here we go. Inoki is one of the most important wrestlers ever and is credited with the invention of the enzuigiri. When Inoki started down the wrestling path he train with Karl Gotch in old school catch wrestling. Inoki would name his own style of wrestling ‘Strong Style’ which is still used today by many Japanese talents.

Inoki is also credited as being a forefather of the modern MMA boom. Inoki use to fight people from around the world who all were trained in different fighting arts. Many of his fights were scripted, but still showed the world was interested in that kind of competition. Also, he fought Ric Flair in North Korea which drew 150,000 and 190,000 people for the two day event and is still the biggest wrestling show in recorded history.

I could go on for ages about Inoki as he has a long intriguing history. He ontop of the above listed things also was : founder of NJPW in 1972 which came about after Rikidozan’s(The original Japanese Wrestler/Promoter) Japanese Wrestling Association went defunct having NJPW/AJPW spring up in it’s place. Inoki owned NJPW out right until he sold the company to Yuke’s in 2005. Inoki is also a politician in his home country of Japan where he was elected to positions twice. That’s all for Inoki, if you want to know more feel free to look him up. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t books about the man who has a huge legacy.

Genichiro Tenryu : Genichiro like many wrestlers actually started in a different Martial Art. Sumo, which is of course very popular in Japan. Tenryu started his sumo training at the young age of 13 and would continue down that path for another 13 years before shifting his focus to the Puroresu ring. He would then be scouted by Giant Baba of AJPW. Tenryu would be sent over to Texas where he was trained by Dory Funk Jr and Terry Funk. In the early 80′s Tenryu would team with Jumbo Tsuruta collectively called "Kakuryu" (鶴 = kaku = tsuru (the "tsuru" in Tsuruta) + 龍 = ryū in Tenryū).

Tenryu would go on to become one of the most decorated players in AJPW history. The Tokyo Sports awards, a non partisan award for japanese wrestling achievements would give Tenryu Best bout/MOTY award an astonishing 9 times and call him MVP of the year 4 different times.

Jumbo Tsuruta : Another huge star for AJPW through the 80′s. Jumbo as mentioned above was a stellar tag team with Tenryu. He also had 7 MOTY’s from Tokyo sports and captured nearly anything of note in AJPW. He would sadly die in the year 2000 after complications from a kidney transplant, just short a year after his retirement in 1999. Though he hadn’t been in serious competition most of the 1990′s where he mostly worked 6 man tag matches that were comedic in tone.

Masa Saito : The journey man of Japan on this list, though many of these talents traveled around. Masa Saito was on another level working for various promotions connected to NWA, AJPW and NJPW.

As well as holding the WWF Tag Titles with Mr. Fuji, he also made it to the finals of the Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Team Tournament at Starrcade '90: Collision Course which is noteable for being the big win early in the Steiner Brothers tag team. He is also the innovator of the Saito Suplex which is used in every promotion around the world now.

Saito might have had a better career with WWF had it not been for an incident at a Mcdonald's involving Ken Panterra and a rock thrown through the window by a young man that wasn’t Ken Panterra according to a radio interview with Panterra from 2012. The incident happened in 1984 and ended with both Panterra and Saito being charged with battery of a police officer.

Mil Mascaras : The other side of the Luchador coin and brother of earlier luchador Dos Caras. Mil Mascaras wrestled plenty for AJPW through the late 70′s and early 80′s becoming well known in Japanese wrestling circles along with his brother. He would have a match of the year from Tokyo sports in 1977 with Jumbo who was listed earlier. Mil Mascaras has a reputation of being hard to work with, but is still important for exposing Japan to Lucha Libre alongside his brother.

Riki Choshu : Riki Choshu innovated a move that would define early 90′s wrestling in the states and most don’t even know it. That move being The Sharpshooter or as Riki Choshu called it : Sasori-gatame.

Riki Choshu is also credited as being the first ever traitor heel in Japan. Turning on his friend Fujinami after being snubbed for the inaugural tournament for the IWGP Heavyweight championship in 1983. Riki Choshu is also one of the few people to do a clean sweep of the G1 Climax where he won every match in the tournament he had.

In 1998 Riki Choshu would retire, his final card he wrestled 5 matches in one night and won 4 of them. After his retirement he would focus more as a booker at NJPW where he spent most of his career. He has moved a decent amount post 2000 and even had a deathmatch in FMW shortly after his retirement. He has wrestled sparingly in the years since, but not full time.

Stan Hansen : You can’t talk gaijin(Japanese for Foreigner) and not mention Stan Hansen. The cream of the crop when it comes to American assholes in Japan. The man’s career started with a very good case of ‘turning Lemons into Lemonade’ when he accidently broke Bruno Sammartino’s neck via a botched powerslam. The bookers and Hansen rolled with it and instead claimed the break came at the end of one of Stan Hansen’s destructive lariats.

Stan Hansen would leave WWF shortly after that and have a brief run in NJPW where he participated in the first ever G1 Tag League with his partner Hulk Hogan.

He would move over to AJPW where he would make his name winning anything he could get his hands on. He also was awarded MOTY 3 times by Tokyo sports vs great talents Kawada, Giant Baba and Tenryu. He would also win Most Outstanding Foreigner in 1982 and most popular wrestler in 1980. He by no means invented the lariat, but many credit him with it’s incredible popularity in Japan.

Tiger Jeet Singh : Undoubtable the most famous wrestler to ever come out of India. Tiger’s life story is pretty incredible, arriving in Canada with 6$ in his pocket after immigrating from India. Tiger set out into the wrestling world and made perhaps the earliest debut on this list in 1965. His first huge match was in 1971 at Maple Leaf Gardens vs The Sheik(uncle of Sabu, not The Iron Sheik).

The next year while visiting Japan he got in a fight with Inoki. This seems a little too coincidental, as apparently it wasn’t staged. So Inoki... who just happened to be opening a wrestling promotion had Tiger come and they lived out their feud in the ring. 1979 saw Tiger team with Abdullah the butcher vs the Japanese Dream Team Inoki/Baba. Which would win him his only Tokyo Sports honor for MOTY.

Through most of his career Tiger would bounce back and forth between Japan and Toronto wrestling in both territories. He made his name in NJPW, however many of the belts he held weren’t the main belt as his era didn’t have one main world title.

The Road Warriors/LOD : WHAAAAAAT A RUSH! The two tag team technicians would get their start in Georgia Championship Wrestling before getting pushed hard for their unique look and presence. This caused some friction with other talents as the young duo weren’t seen as having paid their dues. Not that it mattered though as soon both were picked up by larger promotion Verne Gagne’s AWA. Where they would be Champions again as they were in GCW, during this AWA run they would start using Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” as their entrance theme.

1985 saw the two’s first tour of Japan where they quickly became fan favorites like every promotion they went to before. They squashed a monster team of Killer Khan and Animal Hamaguchi in a mere 4 minutes. Cementing their dominance early and capturing more tag gold the NWA International Tag Team Championship. They would be the last team to hold this belt as they lost it in a unification match with PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu to unify the titles as the AJPW World Tag Team titles.

That’s basically what they did of note in Japan before this game came out. They enjoyed that first run so much that whenever they had time between contracts with the big 3 : WWE/WCW/AWA they would go do a quick tour of Japan where they were normally welcomed with open arms. They like Hansen won an award just for foreigners in 1985 getting the Tokyo sports Special Foreigner Award.

The Gasper Brothers : This one I put last mostly because I have shit all to say about them. The Gasper Brothers were a brief tag team in 1988 that had some success. The two men were Cowboy Bob Orton and his real life brother Barry Orton. I can’t find any photos of them from this time or video so I don’t know if they looked like this or not. If anyone can find pictures I’ll put them here.

How's it play? Not well. I wouldn’t suggest anyone play this fire pro game... I’m not actually sure I’d recommend any of the TurboGrafix-16 versions when the Super Nintendo ones are right there. Hell, I think many wouldn’t even suggest those when the PS2 version Fire Pro Returns has probably the biggest roster and the most options.

Still, while I had fun playings Queen’s Special... this one was just brutal. Every time I tried to play I would just get wrecked by the computer. I really had a hard time getting any of the timing down and was more frustrated than having fun.

This series still might be the best wrestling you’ll get on a TurboGrafix-16 and would probably be cool to have just as a collector's item even if it’s not a very fun play. I saw that TurboGrafix has some other wrestling game and I might try that as it seemed less simulation and more arcade. If I try that I may put a review here on this blog.

#FirePro #TurboGrafix-16 #RosterRecap #BadNewsBrown #AntonioInoki #MilMascaras #DosCaras #TheRoadWarriors #TigerJeetSingh #StanHansen #RikiChoshu #MasaSaito #JumboTsuruta #GenichiroTenryu #BruiserBrody #AkiraMaeda #Puroresu

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Tabitha Smith is a fictional character, a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with The X-Men and related titles. Created by Jim Shooter and Al Milgrom, the character first appeared in Secret Wars II #5 (November 1985). She then appeared as a member of X-Force and later as a member of Nextwave. She is mentally able to create variably-sized, yellow orbs of pure energy that explode with concussive and destructive force. Since her first appearance, Tabitha has used a number of different codenames, including Time Bomb, Boom-Boom, Boomer, and Meltdown. Tabitha is one of the mutants to have kept their powers after the 2005 "House of M" storyline.

Tabitha Smith

Tabitha Smith on the cover to Weapon X #11.

Art by Georges Jeanty.

Publication informationPublisherMarvel ComicsFirst appearanceSecret Wars II #5 (November 1985)Created byJim Shooter (writer)

Al Milgrom (artist)In-story informationFull nameTabitha SmithSpeciesHuman MutantTeam affiliationsFallen Angels

X-Terminators

New Mutants

Underground

X-Force

Nextwave

X-MenNotable aliasesTime Bomb, Boom-Boom, Boomer, Meltdown, Firecracker, Mutate #35AbilitiesCreates variably-sized, yellow orbs of pure mental energy that explode with concussive and destructive force

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Early lifeEdit

Tabitha was born in Roanoke, Virginia. She is depicted as a rebellious but normal teenager and the daughter of divorced parents in her first appearance. Tabitha's mutant powers manifest at 13, and her parents immediately show their disgust, her father even beating her. She runs away from home, giving herself the alias "Time Bomb," and meets the cosmic entity known as the Beyonder. He brings her to Charles Xavier, headmaster of the School for Gifted Youngsters, who ignores her to combat the Beyonder. Just before she can commit suicide over this second rejection, the Beyonder stops her, taking her with him on his cosmic trip. The Beyonder confronts the Celestials, and at her behest, returns Tabitha to Earth. She helps the Avengers ambush the Beyonder. She leaves the battlefield when she learns that the Beyonder felt betrayed by the actions of "his only friend."[4]

Fallen Angels and X-TerminatorsEdit

Living on the streets, Tabitha becomes involved with Maurice "Tiger" Antonini and, after he threatens Tabitha and murders her friend Gina, she uses her powers to kill him. The villain known as the Vanisher then recruits her for his band of thieves, called the Fallen Angels, and she officially takes on her codename "Boom-Boom." She eventually betrays the Vanisher, calling in the help of X-Factor, whom she stays with afterwards.[5] Tabitha's former teammate in the Fallen Angels, the alien Ariel kidnaps the Angels to her home planet, to be experimented on by her planet's scientists. Ultimately though, she can't go through with the plan and helps them escape. The Angels return to Earth and go their separate ways.[6] Tabitha is kidnapped by the Right, an anti-mutant organization. Tabitha, X-Factor, and other mutants regain their freedom.[7]

When X-Factor wards Artie Maddicks and Leech are kidnapped by N'astirh's demons, Tabitha joins her fellow X-Factor trainees in a mission to rescue them. Taking the situation less seriously than the others, Tabitha is quick to pronounce the five of them "the newest super-mutant team in town" and pick out costumes for them all. They adopt the name X-Terminators.[8]

New MutantsEdit

Following two successful team-ups with the New Mutants,[9] Tabitha and some members of the X-Terminators, Rusty, Skids and Rictor, join the group.[10] During her time with the New Mutants, Tabitha falls in love with her teammate, Cannonball. When the team is transported to the mythical realm of Asgard, it is partially through Tabitha that the team is able to foil a plot to kill Odin. There she becomes close friends with the wolf-prince Hrimhari.[11] They encounter the man known as Cable,[12] and when he starts to mentor the team, Tabitha gains greater control of her powers. Tabitha is captured by Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation Front, but is rescued.[13]

During "The X-Tinction Agenda" crossover, in which the country of Genosha attacks mutants in the United States, the Genoshan Magistrates kidnap Boom-Boom and her teammates Rictor, Wolfsbane and Warlock, transporting them to Genosha.[14] The incident receives international coverage, and Tabitha's father is interviewed, still voicing his disgust for his daughter.[15] Although stripped of their powers, she and Rictor escape. Warlock does not survive.[16] On the streets of Genosha, Rictor and Tabitha meet Jubilee, and Tabitha and Jubilee's similar attitudes clash.[17] They eventually make their way to the Genoshan citadel, where the other X-Teams gather to defeat Cameron Hodge, who orchestrated the entire ordeal.[18] Once returned to the United States, Tabitha spreads the ashes of her friend Warlock over the grave of his best friend Doug Ramsey.[19]

X-ForceEdit

The New Mutants team, under the continued tutelage of Cable, is reformed into X-Force.[20] The team undergoes a revamp, employing new, more aggressive methods. During this time, Tabitha acts on her crush on Cannonball, and the two have a relationship. Although questioning the team's new methods, Tabitha sticks with the team, rechristening herself "Boomer." She battles the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants alongside her new team in one of their early missions.[21]

Following an attempted murder of Professor X, mutual distrust places X-Force in conflict with the X-Men and X-Factor, and X-Force is apprehended.[22] Cannonball arranges for the team to be temporarily released so that they can help take down their arch-enemies, the Mutant Liberation Front.[23] Among the MLF are two of Boomer's former teammates in both the X-Terminators and New Mutants, Rusty and Skids, who breaks Boomer's jaw.[24] After X-Force's names are cleared, Tabitha is confronted by Cannonball's ex-girlfriend Lila Cheney, who gives the couple her blessing.[volume & issue needed] Showing how serious he is, Cannonball takes Tabitha along for a vacation on his family's farm. During the stay, they are confronted by the Gamesmaster and the Upstarts, and team up with the New Warriors to defeat them.[volume & issue needed]

Eventually, the team's headquarters is blown up twice,[volume & issue needed] and without a home the team moves back into Xavier's mansion.[volume & issue needed] Shortly after, Cannonball graduates into becoming an X-Men member, and their relationship waters down.[volume & issue needed] Seeking comfort, Tabitha spends most of her time caring for the lobotomized Sabretooth, also confiding in him.[volume & issue needed] Her teammates attempt an unsuccessful intervention.[25]

Sabretooth reveals that he's faking the ordeal however, and fully healed, escapes by deceiving Tabitha into destroying his bonds.[volume & issue needed] In his escape, he eviscerates the X-Man Psylocke, who barely survives her wounds.[26]

Cover to X-Force #51, featuring the revamped Tabitha Smith. Art by Adam Pollina.

In an effort to deal with the guilt from this incident, Tabitha travels home to visit her father.[volume & issue needed] The two reconcile, but in a fight with Sebastian Shaw and Holocaust, her father is critically injured.[volume & issue needed] With more guilt on her mind, Tabitha underwent a radical change, renaming herself "Meltdown," designing a new costume and gaining better control of her powers along with a more brash and assertive attitude.[volume & issue needed] This new attitude is displayed by Meltdown when she fights the Blob, threatening to kill him, and eventually having two time-bombs explode near his eardrums.[volume & issue needed]

With Cannonball spending his time with the X-Men, Tabitha grows closer to Sunspot and they begin a short-lived fling.[27] Cannonball finds out and is initially angry but reconciles with both his friends, rejoining X-Force in the process.[28] After an incident in which the High Evolutionary shut off all mutant powers, Tabitha and Cannonball come close to rekindling their relationship.[29]

Peter WisdomEdit

In the meantime, the sudden power loss really hit home for Cannonball, as to just how little they had been doing lately to help mutant-kind. He got back in touch with Pete Wisdom, and together they devised a plan for reactivating X-Force as a covert strike team. Meltdown, along with Warpath and Bedlam, agreed to enter into this new arrangement, and they took up residence in an abandoned Nevada Hulkbuster base for extensive retraining for martial combat and the use of their powers. In particular, Tabitha learned how to direct the explosive force of her power into streams of guided energy, and was also heavily trained in computer hacking and manipulating digital information. The revamped X-Force fought the shadow wars that other people couldn't even see, against the likes of meat-spore storm-troopers, mutagenic bioreactors and assassins who carried the mutant gene for murder. After she almost lost Sam to that last threat, Meltdown confessed she couldn't bear to see him die, and the two of them became lovers again. While most of their missions were successful, they weren't without their share of troubles - Wisdom was apparently killed on their first mission back in San Francisco since leaving, and on two separate occasions their enemies tried to kill them in massive explosions.[30]

The team's undercover status turned out to be a weakness, though, for some new organization consisting of mutants that wanted to get rich and famous thought the name was up for grabs. After buying legal rights to use "X-Force" as their name, this group went public and soon became popular. When the original X-Force learned of this, they came out of hiding and confronted the new guys about the name and violating the original concept behind the team, it was already too late. Apparently, the original X-Force disbanded after this, retreating from their recent hardcore offensive stance on mutant issues. Sam and Tabitha also went their separate ways.[volume & issue needed]

Weapon X and the X-Force miniEdit

When Cable discovers hints regarding the existence of a revamped Weapon X program, one designed to use mutants to hunt down and intern other mutants, he creates an organization to investigate the program and the existence of its internment camp, Neverland. He dubs the organization the Underground, and invites Meltdown to join his elite group. Ultimately, Cable's Underground group is joined by Weapon X agent Brent Jackson, who hopes to stage a coup against the project's Director and has formed his own resistance group with fellow agents Washout, Marrow, Wild Child, and Sauron. Jackson betrays the Underground team however after the coup is successful and alters/wipes their memories of the events.[volume & issue needed]

Sometime thereafter, Cable learns of another threat to mutant-kind, the voracious creatures known as the Skornn, a creature that was going to threaten Earth. He gathers and reunites X-Force in order to deal with them. Meltdown is among the former members he recruits. While both Cannonball and Sunspot are also involved in the conflict, Tabitha's feelings for either weren't brought up. However, she reveals to have learned a new trick with her mutant powers when she channeled one of her time bombs through Shatterstar's blade straight into the chest of a seemingly unbeatable opponent. After the Skornn was also defeated, some of X-Force remains together, assisting Cable on Providence, an island nation he created. Afterwards, she helps them attack the headquarters of the Black Box, though the occupant turns out to be a robot.[volume & issue needed]

Tabitha is one of the few mutants who retain her powers after the events of M-Day.[volume & issue needed]

NextwaveEdit

Shortly afterwards, after an initial period of wild arrogance, Tabitha seems to mellow out and settle back into her earlier, more bubbly personality. She even develops a tendency to use chat room-like shorthand when speaking out loud, such as "OMG," "ZOMG," and "OH NOES!" She also begins to start saying "Tick, tick, tick-- BOOM!" when using her powers. Tabitha also grows her hair long and eschewed her codename and re-appears as a founding member of Nextwave, a new off-beat and more than slightly satirical super-hero team featured in an eponymous comic book series created by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen. The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H.A.T.E. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation©) formed the team. Tabitha Smith's new team includes other second-string characters taken from Marvel limbo, including Monica Rambeau (formerly Captain Marvel, the leader of the Avengers), Elsa Bloodstone, Aaron Stack, and new character The Captain.[volume & issue needed]

Everything seemed on the up-and-up until Tabitha began snooping around, and discovered the marketing plan of the Beyond Corporation, H.A.T.E.'s financial backers. It turned out that Beyond Corp evolved out of the former terrorist cell known as S.I.L.E.N.T., and was planning to use H.A.T.E. and Nextwave to further its own sinister agendas.[volume & issue needed] Tabitha brought the files she stole to the squad leader, Pulsar, and Nextwave hijacked a Shockwave Rider transport ship and defected from H.A.T.E.[volume & issue needed] Tabitha and the others fought against their former employers, and defended the country from the unusual WMDs unleashed by the Beyond Corporation on the general populace; the first biological weapon was revealed to be Fin Fang Foom, a giant lizard which clambered from underground and proceeded to wreck the building site.[volume & issue needed]

After putting an end to the threat of Fin Fang Foom in Abscess, North Dakota, Nextwave moved on to Illinois. Tabitha manages to subdue Mac Mangel, a corrupt police officer who had been taken as a host by the Ultra Samurai Seed. The Ultra Samurai metallic shell disintegrates, leaving Mangel crushed. Upon learning that he was a police officer, Tabitha and Aaron began to beat Mangel before Rambeau intervened.[volume & issue needed]

The team were later attacked by The New Paramounts, a team consisting of Not Brand Echh characters including Forbush Man, The Inedible Bulk and Charlie America. Forbush Man attempted to use his mind control powers on Tabitha, but was shocked to find they didn't work on her as she apparently has no mind. Tabitha subsequently killed Forbush Man, saving her teammates. When they awoke, she explained "The little guy did something to your heads. I gave him the explodo because I am clever."[volume & issue needed] Not long after, they eventually exposed and destroyed the true mastermind behind S.I.L.E.N.T.[volume & issue needed]

Manifest DestinyEdit

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Tabitha moves to San Francisco to help with the X-Men's new relocation plans, and resumes using the codename Boom-Boom. While shopping in San Francisco she confronts the mutant Nuwa.[31] Forced by the Beast to confront Nuwa through research, instead of strength alone, she discovers - using a thinly veiled parody of MySpace and Facebook[32] called FaceSpace - the true nature of Nuwa's sedation powers, then nullifies them by consuming large quantities of stimulants, namely the caffeine in an unspecified number of espressos.[volume & issue needed]

Kidnapping, death and salvationEdit

Tabitha is later kidnapped along with Surge and Hellion by the Leper Queen and her Sapien League. The Leper Queen attempts to inject her with a modified version of the Legacy Virus, a virus which had been cured years before that afflicted mostly mutants, when the members of X-Force arrive to try and save her, Surge and Hellion. After Cyclops refuses to wait long enough for Wolverine and Domino to kill the Leper Queen, they are sent through time to help Cable, leaving the Leper Queen and Tabitha all alone. The Leper Queen reveals to Tabitha that she had intended using X-Force to kill her, since Bastion will not let her commit suicide and that the plan was for Wolverine to kill her and rescue Tabby. The Leper Queen shoots Tabitha between the eyes, saying that X-Force "failed them both."[33] After X-Force's mission in the future is complete, X-23 emerges from the timestream seconds before the Leper Queen is about to kill Tabitha and shoots her in the head.[34] With the Leper Queen dead and Boom-Boom saved, X-23 collapses in exhaustion just as a team of H.A.M.M.E.R. agents storm the building, providing Tabitha with medical care while taking X-23 into custody. The agents are given the order to take a genetic sample from Tabitha and then kill her, but one agent plans to rape her before killing her. She is saved from death yet again by Warpath, who kills the agents before they are able to defile her and takes her to the X-Force safehouse to see if she remembers anything else about her kidnapping.[35]

UtopiaEdit

Boom-Boom is later seen during the events of "Utopia," amongst the mutants assembled in Nightcrawler's chapel as they all prepare to abandon San Francisco for the base that the X-Club has raised from the bottom of the ocean. She is among the first group of mutants teleported by Pixie to the new base.[36] Boom-Boom was also one of the X-Men who defeated the invading Predator Xs who attacked Utopia. Boom-Boom, Iceman, and Colossus teamed up to defeat the first Predator.[37

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