There Are Them Street Fighters In Power Rangers: Legacy Wars… WTF

So, first off… I already did the Street Fighter/Power Rangers crossover ages ago. Actually, I did it TWICE. Once in a comic form and another in a prose fanfic form that mocked the whole idea.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way… um, yeah, why is this even a thing?

Look, I dig the Legacy Wars game. I didn’t think I would because of the lack of single-player experience and the chances of having to be online all the time means I won’t be playing this thing on long road trips, but it’s a fun little diversion regardless. That having been said, I don’t know why this game needed Street Fighter characters to “spice up” the roster when you still have a whole bunch of pre-existing Rangers, grunts, villains, and whatnots that still haven’t got a chance to shine.

I’m sure somewhere down the line, I might make a grab at one or two of them if they’re not that out of reach, but really, why is this even a thing?

WWE Summerslam 2003

Yeah, I’m in the mood to put this year behind us, so let’s get through Summerslam 2003 now rather than wait for August because I just want to be done with WWE 2003.

Summerslam 2003 would host the second-ever Elimination Chamber… and that’s something to look forward to. Unfortunately – and this is not much of a spoiler at this point – the Elimination Chamber would need a couple more tries before it gets to be really, really good. Suffice it to say that we are not quite there yet.

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I Am Not ALL IN… But Would Watch It On TV

So the big story as of late is that ALL IN, the independent wrestling show thing that is organized by Cody (Rhodes) and the Young Fucks… er, I mean, Bucks (sorry; slip of the tongue and all that jazz) that’s being held at the Sears Arena in Chicago, has sold out in roughly half an hour. And without the benefit of television promotion, hyper hyperbole through the “usual” media circuits, or that WWE machine that people claim to hate but still support. For the record, I don’t hate the machine; just the shitty shows they’ve been putting out in the past few years.

As for ALL IN selling out, that’s pretty impressive. I’m sure we all had our doubts as to whether they could pull it off with what little in terms of promotion they had at their disposal, but the fact that they were able to pull it off shows that there is some genuine interest in what Cody and the Fucks (sorry, I mean Bucks… GODDAMIT WOO!) have in store for this show.

Think about it… there was nothing in terms of big-scale promotion; only lots of social media stuff and even then, not all that much. And on top of that, they didn’t have a card on there. It’s just three guys with a vision of sorts who wanted to put a big indy wrestling show at a rather big arena… and for the most part, their vision paid off in half an hour. There’s an interest in this show and now that there’s an audience, the real work begins.

Whatever the case may be come September – whether it ends up being a card for the ages or the proverbial drizzling shits – this is a good sign for the indy circuit and I wish Cody and the Bucks (got it right this time) all the best in their upcoming show.

Now if only they find themselves a nice streaming deal so that the rest of us can watch this thing…

Power Rangers Reflections Redux #06 – Trouble By The Slice

“Did I ever tell you about the time I was baked in a giant pizza?”
Theodore Jay Jarvis Johnson, First Black Leader Of The Power Rangers

Today’s episode is the “pizza episode” from Turbo.

Let’s do it. Huggies See OUYA!

Oh wait… wrong half of the season.

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WWE Vengeance 2003

Okay, so full disclosure here; I was originally going to hold off doing the Smackdown-exclusive PPVs from 2003 for a later time and focus solely on the RAW entries. Because the RAW shows from 2003 have been mostly miserable (and I make note of my misery throughout the musings when I wrote them months ago), I opted to give the Smackdown 2003 PPVs a shot so I can get that year out of the way. This was possible due to being bedridden and as such, here’s a write-up on Smackdown’s first exclusive PPV, Vengeance 2003.

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