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Watched the show this morning with my GF while making breakfast. She doesn't watch wrestling at all and loved Taichi right off the bat. She also liked Osprey so she's 1 for 2 today.

I'm making wings using the oven frying technique from Serious Eats. Takes time to prep but it works out pretty well since you can make a big batch of wings pretty quick instead of having to fry multiple batches.

I kept dozing off watching the last two matches so I decided to re-watch this morning. Almas is great, I forget who earlier in the topic said they liked it Almas just goes into another gear at times to sting together moves, but I love it too. It makes sense that you'd find another burst of energy to try and finish a guy off. I'm curious to see what Black does next since no one is really built up enough at this point to face him. But the next Takeover is in June so there's plenty of time. I'd assume there's an Almas rematch thrown in there before then. Gargano/Champa was insane and I loved it. I don't have anymore complete thoughts right now. Loved the other matches and as someone that liked Shayna's character stuff in matches but thought her offense was a little meh in the MYC it's awesome to see her improve so quickly, I assume it was coaches at the PC just pointing out little things. She's been wrestling for like 3 years though right? I don't know if Ronda will get there so quickly. As an aside, I'm always caught off guard by how I don't recognize Liv Morgan when she's in regular clothes with glasses. If it weren't for Ruby and Sarah with her I don't know if I would have made the connection. She's like the wrestling Clark Kent.

So everyone that wins in their title matches on Saturday, then has to work the next morning in New Orleans? It's like the WWE equivalent of a NBA coach scheduling an 8AM shootaround in LA.

I'm pretty sure that's Tucker Knight in the background. But who's the blonde woman in the red jacket that crouching? Is that Dana Brooke? Or another developmental person that never got on TV?

Ha! Fire Pro A had that problem too.

Wait did Drew get injured before the Takeover WarGames? I thought he was injured during the finish.

The few squashes he had on WCWSN or Worldwide were always fun. But the "big" matches were never that great as far as I can remember.

As a black guy who was a in grade school during Badd's WCW run I liked him as a face I just wasn't crazy about his lack of a legit finisher compared to other guys. Also, I don't remember him being portrayed as black, and from watching a few WCW PPVs here and there on the network I don't remember anything. Was I just missing it as a kid? He always seemed like a tan white guy to me.

I wasn't crazy about this weeks episode. The X Division match seemed like a match to have a match plus it was odd seeing Fantasma as a face after his initial heel run in the company with no explanation. Hania looks impressive. Stinks to hear about the backstage stuff.

They're really stacking the tournament early. Kicking other names around, I assume Gallagher and Ali are in, and probably Davairi. After that, do they pull in another UK or NXT guy?

It was an episode of Smackdown:

This bar is like 8 blocks away from where I live. Might have to stop there and watch the show with people for a change.

So when they get called up, they're going to need to just grab one of those camera guys and film stuff for the web, right? Because I can't see them getting enough time to do anything of note on the TV shows.

I'm not sure who has a more Canadian accent: Akam or Jinder. But it's good to get those guys some mic time since I'm sure Ellering isn't coming with the on the main roster. Gargano/Dream was awesome and I'm excited for the Moon/Shayna match.