Kevin Wilson

I thought that Sendai Girls' on 1/9 was really good as a complete show. MOTYC seekers can skip it, nothing reached that level, but nothing was below average and I particularly enjoyed Cassandra Miyagi vs. Hikaru Shida. Aja Kong vs. Chihiro Hashimoto felt a bit flat, it took awhile to get going and never 'felt' like a big championship match, but it wasn't bad either.

People getting mad at comedians for making inappropriate jokes is very 2017. Good thing George Carlin and Richard Pryor aren't still around, y'all have hated them.

Depends on the frequency of Tokyo Joshi Pro, what I'll probably do is sign up every three months or so to catch up, then cancel it for a few more months.

Watching Sendai Girls' on 1/9 now, I'm sure I'll have some thoughts when I am done. Glad that Joshi promotions are recognizing that Konami is awesome. Since returning in November she has already wrestled in WAVE, Marvelous, Diana, Stardom, FMW, and Sendai Girls' After not getting to see much of her in 2016 due to her being in REINA, its nice that she is finally wrestling on some events that 'make air'. Hopefully Stardom keeps using her, I guess we'll find out next tour if she will be a permanent fixture like Kagetsu or not. I hope Marvelous doesn't join Diana on the list of promotions that don't make their events available, I really like Takumi Iroha.

But at what point does Dana "Chuck Liddell" BJ Penn and tell him he has to stop? I know Dana can't literally stop someone from fighting but at some point a fighter's long term health has to come above TV ratings. Its a dangerous sport, people get hurt, but Penn hasn't won in seven years. Its more sad than exciting, when fans at home start worrying about the fighter instead of enjoying their fights its about that time to head out to pasture.

This sounded fake when I first read it, but apparently the prosecutor in the Pacman Jones case wants to wait and see what his NFL punishment is before deciding what charges/penalties to pursue. Uh its usually the other way around. Plus very unusual anyway, if I get arrested for DUI and miss work, will the prosecutor wait to see if my job fires me before punishing me for the DUI? Shouldn't he as a prosecutor base his charges on reality and not make them harder/softer depending on if Jones is punished elsewhere?

I know second guessing in hindsight is normal but I am surprised since Pitt only needed one first down that KC didn't try an onside kick. Its a low percentage play, but soon as they kicked it deep it really put a lot of pressure on the defense to have only one try to stop a potent offense.

At least this game gave us "Bitching Brady" which is my favorite version of Brady.

It probably goes without saying, but being 1 for 11 on third down is Houston's downfall. It feels like they had many 3rd downs and four or less, but failed to get the 1st down.

Hey I was one of the few that thought the Texans could hang in there. I still think NE is a better team but Houston has done what they needed to do to keep it a ballgame. The first drive of the second half will be huge. If the Pats march down the field and score an easy TD, I don't know if Houston has the offense to overcome that. But if they stop them and score.... something themselves then I think it will stay close til the end.

At least Pats fans have to sweat a bit.

I would guess it would depend on several factors - I don't personally know if Shibata or the woman is married. In the US it wouldn't matter at all but Japan seems a bit more sensitive to it, but on the flipside punishing Taichi was easy since he was a bit mid-carder while Shibata is higher on the card. I doubt it will seriously alter New Japan's plans but who knows.

Soon as I saw the specs I knew that would be an issue, and compared to other systems it does seem like an odd decision. Since it is a handheld having a hard drive in it would be a bad idea but they could have at least put 64 GB flash. I don't play digital games but I'll probably buy a microSDXC card just in case I need it.

Well, generally I've never been a fan of low attendance = bad draw or vice versa since there are so many factors that impact the size of a crowd. But that goes for any promotion, not just New Japan. I dunno if there are more than four or five wrestlers in the world that are legitimate "draws" in the sense that if they main evented a show then no matter what it would have a higher-than-usual attendance.

Snarky jokes can still get serious replies, three sentences isn't exactly a long monologue.

Well to me, it is better (I meant 3DS, not DS, if that changes your stance related to the cost since I wouldn't get something with that small a screen). Bigger screen, much better graphics. I am assuming I can kickstand it and use a pro controller also. But I'll use it on the big screen too, the split would probably be 70% Handheld/30% Big TV. Money isn't a super huge object, I mean if it was $500 I wouldn't get it but a new 3DS XL is $220+, I don't mind spending an extra $100 for the aforementioned perks. If this hadn't come out I'd probably have gotten a 3DS by the summer but no need now since this doubles as both. I completely understand people waiting for more stuff to come out before getting it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they launched it in March with the full intention of being 'fully' ramped up by the holiday season with a lot more games available (Mario in particular). Its just perfect timing for me since now that I work an odd shift at work I have about 20 hours a week of time I could use it as a handheld. Although if they don't stop snapping in their commercials I reserve the right to change my opinion altogether. I think the true handhelds will still have a market and aren't going anywhere, if I was going to play it on a bus/a boring event/etc I wouldn't lug around a $300 console, it just works in my case since I'll be sitting in my office.

You may be thinking of Akiya Anzawa. I mean it could have been both of them but what are the odds.

I'll openly admit that one of the reasons I am pro-Switch is I kept meaning to get a DS but have never owned one. Since I can play a handheld console at work, the Switch is basically a Super DS as far as I am concerned. I don't care at all about being able to count ice cubes in a cup, that is I guess for families or casual gamers (or non-video game playing spouses) but has no interest to me. I wish that Mario was coming out in the summer, but Mario Kart being an earlier release will help since I haven't played Mario Kart 8 so its a new game to me. I'd feel better though if the "pro" controller was up somewhere for pre-order as well as I think I'd rather play with it than the joycons.

Knowing that in two months I'll be sitting at work playing a new Zelda with a weird looking sword statue sitting next to me makes me a happy panda. I'll be good with that for a few months, at least until some of the cooler stuff starts coming out that they previewed.

Ugh I don't like DDT, I meant promotions I like.

You can just say 'no', none of that is related to the draft. That was related to Rex, Rex was a Pegula hire so he was a Pegula fire. Far from ideal, but not related to drafting players.

I can confirm it was definitely her, because I purchased a Scott Norton jacket from her that only he would have had and she included a signed photo. Her apparent dislike of Josh Barnett was quite entertaining.

Not to that depth there aren't. I don't mean results, I mean 1,000 words of translations and details about every show, upcoming shows, etc.

I pre-ordered the Switch and the super edition of Zelda, so I guess I am all-in now.

This looks promising, looks like Nintendo was actually serious this time about having third party support. I guess at some point we'd move some of this stuff over to the "upcoming games" thread, I'll let someone with more power than me figure out how that's being sorted.