Trocar Slush Weasel

It's hand-me-down season in Japan.

YES

Damn, Randy Orton is now an odds-on favorite to win the Rumble at the bookies.

Motherly love.

I'd be willing to bet if Kevin Owens repeatedly takes down Reigns on Sunday and punches his face so hard that he looks like the elephant man, he will be sent back to the indies.

But just as you said, we aren't talking about the biggest draw in the company. We're talking about Blue Meanie and a jobber. A closer comparison would be Daniel Puder. Yoshiko was definitely higher up the card but imagine if a Rhyno would have shot on Kurt Angle on national tv like Yoshiko.

We also have to consider the culture. In America, Yoshiko would have been banished to a career in Insane Clown Posse's shitty fed. While in Japan, Shibata can be a total asshole and take liberties all over the place and be revered. My theory is that Act/Yoshiko was supposed to be a light beer version of Hokuto/Kandori but Yoshiko completely lost the plot. To say that Yoshiko was within her rights to "defend herself" is ludicrous. Those shots by Act weren't any stiffer than she would get from anybody else. You want to be a professional, you need to act like a professional.

I'm banking on Gallows/Anderson screwing Cena out of the title against AJ, then Cena winning the Rumble and challenging AJ at Wrestlemania.

Something tells me no. Wasn't Yoshiko a highly trained judoka? Or have I gotten her mixed up with somebody else.

Ooh, this doesn't sound so crazy now.

I'm picking AJ Styles to win the Rumble. (Now that I think about it...or John Cena)

Guess which one is the Falcons and which one is the Packers.

I'm sure New Japan has always honored contracts and intellectual properties, so it's fair to expect the same from WWE.

Actually, that's a pretty clever misspelling.

"Mommy will not die". Yikes.

Undertaker is still the favorite to win the Rumble, according to the oddsmakers. I just can't see it as it stands. If Undertaker wins, he would then wrestle KO, Reigns, AJ or Cena at Wrestlemania. (I'm assuming Undertaker can wrestle any champion he wants) KO and AJ don't make sense to me and a Cena/Undertaker match for Cena's belt doesn't make sense either. So that leaves Reigns and I'm sure they don't want Reigns boo'ed at another Wrestlemania. So what's the most likely scenario for an Undertaker win? A title change at Fastlane/EC? My crazy theory is that some combination of Goldberg/Lesnar screws the Undertaker and we get a triple threat match at WM. As shitty as that match will be, it will be a spectacle.

Hana Kimura got a note from her doctor giving her the ok to wrestle at her mom's retirement show. (Not that I can see her doing much, especially considering the other side of the match will have Minoru Suzuki and Aja Kong)

Heading back to Japan in April to chase the cherry blossoms. I wish the companies would put out their April schedule so I can plan on where I'm gonna be early.

I mean, you have to have four part-timers at the front of the picture, so it doesn't really matter who else goes where.

Jeez, if I was somebody like Kona Reeves, I'd just announce my entry into the 2017 Royal Rumble.

What if Miz wins and decides to challenge for the Universal Title, if there isn't a rule that says he has to compete for a Smackdown title. That puts DB in the position of having to root for Miz. (I know this is completely implausible because Vince will want a Raw guy to win.)

Could you imagine a Miz win and Bryan having to eat shit for 3 months?