Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

 By Mark Rodriguez Alright, so this month I really overdid it with the shirts. I think after this month I gotta put my foot down and not spend anymore, not counting of course, the shirts that already come with the subscription boxes. This time at least we have a higher variety than wrestling shirts. Geek Fuel Box- Godzilla shirt- March 14, 2021 So this time the box had a bit of a dinosaur theme with items related to Jurassic Park and Godzilla. We got the Godzilla VS King Kong movie coming up so I'll probably be wearing that when I watch it with my buddies. This shirt is pretty cool, it's unique since it's exclusive to the Geek Fuel Box, but also says Gojira on the back. Awesome. Priscilla Kelly PK shirt- March 15, 2021 Some time ago I bought PK's black shirt with white letters and I vowed to some day return to Spinebustermerch.com and purchase the white variant. I like how the rose in this variant is a blue-ish color, since it does bring a bit of color to the shirt. Cou...

 By Mark Rodriguez Alright so this time I did succumb to getting a few shirts, mostly due to the fact that Cora Jade shut down her older shirt shop over at ProWrestlingTees and also the fact that Hot Topic had some cool deals with shirts related to ProWrestlingTees. So um... yeah, ProWrestlingTees wins again. February 1- Elayna Black shirts Like you know, Elayna has been signed to WWE under the new ring name Cora Jade, so Big Daddy Vince will be in charge of any new merch going forward. So I bought these last 2 shirts before she would close up shop. Freelance Wrestling Card shirt I wasn't gonna buy this one originally, mostly because it looks very similar to another shirt she released when she got her newest (at the time) gear. I love the card design and I love the scenes in the background from her various matches. I would have bought this sooner if they used a different image front and center, but overall a cool shirt, so I went for it before it's gone forever. 'Fear the O...

 By Mark Rodriguez So the new AEW Women's tournament is divided into brackets of Japan and America, with the Japanese bracket being shown on Youtube while the American bracket is shown on Dynamite. I'm a but confused how this works because as you'll see, the Japanese bracket has several matches all in one go and I assume Dynamite only showed one match. I guess we'll have to see. Now in this case due to the number of matches we're reviewing, I'll post mostly my thoughts on each rather than the play-by-play.  Match 1- US Bracket- Feb 10, 2021 (AEW Dynamite)- Legit Leyla Hirsch VS Thunder Rosa Pretty decent match, it was cool to see Thunder Rosa contend with someone that has as many technical submission moves as she does, and she even ate two of her German Suplexes. In the end Rosa powered through as Leyla tried to grab her in an armlock but Rosa picked her up with that same arm and slammed her down. Then she hit her with a power bomb and that was all she wrote.  I...

 By Mark Rodriguez It seems we have 3 women's matches in this episode. However we do have the AEW Women's Tournament coming up with features a lot of the same women we've been seeing here, so I'll be covering those matches. It seems they're separated between a Japan bracket and an American bracket and some of us feel a bit odd that the Japan bracket will be on Youtube while the American bracket will be on Dynamite, especially since we got a couple of Japanese big names that should be seen on TV. We'll see how that works out. First Match- Miranda Alize VS Nyla Rose (With Vickie Guerrero) Miranda ran in with a kick and then tried to get Nyla with an arm drag, but Nyla picked her up and slammed her down. Nyla effortlessly knocks Miranda down with a clothesline and then starts to stomp on her and clobber her. Nyla hits her with a splash but purposely gets off her to prevent a pin. She puts Miranda on the ropes and places her knee on her face. As the ref pulls Nyla b...

 By Mark Rodriguez It's time to continue with the semi-finals to see who will be the two final tag teams to compete and win the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic at Takeover! First Match- Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez VS Kacy Cantazaro and Kayden Carter NXT Live February 3, 2021 Kacy and Dakota start out as they try to out-grapple each other, Kacy being the first to armdrag her opponent across the mat. Kacy goes for a headlock but Dakota drags her over to the ropes and sits her on top of the turnbuckle. As Dakota runs towards her, Kacy leaps off and hits her with a takedown. Kacy tags Kayden in who quickly trips Dakota down. Kacy holds onto her as Kayden comes in with a kick to the face. Kayden goes for the pin but Dakota kicks out. Dakota manages to grab Kayden and slam her down into a backbreaker. Raquel is tagged in and Kayden shows no fear over her larger opponent, smacking her in the chest. Raquel angrily knocks her down with a knee to the midsection. Raquel tries to pick her up ...