What's Your Geek?
Greatest Women’s Champion of all time? Yes, yes she was.
AJ Lee, originally from Union City New Jersey and trained by Jay Lethal, was everything one could want in a WWE Diva. She was incredibly athletic, great on the mic, able to connect with fans as both face and heel, and gorgeous.
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A perfectly balanced fighter for a perfectly balanced beer
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How was the big show?
WrestleMania 31 has come and gone. Did the granddaddy of them all live up to the hype? Did the Undertaker get back in the win column? Did Triple H come out in an absolutely ridiculous outfit and have a completely over the top entrance? And most importantly, did I get any of the matches right in my prediction post?
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The top 5 matches in Wrestlemania history
WrestleMania is like the Super Bowl of wrestling. It happens once a year, in a huge stadium, with people from all over the world in attendance. It is a destination vacation for some, a yearly pilgrimage for others. Perhaps the most important comparison though is that both events have provided fans with instant classics… and instant hot, hot garbage.
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What’s going to happen?
For the past thirty years Wrestlemania has been the biggest show WWE has put on. It was built upon the backs of guys like Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and The Rock. It continues to be the marquee event in American Professional Wrestling.
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The next big thing
Kota Ibushi, currently signed to both DDT and New Japan, is one of the best light heavyweight wrestlers in the world. He is a multiple time world champion in Japan, both singles and tag team, a Best of the Super Juniors tournament winner, a GO-1 Climax winner, and a multiple time “best of” winner from various publications.
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Quite the pair
These two have, obviously, been friends for years. They have wrestled together as a team and against each other in many different promotions around the world. Their matches have always been top notch, steal the show type affairs. Their previous personas of El Generico and Kevin Steen, I’ll let you figure out which is which because you’re a smart audience, are responsible for the featured match this week.
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A better kind of bomb to keep around the house
Bomb! is an absolutely stellar beer. It’s a super dark and roasty stout with a bunch of malty goodness. The aging it goes through on vanilla beans, cacao nibs, coffee, and ancho peppers gives the base beer a ton of subtleties and complexity. Every sip is something new and really quite wonderful.
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Brock. Thick, meaty Brock.
NCAA Division I Champion. Multiple time WWE Heavyweight Champion. IWGP Heavyweight Champion. UFC Heavyweight Champion. Beast.
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Nerdy references galore
Simply put, Candice LeRae is the best female wrestler on the planet. It isn’t because she has tons of geek cred, which she does (enough that she is Geekade’s official favorite wrestler). It isn’t because she’s attractive, which she is, hell it’s not even because she’s Canadian (we here at Geekade are big time Canadaphiles). See, Candice is not just a pretty girl that learned to wrestle so that she could further some sort of, let’s be honest in regards to most “divas”, movie star/model career aspiration. She is a wrestler first and foremost.
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