2012 Leaf Originals Wrestling

Love wrestlers from the past? Love collecting autographs? This new collection put out by Leaf is just for you. A hobby box is a little pricey (seen it for around $70-$80), but the 5 cards in the box are guaranteed autographs. The sketches are a little caricature like, but they are autographed.

Instead of a box, we opted to go after some pieces on eBay. Bought the Iron Sheik (who doesn't love Sheikie Baby?) and made an offer on a 12 card lot which was accepted. For the lot, were after Heenan, and the Steiner Brothers. Santana and Shamrock were nice gets as well. We are really enjoying these cards checking out all of our favorites from the past. So many cool wrestlers are included in this collection. We may still pick up a box and try our luck. These would make great gifts.

For more info, check out a cool site we found, WrestlingTradingCards.com. Leaf 2012 Wrestling Originals info. Check out Amazon for some buying options.

Kenny Omega vs 9 Year Old Haruka

In Japan, they like some odd entertainment. This however is great. Kenny Omega has talked about working with 9 year old Haruka, how they trained for the match and how impressed he was with Haruka. Awesome video and Haruka looks like a future star. Huge props to Omega who shows just how talented he is to pull off a match with a 9 year old girl.

Smackdown - Hershey, PA Encounter

We would like to share a story with an encounter we had after a Smackdown show and I will be telling it as the driver (a little foreshadowing). The show was in Hershey, PA on June 21, 2011. It was a good show and had nice seats. The Hershey Arena is a small, intimate setting which made the experience even better. After the show is where we ended up with an encounter.

Like most arenas, traffic after shows turns out to be bumper to bumper trying to exit the parking lot. Our car was in the far left lane, already merged over with stop and go cars ahead. As I looked over to my left, I noticed an SUV coming up side by side with us, trying to get ahead of me. Normal reaction would be a little anger, however, in the passenger seat was Wade Barrett staring back at me. So with a laugh and a nod, I decided to let them ahead of me.

Now, right there makes for a nice little story, but with some quick thinking, we turned this into a great a memory. So with Wade Barrett in front us, he was stuck in the same traffic we were. I wanted an autograph, thought it be deserved for my nice driving gesture. I had a pen and had my ticket stub. I threw the car in park, jumped out and went up to Wade's window. He sort of just looked over and with his window up I mouthed, "can I please get an autograph? I did let you in back there..." and gave a smile.

Without saying a word, Wade rolled down the window and took my ticket to sign. As he was signing, I look to the back seat and there was Daniel Bryan, sort of laying back there looking back at me. When Wade handed back my ticket, I went to Daniel with my ticket and pen extended to him with a, "please?" Daniel did the same as Wade, no words, rolled the window down and signed. Now as Daniel was signing, I look tot he driver who was none other than, Cody Rhodes. I run around the front of the car to Cody's window who already had his window down. Without a word or a look, Cody signed the back of my ticket for me. I thanked them all and jumped back in my car.

This whole time, traffic had not moved anywhere. Shortly after getting in my car and celebrating my meetings, we see a guy run up in between the cars to get a peek at who I was getting autograph from. I see Wade sort of decline the guy to step back, there was a break in the traffic and Cody drove off crossing all four lanes to the right and they were gone. I couldn't think of any better way to wait out traffic.