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I got two emails today; one from New Japan Pro-Wrestling\u2019s shop, and then not long afterward, one from the WWEShop, since I\u2019m a big wrestling mark nerd who has shopped with both companies to where regardless of the checkbox I decline to receive emails, they send me shit anyway.\u00a0 Normally, I delete them all with light prejudice since I never asked to receive them in the first place, but today I opened both of them, because they smartly put in the subject line, shit about my favorite thing in the world: blets.<\/span><\/p>\n In one corner, we have NJPW\u2019s shop advertising the pre-sale of the undisputed NJPW World championship that I\u2019ve made no secret to not being a fan of the design<\/a> of.\u00a0 But at an insignificant, paltry $3,500<\/strong> (three thousand, five hundred dollars), you could be one of probably 1,000 extreme marks to get your hands on an extremely rare, official NJPW replica championship blet.<\/span><\/p>\n In all fairness, it is typical impeccable Japanese craftsmanship, and unlike lots of wrestling replica blets that are made from brass or some other cheap shit metal, official NJPW blets are (allegedly) made from actual 24-karat gold, to justify the drink-spitting price tag on them, so in theory, they literally could be purchased as a legitimate investment, should the cost of gold ever spike to Gamestop-like proportions, and an actual owner of one of these bad boys could flip them for some actual profit.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah no, $3,500, I can think of a hundred more constructive or better things to spend that money on, mostly going towards my actual house, a real architectural structure where human beings reside in, instead of a championship blet replica, regardless of how much I love collecting them.\u00a0 Alternatively, I could get like 7-8 WWE replica blets (at full retail) for that cost, or every single AEW replica blet in one fell swoop, instead of a blet that I don\u2019t like the design of in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n But speaking of WWE replica blets, it brings us to email #2, from the WWEShop.\u00a0 Because the WWE has caught up to having released almost every single blet in WWF, WWE, WCW and ECW history at some point, as well as having made a legion of bullshit \u201ccommemorative\u201d blets for cherry picked former wrestlers, and a confusing array of MLB and SEC athletics tribute blets, it should come as no surprise that the WWE has finally gotten in bed with the NFL, seeing as how there\u2019s a considerable amount of overlap between fans of both companies.<\/span><\/p>\n For what will probably be a low-cost (in comparison to NJPW) of $499 per blet, NFL fans can get official WWE replica blets of their favorite team, regardless of if they\u2019re the Kansas City Chiefs or not, seeing as how they\u2019re probably going to embark on a dynasty and win every Super Bowl as long as Patrick Mahomes stays on the squad, but you can get a blet anyway, because if you\u2019re a Redskins<\/span> Commanders, Lions, Cardinals, Texans or fan of some other hopeless shitty NFL squad, you can get a blet anyway and feel like for two seconds what it feels like to have something that scripted winners get to hold.<\/span><\/p>\n UNLESS you\u2019re a Jacksonville Jaguars fan, because in a humorous turn of events, the WWE overlooked for a few minutes that the Jags are also the owners of AEW, and pulled the option from their site<\/a>, but not before smartasses on the internet made the astute observations first, and of course, got their archive of screencaps and proof of fucking up, because there\u2019s little else the internet loves to do than call out failure.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I\u2019m broke as fuck, so there\u2019s no chance in hell I\u2019m getting any of these new blets anyway.\u00a0 I only like blets that actually exist or have existed, and my general cap for any blets is preferred to stick under $500 a pop.\u00a0 But all the same, I do think it was amusing that both of these drops happened on the same day, and not without its own malaise by the ol\u2019 E for forgetting that one of the NFL teams also reinforces their number one North American competitor\u2019s bankroll.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got two emails today; 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