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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
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WWE
Superstar Xavier Woods Mentions Street Fighter, EVO & Final Round
ATL on Monday Night Raw
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 Fighting games
and pro-wrestling have had a deep-rooted bond since the very beginning of
the genre. We've become accustomed to seeing fighting game characters
paying homage to various WWE icons in their movesets, but we're definitely
not used to hearing words like "EVO", "Final Round ATL"
and "Street Fighter" on Monday Night Raw. (Talk about
things coming full circle!) 
In case you don't know, New Day's Xavier Woods (Austin Creed) has his own Youtube
gaming channel (UpUpDownDown)
and clearly loves his Street Fighter. Leading up to the insane "FGC mention" on Monday Night Raw, it seems it all
started with this Street Fighter II Turbo Clash between Xavier and The Miz, below.
(Spoiler Alert: Xavier
pretty much destroys The Miz in SF2T with E. Honda fundamentals. Someone
should remind Miz that blocking is a thing.) 
Which
leads us to the epic mention on Monday Night Raw. That's pretty big
exposure EVO and Final Round ATL (even though 99.3% of the crowd probably
didn't catch it).
Why is this a big deal? ....Well, it's not every day
that fighting game tournaments get mentions on
mainstream television. Judging from the audience reaction, perhaps 10 or so people in that
entire arena caught Xavier's reference. But all of
us did. 
Is this a precursor to WWE Superstar Xavier Woods eventually appearing a
future fighting game tournament? He's already appeared on Cross Counter TV
with Gootecks & Mike Ross playing some SFV beta... so he's got
his foot in the door to say the least.
Hmm, I
wonder if Xavier has ever visited The Fighters
Generation... (P.S. If you do, hit me up). 
In any case, I look forward to seeing more high flying, trombone-playing, and Street Fighter
references on WWF WWE Raw & Smackdown.
~TFG Webmaster, Frank Joseph
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| Sources: CapcomFighters,
@XavierWoodsPhD,
Kenny
Omega (YT), UpUpDownDown, v2lab, BasedMonster
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