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Here are your quick, editorial-free NXT results for April 29, 2020. Tonight’s episode included Charlotte Flair defending the NXT Women’s Championship against Mia Yim and Keith Lee defending the North American Championship against Damian Priest. Make sure you’re back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of NXT review.

NXT results:

1. Interim NXT Cruiserweight Title Tournament match: Isaiah “Swerve” Scott defeated El Hijo del Fantasma with a crucifix pin.

– In a promo from earlier in the day, Dominik Dijakovic took issue with Johnny Gargano’s words last week and challenged him to a match.

– During the commercials, El Hijo del Fantasma fought off the masked kidnappers again, this time inside the Performance Center.

2. Candice LeRae defeated Kacey Catanzaro. LeRae entered with a new theme, new gear, and a new entrance video that dubbed her “The Poison Pixie.” Johnny Gargano gave her a complimentary ring introduction and remained at ringside during the match. LeRae pinned Catanzaro with a new finisher called “The Wicked Stepsister” for the win and put her opponent in the Gargano Escape after the match.

– Backstage, Damian Priest cut a promo about his upcoming match with Keith Lee.

– Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher entered the arena and Riddle surprised Thatcher with a game show segment, The Newly-Bro-ed Show. With Byron Saxton as the host, Riddle and Thatcher played The Newlywed Game, soundtracked by canned laughter and applause. Thatcher didn’t really get it. The game was interrupted by an attack by Imperium’s Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel. They posed over Thatcher with the tag belts after beating him up.

– An ad about WWE’s relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation aired.

– Adam Cole revealed that William Regal set an NXT Championship defense for him next week against Velveteen Dream. He cut a promo about how he still doesn’t think Dream is worthy.

3. NXT Women’s Championship match: Charlotte Flair (c) defeated Mia Yim by submission, tapping her out with the Figure Eight. Io Shirai confronted Flair after the match.

– Another apocalyptic vignette played for Karrion Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux. Their arrival was promoted for next week.

– We learned that also next week, Finn Balor will address the attack on him.

4. Dexter Lumis defeated Shane Thorne by knocking him out with the kata gatame choke.

– Backstage, Keith Lee cut a promo on Damian Priest.

5. Interim NXT Cruiserweight Title Tournament match: Drake Maverick defeated Tony Nese with a bulldog off the top rope.

– Flair vs. Shirai, Gargano vs. Dijakovic, and Cole vs. Dream were promoted for next week.

6. NXT North American Championship match: Keith Lee defeated Damian Priest, pinning him with two Spirit Bombs.

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Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free AEW Dynamite results for April 29, 2020. The show featured the Semi-Finals of the TNT Championship Tournament, a tag team grudge match, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Ins and Outs of AEW Dynamite column.

AEW Dynamite Results:

— The show opened with a video package about the Cody Rhodes vs Darby Allin match.

1. Cody Rhodes defeated Darby Allin to advance to the Finals in the TNT Championship Tournament. Allin hit the Coffin Drop, but Cody rolled him forward so his shoulders were on the mat and got the pin.

— There was another Scorpio Sky video package, focusing on how he joined SCU.

— MJF appeared from home, saying that his hangnail was healed, but while preparing to come back to AEW Dynamite he nicked his neck shaving. He was wearing a cervical collar.

2. Wardlow defeated Musa. Wardlow pinned Musa quickly after an Airplane Spin.

— In a new Bubbly Bunch, Sammy Guevara was gloating about having the best Flim Flam dance. Ortiz said that Chris Jericho won last week, but Santana disagreed. Jericho announced a Manitoba Melee, which led to a montage of a bunch of wrestlers and other people (including Vickie Guerrero, Kevin Smith, Gabriel Iglesias, and Lou Ferrigno) fighting each other over FaceTime.

3. The Best Friends (with Orange Cassidy) defeated Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford) in a No-DQ match. Chuck Taylor pinned Jimmy Havoc after an Awful Waffle onto a pile of chairs.

— In a video segment at her dental office, Doctor Britt Baker introduced her makeup artist, who she called Reba, but her real name is Rebel. Then Britt talked about how some people can’t be role models, using photos of Tony Schiavone to illustrate her points.

4. Shawn Spears defeated Baron Black. Spears used a Sharpshooter, and Black tapped out.

— Marko Stunt was interviewed backstage. He said he knew that a lot of people don’t think he belongs, but even with Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy unable to be here right now, he wants to prove himself.

5. Brodie Lee defeated Marko Stunt. Lee pinned Stunt after a Powerbomb.

— By a graffiti-covered wall in the desert, Jon Moxley talked about the things he’s thankful for. Then he promised to be at AEW Dynamite next week.

6. Lance Archer defeated Dustin Rhodes to advance to the Finals in the TNT Championship Tournament. Cody Rhodes came out and considered throwing in the towel for his brother, but Dustin didn’t want him to. While they were arguing, Archer pulled Dustin back into the ring and repeated slammed his head against the mat before pinning him.

The Transformers franchise has been in trouble for a while now, with the last full-on movie — 2017’s The Last Knight, which actually began in Medieval times with King Arthur — severely underperforming and the spin-off Bumblebee not doing too hot either. And yet as recently as January there was talk of two separate Transformers movies en route. Now, as per The Hollywood Reporter, an animated movie is in the works from people involved in two of modern movies’ biggest brands.

According to THR, Paramount Animation is working on a prequel, taking the franchise back to its animated roots. And to pull it off, they’ve tapped Ant-Man and the Wasp writers Andrew Barrier and Gabriel Ferrari to handle the screenplay. And to direct, they’ve named John Collier, co-director of the Oscar-winning Toy Story 4.

The Transformers franchise began life as an animated TV show that ran four seasons starting in 1984, although its real genesis lies in a line of Hasbro toys, the show largely existing to sell them. The first Transformers movie, called Transformers: The Movie, came in 1986 and while not a box office success, its position in screen history is sealed: It was the last screen work Orson Welles did before dying, with him heard not seen as villainous planet Unicron.

(Via THR)

Two of the Bay Area’s premier artists have found themselves at odds after a case of hurt feelings led “F*ck It Up” rapper Kamaiyah to vent to her followers Instagram Live in the wake of Kehlani’s album announcement for It Was Good Until It Wasn’t. During the livestream, Kamaiyah called Kehlani’s Bay Area’s origins into question, telling her fans, “I don’t f*ck with her at all–at all. She know why. That’s that.”

Kamaiyah’s beef seems to stem from her verse — and that of Keyshia Cole, another Oakland resident — being removed from Kehlani’s hit song “All Me.” Kamaiyah admitted to feeling disrespected. “I feel like it never should have came out,” she says “I never wanted ‘All Me’ to come out and she wanted ‘All Me’ to come out… It was our song, we did a project together… if anything I was genuine. My problem came from the disrespect. It was out of hand. It was on some, ‘Oh you’re Black, you’re ghetto, you’re not tasteful.’”

Shortly after, Kehlani seemingly addressed Kamaiyah’s outburst on Twitter with a series of now-deleted tweets in which she appeared to take the high road. However, she quickly removed the tweets from her timeline, perhaps hoping to douse the speculation from curious fans. I’m still not speaking negatively on someone I once cared about,” she wrote. “That I have a matching tattoo with. That I respected and admired.”

She tried to explain the situation but also pointed out harmful retaliation from her former collaborator. “Business didn’t work out on a collaborative project,” She elaborated. “I withdrew and got a ‘green light’ on my family and friends. And it’s still love on this side. reached out countless amounts of times to be adults. to say ‘You have been around my child.’ Still met with internet antics, false rumors that don’t make any sense, and threats to my life. & me all of a sudden not being from the same city that I was from when we were cool.”

Kehlani also explained why the disagreement hadn’t been hashed out behind closed doors. Since no phone calls or texts have been answered in months, I’m responding here. You supposed to be happy — I’m very happy and about to drop a project I’m super proud of just like you did a few months ago.”

However, after deleting the above texts, she was questioned about the accusations Kamaiyah made during the Live alleging that Kehlani called her “Black, ghetto, and not tasteful.” She shot back, “Please do not take this bold ass lie and f*ckin run with it. Y’all KNOW this don’t even SOUND RIGHT. And this could really hurt my fans. Hurt my daughter, hurt my family members. Come on now. This is where I draw the line.”

Those tweets were deleted as well, but hopefully, the two Bay Area representatives can get on Zoom or something and settle this out of the public’s eye.

Kehlani is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Harrison Ford is first and foremost a Hollywood legend, but he’s also famously unlucky with aircrafts. He’s walked away from a helicopter crash, been forced to land a plane on a golf course, and mistakenly landed on the wrong taxiway. Now, according to CNN, the actor is being investigated over yet another incident.

Last Friday, April 24, Ford, while piloting a plane in Los Angeles, crossed a runway where another aircraft was landing. The Federal Aviation Association is looking into the incident, but one of Ford’s representatives claims it was an innocent mistake.

“Mr. Ford crossed the airport’s only runway in his aircraft after he misheard a radio instruction from ATC. He immediately acknowledged the mistake and apologized to ATC for the error,” Ford’s representative told CNN. “The purpose of the flight was to maintain currency and proficiency in the aircraft. No one was injured and there was never any danger of a collision.”

Ford’s first major brush with aircraft infamy was in 1999, when he was forced to make an emergency landing while piloting a helicopter, which ended with the aircraft landing hard on gravel, hitting a tree, and flipping it on its side. Neither Ford nor his instructor suffered any injuries, and the former lived to joke about it on Inside the Actor’s Studio. In 2015 he landed a plane on a Venice, California golf course after it experienced engine failure, and two years later he accidentally landed on the taxiway of a Santa Ana airport. Now this.

(Via CNN)

It’s been six weeks since the NBA (and most other professional sports leagues) officially went on hiatus amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and despite some states now taking measures to reopen their economies and relax their social distancing protocols, the path to resuming the current season remains as murky as ever.

Commissioner Adam Silver has reiterated that the league will not return until the safety of the players, media, league personnel, and fans can be reasonably assured, which presents all sorts of logistical conundrums and no easy solutions. Plenty of ideas have been floated — some more feasible than others — and it’s clear that it’s going to require some creative problem-solving from everyone involved.

One possibility that has gained some traction is the idea of playing games in a single location that would reduce the amount of travel normally required. On Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweeted that the league is considering the Disney World Resort in Orlando as one such location.

One possible playing ground for NBA if finishing season becomes safe for league and players: Walt Disney World Resort property in Orlando, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. League has kept different scenarios in mind.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 29, 2020

Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press went on to say that Disney President Bog Iger pitched the idea to league officials this week.

Disney’s Central Florida campus has been talked about for at least a couple weeks. https://t.co/PfDdyHYR4L https://t.co/zimPHF41f2

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) April 29, 2020

Las Vegas has also been mentioned as a possible location. The key in this scenario would be finding a way to quarantine players and other team personnel in a single location in order to reduce the risk as much as possible. It would also require the adequate facilities in which to play the actual games — which the Wide World of Sports would have — as well as the space to house such a large contingent. Regardless, any such scenario is likely still relatively far down the road.

Full disclosure, I’ve done my fair share of time in detention hall (and Saturday school, in-school suspension, regular suspension, etc. but that’s neither here nor there). The point is that high school boys can be a handful, and looking back on it, I have a great deal more empathy for the poor, overworked, and underappreciated educators who have to put up with so much nonsense.

But that’s still no excuse for casting these types of aspersions on what was clearly a talented young man with a bright future ahead. Back in 2014 when he was a high school student in Georgia, Jaylen Brown tweeted about how one of his teachers predicted that he’d end up in jail in the next five years.

The tweet originally resurfaced last year after Brown and the Celtics were in the midst of a big playoff run, and though he declined to go into specifics about what happened at the time, Brown said that he’s since moved on from the incident and no longer harbors any ill will toward the teacher in question.

But that didn’t stop him from commemorating the event once again, as Wednesday marked the sixth anniversary.

Rather than tout his trajectory of success in pro basketball in the years since, Brown simply shared this IG post from @celtics.everyday detailing just a few of his many accomplishments in the NBA and beyond.

Teachers can have a profound effect on a young person’s psyche. In Brown’s case, he was thankfully mentally strong enough to overcome perceptions and forge a different path through life.

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