The New Day vs The Elite Proves Video Game Beef is What’s Best For Business

The best rivalry in sports for the past three years has been Xavier Woods aka Austin Creed vs Kenny Omega aka The Cleaner. These are two athletes from two vastly different wrestling companies. Woods from WWE, Omega representing New Japan Pro Wrestling. Omega and Woods are the video game guys for both their companies. Woods has been letting his nerd and gamer ability be known on his hit youtube channel UpUpDwnDwn (over a million subscribers. Respect game(r)) where he games with other WWE wrestlers (especially The Usos, Kofi, Big E, and Seth Rollins), along with having the quickest pop culture references this side of the West on the mic, and +999 level cosplaying skill set. Omega been a hardcore gamer from day one. Son been in gaming competitions, his finishers are references (One-Winged Angel, V-Trigger) from video games (take a guess which), dude’s gear is in Tekken 7 and he played Cody in the latest Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition trailer.

These are two men that have “Gamer 4 Life” tatted across the belly. Cyber Street Beef

Woods and Omega never faced each other in the squared ring, the arena where this beef started is pixelated. It all started back in 2016 behind the scenes then on screens at the Street Fighter V Exhibition at CEO (Community Effort Orlando) where Woods and Omega finally met. Remember when TV shows or Marvel and DC Comics did crossovers? Yeah, it was like that but even better. These two have been going at it for gamer supremacy ever since and it’s been be…

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