Last night, fans of All Elite Wrestling might have noticed a certain face in the crowd at AEW Dynamite. Everyone’s new favorite ‘Mon, Lechonk, was waving on a giant placard thanks to one industrious 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Scarlet & Violet fan.
According to , the Lechonk’s AEW debut wa𝔍s captured on film during Maxwell Jacob Friedman’s long-winded monologue. There, sitting in the throngs of fans that had crowded into Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California, was Lechonk.
Historically, fans would hold up large signs at wrestling matches in order to support (or decry) particular wrestlers, but in recent years that’s changed. With fans knowing that crowd-shots are both a thing and an easy ticket to 1.5-seconds of fame, those signs have gone from being about wrestling to being about whatever the hell the♑y want--and that’s often video games. As Kotaku noted, fans have made signs that request Mother 3 localization to just asking if there are more Skies of Arcadia fans out there.
Lechonk is perhaps the most popular non-starter Pokemon in recent memory, , so it’s not surprising that Lechonk would have already fou𝓰nd its way onto a wrestling placard. Now we just need a wrestler to adopt Lechonk as their spirit animal, and it’ll all come full circle.
For those wondering what’s so great about Lechonk, look into its beady little crying eyes and tell me what’s not to love? Although we should point out that the real-life inspiration for Lechonk 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:is anything but lovable. A post on the Pokemon subreddit reminded fans that wild boars in Spain (the rumored real-life location that inspired Scarlet & Violet's region) are very aggressive. Tourists and residents have been warned to avoid wild pigs for years, and even celebrities have been attacked by Spanish boars. Lechonk might be a cute pet in the Pokemon world, but the real-life Lechonks are even more violent than wrestlers.