In addition to Will Ospreay making his Ring of Honor debut on the promotion’s upcoming tour of England in November, it looks like fellow British star Marty Scurll will soon be debuting for ROH as well. Kevin Kelly’s Monday afternoon video update was “interrupted” by a message from Scurll, who said that ROH would need to make room for the…
Read moreNXT TakeOver headed to Toronto in November
Click:ceiling light NXT TakeOver is headed to Canada. WWE announced on Friday morning that NXT will present one of its regular TakeOver specials on Saturday, November 19th from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The show will take place the night before WWE’s Survivor Series pay-per-view in the same building. After filling the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY…
Read moreDaily Pro Wrestling History (09/12): WCW Fall Brawl
1962 St. Louis, Missouri:– Cowboy Bob Ellis defeated Lou Thesz by dq (Thesz was last minute sub for NWA Champ Buddy Rogers, who was injured in a brawl with Bill Miller & Karl Kotch in Columbus, Ohio dressing room)– Johnny Valentine & Bill Dromo beat Rip Hawk & Wladek (Killer) Kowalski– Red Bastien vs Buddy…
Read moreWWE Chicago, IL, live results: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton II
Submitted by George Atsaves from the Allstate Arena – Sasha Banks, Bayley & Alicia Fox defeated Raw Women’s Champion Charlotte, Dana Brooke & Nia Jax Banks, Bayley and Charlotte were super over. Crowd loved Bayley and Banks, and they loved to hate Charlotte. Banks won with the backstabber into the Bank Statement on Brooke. – Braun Strowman defeated Sin Cara Strowman won in a…
Read moreIslamic State ‘make Taliban look co-operative’ in Afghanistan as two terror groups fight for power
Every time Abdullah Shirzad passes a checkpoint of Islamic State group fighters, he fears he is about to die. The teacher begins reciting the Quran and praying the fanatics pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will let him pass unmolested. In the three years since jihadists loyal to Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil)…
Read moreWWE considering new Network pricing tiers with indie content
On a rare Friday night edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez detailed new tiered pricing plans that WWE is considering offering for the WWE Network. Alvarez noted that WWE is doing market research on the new plans, and Meltzer said they’re looking very strongly at moving to a four-tiered system. Notably,…
Read moreNo children? Pay up: Chinese academics float ‘maternity fund’ tax for childless people
Two Chinese academics have proposed a controversial idea to encourage childbirth as their country faces an ageing population: Make people childless people or parents of just one child pay into a "maternity fund". The suggestion sparked a furious social media debate in a country whose people faced drastic family planning policies under the Communist Party, which enforced a…
Read moreChael Sonnen to debut against Tito Ortiz at Bellator 170
Chael Sonnen has an opponent for his Bellator debut. It was announced on Tuesday night’s edition of SportsCenter that Sonnen would make his debut for the company against Tito Ortiz in the main event of Bellator 170 on January 21st at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. After completing a two-year suspension for failing multiple drug tests, Sonnen announced…
Read moreFatal Attraction’s Alex Forrest wasn’t a ‘villain’ says Glenn Close, she was mentally ill
She is known as one of Hollywood’s most dangerous villains – a psychopathic stalker whose terrifying antics made Fatal Attraction a box office hit. But if audiences today had their say, Alex Forrest would be viewed in a very different light according to the actress who played the infamous "bunny boiler". Glenn Close, who played…
Read moreRaw ratings up slightly for Royal Rumble go-home show
The loaded up Raw go-home show last night with the easiest competition since August did 3.29 million viewers, up slightly from the 3.26 million last week going against a marquee NBA game. While next week’s show should be way up, probably doing one of the best numbers of 2017 for the day after the Rumble,…
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