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Latest News:
Strowman vs. Lashley falls count anywhere match set for WWE Raw
Jinder Mahal undergoes surgery for ruptured patellar tendon
WWE Tokyo live results: Triple H teams with The Club
Latest Audio:
F4D: Lance Storm on Heyman and Bischoff, first Nitro match, tons more! 6/28
Big Audio Nightmare: The G1 Climax 29 preview and prediction show 6/28
WOL: Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman update, Raw and Smackdown, AEW, ROH, more! 6/28
We’re looking for reports on yesterday’s WWE show in Singapore, tonight’s NXT show in Crystal River, FL and tomorrow’s WWE show from Tokyo to [email protected]
We’re doing weekend polls on ROH Best in the World tonight, NJPW Summer Showdown tomorrow morning and AEW Fyter Fest tomorrow night. You can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]” target=”_blank”>[email protected]
NEW JAPAN WORLD PRO WRESTLING ON AXS TV AT 8 P.M. EASTERN
Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito in the 2017 G-1 Climax finals
ROH BEST IN THE WORLD FROM UMBC CENTER IN BALTIMORE AT 8:30 P.M. EASTERN ON PPV AND HONOR CLUB
Rush vs. Flip Gordon
Jonathan Gresham vs. Silas Young in pure rules
Kelly Klein & Jenny Rose vs. Mandy Leon & Angelina Love
Dragon Lee vs. Dalton Castle
Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Nick Aldis & mystery partner returning to ROH
Marty Scurll & PCO & Brody King vs. Tracy Williams & P.J. Black & Mark Haskins for six-man titles
Shane Taylor vs. Bandido for TV title
Matt Taven vs. Jeff Cobb for ROH title
CMLL TONIGHT FROM ARENA MEXICO AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN ON THE CMLL FACEBOOK PAGE AND CMLL YOUTUBE PAGE (YouTube goes up after the show)
Electrico & Oro Jr. vs. Inquisidor & Nitro
Lluvia & Avispa Dorada & Maligna vs. Amapola & Tiffany & Comandante
Dulce Gardenia vs. Disturbio
Sanson & Cuatrero & Forastero vs. Titan & Triton & Esfinge
Stuka Jr. vs. Mephisto
Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero & Euforia vs. Ciber the Main Man & Sharly Rockstar & The Chris
Caristico & Volador Jr. & Valiente vs. Cavernario & Negro Casas & Mr. Niebla
IMPACT TONIGHT AT 10 P.M. ON THE PURSUIT CHANNEL
Sami Callihan vs. Fallah Bahh
Taya Valkyrie & Rosemary vs. Su Yung & Havok
LAX & Laredo Kid vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel
NJPW SUMMER SHOWDOWN AT 5 A.M. EASTERN SATURDAY MORNING FROM FESTIVAL HALL IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA ON FITE TV
Michael Richards & Andrew Villalobos & Mark Tui vs. Ren Narita & Shota Umino & Toa Henare
Aaron Solow vs. Slex
Sho & Yoh & Toru Yano vs. Gedo & Taiji Ishimori & Gino Gambino
Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
El Phantasmo vs. Rocky Romero for British cruiserweight title
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. Juice Robinson & Mikey Nicholls for IWGP tag titles
Will Ospreay vs. Robbie Eagles for IWGP jr. title
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. Bad Luck Fale & Jay White
We’re looking for reports from Saturday’s Smackdown show in Jackson, MS, NXT in Venice, CA and Saturday’s ROH TV tapings in Philadelphia (Jeff Cobb vs. Dalton Castle vs. Kenny King vs. Jonathan Gresham, Briscoes vs. Dragon Lee & Rush, Marty Scurll vs Flip Gordon, Angelina Love vs. Jenny Rose vs. Tasha Steelz vs. Stella Gray, Silas Young vs. Josh Woods and Sumie Sakai vs. Karissa Rivera to [email protected]
UFC ON ESPN FROM THE TARGET CENTER IN MINNEAPOLIS AT 6 P.M. EASTERN
Junior Albini (266) vs. Maurice Greene (256)
Amanda Ribas (115) vs. Emily Whitmire (115)
Dalcha Lungiambula (205) vs. Dequan Townsend (205)
Jared Gordon (155.5) vs. Dan Moret (155)
Eryk Anders (205) vs. Vinicius Moreira (206)
Journey Newson (135.5) vs. Ricardo Ramos (136)
Paul Craig (204) vs. Alonzo Menefield (204.5)
Drew Dober (156) vs. Marco Polo Reyes (155)
Vinc Pichel (155.5) vs. Roosevelt Roberts (156)
Demian Maia (171) vs. Anthony Rocco Martin (170.5)
Joseph Benavidez (126) vs. Jussier Formiga (125.5)
Francis Ngannou (255.5) vs. Junior Dos Santos (249)
EVOLVE ON SATURDAY NIGHT FROM QUEENS, NY AT 6 P.M. EASTERN AT WWW.WWNLIVE.COM
Adrian Alanis & Liam Grey vs. Brandon Watts & Randy Summers
Harlem Bravado vs. Babatunde
J.D. Drake vs. Stephen Wolf vs. Sean Maluta vs. John Silver
Shotzi Blackheart vs. Brandi Lauren
Josh Briggs vs. Arturo Ruas
Eddie Kingston & Joe Gracy vs. Anthony Greene & Curt Stallion for tag titles
Tyler Breeze vs. A.R. Fox
Roderick Strong vs. Anthony Henry
Austin Theory vs. Leon Ruff for Evolve title
AEW FYTER FEST AT 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY NIGHT FROM THE OCEAN CENTER IN DAYTONA BEACH AT 7:30 P.M. EASTERN
Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky vs. Private Party vs. Trent Baretta & Chuck Taylor as part of the tag team title tournament
Alex Jebailey vs. Michael Nakazawa hardcore match
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Riho vs. Nyla Rose
Christopher Daniels vs. Cima
Adam Page vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. MJF vs. Jungle Boy
Cody vs. Darby Allin
Jon Moxley vs. Joey Janela unsanctioned match
Young Bucks & Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr. & Fenix & Laredo Kid
MLW ON BEIN SPORTS SATURDAY NIGHT AT 9 P.M. EASTERN SATURDAY NIGHT
Sunday has a Smackdown house show in Monroe, LA.
EVOLVE ON SUNDAY AT 8 P.M. EASTERN FROM BROOKLYN, NY AT WWW.WWNLIVE.COM
Brandi Lauren vs.Natalia Markova
Curt Stallion vs. Sean Maluta
Josh Briggs vs. Brandon Taggart
Eddie Kingston & Joe Gacy vs. AR Fox & Leon Ruff vs. John Silver & Alex Reynolds vs. winner of the opener on Saturday in a four-way non-title match
Anthony Henry vs. Arturo Ruas
Tyler Breeze vs. Anthony Greene
JD Drake vs. Babatunde for WWN title
Austin Theory vs. Roderick Strong non-title
Raw is Monday in Dallas with Braun Strowman vs. Bobby Lashley in a falls count anywhere match. Smackdown and 205 Live are Tuesday in San Antonio.
F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Recapping WWE Stomping Grounds
After a lack of interest heading into the pay-per-view, Stomping Grounds was a show that exceeded expectations.
Given that there weren’t really any surprises at the PPV, that’s probably mostly due to expectations being set too low. Nothing on the show was dramatically better than it should have been. The PPV succeeded where most good WWE shows do. Even if the build was underwhelming, a talented roster was able to go out to the ring and have good matches throughout much of the card.
WON NEWSLETTER: July 1, 2019 Observer Newsletter: Paul Heyman & Eric Bischoff hired as WWE Executive Directors
A look at the WWE’s move to bring in Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff is the lead story in this week’s issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The story talks about what led to the moves, the questions about the moves that aren’t answered, the Heyman-McMahon history, the Bischoff decision, and how Wall Street and AEW fit into this equation.
We also look at the end of the political career of Antonio Inoki, a look at plans for Extreme Rules, business notes on ticket sales for the summer’s biggest events, the business this past week of WWE, the reaction to Seth Rollins vs. Baron Corbin, full coverage of Stomping Grounds with match-by-match rundowns, star ratings and poll results.
We also look at the retirement of Riki Choshu, a look back at his heyday, his awards, his as a headliner and booker and as a creator as well as his retirement mach.
We also look at the July 13 night of wrestling that will be loaded as far as different offerings go, with ESPN+, AXS, WWE Network and B/R Live all offering shows at the same time. We look at how and why this happened.
We also look at changes to WWE television, why the Rollins vs. Bryan match went like it did, and what the internal feeling is about the changes. We also look at the rounds system, 24/7 title news, declines in Raw viewership over the past year in different demos, new WWE signings, WWE injury updates, Noam Dar talks Adrian McCallum, Lio Rush update, WWE canceling shows and why, television industry exec talks wrestling and television landscape and how the mentality of TV has changed, WWE name changes, first Smackdown on FOX news updates and the market value of WWE.
We also look at all the NXT and WWE main roster events over the past week with match results, highlights and other business notes.
We’ve got full coverage of this past week’s UFC show with business notes.
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FRIDAY’S NEWS UPDATE
Bryan and I will be back tonight covering the latest WWE news, as well as the ROH PPV and other topics. You can send questions to [email protected]
Regarding the promotinal e-mail blast that went out earlier today pushing Paul Heyman for Raw and Eric Bischoff for Smackdown this week as the big stars in Dallas and San Antonio, that was both legit and a subject of a lot of controversy. It wasn’t supposed to be released like that and Bischoff was not even scheduled for the show. The idea is to push the idea that it’s all new to boost ratings after the last few weeks. But Bischoff was not even scheduled to be in San Antonio as of this morning (Heyman was to be in Dallas but he’s at every Raw). It is possible that Vince McMahon has in the last few hours or will contact Bischoff about being in San Antonio based on the advertising going out.
For the Smackdown house shows this weekend, neither Randy Orton nor Daniel Bryan are advertised for the shows.
Here is the cold open for AEW Fyter Fest tomorrow night.
The Dallas Morning News has an article on New Japan Pro Wrestling and next week’s show in Dallas.
WWE
Eric Bischoff canceled a Canadian tour on Tuesday over a new contract that would prohibit such shows so that tells you roughly when the deal was finalized.
MISCELLANEOUS
The incredible Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito G-1 Climax final for 2018 is on AXS tonight.
Impact and River City Wrestling have a joint show on 7/5 in San Antonio at Freetail Brewery at 7 p.m.. The card has Tessa Blanchard & Rich Swann & Willie Mack vs. Jake & Dave Crist & Sami Callihan as the main event.
Heath officials are attempting to get all fans at the 6/23 Welcome to the Wreckroom Pro Wrestling show in New Albany, IN to get tested for HIV and Hepatitis C due to blood exposure. Those at the show who may have had blood exposure should call 812-948-4726. More information here.
AAW tonight in Merrionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street has LAX vs. Besties in the World vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz for the tag titles, Jake Something vs. Try Miguel for the Heritage title, Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mance Warner in a loser leaves town match, Kris Statlander vs. Priscilla Kelly, Eddie Kingston & Curt Stallion vs. AR Fox & Myron Reed, Jacob Fatu vs. Kongo Kong and more.
IWF on 8/25 in Nutley, NJ at the Rec Center featuring Tito Santana, Bull James, Gary Michael Cappetta and more. They also run 10/11 in Wayne, NJ at the PAL.
Pro Wrestling Eve has three shows this weekend you can check out here. They already had one show today.
Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the Resistance Gallery in London
Kay Lee Ray vs. Mayu Iwatani vs. Su Yung vs. Millie McKenzie
Viper & Utami Hayashishita vs. Jamie Hayter & Kagetsu
Arisa Hoshiki vs. Laura Di Matteo
Jordynne Grace vs. Yuu
Jetta & Erin Angel vs. Debbie Keitel & Valkyrie
Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern from York Hall in London
Kay Lee Ray vs. Viper in both women’s final match with promotion for the Eve title
Utami Hayashishita vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Nina Samuels for Eve International title
Mayu Iwatani vs. Kagetsu
Arisa Hoshiki vs.Roxxy
Millie McKenzie & Charli Evans vs. Jetta & Erin Angel to create the first Eve tag team champions
Session Moth Martina vs. Su Yung hardcore mach
Laura Di Matteo vs. Jordynne Grace
Michael Elgin vs. Adam Knight headlines for CWE tonight in Winnipeg at Rookie’s Sports Bar. Also appearing are Konnan and Lanny Poffo.
KSW returns to London for its 50th show on 9/14 at SSE Wembley with Phil DeFries (17-6) defending the KSW heavyweight title in the main event. Norman Parke (27-6-1) vs. Marian Ziolkowski (21-7-1) is announced for the show.
Women of Wrestling owner Jennie Buss, founder David McLane and stars Tessa Blanchard and The Beast will be appearing at the San Diego Comic Con on 7/20 and 7/21 along with Michael Kingston’s Headlocked Comics. Blanchard will be appearing 7/21 from Noon to 2 p.m. with McLane. Buss, McLane and Beast will be on 7/20 from 1-3 p.m.;
Jushin Liger’s last match in the Carolinas will be on 7/7 in Charlotte at the Grady Cole Center as John Skyler & Ethan Case & Liger face Caleb Konley & Zane Riley & Jake Manning. Rocky Romero is also on that show.
Powerslam.tv announced they’ve signed up Premier Wrestling Xperience out of Charlotte.
Lisa Varon (Tara/Victoria) is scheduled for the Wizard World Comic Con 8/22 to 8/25 in Chicago.
559 Fights run tomorow in Visalia, CA at the Convention Center.
I Believe in Wrestling on 7/5 at the Team Vision Dojo for the Florida J Cup.
Bestia 666 vs. Mance Warner has been added to the 7/6 MLW show in Cicero, IL at the Stadium.
Trina Michaels has an interview with @vegasbadboyz talking about her wrestling career and AEW.
TMart Promotions presents The Gathering in Charlotte at the Hilton University Hotel from 8/15 to 8/18 with Harley Race, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Bobby Eaton, Stan Lane, Dennis Condrey, Jim Cornette, Randy Rose, Bob Backlund, Sgt. Slaughter, Ron Simmons, Lex Luger, Larry Zbyszko, Stan Hansen, Greg Gagne, Kendo Nagasaki, Carlos Colon,John Tatum, Missy Hyatt, Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie, Jim Duggan, Jake Roberts, Greg Valentine, Ivan Putski, Masked Superstar, Magnum T.A., Buff Bagwell, Baron Von Raschke, Nord the Barbarian, Warlord, Barbarian, Ken Patera, Shane Douglas, Austin Idol, Bill Dundee, Dark Journey, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Scarlett Bordeaux, Katarina and more.
An interview with PCO for tonight’s PPV.
In the latest Because WCW podcast, British wrestling veteran Dean Ayass and Yahoo sports columnist Liam Happe are joined by Mike Quackenbush to look over the cultural impact of the arrival of the luchadors in WCW.
A story on Ariel Helwani.
Daily Pro Wrestling History: Undertaker vs. Mankind Hell in a Cell match
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