Daily Archives: July 20, 2020

NJPW on AXS results: Kenny Omega vs. Alex Shelley

This week, it’s part 2 of our look at Wrestling Dontaku 2015 (which took place on May 3, 2015) is again the theme of tonight’s show. We have a look at the IWGP title match, as well as some multi-man tags. Interesting to note the title match isn’t the main event of this show, as Karl […]

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TNA's EC III pulled from Mania week Preston City Wrestling show; TNA gives an update

This story was updated Saturday evening with new details: Preston City Wrestling owner Steven Fludder announced Saturday that he was told that Ethan Carter III was being pulled by TNA from his show on WrestleMania Sunday. The original booking was made by EC 3 and not by TNA, so this was a completely independent booking of which TNA […]

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Bellator's Aaron Pico goes for Olympic wrestling team berth tonight

Bellator’s Aaron Pico will be going for an Olympic wrestling team berth tonight when he faces Frank Molinaro in the 143 pound weight division final. Pico, 19, from Whittier CA, is attempting to become the first teenager to make the Olympic team in freestyle wrestling in 40 years. Pico has two prior wins over Molinaro, but Molinaro has […]

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WWE results, Brussels: Dean Ambrose pins Triple H again

By Jurgen De Roover 10-15 minutes before the matches started, Byron Saxton came out so people could vote on twitter which match they wanted to see a short version of from WM32. Taker vs Shane was voted on in favor over Ambrose vs Lesnar & Reigns vs Triple H. (in that order) 1) The opening match was for […]

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NXT's Kenneth Crawford suffers potential serious injury

Kenneth Crawford appears to have suffered an injury during his match with Noah at Friday’s NXT show in Citrus Springs, Florida. He attempted a springboard maneuver but didn’t make it all the way onto the ropes, slipped, and fell hard into the ring. Noah rolled him up and the ref threw the X up pretty quickly afterwards. He was […]

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Illegal migrants in Paris suburb soar to 400,000 as hundreds of migrant children sleep on streets

Illegal immigrants, now estimated to make up a fifth of the population of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, are severely straining public services and creating social tensions, according to a parliamentary report. Seine-Saint-Denis has long been the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants, but the report warns that the number of illegal migrants may […]

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Daily Update: Bayley at Battleground, Ronaldo meets McGregor, Hendo vs. Bisping 2

Battleground Debuts Bayley and Mojo Rawley made their main roster debuts at the WWE PPV Battleground last night. Bayley appeared as the super secret “Dave Meltzer won’t guess it” mystery partner. (To be fair to Dave, Bailey was his first guess; it takes more than a tweet to sneak one past HOFer Dave Meltzer.) None of that mattered […]

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Kim Jong-un opts for potato farm visit over Mike Pompeo meeting

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, appears to have opted to visit a potato farm instead of meeting Mike Pompeo when the US Secretary of State was in Pyongyang over the weekend for the latest round of discussions on the future of the Korean Peninsula.  Mr Pompeo arrived in the North Korean capital on July […]

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Injured British man saved by off-duty medical students after jumping from clifftop in outback Australia 

A 25-year-old British man who ignored safety warnings and leapt into a natural pool from a 100-foot clifftop in outback Australia suffered multiple injuries but was rescued by a group of medical students who happened to be passing by. Josh Jones, from Yorkshire, had reportedly drunk “about 10 beers” when he decided to jump from […]

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Japan executes final six members of doomsday cult behind rush hour sarin attack on Tokyo metro

Six more members of the cult behind the deadly 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway have been executed. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK and other outlets said all six Aum Shinrikyo cult members remaining on death row had been executed on Thursday morning. There was no immediate official confirmation. The executions come after authorities hanged "guru" Shoko Asahara […]

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