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LAX vs. Rascalz title match official for Impact Slammiversary XVII
Ziggler vs. Woods, Moment of Bliss segment set for WWE SmackDown
US title number one contender’s match added to WWE Raw
NEW Brass City Brawl results: Jon Moxley vs. Darby Allin
Chael Sonnen retires from MMA following Bellator 222 loss
Impact Wrestling results: Elgin vs. Mack, RVD & Sabu vs. The North
PWG reveals card for 16th anniversary show
Bellator at MSG live results: Sonnen-Machida, MacDonald-Gracie
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Pacific Rim: Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman 6/15
Wrestling Weekly: AEW, G1, bad decisions (and worse bumps) 6/15
WOR: All Out sellout, Gedo, Willie Williams, ESPN’s death of AAF story 6/14
F4D: Lance Storm on Saudi Arabia, RAW, Goldberg, Firefly Funhouse, more! 6/14
WOL: AEW sells out, Gedo rumors, tons more! 6/14
Portland Wrestlecast: Rip Rogers on teaming with Buddy Rose 6/14
B&V: NXT, Superstars of Wrestling from 1992, more! 6/13
F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: WWE’s Super Showdown embarrassment
The ending of Super ShowDown brought a scary end to what was an embarrassing night for WWE.
Goldberg vs. The Undertaker reinforced the amount of risk that exists when you put two 50-year-old wrestlers against each other. The match was laid out exactly as it should have been and was on its way to being good, but things fell apart when Goldberg got knocked out.
Goldberg (who already had a mark on his forehead going into the match) got busted open when he went for a spear into the corner and rammed his head into the post less than three minutes in. From there, things only got worse.
WON NEWSLETTER: June 17, 2019 Observer Newsletter: Scary incidents in the ring, NJPW Dominion review
A look at Undertaker vs. Goldberg, Naito vs. Ibushi and why referees and doctors need to be stopping matches when talent is legitimately hurt is the lead story in the new issue of the Observer. Look at how small independents are ahead of the game when it comes to precautionary measures involving talent this past week.
Read complete coverage of New Japan Dominion, WWE Super Showdown and UFC 238, with business notes, poll results, match-by-match coverage and star ratings for the pro wrestling shows.
Look at the injury situation and risks, look back at the Undertaker vs. Mick Foley Hell in a Cell match and what resulted from that, and the heyday of All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Look at what happened with the attempt to put on a women’s match in Saudi Arabia, the silliness of TV coverage in the past and not allowing women to wrestle there, and more behind the scenes at the show.
Also look at the upcoming G-1 Climax tournament and who to expect to be in it, TV coverage in the U.S. expanding, the newcomers to G-1, who is out from last year, the new Super J Cup tournament, a history of the Super J Cup, G-1 announcement plans and New Japan going to Australia.
Look at a wrestling television show being voted on for a nomination for a major award, John Cena’s future, FS 1 talk show on wrestling, HHH working in Japan and latest cards, and a Sasha Banks update.
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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE
WWE
A new edition of WWE 365 will premiere on the WWE Network after Stomping Grounds on June 23. The show follows a wrestler over the course of a year, with this edition being focused on Alexa Bliss. AJ Styles and Kevin Owens have been featured on past WWE 365s.
A new Ride Along will air on the Network after Raw on Monday. Cesaro & Sheamus will be featured in one car, with Carmella & R-Truth in the other.
Kyle O’Reilly tweeted that he wasn’t able to make the NXT UK shows at Download Festival this weekend because his back is still hurt: “The medical man told me my back is still hurt so unfortunately I won’t be able to attend @DownloadFest this year. Im sorry to all the great UK fans, believe me I’m gutted to be missing @Tool but at least now @rikbugez has an actual chance of winning the air guitar contest.”
PWInsider reported that Bray Wyatt is scheduled to be at Monday’s Raw in Los Angeles. Whether Wyatt will be making an in-person appearance on the show isn’t known.
Today is Bayley’s 30th birthday. Vince McMahon’s Twitter account wished her a happy birthday: “There are few who put smiles on faces quite like our SmackDown Women’s Champion and at the same time be a vicious competitor. Happy birthday, @itsBayleyWWE!”
Chris Van Vliet has an interview with Dave Bautista.
WWE sent custom title belts to the Toronto Raptors and St. Louis Blues for their respective championship wins.
On the fourth anniversary of his UpUpDownDown YouTube channel launching, Xavier Woods thanked everyone for their support: “Thank you to everyone who has subscribed and supported us over these past four years. I cannot thank you enough. You’ve allowed me to have a place where I can fully be myself and you’ll never have any idea how much that means to me. Four years in, let’s see how long we can go”
WWE Network News has the content listing for the 43 episodes of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling from 1985 and 1986 that are being uploaded to the WWE Network on Monday.
Wrestling DVD Network revealed the matches that are going to be on WWE’s “Getting Rowdy: The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper” DVD that’s scheduled to be released in the United States this August.
WWE’s YouTube account uploaded Seth Rollins vs. John Cena from SummerSlam 2015 and Becky Lynch vs. Mickie James from Elimination Chamber 2017.
Pro Wrestling
Following his appearance at Double or Nothing and his first two matches for NJPW, Jon Moxley had his first post-WWE indie match at Northeast Wrestling’s Brass City Brawl show in Waterbury, Connecticut last night. Moxley defeated Darby Allin at the show and then cut a promo after the match saying that Allin is going to be a big star really soon.
Moxley spoke to TMZ Sports earlier this week.
A bonus episode of Being the Elite followed SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) on their trip to China to wrestle for Oriental Wrestling Entertainment.
SCU were the guests on yesterday’s episode of Talk is Jericho.
UFC/MMA
Fedor Emelianenko has signed a multi-fight “retirement tour” extension with Bellator. Scott Coker said about the deal: “This is gonna be his retirement tour. I think we’d like to take him to a lot of countries and cities that haven’t seen him in a long time, or maybe have never seen him. It’s gonna be fun when we roll this thing out.”
Ariel Helwani interviewed Chael Sonnen after Sonnen announced his decision to retire from MMA after losing to Lyoto Machida at Bellator 222 last night.
At last night’s post-show press conference, Machida said he doesn’t take any joy in retiring Sonnen: “To be honest, I don’t think anything about that. I feel it’s an honor for me to be part of his history and to share the cage with Chael Sonnen, Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, because I consider those guys are legends in the sport. To be part of their story, for me, I’m so grateful for that.”
RIZIN bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi won the Bellator bantamweight title by defeating Darrion Caldwell at Bellator 222. Horiguchi is required to appear for Bellator and defend their title at least once per year.
A rematch between Matt Mitrione and Sergei Kharitonov is set for Bellator’s show in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 24. Their last matchup ended in a no contest when Mitrione accidentally low blowed Kharitonov almost immediately after the fight started.
MMA Junkie reported that Sergio Pettis is out of his scheduled fight against Ricardo Ramos at the UFC’s ESPN show in Minneapolis on June 29. The reason for Pettis being pulled has yet to be disclosed.
After some back and forth between Henry Cejudo and Nikki Bella, Ariel Helwani posted a picture and video of Cejudo meeting up with Nikki & Brie.
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