Month: July 2020

Juan Banos, a Hall of Famer who was one of the major forerunners of the high flying style of Lucha Libre as the blue masked Lizmark, passed away earlier today from a heart attack. Banos was 66. Banos was a cliff diver out of Acapulco who was training to be a boxer and didn’t debut…

Results from today’s Rizin show from the Saitama Super Arena: Rena beat Jleana Valentino in a women’s 112 pound fight with a second round flying armbar. King Mo Lawal beat Teodoras Aukstuolis in the heavyweight tournament semifinal, dominating him everywhere and winning via decision Jiri Prochazka beat Vadim Nemkov in the other heavyweight semifinal.  Very good fight…

-Last week on Impact’s debut show on Pop TV, Ethan Carter III won the TNA World Heavyweight Title by defeating Matt Hardy in the finals on the World Title Series. -Tonight, The Kurt Angle Farwell Tour kicks off as he battles it out with Drew Galloway for the first time ever. Also, the fallout from Awesome…

The Big Takeaway:  The Rock returned for a 25-minute segment where he dueled with the New Day over the mic. He built up WrestleMania, but there were no plans for him announced for the future. He was still the most entertaining thing on the show, which had its high points. The main event of Fast…

1876  Boston, Massachusetts:– William Muldoon defeated American Collar-and-Elbow Champion James Owens to win the title 1911 Sioux City, Iowa:– World Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch beat Kara Osman 2 falls to 0 1930 Minneapolis, Minnesota:– World Heavyweight Champion Gus Sonnenberg beat John Freberg 2 falls to 0 1958 Hattiesburg, Mississippi:– Lee Fields and Lester Welch defeated…

Tonight’s episode are matches from NJPW Wrestling Hinokuni, which took place on April 29, 2015 at Grandmesse Kumamoto First up is a NWA title defense as new champion Hiroyoshi Tenzan defends against Big Daddy Yum Yum. The challenger is former WWE developmental wrestler Byron Wilcott who has been here a few times in the past,…

1922 Wichita, Kansas:– Ed “Strangler” Lewis won the World Heavyweight Title by defeating Stanislaus Zbyszko in 2 out of 3 falls 1938 Toronto, Ontario, Canada:– Vic Christy defeated Yvon Robert for the Montreal and Toronto World Heavyweight Titles  1949 Toronto, Ontario, Canada:– Fred Atkins defeated Whipper Billy Watson to win the Toronto NWA British Empire…

As Donald Trump, the US president met Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, for one of the most unconventional and unpredictable summits in recent history, regional powers China, Japan and Russia will have been watching warily from the sidelines.  The three nations, keen to guard their own interests on the Korean peninsula, have good reason to be…

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…

The UN human rights chief on Monday urged Washington to stop separating migrant children from their parents at the US border, describing the policy as "unconscionable". "The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable," Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said as he opened a session of…