Month: July 2020

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Zimbabwean president, said he narrowly survived an attempt on his life on Saturday after a explosion at a party rally that injured two of his vice-presidents and several party officials. He described to state media how an object "exploded a few inches away from me – but it is not my time". Video…

Cambodia is hurtling towards dictatorship under a crackdown orchestrated by 12 ruthless security force officers intent on securing victory for the country’s authoritarian prime minister in July elections, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.  In a new 213-page report – Cambodia’s Dirty Dozen: A Long History of Rights Abuses by Hun Sen’s Generals – the…

For a few glorious moments, it could have been 1998 all over again. Thousands of supporters on the streets of Paris and beyond, a soundtrack of triumphant bursts of La Marseillaise, and everywhere you looked – red, white and blue. By the end of the night, the picture was grimmer, as police used water cannons…

1957K ansas City, Kansas:– Buddy Rogers beat Kit Fox – Central States champion Richard Brown beat Lou Plummer – Bobby Bruns beat Joe Costello  1960  Mobile, Alabama:– Joe McCarthy defeated Mario Galento to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title 1965 Trenton, New Jersey:– WWWF U.S. Tag Team Champions Gene Kiniski & Waldo Von Erich defeated Wahoo…

UFC announced tonight two main events for UFC 200 as well as a huge advance for UFC 198. UFC Tonight released that Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz in a rematch at 170 pounds will headline UFC 200 on 7/9 in Las Vegas at the new T-Mobile Arena.  On the show it was stated that Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta and John Kavanagh, the coach…

MMA Weekend Preview There’s a lot of MMA happening this weekend in addition to the UFC on FOX show. Friday morning in North America, ONE Championships from the Philippines has an iPPV with Ben Askren defending the welterweight title against Russian Nikolay Aleksakhin. Later that night, former UFC Fighter Kalib Starnes headlines a GFL.TV show from Alberta, Canada in…

Apollo Crews def. Curtis Axel by pinfall Is Crews stuck in an infinite booking loop, or what? Having beaten all four Social Outcasts since his debut against Tyler Breeze, Crews is then given the rematch against Curtis Axel that we were all clamouring for. It’s worth noting that Axel entered alone here, which meant no…

France’s most famous gangster on Sunday made a spectacular jailbreak with the help of three heavily-armed accomplices who landed in his jail in a helicopter and flew out with him on board. Redoine Faid was being visited by his brother in Réau prison in the Paris region when the men burst into the room on Sunday…

Vaudevillains in-ring promo The New Era overload continues as Aiden English boasts that leaving the New Day laying “singlehandedly” on RAW proves, once and for all, that the “New Era” reflects the “Bygone Era”, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Simon Gotch then introduces English’s “pre-emptive eulogy” for the New Day’s tag team titles “in…

A controversial Korean laboratory has successfully cloned the world’s smallest living dog 49 times for a commercial breeder. ‘Miracle Milly,’ a six-year-old chihuahua who lives with her owner in Florida, weighed less than an ounce and could fit in a teaspoon when she was born.  The tiny pet, who entered the record books in 2013 and…