Month: July 2020

Image: Sherdog Less than a week after Bellator MMA announced six new signings to its women’s flyweight division, the UFC formally announced their own women’s 125-pound division Wednesday and a plan to crown a champion. Similar to what they did with women’s strawweight in 2014, a season-long tournament on The Ultimate Fighter will be the proving…

WWE revealed the participants for this year’s Money in the Bank ladder match during the opening segment of tonight’s episode of SmackDown. It will be AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler, Kevin Owens, and Shinsuke Nakamura competing for the briefcase and a future shot at the WWE Championship. The announcement was made by…

One of the biggest pay-per-view events of all time is actually happening. Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports reported today that Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will meet in their much-discussed boxing superfight on August 26th in Las Vegas. The report came after the Nevada Athletic Commission approved the date at a meeting earlier today, though…

THE ROUND-UP The Latest from the F4W Staff NEWS Impact Wrestling rebranding as Global Force Wrestling Kairi Hojo gets new WWE name, announced for Mae Young Classic  NXT St. Petersburg, FL, live results: Evie and Gunner debut Impact Wrestling results: The final build to Slammiversary Evie gets new in-ring name, confirmed for WWE Mae Young…

Brett Kavanaugh defiant as he denies allegations Insists that he will not withdraw from confirmation process Christine Blasey Ford recalled her version of 1982 events  She said she was scared judge was going to "accidentally kill her" Who are the women making accusations? Why the Republicans are in such a hurry Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday…

Season 3 — Episode 27: “Fade to Black” An exciting match headlined the latest episode of Lucha Underground as Prince Puma battled with PJ Black in the second round of the Cueto Cup tournament. In other second round action, Cage’s anger cost him a chance to advance before his match with Pindar even got underway….

Canadian public employees may be banned from wearing religious clothing under a “secularism law” being proposed in Quebec. Plans to forbid public employees from wearing religious symbols, including a Jewish kippah or a hijab, were announced by the centre-Right Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) after they swept to victory in provincial elections. Restrictions would be placed on all religious symbols, including a kippah skull cap…

The UFC has found a replacement for Anderson Silva ahead of their show in Shanghai, and it’s a rather unexpected one. After Silva was pulled from his scheduled main event against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC Fight Night 122 in Shanghai, China due to being flagged for a potential USADA violation, finding a suitable opponent to step in…

Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich has lost a legal battle against French fiscal authorities after they ruled he undervalued his €100 million (£87m) Riviera retreat – once a summer idyll for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor – to pay less tax. For the world’s 140th richest man worth $11.8 billion (£9bn), according to Forbes, it…

Emmanuel Macron sleeps little, works late and travels unrelentingly, but France’s famously fresh-faced president is beginning to show the strain of political scandals, plunging approval ratings and ministerial resignations. Like Margaret Thatcher, the 40-year-old president is renowned for surviving on three or four hours sleep a night, but sources close to the president said that…