Month: July 2020

On Saturday, WWE announced that Stephanie McMahon invited Becky Lynch to appear on RAW again this week after The Man made a cameo after The Royal Rumble to declare that she would challenge RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania.  Interestingly enough, Lynch gave an interview with Digital Spy in October where she stated she…

2017 Yellowjacket Open Results. November 4th at Rochester, Minn. Brackets/Results on TrackWrestling.com OPEN – 125 1st Place – Zach Villarreal of Wisconsin-La Crosse 2nd Place – Hasan Krigger of Iowa Lakes Community College 3rd Place – Ryan Schmalen of Upper Iowa University 4th Place – Brian Maas of Iowa Lakes Community College 5th Place –…

The First-Ever WWE Universal Champion Finn Bálor was recently a guest on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness. Among many other things, Bálor discussed his severe labrum tear. Notably, Bálor talked about the injury being much worse than initially believed and what the injury has meant to his WWE career. On the subject of Bálor’s injury during…

WWE fans were absolutely elated when Becky Lynch won the women’s Royal Rumble match last month. Ever since Becky Lynch began her ascent in popularity as “The Man,” one of the most anticipated matches in the company has been Becky Lynch vs. Ronda Rousey. It did not take long for Lynch to challenge Rousey to…

Scott West 45 New Prague 13 106 Novak, Nick (NP) defeated Pumper, Tory (SW) === {Fall 3:02} (Score: 6-0) 113 Dunkel, Colby (NP) defeated Bahr, Colton (SW) === {Dec 10 – 8} (Score: 9-0) 120 Strack, Jacob (SW) defeated Kajer, Simon (NP) === {Maj Dec 10-2} (Score: 9-4) 126 Hill, Jacob (SW) defeated Vaughan, Jacob…

A number of new faces and teams will take part in this year’s Super Junior tag league. Unlike previous years, this year the winners will not be determined via a single elimination tournament. Instead, it will be a round robin tournament where eight teams compete in matches against one another. The two teams with the…

We began with commentators Kevin Kelly and Andy Boy Simmonz doing a sports-style introduction from ringside. They talked about the main event and hyped the appearance of “The Dominator” Great O-Kharn with accompanied graphics. In a move right out of UFC, Kelly talked over a graphic that listed the rules of pro wrestling, going as far as explaining…

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) Monday’s Raw continued a severe…

After a night in which Raw ratings fell slightly, SmackDown reversed that pattern by increasing their ratings by one percent over last week. Tuesday’s episode, which featured an unadvertised WWE title match between AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan, averaged 2.11 million viewers. With Raw down, SmackDown retained the usual 85 percent of their audience from Monday night. Year-over-year,…

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) This week’s Michael Cole interview…