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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…

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…