Month: July 2020

By Brian Hoops, WrestlingObserver.com 1939 – Leroy McGuirk defeated Jon Swneski to win the World Junior Heavyweight Title in Hollywood, California. 1941 – At Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo beat Bronko Nagurski, Don McIntyre beat Cherry Vallina and Warren Bockwinkel defeated Joe Dusek. Attendance was 9,236. 1944 – InRead moreRead more

As the summer approaches, so does the annual Wrestling Observer Summer Convention, held in Las Vegas, NV, the weekend of July 9-12. While not a typical convention, it’s an annual summer get-together for our subscribers, wrestling/MMA fans, and general ne’re do wells. Please note the event is not being run by Dave Meltzer or Bryan Alvarez,Read moreRead more

A.J. Styles will officially be challenging for the IWGP heavyweight title against champion Kazuchika Okada in the main event of New Japan’s King of Pro Wrestling show on 10/12 at Sumo Hall in Tokyo. King of Pro Wrestling is the company’s biggest event between the G-1 finals and the Tokyo Dome show. Styles was expectedRead moreRead more

An actress who starred in the US television series Smallville has been arrested on charges of sex trafficking. Allison Mack, 35, was accused of recruiting sex slaves for a self-help guru and helping to brand them with his initials. Mack featured in Smallville, a show about Clark Kent’s childhood in Kansas before he becomes knownRead moreRead more

The largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria has been “transformed into a death camp” as Assad regime forces press ahead with a major offensive against Isil fighters who control the area, the UN has warned.  The Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus has seen a week of intensive fighting as Syrian forces and allied militias attempt toRead moreRead more

Taiwan has a case of sour grapes, Chinese state media said on Wednesday, after the self-ruled island accused China of using a $3-billion aid pledge to persuade the Dominican Republic to switch long-standing diplomatic ties to Beijing. China, which denied there were any economic pre-conditions for establishing relations with the Caribbean nation, says Taiwan isRead moreRead more

This week’s episode of Impact Wrestling was able to generate an average of 373,000 viewers. This is down 2% from last week’s 381,000 viewers, but is still one of the highest rated episodes of the year. This week’s episode of Impact Wrestling featured the final hype for Sunday’s Redemption PPV.  This week’s episode of ImpactRead moreRead more

LAKE CITY – Will Balow loves sports, which made his senior year at Lincoln High School that much more difficult. On Sept. 20, 2013, in a game against Lourdes High School in Rochester, Balow jumped over an opposing player and as he pivoted his knee it gave out and he felt a pop. Continue readingRead moreRead more

Click:Flexographic Printing Machine For SaleA number of WWE stars dined like kings a night before the Greatest Royal Rumble on Friday in Saudi Arabia. Raw general manager Kurt Angle provided a look at the extravagant meal, with Braun Strowman, Roman Reigns, Triple H, The Undertaker, Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon among those in attendance:  Read moreRead more

  NXT returns with another exciting episode from Full Sail University. No Takeovers or title matches to be found on this show. Instead, this was just a simple and straightforward hour of programming that built up some new stars and new feuds on the show. There are certainly worse ways to spend that time. OfRead moreRead more