Month: July 2020

Following yesterday’s announcement of Jim Cornette inducting the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express into the Hall of Fame, WWE revealed on Tuesday afternoon that Eric Bischoff would be doing the honors for Diamond Dallas Page. Bischoff and DDP have been longtime friends, working together in the AWA and again when Bischoff was in control of WCW. “I’m honored,” BischoffRead moreRead more

1953  Honolulu, Hawaii: – Bobby Bruns and Bobby Managoff defeated Al Kashey and Tom Rice to win the NWA Hawaii Tag Team Titles 1961  Mobile, Alabama: – Bobby and Don Fields defeated The Mysterious Medics for the Gulf Coast NWA Southern Tag Team Titles Columbus, Georgia: – Skull Murphy defeated Guy Mitchell to win theRead moreRead more

A film chronicling the life of Vince McMahon could be making its way to theaters in the near future. The Hollywood Reporter announced today that a biopic on McMahon is close to landing at Sony’s TriStar Pictures. The film is titled “Pandemonium” and will be directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. The two have directed four movies togetherRead moreRead more

For those not familiar, WWF’s Tuesday Night Titans was a fun, odd parody of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The show began in 1984 and featured Vince McMahon as the host and Lord Alfred Hayes as his sofa sidekick. The concept was fascinating. These larger-than-life figures inside the wrestling ring would actually sit down and doRead moreRead more

The WWE got a shockingly big PPV boost from Extreme Rules, as Raw averaged 2.98 million viewers and was the most-watched show last night on cable television. Overall, Raw was up 14 percent from the past two weeks even with the Stanley Cup finals audience increasing to 5.57 million viewers and being a close secondRead moreRead more

Though he wasn’t present at last night’s WWE house show in Vancouver, Shinsuke Nakamura is in Everett, Washington for today’s event. Nakamura had been scheduled to face Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship in the main event last night, but it was announced at the beginning of the show that he wouldn’t be there. Mahal cutRead moreRead more

Image: @JJWilliamsWON Kyle O’Reilly, one of the top stars on the independent scene, made his debut for WWE this evening by appearing at the NXT tapings at Full Sail University. He debuted as a surprise against Aleister Black. After a long match, Black pinned him with the Black Mass. Interestingly enough, O’Reilly’s tag team partner,Read moreRead more

Brett Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a bar when he was an undergraduate student at Yale and was accused of throwing ice at another patron, according to a police report obtained by The New York Times. He and four other men were questioned by New Haven Police after the incident in 1985 butRead moreRead more

1959  Guadalajara, Mexico: – Rey Mendoza defeated Dory Dixon for the EMLL NWA Light Heavyweight Title  1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota: – AWA Champion The Crusher beat Larry Hennig  – Harley Race beat Tex McKenzie  – Chris Markoff beat Santiago Acosta  – Reggie Parks beat Guy Taylor  1967  Fort Worth, Texas: – Fritz & Waldo Von ErichRead moreRead more

Lee Sang-joon stands barely five feet tall, but the South Korean pensioner still has trouble stretching out to sleep at night in the tiny cubicle he has called home for the past 12 years.  Mr Lee, 76, is one of hundreds of old people living out their twilight years in rooms barely the size of cupboards,Read moreRead more