Month: July 2020

1962 Kansas City, Kansas: – Pat O’Connor & Sonny Myers defeated Bob Geigel & Lee Henning via DQ in three falls – Texas Wire Match: Buddy Austin defeated Red Bastien in three falls   1963  Atlanta, Georgia: – Chief Big Heart & Chief Little Eagle defeated Lenny Montana & Tarzan Tyler to win the World…

We’re continuing our look at WrestleKingdom 9, held January 4, 2015 at the Tokyo Dome. Three more matches tonight, finishing up the undercard portion of the event. First up is a six man tag pitting Jeff Jarrett, Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi against Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Tomoaki Honma. I completely forgot this…

Welcome to WrestlingObserver.com’s live coverage of WWE Hell in a Cell from the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, California. As the days get shorter and the air turns chilly, autumn brings with it one of WWE’s most destructive and chaotic events. On this night, the ominous steel structure known as Hell in a Cell will encapsulate…

It wasn’t good news when it came to pro wrestling ratings on Wednesday, November 4th, on Destination America. TNA Impact did 262,000 viewers at 9 PM — its third lowest to date since they started on the network. What’s really bad about that number is it was very slightly down from last week’s show which went head-to-head with the World Series. The replay did 81,000…

On tonight’s Bellator 145 : With a Vengeance broadcast, Bellator CEO Scott Coker brought out Kurt Angle to announce a February 19 2016 bout in Houston between Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie. This will be their third MMA match and first since a draw at UFC 5 in April 1995.  Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie first faced off…

Donald Trump threatened Kim Jong-un with military action on Thursday as he returned to bellicose rhetoric after cancelling their June 12 summit in Singapore.  The US president said the American military was “ready if necessary” to react with its allies should North Korea take any “foolish or reckless acts”.  Mr Trump had formally pulled the…

The Big Takeaway:  The meat of the show was a good, wrestling-oritented program with Roman Reigns, Alberto Del Rio, Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens advancing to the semifinals of the WWE World Heavyweight Tournament. Unfortunately, the bread that contained that meat was a bad segment with the Undertaker, Kane and the Wyatts combined with the most disgusting…

The older brother of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, demanded that Pyongyang’s embassy in London use its influence to keep the HMV store in Oxford Street open late at night so he could go shopping during a visit to Britain in May 2015, according to the diplomat who defected in 2016.  Kim Jong-chul flew into Heathrow…

TNA announced Thursday morning that it has signed a deal with POP TV for Impact, which will start on the station on January 5th, 2016, in a Tuesday from 9-11 p.m. time slot. Dixie Carter announced the news on Twitter stating that they are now on a station that reaches 85 million homes. Click Here: Cheap Golf Golf Clubs The Wrestling Observer Newsletter had reported that…

Police have evacuated the largest illegal refugee camp in Paris days after homeless charities warned that the situation was heading for “tragedy” following a stabbing and two drownings. The evacuation of more than 1,000 migrants, mainly from Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, came a day after France awarded honorary citizenship to an undocumented Malian for his…