Month: July 2020

Niko Price, Curtis Blaydes, and Abel Trujillo all tested positive for marijuana in drug tests taken after the February 4th UFC Fight Night show in Houston. Texas has a lower threshold for a marijuana positive than other states, such as Nevada. All three were suspended for 90 days and fined $1,000 by the Texas Department of…

It would be fair to say that the build to Sunday’s WrestleMania 33 has not gone well as few of the matches have captured people’s imagination, and every week in the final stretch on the Road to Wrestlemania has resulted in fans getting progressively less interested. To me, the reason for this disinterest is because…

As we head into Raw tonight and SmackDown tomorrow with two new World champions, I wanted to look at the two title matches at WrestleMania that got us to this point: Bill Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar and Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton. Both Titles Were Afterthoughts Since SummerSlam, the championship pictures of both Raw and…

1954  Hollywood, California: – The Great Bolo and Tom Rice defeated Wilbur Snyder and Sandor Szabo for the NWA International Television Tag Team Titles 1956 Springfield, Ohio: – Bobo Brazil defeated Gene Stanlee for the Ohio Heavyweight Title 1957 Houston, Texas: – Don Leo Jonathan defeated Pepper Gomez for the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title 1960 …

1936 St. Louis, Missouri: – Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Gus Sonnenberg  – Dorv Roche beat Abe Coleman  – Pat O’Shocker and Ray Steele drew  – Warren Bockwinkel beat Tommy Marvin   – Lou Plummer beat Pat Fraley  1946  Denver, Colorado: – Everett Marshall defeated The Swedish Angel for the Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Title  1947 Minneapolis,…

Do you ever get the feeling that WWE just does not give a s**t anymore? Like they’ve reached some celestial level in the wrestling business where they can do whatever they want and their business will be fine? Well, it’s because they basically have. Take the current booking of Jinder Mahal for example. One day…

Wayne VanDyke, a Florida independent wrestler who worked under the name Richard Delicious, passed away this morning. He was 29 years old. News of VanDyke’s passing was first posted on social media today and his family has since confirmed it on Facebook. He had been in critical condition since suffering three heart attacks on April…

Today’s Best of the Super Juniors show in Osaka determined the winner of the A Block as the tournament begins to wind down. The results were: Prelim matches — – Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado defeated ACH & Volador Jr. when Kanemaru caught ACH with a flash pin. Desperado teased hitting Kanemaru with a chair, adding some tension…

This week in wrestling, PROGRESS hosted Super Strong Style 16, the NJPW Best of the Super Juniors came to a close, the build to WWE Extreme Rules continued, and Minoru Suzuki had a match in an empty Tokyo Dome. Here are our favorite wrestlers this week. Who’s yours? This week’s panel — Alan4L (Dr. Keith Presents host and Figure Four…

Thumbs Down Best: Men’s MITB Worst: Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton Show was a case where bad booking undercut some good work in-ring in the Women’s MITB match, New Day vs Usos and Men’s MITB. Men’s MITB struggled at first with crowd reactions when Nakamura was taken out. His return and heat was the best…