Month: July 2020

House of Hardcore will return to Canada at the Lennox Agricultural Memorial Community Centre in Napanee, Ontario this Friday 6/1, featuring: *HOH TV Champion Willie Mack vs. Alex Reynolds vs. MJF. *Tommy Dreamer vs. Braxton Sutter: Hardcore Brawl. *Billy Gunn issues an open challenge. *Bull James & RJ City (with Napanee native Jan Murphy) vs. The Squad World Order. *Chinlock Champion Jessie Mack vs. Angelina Love. *Total Devastation (CJ Felony and Catalyst Nic Williams) vs. Freak Nation (Sideshow Jack…

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Live on RAW, Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match competitors square off when Braun Strowman battles Bobby Roode, and Finn Bálor clashes with Kevin Owens. Plus, RAW Women’s Champion Nia Jax takes on Natalya, and a Tag Team Battle Royal will determine who will challenge “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt for the RAW Tag Team Titles! The Monster Among Men Faces The Glorious One: As Bobby Roode learned when he absorbed an unexpected…

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An interpromotional match between WWE and New Japan Pro Wrestling is set to take place soon… well, sort of. It is no secret that WWE’s Xavier Woods and NJPW’s Kenny Omega are massive gamers. The two wrestling superstars will be facing each other next week when they compete in a game of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition during the E3 video game expo next week. Woods and Omega have actually played against each other on…

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Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including EVA MARIE OUTRAGE, CAPTAIN POSITIVITY BRYAN ALVAREZ and more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Best of all this show is completely FREE, so please post the link or file elsewhere and help spread the word about wrestlingobserver.com! If you like what you hear, sign up for a subscription as we…

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Pre-Show: The NXT TakeOver: Chicago II Pre-Show opens up live from the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois as hosts Charly Caruso, Sam Roberts and Pat McAfee welcomes us to the show. They hype tonight’s show and plug the WWE Money in the Bank card for Sunday. We see Lars Sullivan arriving earlier today and then see NXT Champion Aleister Black in the back. Charly sends us to a video package for tonight’s main event. We…

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By Dave Meltzer We’ve got a huge weekend with lots of shows, tons of audio and perhaps the most important match of the year tonight. We’ll be doing thumbs up, thumbs down and thumbs in the middle and best and worst match polls on CMLL and ROH tonight, Bellator tomorrow and WWE on Sunday at Dave Meltzer We’re looking for reports on tonight’s WWE show in Montreal (Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt vs.…

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Rich Franklin, one of the key building blocks of the UFC organization when it first got on Spike TV, announced his retirement today on Twitter. Franklin, 40, had not fought for nearly three years, since a knockout loss to Cung Le on November 10, 2012 in Macau, China. During that period he had talked about wanting to do a retirement fight. He had one fight left on his UFC contract and Dana White, who had maintained…

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By Will Cooling for WrestlingObserver.com Earlier this week, I outlined the mistakes the WWE made when bringing Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch up to the main roster. These mistakes mean that the WWE is still just throwing out random women’s matches, hoping that fans will care because they’re slightly better than the dross that went before. Depressingly, it’s remarkable easy to imagine a better product. To successfully create a stronger women’s division, the WWE needed to…

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UFC: Fight Night 76 – AKA: The All Fight Pass Prelims Show This show has zero star power, but a lot of potential for fun fights, and since the main card is virtually the same as the undercard in terms of name value, I’m going to score all the fights.    Changes to today’s event… No longer will I be providing my Classic Ten score.  I’ll only be reporting the official scores and results and…

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Welcome to WrestlingObserver.com’s live coverage of the UFC Fight Night 77: Belfort vs. Henderson weigh-ins from the Ginasio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil kicking off at 4 PM eastern time. The event airs on Saturday on FS1 at 10 PM eastern time. Preliminary card action kicks off on UFC Fight Pass at 6:30 PM eastern time before moving over to FS1 at 8 PM eastern time. This is the UFC’s fourth overall trip to Sao Paulo, and first…

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