Month: July 2020

New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) recently held the first night of their Road To The New Beginning Event which emanated from The Wing Hat Kasukabe in Saitama, Japan. The show was headlined by Bullet Club (Gedo, “The Bone Soldier” Taiji Ishimori, Bad Luck Fale & “Switchblade” Jay White) taking on KUSHIDA, Ryusuke Taguchi, “The Rain Maker” Kazuchika Okada & IWGP Heavyweight Champion “The Ace Of NJPW” Hiroshi Tanahashi in the main event. Below are the…

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#4 Patrick McKee of Minnesota knocks off #1 Robert Howard of New Jersey BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The nation’s best high school wrestlers went head-to-head to determine the top-ranked wrestler in each weight at Flowrestling’s Who’s #1, which took place at Lehigh University’s Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall on Sunday afternoon. The dual followed collegiate folkstyle rules with a five-minute first-takedown sudden victory in overtime situations. The event opened with two upsets, including an exciting match…

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Jeff Jarrett was a surprise entrant in The Men’s Royal Rumble Match where he had a confrontation with Elias. The two then met up again the next night on RAW where Elias again attacked Jarrett along with his friend, The Road Dog. Jarrett is officially a producer with WWE, but he is scheduled to face Elias on tonight’s episode of Monday Night RAW. Jarrett spoke to Wrestling Inc. last week before the match was announced…

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Quinn Youngs of Annandale/Maple Lake has committed to wrestling for Augsburg in 2018-19. Youngs is a two-time state placewinner. He was the Class AA 126-pound fourth-place finisher in 2017 as a junior. He placed fourth at 120 pounds as a sophomore and was a state entrant at 113 pounds as a freshman. Youngs is projected to wrestle at 133 pounds for the Auggies. Quinn Youngs of Annandale/Maple Lake. Photo by Mary Christen. The Guillotine Wrestler…

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Outside of Nia Jax, there was just one surprise entrant in The 2019 Men’s Royal Rumble Match and that was recent WWE Hall Of Famer Jeff Jarrett. It was Jarrett’s first Royal Rumble appearance in 20 years and he was the second entrant in the match following Elias. The appearance was as much of a surprise to The WWE Universe as it was to Jarrett himself. He recently joined The WINCLY Podcast where he told…

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The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers will have a jam-packed weekend of Big Ten action. First, on Friday the Gophers will wrestle No. 2 Ohio State on the road, then they will return back home on Sunday, Jan. 14 for a dual against No. 12 Illinois. Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. CT PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP – OHIO STATE 125: No. 4 Ethan Lizak (17-1) or Steve Polakowski (4-2) vs Nathan Tomasello (1-0) 133:…

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Ahead of this month’s 70th Anniversary Show, the NWA has announced the lineup for their tournament to crown a new National Champion. Colt Cabana, Scorpio Sky, Mike Parrow, Jay Bradley, Sam Shaw, Ricky Starks, Willie Mack, and Sammy Guevara are the eight wrestlers who will be taking part in the one-night tournament. There will be two four-way elimination matches at the anniversary show, with the winners advancing to a one-on-one match later in the night…

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> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) WWE CEO Vince McMahon arrived at AT&T Stadium in Texas on Sunday worth more than $1.0 billion, according to Forbes. Whether he leaves the State…

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The go-home show for Bound for Glory drew Impact Wrestling’s second-lowest audience of the year. Thursday night’s episode averaged 183,000 total viewers on Pop TV and a 0.04 rating in the 18-49 demo, down from last week’s 190,000 viewers and 0.05 rating. The only Impact in 2018 to draw fewer viewers was the August 9 episode, which averaged 168,000. This is the fourth straight week that Impact viewership has been down. This week’s show featured a summit between…

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> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) HBO filed a motion last week seeking to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the “Ballers” series starring “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson was lifted from two writers’s…

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