Month: July 2020

The singer R. Kelly has suggested the parents of the two young women he is accused of holding against their will "sold" them to him when they were teenagers in a volatile interview. In his first interview since being charged last month with sexually abusing four people, including three underage girls, the R&B star hit back at the claims of sexual misconduct that have dogged him for years.  "Whether they’re old rumors, new rumors, future rumors,…

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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.) It appears regular viewers forgot about The Rock’s “Ballers” HBO show, as Season 2 returned from a one-week hiatus to draw fewer than 1.0 million…

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WWE has announced two matches for next week’s episode of NXT television. Next Wednesday’s post-TakeOver: Phoenix episode will feature a tag match with Kairi Sane & Io Shirai facing Four Horsewomen members Jessamyn Duke & Marina Shafir. The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) will also face The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler with Jaxson Ryker) on the show. Those matches are expected to be taped before NXT TakeOver: Phoenix at the Talking Stick Resort…

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A senior Hizbollah commander captured by British special forces in Iraq has resurfaced in southern Syria where he is setting up a network to launch attacks against Israel, according to the Israeli military. Ali Musa Daqduq, a Lebanese Hizbollah operative, conducted a number of bloody operations against Western forces in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, including an attack which killed five US soldiers.  He was captured by the SAS in Basra in March 2007 and…

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WWE is hyping that Brock Lesnar will announce which champion he’s going to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase on. After making a surprise appearance at Money in the Bank and winning the men’s ladder match, Lesnar took part in the opening and main event segments of tonight’s Raw. It was revealed that Lesnar will be able to cash in his briefcase for a shot at either the Universal or WWE Championship. At the…

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Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he may back full Nato membership for Brazil during a meeting with the country’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro. The US president said: "I intend to designate Brazil as a major non-Nato ally or even possibly, if you start thinking about it, maybe a Nato ally". He added: "I’ll have to talk to a lot of people but maybe a Nato ally – which will greatly advance security and cooperation between…

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An Australian teen known around the world as "Egg Boy" conceded on Monday that egging a far-Right senator was not the right thing to do, but said the gesture united a world reeling from a white supremacist’s alleged massacre of 50 Muslims in New Zealand. Will Connolly, 17, gave his first television interview since becoming an online hero among many for cracking an egg on Fraser Anning’s head as the controversial politician spoke at a news conference after a…

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An extended football season, which culminated in a Minnesota state Class AA championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium, might mean the Pipestone Area wrestling program could start slowly this year. But not to worry: The Arrows are still mighty dangerous. “I think it’s going to take a while to get our bearings and get our lineups set. But I think by the end of the year we’ll be hard to beat,” said PA head coach…

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Recently on Talk Is Jericho, AEW’s Chris Jericho welcomed WWE Hall Of Famer Diamond Dallas Page to the show. During their conversation, Jericho talked about banned words in WWE. As Jericho welcomed Page to the podcast, The Former IWGP Intercontinental Champion mistakenly called Page’s fitness program, DDPY simply “yoga”. When DDP corrected Jericho, “The Ayatollah Of Rock ‘N’ Rollah” joked that Page sounded like WWE Chairman Vince McMahon with his prohibited words list. First off,…

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Cambridge-Isanti 60 Princeton 12 Elk River 45 Centennial 33 Kasson-Mantorville 70 Pine Island 9 Marshall 40 Redwood-River Valley 27 Zumbrota-Mazeppa 76 Triton 3 Big Lake Invitational 1. Big Lake 196.0 2. Albany 168.5 3. Sartell 149.0 4. Rush City/Braham 138.5 5. North Branch 121.0 6. St. Cloud Apollo 97.0 7. Monticello 95.5 8. Zimmerman 81.5 9. Holdingford 64.5 10. Pine City/Hinckley Finlayson 46.0 Brainerd Paul Bunyan Wrestling Tournament After Day 1 1. Frazee 78.5 2.…

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