2020 July

Daily Pro Wrestling History (6/20): Don Muraco wins IC Title, WCW Beach Blast, WWE Fatal Four-Way

1940  Kansas City, Kansas:– World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown defeated Wladek Zbyszko 2 falls to 0 1947  St. Joseph, Missouri:– Tug Carlson & Ralph Garibaldi beat Orville Brown & Sockeye Jack McDonald– Ras (Seelie) Samara beat Wally Dusek by dq– Sailor Fred Blassie beat Jack Page – Don Anderson drew Harry McGinnis 1953  Mexico City, Mexico:– […]

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Daily Update: Cena's 4th of July, Hardy vs. Hardy, ROH new matches

In celebration of yesterday’s Fourth of July holiday, John Cena posted a video on his Twitter account celebrating the diversity of America in conjunction with advocacy group Love Has No Labels. The full version of the PSA was later uploaded online. Cena also brought a pediatric cancer survivor into the ring to celebrate overcoming the […]

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NJPW on AXS TV results: Makabe vs. Ibushi for the NEVER title

Togi Makabe welcomes us to the show this week. Action is from September 23 in Okayama as we look at last year’s Destruction card. Tencozy vs. IWGP Tag Team Champions Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows This match is a good representation of the staleness of New Japan’s heavyweight tag team roster in 2015. With Archer and […]

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WWE NXT results: TakeOver main event is set; Ibushi makes his debut

The Big News: Whether he likes it or not, Samoa Joe will defend his NXT championship at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II against Shinsuke Nakamura. The Medium News: Kota Ibushi debuted on NXT and destroyed Buddy Murphy. The Little Beaver Sized News: No Way Jose is quite angry at Austin Aries. ********* Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Wesley […]

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Spain’s conservatives swing to the right after leadership battle

Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP) appeared to be lurching to the right on Saturday after choosing a 37-year-old hardliner as its new leader.  The opposition party picked Pablo Casado as its new chief less than two months after prime minister Mariano Rajoy was forced from office amid a corruption scandal. Mr Casado, who has never […]

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NXT & CWC Video Highlights: The quarterfinals are set

NXT Video Highlights — Tye Dillinger vs. Wesley Blake Wednesday night’s episode of NXT TV featured two matches taped in Brooklyn, with Tye Dillinger vs. Wesley Blake starting off the show. And with the crowd fully behind him, it was Dillinger who came out on top of the recently repackaged Blake.  The Authors of Pain vs. […]

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Greek fires: Alexis Tspiras assumes ‘political responsibility’ as criminal investigation launched 

Greece has opened a criminal investigation into the deadly wildfires that devastated a coastal resort near Athens this week, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras said he assumed "political responsibility" for the tragedy.  At a cabinet meeting broadcast by Greek media, Mr Tsipras said he wanted first of all "to assume completely before the great Greek […]

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WWE Royal Rumble 2017 fan feedback

Thumbs Up Best Match: Cena vs. Styles Worst Match: Jax vs. Banks Slightly disappointing RR Match with all the big stars being saved for the end (felt very fake). I am 33 years old and I had lots of friends telling me they were watching the Rumble and wanting to come over to watch the […]

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Police place travel ban on salvage firm bosses who claimed sunken ship contained £100bn in gold

Police have placed a travel ban on executives of a South Korean company that claimed to have discovered a sunken Russian warship after suspicions were raised about the veracity of claims it was laden with £100 billion in gold. Investors clambered to sink funds into the Shinil Group last month after it announced the extraordinary discovery of the Dmitrii […]

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Children ‘being radicalised at home’ by Islamist parents in Germany

Click:swimming pool algaecide Children are being radicalised at home by Islamist parents in Germany, the head of the country’s domestic intelligence service warned on Monday. “The ongoing jihadist radicalisation of children is worrisome and presents a challenge,” Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said. Children radicalised at […]

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