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NJPW announces 2017 Fantastica Mania tour & lineup
New Japan held a press conference Friday to announce the 2017 Fantastica Mania tour, the annual combination New Japan and CMLL shows. As of now, the last three shows, all starting at 4:30 a.m. EST are scheduled live on New Japan World. The tour opens a week from Friday in Osaka at the smaller Edion Arena with this card: Raziel & Jado vs. Soberano Jr. & Henare Stuka Jr. & Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Ephesto & Okumura & Gedo Seiya Sanada & Evil vs. David Finlay & Blue Panther Jr. Dragon Lee & Titan vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Bushi Mistico & Volador Jr. & Kushida vs. Ultimo Guerrero & Euforia & Cavernario…
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WWE bringing the Royal Rumble back to Philadelphia in 2018
Click:Anti-aging Home Beauty Device WWE is bringing the Royal Rumble back to Philadelphia next year. Though much of this week’s focus is on Sunday’s show at the Alamodome, Philly.com broke the news on Thursday morning that the 2018 Royal Rumble will take place at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event will be held on January 28th of next year. In addition to the Rumble, the arena will also host three other WWE shows that week, with NXT TakeOver taking place on Saturday, Raw on Monday, and SmackDown on Tuesday. Holding four straight nights of shows in the same city is WWE’s plan for their “big four” pay-per-views going forward. “WWE…
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Russia-backed leader of separatist east Ukraine region reportedly killed in blast
A prominent pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine has been assassinated in one of the highest profile killings in the region since war broke out in 2014. Alexander Zakharchenko, the president of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, was reported killed in an explosion in a cafe in Donetsk, the breakaway statelet’s capital, on Friday afternoon. His death was confirmed by separatist officials and Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU. Zakharchenko suffered head injuries that were not survivable and died in hospital, Russian media reported on Friday. Two other ministers of the self-declared separatist government caught up in the blast have been hospitalised with severe injuries. The former mining electrician had run the DPR, one…
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The Week In British Wrestling: WWE UK heroes go home
Main photo by David J Wilson Here’s five things you need to know about British wrestling this week: 1) 2016’s breakout promotion started 2017 with a bang! After a 2016 in which they broke out from being a solid regional promotion into one with national — even international — buzz, Fight Club: PRO began their 2017 season at their regular home — the Fixxion Warehouse in Wolverhampton — last Friday, with All The Best 2017. With the rump of their roster playing a big part in the WWE United Kingdom Championship, it was something of a homecoming for the stars of that tournament, and runner-up Pete Dunne emerged at the beginning of…
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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan was drunk when she accidentally drowned in hotel bath, coroner rules
The Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan drowned in a hotel bath wearing her pyjamas, an inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court heard. The Irish singer, from Kilmallock, County Limerick, was pronounced dead aged 46 on January 15 at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London, where she had been staying while recording. Coroner Shirley Radcliffe told an inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court that the cause of death was drowning due to alcohol intoxication and concluded that the death was an accident. Click Here: Cheap Golf Drivers PC Natalie Smart, who attended the scene, told the inquest: "I saw Mrs O’Riordan submerged in the bath with her nose and mouth fully under the water." The inquest…
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Nelson Mandela declined to meet Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-apartheid movement, book reveals
Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-apartheid efforts were snubbed by Nelson Mandela for “hindering” the campaign against racial segregation inSouth Africa, it has emerged. The Labour MP was famously arrested for his participation in a picket outside the South African embassy which demanded Mr Mandela’s release from prison during the 1980s. But efforts to arrange a meeting between Mr Mandela and the ultra-left splinter group which planned the four-year long protest outside the South African embassy repeatedly failed. A new book reveals that City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (CLAAG), of which Mr Corbyn was an active member, asked for a meeting when Mr Mandela visited Britain following his release from prison… Click Here: Atlanta…
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Outlaw Ron Bass passes away at age 68
Ronald Heard, who wrestled regularly in almost every major promotion from 1973 to 1989 as “Outlaw” Ron Bass, passed away Tuesday at the age of 68. Bass suffered a burst appendix, but didn’t realize the seriousness of his condition. He waited a week before getting checked out and because of waiting so long, the poison overcame his body and he passed away. He had been scheduled for an autograph show over this past weekend and the word was that he was hospitalized. Bass started his career as Ronnie Heard, but became Ron Bass in a tag team with Don Bass, who also recently passed away, while working for Nick Gulas in…
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Toxic gas leak at Sydney hotel puts eight in hospital
At least eight people at a publicly listed hotel in the Australian city of Sydney were hospitalised on Wednesday after breathing toxic gases flowing through the building’s air conditioning system, an ambulance official said. A worker accidentally mixed pool chlorine and hydrochloric acid, used as a cleaning agent, at the Pullman Hotel, Steve Vaughan, acting superintendent of New South Wales Ambulance, told Reuters. Click Here: gold coast suns 2019 guernsey The chemical reaction can produce hydrogen chloride gas. Vaughan said the gas flowed through the air conditioning system in the building, which faces Hyde Park in the city centre, at around 9 am. A spokeswoman for Accor SA, owner of the Pullman…
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Marilyn Monroe’s Ford Thunderbird tipped to fetch $500,000 at auction
A Ford Thunderbird once owned by Marilyn Monroe is expected to fetch up to $500,000 (£379,000) when it comes under the hammer in November. The black soft-top with whitewall tyres was bought on December 20, 1955, by the star’s company, Marilyn Monroe Productions. It is believed that it was a Christmas present from Milton Greene, her business partner and photographer. She took ownership of the car six months before she married the playwright Arthur Miller and it is believed that they drove the car to the civil ceremony and probably their private wedding in June 1956. “Marilyn liked to drive,” said Amy Greene, Milton Greene’s wife. “We’d take the convertible and…
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CFDA publishes its Annual Report
Reflecting upon a year that has consisted of navigating unprecedented changes and challenges, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has now released their ‘Annual Report 2019’. The report encompasses how the turbulent nature of the last few months has affected the industry and the CFDA itself. On top of the global external challenges faced, the organization has also undergone considerable internal transformations, including the handover in chairmanship from Diane Von Furstenburg to Tom Ford, as well as welcoming an array of new members. The report also discusses the CFDA’s Fashion Manufacturing Initiative’s (FMI’s) various funds, awards and initiatives that have been put in place to support emerging businesses…