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Daily Update: WWE house shows, Impact tapings, Omega
Click:Plastic bag manufacturing machineTHE ROUND-UP The Latest from the F4W Staff NEWS Impact Wrestling results: Low Ki makes his return Vader briefly collapses after match in Japan TakeOver Chicago card takes shape at NXT TV tapings reDRagon set to reunite at PWG’s Head Like a Cole NXT TV taping spoilers: The build to TakeOver Chicago AUDIO WOL: Ronda Rousey engagement, Simon Gotch, Mick Foley, Dr. Lucha, more! 4/21 Wrestling Weekly: Remembering Doc Young and Matt Anoa’i 4/21 JNPO: MMA Junkie’s Mike Bohn on UFC Nashville and NBA playoffs 4/21 B&V&G: Raw, NXT from Full Sail, Starrcade 84 part 2, Granny, more! 4/21 WOR: Pete Gas talks his new book! 4/20…
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VIDEO: UFC Summer Kickoff media event at 5:30 PM EST
After a low key first five months of 2017, UFC will attempt to get some interest going for the summer with a big media event scheduled for Friday at 5:30 PM EST in Dallas, TX, streamed live here. Jon Anik will host the event where it’s expected that some new fights will be announced like Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier II and perhaps Michael Bisping vs. Yoel Romero. Officially scheduled to be there today: – UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt and T.J. Dillashaw who fight at UFC 213 on July 8th in Las Vegas – Claudia Gadelha and Karolina Kowalkiewicz who fight at UFC 212 on June 3rd in Rio…
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NJPW reveals full Best of the Super Juniors finals card
Though the main event for the show was already known, New Japan Pro Wrestling has revealed the full card for the Best of the Super Juniors finals. That main event will have Block A winner Will Ospreay taking on Block B winner KUSHIDA in the tournament finals. The two have faced each other before, with KUSHIDA winning both times. As defending Best of the Super Juniors winner, Ospreay looks to both repeat as tournament champion and get his first win against KUSHIDA. The winner of that match will likely get an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship shot against Hiromu Takahashi at Dominion on June 11th. Tag matches fill up the rest of the BOSJ…
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Daily Pro Wrestling History (06/21): Dusty Rhodes wins his second NWA World title
1918 – Earl Caddock defeated Ed “Strangler” Lewis by decision to unify his claim to the World Heavyweight Title (no falls in a 2 out of 3 falls match that lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes. Referee Ed Smith awarded the match to Caddock on points) 1934 Mexico City, Mexico: – Francisco Aguayo defeated Martinez Larrea for the Mexico National Heavyweight Title 1942 – Ciclon Veloz defeated Jack O’Brien to win the Mexico National Welterweight Title 1946 St. Joseph, Missouri: – Ray Villmer & Bobby Bruns beat Bill Lee & Orville Brown 2 falls to 1 to win the St. Joseph tag team titles 1955 Minneapolis, Minnesota: – Leo Nomellini…
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Daily Pro Wrestling History (07/08): Austin Aries wins TNA World title
1942 Des Moines, Iowa: – World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown defeated Tom Zaharias in 2 out of 3 falls – Jack Kennedy beat Cowboy Luttrall in 2 out of 3 falls – Gene Bowman and Babe Zaharias went to a 30 minute draw 1962 Midway Stadium, St. Paul, Minnesota: – Doug Gilbert won a 12 man battle royal – Doug Gilbert beat Blackjack Daniels – Kay Noble beat Mars Monroe – Bob Geigel beat Thor Hagan – Larry Hennig beat Bill Wright 1965 Kansas City, Kansas: – In a fence match; Bob Geigel and Dutch Savage beat Cowboy Bob Ellis and Sonny Myers 2 falls to 1 – Pat O’Connor…
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Fighting for an English-speaking homeland – meet the Anglophone separatists waging war in Cameroon
As a volunteer footsoldier in Africa’s newest war of liberation, Robert Enow is ready and willing to die for his cause. Given the weapons he has to fight with, that is probably just as well. On a good day, he and his fellow "Red Dragon" fighters in south-west Cameroon take on the government’s troops with home-made, single-shot muskets. On a bad day, they rely on cutlasses, clubs, and juju charms that are said to make them bulletproof. "The Cameroon government troops have much better weapons than us, and most of the time, they win," Mr Enow, 28, told The Telegraph. "In our first battle against them, seven of my comrades…
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WWE SmackDown video highlights: Corbin's cash-in fails
Providence, Rhode Island hosted SmackDown’s go-home show for SummerSlam last night. Jinder Mahal and John Cena faced off in a non-title match, with Baron Corbin interfering and then cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase. The attempt ended up being unsuccessful as Mahal pinned Corbin with a schoolboy after he was briefly distracted by punching Cena off of the apron. More build to SummerSlam rounded out the episode. Mahal started things off with a celebration of Indian Independence Day before being interrupted by Shinsuke Nakamura, The New Day took on The Usos in a non-title match, and AJ Styles tried to make sure Shane McMahon will call things evenly on…
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Meningitis scare at renowned Berlin sex club KitKat
Visitors to a famous sex club in Berlin have been urged to seek medical treatment after a clubber was taken ill with bacterial meningitis. The KitKat Club said the man was in a serious condition in hospital after attending a party on Saturday night. “Unfortunately, the sick guest is very bad, so it was not possible to ask who he had closer contact with at the club,” it said on its Facebook page. Instead it asked anyone who experienced sudden chills, fever or a nasal infection to seek immediate help. “While infections in the club were very unlikely according to doctors and authorities… anybody suffering from symptoms should immediately see…
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Sir Richard Branson freezes Saudi business ties over disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
Billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson has ratcheted up pressure on Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of a prominent journalist by freezing several business links to the Gulf kingdom. The Virgin Group founder joined a mounting chorus of international concern about the fate of Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished last week. The journalist has not been seen since visiting the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, sparking claims he was killed in the building. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and US President Donald Trump are among the political figures who have demanded answers from Saudi Arabia over the case. On Thursday evening, Sir Richard said he would be suspending his directorship…
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British woman arrested for murder after her expat husband is stabbed to death with kitchen knife in Malaysia
A British woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after her husband was stabbed to death on the Malaysian holiday island of Langkawi, police said Thursday. John William Jones, 62, was found on the floor of his house with a stab wound to the chest, local police chief Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim said. His British wife, named as Samantha, 62, has been detained and is suspected of having murdered him following a row, he said. The pair had lived on Langkawi, a jungle-clad, tropical island in northwest Malaysia that attracts millions of tourists annually to its palm-fringed beaches, for the past 11 years, Mohamad Iqbal said. "The couple were believed to…