> 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.) The following are highlights of Jake Hager (a/k/a Jack Swagger) speaking to CBS Sports about about whether he regrets leaving WWE, his progress in training for Bellator MMA, and now returning to pro wrestling for MLW. He has signed for five shows. •It has been just over a year since you left WWE. Do you harbor any ill feelings about your time…

Impact Wrestling co-executive vice president Scott D’Amore, Impact World Champion Brian Cage, and Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie were part of an hour-long conference call Thursday, hitting up a variety of topics on the company’s past and future ahead of their official weekly AXS TV debut this Tuesday. The whole call can be heard below, but a few highlights: Click Here: liverpool mens jersey D’Amore addressed the rumor of the TNA brand returning for one night in April during WrestleMania weekend in Orlando. He said it’s early in the process, but that “we don’t run from our history, we embrace it.”   On Kylie Rae returning to the company, “the door is…

Two matches that were originally scheduled for last week’s SmackDown have been rebooked for this Friday. During last night’s Raw, a commercial aired advertising Roman Reigns vs. Baron Corbin and a Tag Team title match for this week’s SmackDown. The title match will be SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival defending against The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Big E). The delays that the WWE roster had getting out of Saudi Arabia prevented those matches from happening this past Friday. An NXT invasion instead took place as WWE kicked off the build to Survivor Series. A non-title triple threat match between The Revival, Raw Tag Team Champions The Viking Raiders, and…

> 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.) -Total Bellas drew 719,000 viewers on Sunday night on E! network, up from 666,000 viewers for the previous episode two weeks earlier. It finished no. 16 in Sunday’s cable rankings in the key 18-49 demographic, right below MLB Sunday Night on ESPN and ahead of Beach Hunters on HOME. However, total viewership was well below both shows. In fact, it…

Flamita looks to be the newest member of the Ring of Honor roster. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Lucha Blog reported on Sunday night that Flamita has signed a one-year deal with ROH. The report noted that Flamita is expected to start with ROH at Final Battle, which is taking place at the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday, December 13. With his tag team partner Bandido out of action due to a knee injury, Flamita replaced him and wrestled on all three nights of ROH’s Honor United tour this October. Flamita faced Colt Cabana on night one, teamed with Tracy Williams against Marty Scurll & Flip Gordon…

> 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.) U.S. senator Richard Blumenthal from WWE’s home state of Connecticut has called on WWE to “review and relook” at its relationship with Saudi Arabia. The WWE “Crown Jewel” event in Saudi Arabia scheduled next month has come under fire in light of recent headlines regarding Saudi Arabia’s leaders being accused of being behind the disappearance and feared murder of a U.S.…

> 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.) NXT TV TAPING NOVEMBER 15, 2018 SAN JOSE, CALIF. AT THE SAN JOSE STATE EVENTS CENTER JOHN M., PWTORCH CORRESPONDENT This was originally advertised as an NXT Live Event and last week, on Twitter, was announced as a TV taping. I am not sure what will be shown on TV and what was for the live crowd only. Building seats…

– Editor’s Note: The following is a column and reflects the opinion of the author and not of F4WOnline.com. – Image courtesy of Jeffrey Jones and AEW Click Here: liverpool mens jersey ********** By B.J. Bethel Tony Khan’s All Elite Wrestling was not supposed to succeed. If it lived for a month, it wasn’t supposed to be good. In fact, it hasn’t been good; most of the first nine weeks of television have been great.  AEW is a company that did not have TV in August, and outside of a couple pay-per-views and spot shows on Turner’s B/R Live app, it was brand new. Even optimists saw a hard six…

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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 LIVE EVENT RESULTS DECEMBER 30, 2018 TAMPA, FLA. AT AMALIE ARENA REPORT BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN, PWTORCH CORRESPONDENT If you attend a live event, please send results in the format of the following report to [email protected]. Thanks! Approximately 6-7,000 in attendance. (1) The Bar defeated The Usos and The New Day in Triple Threat Match. Slow to start as both…