Viking Wrestling Honors Seniors, Falls to Beavers Saturday Afternoon SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Augustana wrestling team recognized its three seniors, Bailey Neises, Ben Kelvington and Regan Bye, Saturday afternoon before falling to the Beavers of Minot State by a score of 21-19. After losing the 125-pound bout, redshirt junior Brandon Carroll defeated Minot State’s Oscar Nellis 12-8 for the Vikings first win of the day in the 133-pound bout. Carroll logged four takedowns and a reversal in the match to bring the dual score to 3-3. Redshirt freshman Hunter Burnett followed up last night’s dominant performance with much of the same in the 141-pound match. Burnett recorded three takedowns…

> 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.) ROH wrestler Vinny Marselia spoke with Interactive Wrestling Radio about ROH’s busy stretch coming up culminating with the ROH and New Japan “G1 Supercard” at Madison Square Garden in New York City, their 17th Anniversary show, ROH’s ability to weather the storm of losing the Elite as they create AEW, and his singles title aspirations in ROH. Plus, a lot…

At the Wrestling Observer website, we’re a family. Yes, a dysfunctional one most days, but we try to take care of our own as much as possible, especially in times of need. Our lead website editor Joseph Currier lost his mother Wednesday after a long health battle and he has been responsible for covering a lot of the bills for the family during that time. He would never ask for assistance, but through a GoFundMe campaign, we want to help ease the burden by helping cover any funeral expenses or other expenses the family has incurred or will continue to incur. Even a few dollars would go a long way.…

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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.) Last night’s (4/22) Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.70 rating, the lowest rating since Jan. 7 and down from last week’s 1.88 rating for the Superstar Shake-up and the 2.02 for the post-WrestleMania edition. One year ago this week, Raw drew a 2.09 rating and two years ago this week it drew a 2.04 rating. The 2019…

> 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.) Last night’s episode (6/10) of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.54 rating, down from last week’s 1.72 and the lowest rating of the year and the lowest non-holiday rating of all-time. Raw opened with first hour viewership slightly above last week – 2.380 million (compared to 2.308 million last week). That’s also above the first hour…

Despite this week’s angle where he was written off television, Matt Hardy is set to make another appearance on Raw. WWE has announced that Hardy will face Randy Orton in a no holds barred match on Raw this coming Monday. There was a segment on this week’s show where Hardy was laid out with an RKO and a con-chair-to after he confronted Orton about Orton’s attack on Edge from the night after the Royal Rumble. After being laid out by Orton, Hardy tweeted “GOODBYE” and a link to his latest Free the Delete episode. Edge vs. Orton is scheduled for WrestleMania 36. WWE issued a storyline update on Edge’s condition before Raw…

> 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 is the latest in a new series of weekly in-depth articles exclusive to PWTorch which will help put in perspective major wrestling promotions with a weekly overview, looking at news and roster developments, results, future line-ups, social media activity, key interviews, plus a timely commentary at the end. We will be featuring similar features on other promotions each week and each…

On the same day on which he signed a multi-year deal with AEW, it was announced on Wednesday’s Dynamite that Lance Archer will make his promotional debut on next week’s show. Days shy of his 43rd birthday, Archer had been with New Japan Pro Wrestling the last three years working as both a singles and tag team wrestler, recently holding the company’s U.S. title before losing it to Jon Moxley at the first night of January’s Wrestle Kingdom. News of his talks with AEW broke last month with the news becoming official Wednesday morning.  Archer’s debut was the only thing announced for next week’s Dynamite as the company has their Revolution…

Snickers is again partnering with WWE for this year’s WrestleMania. WWE and Mars, Incorporated have announced “an expansion of their long-standing partnership for 2020 in which Snickers will once again serve as the exclusive presenting partner of WrestleMania.” This is the fifth straight year that Snickers has been the presenting sponsor for the event. The partnership will include WWE wrestlers taking part in Snickers’ new “Fix the World” ad campaign. There will be three custom commercials produced. The first will air on the March 23 episode of Raw, the second will air on the March 27 episode of SmackDown, and the third will air during WrestleMania 36. WrestleMania is taking…