George Russell may be keeping the world champion’s seat warm this weekend, but he’s the first to admit that no one can truly replace Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton has been ruled out of this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix after testing positive for coronavirus on Monday, the first race he will have missed in his F1 career. It’s not known whether he’ll be able to take part in the final race the following week. In the meantime, the Williams F1 team has agreed to release Russell to step into the breach, handing Jack Aitken his F1 debut as a result. Read also: Russell confirmed to replace Hamilton at Sakhir “Unbelievably grateful,” Russell…

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced its 2020 New Wave: Creatives – a list of the 50 top young talents working in fashion but outside of the design field. The list includes people from across multiple disciplines from artists, activists, casting agents, commentators, florists, hair and makeup artists, image-makers, nail artists, set designers, stylists and writers. The final 50, listed below, will be celebrated as part of The Fashion Awards film, which will premiere online on Thursday on fashionawards.com. Activists, commentators and writers – Fenn O’Meally – Kai-Isaiah Jamal Artists – Ágústa Ýr – John Yuyi – Marlou Fernanda – PZ Opassuksatit – Sakeema Peng Crook – Sgàire Wood…

The July 18th, 2017 edition of WWE SmackDown aired live from the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, AL, and was the go-home show for Battleground on Sunday. – SmackDown opens up with a brief promo video about the Punjabi Prison, then the Singh Brothers come out to the stage to introduce WWE Champion Jinder Mahal. The Champion comes out and makes his way into the ring with the Singh Brothers. They step into the inner part of the prison, as the outer part of the prison lowers from the ceiling. Jinder starts talking about how this structure will be the end of Randy Orton’s legacy on Sunday. The Singh brothers then…

WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross recently appeared as a guest on The Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast for an interview. During his appearance on the show, “Good Ole’ J.R.” revealed that he is scheduled to work 40 dates per year for WWE, per their current agreement. Click Here: COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES 2019 Ross noted that he prefers to stay busy since his longtime wife, Jan, passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. He also noted that he is happy with the schedule that he and WWE agreed on for his current two-year deal with the promotion. J.R., the longtime voice of WWE, made his return to the company at WrestleMania 33, calling…

WWE Hall Of Famer Madusa (Alundra Blayze) recently appeared as a guest on Sean Waltman’s X-Pac 12360 Podcast for an in-depth interview. Below are some of the highlights. On the infamous WCW Monday Nitro segment where she threw the WWE Women’s Championship in the trash can: “I was so hurt… I had a lot of come to Jesus talks with myself. You know those lonely nights by yourself crying yourself to sleep where people don’t know.” On working on her biography: “I was approached here recently to do something totally different with the biography and I don’t think it’s been done. So all I’m going to say is I don’t…

— Global Force Wrestling released the following statement today: GFW has concluded its internal consideration of the events surrounding the suspension of Alberto El Patron. While it is apparent that initial reports unfairly characterized El Patron’s involvement in the incident in the Orlando airport, we are nonetheless disappointed with the manor (sic) in which he dealt with this situation; we expect more decorum from all on the GFW roster, especially the World Champion. We have communicated with El Patron our decision to strip him of his championship title. No decision has been taken as to the date on which he will be reinstated to the roster, the conditions of which…

Click:HP1501 Prior to Sunday night’s WWE SummerSlam event, RAW General Manager Kurt Angle spoke with Brian Fritz of The Sporting News to promote the joint-brand WWE pay-per-view. During the discussion, the WWE Hall Of Famer was asked about his desire to return to the squared circle for an actual wrestling match. “I’ve always loved being around the business, but being the general manager of Raw is still a huge honor,” said the RAW G.M. “I still get that feeling that I want to get back in that ring and go at, so hopefully down the road I’ll take that physical and we get moving in that direction, but right now…

WWE Superstar Randy Orton took to social media on Saturday evening to comment on the Showtime Boxing PPV mega-fight between UFC Lightweight Champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor and pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd “Money” Mayweather. During the event, which aired live on pay-per-view from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada over the weekend, “The Viper” responded to a fan who tweeted him about the fight, using it as an opportunity to take a shot at the recently revived “Punjabi Prison Match” structure. The fan asked Orton why the promoters of the fight didn’t put the two combatants inside a Punjabi Prison structure, which the longtime WWE Superstar replied to by…

— Here is tonight’s Smackdown Live preview: Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura battle for a WWE Championship opportunity tonight on SmackDown LIVE Both Orton and Nakamura got measures of payback on Mahal and his crew in recent weeks, but still want the WWE Championship more than anything. Only one Superstar will earn the right to challenge Jinder Mahal. Who will it be: The Viper or The Artist Known as Shinsuke Nakamura? Natalya takes on Carmella tonight on SmackDown LIVE Though she teamed up with Natalya to face Naomi & Becky Lynch on SmackDown LIVE two weeks ago, The Princess of Staten Island seemed ready to cash in on her partner,…

While the plan still seems to be to have Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar headline WrestleMania 34, that match was actually considered to be moved up to take place at SummerSlam instead. However, when the Samoa Joe/Lesnar program did much better than expected from an audience interest perspective, the decision was made to change the match to a four-way. Click Here: newcastle knights shirt Originally, The Miz defending his Intercontinental title against Jason Jordan was planned to take place at No Mercy, but the status of this match is now completely up in the air since WWE hasn’t done any new angles leading in that direction for several weeks. Source:…