Smackdown had a pretty good year and went from the “B” show to the “A” show when it moved to FOX in October, quickly becoming the most-watched wrestling show on television, something that Raw always held on to apart from a couple of special episodes here and there. From the first episode of 2019 to the last one, Smackdown averaged 2,168,000 viewers per week, down from the 2,350,000 viewers the show did on average over 52 weeks last year. From January to September while still on USA Network, Smackdown averaged 2,066,000 viewers but once the move to FOX occurred, that jumped to 2,475,000 viewers on average. Taking out the week…

Everyone knew it was coming, but the retirement ceremony for Jushin Liger was finally held this morning at NJPW New Year’s Dash. Liger wrestled his final two matches ever at Wrestle Kingdom 14 the preceding two nights. Liger’s career ran for almost 36 years and he’s had over 4,000 matches worldwide. He’s been the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship eleven times, and won the Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles six times. Liger won the Best of the Super Juniors in 1992, 1994, and 2001. During his retirement ceremony, he was joined by NJPW stars including Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryu Lee, Tiger Mask IV, Taguchi, Nagata, Juice Robinson, and Kota Ibushi. Eventually his wife…

– PWInsider reports that the producers for the last set of NWA TV tapings included Pat Kenney (aka Simon Diamond), Homicide, Crimson and Trevor Murdoch. – Pro Wrestling Sheet reports that Jeff Cobb is currently working in ROH without an exclusive contract. According to the report, his last ROH deal expired on January 1, and sources stated that Cobb did not sign a new long-term deal with the promotion. As of now, Cobb is said to be working on a per-show deal with the promotion. – Filed to GERWECK.NET: Ring of Honor World Champion PCO was a special guest of the Montreal Canadiens last night at their game vs. the…

PWInsider reports that Vice is currently putting together the second season of the documentary series Dark Side of the Ring. Topics includes Brawl for All, Dino Bravo and the Chris Benoit double murder-suicide. There has been talk of episodes about Herb Abrams and New Jack, but they haven’t been confirmed. Ten episodes are planned for the second season.  The Benoit episode will feature Nancy Benoit’s sister Sandra Toffoloni and Benoit’s son David. Toffoloni previously wrote on Twitter that she had reunited with David and thanked the series for “giving her back her nephew.” The two were together at an AEW PPV last year.Click Here: Achraf Hakimi jersey sale

AEW taped a segment before Dynamite last night paying tribute to legends of Memphis wrestling, which will air next week on AEW Dark. PWInsider reports that AEW President Tony Khan pushed for the segment to be included, as he’s a fan of the Memphis territory. He was very excited to have Lanny Poffo in the building because he was a huge fan of Randy Savage. Bill Dundee was planned for the segment at one point. There are some who claim he was booked and then cancelled. Tony Khan also made the call for Dave Brown to call a match, which was the first time he called a nationally broadcast wrestling…

Impact Wrestling Hard to Kill is scheduled for Sunday, January 12. Here’s the updated lineup for the other Impact events scheduled for this weekend before the pay-per-view card. First up is Bash at the Brewery 2. The event will be held on Friday, Jan. 10 at the Freetail Brewery in San Antonio, Texas. It will be streamed live on Impact+. * OVE vs. Rich Swann & Tessa Blanchard.& Willie Mack & Brian Cage * Kongo Kong vs. Fallah Bahh * X-Division Champion Ace Austin vs. The Rascalz’ Wentz * Impact Knockouts Champion Taya vs. Jordynne Grace Next up is The Arlington Brawl on Saturday, Jan. 11. It will be a…

photo credit: World Wrestling Entertainment The Miz will have yet another show on the USA Network. The network is becoming more-and-more reliant on its WWE relationship with two Miz shows, two weekly shows and the Austin show. The new show is called “Cannonball,” hosted to Miz, Rosci Diaz and Simon Gibson. The 10-episode series begins in the summer, likely following a WWE lead-in. It’s a sports competition with water obstacles based around a show that airs in Holland, created by John de Mol, who at one point expressed interest in buying WWE. source: The Wrestling Observer NewsletterClick Here: west tigers rugby store

– In an interview with Post Wrestling, Sonny Kiss spoke about his experience working with AEW and said the company allows talents to be themselves on TV. Here are highlights: On being nervous before AEW TV: “There are always gonna be nerves whether it’s AEW Dark or whether it’s just Dynamite. It’s gonna be nerves regardless. I’m gonna be ready regardless because this is what I’ve always wanted so, I’m ready.” On if AEW allows talents to be themselves: “Absolutely. I feel like every person that you see is authentic. They’re not altered by anybody or anything. It’s just kind of like, this is their character, this is who they…

Excalibur, Jim Ross, and Tony Schiavone are on commentary aboard the Ship of Jericho in Nassau, Bahamas. They run down the card for tonight’s show. — Match #1 – AEW World Tag Team Championship Match: SCU (Frankie Kazarian an Scorpio Sky) (c) vs. Adam Page and Kenny Omega Page and Kazarian start the match. They lock up and Page backs Kazarian into the ropes. They lock up again and Kazarian takes Page to the mat and applies a side headlock. Page gets up and sends Kazarian off the ropes, but Kazarian drops him with a shoulder tackle and goes back to the headlock. Page gets free and they exchange forearm…

Coming in April! #CrockettCup As first broken by @StuBennett on #NWAHardTimes pic.twitter.com/9HVbFOfWaV — NWA (@nwa) January 25, 2020 Click Here: AFC Ajax soccer tracksuit