WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T was talking openly on his Heated Conversations Podcast when the topic turned to RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 35 in April. The episode was recorded before last Monday night’s RAW. As previously reported, there have been contrasting reports that have emerged over the past…
After signing with WWE, Mia Yim is scheduled to make her NXT house show debut this weekend. WWE announced today that Yim will be wrestling at this Saturday’s NXT show in Fort Pierce, Florida. Further details about the match Yim will be debuting in haven’t been revealed. Yim lost to Shayna Baszler in the second round of…
The first real numbers are in for UFC 229. The show’s prelims, which aired on FS1 prior to Saturday’s main card, averaged 1.308 million viewers. The FS1 prelims had no big names and were headlined by what was basically a number one contender’s bout in the non-drawing flyweight division. This was the biggest audience for a pay-per-view prelims show…
> 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.) TORCH TODAY – Tuesday, April…
A British Heavyweight Championship match has been added to the lineup for NJPW Power Struggle. NJPW announced tonight that Tomohiro Ishii will defend his Revolution Pro Wrestling British Heavyweight title against Minoru Suzuki at Power Struggle in Osaka, Japan on November 3. Ishii and Suzuki have been feuding in NJPW and trading the championship in RevPro,…
> 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.) Head or hand? Drunk or…
While all of the UFC 230 main card fights are official for Saturday night, two fighters missed weight Friday including one woman who was briefly slotted for the main event at one point. Sijara Eubanks hit 127.2 on the scale, 1.2 pounds over the flyweight limit for her FS1 fight against Roxanne Modaferri. As the UFC…
> 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.) Actor Stephen Amell says he…
Following Monday’s show-closing angle on Raw where the SmackDown women’s division invaded the show, SmackDown saw its ratings increase by 11 percent this week to an average of 2.312 million viewers. When WWE ran a similar angle in 2017 (October 23-24) the result was a 15 percent increase for SmackDown over the previous week. The show retained a…
Iranian "morality police" were forced to fire warning shots when a crowd intervened to prevent them from arresting two women for not wearing a hijab. The incident occurred in Tehran’s northeastern Narmak neighbourhood on Friday night, and ended with a mob tearing the door off a police vehicle, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported. "Morality patrol police…