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THE LATEST NEWS
Two Elias specials to air on WWE Network this month
ROH Honor for All results: Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon
NJPW G1 Climax 28 night six live results: Goto vs. Ishii
Flip Gordon loses NWA title match at ROH Honor for All
Beretta makes return at ROH Honor For All
THE LATEST AUDIO
WOL: Dr. Lucha, Jimmy Havoc, Steph’s big announcement, more! 7/20
Wrestling Weekly: Hogan’s reinstatement and the locker room’s reaction 7/20
B&V&G: Granny, NXT, THURSDAY NIGHT POTPOURRI! 7/20
We’re looking for reports on the Raw show in Lexington, KY, Smackdown in St. Louis, the ROH TV tapings in Atlanta (Sumie Sakai vs. Madison Rayne for WOH title, Marty Scurll vs. Kenny King, Silas Young vs. Flip Gordon, Karen Q vs. Jenny Rose and Jay Briscoe vs. Christopher Daniels plus the debut of Jeff Cobb) and NXT in Venice, FL to [email protected].
NEW JAPAN G-1 CLIMAX TOURNAMENT LIVE AT 5:30 A.M. EASTERN SUNDAY MORNING FROM HACHIOJE
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. Toa Henare & Shota Umino
Hirooki Goto & Yoh vs. Toru Yano & Jado
Tomohiro Ishii & Sho vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Taka Michinoku
Kenny Omega & Chase Owens vs. Juice Robinson & David Finlay
Tetsuya Naito & Seiya Sanada vs. Kota Ibushi & Yujiro Takahashi
Michael Elgin vs. Yoshi-Hashi
Evil vs. Bad Luck Fale
Minoru Suzuki vs. Jay White
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hangman Page
Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe
Sunday’s schedule includes a Raw house show in Pikeville, KY and Smackdown in Springfield, IL.
UFC ON FS 1 FROM THE BARCLAYCARD ARENA SUNDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON IN HAMBURG, GERMANY
Fight Pass at 10:30 a.m. Eastern
Damian Stasiak vs. Pingyuan Liu
Darko Stosic vs. Jeremy Kimball
Davey Grant vs. Manny Bermudez
FS 1 at Noon Eastern time
Aleksander Rakic vs. Justin Ledet
Khalid Taha vs. Nad Narimani
Emil Meek vs. Bartosz Fabinski
Nick Hein vs. Damir Hadzovic
David Zawada vs. Danny Roberts
Nasrat Haqparast vs. Marc Diakiese
Marcin Tybura vs. Stefan Struve
Vitor Miranda vs. Abu Azaitar
Glover Teixiera vs. Corey Anderson
Mauricio Shogun Rua vs. Anthony Smith
IMPACT PPV FROM THE REBEL COMPLEX IN TORONTO AT 8 P.M. ON SUNDAY
Tessa Blanchard vs. Allie
Johnny Impact vs. Rich Swann vs. Fenix vs. Taiji Ishimori
Tommy Dreamer vs. Eddie Edwards House of Hardcore rules
Sami Callihan vs. Pentagon Jr. hair vs. mask
LAX vs. Homicide & Hernandez in a street fight for tag titles
Su Yung vs. Madison Rayne for Knockouts title
Matt Sydal vs. Brian Cage for X title
Austin Aries vs. Moose for Impact title
Raw is Monday from Cincinnati. Stephanie McMahon will return for a major announcement. Also Roman Reigns vs. Bobby Lashley, winner faces Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam, and Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel vs. Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt for the Raw tag team titles. They are also advertising Lashley & Reigns & Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler & Kevin Owens & Elias, but odds are that match will never happen. There is also a Monday night Smackdown house show in Carbondale, IL.
Smackdown and 205 Live take place on Tuesday in Evansville, IN. Announced so far is Carmella vs. Becky Lynch in a non-title match Hideo Itami vs. Drew Gulak vs. Mustafa Ali vs. TJP for a shot at Cedric Alexander’s cruiserweight title.
F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Hogan takes first step towards WWE return
Nearly three years after being fired from the company, Hulk Hogan’s return to WWE took a major step forward on Sunday. After Hogan was spotted flying into Cleveland — which was apparently a failed attempt to avoid him being seen coming to Pittsburgh, where WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view was being held — WWE announced on Sunday afternoon that Hogan had been reinstated into their Hall of Fame.
WON NEWSLETTER: (July 23, 2018): ROH/NJPW to run MSG, Hogan reinstated into WWE HOF, more
A look at the ROH/NJPW planned show in Madison Square Garden and the huge ramifications this show could have on the industry is the lead story of a big double-issue of the Observer.
The lead story goes into how ROH/NJPW got the date back after WWE blocked it, why those at Sinclair were always confident they would be able to run the date and their big ace on why they have leverage on WWE.
Find out who was announced, who wasn’t and why, as well as ticket prices, and what significant milestone this show can reach that no non-WWE show in history ever has.
Read what happened backstage with Hulk Hogan, talent reactions to Kofi Kingston and Titus O’Neil, what the problems were in how this was handled and the real issues involved. .
Look at the hilarious irony of the new UFC business deal in Russia.
This issue has full coverage of the Extreme Rules show, a look at the upcoming SummerSlam show, a look at the issues with the crowd, plus match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.
Read more on the G-1 Climax tournament with business notes, standings, schedule for the next week, plus match-by-match coverage and star ratings
Also look at yet another rise in WWE stock and why, predictions on WWE future profits, Daniel Bryan talks his future and contract situation, Bryan talks about his in-ring style change, update on Vince McMahon, Dwayne Johnson’s latest movie, Bret Hart and Martha Hart argue over Owen Hart, Owen Hart honored this week, and Rousey TV appearance.
Read how a recent FCC ruling affects the growth of ROH.
Also look at the upcoming Bellator welterweight tournament, a look at the participants, schedule and championship plans.
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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE
WWE
Braun Strowman isn’t on this weekend’s house shows because he’s doing a media tour for WWE in India.
Hulk Hogan shared a post from Elijah “The Pope” Burke about forgiving Hogan and the friendship they had while working together: “This one hit me really hard!! Thanks Pope,I love you my brother HH”
Nikki & Brie Bella will be guests on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
During an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con to promote the Transformers spinoff “Bumblebee,” John Cena spoke about playing villains in movies and not turning heel in WWE: “I have had a great career in the WWE and for that entire time I have been the good guy and that kind of went into my films so far, and now it doesn’t seem like my character in the WWE will ever evolve into that bad guy role that perhaps a lot of people have wanted; so this is kind of a way for my fans from that aspect of my career to see that side of me. So, don’t expect heel John Cena in the WWE — that’s Inside Baseball talk for some of you — but it means bad guy John Cena isn’t happening there, so this is that chance for me.”
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Cena while at Comic Con.
WWE released a 10-minute behind-the-scenes video on Seth Rollins from last week’s Extreme Rules PPV.
WWE looked at the best “ringside rescues” and McMahon family storyline arrests.
MTV posted video of Dolph Ziggler’s appearance from this week’s Wild ‘N Out.
Pro Wrestling
Night seven of the G1 Climax takes place in Tokyo overnight. Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hangman Page, Minoru Suzuki vs. Jay White, EVIL vs. Bad Luck Fale, and Michael Elgin vs. YOSHI-HASHI are the A Block matches. The show starts at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time.
While his death was announced yesterday, Brickhouse Brown has yet to pass away as of earlier today. Dave Meltzer notes that Brown, who has been battling cancer, is still gravely ill. Brian Blair tweeted today: “Thank you so much George, but stop the tape. Brickhouse is Mother Victoria just called me to inform me that Brick was still alive and woke up, somehow, last night and said he was hungry. Stay tuned as this is not over, unbelievable!”
Impact ratings were down a bit for Thursday’s Slammiversary XVI go-home show. The episode averaged 275,000 viewers after doing 284,000 the previous week. The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.06, down from last week’s 0.08.
Kongo Kong vs. Stone Rockwell has been announced for Monday’s Impact tapings in Toronto, while Pentagon Jr. vs. Matt Sydal, Fenix vs. Sami Callihan, Petey Williams vs. Tyson Dux, and Trevor Lee & Caleb Konley vs. The Deaners are set for Tuesday. Scarlett Bordeaux will also debut on the tapings, and Taiji Ishimori tweeted that he’s working them in addition to Slammiversary.
Impact released the opening video for tomorrow’s PPV.
Though he wasn’t on yesterday’s Honor for All show, Jay Lethal is wrestling at tonight’s ROH TV tapings in Atlanta.
Cody Rhodes’ character “Derek Sampson” will officially be returning on season seven of Arrow, which premieres on October 15. Cody dyed his hair black for the role and noted today that he’ll be in multiple episodes of the upcoming season.
After departing Impact, Sienna returned to Shine last night and was announced as an entrant in their title tournament.
Matt Taven spoke to Hollywood Life about ROH, how the company has grown during his time there, and next year’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden.
OTT announced Tomohiro Ishii vs. Juice Robinson for their WrestleRama show in Dublin on August 18.
UFC/MMA
Brock Lesnar has given his first sample to USADA since entering back into the pool on July 3. If all goes well, Lesnar will be eligible to fight starting on January 8, 2019.
Luke Rockhold said Lesnar being brought back by the UFC and being treated like a king after his drug test failures represents everything that’s wrong with MMA.
TMZ reported that Conor McGregor is on the verge of agreeing to a plea deal for his bus attack from UFC 223 media day. The deal would see him avoid jail time and allow him to still come to the United States.
Frankie Edgar vs. “Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung will headline the UFC’s Fight Night show in Denver on November 10. Cowboy Cerrone vs. Mike Perry is also set for the show.
ESPN reported that Jacare Souza vs. David Branch has been verbally agreed to for UFC 230 at Madison Square Garden on November 3.
Alexander Gustafsson said he’ll move up to heavyweight if that’s what he has to do to fight Daniel Cormier.
Daily Professional Wrestling History: The Rock wins WWE Undisputed title
12th Annual F4W Empire Vegas Convention
Greetings friends and fans of the F4W / Wrestling Observer website. It’s time to announce the details of the 12th annual F4W / Wrestling Observer Empire Las Vegas Convention~!
This year’s event will be taking place in Las Vegas from August 16th to the 20th and will again be in conjunction with WWE’s SummerSlam weekend a.k.a. Super China Buffet Day~! There will still be the usual events, but our big draw will be WWE’s summer blockbuster PPV, SummerSlam. As per tradition, we will all gorge ourselves at a Las Vegas buffet, and then watch SummerSlam in a rented out movie theater. All information and ticketing prices are available now. Sign up ASAP as spots are limited for some events.
This year will also feature a Future Stars Wrestling show which will include the first ever Granny’s Doubles Match Classic! Already booked for the show are the teams Mia Yim & Leva Bates, Shotzi Blackheart & ???, Samantha Heights & Brittany Blake, and Miranda Alize & Kylie Rae. Also appearing will be Kris Wolf along with many more future stars. There may even be a classic star or two making an appearance. You won’t want to miss this show! Check out the convention’s Facebook page for all additional information.
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