Month: July 2020

FS1 announced Monday that “production is scaling back” on several shows, including WWE Backstage which will no longer be a weekly show on the sports network. However, they stopped short of saying the show is outright canceled as there is a strong possibility that it will return around larger WWE events. Sports Business Journal’s John…

Raw last night averaged 1.74 million viewers, up 9,000 viewers from last week and making it the fourth lowest for the show in modern history. The episode had the usual patterns with a normal level drop during the show. Raw did a 0.53 in 18-49, up eight percent from last week even though viewership overall…

Fresh off his pull apart brawl with Mike Tyson on this week’s AEW Dynamite, Chris Jericho will return to in-ring action on next week’s show against Colt Cabana. While Jericho’s opponent wasn’t originally announced, AEW released a video overnight showing the two in a heated backstage confrontation with Jericho blaming Cabana for holding him back…

For the first time since WrestleMania 36, Kevin Owens was back in action on tonight’s episode of Raw. Owens teamed with Apollo Crews to defeat Andrade & Angel Garza on tonight’s show. The finish of the match played into the storyline of dissension within Zelina Vega’s stable. Crews pinned Garza with a sit-out powerbomb after Austin…

Ahead of tonight’s live episode of Dynamite, AEW revealed the latest edition of their weekly top-five roster rankings. Cody and Lance Archer, who will face off in the TNT Championship tournament finals at Double or Nothing later this month, are ranked first and second in the men’s division. Kenny Omega, Brodie Lee, and Darby Allin…

Dramatically firing his top diplomat shortly before what may be the United States’ most important foreign summit in years has been another bold move in President Trump’s unconventional playbook on foreign policy. His decision to replace outgoing Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, with the more hawkish CIA director Mike Pompeo, known for his hardline approach…

By Josh Molina for WrestlingObserver.com – Airdate: Oct. 15, 1984– Runtime: 1:35 minutes– Stars of the show: Tito Santana, Big John Studd, Vince McMahon, Junkyard Dog Vince McMahon outdoes himself again to start the show, calling Lord Alfred Hayes, “the elder uncle of Boy George.” Not sure if that’s a fashion or some other kind of…

North Korea looks set to resurrect a mass acrobatic extravaganza in what appears to be a renewed drive to boost tourism revenue in the isolated regime. The expected relaunch of the so-called Arirang “Mass Games”, traditionally an acrobatic, dance and gymnastic performance involving up to 100,000 participants in Pyongyang’s 150,000-seater May Day Stadium, was revealed over the weekend…

UK government ministers fear increasing divergence between Britain and the US over the Iran deal after the appointment of two hardline advisers, The Daily Telegraph has learned.  Senior government figures have privately expressed concerns over “uncompromising” John Bolton and “tub-thumping” Mike Pompeo, Mr Trump’s new national security adviser and secretary of state.  They expressed fear the…

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