Month: March 2023

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… New Japan Pro Wrestling returns to California for a major PPV event featuring the New Japan in-ring debut of Mercedes Mone, formerly known as Sasha Banks, in the WWE. When: Saturday February 18, 2023 Click Here: f1 t shirt,mens f1 jacket Where: San Jose Civic…

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… This week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw (2/20) averaged 2.006 million viewers. The first hour averaged 2,186 million, the second hour 2.065 million, and the third hour 1.768 million. The first-to-third hour dropoff was higher than usual at 418,000; the prior 20 weeks averaged…

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… AEW Rampage last Friday (2/24) averaged 409,000 viewers, a rebound over last week’s 287,000 viewers (in an earlier timeslot than usual) and the viewership from two weeks ago of 375,000. In its regular timeslot, Rampage has averaged 454,000 viewers and a 0.38 rating so far…

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Ronda Rousey showed up on Smackdown in an arm sling tonight and didn’t wrestle as scheduled, but instead stood at ringside as Shayna Baszler defeated Tegan Nox. PWTorch has learned that she aggravated a prior injury and it is not expected to infringe on her…

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Dax Harwood says that he and Cash Wheeler have one month and 18 days left on their current contract with AEW. During an episode of the FTR With Dax podcast, Harwood opened up about FTR’s standing with AEW after returning at the AEW Revolution PPV…

An “unidentified object” which “violated “Canadian airspace” was shot down over Canada Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced.  The object was shot down by a U.S. military F-22 fighter jet over the Yukon, Trudeau said.  A U.S. official had previously confirmed that the object was detected by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and…

Tokyo — Standing behind ropes adorned with giant melting chocolate bars, long lines of shoppers — the vast majority of them female — waited patiently at Tokyo’s Isetan Department Store. Valentine’s Day accounts for 20% of Japan’s annual chocolate consumption, and the competition to capture hearts and sweet tooths is intense. The gaudy bonbons on…

Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science. In February, World Health Organization officials confirmed an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about…

Christian Atsu, the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, has died in the earthquake in Turkey. He was 31. Atsu currently plays for the Turkish club Hatayspor in the Hatay province, which was hit hard by the quake.  Search teams recovered Atsu’s body in the ruins of a luxury…

Ankara, Turkey — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday praised the support provided by Americans following the devastating Feb. 6 earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria. In a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Blinken said the U.S. government had responded “within hours” to the disaster and had so…