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  • Daily Update: Daniel Bryan in the news; Big weekend for New Japan and ROH talent

    We’re looking for your thoughts on Thursday’s New Beginnings in Osaka so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to Dave Meltzer

    We’re looking for reports on today’s WWE show in Mannheim, Germany (Roman Reigns vs. Alberto Del Rio) and NXT in Tampa to Dave Meltzer

    NEW JAPAN WORLD PRO WRESTLING RETURNS AT 9 P.M. EASTERN TONIGHT ON AXS

    A.J. Styles vs. Kota Ibushi for IWGP title – This match was fantastic.  I can just imagine how good it’ll be with Mauro Ranallo & Josh Barnett calling it.

    CMLL FROM ARENA MEXICO AT WWW.CLAROSPORTS.COM AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME

    Robin & Bengala vs. Inquisidor & Espiritu Negro

    Triton & Fuego & The Panther vs. Virus & Tiger & Puma

    La Mascara & Dragon Lee & Guerrero Maya vs. Hechicero & Kamaitachi & Bobby Z

    Valiente vs Euforia

    Rush & Thunder & Marco Corleone vs. Cibernetico & Mr. Niebla & Ultimo Guerrero]

    Mistico & Volador Jr. & Mascara Dorada vs. Negro Casas & Mephisto & Cavernario Barbaro

    The WWE Germany tour finishes tomorrow in Magdeburg, Germany (Roman Reigns vs. Alberto Del Rio), and we’re looking for reports on that show as well as a house show in Fresno (Chris Jericho, Bray Wyatt, Wyatt Family, Dudleys, Ryback, A.J. Styles, Kane, Natalya) and NXT in Palatka, FL.

    NEW JAPAN NEW BEGINNINGS IN NIIGATA LATE SATURDAY NIGHT STARTING AT 2 A.M. EASTERN AND 11 P.M. PACIFIC ON NEW JAPAN WORLD

    Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask & Captain New Japan vs. Young Bucks & Cody Hall

    Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly vs. Gedo & Kazushi Sakuraba

    Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Ricochet & Matt Sydal vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi & David Finlay

    Michael Elgin & Jay White vs. Tetsuya Naito & Evil

    Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Mark & Jay Briscoe & Toru Yano for Never Open weight title

    Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Juice Robinson vs. Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hash

    Kushida vs. Bushi for IWGP jr. title

    Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows for IWGP tag titles

    Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega for IWGP IC title

    Sunday has WWE in Bakersfield,, CA (Chris Jericho, Bray Wyatt, Wyatt Family, Dudleys, Ryback, A.J. Styles, Kane, Natalya).

    Raw will be Monday in Anaheim.  No Brock Lesnar or Paul Heyman on to the go-home show for Fast Lane.   Ticket sales picked up with the announcement of A.J. Styles, although I’m sure in management that will be passed off as pure coincidence, and maybe it is.  But this looks to be the first sellout of a Raw show this year.  It’s very close at this point and Anaheim is good walk-up market.

    Lesnar will make his first appearance on Smackdown since 2004 at the Tuesday tapings in Ontario, CA.

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    Figure Four Weekly

    Figure Four Weekly 2/1/2016: Weekly Hogan/Gawker update
    A look at the past weeks developments in the Hulk Hogan and Gawker lawsuit.

    Wrestling Observer Newsletter

    The Latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 15, 2016 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Daniel Bryan retires

    The newest issue of the Wrestling Observer is one of the best of the year.  A very detailed look at the end of Bryan Danielson’s career and retirement. Looking back at sports, pro wrestling and the ramifications that are and are not being talked about.  Danielson’s retirement is a big story, both his short and long term impact on pro wrestling.  How his story will act as a catalyst for change not only within pro wrestling but all contact sports.  If you are a wrestling fan, a sports fan or a science fan, this may be the most important issue of the year.

    Bryan Danielson’s retirement speech, career highlights, home town, character both in and out of the ring, booking, the crazy way he ended up as champion for the first time, the birth of the “Yes” chant, the build to WrestleMania 30 & 31, the various exams, why he wanted to continue wrestling and WWE didn’t, his goals outside of WWE and why he changed his mind in the last few weeks.

    The quandary he was in about continuing his career, how his career began, the formation of ROH and the changing landscape of independent wrestling, the changing ideas of what a pro wrestling headliner can look like, the first time I ever saw him wrestle while sitting with Red Bastien and Nick Bockwinkel

    The suspension of Titus O’Neil, a longtime WWE star talking about going into another sport, another star looking at retiring soon, lots of WrestleMania plans including an early summer major match, Steve Austin’s WrestleMania status, update on promotion of Stephanie McMahon, star who may be interested in returning, Fast Lane, A.J. Styles talks his beginnings in WWE and how hard he tried to hide the Royal Rumble story, how DDP figured in Styles’ return, Linda McMahon forms a new company, Roman Reigns in Raw main events, WWE cuts five in developmental, new WWE books. New announcer hired, Update on many Tough Enough competitors from the past season, plans for a WWE show taped this summer, international star WWE has interest in, as well as a look at all the weekend house shows from WWE & NXT with business notes.

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    Check out the latest Online Wrestling Observer BACK ISSUE: Jan 4, 1999 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Starcade review, Jaguar Yakota retires, more
    A look at how promotions did in 1998 overall, a review of Starcade with Nash pinning Goldberg, Jaguar Yakota retires, plus tons more.

    FRIDAY’S NEWS UPDATE

    MMA and WWE trending over the past week as far as Internet searches on Google go, Kevin Randleman was No. 7 yesterday with 100,000.  Titus O’Neil was No. 17 on Tuesday with 50,000.  Daniel Bryan was No. 6 on Monday with 200,000.

    Lucha Underground set its record audience on Wednesday night, doing 136,000 viewers at 8 p.m. and the immediate 9 p.m. replay did 81,000 viewers.

    A wild PPV show was announced on 3/20 from the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix. On the same stage, Roy Jones Jr. will fight a fan and if the fan can beat him, he gets $100,000.  Ken Shamrock will face Dan Severn for the first time in 19 years to end their long standing rivalry in an MMA match.  Kurt Angle will face Rey Mysterio Jr. in a pro wrestling match, and Chael Sonnen will face Michael Bisping in a grappling match. We’ll have a lot more on this as it approaches, but this is legit.  

    The World MMA Awards from last Friday will air tonight at 10 p.m. on FS 2.

    WWE

    • Here’s a story on Daniel Bryan and C.M. Punk.
    • The special we wrote about yesterday, a look back at the first WrestleMania in 1985, airs tonight at 10:30 p.m. on the MSG Network.
    • The Edge & Christian Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness debuts after Fast Lane on 2/21 on the WWE Network
    • Other new WWE Network shows include Daniel Bryan’s Greatest Moments, Brock Lesnar’s Road to the Undisputed title and The Best of Stone Cole vs. Mr. McMahon.
    • John Cena will be the honorary pace car driver for the Daytona Beach 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event on 2/21 at 1 p.m., the same day as Fast Lane.
    • Stock continued to decline, closing at $14.65 per share, the lowest in a long time.  Besides the decline in the market as a whole, this stems from yesterday’s report where the company lost money for the quarter and there was a slight decline in network subscriptions.   
    • We don’t have an update on Riddick Moss, who was motionless after taking a fall during the NXT show in Jacksonville and they had to stop the main event (Dash & Dawson & Moss vs. Sami Zayn & Colin Cassady & Enzo Amore) last night after a triple suplex spot.  He was able to get up and did walk from the ring to the back on his own but he was motionless for a long time. (thanks to Ross Blair) 
    • Information on various web site activities for WrestleMania can be found here.
    • The newspaper in Seattle on the retirement of Daniel Bryan. Article here.
    • The New York Post has a story on the decline of WWE stock.

    UFC/MMA

    • A story on Kevin Randleman here.
    • Bas Rutten, who ended up being very good friends with Kevin Randleman after their famous UFC title fight, talks about him here.
    • Bellator announced today that Michael Chandler has signed a multi-year multi-fight contract with the promotion. As noted in the current issue of the Observer, there are talks for his next fight to be 5/14 in San Jose against Josh Thomson.
    • TMZ reported that Tito Ortiz was cited for misdemeanor battery early this morning after allegedly getting physical with a woman inside of a Las Vegas night club.  The alleged incident took place at Drai’s Nightclub at about 1 a.m. when a woman claimed Ortiz got physical with her and tried to rip her phone away.  She said she had been taking photos inside the cub earlier and she thinks Ortiz may have thought she was trying to shoot photos of him.  She claimed Ortiz tried to whip her around.  Police arrived and Ortiz was not arrested, but was cited.

    MISCELLANEOUS

    • Here’s a story on ROH and Daniel Bryan. 
    • A very nice story from his local newspaper on Mark Nulty.
    • Carlos Amano, who retired due to a brain stem injury talks damage to pro wrestlers here. 
    • Sami Callihan interview.
    • The building that the Stampede Wrestlers went to for decades every week in Regina, Saskatchewan is being torn down and Bret Hart and Dan Kroffat talk about it here.
    • Kevin Kiley Sr., who is the father of Alex Riley, has been in the news this week because he quit his job as a sports talk show host at WKRK-FM in Cleveland. Kiley said that his principles and the principles of the station didn’t match up.  He’d been under controversy when he said the Buffalo Bills hiring a woman as an assistant coach was “absurd.”  In the past Kiley Sr. had gotten heat by saying women shouldn’t be on the voting board for the Pro Football Hall of Fame or allowed to officiate the game. This had led to reporter Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk saying that people should boycott the station.  Kiley said that in 35 years of reporting on sports, this was the first time when the station told him he could not defend himself against critics, so he quit.  “You shouldn’t accept censorship ever.  You should make sure the people on the radio are telling you the truth as they see it.  Don’t let some clown in New York tell them what to say and then you think it’s your opinion or what not to say.  That’s what happened here and I’m not accepting it.”
    • Joe Garagiola, the former NBC personality who often hosted the Tonight Show, was part of the Today Show crew and the major league baseball broadcast team, turns 90 today.  his connection with pro wrestling is that he was the first announcer for Wrestling at the Chase in St. Louis, and his brother Mickey was the longtime ring announcer on the show.  Garagiola was also social friends with Gene Kiniski.  
    • Tier 1 Wrestling will be doing an iPPV through WWNLive.com featuring Timothy Thatcher vs. Michael Elgin in their first-ever meeting.
    • 41 years ago today before a sellout crowd in Miami Beach, Jack Brisco retained the NWA title over the Mongolian Stomper; Andre the Giant won a Battle Royal which also included Chris Taylor, and Bill Watts beat Bob Roop via DQ in a Florida title match.
    • Pro Wrestling Phoenix tomorrow night in Council Bluffs, IA at the National Guard Armory headlined by Arik Cannon.
    • AAW on 2/19 in Merrionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street has Eddie Kingston vs. Sami Callihan for the AAW title, AR Fox vs. Matt Cage for the Heritage title, Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano vs. Chris Hero & Drew Gulak, Abyss & Kongo Kong vs. Ryan Boz & Russ Jones, plus Trevor Lee, Candice LaRae and others.  On 3/18 in Berwyn, IL at the Eagles Club has Jack Evans, Chris Hero, Ciampa, Silas Young, Colt Cabana and Drew Gulak. On 4/9 in Chicago at the Logan Square Auditorium has Matt Sydal and Hero

    ON THIS DAY IN WORLD PRO WRESTLING HISTORY: Ted Dibiase wins Missouri state title; Christian wins NWA title

  • WWE Mannheim, Germany, live results: Charlotte vs. Paige, Roman Reigns vs. ADR

    Submitted by Max Schwager of WrestlingInfos.de from the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany (2/12)

    – WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose defeated Rusev (w/ Lana) via Dirty Deeds in 15:00.

    – Cesaro and german musician Eko Fresh were in the ring. Cesaro announced tonight’s main event: Roman Reigns vs. Alberto Del Rio in a street fight.

    – Jack Swagger defeated Tyler Breeze via Patriot Lock in 10:00.

    – Goldust defeated Bo Dallas in 01:00. Dallas protests after the match, challenges anyone in the back to a match. R-Truth answers.

    – R-Truth defeated Bo Dallas via Lie Detector in 00:10. After the match, Truth and Goldust had an dance battle. No winner was announced. 

    – The Big Show & The Usos (Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso) defeated WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) via chokeslam from Big Show to Big E in 10:00. Usos facepaint was in black-red-gold.

    – WWE Divas Champion Charlotte (c) (w/ Ric Flair) defeated Paige via roll-up in 10:00 in a non-title match with Summer Rae as special ref.

    – Dolph Ziggler defeated Kevin Owens via superkick into the ZigZag in 12:00.

    – Roman Reigns defeated Alberto Del Rio via spear through a table in a street fight.

  • WOL: Chris Harrington on WWE finances, Dr. Lucha, news on Kevin Randleman and more!

    Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today with two special guests — Chris Harrington to talk WWE finances and Dr. Lucha to talk CMLL and AAA, Lucha Underground and more! Plus, the death of Kevin Randleman, a Bret Hart update and more news! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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  • Bret Hart posts positive message following surgery for Prostate cancer

    Bret Hart posted on Instagram on Friday a positive message after his surgery for prostate cancer on Wednesday in Calgary.

    “Surgery’s over and on the long road to recovery. I want to thank Dr. Hyndman and the nursing staff at Rocky View Hospital for an outstanding job. I also want to thank my family, friends and fans for all your love and support. Things are looking up and I should be home in the next couple of days. In the words of Vince McMahon: “It’s onwards and upwards.”

    Hart was recovering from four-corner right wrist surgery which makes writing and typing very difficult.

    Hart announced publicly on 2/1 that he had prostate cancer and that surgery was imminent. He briefly attended the WWE house show in Calgary on Friday night where his niece, Natalya, performed.

  • Daily pro wrestling history (02/12): Ted DiBiase wins Missouri State title, Christian wins NWA Title

    1943

    Kansas City, Kansas:
    – World Champion Bobby Managoff beat Orville Brown to retain the title
    – Ronnie Etchison beat Babe Zaharias  

    1957

    Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
    – Bill and Ed Miller defeated Guy and Joe Brunetti to win the NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Title 

    1959

    Kansas City, Kansas:
    – Dick Hutton beat Bob Ellis when the match was stopped due to blood loss  
    – Bob Geigel and Mighty Atlas beat Bobby Bruns and Sonny Myers 
    – Lee Henning defeated Dino Bravo 
    – Farmer Don Marlin and Rip Hawk went to a draw

    1960

    Houston, Texas:
    – Adnan Kaissey and Hogan Wharton defeated Joe Christie and Man Mountain Managoff for the Texas NWA World Tag Team Titles 

    1962 

    Memphis, Tennessee:
    – Jackie Fargo and Lester Welch defeated Dante and Mephisto to win the Mid-America NWA Southern Tag Team Titles

    1965

    Mobile, Alabama:
    – Chin Lee defeated Dick Dunn to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title 

    1966

    Sydney, Australia:
    – Dominic DeNucci defeated Killer Kowalski to win the International Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Title

    1967

    St. Paul, Minnesota:
    – Verne Gagne beat Killer Kowalski
    – AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Doug Gilbert & Reggie Parks
    – The Alaskan beat Billy Red Cloud
    – Eddie Sharkey beat George Gadaski
    – Bob Boyer beat Mark Starr

    1974 

    Mobile, Alabama:
    – Duke Miller defeated The Mysterious Med to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title 

    1975

    Miami Beach, Florida:
    – NWA Title: Jack Brisco defeated Mongolian Stomper to retain the title
    – Andre The Giant won a 21-man Battle Royal 
    – Florida Title: Bill Watts defeated Bob Roop by dq
    – Buddy Colt & Bobby Shane defeated Tony Charles & Jos LeDuc 
    – Mike Graham & Tony Parisi defeated The Patriots 
    – Bob Armstrong drew Dick Slater 
    – Jim Dillon defeated Mike Pappas 
    – Chris Taylor defeated George McCreary & Beauregard 
    – Dominic DeNucci defeated Baron Scicluna 
    – Johnny Weaver defeated Beautiful Bruce

    1976

    Kansas City, Kansas:
    – Mike George defeated Ed Wiskoski for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title 

    1977

    San Bernadino, California:
    – Toru Tanaka defeated Chavo Guerrero to win the NWA Americas Heavyweight Title 

    Indianapolis, Indiana:
    – Moose Cholak and Paul Christy defeated The Bounty Hunters (David and Johnny Novak) for the World Wrestling Association World Tag Team
    Titles

    1978 

    St. Louis, Missouri:
    – Ted DiBiase defeated Dick Slater to win the NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title 

    1981

    Sioux City, Iowa:
    – The Crusher beat Jerry Blackwell

    1982 

    Los Angeles, California:
    – Sweet Brown Sugar defeated Bobby Lane for the NWA Americas Heavyweight Title 
    – The Scorpions defeated Carlos Mata and The Kiss to win the NWA Americas Tag Team Titles

    1983

    Chicago, Illinois:
    – AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell no contest Jerry Blackwell & Sgt. Goulet (sub Sheik Adnan)
    – Hulk Hogan beat Jesse Ventura dq
    – Jerry Lawler beat Ken Patera
    – Wahoo McDaniel beat Bobby Duncum
    – Rick Martel beat Sgt. Goulet dq
    – Bobby Heenan beat Buck Zumhofe
    – Steve O drew Tom Lintz

    1984

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
    – Ric Flair retained The NWA  World championship by defeating Harley Race in a steel Cage match 
    – Handsome Jimmy Valiant and Dusty Rhodes defeated The Assassins on a count out
    – Leo Burke retained the North America Championship over Vinnie Valentino
    – Buddy Hart defeated J.J. Dillon

    1985

    Memphis, Tennessee:
    – Jerry Lawler defeated Eddie Gilbert for the AWA Southern Heavyweight Title

    Tampa, Florida:
    – Jesse Barr defeated Brian Blair to win the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title 

    Quebec City, Quebec, Canada:
    – NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Dino Bravo
    – AWA Champion Rick Martel beat King Tonga

    1988

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvanaia:
    – Ivan Koloff and The Powers of Pain (The Barbarian and The Warlord) defeated Paul Ellering (subbing for Road Warrior Animal), Road
    Warrior Hawk and Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Titles 

    1990

    Gainesville, Georgia:
    – Brian Pillman and Z-Man (Tom Zenk) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) in a tournament final to win
    the vacant WCW United States Tag Team Titles

    Memphis, Tennessee:
    – Steve Doll and Rex King defeated Robert Fuller and Brian Lee to win the SWA Tag Team Titles

    1997

    Toyohashi, Japan:
    – Battlanger and Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Lance Storm and Yuji Yasuraoka for the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles

    1999 

    Springfield, Missouri:
    – Steve Sharp defeated Greg Valentine to become the first World League Wrestling Heavyweight Champion

    2000 

    Oberhausen, Germany:
    – Creative Control (Ron and Don Harris) defeated The Mamalukes (Big Vito and Johnny the Bull) to win the WCW World Tag Team Titles

    2000 

    Denver, North Carolina:
    – Leilani Kai defeated Strawberry Fields in a tournament final to become the first NWA Mid-Atlantic Women’s Champion 

    Memphis, Tennessee:
    – Derrick King won the Pro Wrestling Young Guns Title by defeating Chris Michaels and Allen Steel in a three-way match

    2003

    Nashville, Tennessee:
    – Kid Kash defeated Sonny Siaki to win the TNA X Division Title 

    2005

    Cauyguas, Puerto Rico:
    – Ricky Banderas defeated Glamour Boy Shane to win the IWA World Heavyweight Title

    Columbus, Georgia:
    – A.J. Styles and Damien Steele defeat Glenn Gilberti and Johnny Swinger to win the Georgia Championship Wrestling Tag Team Title in Columbus, Georgia.

    2006

    Against All Odds: Orlando, Florida:
    – Rhino defeated Abyss (with James Mitchell) in a Falls Count Anywhere match
    – TNA X Division Champion Samoa Joe defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels in a three-way match to retain the title
    – Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) with Scott D’Amore
    – Christian Cage pinned NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett to win the title

    2007

    Kobe, Japan:
    – Matt Sydal defeated Masato Yoshino to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Title

    2012

    Against All Odds: Orlando, Florida:
    – TNA Knockouts champion Gail Kim (with Madison Rayne) defeated Tara
    – Samoa Joe & Magnus defeated TNA Tag Team champions Crimson & Matt Morgan to win the titles
    – TNA X-Division champion Austin Aries defeated Alex Shelley

  • DragonKingKarl Show: The death of Mark Nulty, pro wrestling historians, Canadian Wrestling

    DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Thinking About Mark Nulty and Classic Wrestling History. On this show I want to take a little time and reflect on the contributions of Wrestling Classics owner and former announcer Mark Nulty to the wrestling history community and just where does pro wrestling history stand? What are we still following wrestling for and what is it doing for us? Why are the demographics of wrestling skewed so old and why do wrestling promoters ignore it? We will follow up on a recent conversation between Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez on a recent Wrestling Observer Radio show and take a more detailed look at what it all means.  Then we will examine the biggest draws in wrestling history and talk about who the biggest draw in Canadian history might be and discuss names like Whipper Billy Watson, Gene Kiniski, Bret Hart, Yvon Robert, Roddy Piper, Bret Hart, and more.

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  • Wrestling Weekly: Daniel Bryan retires, Titus O’Neal suspension

    Les and Vic return after a brief absence to explain why they’ve been gone and to get into the biggest stories of the week. Of course, that means starting with the retirement of Daniel Bryan, aka. Bryan Danielson (12:23), including memories and personal interactions with him from Les and Vic’s theory on why Bryan was someone who no matter what WWE did or didn’t do with him, the fans just wouldn’t let him fade away. That takes us to the importance of “shifting gears” (32:13); why changing things up from normal patterns is good. 

    Then, we’ll open up the mailbag (42:45) for Les to share his personal concussion history and how the business treated head injuries in his day, the suspension of Titus O’Neal (45:53) and what is appropriate conduct between wrestler and promoter, and who from today would Les have enjoyed getting into the ring with (69:05). Thanks for listening and have a great weekend~!

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  • Daily pro wrestling history (02/11): AJ Styles wins the IWGP Title; Dory Funk Jr wins NWA Title

    1942 

    Mexico City, Mexico:
    – Tarzan Lopez defeated Black Guzman to win the NWA World Middleweight Title

    1969

    Tampa, Florida:
    – Dory Funk, Jr. defeated Gene Kiniski for the NWA World Heavyweight Title

    1973

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
    – NWA Title: Dory Funk Jr defeated Johnny Valentine
    – The Sheik no contest Tony Marino
    – Bulldog Brower defeated Big Mike Loren
    – Pampero Firpo defeated Ivan Kalmikoff
    – Tony Parisi/Dominic Denucci defeated Killer Brooks/Great Kabooki by dq
    – Lord Athol Layton/The Beast beat Eric the Red/Big Brutus by dq
    – Tex McKenzie/Luis Martinez beat Butcher Vachon/Bull Gregory
    – Haystack Calhoun/Fred Curry wrestled Lee Henning/Dandy Dan Miller to a draw
    – Kurt Von Hess/Karl Von Schotz wrestled Sweet Daddy Siki/Mighty Igor to a draw

    1975

    Fort Myers, Florida:
    – Bob Roop defeated Jos LeDuc 
    – Lights Out Match: The Patriots defeated Frank Hester & Tony Charles 
    – Mitsu Yoshida & Hiro Matsuda defeated The Red Shadows 
    – Ricky Fields drew The Spider 
    – The Great Malenko defeated George McCreary

    1977

    St. Louis, Missouri:
    – NWA Champion Harley Race beat Superstar Billy Graham dq
    – Dory Funk Jr & Pat O’Connor beat Shohei Giant Baba & Genichiro Tenyru
    – Dick the Bruiser beat Roger Kirby & Ivan Koloff
    – Ernie Ladd beat Guy Mitchell
    – Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Moose Morowski & Bennie Ramirez
    – Akio Sato beat Paul Christy

    1979

    Minneapolis, Minnesota:
    – Shohei Giant Baba beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel dq
    – Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu
    – The Crusher no contest Super Destroyer Mark II
    – Billy Robinson beat Cecil Dubois
    – Iron Sheik beat Caesar Pabon
    – Juan Valez beat Fernando Torres

    1983

    St. Louis, Missouri:
    – Giant Baba defeated Harley Race to win the Pacific Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Title

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
    – WWF World Champion Bob Backlund defeated Intercontinental Champion Magnificent Muraco in a Texas Death Match 

    1984 

    Boston, Massachusetts:
    – Tito Santana defeated the Magnificent Muraco to win the WWF Intercontinental Title 

    1985

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
    – Dino Bravo beat King Tonga to regain the International Title  
    – AWA Tag Team Champions Road Warriors beat Jos Leduc & Gino Brito Sr

    1996 

    WCW SuperBrawl: St. Petersburg, Florida:
    – Ric Flair defeated Randy Savage in a steel cage match to win the WCW World Title
    – Hulk Hogan defeated The Giant (Big Show) in a steel cage match
    – World Tag Team Champions Sting & Lex Luger defeated The Road Warriors

    2015

    NJPW The New Beginning: Osaka, Japan:
    – IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Kenny Omega defeated Ryusuke Taguchi to retain the title
    – IWGP Junior Heavyweight TagTeam Championship:  The Young Bucks defeated Time Splitters and ReDRagon to retain the titles
    – IWGP Tag Team Championship: Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson defeated Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto to retain the titles
    – IWGP Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the title

    WWE NXT Takeover: Rivals: Winter Park, Florida:
    – Hideo Itami defeated Tyler Breeze
    – WWE NXT Tag Team champions Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy defeated The Lucha Dragons to retain the titles
    – WWE NXT Women’s championship: Sasha Banks became new champion by defeating Charlotte, Bayley and Becky Lynch
    – WWE NXT championhip: Kevin Owens defeated Sami Zayn to become new champion

  • B&V: NXT, Lucha Underground and Raw reviews plus Granny Q&A and more!

    The Bryan & Vinny Show is back tonight and we’ve got almost too much to get into — Granny is back with her usual Q&A and her new WEEKLY WRESTLING REPORT, Lucha Underground and NXT reports from Wednesday, Vinny’s Raw report with thoughts on Daniel Bryan and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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  • WWE NXT Jacksonville, FL, live results: Riddick Moss injured during main event

    – Hype Bros beat Blake & Murphy. During the Hype Bros celebration, Mojo Rawley picked up an adorable child and flew him like an air plane.

    – Elias Samson beat Patrick Clark. Samson taunted the crowd with a song before the match.

    – Liv Morgan beat Adrien Reese with a moonsault splash similar to Alexa Bliss’ finish but facing away on the top turnbuckle.

    – Levis Valenzuela beat Steve Cutler. A lot of comedy and the fiesta rolls on.

    – Jason Jordan & Chad Gable beat The Vaudevillains. Match of the night in the ring, these two teams work well together so that’s no suprise.

    – Apollo Crews beat Tino Sabbatelli. These two have been having good matches lately.

    – Interview segment w/ Mandy Rose. She was heckled, and “What?”‘d down while promoting Total Divas.

    – Asuka beat Alexa Bliss via submission with the Asuka Lock.

    – Sami Zayn, Enzo Amore, & Big Cass vs. Riddick Moss, and NXT Tag Team Champions Dash, & Dawson went to a no contest when Moss was apparently injured during a triple suplex spot.

    The referee put up an X and the medical team assisted Moss. Sami let the people know Riddick said he’d be okay, and the good guys hit finishers on the tag champions to send everyone home happy.