The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with two big shows to review! ROH from Sam’s Town with the doom of Truth Martini and the attempted recruitment of Cheeseburger, and NWA World Championship Wrestling from 1986 with PISTOL PEZ WHATLEY’S TURN ON JIMMY VALIANT and an amazing Ric Flair segment. A fun show as always so check it out~!
With the recent spate of bounced checks, questions are being asked about the future and current financial condition of Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Paul Heyman, the group’s owner, is somewhat responsible for many of the concepts that ushered in the current era of pro wrestling. For the most part Heyman and ECW have been unable to share in the financial rewards and media publicity garnered by WWF and WCW as they took his ideas to reverse their financially money losing enterprises into very profitable businesses.
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back on EASTER SUNDAY to talk all the news, take your phone calls, emails, text messages and more! WrestleMania weekend, Raw, the Global Cruiserweight Tournament, and so much more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to discuss: A bunch of news, lucha update with Dr. Lucha Steve Sims, plus Chris DePetrillo of Figures Toy Company joins us to talk the latest action figure lines! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Officially announcing what has been known for more about a year, WWE announced Friday that TMDK (The Mighty Don’t Kneel), a popular tag team from Japan, has signed with the company.
The team is made up of Michael Nicholls (Mikey Nicholls) and Shane Veryzer (Shane Haste), the top foreign tag team in Pro Wrestling NOAH until the arrival of the Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.) from New Japan as part of the Suzuki-gun invasion in early 2015.
The two had reached an agreement last year to leave NOAH for WWE in 2015, but in working out their contract with NOAH, Haste suffered a knee injury that required surgery which put everything on hold. Nicholls & Haste returned to NOAH earlier this month for their farewell tour earlier this month.
The team was named Best Tag Team in Japan in 2013, a very difficult honor for a foreign team to win. They twice held the GHC tag team championship, and had a super hot series of matches for the titles with Masato Tanaka & Takashi Sugiura, the Dangan Yankees.
Both originally came from Perth, Western Australia and wrestled for years on the Australian independent scene before starting as regulars in Japan after passing a tryout in 2011.
One of the most exciting things about WrestleMania weekend (particularly this year!) is the buffet of non-WWE offerings taking place all weekend long. Here on the Dr. Keith Presents show, we certainly love our indy wrestling and Alan is joined this week by two indy wrestling experts in Mike Falcone and a returning guest from our early years: Travis McNeill (T-MACK to some!!!).
In a show that flies by, the lads run the gamete of everything going down in Dallas during Wrestlemania week from Lio Rush’s big title match opportunity in ROH to the Ryder Cup-esque goings on in EVOLVE at EDDIE DEEN’S RANCH, and of course, the amazing hodge podge card at WrestleCon.
The collection of talent on display over the three days is off the charts, the best in the world are converging on Dallas! All the big matches, all the storyline possibilities, it’s all covered this week on a MASSIVE 2-hour DKP!!! CHECK IT!!!!
The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with tons to talk about! We’ve got NXT from Full Sail with a great Finn Balor match and Asuka vs. Emma, LUCHA UNDERGROUND WITH AZTEC WARFARE, Granny’s Q&A and WEEKLY WRESTLING REPORT and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons of news to talk about, plus Dave Meltzer appears for his weekly segment, we’ve got calls and texts and so much more! A fun show as always, and it’s FREE, so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back tonight to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA: Daniel Bryan, Luke Harper’s injury, Lucha Underground and TNA, Smackdown, ratings, UFC in New York, tons of mailbag questions and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Well before the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker Media trial began, it was not a secret that Gawker believed they would lose the case before a jury, but believed they would win it on appeal.
But in a trial that got worldwide attention, as much for the questions of what constitutes legitimate news versus invasion of privacy, as the fact Hogan was involved, Gawker never saw what was coming.
A St. Petersburg jury of six people awarded Hogan $140.1 million, even more than the $100 million he was asking for, with one juror making it clear the figure was because they wanted to send a message to the company.