Click:place for easy steering Additional notes added by Dave Meltzer The holiday weekend wasn’t particularly festive for the UFC, as Christmas Eve brought a blow to next Friday’s UFC 207 card. After days of rumors, ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reported that Cain Velasquez is out of his previously scheduled fight against Fabricio Werdum after being pulled … Continue reading "Cain Velasquez out of UFC 207 fight against Fabricio Werdum"

Mark Hunt today filed a lawsuit in Nevada District Court against the UFC, Brock Lesnar, and Dana White. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reported the story earlier tonight. It’s a landmark case because Hunt is claiming that the defendants “affirmatively circumvented and obstructed fair competition for their own benefit.” Hunt had been threatening legal action, feeling that his … Continue reading "Mark Hunt files lawsuit against the UFC, Brock Lesnar & Dana White"

Those who were disappointed that Samoa Joe didn’t appear at the Royal Rumble didn’t have to wait very long for him to make his main roster debut. While appearing on Raw for the first time, Joe attacked Seth Rollins in the main event segment of Monday night’s show. The face-to-face confrontation between Rollins and Stephanie McMahon … Continue reading "Samoa Joe makes his WWE main roster debut on Raw"

The bishop who officiated at Aretha Franklin’s funeral has apologised to Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage and a joke he made about her name. Bishop Charles Ellis III led Franklin’s funeral and awkwardly greeted Grande on stage after she performed (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. Images of the moment showed Mr Ellis’ … Continue reading "Aretha Franklin funeral bishop apologises to Ariana Grande for ‘over friendly’ hug"

Monday night brought the addition of two more title matches to Raw’s upcoming Fastlane pay-per-view card. Following a storyline where it was teased that Bayley would relinquish the Raw Women’s Championship due to the outside interference in her win last week, Bayley refused to give up the title and it was announced that Charlotte Flair would get her … Continue reading "Two more title matches set for WWE Fastlane"

The six-year-old British-born boy who was left stranded and stateless in Belgium after the Home Office revoked his passport will be reunited with his mother in Britain today. Mohamed Bangoura, whose mother is Guinean but whose father is British, was on a three week summer holiday with family friends in Brussels before being turned away … Continue reading "British-born boy left stateless and stranded after Home Office revoked passport to be reunited with mother"

Heavy rain, wind gusts and rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence swamped the Carolinas early on Friday as the massive storm crawled toward the coast, threatening millions of people in its path with record rainfall and punishing surf. Florence was downgraded to a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale on Thursday evening and was moving west at … Continue reading "Hurricane Florence reaches the Carolinas as officials warn ‘disaster is at the doorstep’ – track the storm’s path live"

THE ROUND-UP The Latest from the F4W Staff NEWS ROH TV taping results: A new number one contender is determined NJPW Sakura Genesis live results: Okada vs. Shibata CMLL Arena Mexico results: Reyes del Aire UFC 210 live results: Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony Johnson II UFC International Fight Week to see some changes AAA’s Joaquin … Continue reading "Daily Update: Okada vs. Shibata, Be a Star, Rumble's retirement"

French far-Right leader Marine Le Pen has refused to undergo court-ordered psychiatric evaluation for tweeting photos of Isil atrocities, angrily comparing the demand to methods used by totalitarian regimes. Ms Le Pen was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and then charged in March with “distributing violent images” for tweeting three gruesome pictures showing killings by the … Continue reading "Marine Le Pen ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting images of Isil atrocities "

One of the trained assassins wanted for poisoning Sergei Skripal is a decorated colonel in Russian military intelligence given the country’s highest award by Vladimir Putin.  The real identity of one of the wanted men in the nerve agent attack – named by counter-terrorism police as Ruslan Boshirov – can be disclosed as Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga. The … Continue reading "Skripal ‘hitman’ unmasked as GRU colonel awarded Russia’s highest military honour by Vladimir Putin"