By Doug Wolter WORTHINGTON — Fresh off hip replacement surgery and after 17 years on the job as the Minnesota West Community and Technical College head wrestling coach, Bob Purcell looks like a new man. Maybe his national award has something to do with that. Just before the 2014 national tournament finals in Spokane, Wash., … Continue reading "Bluejays’ Coach Purcell honored by Man of the Year Award"

Andre The Giant is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and he is even known as “The Eight Wonder Of The World.” Weeks prior to the premier of the documentary HBO and the WWE created about him, trailers were being shown. His documentary premiered not to long after and there was even a … Continue reading "Andre Docu Viewership, Details on Sammartino’s Viewing & Funeral"

Several Minnesota high school wrestlers were honored in the May 30th issue of Wrestling USA Magazine. 2014 Wrestling USA All-American Teams All-Americans Tommy Thorn – 126 pounds – Saint Michael-Albertville Seth Gross – 138 pounds – Apple Valley Larry Bomstad – 145 pounds – Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City Nathan Rose – 195 pounds – Sibley East Sam Stoll – … Continue reading "Minnesota wrestlers receive Wrestling USA Magazine recognition"

With the Greatest Royal Rumble event set to take place later today in Saudi Arabia, WWE has been attempting to pull out all the stops for the show over the past few weeks. Given that the show will be headlined by a 50-man Royal Rumble match, it makes sense that the company would go out … Continue reading "Shawn Michaels Turns Down GRR, Impact Departure, Undertaker News"

WWE is constantly pushing the best talent and athletes that it can find on their NXT brand, and it looks like a Performance Center standout has arrived on NXT for good. After weeks of vignettes hyping up the arrival of “The Finest” Kona Reeves, the Samoan superstar made his in-ring debut under his new character … Continue reading "Kona Reeves Debuts on NXT, Ellsworth on Jericho Cruise, XFL News"

Welcome to our live coverage of New Japan Dominion from the Osaka Jo Hall in the company’s biggest event in seven months. We’re looking for your thoughts on his show, as well as the WWE’s Beast from the East show yesterday so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle … Continue reading "New Japan Dominion live coverage from Osaka Jo Hall – Styles vs. Okada for IWGP title, Nakamura vs. Goto for IC title and notes on biggest event since the Tokyo Dome, plus all G-1 main events"

Ring of Honor will hold an event tonight in Lowell, MA at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Here is the final card: *ROH champion Dalton Castle vs. Matt Taven. *Cody & Adam Page & Marty Scurll vs. Roppongi 3.0 & Rocky Romero. *The Young Bucks vs. BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi. *ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs. Flip … Continue reading "ROH Releases Final Card For War Of The Worlds Lowell Event"

By David Parker, Wrestling Observer Here is the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Radio mailbag where we post some of the questions asked during weekly Observer audio shows. Want to know if something’s been asked? These will be a good place to start. If you want to hear more questions and insight from Observer audio … Continue reading "Ask The Observer: Weekly Pro Wrestling show at Tokyo Dome, World Wrestling Peace Festival"

As previously reported, SmackDown General Manager Paige announced during last night’s show that SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella will be defending her SmackDown Women’s Title against Asuka at the upcoming WWE Money MITB PPV Event. In other MITB news from last night’s episode of SmackDown, The New Day defeated The Bar and will now get the … Continue reading "Updated Card For The Upcoming WWE MITB PPV Event After SmackDown"

By William Camacho 1st match: Prime Time Players b New Day ( Big E & Xavier)Fun match, crowd into it, kofi inteferences, Prime Time players tofans enjoyment. 2nd match: Miz b FandangoMiz came out, bad mouths Bakersfield, Fandango dancing, Miz did hislord of the dance impersonation.Crowd liked it, Miz hits his finisherfor the victory. Condors mascot … Continue reading "WWE house show report 7-24 Bakersfield, Cena vs. Owens street fight"