Robinson is the head wrestling coach at the University of Minnesota. His team is currently ranked first in the nation. Gibbons provides commentary on the Big Ten Network for wrestling meets throughout the season. He coached Iowa State to an NCAA championship in 1987. “On the Mat” is a presentation of the National Wrestling Hall of … Continue reading "J Robinson and Jim Gibbons will go “On the Mat” this Wednesday, February 12th"

Totino-Grace junior Lance Benick admits to having a mean streak. But only on the wrestling mat. “I’m a really nice guy off the mat, but once I step on there, I’m all business,” the nation’s top-ranked 195-pounder says. “It’s no more Mr. Nice Guy. You can’t be nice to the opponent for the six minutes … Continue reading "Pioneer Press high school wrestler of the year: Lance Benick, Totino-Grace"

Last night’s episode of RAW emanated from the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. After last night’s RAW went off the air, the dark main event saw “Woken” Matt Hardy defeat Bray Wyatt. As previously reported, the two will also face off at this coming Sunday’s Elimination Chamber PPV Event. It was previously reported … Continue reading "What Happened After RAW Went Off The Air, Strowman on Lesnar"

Monday Night Raw featured an interesting segment last night involving this year’s Elimination Chamber winner Roman Reigns. A confrontation between Roman Reigns and Universal Champion Brock Lesnar had been advertised for Raw last night, but when Roman came down to the ring, he informed the audience that Lesnar was not in Anaheim, California for the … Continue reading "News on the Planned Segment Between Roman Reigns & Brock Lesnar"

The show opens up with a video package recapping last week’s wins by Cedric Alexander and Roderick Strong. We then get previews of tonight’s second round matches. Vic Joseph and Nigel McGuinness welcomes us to the show and catches us up on the tournament bracket. It’s time for our first match. After Mark Andrews makes … Continue reading "WWE 205 Live Results (03/06): The Second Round Continues"

WWE Champion AJ Styles survived a Six-Pack Challenge to hold onto his WWE Championship and ensure that the highly anticipated dream match between him and Shinsuke Nakamura was still on for WrestleMania. The Phenomenal One minced no words in saying what he has planned for WWE’s Rockstar on The Grandest Stage of Them All. What … Continue reading "SmackDown LIVE Preview, March 13, 2018: Fastlane Fallout Show"

This week’s WWE SmackDown, featuring Daniel Bryan’s first appearance since finally being cleared to return to the ring for WWE, drew 2.888 million viewers. This is up 4% from last week’s 2.771 million viewers and is the best blue brand viewership of 2018. This is also the best SmackDown viewership going back to the April 11th, 2017 … Continue reading "Daniel Bryan Carries SmackDown To Highest Ratings Of 2018"

Image: AEW/Lee South Taking advantage of WWE allowing their trademark to lapse, Cody Runnels filed for a trademark on the “Cody Rhodes” name with the US Patent and Trademark Office on April 13th. Fightful was the first to report the news. WWE had owned the rights to the name since filing for it in June … Continue reading "Cody files for trademark on 'Cody Rhodes' name"

Sammy Guevara will face off with Sugar Dunkerton on this Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite.  This will be a tune-up match for Guevara as he prepares to face Darby Allin in the TNT Championship tournament quarterfinals at some point over the next few weeks. Dunkerton drew the ire of Guevara’s Inner Circle stablemate Chris Jericho … Continue reading "Sammy Guevara-Sugar Dunkerton announced for AEW Dynamite"

By Josh Nason, Wrestling Observer If you had told me that an Ultimate Warrior match on the 27th edition of WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event would be great, I would have given you a free month of the Network on the house. (Well, Bryan Alvarez’s house anyway.) But yes, true believers, a Warrior match on … Continue reading "WWF Saturday Night's Main Event episode 27: Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude, Mr. Perfect vs. Tito Santana, Kerry Von Erich debuts"