The Week’s Roundup!
In case you missed some of the news this week! The Hogan vs Gawker trial started on Monday which started with some strange and awkward talk of Hulk Hogan’s penis. It got very, very weird. as there ended up being a discussion (video here) between Terry Bollea/Hulk Hogan and Gawker lawyer Michael Sullivan about how the Hulk Hogan character has a bigger penis than Terry Bollea. JJ Williams took us on a journey of NXT’s weekend at the Arnold Classic. Paige Van Zant coming off of a loss has been added to the lastest installment of Dancing with the stars. Even with the heavy presence of the McMahons WWE RAW dropped to normal ratings levels. Kurt Angle battled Lashley in his final TNA match and his final match helped the TNA ratings not a bit… Kurt Angle’s TNA farewell does all-time low rating.
Don’t forget to check out Mick Foley’s appearance on WOR and Jeff Hardy’s appearance on WOL.
WWE ROADBLOCK AT 8 P.M. SATURDAY NIGHT EASTERN ON THE WWE NETWORK
HHH vs. Dean Ambrose for WWE title
Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt
New Day vs. Sheamus & King Barrett for WWE tag title
Charlotte vs Natalya
Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder vs Enzo Amore & Big Cass for NXT tag title
Also scheduled on the show (not all matches will air) are Charlotte, Natalya, Sami Zayn, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho and Sheamus
WORLD SERIES OF FIGHTING ON NBC SPORTS NETWORK ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT 9 P.M. EASTERN FROM GREELEY, COLORADO
Josh Cavan vs. Kris Hocum
Cory Devela vs. Louis Taylor
Josh Copeland vs. Miek Hayes
Justin Gaethje vs. Brian Foster for the lightweight title
WWE has a house show on Saturday night in Atlantic City. Appearing in Atlantic City, meaning not on Roadblock, are Kevin Owens, Big Show, A.J. Styles, Kalisto, Braun Strowman, Alberto Del Rio, Rusev, Kane, Becky Lynch, Ryback, Usos and Dudleys. We’re looking for reports on this show as well as the NXT show on Saturday night in Fort Pierce and the ROH show on Saturday night in Philadelphia (Jay Lethal vs. Matt Sydal for ROH title, Kushida vs. ACH for IWGP jr. title, Adam Cole & Roderick Strong vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly, Briscoes & Cheeseburger vs. War Machine & Moose, Young Bucks vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian vs. Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley, Mandy Leon & Sumie Sakai & Jenny Rose vs. Kyoko Kimura & Veda Scott & Taeler Hendrix, B.J. Whitmer & Cedric Alexander vs. Adam Page & Jonathan Gresham, Joey Daddiego vs. Will Ferrara)
WWE has shows on Sunday in Erie, PA (New Day, Charlotte, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Sheamus, Chris Jericho) and Hershey, PA (Kevin Owens, Big Show, A.J. Styles, Kalisto, Braun Strowman, Alberto Del Rio, Rusev, Kane, Becky Lynch, Ryback, Usos and Dudleys).
Raw will be in Pittsburgh on Monday. Among those advertised are Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, HHH and Stephanie McMahon. Roman Reigns is not advertised for the show.
Smackdown and Main Event will be taped on Tuesday in Cincinnati with Sheamus, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, A.J. Styles, Chris Jericho and Bray Wyatt advertised.
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A full rundown of UFC 196 and it’s repercussions, details on the death of Hayabusa, WWE announces a physical Hall of Fame, plus tons more. The records set by UFC 196 and the WWE records just broken are the lead stories in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The aftermath of UFC 196, with Diaz’s win over McGregor and Tate’s win over Holm, what it means business-wise, lessons taught, what fight is out the window and what fights are still on the table, an early look at the business numbers. Talk of future fights, TV, PPV and video numbers, the stories behind the fights, match-by-match coverage and the disclosed payoffs for the fighters. The controversy in the Lawlor vs. Anderson match.
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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE
WWE & Pro Wrestling
Charlie Fulton passed away at 76, here is a video of one of his matches: “Pretty Boy” Larry Sharp vs. Charlie Fulton
If you missed it, we’ve got a really fun interview with Jeff Hardy up on yesterday’s Wrestling Observer Live. Bryan and Dave will be back later tonight after Roadblock talking the final roadblock on the road to WrestleMania.
Natalya, who is getting a WWE Diva’s Title shot tonight at Roadblock, visits with Tyler Henry, Hollywood Medium, on E!
Here is an article from Patrick Laprade Owens and Zayn took similar paths to main eventing Montreal
WWE’ new “NXT’s Greatest Matches Vol. 1” set is out this Tuesday on Blu-Ray or DVD, and it’s still available to pre-order.
Jerry Lawler, Jimmy Hart and Scott Hall at the Memphis Grizzlies game last night. There are a bunch of clips up on this page.
This week on 6:05 Superpodcast, David Bixenspan and Brian Last look at an almost-normal version of Buzz Sawyer, read a crazy old newsletter article about a wrestling groupie, talk to Donnie B. about Dennis Coralluzzo, and much more.
UFC & MMA
MMA star Shayna Baszler, who has been transitioning to pro-wrestling for awhile, is heading to Stardom in Japan.
Dave has a big article up talking about Dana White’s claim that UFC 196 did 1.5 million buys. The key is that the big men’s main events and the big women’s main events draw from different audiences, and so when you put a Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz and Holly Holm vs. Miesha Tate fight on the same card, you do better than you’d have done with one or the other, or even, say, two big men’s title fights.
Kimbo Slice’s son makes his MMA debut.
Invicta FC 16 results from last night on UFC Fight Pass – Ayaki Hamasaki retained the Atomweight title with a 3rd round sub of Amber Brown; Jennifer Maia got the decision over Vanessa Porto to win the interim Flyweight belt; Former UFC Strawweight Angela Hill got a first round KO over Stephanie Eggink; Irene Aldana got a first round TKO of UFC Bantamweight and Four Horsewoman Jessamyn Duke and Roxanne Modafferi got a split decision win over DeAnna Bennett in a Flyweight fight.
EA Sports UFC 2 is out this Tuesday and still available for pre-order. Codes for review downloads were sent out last night and the response has been pretty promising so far.
Bryan Caraway thinks that Miesha Tate should put up her title against Amanda Nunes next. I guess he doesn’t like money.
CES 33 results from AXS TV last night – Andre Soukhamthath got a 5th round KO with a flying knee over Kody Nordby to win the vacant Bantamweight title; Sometime pro-wrestler Chuck O’Neill, who was scheduled for a match with Matt Riddle before getting this fight, got a decision win over Dennis Olsen in a Middleweight fight
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