Over the weekend, news broke that NXT Superstar Lars Sullivan would get a promotion to the main roster and WWE aired his coming soon vignette during Monday Night RAW this week. It looks like Sullivan is getting a slight rebrand, being dubbed “The Rocky Mountain Monster” instead of “The Freak.” Here is the vignette which…
Month: July 2020
Raw ratings up for WrestleMania 33 go-home show
The go-home Raw for WrestleMania, with Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, Bill Goldberg, and Seth Rollins all known to be attending in advance, did 3.29 million viewers, an increase of eight percent from last week. Raw was third for the night on cable, trailing Street Outlaws on the Discovery Channel (3.79 million viewers) and The O’Reilly…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (04/12): The Wild Samoans win WWF tag titles
1947 Mexico City, Mexico: – Tarzan López defeated Black Guzmán to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Title 1948 Mexico City, Mexico: – Mike Kelly defeated Gory Guerrero for the NWA World Middleweight Title 1950 Des Moines, Iowa: – Leo Nomellini beat Earl Wampler – Verne Gagne beat K.O. Hall – Joe Savoldi beat “Cowboy”…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (05/03): AJ Styles wins his first IWGP title
1884 Chicago, Illinois: – H.M. Dufur defeated James McLaughlin for the American Collar-and-Elbow Title 1951 Kansas City, Kansas: – Sonny Myers defeated Dennis Clary for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title 1956 – Joe Scarpello defeated The Mystery Man to win his third Midwest Wrestling Association Junior Heavyweight Title 1957 Atlanta, Georgia: – Don McIntyre…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (05/23): Frank Gotch regains American Heavyweight title
1906 – Frank Gotch defeated Tom Jenkins to regain the American Heavyweight Championship 1947 St. Joseph, Missouri: – M.W.A. Title: Orville Brown beat Vic Christy 2 falls to 1 to retain the title – Bobby Bruns drew Sockeye Jack McDonald – Dan O’Connor beat Michele Leone – Cal Rees drew Jack Page 1961 Minneapolis, Minnesota:…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (06/14): The Freebirds win NWA tag titles
1909 Des Moines, Iowa: – World Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch defeated former United States champion Tom Jenkins 2 falls to 0 1922 Minneapolis, Minnesota: – World Heavyweight Champion Ed “Strangler “Lewis beat John Freberg in 2 out of 3 falls match 1936 Waterloo, Iowa: – Bronko Nagurski beat Ivan Vacturoff 1948 Wichita, Kansas; – World…
Daily Pro Wrestling History (06/30): Buddy Rogers wins NWA World title
1948 Wichita, Kansas: – World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown beat Lew Newman in 2 out of 3 falls – Don McIntyre beat Harry Cohen in a Hindu mud match – Barney Bernard and Ralph Garibaldi went to a 30 minute draw 1949 Kansas City, Kansas: – Tarzan Kowalski defeated Jim Wright in 2 out…
Meet Microman, the pint sized wrestler leading a ‘lucha libre’ revolution in Mexico
He is less than three feet tall, but he packs muscles, power and swagger in a little frame. Microman is the smallest star in Mexican professional wrestling. Mexico’s "lucha libre," a wildly popular mix of sport and entertainment, long featured small figures and dwarves in a deeply demeaning role: they were "mascotas" – a word that can…
Donovan Dijak headed to WWE
Chris “Donovan” Dijak, who was one of a group of wrestlers that included Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly, that WWE pulled contract offers from after legal threats from ROH back in January, is headed to WWE like the aforementioned pair. Dijak said on the New Age Insiders podcast that he will be finishing up his…
US Senate pushes ahead with Brett Kavanaugh confirmation votes
Congressmen are set to examine the FBI report into alleged sexual abuse by Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, as the US Senate’s Republican leadership scheduled the first confirmation vote for Friday. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the agency was due to present to the Senate its highly anticipated supplemental investigation report into Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee late…