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According to Dave Meltzer in a recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there will be a second Triple Threat Match announced for a singles title at WrestleMania 34 as United States Champion Randy Orton is currently scheduled to defend against Jinder Mahal and Bobby Roode. WWE previously announced a Triple Threat Match for the…

As previously reported, Chris Jericho is scheduled to wrestle The Undertaker in a Casket Match at the Greatest Royal Rumble Event in Saudi Arabia later this month. This will only be the third time that they would be wrestling each other in a singles match. After Jericho’s scheduled match against The Undertaker at the Greatest…

Dustin Rhodes said that if he doesn’t beat Kip Sabian on Dynamite this Wednesday, he will retire. AEW’s social media today shared a clip of the upcoming Road to the TNT Championship video that will drop on Monday. In the video, he is shown talking to Cody via phone about his match against Sabian this Wednesday, saying if…

AEW announced their slate of matches for this week’s edition of Dark featuring various main roster talents against newcomers. Kip Sabian (with Penelope Ford) will look to get back on the winning track against Tony Donati after suffering a loss to Darby Allin on the March 25th Dynamite. Donati will be making his promotional debut. While…

By Case Lowe -Attendance was way up. Clearly more people there than in August with AJ Styles and the Young Bucks. The two side bleachers, as well as the big bleachers in the back were all fillled. Every seat was filled.  -J. Diesel def. Will Ferrara with a modified Death Valley Driver. Ferrara worked hard. Solid opener. …

By Chris Aiken for WrestlingObserver.com WWE Main Event from Los Angeles during the go-home week leading to WrestleMania featured a lot of hard sell hype for the show on Sunday. Likewise, the show featured two first-run matches from the tapings on Monday. Both of the matches were rather short and neither went through a commercial…

By Josh Nason, WrestlingObserver.com USA Network announced Tuesday that they will become the “exclusive cable home to WWE marquee properties” and will bring Smackdown to USA starting in the first quarter of 2016. Smackdown joins RAW and Tough Enough, which premieres on Tuesday, June 23rd at 8 PM EST. There was no mention if the show…

By Dave Meltzer, WrestlingObserver.com Brian Fritz at The Sporting News has an article today on the TNA production staff being late in pay, saying that production workers are still owed money for the One Night Only PPV tapings from 2/13 to 2/16. While not stated in the story, although obvious, the same workers had not…

Esmond Bradley Martin was a man out of his time. Tall and dapper, moneyed and mannered: those who knew the 76-year-old say he lived as if in a bygone era. He preferred a fountain pen to a computer keyboard and adored opera and antiques. A seam of old-world style ran through him right down to…

The men from Hamas arrived at Mohamed Johar’s house in the Bureij refugee camp this week with a $200 (£143) cheque bearing his name.  The 23-year-old had been shot in the right leg by an Israeli sniper during last week’s protests on the Gaza border and Hamas, Gaza’s Islamist ruling party, said the money was…