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Interest coming out of the Survivor Series pay-per-view led to a boost in Raw ratings last night and the second highest number going against football this season. Last night’s show from Toronto did 2.99 million viewers, second to only the 3.13 million viewers on the October 17th show for the return of Bill Goldberg. Curiosity coming off the Goldberg…

The complete lineup for Wrestle Kingdom 11, which is the biggest non-WWE pro wrestling event in the world each year, was announced at a New Japan press conference on Monday. The lineup was mostly the same matches listed in yesterday’s update with more teams involved in the trios title picture, a Cody Rhodes match, plus a…

UFC 207: Rousey’s Return Fight Pass at 7:30 p.m. Alex Oliveira (170.5) vs. Tim Means (170) FS1 at 8 p.m. Brandon Thatch (170) vs. Niko Price (170) Antonio Carlos Jr. (186) vs. Marvin Vettori (186) Mike Pyle (170) vs. Alex Garcia (170.5) Johny Hendricks (173.5) vs. Neil Magny (171) PPV at 10 p.m. Louis Smolka (125.5) vs. Ray…

1965 St. Paul, Minnesota: – AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race 2 out of 3 falls – Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak – Bob Boyer drew Eddie Sharkey – Mighty Igor Vodik beat Pedro Santos 1971 Tampa, Florida: – Jack Brisco, the NWA Florida Television…

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been taken to hospital after suffering multiple panic attacks in prison in Iran. The charity worker’s husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said his wife had collapsed at Evin prison in Tehran. She fainted after bidding goodbye to her daughter and voluntarily returning to jail on Sunday following an emotional family reunion. Mr Ratcliffe told The Telegraph on Wednesday morning: "She had a panic attack…

Donald Trump on Monday launched a fresh attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, accusing him of jeopardising the chances of re-election for two Republican congressmen by bringing criminal charges against them just before the midterm elections. The US president wrote on Twitter the Justice Department’s decision to file charges will hurt safe Republican seats in the…

With SmackDown’s last brand-exclusive pay-per-view before WrestleMania less than a week away, WWE didn’t wait until Tuesday night’s go-home show to start rounding out the card for Elimination Chamber. WWE.com announced on Tuesday afternoon that Becky Lynch would be taking on Mickie James at the PPV. Their storyline began when James was unveiled as La Luchadora…

The Raw go-home show for Fastlane dropped four percent last night from the week before, averaging 3.08 million viewers. The number would be the second lowest for a non-holiday episode of the show that didn’t go against major sports competition dating back to 1997, barely beating the record of 3.07 million set two weeks earlier….

French police arrested a man Monday after a high-speed chase on the runway at Lyon airport in southeast France ended with him trying to flee on foot, local officials said. Before driving onto the runway the man had driven the car into the glass doors of one of the airport terminals. Nobody was injured in the…

Hurricane Florence may have been downgraded to a tropical depression but American authorities on Sunday warned that the worst is yet to come as catastrophic flooding continued to spread, pushing the death toll to 17. Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina, said: "The risk to life is rising with the angry waters." The storm continued…