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No. 9 Augustana (0-0) continues competition in Kearney, Neb. for the Holiday Inn Open on Saturday, Nov. 21. The whole team will be traveling to Kearney. Vikings place eight at the Dakota Wesleyan Open Augustana competed last weekend at the Dakota Wesleyan Open hosted by Dakota Wesleyan University. David Potratz went 4-0 and took home…

WWE Legend & IWGP Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho was recently interviewed by the folks from Business Insider. During the interview, Jericho explained why he feels Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson becoming U.S. President in 2020 is an actual realistic possibility. “Everything the guy does turns to gold, ’cause he’s got the work ethic to make it…

This week’s episode of IMPACT Wrestling was able to generate an average of 129,000 viewers. This is up 23% from last week’s 105,000 viewers. This would be the third lowest viewership in the history of the show, however viewership has gone up every week since the show moved to 10PM ET on POP. This week’s…

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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:…

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…

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…