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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…

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…

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…

Image: @RevProUK. Report submitted by reader Paul Martinovic. In collaboration with NJPW, the first of Revolution Pro Wrestling’s two Global Wars UK shows took place last night. York Hall in London hosted a show-stealing match as Tomohiro Ishii faced off with Keith Lee, then Hirooki Goto & Will Ospreay teamed against Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr….

A former Miss Iraq beauty queen has fled the country after receiving death threats, which followed a spate of killings of high-profile women. Shimaa Qasim Abdulrahman, who was awarded the crown in 2015, said she has left for Jordan after receiving a message from a man purporting to be an Islamic State of Iraq and the…

For the first 13 days of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, Saudi Arabia held fast to its official position: We had no involvement; he left the consulate safely; any suggestion we are responsible is a political smear.  But last night things began to shift. Under intense pressure from Washington and business leaders around the world, Riyadh now…

CCTV footage has been released which appears to show one of the 15 Saudi Arabian so-called “hit squad” members posing as a body double for murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The images, which were published by CNN on Monday, show the decoy leaving the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by the back door, wearing Mr Khashoggi’s clothes,…

A protestor was killed on Saturday when a panicked motorist accidentally rammed one of the hundreds of roadblocks set up across France by so-called “yellow vest” demonstrators angry at rising fuel prices. In Paris, several hundred demonstrators chanting “Macron, resign,” tried to reach the gates of the Elysée, the residence and offices of president Emmanuel…

St. Cloud State University junior Austin Goergen (Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia Area H.S.) has been selected as the D2wrestle.com Division II Super Region Three Wrestler of the Week for the week of Dec. 7-13, 2015. This marks the second time this season that the number one ranked Goergen has earned NSIC and Super Region III Wrestler of…

Rumors on the potential main event for WrestleMania 35 in April have already begun to surface. However, there may be another match for the event currently in the works. According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there were talks about possibly having a match between Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon at WWE’s biggest event of the year…