Month: July 2020

Despite winning their semifinal match on Tuesday night, American Alpha won’t be competing in Sunday’s SmackDown tag tournament finals at Backlash. Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan “American Alpha out of SmackDown tag title finals due to Chad Gable "injury"”

Editor’s note: We originally wrote in the headline and image that Ron Bass had passed away. We apologize for the error. Don Bass, a veteran who worked “Don Bass loses battle with cancer”

A number of prominent unsigned wrestlers are receiving a tryout at the WWE Performance Center this week. In an article on WWE.com on Thursday afternoon, WWE “Eddie Kingston, other prominent names trying out for WWE”

Donald Trump on Tuesday urged tough action against the "animals" behind the suspected terror attack in Westminster. The US president said on Tuesday morning in “Donald Trump says ‘these animals are crazy’ as president responds to Westminster terror attack”

Additional notes added by Dave Meltzer The former Alberto Del Rio has found a new job. Combate Americas announced on Tuesday night that Del Rio, now known “Alberto Del Rio appointed as president of Combate Americas”

Imran Khan has said he will forego the lavish lodgings normally used by Pakistan’s prime ministers and instead live in a three-bedroom house, with only “Imran Khan to scrap hundreds of  staff and move to three-bed home as he pledges new austerity drive for Pakistan”

Having experimented with three straight nights of action at Wrestlemania and SummerSlam, WWE will expand out their micro-takeover plan for cities, starting with April’s WrestleMania “WWE to go four-in-four for the Big Four starting with WrestleMania 33”

The Catholic Church’s failure to address sex abuse is a "source of pain and shame", the Pope has told an audience in Ireland. Beginning a “Pope shares ‘pain and shame’ at Church’s failings over Irish abuse during historic visit”

Monday’s episode of Raw, which was headlined by Braun Strowman vs. Big Show, averaged 3.208 million viewers on the USA Network and was up four percent “WWE Raw ratings up slightly this week”

Around 100 passengers and crew were struck with a flu-like illness during an Emirates flight from Dubai to New York on Wednesday. The jet was “Emirates flight quarantined in New York as 10 passengers taken ill”