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Wrestling
Former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks Announces Retirement
After an decade-plus MMA career, former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks has announced his retirement from the sport. Hendricks isn’t just retiring as a pro MMA fighter, but he also plans on exiting the MMA world completely. “I’m done. I’m…
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Wrestling
Zack Gibson Discusses Winning The United Kingdom Tournament After Missing The Last Tournament
Zack Gibson won four matches as part of the 2018 United Kingdom tournament in WWE. Last year, Zack Gibson was not part of the United Kingdom tournament which crowned the first-ever WWE United Kingdom Champion Tyler Bate. He came back…
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Wrestling
Alberto Del Rio Has No Plans To Sign Contract Anywhere; Happy For Almas’ Success
Former WWE and Impact Champion Alberto Del Rio spoke to Chris Van Vliet of WSVN-TV. You can see Chris’ full interview with Alberto above, and submitted highlights below: His contract status: “I don’t think I’m going to sign a contract…
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Wrestling
Report: Reason Why Shinsuke Nakamura Was Not Cleared To Wrestle On SmackDown Live
What an odd thing to happen… This past Sunday it was announced over social media by SmackDown Live GM Paige that there was going to be a WWE United States Championship match during last night’s SmackDown Live which would feature the champion…
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Wrestling
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai To Fight In Non-Title Bout In July
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai will be fighting soon, but it won’t be on the planned “Superfly 3” card HBO is working on. In fact, he won’t even be defending his WBC super flyweight title. Sor Rungvisai will fight on July 21 in…
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Wrestling
Anthem Sports & Entertainment Announce New COO
Anthem Sports sent Fightful.com the following, announcing Peter Einstein has joined: Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. is pleased to announce that Peter Einstein has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer. Einstein has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the…
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Wrestling
Kevin Owens Joins Shania Twain On Stage At Her Concert But Doesn’t Get ‘When’ Played
Although K.O. did not get exactly what he wanted, he still was able to do what he said he was going to do. For weeks on end former WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens has been touting that he was going…
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Wrestling
Highlights From WWE Conference Call Regarding Fox And NBCU Distribution Rights Deal
On Wednesday morning, WWE held a conference call about the media rights deals with NBCU and Fox. Smackdown has moved to the Fox network and Raw will stay with NBCU on the USA network. Michael Weiss introduces the purpose of…
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Wrestling
Pat McAfee Says WWE Is A Reason He Retired From The NFL Early
Pat is excited to see what’s next for him in WWE. Retired NFL Punter Pat McAfee has transitioned from the gridiron to Barstool Sports to hosting his own show on Sirius XM Radio. The human swiss-army knife has also dipped his fingers…
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Wrestling
Analysis: WWE Co-Presidents host conference call formally announcing domestic Raw & SmackDown deals
WWE Co-Presidents Michelle Wilson & George Barrios hosted a conference call on Wednesday morning following Tuesday night’s formal announcement that WWE had secured “multi-year media rights deals with USA Network and Fox Sports”. Both the new distribution deal for SmackDown…
