By Bob Colling
Total Non-Stop Action presents Impact
Date: 2/2/2012
From: London, England
Tonight, TNA takes their show on the road as they are in London. James Storm competes in two matches against TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Roode and Bully Ray. We also find out who has been training Garrett Bischoff!
After a few videos highlighting the England tour, TNA World...
By Bob Colling
World Wrestling Entertainment presents Smackdown
Date: 2/3/2012
From: Omaha, NE
Tonight, Sheamus competes in singles action against Cody Rhodes. Daniel Bryan has a confrontation with Big Show. Oh, and Randy Orton meets Wade Barrett in a no disqualification match!
Teddy Long is in the ring to open the program. He quickly puts over the Royal Rumble and says that...
Reuters has a story on the U.S. government shutting down several websites illegally streaming sports events, including those belonging to WWE and TNA. Yonjo Quiroa, 28, of Comstock Park, Michigan who was making thousands of dollars operating illegal stream sites, faces charges for criminal infringement of a copyright.
Insane Championship Wrestling début their new show on MyChannel (SKY Digital 219) this weekend, airing Fridays at 1am. The weekly show will seek to introduce the key characters within the promotion and feature fresh in-ring action. Speaking from a personal perspective, it’s highly exciting to see my James R. Kennedy character make his dastardly way onto TV, and I’m...
UFC 143: Diaz Vs. Condit
February 4th, 2012
Mandalay Bay Events Center
Main card
Main event, UFC Interim Welterweight Championship; Carlos Condit(27-5) versus Nick Diaz(26-7, 1 no-contest)
Co-main event, heavyweight division; Roy Nelson(16-6) versus Fabricio Werdum(14-5-1)
Welterweight division; Josh Koscheck(16-5) versus Mike Pierce(13-4)
Bantamweight division; Renan...
By Jared Gebhardt
For those of you that don’t follow me on Twitter, I’m sorry but you missed out because I ran a Twitter contest to become a guest writer for a week for my column. I got a huge response, but the winner was a follower of mine @cag151. He won by being the only one to pick Sheamus as the Royal Rumble winner. So congrats to him, and enjoy his unique view on...
By Jeremy Graves
Last Saturday night, January 28th, history was made at the Wembley Arena in London, England as TNA Wrestling embarked on its first international television taping for its weekly program IMPACT Wrestling. The company had between seven and eight thousand wrestling fans bear witness to two weeks worth of programming recorded in the run up to the ‘Against All Odds’...
On the road to their prestigious 16 Carat Gold tournament, taking place from March 2nd to March 4th in Oberhausen, Germany, Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) return to Mannheim, Germany on Sunday, February 12th.
While all eyes may be directed towards the big weekend in March, wXw have put together an international card with athletes from Japan, USA and all over Europe.
The...
By Bob Colling
World Wrestling Entertainment presents RAW
Date: 1/30/2012
From: Kansas City, MO
Tonight, WWE Champion CM Punk squares off against WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan. Also, Johnny Ace has his performance as general manager reviewed by Triple H!
Johnny Ace makes his way down to the ring as is shaking hands with fans and crew members. Ace is actually looking...
Join Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli for another round of pro-wrestling discussion with the latest edition of The Dropkick Radio Wrestling Show!
On this weeks show discussion includes the 2012 incarnation of the official kick off on the road to Wrestlemania, the Royal Rumble. We look back at the whole show talking about all the matches and discuss the mixed reception to some of...
By Bob Colling
Ring of Honor TV
Date: 1/28/2012
From: Baltimore, MD
Tonight, ROH World Champion Davey Richards teams up with Kyle O’Reilly to take on Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander in the main event. Plus, Tommaso Ciampa puts his undefeated streak on the line against TJ Perkins.
The program starts off with a video from Final Battle where Kevin Steen hit everyone with the...
UFC On Fox 2: Davis Vs. Evans
January 28th, 2012
United Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States (17, 425/ $1,200,000)
Main card
Main event, light heavyweight division; Rashad Evans defeated Phil Davis via unanimous decision
Middleweight division; Chael Sonnen defeated Michael Bisping via unanimous decision
Middleweight division; Chris Weidman defeated Demian Maia via...
By Bob Colling
Tonight, World Wrestling Entertainment returns to pay per view with the Royal Rumble. This is the first event as we head towards WrestleMania in April. The event starts at 8pm ET and at the time of this writing there were only four matches announced for the event. Here are my predictions for the event.
Grudge Match:
John Cena vs. Kane
I still believe that this is a...
By Bob Colling
Total Non-Stop Action presents Impact
Date: 1/26/2012
From: Orlando, FL
Tonight, Alex Shelley returns to action against Zema Ion. A new number one contender for the TNA Knockouts Championship is crowned and a tag team tables match is the main event!
The show starts off with Bully Ray and Jeff Hardy brawling backstage. Hardy is working on Ray with a broomstick. Ray is...
By Bob Colling
World Wrestling Entertainment presents Smackdown
Date: 1/27/2012
From: Tucson, AZ
Tonight, Randy Orton returns to wrestle his arch nemesis Wade Barrett. Also, Mark Henry will be in action against Big Show. It’s the last stop before the Royal Rumble this Sunday!
A video promoting what happened two weeks ago between WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan and Big...
“You can either bow down to conformity, follow suit and be like everyone else, or you can start a revolution!” – Chris Renfrew…
In a slight departure from my role as weekly bringer of pro wrestling news, this week’s edition of Mat Musings is dedicated entirely to one promotion. Far from the PG-land of WWE or the more humble surroundings of TNA’s Impact...
Following on from our successful pilot episode we welcome you to the first official episode of The Dropkick Radio Japanese Wrestling Show with Jeremy Graves and Matthew Lappin.
In this episode discussion includes the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI event & the fallout leading to the ‘New Beginning’ event set to be headlined with Okada, yes the same Okada who has...