NXT TV taping spoilers: Tommaso Ciampa explains his actions

Images: @JJWilliamsWON Dark matches — – Jeet Rama defeated Chris Silvio The crowd loved Rama. He won in a quick match. – Tyler Bate defeated Steve Cutler Bate connected with the Tyler Driver ’97 to end this one. – TakeOver video packages were shown. NXT TV taping spoilers — – Tommaso Ciampa opens the show …

Daily Pro Wrestling History (07/02): Roddy Piper wins Mid-Atlantic gold

1933  Waterloo, Iowa: – Joe Stecher beat Abe Kashey  – Alan Eustace drew Homer (Bearcat) Wright 1939  Waterloo, Iowa; – Ali Baba beat Earl Wampler by DQ  – Abe Kashey drew with Rudy Strongberg 1948  St. Louis, Missouri: – Ernie Dusek beat Felix Miquet – Al Lovelock defeatd Al Billings  – Warren Bockwinkel and Don …

Pope Francis defrocks Chilean priest at the centre of global sex abuse scandal 

Pope Francis has defrocked the Chilean priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011. In a statement on Friday, the Vatican said Francis had laicised the 88-year-old Reverend Fernando Karadima, who was originally …

A look at Northern Ireland's Pro Wrestling Ulster

By Gary Mehaffy for F4WOnline.com Around the world, and especially in the UK and Ireland, the independent scene is thriving like never before. In the UK, groups like ICW, RevPro, OTT, and PROGRESS have seen their companies grow and their global impact expand like never before. Some of these companies rely on imports more than …

God, guns… and chainsaws: meet the ‘Mini-Trump’ candidates hoping to storm the US midterm elections 

Their campaign adverts feature pledges of undying loyalty to Donald Trump, commitments to save America from socialism, and even lessons for their kids on how to build walls. From the candidate promising to round up illegal immigrants in his own truck, to the one who dressed his toddler in a Make America Great Again onesie, …

Daily Pro Wrestling History (11/20): CM Punk wins WWE title at Survivor Series 2011

1964 Minneapolis, Minnesota: – Reggie Parks drew AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon  – Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Mighty Igor Vodik & Ivan Kalmikoff – Eddie Sharkey drew Bob Boyer  – Jack Lanza beat George Drake 1966 Melbourne, Australia; – Ray Stevens and Art Nelson defeated George & Sandy Scott for the IWA Tag …

Kim Jong-un’s invitation for Pope Francis to visit North Korea condemned as propaganda stunt

A human rights activist has criticised North Korea’s invitation for the Pope to visit Pyongyang as an “impure manoeuvre” designed to fool the world into believing that the regime is becoming more open to religious freedoms.  South Korea’s presidential Blue House announced on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, extended the invitation during …

Restoration of Rembrandt masterpiece ‘The Night Watch’ to be broadcast live online 

  The restoration of one of the world’s greatest paintings, Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, will be broadcast live to the world via a webcam.  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced on Tuesday that next July it will begin an extensive investigation and restoration of the 17th century masterpiece, after signs have emerged of a growing white …

Trump says US to start cutting Central America aid as he declares migrant caravan ‘national emergency’

Donald Trump on Monday said he had alerted the military and federal border authorities that a US-bound migrant caravan from Central America was a national emergency, and that the United States would begin curtailing aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Trump, in a series of posts on Twitter, gave no other details about his …