NEWS

There were several news items coming out of Saturday’s set of Impact Wrestling tapings with the announcement of their next major show, the main event for that show and a notable departure from the company.

The WWE Network is scheduled to air the “Mixed Match Challenge” later in the week, Chris Adonis is leaving Impact Wrestling, EVOLVE holds their first card in 2018 tonight, a scary situation at the UFC weigh-ins with a fighter unable to weigh in, notes from the MLW event, reviews of NXT & Impact Wrestling and Ricochet bids farewell at PWG event.

PWG held its (mostly) annual Mystery Vortex show Friday night. But it was no keeping the secret from anyone in attendance at American Legion Post #308 that it would be the final independent pro-wrestling show at this juncture for Reseda favorite Ricochet, who is headed to WWE later this month.

A report from PWinsider’s Mike Johnson states that the WWE will not be clearing Paige (Saraya-Jade Bevis) to resume her in-ring career following an injury last month during a six-woman tag.

WWE executive Michelle Wilson speaks about the WWE Network, title match added to the Royal Rumble, Moses Malone interview, David Otunga will not be charged, Gabe Sapolsky confirms new position with the WWE, WWE U.K. vs. Impact champion booked, Jimmy Smith signs with UFC, Sonnen vs. Rampage to headline Bellator 192 and more.

POST Wrestling’s panel of John Pollock, Wai Ting, Jason Agnew and Dan “The Mouth” Lovranski make their picks for “The Worst of 2017” in all of the major categories within professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.

The WWE has released the entire set of brackets and the scheduled for the “Mixed Match Challenge”, notes from Impact Wrestling conference call, Austin Aries returns, SmackDown number, the date for “All In” show and lots more.

On Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown, the WWE released another set of special guests that will be appearing on the 25th Anniversary of Raw special later this month.

Monday’s episode of Raw faced steep competition from the College Football Championship game and resulted in a 3.8% drop in audience on the USA Network.

The WWE has announced that Samoa Joe suffered an injury during his match with Rhyno on Monday’s episode of Raw and is out of the “Mixed Match Challenge”.

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the lineups for their three New Beginning cards. The shows will consist of back-to-back nights in Sapporo later this month and culminate with the third show at the Edion Arena in Osaka on February 10th.

On Monday’s episode of Raw, the WWE announced a number of huge names that are scheduled to appear for the 25th Anniversary of Raw on Monday, January 22nd in Brooklyn, New York.

Revolution Pro Wrestling presented ‘Live at the Cockpit 25’ on Sunday from London with the semi-finals and final of the Women’s championship tournament, plus Zack Sabre, Jr. defending the British heavyweight title against Martin Stone, Will Ospreay on the card and more.

Enzo cleared and back at this weekend’s house shows, Enzo vs. Cedric Alexander announces for Raw in Memphis, Impact Wrestling does its strongest number since August on POP TV, POST Wrestling’s Worst of 2017 Show released, Enzo discusses Neville’s situation and our “Forum Question” on Impact viewing habits.

Results from Revolution Pro’s “Live at the Cockpit 24” card from the Cockpit Theatre in London, featuring the main event of Travis Banks and Chris Brookes taking on Tyler Bate and Trent Seven.

The WWE has canceled one of the 205 Live events from the upcoming tour, the WWE confirms the status of the remaining two events to POST Wrestling, big angles shot at New Year’s Dash, Chris Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito, ticket information for New Japan’s next Long Beach event, John Cena advertised for appearance at WWE Fast Lane in March & more.

The first episode of SmackDown Live for the new year was a big success, topping all by six episodes of Smackdown throughout 2017.