It has been previously reported by several Wrestling and Media Sites that The Undertaker will return at RAW’s 25th Anniversary Special in January. TMZ as well as The Sun recently wrote an article about The Undertaker after they saw him leaving Subway. They were even able to snap a few pictures of The Undertaker as he was leaving Subway which automatically made headlines all throughout Social Media as soon as it was released.
Below is the tweet sent out by The Sun along with the pictures they were able to capture of The Undertaker:
WWE legend The Undertaker still looks menacing as he grabs lunch at Subway… ahead of a sensational return wrestling https://t.co/RCxmM7aSfQ
— The Sun – Wrestling (@SunWrestling) November 3, 2017
As reported earlier in the week, Ronda Rousey is now seriously training for an upcoming match at Wrestlemania involving the Four Horsewomen of MMA and WWE. She has reportedly been training with Brian Kendrick in California lately, so perhaps it’s no surprise that she was recently spotted at an NXT live event in Riverside, California. Rousey posed for photos with some fans, as well as Mae Young Classic winner Kairi Sane. Ronda Rousey is reportedly getting closer to wrestling for WWE with each passing day. It is also rumored that Rousey could wrestle for WWE again in a singles match after the planned Horsewomen vs. Horsewomen match at Wrestlemania.
No biggie. Just Ronda Rousey chilling at #NXTRiverside (and being very gracious with fans approaching her) pic.twitter.com/3qVikKfKS0
— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) November 12, 2017
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I’m soooo glad I met you!!?
Thank you so much, Ronda??
— KAIRI SANE?? (@KairiSaneWWE) November 12, 2017
Injuries are commonplace in professional wrestling, and Robbie E received a rather gruesome one during a match at a recent independent show. Robbie revealed that he busted his nose during the match, and he also lost two teeth during the match, but luckily for him, there was a dentist in the crowd. The dentist even repaired his teeth late in the night. Tommy Dreamer later offered to pay those who helped fix Robbie’s injury before Road Dogg did the same. It looks like Robbie E is now fully healed from the injury that he suffered in the match. A couple of photos of the injury and late night dental surgery can be found down below:
2 Teeth knocked out and busted nose… 2 hrs later my teeth are fixed to perfection better than before… legit unreal how lucky I was for an amazing dentist to be at the show and fans!! Opening their office late night to fix me up with unreal technology…like I? was blown away pic.twitter.com/2lLuHHh4ZN
— Robbie E (@RobbieEImpact) November 11, 2017
2 wrestling fans attending the show opened up their practice to help @RobbieEImpact
You have lifetime @HouseofHardcore tix free
For showing your kindness & humanity
Thank you pic.twitter.com/m76DWp6dKA
— Tommy Dreamer (@THETOMMYDREAMER) November 11, 2017
Find out their names Tommy and let’s get it out there. Great stuff right here!
— Brian G. James (@WWERoadDogg) November 11, 2017
The Women’s Revolution in WWE has undoubtedly been a tremendous success so far. The women in WWE are regularly featured in outstanding matches each week, but there is one accolade that the women of WWE have yet to achieve: headlining Wrestlemania with a match. Sasha Banks recently spoke with the Hindustan Times about the possibility of closing out Wrestlemania one year. Banks acknowledges that the biggest goal in her career is to headline the annual event and she believes that she is ready to undertake this task. Banks said, “My main goal is to feature in the main event of Wrestlemania. It is the biggest dream of any WWE wrestler and although there has never been an all-woman main event, I think it is about time. We have already done great things like the Money in the Bank this year and it is my goal to create history by headlining the biggest show of the company.”
It appears to be that Chris Jericho will not be appearing at next year’s WrestleMania 34 which will be on April 8, 2018. Jericho has recently posted Fozzy’s schedule on Instagram, and the final date of the tour will be on the day of WrestleMania at Wally’s in Hampton Beach, NH.
Jericho appeared at the last two WrestleManias, defeating AJ Styles at WrestleMania 32 and dropping the U.S. title to Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 33.
Jericho is scheduled to face IWGP U.S. Champion Kenny Omega at NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 12 PPV Event on January 4th, 2018 at the Tokyo Dome in what is currently a one-shot deal. It will be his first match outside of WWE since 1999, when he left WCW to sign with WWE. Jericho recently told Jim Ross on The Ross Report that he informed Vince McMahon about his match with Omega before it was announced. Below is what Jericho told Jim Ross:
“Not to get into specifics, but [Ross] know[s] how smart I have been throughout my career and [Ross] know[s] the relationship I have with Vince that I would never jeopardize that or give him any nasty surprises, so I’ll just leave it at that,” Jericho said. “And like [Ross] said, I think in the back of his mind, no matter how much [pro] wrestling fans sometimes like to lionize Vince, or whatever the word is, kind of think that he’s this big evil, manipulative guy, I think he appreciates the fact that when the business is healthy, I think that he knows that it’s better for his business as well, so for Chris Jericho to go to New Japan, I mean, everybody knows that I’m a WWE guy. That’s just the way it is. I have been for 17 years, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime dream match, per se, with a lot of money at stake. And, for me to not pursue that I thought would have been a crime. And I think Vince felt the same way. As I said, the timing of this is perfect.”
Below is the schedule of Fozzy as posted by Chris Jericho:
Stoked to announce the next leg of the @fozzyrock 2018 US #JudasRisingTour w our friends in @tfiremusic, @santacruzbandofficial & #DarkSkyChoir!! Tix & VIP packages onsale THIS FRIDAY at fozzyrock.com! #15States (graphic by @wrestlingparty & photo by @adrienne.beacco)
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British men jailed over ‘pornographic dancing’ in Cambodia have been forced to record a grovelling apology video.
The five partygoers were seen nodding desperately when they were asked whether they wanted to go back to Britain.
In the video, Daniel Jones is heard saying he respects the Cambodian culture and has helped children and families who live there.
Mr Jones also says that he had lived in the country for two years.
He said he has made "one mistake" but doesn’t elaborate on what it is, then repeats the word "I am sorry."
Cambodian officials charged the group of ten foreign tourists with "producing pornographic pictures" after images emerged of people apparently demonstrating different sex positions during a police raid on a rented villa.
Before appearing in court on Sunday, the Britons protested their innocence and said they were "trying to keep a good vibe".
The young men – several of whom had recently attended a popular pool party event called Let’s Get Wet – said they had slept on the floor of a police station for three days, but "friendly" officers had bought them pizza.
Their arrests come after Cambodian authorities last year cracked down on tourists posting revealing images of themselves on social media.
Police said they had found people "singing and dancing pornographically" at the party in Siem Reap town near the Angkor Wat temple, a world heritage site.
In a joint statement from the prison, they said: "We’re innocent. We don’t know why we’ve been arrested – we’re getting different stories from different people.
"It was really confusing. Everyone was confused. They raided, rounded us up – there was about 80 to 100 people at this party, some of them were tourists. There were about 30 of them [police officers.]
"Our parents are doing what they can. It’s really just trying to keep a good vibe until we know the outcome."
Rescue workers scrambled to search for survivors in buildings left tilting precariously on their foundations in Taiwan, after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed at least four people and injured more than 200.
Scores more people were trapped and others missing after the tremor shook the city of Hualien on the east coast, while a series of aftershocks were felt throughout the night.
At least six tall buildings were left tilting on their sides. The worst-hit and was propped up with cranes as it lent at about 45 degrees.
Authorities said they could not verify how many residents were still missing after the quake, which hit the popular tourist port city late on Tuesday.
Early on Wednesday, rescue efforts were focused on the Yun Tsui residential building, which also housed a restaurant, shops and a hostel.
The quake left the 12-storey building leaning to one side, its lower floors pancaked.
The national fire agency said 143 residents from the building remained missing.
But it was not immediately clear if those unaccounted for were trapped inside the building.
One local who lives nearby told how he watched the tower block partially collapse.
"I saw the first floor sink into the ground," said 35-year-old Lu Chih-son, who saw 20 people rescued from the building. "Then it sunk and tilted further and the fourth floor became the first floor.
"My family were unhurt, but a neighbour was injured in their head and is bleeding. We dare not go back home now. There are many aftershocks and we are worried the house is damaged."
Resident Chen Chih-wei, 80, said he was sleeping in his apartment on the top floor of the building when the quake struck.
"My bed turned completely vertical, I was sleeping and suddenly I was standing," he said.
He said he managed to crawl his way to a balcony to wait for rescue, adding that the quake was the strongest he had felt in more than five decades of living in Hualien.
President Tsai Ing-wen visited the site on Wednesday morning, where officials were going room by room looking for anyone trapped inside.
"Now is the prime time for our rescue efforts, our first priority is to save people," she said in a Facebook post.
Four mobile cranes had been brought in on the back of trucks to help prop up the structure.
Liu Yan-hu, from the Hualien County Architects Association, said it looked like the building’s main structure was intact.
Five more buildings including a hospital and a hotel were also damaged in the city, where roads were ripped apart and strewn with rubble.
The national fire agency said four people had been killed across the city, with 225 others injured. More than 117 people had been rescued from damaged buildings on Wednesday morning.
Hualien is one of Taiwan’s most popular tourist hubs as it lies on the picturesque east coast rail line and near to the popular Taroko Gorge.
Frequent aftershocks left some residents stranded in the open as they feared going back into buildings.
Authorities said 830 people were in shelters on Wednesday morning and some 1,900 houses were without power.
The severely damaged Marshal Hotel had also crumpled into the ground as its bottom storeys disappeared.
"The lower floors sunk into the ground and I saw panicked tourists being rescued from the hotel," said witness Blue Hsu.
Earthquake is two years after tremor that killed 100
The earthquake hit at just before midnight (3.50pm GMT) around 13 miles (21 kilometres) northeast of Hualien, according to the United States Geological Survey.
It followed almost 100 smaller tremors to have hit the area in the last three days and comes exactly two years since a quake of the same magnitude struck the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, killing more than 100 people.
Most of the deaths from the February 2016 earthquake were from the 16-storey Wei-kuan apartment complex, which toppled on its side and buried many residents in the rubble.
It was the only high-rise in Tainan to crumble completely in the quake, which came two days before Lunar New Year, when many people were visiting relatives for the biggest celebration of the Chinese calendar.
How to | Stay safe in an earthquake
The safety of the building was called into question immediately after the disaster, when metal cans and foam were found to have been used as fillers in the concrete and residents said there had been cracks in the structure.
Five people were found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment over the disaster, including the developer and two architects, with prosecutors saying they "cut corners" that affected the building’s structural integrity.
Why Taiwan is regularly hit by big earthquakes
Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is regularly hit by earthquakes.
The island’s worst tremor in recent decades was a 7.6 magnitude quake in September 1999 that killed around 2,400 people.
Turkish forces shelled a column of pro-Assad regime fighters as they tried to join with Kurdish forces resisting a Turkish incursion into northern Syria, Turkey’s resident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The regime has been saying for days that it would dispatch fighters to support the Kurds as they battle to keep Turkey from taking control of the Kurdish-held pocket of Afrin.
The confrontation pits the Turkish army and allied Syrian rebel groups directly against the military alliance backing the government of President Bashar al-Assad, further scrambling northwest Syria’s already messy battlefield.
Mr Erdogan described the convoy as being made up of "terrorists" acting independently. He said Turkish artillery fire had forced it to turn back, although the Kurdish militia denied this.
"Unfortunately, these kind of terror organisations take wrong steps with the decisions they take. It is not possible for us to allow this. They will pay a heavy price,” he said.
Syrian television had earlier shown the group of fighters passing through a checkpoint that bore the insignia of the Kurdish security force, some chanting "one Syria, one Syria", and driving further into Afrin.
Ankara’s month-old offensive is aimed at driving the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a big security threat on its border, from Afrin.
The YPG hailed the arrival of the pro-government forces – which included militias allied to Assad but not the Syrian army itself – and said they were deploying along the front line facing the Turkish border.
It made no mention of a deal that a Kurdish official said on Sunday had been struck with Assad’s government for the Syrian army itself to enter Afrin.
Erdogan said he had previously reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, Assad’s main international backers, to block Syrian government support for the YPG fighters.
He described the pro-government fighters coming to the YPG’s aid as Shi’ite militias, and said they would pay a heavy price.
YPG media adviser Rezan Hedo denied Erdogan’s assertion that the convoy had turned back under Turkish artillery fire, but he gave no details on its size or composition. A Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said one convoy had entered Afrin while another turned back.
Earlier on Tuesday, Erdogan said he had received Putin’s agreement to block a Syrian government deployment in Afrin.
Turkey and Russia have supported opposite sides throughout the war, with Moscow the closest ally of Assad and Ankara one of the principal supporters of rebels fighting to overthrow him.
However, in recent months Turkey has lent support to a Russian-led effort to end the war with most population centres in the hands of Assad’s government. Ankara said last month it sought Moscow’s agreement before launching the Afrin assault.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Afrin crisis could be resolved through direct negotiations between Damascus and Ankara.
Assad’s other main ally, Iran, is more closely involved than Russia with the militias that back the Syrian government on the ground, such as those who entered Afrin on Tuesday.
The Turkish offensive has made gains along almost all the border area with Afrin, pushing several km (miles) into Syria and seizing villages. But the YPG still holds most of the region including its main town, also called Afrin.
ROH recently held a live event which emanated from San Antonio, Texas. Arrow star and one-time WWE SummerSlam performer Stephen Amell worked the event last Friday evening.
Below is the complete results from the ROH Live Event which emanated from San Antonio, Texas last Friday night:
Pre Show:
– Cheeseburger def. Jastin Taylor. Cheeseburger won with a Shotei and a diving double stomp.
Main Show:
– Stephen Amell comes out as the guest host for the show. The Addiction quickly interrupts him, but Cody comes out to defend his buddy. Amell takes his jacket off to reveal an Arrow-inspired Bullet Club shirt. The Addiction proposes changing the two scheduled tag matches (The Addiction vs. Omega & Cody and The Young Bucks vs. Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky) to The Addiction, Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky vs. The Bullet Club. Cody accepts the proposal. During the promo, Cody points out that ROH’s show sold out while NXT’s didn’t.
– Silas Young def. Josh Woods in a Survival of the Fittest First Round Match.
– Shane Taylor def. Beer City Bruiser in a Survival of the Fittest First Round Match. This was a very good match. Taylor wins with a hard punch.
– Punishment Martinez def. Jay Lethal in a Survival of the Fittest First Round Match. Martinez hits his sit-out chokeslam to get the win. Marty Scurll, who is facing Jay Lethal at Final Battle comes out during the match and offers his umbrella to Jay Lethal as a weapon. Lethal instead hits Scurll with the umbrella.
– The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) def. Search and Destroy (Motor City Machine Guns & Jonathan Gresham). Taven cradles Gresham for the win after blocking a Shooting Star Press with his knees.
– Deonna Purrazzo def. Britt Baker in a Women of Honor Match. Purrazzo picks up the win by submitting Baker with a Fujiwara armbar.
– Rey Cometa & Esfinge def. The Dawgs (Rhett Titus & Will Ferrara). This was a wild match, with the crowd very into the CMLL guys. Esfinge pins Ferrara with a lucha cradle.
– ROH World Television Champion Kenny King def. Joey Ryan to retain his title. They had a typical Joey Ryan match before King retains with the Royal Flush.
– Dalton Castle def. Marty Scurll. Castle hits the Bang-a-Rang to get the win.
– Bullet Club (Cody, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks & Stephen Amell) def. The Addiction, Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky. This match was a five-on-four match with Amell becoming an official participant. He did a lot, including a dive to the floor and being put through a table by Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. He looked good for a non-wrestler.
Gordon stopped Daniels from using a chair, which led to a brawl. Gordon and Sky then abandons The Addiction. The finish was a double Indytaker as Omega and Nick Jackson did the move to Kazarian, while Matt Jackson and Amell did the move on Daniels.
Bullet Club did their usual post-match promo, referencing the NXT show in Texas. Omega then said that he and Cody were going back to the autograph table to sign for all of the fans who they couldn’t get to earlier which ended the segment and the show.
Source: F4WOnline.com
It’s looking like the Intercontinental Championship Open Challenge will be a “thing” for the next few weeks on Monday Night Raw as they are in a lull period before the hype begins for the Royal Rumble in a few weeks. Cedric Alexander was the first to throw his hat in the ring as a potential challenger for the title and two more WWE Superstars have stepped up they are ready for the challenge.
Jason Jordan and Finn Balor want a shot at the title on Raw. So, who will get the shot this week? We don’t know but everything should be clear within a few hours. The ironic thing about Balor issuing the challenge is that he was supposed to be in line for a shot at the WWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in January. Vince McMahon has decided to scrap those plans but Balor fans are trying to tell the boss that he made a mistake.
One door closes and another door opens. @WWERomanReigns I WON’T miss this opportunity. Consider your challenge accepted… pic.twitter.com/7Zz0SX9FIX
— Jason Jordan (@JasonJordanJJ) November 27, 2017
.@WWERomanReigns ??
I won’t just ‘step up’
I’ll step OVER https://t.co/0BFAKPruk9
— Finn Bálor (@FinnBalor) November 27, 2017
This past Thursday, the Future Stars Of Wrestling promotion announced that they have reached a deal to be included on the Global Wrestling Network.
Below is the complete press release as stated by the Future Stars of Wrestling Promotion:
Future Stars Of Wrestling has reached an agreement to join the Global Wrestling Network. FSW will provide GWN with thousands of hours from its extensive library, featuring Impact Champion Eli Drake, Matt Hardy, John Morrison, Kenny King, Reno Scum, Willie Mack, Lance Hoyt, Kevin Kross, Sami Callihan, Brian Cage along with the many superstars FSW has had come thru its doors including Ricochet, Rich Swann, AR Fox, Tony Nese, Chris Sabin, Austin Aries, Keith Lee, Kevin Nash, Chris Masters, Paul London, Brian Kendrick, Davey Boy Smith Jr, Roderick Strong, ACH, Young Bucks, Trevor Lee, Shane Strickland, Jeff Cobb, and more.
To see footage of FSW go to www.youtube.com/futurestarswrestling.