Friday night’s WrestleMania edition of SmackDown, which featured go-home promos from all three wrestlers in Sunday’s main event as well as matches that essentially served as the Mania pre-show, averaged 2.25 million viewers on Fox. The show trailed all network programming with the exception of a repeat of NBC’s The Blacklist in terms of overall viewers, but it…
The WWE Raw commentary booth will be changing once again as sports broadcaster and personality Adnan Virk is reportedly replacing Tom Phillips as lead commentator starting this Monday. The news was first reported by Wrestling Inc. and confirmed by Mat Men’s Andrew Zarian. Dave Meltzer was unable to confirm as of Saturday night. Virk has…
Image: WWE Last night’s WrestleMania edition of SmackDown on Fox averaged 2.08 million viewers in the fast national ratings, up 2.2 percent from last week. It’s the second-highest overnight viewership for the show in the last two months. The episode averaged 2.06 million viewers in the first hour and rose 1.5 percent to 2.099 million in hour two. Fox…
Image: WWE WrestleMania 37 night one will officially be headlined by a historic main event. WWE has announced that Sasha Banks vs. Bianca Belair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship will main event WrestleMania 37 night one this Saturday. Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship will open the night one card. Banks vs….
Image: WWE Raw held steady with 1.70 million viewers. but declined to a 0.52 rating in 18-49 for the go-home show for WrestleMania. The number should be considered good by today’s standards, since the Baylor vs. Gonzaga NCAA men’s basketball final on CBS against the second half of Raw averaged 16.92 million viewers and drew a 4.12 rating…
Christchurch, New Zealand — When the gunman advanced toward the mosque, killing those in his path, Abdul Aziz didn’t hide. Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find — a credit card machine — and ran outside screaming “Come here!” Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths during…
As part of WrestleMania week, WWE announced Monday that 25 of their talents will be available for 15 Cameo videos each to be recorded over the next five days. With costs ranging from $500 to $150, the videos will be recorded starting today through Friday, April 9th. The list of currently available talents and costs…
Conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos will no longer be allowed to travel to Australia for a tour later this year following comments he made on the mass shooting in New Zealand. Australia’s minister for immigration, citizenship and multicultural affairs has banned him from entering the country for the tour. “Yiannopoulos’ comments on social media regarding the…
WWE has announced a change to one of the matches for WrestleMania 37. At WrestleMania 37 night one this Saturday, it will now be Bad Bunny & Damian Priest teaming together against The Miz & John Morrison. The bout had originally been announced as a singles match between Bad Bunny and Miz. The change to the…
Brescia, Italy — Italians make some of the most sought after firearms in the world. For decades they supplied the standard issue pistol of the U.S. military. Domestically, however, few Italians have owned guns for self defense. But now, analysts say a growing sense of insecurity — and some of the country’s new leaders — are…