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MLW SuperFight live results: Low Ki vs. Tom Lawlor title match
Three matches set for WWE SmackDown
UFC on ESPN+ 2 live results: Assuncao-Moraes, Aldo-Moicano
Young Bucks invite Pentagon Jr. & Fenix to AEW
Stephanie McMahon-Becky Lynch segment announced for WWE Raw
Jeff Jarrett vs. Elias, Bobby Lashley vs. Finn Balor added to WWE Raw
Impact Wrestling’s next PPV set for Toronto
NJPW New Beginning USA Charlotte results: IWGP US title match
WWE Saskatoon live results: Dean Ambrose in action
NJPW New Beginning live results: Tanahashi & Okada team up
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F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch win Royal Rumbles
For the second straight year, WWE went with two fan-pleasing choices as their Royal Rumble winners. WWE followed up on Shinsuke Nakamura and Asuka’s wins from last year by having Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch win their respective Rumble matches on Sunday night. The results were entirely predictable, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t the right choices. While there are other stories that WWE can tell, top babyfaces beginning their road to WrestleMania by winning the Royal Rumble will pretty much always work.
WON NEWSLETTER: January 28, 2019 Observer Newsletter: Future of Ronda Rousey, Royal Rumble preview, more
A quick note that the format of this issue is different due to the fact I messed up my left hand in a bicycle crash on 1/24 making typing extremely difficult.
This issue has complete Royal Rumble and NXT results with eliminations, stats, and facts, plus Dave’s comments. It also includes star ratings, NXT awards, and notes on the post show angle.
Roman Reigns is going to be in the Rock’s new movie. There were some photos of Roman Reigns last week from where he’s been filming the new sequel of the Fast and the Furious franchise, which had been kept kind of quiet. Reigns is playing Rock’s character Hobbs’ brother…
AEW released a short video with Cody Rhodes talking about signing Jungle Boy and the announcement that on February 7th, there is a Ticket Announcement Party at the MGM from Las Vegas. Brandi teased announcing more women at that event. There is a lot of talent expected at that event. CIMA is likely going to be there…
NJPW is very confident that it will not be an issue by the time the MSG G1 Supercard show comes up, with it being several months away…
From reports of the Dallas, TX Road to G1 Supercard show, Shibata’s students, Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, and Alex Coughlin are all seemed as really good in the technical aspect, with all their basics down, as they’re being trained with the Japanese New Japan Dojo mentality. Shibata, who is the lead trainer in the US Dojo, has interpreters with him at all time during training…
Matt Sydal’s contract with Impact Wrestling ended January 1st. He should be ready in a couple of months from a minor knee surgery he got last week…
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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE
WWE
Dean Ambrose wrestled in the main event of last night’s Raw-brand house show in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Bobby Lashley retained the Intercontinental title against Ambrose, Finn Balor, and Drew McIntyre in a fatal four-way match, with Ambrose taking the pin.
Becky Lynch responded to WWE’s announcement that she’s been invited to Monday’s Raw by Stephanie McMahon: “Yeah, tell her thanks but I was coming anyway.”
WWE streamed two hours of matches from their Worlds Collide tournament today, leading into the two-hour special airing on the WWE Network at 8 p.m. Eastern tonight.
Kevin Owens followed up on the tweet where he indicated that he was training at the Performance Center with Adam Cole: “I appreciate people getting excited after my tweet earlier today but I’m beginning to put some furniture together in my house just now and I’m not coming back to @WWE until I’m done with that and I suck at it so I’ll see you all in a few months, maybe more. Thank you. Take care!”
Baron Corbin told Chris Van Vliet that he’d like to get his head tattooed. Corbin said that’s his plan but he doesn’t know when it will happen. During the interview, Corbin also said he wanted to shave his head for eight months before it was approved.
On this week’s episode of his podcast, Jerry Lawler said Vince McMahon called him during the Royal Rumble pre-show and told him to move his crown from one side to the other.
Triple H discussed Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski in an interview with Sports Illustrated: “Rob is very close with one of our stars, Mojo Rawley. We’ve met a few times, and he’s actually come down to the Performance Center and even done stuff with us at WrestleMania. He’s a great guy, an incredible player, and it’s hard not to root for him. I’ll be watching him, but that’s also because my wife is a massive Patriots fan. Gronk has mentioned WWE before, that he loves it and said had so much fun doing it. I don’t know if it’s something he’d be seriously interested in, but that’s how the conversation started with Ronda Rousey, too. Certainly the door is open for him at WWE.”
Rousey uploaded an “on the road” video from this week’s Raw.
WWE ranked 10 memorable title belt reveals.
The Independent has an interview with Tommaso Ciampa. Newsweek also spoke to Johnny Gargano.
Edge and Beth Phoenix did a Q&A on this week’s episode of the Edge & Christian podcast.
Pro Wrestling
LifeBlood (Juice Robinson, Bandido, David Finlay & Tracy Williams) facing Shaheem Ali, LSG, Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas in an eight-man tag match has been added to ROH’s Bound By Honor event in Miami on Sunday, February 10. The show is airing live on HonorClub.
Cheeseburger, Eli Isom & Ryan Nova vs. The Briscoes & Shane Taylor is set for ROH’s TV tapings in Lakeland on Saturday, February 9.
PJ Black (formerly Justin Gabriel in WWE) confirmed that he’s officially signed with ROH. He wrote that he starts with them on March 16.
AAA announced the end of their 27-year partnership with Televisa.
Jonah Rock, who’s expected to be headed to WWE, had his farewell match at Wrestle Rampage in Australia today.
Ilja Dragunov has been announced for this year’s wXw 16 Carat Gold tournament.
Daisuke Sasaki vs. Konosuke Takeshita will headline DDT’s WrestleMania week show in Queens, New York on Thursday, April 4.
UFC/MMA
Dana White thinks it would be “insane” for the Nevada Athletic Commission to punish fighters for trash talk: “I think it’s crazy, I think it’s insane. I think it’s unconstitutional, first of all. I don’t think you can legally do that. These guys get into a cage and they punch each other in the face. They can knock each other unconscious, they can choke each other, but they can’t say mean things to each other? It’s pretty ridiculous.”
White said Colby Covington is now “going to have to fight again and earn the spot to get back” to challenging for the welterweight title
Tyron Woodley defended himself against people who think he dodges fights: “There’s nothing that I do outside the octagon that ever stops me from being able to fight. Surgery and being out rehabbing is what kept me from fighting earlier than what I’ve liked to. It’s never been me doing a movie, or an album, or television.”
Filmmaker Jose Padilha is directing a movie for Netflix on the origins of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Daily Pro Wrestling History: Midnight Express win NWA Tag Team titles
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