The longtime veteran and former Four Horseman, Tully Blanchard has come to the realization his wrestling career may very well be over. After making frequent appearances as the manager of The Pinnacle and FTR on AEW programming begging in 2019, The former Brain Buster, Tully Blanchard was fired by FTR after they looked to move …
On January 4th in the main event of NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 17 event in the Tokyo Dome, Jay White lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to Kazuchika Okada, leading to an enraged White calling former Bullet Club member Hikuleo for betraying him. The following day, White would savagely attack Hikuleo, challenging him to a “Loser …
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WrestlePurists Match Ratings are worked out by getting the average score submitted by our list of contributors. Matches are rated on a star scale. WWE RAW JAN 2 – Austin Theory (c) vs Seth Rollins (U.S Championship): ***.5 WWE NXT JAN 3 – Carmelo Hayes vs Apollo Crews: ***.5 AJPW NEW YEAR GIANT SERIES JAN …
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On December 14th last year, just one day after she dropped the NXT Women’s Championship to Roxanne Perez, Mandy Rose was released by WWE in a move that was reported to be down to Rose’s FanTime content. Rose recently appeared on the Tamron Hall Show, where she opened up on her surprising release. When asked …
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WrestlePurists Awards are annual awards that have been made to highlight and recognise the very best that the Pro Wrestling World has to offer. We collected votes from Fans & Media, then we combined both %’s to work out the overall winner of each award. We also collected votes from Wrestlers for our “Wrestler’s Wrestler …
STARDOM Stardom hosted two shows this past week where the cards were totally changed due to illness from multiple wrestlers including Starlight Kid, which canceled the big AZM vs. SLK rematch on the Nagoya show. The Korakuen Hall Show had a big angle with Chihiro Hashimoto from Sendai Girls appearing to confront Syuri. This happened …
Jim Ross is a veteran wrestling announcer with decades of experience under his belt, but some fans believe his best days are behind him. Ross has been an iconic voice in wrestling, announcing in WCW, WWF/E, and various others before landing his current role in AEW. Ross, age 71, has become known in recent years …
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Since Triple H was appointed as WWE’s Head of Talent Relations, the company have made an effort to sign a number of previously released talents, including the likes of Johnny Gargano, Hit Row, Dakota Kai, and many more. Recently, WWE’s recruitment strategy has seen them also show interest in external talent that have no prior …
Former NJPW Trainee Karl Fredericks Signs With WWE Read More »
On February 4th, Stardom will present their Supreme Fight PPV event in Osaka, featuring the first World of Stardom Championship defence from Giulia, who will take on her Prominence’s Suzu Suzuki in a match that is likely to further the personal rivalry between the two former Ice Ribbon stars. It now appears as though the …
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Vince McMahon has returned to the WWE, pushing out three former board members in order to head up pursuits for the sale of the company. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, it was said that Vince McMahon would return in order to oversee a sale of the WWE as the time to renegotiate TV …
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