The following is scheduled for tonight’s 5/18 episode of Impact on Pop TV:
* GFW Tag Team Title tournament match: Impact Wrestling Tag Team Champions LAX vs. Laredo Kid & Garza Jr.
* X-Division Championship – Ultimate X: (C) Low-Ki vs. Trevor Lee vs. Andrew Everett
* James Storm vs. EC3
* GFW Women’s Championship: (C) Sienna vs. ODB
* Kongo Kong w/Laurel Van Ness vs. Braxton Sutter w/Allie
The Sun reports that 5 Star Wrestling promoter Daniel Hinkles is offering $1 million to former WWE Champion CM Punk to make a return to the ring on 5 Star’s 128-man tournament that begins on June 10th in Liverpool.
Hinkles said:
“We’ve been trying to contact CM Punk on and off for well over a year. We wanted him on the first show we did in Edinburgh in 2015. I’ve tried going through friends in the industry, I’ve gone through his website and sent dozens of emails but the opportunity has never been this big. We want to offer CM Punk $1 million dollars (£770,000) to come and join the 5 Star Wrestling tour starting June 10th. It’s a genuine offer. We’d love to hear back from the man himself. We want to do this with him.”
Punk has been away from pro wrestling since leaving WWE in January 2014. He lost his MMA debut for UFC in September 2016 and has hoped to make another return to the Octagon but nothing has been announced.
The 5 Star promoter continued:
“It doesn’t get more credible than CM Punk. We all know that if he ever comes back to wrestling it will be one of those epic moments – I want that to be with 5 Star Wrestling, right here in the UK. A common saying in the wrestling world is that the UK has the best fans, well how about we give them the biggest moments too. We are hugely ambitious. When we ask the fans who they want to see, CM Punk’s name is on everybody’s wish list and we’re willing to spend big to make it happen. I know he is seemingly focused on MMA at the moment and this wouldn’t have to end that, but wrestling is in his blood and $1 million has to be worth thinking about.”
Source: WrestlingINC
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson becoming the next President of the United States may not be that far-fetched. In a new poll by Public Policy Polling, voters were asked who they would support between Johnson and President Donald Trump in 2020 if Johnson were to run as a Democrat. The results were pretty convincing.
According to the poll, Johnson leads Trump 42/37. He also wins over 15% of people who votes for Trump last fall.
“36% of voters see Johnson favorably to 13% with a negative view of him, although 50% of voters have no opinion about him either way,” Public Policy Polling stated. “Both Democrats (38/15) and Republicans (31/17) see him positively.”
Talk of The Rock running for President has heated up since Trump, a WWE Hall of Famer, won the Presidency last November. Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore recently endorsed The Rock, telling Variety, “Run the Rock! Run the Rock. Who do you want for commander in chief? I want the f—ing Rock!”
In a recent interview with GQ, The Rock, who is a registered independent, said that running for President was “a real possibility.” He also talked about President Trump, and how he would do things differently.
“With any job you come into, you’ve got to prove yourself,” Rock said. “Personally, I feel that if I were president, poise would be important. Leadership would be important. Taking responsibility for everybody. [If I didn’t agree with someone] on something, I wouldn’t shut them out. I would actually include them. The first thing we’d do is we’d come and sit down and we’d talk about it. It’s hard to categorize right now how I think he’s doing, other than to tell you how I would operate, what I would like to see.
“I’d like to see a better leadership. I’d like to see a greater leadership. When there’s a disagreement, and you have a large group of people that you’re in a disagreement with—for example, the media—I feel like it informs me that I could be better. We all have issues, and we all gotta work our s–t out. And I feel like one of the qualities of a great leader is not shutting people out. I miss that part. Even if we disagree, we’ve got to figure it out. Because otherwise I feel, as an American, all I hear and all I see in the example you’re setting is ‘Now I’m shutting you out. And you can’t come.’ [Disagreement] informs us. The responsibility as president—I [would] take responsibility for everyone. Especially when you disagree with me. If there’s a large number of people disagreeing, there might be something I’m not seeing, so let me see it. Let me understand it.”
Source: WrestlingINC
Tonight on the final show before Saturday’s NXT TakeOver: Chicago.
* Is The Glorious One ready for Hideo Itami?
* Kassius Ohno vs. Andrade Cien Almas
* Does SAnitY’s strike portend of things to come?
Former AWA Tag Team Champion “Pretty Boy” Doug Somers passed away at the age of 65 this week.
Somers, trained by WWE Hall of Famer Harley Race, spent most of his time in AWA but wrestled in several different promotions, including Mid-Atlantic Wrestling. He and “Playboy” Buddy Rose, managed by Sherri Martel, defeated Curt Hennig and Scott Hall for the AWA Tag Team Titles back in May 1986. Somers later did enhancement work for WWE and WCW but last wrestled an indie match in 2012. He unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against WWE in 2011 over their use of AWA footage with his likeness.
Source: WrestlingINC
Impact Wrestling employee Al Snow was arrested this week in Kentucky — however, Snow has already released a statement saying the whole thing isn’t as bad as it sounds.
Snow was arrested in Winchester, KY on Monday night for a “failure to appear” charge from a previous court date, according to a report from WrestlingInc.
“To clear up my arrest, I had a ticket from 2 years ago,” Snow tweeted on Wednesday morning. “Took care of it but thanks to a typo… There was a bench warrant for me I was completely unaware of…”
Snow then said the arrest occurred while he was having car trouble and that he was later released on bail. He was still able to laugh about the situation though.
“A typo resulted in my arrest, and now I’ve spent time in the big house lol…”
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
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Tonight’s WWE 205 Live will take place from the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.
* TJP and Neville want Austin Aries out of the picture: TJP vs. Austin Aries
* Will Drew Gulak confront Mustafa Ali?
Tonight’s WWE SmackDown Live will take place from the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire with the final hype for Sunday’s WWE Backlash pay-per-view.
* No. 1 contenders square off ahead of title matches: AJ Styles vs. Jinder Mahal
* Will Rusev get the WWE Title match he’s demanding?
* Six-Woman Tag Team Match participants make it official
* The Highlight Reel, hosted by … Kevin Owens?
* The Viper takes on The Lone Wolf before WWE Backlash
According to squaredcirclesirens.com, WWE has signed independent wrestler Kennadi Brink as a referee for the company. Brink is 25, and started training in July of 2010 at Gillberg’s Professional Wrestling Academy in Severn, Maryland. She has worked for MCW, SHIMMER, SHINE, and ROH and is the winner of the 2014 Reid Flair scholarship, presented at the Mid-Atlantic Legends fan-fest in Charlotte, North Carolina. She worked as a referee or a few NXT events in March of this year when they toured Ocala and Jacksonville, Florida.
Source: 411Mania
Paige posted on Twitter today about how GFW Global Champion Alberto El Patron saved the life of a young man. She didn’t provide many details but wrote the following:
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