WWE Hall of Famer “Bullet” Bob Armstrong apparently wrestled the final match of his career Saturday night in Pensacola, FL, according to F4WOnline.com. At 79, this will be Armstrong’s 59th year as a professional wrestler.
Members of Bob’s family were present at the show, including his son and soon-to-be Hall of Famer, Brian “Road Dogg” B.G. James, who introduced him to the ring. One of Armstrong’s great granddaughters was also in attendance to watch the retirement match.
Armstrong, who’s real name is Joseph Melton James, was best known by his ring name, “Bullet” Bob Armstrong. In the span of his near six-decade career, he held championship gold as part of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) over 55 times. Armstrong was also inducted in to the WWE Hall of Fame class in 2011 for his contributions to the company.
Since 2010, Armstrong has worked occasional matches around Florida and Georgia, mainly working for promotions like All Pro Wrestling, Superstars Of Wrestling and Combat Sport Pro. On October 13, 2018, he had also wrestled a match that was billed as his farewell bout, teaming up with Georgia Premier Wrestling’s Ernest Miller and Glacier to win a six-man tag team match.
Despite how it may have sounded to some … Santino Marella says his comments about transgender women in wrestling were about AMATEUR, not professional wrestling.
As we previously reported, Santino recently spoke on an Impact Twitch stream about how he dislikes intergender wrestling. He then shifted the conversation to transgender women and said “There’s cases now in MMA and wrestling where there’s trans girls that were born boys that are beating the sh*t out of females and that’s wrong.”
Marella reached out to Pro Wrestling Sheet to clarify that he was NOT talking about pro wrestling in this moment. “In legitimate combative sports, I don’t want to see women get hurt unnecessarily,” he tells us. “Professional wrestling welcomes everybody”
Adding, “I consider myself an ambassador to professional wrestling and my view has always been that it is welcome to all, I have gay students. I have trans students. I have students from every race and creed, we are all one big happy family.”
The video of his original comments can be found at link below.
Double or Nothing is still a few months away, but The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Bros went down anyway Saturday night and ended with new tag champs in AAA.
Matt and Nick Jackson made a surprise appearance at AAA’s Rey de Reyes following the main event — which saw Pentagon Jr and Fenix capture the tag titles — and an impromptu match began.
In a shocking occurrence, The Young Bucks defeated their the Lucha Bros to become the AAA World Tag Team Champions after hitting the Meltzer Driver.
The Young Bucks has become the first tag team in history who has won the AAA, IWGP, ROH and PWG tag team championships.
The full show (which also includes an appearance from Cody Rhodes) can be FOUND HERE.
Wrestling legend Jerry Jarrett has partnered with Adam Parsons for a new a new Roku channel – Jarrett Parsons Wrestling TV.
Jarrett Parsons Wrestling TV – Professional wrestling from the 1950’s to the current day. Featuring weekly programs, hosted by legends such as Jerry Jarrett, Rip Rogers, Shane Douglas, Bill Eadie, Bill Apter and many others. Also includes documentaries and specials from such notables as Highspots Inc.
Jarrett-Parsons TV Wrestling contains decades of championship wrestling action from many different organizations. All of the content is shown in its original format. Footage is sourced from many different wrestling organizations which are listed below.
Reliving Memphis Wrestling: 4 episodes from the Memphis Wrestling organization
International Championship Wrestling: 4 episodes from this show
Southwest Championship Wrestling: 4 episodes from this show
IWA Wrestling: 3 episodes from this show featuring popular 70’s wrestlers
Highspots: a collection of interviews and documentary films
Indy Retro: various ages of wrestling and wrestling organizations
Matchology: Career highlights fro Dick the Bulldog Brower, Luis Martinez and The Love Brothers
One on One: Interviews with Tommy Rich and Jerry Jarrett
Continental Championship Wrestling: Wrestling footage from 1985
Pro Wrestling Time machine: A collection of matches from the 1950’s – 90’s
Portland Wrestling: 4 videos from this organization
This is the 70’s: Best of the 1970’s wrestling
Vancouver’s All Star Wrestling: Best of videos from this organization
Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling: 4 episodes from this show
Real Quality Wrestling: 4 episodes from this show
Each of the “shows” contains the original broadcast footage featuring the pioneers of professional wrestling including Ivan Koloff, Ernie Ladd, Mil Mascaras, Shane Douglas and Eric the Red.
They are working to provide content from independent wrestling promotions, they’ve already got an independent wrestling promotion out of England featured on the channel.
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For over a month Maxwell Jacob Friedman has been a thorn in the Hart Foundation’s side. He brutally attacked Teddy Hart on his birthday following Hart defending the belt. Then, MJF and his preppy accomplice Richard Holliday manipulated themselves into a World Tag Team match against the Hart Foundation.
Who is the true dynasty? MJF and Holliday or the Hart Foundation? Once the bell rings in the main event, we may finally have our answer.
Speaking of questions, what was the deal with Tom Lawlor’s sketchy physician last week? What’s the real prognosis for the World Champion? Find out on FUSION!
Ol Mancer is back and this week he makes his debut as a color analyst ringside with Rich Bocchini and Jim Cornette. What’s Bucksnort’s favorite son have to say about his recent issues with Salina de la Renta’s Promociones Dorado?
CONTRA Unit’s Jacob Fatu & Josef Samael make their debut and they promise to show MLW why they are the global dealers in violence. What does that mean? Tune in to find out!
Who are the latest participants in the 2019 Battle Riot®? Find out in the control center!
Matches:
World Tag Team Title Match: The Hart Foundation vs. MJF & Richard Holliday
Hijo de LA Park vs. Puma King
CONTRA’s Josef Samael & Jacob Fatu in action
Join Jim Cornette and Rich Bocchini ringside in Chicago as Major League Wrestling presents the fastest and most dangerous hour of combat sports you’ll experience anywhere in the world.
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Yesterday at a fan signing for Becky Lynch, an individual reportedly had a seizure while waiting in line and had trouble making it up the stairs. Lynch quickly made her way over and held the fan until EMTs arrived.
Marty Scurll vs. Kenny King – Winner: Marty Scurll
ROH World TV Championship: (C) Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Taylor – Winner: Jeff Cobb
ROH Women of Honor World Championship: (C) Mayu Iwatani vs. Kelly Klein – Winner: Mayu Iwatani
ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven – 60-minute time limit draw
Post-match, Marty Scurll heads to the ring, picks up the title and puts it around his shoulder. Scurll then heads up the ramp and to the back with it. Taven and Lethal finally get to their feet, Taven doesn’t shake Lethal’s hand and goes to the back.
Rapper, Mega Ran, performs “Going to the Garden.” Bully Ray ends up coming out to the ring, says he thought the song sucks and rips on Mega Ran. Bully makes fun of video games and says Mega Ran probably played wrestling video games, and picked his character, Bubba Ray. Mega Ran says he actually picked D-Von. Bully shoves both guys and kicks them out of the ring. Bully is offended by his song and says he’s the only one who’s actually wrestled at MSG. Bully picks on some kids, says he’s going to slap them if they don’t go sit down. “They’re just kids!” chant from the crowd. He says nobody can stand up to him at the garden. Crowd with a “Flip” chant, Bully shuts that down and then says he offers up an open challenge to anyone in the world, any company, anyone retired or still wrestling in a street fight.
Bandido vs. Rush – Winner: Rush
Post-match, Dalton Castle heads into the ring to get a closer look at Rush. On the mic, Castle says Rush is a good challenge for him and wonders if they could get in the ring at Madison Square Garden. Rush wonders who Castle is and cuts a promo in English and Spanish, sounds like he accepted before heading to the back.
TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marseglia vs. Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams won’t take place. Also, Jonathan Gresham took a chairshot to the knee when trying to save Lethal. Silas Young, who was scheduled to face Gresham, also attacked Gresham backstage, so that match won’t take place either. Young joined commentary for the main event.
ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. PCO & Brody King – Winners and new ROH World Tag Team Champions: PCO & Brody King
We are working on getting Jerry Jarrett for an upcoming episode of the Wrestling News Blog Podcast. For those unfamiliar with Jarrett, below is some information on his background history in professional wrestling.
Jerry Jarrett is the father of WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett and former co-owner of what was known as the Memphis Wrestling territory. Jarrett is a key figure in the history of professional wrestling in the Mid-Southern United States. Described as a “wrestling genius”, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009.
Jarrett founded the Memphis, Tennessee-based Continental Wrestling Association in 1977. In 1989, Jarrett merged his promotion with the Dallas, Texas-based promotion World Class Championship Wrestling, creating the United States Wrestling Association, which Jarrett sold to Lawler in 1997. He made another foray into promoting in 2002 when he co-founded NWA:TNA with his son Jeff Jarrett, selling his controlling interest to Panda Energy International later that year.
Jerry Jarrett was exposed to the wrestling business at a very early age. His mother worked as a ticket vendor, and Jarrett began selling programs for a promotion owned by Roy Welch and Nick Gulas at the age of seven. After receiving his driving license at fourteen, he became a wrestling promoter, renting buildings, advertising shows, constructing the ring, selling tickets, and stocking refreshments. He worked as a promoter until he left Nashville to attend college. Upon graduating, Jarrett worked for Welch and Gulas as an office assistant and became a referee by default after a referee no-showed. He soon returned to promoting, working his way up from local promotions to regional, then national promotions.
While working as a referee, Jarrett decided to become a wrestler and was trained by his friend and future tag team partner Tojo Yamamoto and veteran wrestler Sailor Moran. He wrestled his first match in Haiti in 1965.
Jarrett became a successful wrestler in the South, particularly in his home state of Tennessee, forming tag teams with Jackie Fargo and Tojo Yamamoto.
After a dispute with Gulas in 1977, Jarrett opted to break away and found his own promotion, the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). With the support of Buddy Fuller, Jerry Lawler and his mother, Jarrett built the CWA into a successful promotion, staging events each Monday that regularly sold-out the Mid-South Coliseum and airing television shows each Saturday morning on WMC-TV. In 1981, NWA Mid-America folded due to competition from the CWA with Gulas selling his territory to Jarrett.
In 1979, The Freebirds wanted Jarrett to allow them to play Freebird on their entrances. They first tried it in the Mid-South Coliseum along with twirling the house spotlights. So Jerry Jarrett became one of the first promoters to use music and videos to promote his roster of wrestlers.
In 1984, Jarrett entered into a talent exchange with Bill Watts’ Mid-South Wrestling promotion. Jarrett and Lawler advised Watts to bring more young performers into his territory to attract a younger generation of fans; especially females since they bring their boyfriends to the shows.
In 1988, Jarrett entered talks with Verne Gagne, owner of the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association, about a potential merger. After the talks were abandoned in 1989, Jarrett instead entered into a merger with the Dallas, Texas-based promotion World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) to create the United States Wrestling Association.
The United States Wrestling Association began promoting shows in Tennessee and Texas in 1989, with Jarrett aspiring to take the promotion national. In 1990, WCCW withdrew from the USWA after a revenue dispute, folding shortly thereafter.
In 1992, the USWA began a talent exchange program with the World Wrestling Federation. By the mid-1990s, attendances at the Mid-South Coliseum had fallen sharply, and in 1995 Jarrett sold his stake in the promotion to Jerry Lawler and Larry Burton.
After stepping back from promoting, Jarrett worked as a consultant for both World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the WWF.
In 2001, Jarrett put together proposals for acquisition of WCW, calculating that he could return the company to profitability by aggressively cutting costs. The company’s assets were, however, acquired by the WWF after its programming n TBS and TNT was canceled.
After the sale of World Championship Wrestling to the World Wrestling Federation and the bankruptcy of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the North American professional wrestling industry lacked a viable competitor to the WWF which Jerry and Jeff Jarrett attempted to fill with the formation of NWA:TNA. On May 9, 2002, the Jarretts announced the formation of J Sports and Entertainment (JSE), the parent company of NWA:TNA, a new professional wrestling promotion that began airing weekly pay-per-views on In Demand on June 19, 2002.
In October 2002, JSE sold a 72% controlling interest in NWA:TNA to Panda Energy. Jarrett remained part of the NWA:TNA management team until departing in late-2005 over a dispute about the direction of the company.
Jerry Jarrett now hosts the podcast Booking Memphis along with Sean Reedy.
MLW issued the following announcement on Wednesday 3/13/19:
Prepare to experience more Jim Cornette on Major League Wrestling broadcasts.
MLW today announced that the league has come to terms with Jim Cornette to extend his presence ringside as an analyst for Major League Wrestling programming.
“Jim is very talented and we’re very happy he’ll be staying on with us,” MLW CEO Court Bauer said in a statement. “He brings a unique personality and presence to FUSION and anything else he does for us. His talents in front of the camera and behind it our invaluable to the league and its wrestlers.”
Cornette is scheduled for MLW’s New York City return on April 4th and 5th. The “Louisville Slugger” will also be present for MLW’s Milwaukee debut on June 1st and return to Chicago on July 6th. Tickets are on sale for all events at MLWTickets.com.
Cornette surprised the sport with his return at MLW: Intimidation Games in Chicago on March 3rd’s live broadcast on beIN SPORTS. (Watch)
