Matt Taven of The Kingdom suffered an injury to his knee during the ROH World Tag Team Championship match against War Machine at last night’s ROH Final Battle pay-per-view. The match had tp be cut short and Taven was helped to the back. War Machine won the match to become the new ROH World Tag Team Champions.
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2015 ROH Final Battle Results
(YouTube Exclusive) Cheeseburger VS Brutal Bob Evans – Winner: Cheeseburger
#1 Contender’s Triple Threat Tag Team Match: The Young Bucks VS All Night Express VS The Briscoes – Winners: All Night Express
Dalton Castle VS Silas Young w/the Boys – Winner: Silas Young
Moose w/Stokely Hathaway VS Michael Elgin –Winner: Michael Elgin
Adam Cole VS Kyle O’Reilly – Winner: Adam Cole
Alex Shelley, #Reborn Matt Sydal & ACH VS The Addiction & Chris Sabin – Winners: Alex Shelley, Matt Sydal & ACH
ROH World Television Championship: (C) Roderick Strong VS Bobby Fish – Winner: Roderick Strong
ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Kingdom w/Maria Kanellis VS War Machine –Winners and new ROH World Tag Team Champions War Machine
ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles – Winner: Jay Lethal
TNA Programming To Start Airing On POP TV Next Week
This past Wednesday was the last episode of TNA Impact Wrestling on Destination America. Fans won’t have to wait until January 5th to watch TNA on their new home of POP TV. Next Tuesday, December 22 at 9 PM ET, POP TV will air Impact Wrestling: Best of 2015, which will be hosted by Jeremy Borash and Christy Hemme. Another episode will air the following week on December 29.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Jeff Hardy Update, Jeff & Matt Hardy TNA Deals Expiring Soon
According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter Jeff Hardy reportedly needs another surgery on his knee and could be out of the ring until late 2016. The timetable for his return won’t be certain until after he has the surgery. Jeff told his friends that he will have to tone down his wrestling style.
Jeff & Matt Hardy’s TNA deals expire win 10-12 weeks.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Premiere Date For Lucha Underground Season 2 Set, Rey Mysterio
It was revealed today that season 2 of Lucha Underground will premiere on January 27th on the El Rey Network.
WrestlingINC.com reports that Lucha Underground seems close to signing Rey Mysterio.
GFW Announces First Live Events For 2016
Global Force Wrestling will break new ground in 2016 as founder and CEO Jeff Jarrett brings GFW to the Northeast for the first time to open the New Year.
GFW will be at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York on Jan. 22.
Co-promotion between GFW and Pro Wrestling Syndicate at the Rahway Rec Center in Rahway, New Jersey on Jan. 23.
Tickets for both events go an sale Friday. For the Poughkeepsie card, you can go to the Mid-Hudson box office or any Ticketmaster location, charge-by-phone 1-800-745-3000, or on-line at ticketmaster.com. Tickets for the Jan. 23 event are available through the PayPal link at prowrestlingsyndicate.com.
For more information visit globalforcewrestling.com.
GFW Global Champion Nick Aldis Injured
Former TNA World Heavyweight Champion and current GFW Global Champion Nick Aldis (Magnus) suffered a torn bicep while working a tour of Mexico recently for Konnan.
Matt Hardy Got Head Badly Busted Open (Graphic Photos & Video)
Matt Hardy lost the WrestleCade Heavyweight Title to Jeff Jarrett at Saturday’s WrestleCade IV event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hardy got his head busted open badly due to a bad guitar shot that didn’t break. Hardy noted on Twitter that he needed 38 stitches and had to be hospitalized overnight for observation.
Wrestling Legend Tommy Gilbert Passed Away
Tommy Gilbert, the patriarch of the Gilbert wrestling family passed away Thanksgiving morning at the age of 75. Tommy was the father of Doug and the late Eddie Gilbert. Tommy was a star in the Memphis wrestling territory for years, he also worked for other Southern wrestling territories like Continental, Florida and Puerto Rico’s WWC. He won several titles, including the Florida Heavyweight Championship and the WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Championship, as well as many Tag Team championships.
Wrestling News Blog would like to give our condolences to his family, friends and fans.
Here are tweets from Tommy’s son Doug and from Jerry “The King” Lawler on his passing:
Survivor Series Predictions
Tonight one of the biggest PPV’s of the year WWE Survivor Series takes place live from Alanta and live on the WWE Network at 5PT/8ET
Here’s a look at the card for tonight’s event WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Final: TBD VS TBD
Divas Championship: (C) Charlotte VS Paige
The Brothers of Destruction (Kane & The Undertaker) VS 2 members of The Wyatt Family
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Roman Reigns VS Alberto Del Rio
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Semi-final:Dean Ambrose VS Kevin Owens
Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match: TBA VS TBA
Dolph Ziggler VS Tyler Breeze w/Summer Ray
Now here are our picks for tonight
Ed’s picks: Breeze def Ziggler, Brothers of Destruction def the Wyatt family, Charlotte def Paige, Ambrose def Owens, Reigns def Del Rio And reigns def Ambrose becoming the new champion
Trevor’s picks: Ziggler, Brothers of Destruction, Charlotte, Owens, Reigns over both Del Rio and Owens thus becoming champion
John’s picks: Tyler Breeze, Charlotte, Wyatt Family, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Reigns wins WWE World Heavyweight Title
Vanessa’s picks: Breeze over Ziggler, Brothers of Destruction over Wyatt family, Charlotte over Paige, Ambrose over Owens, Reigns over Del Rio and Reigns becomes new champion by defeating Ambrose
As noted there should be a traditional survivor series tag match but no participates have been named.
It seems like everyone here at WNB is on the same page with the exception of two matches. What about you guys? Let us know your predictions in the comments.
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