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One element at combat sporting events that I feel just never makes sense is the booking… of a live music performance. Now I for one love music, all different genres and I’ve attended hundreds of concerts. I also enjoy attending pro wrestling and the occasional MMA show when I get the chance. Yet I don’t enjoy [...] - [Read more]

The Presale code for tickets to WWE’s ‘Cyber Sunday’ 2008 in Phoenix is “Punk”. The Presale will run through tomorrow evening. Get more Cyber Sunday 2008 content at Combat-Hooligans.com - [Read more]

Al Snow, Tito Santana and Doink The Clown will be appearing at the House Of Pain Wrestling Federation event in Martinsburg, West Virginia on September 6th, 2008. Go to http://www.hopwf.com for information about the HOPWF and http://prowrestlingevents.webs.com for information about upcoming wrestling shows. - [Read more]

Sent in by Devin Cutting: TNA will be holding a house show at the River Center in Davenport, Iowa on October 10th, 2008. Bell time is 8 PM. Tickets go on sale August 29th, 2008 at 10 AM. Go to http://www.prowrestlingevents.tk or http://prowrestlingevents.webs.com for info about upcoming shows. - [Read more]

GOUGE presents its annual Back to School Bash at Vintage 21 117 S. West St. Raleigh, North Carolina Friday August 22 at 8PM (doors open at 7PM) Family friendly - smoke free show GOUGE Champion Leroye Greene defends against Extoc Aloysius Street Krazy Killer Klowns vs Fabulous Frankie & Trailer Park Model Wallabee Joe vs Vinnie DaMooche Lance Osmond vs ReMix Seymour [...] - [Read more]

Power Trip Wrestling 20/08/08 RESULTS A New Champion, A Big Challenge, and of course….Football References! * Petey Staniforth came out to the ring, furious because the sound guy had played the wrong song for his entrance. “Not only do I have a ginger mop for a ring announcer, my sound guy is clearly an idiot”, he said, [...] - [Read more]

Olympic Boxer Dzhakhon Kurbanov of Tajikistan won’t face anymore sanctions from the International Boxing Association from his biting incident at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Kurbanov, trailing 12-6 with 17 seconds remaining in the third round to Yerkebulan Shynaliyev of Kazakhstan bit him on the shoulder during a clinch and was disqualified. According to IBA Spokesman Richard [...] - [Read more]

THE HONKY TONK MAN SQUASHES A FALSE RUMOR ABOUT HIM THAT WAS STARTED IN MICK FOLEY’S BOOK AND BASED ON THE LIE OF ANOTHER WWF WRESTLER By WorldWrestlingInsanity.com We know you want to hear this week’s ClubWWI.com guest sing. We know you want to see this week’s ClubWWI.com guest dance. And we know you want [...] - [Read more]

SOUTHEASTERN WRESTLING NEWS, NOTES, AND NOSTALGIA: 08/21/2008 NEWS and NOTES Peach State Pandemonium featured longtime Peach State Wrestling promoter Ben Masters on Wednesday night. We were also joined by Global Championship Wrestling’s Mad Dog Sawyer, who gave us some history on the 15 year promotion, and laid out the plan for the August 23 event in Irondale, [...] - [Read more]

EliteXC Welterweight champion Jake Shields (21-4-1) will make his first title defense since winning the title back on July 26 on the next edition of CBS/EliteXC’s ‘Saturday Night Fights’. Shields will take on Cage Rage veteran Paul Daley (18-6-2) on a card that will also feature Gina Carano and Kimbo Slice. Shields and who he would [...] - [Read more]

Rich Clementi (32-12-1 MMA, 5-3 UFC) who is coming off of a win at UFC 84 over Terry Etim is set to return on Oct. 25 at UFC 90 in Chicago. According to MMAJunkie.com Clementi will face Xtreme Couture Lightweight Gray Maynard (5-0-1 MMA, 3-0-1 UFC). Maynard is coming off of a dominating performance in [...] - [Read more]

I kind of wish Art had written this one because he’s so much better at expressing his feelings on this subject than I am even though we largely agree. According to MMAJunkie.com Rock-and-Roll Icon Ozzy Osbourne will perform at Affliction ‘Day of Reckoning’ on October 11. I don’t know how much Osbourne will be paid for his [...] - [Read more]

For Edwin Dewees, ‘Banned’ was a fitting title because after he failed a steroid test for Nandrolone, the California State Athletic Commission has suspended him for 1 year and fined him $2,500. Get more Affliction ‘Banned’ content at Combat-Hooligans.com - [Read more]

The California State Athletic Commission suspended EliteXC Heavyweight champion Antonio “Big Foot” Silva for 1 year and fined him $2,500 for testing positive for the steroid Boldenone. The test was administered as part of CBS/EliteXC’s July 26 card in Stockton, California. It was on that evening that Silva defeated Justin Eilers to become the promotion’s [...] - [Read more]

Here are the Matchups in the preliminary round of the Men’s Olympic Welterweight Taekwondo tournament which will take place later this evening in Beijing. Date/Time (ET) Country Bib Name Country Bib Name 08/21 – 11:00 PM Gabon 101 Lionel Baguissi Venezuela 112 Carlos Vasquez 08/21 – 11:15 PM Great Britain 102 Aaron Cook Marshall Islands 106 Anju Jason 08/21 – 11:30 PM Turkey 110 Bahri Tanrikulu United States 111 Steven Lopez 08/21 – 11:45 PM Italy 105 Mauro Sarmiento Cote d’Ivoire 100 N’guessan Sebastien Konan 08/22 – 12:00 AM Qatar 109 Abdulqader Hikmat A [...] - [Read more]

Here are the Preliminary round matches in the Women’s Olympic Welterweight class of Taekwondo which will take place later this evening at the Beijing Summer games of 2008. Date/Time (ET) Country Bib Name Country Bib Name 08/21 – 9:00 PM Greece 39 Elisavet Mystakidou Puerto Rico 46 Asuncion Ocasio Rodriguez 08/21 – 9:15 PM Guinea 40 Mariama Dalanda Barry Germany 38 Helena Fromm 08/21 – 9:30 PM Australia 34 Tina Morgan Canada 35 Karine Sergerie 08/21 – 9:45 PM Turkey 47 Sibel Guler Argentina 33 Vanina Paola 08/21 – 10:00 PM Philippines 45 Mary [...] - [Read more]

This Saturday, August 23, 2008 Delaware County Fairgrounds Community Building 1210 N. Wheeling Ave Muncie, IN 47304 Doors open at 6:30 PM, Bell Time is 7:30 PM DOUBLE MAIN EVENT ANNOUNCED! * TNA Wrestling star SHARK BOY vs. GENERAL LEE * WWE/ROH/OVW star TANK TOLAND vs. JON MOXLEY Also, signed: * IPW World Title Match: IPW & CZW Champion “Psycho Shooter” [...] - [Read more]

Here are the combined nation standings for Medals awarded in Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. As usual, whenever math and i have to work together, mistakes can be made. Individual category medal charts Men’s Greco-Roman Wrestling Women’s Freestyle Wrestling Men’s Freestyle Wrestling Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Russia 6 3 2 11 Japan 2 2 2 6 Ukraine 0 2 3 5 Kazakhstan 0 1 4 5 Georgia 2 0 2 4 Azerbaijan 0 2 2 4 Bulgaria 0 1 3 4 China 1 2 0 3 United States 1 0 2 3 Canada 1 0 1 2 France 1 0 1 2 Turkey 1 0 1 2 Uzbekistan 1 0 1 2 Kyrgyzstan 0 1 1 2 Armenia 0 0 2 2 Belarus 0 0 2 2 Cuba 1 0 0 1 Italy 1 0 0 1 Germany 0 1 0 1 Hungary 0 1 0 1 Tajikistan 0 1 0 1 Columbia 0 0 1 1 India 0 0 1 1 Iran 0 0 1 1 Lithuania 0 0 1 1 Poland 0 0 1 1 Slovakia 0 0 1 1 South Korea 0 0 1 1 *Sweden 0 0 *1 *1 Note: * equals Stripped of Medal Get more 2008 Summer Olympics content at Combat-Hooligans.com [...] - [Read more]

August 9, 2008 at the EWF Arena on 3400 S. Adams in Marion, IN. Bell time is 7:30.  Tickets are only $8 and available at the door. New Era Title - Lumberjack Match Nate Phoenix (c) vs. Just Justin Also, scheduled to appear: Midwestern Champion Matt Cavins, “Tag Champs” Hank Calhoun & Wildman Rogers, [...] - [Read more]

Thanks to Kris Z NEWS Ultimo Guerrero reiterated again today that he wants to be involved in the Blue Panther/Villano V mask match at Arena Mexico on 9/19 even with the contracts being signed. UG said that he has the confidence that if he gets the chance to speak with EMLL directors about making it a 3-way [...] - [Read more]