The famous movie character Hellboy is going to make his debut in the world of professional wrestling.
Hellboy will be wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling on September 3, teaming up with Jake Lee and Koji Iwamoto to face Takao Omori, Black Menso~Re and Hokuto Omori.
It will be a one-off appearance in partnership with the Hellboy movie ahead of its release in Japan next month.
Training videos for Hellboy that have been released and you can view them below.
https://twitter.com/HellboyMovieJP/status/1163386013357506561
All Japan would officially confirm the match themselves on their Twitter account.#ボトルキャップチャレンジ
— 映画『ヘルボーイ』大ヒット公開中🔥 (@HellboyMovieJP) August 19, 2019
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It isn’t known at present who will play the character in the ring, but it’s safe to say it won’t be the movies actor, Stranger Things’ David Harbour.Hellboy will make his debut in All Japan on 9/3, teaming with Jake Lee and Koji Iwamoto against Takao Omori, Black Menso~Re and Hokuto Omori.
— 全日本プロレス (English) (@alljapan_eng) August 19, 2019
Biography
Name: Hellboy
Height: 213cm
Weight: 227kg
Hometown: Hell
Date of birth: 23/12/1944
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In what is the greatest news in the history of our sport, AEW has signed Tony Schiavone.
The former WCW announcer had vanished from the wrestling business following the demise of WCW has become much in demand following his What Happened When podcast with Conrad Thompson.
WWE had shown serious interest in hiring him, but Schiavone opted to sign with AEW. A big part of him choosing to sign with AEW is likely because he can remain with Major League Wrestling as an announcer under his AEW deal
Schiavone currently has a deal with MLW which means they have had to approve him signing with AEW also.
It is unknown what role Schiavone will play in AEW. The main possibility is that he may have a role backstage with Alicia Atout and Chris Van Vliet, who are the backstage interviewers. AEW seems to have a settled broadcast team at present with Jim Ross, Excalibur and Alex Marvez although that is an option.
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Chris Jericho was a recent guest on Busted Open Radio and discussed the reports of NXT moving to the USA Network on Wednesday nights to go head-to-head with AEW.
Jericho noted that he believes that there is already too much WWE programming as it is. Jericho said:
“I think WWE is great but there’s too much WWE as it is. By adding another two hours, that really dilutes the product, it dilutes their mindset, it dilutes the focus. It’s a reactionary move that’s done by a guy who wants to start a war. We don’t care if you want to start a war, that was never our intention. There’s no war for us, we’re just doing what we’re doing. People there don’t like that and they’re reacting to it, and it just dilutes their own product.
You remember in the 90s, Nitro would start at 7:57 and RAW started at 8:00, and the reason that we started early is because we wanted our pyro to be before theirs. Who gives a crap? What’s the show like? Don’t worry about what the other guys are doing, worry about your own stuff.
I don’t care about any other wrestling company in the world. I want everyone to do good, everyone be the best that you can be, whether it’s WWE, Ring Of Honor, Impact, New Japan, AAA or friggin’ George Swanson’s show at the Armory on a Friday night. Do your thing. We don’t care, and I think that’s one of the things that makes us cool. It’s a typical thing, the more other people will do, the more it makes us look revolutionary and cool, and we haven’t even started yet. Just wait until we start.”
Jericho also felt that having NXT air on Wednesday nights probably won’t affect them as he feels a large percentage of their audience already don’t watch WWE.
“We still don’t know who our fan base is,” Jericho admitted. “I don’t think that there’s a lot of crossover between WWE fans and AEW fans. I think a lot of people that are into AEW are people that maybe haven’t watched wrestling in a while, or maybe are looking for something different. Maybe they don’t like WWE, I don’t know.”
You can hear the audio for yourself below:
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 In the wake of #NXT's potential move to a live Wednesday night show on the USA Network, @IAmJericho tells @davidlagreca1 & @bullyray5150 that @AEWrestling is just doing their thing and not trying to start a war 👇 pic.twitter.com/OsR8lYMnC3
— SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) August 19, 2019
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Starting on August 27th “The Franchise” Shane Douglas will be launching his all new show “Franchised With Shane Douglas and Brian Reznor”.
The first episode titled “The Birth Of Extreme” is a can’t miss for historians, as both men will sit down and discuss everything surrounding Shane Douglas becoming NWA World Champion, cutting that promo and declaring himself the ECW Heavyweight Champion.
In a press release provided to WIJ, Brian Reznor says:
“I honestly can’t wait to get started and there is no better place to start the birth of extreme! Franchised with Shane Douglas is the ECW Docupod you have been waiting for. In the weeks to come we will be covering ECW, WWE, WCW, XPW and more. If you a are Shane Douglas fan like I am or just a wrestling fan in general then you are going to love this show because no one tells a story like The Franchise!”
All episodes of “Franchised With Shane Douglas” will be available every Tuesday on www.shanedouglas.com, www.superiorradionetwork.com and all other podcast outlets.
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Starting September 18th, NXT will be airing from 8-10 p.m. ET on the USA Network. Going from 1 hour to 2 hours the show will be going head-to-head with All Elite Wrestling once their weekly show starts October 2nd on TNT.
This news is expected to be announced officially tonight during RAW. Since news of this story began breaking earlier today, WWE stock has increased $2.79 per share up to $72.45 as of writing.
The Wednesday Night Wars are coming, and fans should be excited.
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Santana and Ortiz of the Latin American Xchange (LAX) appear to have wrapped things up with IMPACT Wrestling following their TV tapings in Mexico.
An Instagram post from Santana on Friday, shows the team saying goodbye and thanking the company that they’ve been working for since 2017.
IMPACT Wrestling had attempted to resign the team but couldn’t come to terms despite offering money equivalent to IMPACT’s top singles stars. With LAX’s contract officially expiring on August 31, it is expected both the WWE and All Elite Wrestling will make attempts to sign them.
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Edge was sadly forced to retire in 2011 due to doctors diagnosing him with cervical spinal stenosis. It was feared he could be paralyzed if he wrestled again. So it came as a massive surprise when he hit Elias with a spear this past Sunday at Summerslam.
The subject of his first bump in a wrestling ring in over eight years came up the latest episode of Christian and his E & C’s Pod of Awesomeness podcast, and it now seems his neck injury is no longer considered as bad as it once was.
I think in terms of my neck there’s a lot of miseducation. When I first found out with my retirement speech, I said what I knew at that point. I’ve since learned a lot more. I’m a highly physical person. I fell off a mountain bike a few weeks ago. They don’t give me a stunt double.
I know where I’m at, and I’ve seen my neck guys down here, and they’ve told me the do’s and don’ts, and I’m not in the midst of being told I have to retire, you know? So, I’m much more emotionally aware and hearing everything and going ‘okay, what my limitations are going forward?’ And hitting the Spear is not one of them.
… To be perfectly honest, I think I could do a match tomorrow … I might be blown up, but I’d be okay. It’s just from what I know with the WWE medical staff, they won’t allow. It is what it is, right?
Just from the stuff I’ve experienced in the last eight years and the things I’ve done physically, it’s like ‘I could pull off one.’ I’m not saying I go back and do a year’s worth”
Edge also says that he is looking into stem cell therapy and his neck could be relatively healthy in five years.
So there you have it, another Edge match always seemed impossible, and while unlikely it is now a possibility under the right circumstances.
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Ronda Rousey has made her return to acting official as she has agreed to join the season three cast of FOX’s “9-1-1” in a recurring role.
The plot of this season will revolve around a tsunami that hits Santa Monica. Rousey will play a character named Lena Bosko, described as “a stoic and fearless member of the Los Angeles Fire Department Station 136 who leaps into action to save lives when a disaster hits”.
The new season of “9-1-1” premieres on FOX at 8 p.m. Eastern time on September 23.
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MLW have made a new addition to their behind-the-scenes staff with Dr. Tom Prichard officially joining as a senior agent. He will also work as a coach and coordinator.
In the press release sent by MLW, owner Court Bauer said:
The former wrestler and guiding light of countless champions and perennial main eventers will join MLW starting in Dallas on September 7 when MLW presents WAR CHAMBER (learn more). Prichard will work as a coach and coordinator as some of his many duties for the league.
An accomplished grappler in his own right, Prichard has competed all over the the world; finding great success in southern promotions stateside.
Starting his career along with his brother Bruce in Houston, Prichard would win gold in several organizations. A champion in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, the USWA, WWE as well as the Continental Wrestling Federation, the “Doctor of Desire” was a renowned tag team specialist.
Moreover, Prichard is a revered trainer.
Prichard played a key role in developing the likes of future legends like The Rock, Edge, Kurt Angle and countless others including some of today’s preeminent wrestlers. For several years Prichard was a senior trainer for WWE’s developmental system.
“Dr. Tom is praised for his work with young athletes and we’re thrilled to have him join our staff,” said MLW CEO Court Bauer. “As MLW grows, so does our need for more top-level coaches. Few can match Tom’s experience, ability to connect with prospects as well as coach wrestlers to reach their full potential like Dr. Tom.”
When not working with MLW Dr. Tom Prichard serves as the head coach for Jacobs-Prichard Wrestling Academy in Knoxville.
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During an interview on ESPN 97.5’s “The Hall of Fame” with Booker T and Brad Gilmore, Goldberg addressed THAT match with The Undertaker at WWE Super ShowDown this past June.
The 52-year-old Goldberg who has just competed at SummerSlam against Dolph Ziggler said he was prepared for the heat in Saudi Arabia, but what happened in the match was “the perfect storm of crappiness”.
“The ring post thing, hey man, that’s a spot that you know a couple of the bookers came up to me afterwards and said, ‘Well we called it. We knew you were gonna do that,’ because 50% of the time I’ve done that spot I’ve not had good results.”
“I don’t profess to be an entertainer on the level of a Ric Flair that can go out and make people laugh, I mean I can but it’s not my way of doing things. My way of making people’s jaws drop is blurring the line between reality and fiction, you know? So everything I do has to be, okay, the kick that I took from Dolph? You know the first kick that I took? Yeah, that felt really good. Because I had to react to it because it planted on me. It was perfect. That’s the way that I work, man. I’m a reactionary guy and if I’m gonna be a defensive lineman that was an All-American, if I’m gonna be a guy that played a couple years in the NFL, if I’m gonna be guy that is known to be a thrasher, I’m not going to run into a turnbuckle and miss it and act like it killed me. I can’t do that so I have to make it look as close to it killing me as possible and sometimes, unfortunately, the circumstances are such that I go a little overboard.
And at an accelerated age, your body can’t take that overboard like it used to. I can’t bounce back from it like I used to. And then the perfect storm of the heat, and the perfect storm of Taker maybe not having the timing and not going at the same time at one point. At the end of the day, there ain’t never been a dude in the freakin’ ring that I couldn’t pick up.”
“It was an unfortunate deal that I just shouldn’t have gone as hard as I went and then hey, you know a couple of people, ‘Hey, well what about the referee? He should have called it.’ Well guess what? The referee asked me 15 times how I felt. You know what I told him? 15 different answers. I did. I know I told him something different every time because I felt different every time he asked me.”
“Hey man, remember when I put my hand through the limousine window? I’m not the smartest guy in the world when it comes to trying to be a monster and turn green from zero to 100 like a light switch. And sometimes it’s just tough and I go overboard. It is what it is. Hey, that’s what made it exciting man, and so I just can’t bounce back at 52 like I used to, that’s all.”
You can hear in full what Goldberg had to say below in the video below.
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Real-life exorcist Rachel Stavis returns with more creepy stories about ridding people and places of evil demons she calls “entity!” She describes the various entity and their degree of evil, how you know if you’ve got one attached, and what you can do to get rid of it. She also shares a scary paranormal experience she witnessed in New Orleans, how she protects herself from unwanted evil attachments, and the very cool new projects that she’s working on which may bring her special skills to a screen near you!
For more Talk Is Jericho episodes please visit TalkIsJericho.com and you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
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The first live “Grilling JR” show with Jim Ross and Conrad Thompson started with a bang in Jacksonville with unheard and behind the curtain stories, no one has heard previously.
One story that JR recalled was that Vince McMahon originally wanted to pass on signing Randy Orton due to his dishonorable discharge from the Marines before eventually getting talked around.
Questioned by Thompson on McMahon not wanting to sign Orton due to the discharge even though he’s a second generation. Ross would respond saying:
No, it didn’t matter. McMahon is that patriotic. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, we did it cause I talked him into it. ‘We gotta give him a chance. Everybody deserves a chance, Vince.’
He said it all the time. ‘Let’s give this kid a chance.’ Cause he’s getting one chance now, right? One chance. If it don’t work, he’s done with us. For f’n ever. There’ll be no more recalls and there will be no more call backs; we’re done. But he deserves a chance.’
Orton would go to become a 13-time world champion, one-time Intercontinental Champion, one-time United States Champion, two-time Tag Team Champion, two-time Royal Rumble winner, and Mr. Money In The Bank.
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