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Wrestling
UFC 226 Confirmed Salaries: Several Fighters Hit Six Figures
Below is a full list of confirmed salaries for UFC 226. Note that these don’t include sponsorship, media and bonus money. Champion Stipe Miocic: $750,000 (no win bonus) vs. Champion Daniel Cormier: $500,000 (no win bonus) Francis Ngannou: $100,000 to…
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Wrestling
Robert Whittaker, Kelvin Gastelum To Coach What Could Be The Ultimate Fighter’s Last Season
The UFC’s next — and possibly final — season of The Ultimate Fighter has its coaches. Closing out their run on Fox and Fox Sports 1 will see The Ultimate Fighter 28 pit UFC Middleweight Champion and top contender Kelvin…
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Wrestling
UFC Returns To PPV In Toronto In December For UFC 231
The UFC is heading back to one of its historically best markets for another pay-per-view offering. UFC 231 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for their sixth trip to the City. The last appearance was UFC 206, a show…
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Wrestling
More U.S. Shows Announced For NJPW, Including September Return To Long Beach
New Japan Pro Wrestling isn’t waiting around to announce their upcoming dates in the United States. Pro Wrestling Unlimited is in San Francisco on behalf of Fightful to take in the New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 Special, and reported that…
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Wrestling
Notes From The NJPW San Francisco Press Conference: NJPW Back In September, More
Fightful and Pro Wrestling Unlimited are on the scene of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s press conference ahead of the G1 Special. We have made it to the New Japan G1 Special Press Conference. Starts in about an hour pic.twitter.com/uHzepQSyks —…
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Wrestling
Fightul Wrestling Weekly (7/6): NJPW, Impact, Rich Swann, Raw & Smackdown, More
Josh Mathews Josh Mathews has also been a constant in Impact Wrestling, Global Force Wrestling and TNA Wrestling. As polarizing as he might be on social media, he’s viewed as a really versatile employee of Impact. He told me last…
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Wrestling
Ring Of Honor Issues Statement In Regards To Taeler Hendrix – Jay Lethal Accusations
After former Ring of Honor talent Taeler Hendrix made some accusations heinous in nature in regards to the company’s champion in Jay Lethal, they’ve spoken up about the situation. Hendrix accused Lethal of getting her fired from Ring of Honor…
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Wrestling
ROH vs. Impact Match Added To Chris Jericho’s Cruise
Chris Jericho’s cruise is starting to gain traction and matches. Bullet Club’s Marty Scurll announced on Thursday that he’ll be working an interpromotional matchup on the cruise show. The New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor star will take on…
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Wrestling
Exclusive: Production Notes From WWE Raw & Smackdown Live For July 2 & 3
WWE Smackdown and Raw “ROLLED ON” this week with their Independence Day-week efforts. Fightful.com was able to see several additional notes on the production script. From titles, to instructions and omissions, you can see several notes below: – The title for…
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Wrestling
Max Holloway Out Of UFC 226 Title Fight With Concussion-Like Symptoms
It wouldn’t be a huge UFC week without having a major fight fall out, and Wednesday night saw that for UFC 226 as Featherweight Champion Max Holloway has withdrawn from his planned title fight with Brian Ortega. ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reported…