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PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy.
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TNA officially announced Friday their next event will be the Slammiversary PPV on Sunday, June 12 from Orlando, Florida.
TNA president Dixie Carter tweeted a 30-second PPV preview for the event featuring TNA Hvt. champion Drew Galloway, Bobby Lashley, and Jeff Hardy doing a spectacular leap.
Plus, Matt Hardy, Ethan Carter III, Mike Bennett & Maria, and Eli Drake.
Slammiversary leads into the next set of TV tapings in Orlando scheduled for Monday, June 13, a semi-live taping on Tuesday, June 14, and Wednesday, June 15.
(Read More: Slammiversary SPOILER PPV Line-up)
Happy to announce #Slammiversary will be taking place June 12 on PPV! https://t.co/C50i0Wm3CA pic.twitter.com/HiPDqo2iDw
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— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) May 13, 2016
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PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy.
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WWE programming is anchoring NBC Universal’s cable TV programming being live and weekly around the year. However, WWE’s presence at the NBCU Upfronts presentation Monday in New York City did not seem to make much of a splash.
It captures how far WWE has to go in order to be taken seriously as a part of NBCU’s “mainstream appeal” to media buyers and be taken seriously by publications covering the Upfronts.
John Cena, who has taken an expanded role on NBC’s “Today” Show while injured this year, was the key figure representing WWE programming at the two-hour event that combined all of NBCU’s programming in one presentation for the first time.
The Bella Twins (Brie & Nikki) were also on-hand to represent E!’s “Total Divas” and spin-off “Total Bellas” programming.
However, the event was dominated by NBC programming, executives dismissing TV ratings and talking about audience engagement, and a parade of cameos turning the event into an entertainment spectacle.
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Deadline.com did not mention Cena in their coverage, Broadcasting & Cable and Hollywood Life mentioned Cena in passing as one of the stars appearing at the event, and E! News merely highlighted Cena and the Bellas on the red carpet.
Although Raw, Smackdown, and Bellas-related programming is a significant part of USA Network, the Upfront captured that WWE is swimming in a big NBCU pond once moving outside of the cable TV bubble.
After four years, it appears that Nick Diaz may be making a return to the octagon next year.
Brett Okamoto of ESPN is reporting that Diaz is close to finalizing to return to the UFC at UFC 235, which is scheduled for March 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. If both sides agree, Diaz will face Jorge Masvidal in a welterweight bout. The report says that Masvidal told ESPN this week that he had been offered the fight, but wasn’t sure if Diaz would accept.
Diaz last fought for the UFC back at UFC 183 in January of 2015, losing to Anderson Silva by unanimous decision. The result was overturned after Silva tested positive for drostanolone and androsterone. Diaz also tested positive for marijuana and suspended Diaz for 18 months. He was again suspended after missing three drug tests out-of-competition.
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Masvidal also hasn’t fought in a while. He’s been out due to injuries as well as taking part in a Spanish-language reality show.
Shamima Begum, the Isil bride, has described being stripped of her British citizenship is "unjust" and "hard to swallow" after she was shown the Home Office’s documentation of the decision.
The 19-year-old, who had expressed the desire to return to the UK with her newborn son, was banned on Tuesday from entering the country.
At a refugee camp in northeastern Syria, she was shown the Government’s letter, showing that she is no longer a British national.
"I don’t know what to say," she told ITV News. "I am not that shocked but I am a bit shocked. It’s a bit upsetting and frustrating. I feel like it’s a bit unjust on me and my son."
She added: "It’s kind of heart-breaking to read. My family made it sound like it would be a lot easier for me to come back to the UK when I was speaking to them in Baghouz. It’s kind of hard to swallow."
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Begum claimed that she was being treated harshly because "I was on the news four years ago", saying that she heard of "other people being sent back to Britain".
"I don’t know why my case is any different," she added.
International law forbids nations from making people stateless by revoking their only citizenship, prompting speculation that Begum held dual citizenship through her Bangladeshi parents.
But on Wednesday morning, Begum’s lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said his client does not have dual nationality.
While her family have said they are "considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision", Begum said she may explore a potential citizenship route through her Dutch husband.
"Another option I might try with my family is my husband is from Holland and he has family in Holland," she said.
"Maybe I can ask for citizenship in Holland. If he gets sent back to prison in Holland I can just wait for him while he is in prison."
She married Isil fighter Yago Riedjik in Syria having travelled to the Middle East from Bethnal Green in east London in 2015. Begum have birth to their third child on Sunday. Her two other children died in Syria.
In a letter sent to her family in Bethnal Green, east London, on Tuesday, officials said the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, had made the decision in "light of the circumstances".
The letter read: "Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the Home Secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima Begum, of her British citizenship.
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"In light of the circumstances of your daughter, the notice of the Home Secretary’s decision has been served of file today (19th February), and the order removing her British citizenship has subsequently been made."
The letter went on to urge Ms Begum’s family to make the teenager aware of the decision, but added that she had a right to appeal.
Isil schoolgirls' journey into Syria
In a statement the family’s lawyer said they were very disappointed by the move.
Despite saying she wants to bring her baby son up in the peace and security of the UK, Begum has insisted she has no regrets about travelling to Syria.
She has also been criticised for likening the deaths of 22 people in the Manchester Arena terror attack to the civilians being bombed in Isil territory.
The teenager, who gave birth to a baby boy on the weekend, appeared to defend the Manchester Arena bombing as tit-for-tat retaliation for air strikes in Syria.
In an interview with the BBC, she said the deaths of 22 innocent people in the terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 were akin to the "women and children" being bombed in Isil territory in Baghuz.
She told the broadcaster: "I do feel that it’s wrong that innocent people did get killed. It’s one thing to kill a soldier that is fighting you, it’s self-defence, but to kill the people like women and children…
"Just people like the women and children in Baghuz that are being killed right now unjustly, the bombings. It’s a two-way thing really.
"Because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now and it’s kind of retaliation. Like, their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought ‘OK, that is a fair justification’."
She was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and partly by other propaganda films showing the "good life" IS could offer.
The British schoolgirl who ran away to join Isil appealed for public sympathy following the birth of her son on Sunday.
In an interview with Sky News recorded at the Kurdish-controlled camp to which she fled from the last pocket of Isil-controlled territory, Begum said there was "no evidence" she had done anything wrong and she could not see "any reason" why her child should be taken from her when she had simply been living as a housewife.
Speaking just hours after giving birth, her baby at her side, she said she had no regrets about fleeing the family home in Bethnal Green, east London, to support Isil, claiming the experience had made her "stronger, tougher".
She said she could see a future for herself and her son, whom she has named Jarah after one of the two children she lost to malnutrition and disease in the last three months, "if the UK are willing to take me back and help me start a new life again and try and move on from everything that’s happened in the last four years".
She added: "I wouldn’t have found someone like my husband [Yago Riedijk, 26, a Muslim convert from the Netherlands] in the UK. I had my kids, I had a good time there."
Her other children, Jarah and Surayah, a daughter, died aged 18 months and nine months. Asked how she felt about the debate over whether she should be allowed to return home, Begum said: "I feel a lot of people should have sympathy for me, for everything I’ve been through.
"I didn’t know what I was getting into when I left, I just was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they let me come back.
"I can’t live in this camp forever. It’s not really possible."
In the interview, Begum apologised for the first time to her family for running away, and said that though she knew it was "like a big slap in the face" for her to ask after she had previously rejected their calls for her to return, "I really need their help".
The Isil bride said last week she was attracted to Isil by videos that she had seen online, which she said showed "how they’ll take care of you".
She said she knew that the group carried out beheadings, but that she "was OK with it at first. I started becoming religious just before I left and from what I heard Islamically that is all allowed".
"At first it was nice," she said of life in the so-called Islamic State. "It was how they showed it in the videos, you know, you come, make a family together, but then things got harder.
"We had to keep moving and moving and moving. The situation got fraught." Begum acknowledged that it would be "really hard" to be rehabilitated after everything she had been through.
"I’m still in that mentality of planes over my head, emergency backpacks, starving… it would be a big shock to go back to the UK and start again," she said.
READ MORE: Allison Pearson: Thank God, Sajid Javid grasped Shamima Begum is the one person uniting Britain – against her
READ MORE: Allison Pearson: Sorry my heartless little jihadi bride, but you made your bed and now you can lie in it
MLW is advertising that Konnan will challenge for their World Heavyweight Championship next month.
The promotion has announced that Low Ki will defend his MLW World Heavyweight Championship against Konnan in a no disqualification match at their television tapings in Miami, Florida on Friday, December 14. The show is the second of two straight nights of MLW tapings at the Miami Scottish Rite Temple.
The feud between Konnan (who has been managing Pentagon Jr. and Fenix) and Promociones Dorado continued with an angle where Low Ki confronted Konnan on last week’s MLW Fusion episode. Low Ki challenged Konnan to settle their differences in the ring, and Konnan told Low Ki that he would have tried this 10 years ago if he really wanted to face him. Salina de la Renta then insulted Konnan, with Konnan telling them that they may get what they want if they keep yapping.
Konnan also made an in-ring appearance as part of MLW’s Battle Riot match earlier this year and teamed with LAX against The OGz at Impact’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view last month, coming out near the end of the match after an angle where he was attacked backstage earlier in the night.
A four-way ladder match for the Middleweight Championship is also set for MLW’s tapings in Miami on December 14. MJF will defend his title against Kotto Brazil, Jason Cade, and an opponent that has yet to be announced. Marko Stunt was originally supposed to be in the match, but he suffered a broken leg at Joey Janela’s LA Confidential last Friday.
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One of Germany’s best known arms manufacturers was fined €3.7m (£3.2m) by the country’s courts on Thursday for illegal weapons sales to Mexico.
The fine was imposed after employees at Heckler and Koch were found guilty of shipping around 5,000 G36 assault rifles and smaller weapons to Mexico between 2006 and 2009 in contravention of German export restrictions.
Two former employees of the company were handed suspended jail sentences by a Stuttgart court, while two former directors and a sales manager were acquitted of involvement.
The scandal centres on shipments of arms to areas of Mexico affected by drug trade violence and kidnappings.
Germany is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world but operates strict export controls, and bans weapons sales to the regions in question.
“This case is not a trial of German arms policy,” Judge Frank Maurer said as he delivered the verdict. Whether arms exports are allowed is purely a political decision, not a legal one.”
Testimony heard in the course of the trial described how paperwork for the exports was drawn up to hide the weapons’ final destination.
There were boos in court when Peter Beyerle, the arms manufacturer’s former CEO, was acquitted .
Only two relatively junior staff were found guilty of wrongdoing. A former sales manager was fined €80,000 (£69,000) and given a 22-month suspended sentence, while a former secretary was given a 17-month suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service.
Heckler and Koch issued a statement saying it would “examine today’s judgment carefully”. But the company added: “We cannot understand why the court wants to seize not only the profit earned by the Mexico business, but the entire purchase price, although no member of the management has committed a criminal offense.”
The €3.7m fine is based on the value of the exported arms at the time.
The verdict comes after a private letter from Jeremy Hunt to the German government urging it to reconsider its ban on arms exports to Saudia Arabia was leaked to the press.
The Foreign Secretary complained that the German ban, imposed after the murder of Jamal Kashoggi, was damaging British exporters who could not fulfil Saudi contracts because they could not obtain parts from German partner companies.
A spokesman for Angela Merkel’s government said Germany had no plans to change its policy.
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PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy.
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Seth Rollins is back on WWE TV and back in the WWE Title picture.
Roman Reigns retained the WWE World Title against A.J. Styles in the Extreme Rules PPV main event. Then, as Reigns celebrated, Rollins suddenly hit the ring and dropped Reigns with a Pedigree.
Rollins hoisted the WWE Title belt into the air as the PPV signed off, signaling Styles’s exit and Rollins’s return to the title picture.
Rollins had been off WWE TV for six months recovering from a knee injury suffered in November when he was WWE champion. Rollins vacated the title due to injury before facing Reigns at Survivor Series. Now, it’s come full circle with Reigns the champion and Rollins looking to re-claim the title he never lost.
Following Rollins’s return, WWE quickly mobilized with new merchandise highlighting Rollins’s desire to “reclaim” the WWE Title after being “re-designed” and “rebuilt.”
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— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) May 23, 2016
@WWERollins "Redesign, Rebuild, Reclaim" t-shirt & hoodie at #WWEShop!https://t.co/SfVrEwhXdO#WWE #WWEExtremeRules pic.twitter.com/9YKlWbKL7f
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PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy.
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WWE ring announcer Eden Stiles (Brandi Rhodes) announced Tuesday night that she is leaving WWE.
Brandi, the wife of departed WWE star Cody Rhodes, announced that she parted ways with WWE after Tuesday night’s Smackdown TV taping.
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“What I’ve been teasing for weeks: I’ve been offered a new opportunity outside of WWE!! So I’ve decided to part w/ WWE after tonight,” she tweeted.
“BeingBrandiRunnels.com will continue! Check it out soon for updates on my new career life! Doing things my way! #RhodesStrong.”
WWE followed by confirming her departure on their website: “WWE has granted Eden (wife of Cody Rhodes) her request to be released, as of today, May 24, 2016. WWE wishes Eden the best in all her future endeavors.”
Cody Rhodes announced his departure from WWE on Saturday, which was made official on Sunday. A few days later, Brandi announced her exit.
Goldust (Dustin Rhodes) is now the last Rhodes Family member in WWE. This comes less than two months after a Dusty Rhodes Statue Presentation at WrestleMania Axxess honoring Dusty’s work for WWE and more-recently NXT.
Goldust addressed his status on Twitter, saying he is not planning on leaving WWE.
Earlier on Tuesday, WWE released a new vintage Dusty Rhodes t-shirt honoring his “American Dream” moniker.
(1/2) What I've been teasing for weeks: I've been offered a new opportunity outside of WWE!! So I've decided to part w/ WWE after tonight.
— Brandi Rhodes (@RealEdenWWE) May 25, 2016
(2/2) https://t.co/3VTfckiGyX will continue! Check it out soon for updates on my new career life! 🎉 Doing things my way! #RhodesStrong 💪🏾
— The Brandalorian (@TheBrandiRhodes) May 25, 2016
A lot of people asking me if I'm leaving. NOT planning on it. #GoldenTruth #DontReadTheDirtsheets #ImInMyPrime #BenjaminButton . #HomeWWE
— GOLDUST (@Goldust) May 25, 2016
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New Japan Pro Wrestling is bringing in Excalibur to call the last few days of the World Tag League next month.
NJPW’s Global Twitter made the announcement this morning. He will join Kevin Kelly to call the last three nights of action, which will start on December 6, continue on the 7th and end on the 9th with the finals.
“It’s been a longtime dream of mine to commentate for @njpw1972 @njpwglobal, and I’m super excited to be joining the booth-shaped booth with @realkevinkelly for the last three nights of [the World Tag League]” Excalibur wrote on Twitter. “Thanks to everyone for the support! Unless you don’t, then you can go to hell.”
In addition, Chris Charlton, author of the recent book Eggshells that details the history of wrestling at the Tokyo Dome, announced that he will be a part of Wrestle Kingdom 13’s English commentary team.
Excalibur is one of the founders of Pro Wrestling Guerilla and continues to do commentary for all of PWG’s shows. He recently was also part of the announce team for All In.
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Pressure from hardliners over Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers forced Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to resign, an ally said on Tuesday.
Zarif – the US-educated architect of the 2015 pact which curbed Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief – gave no reason when he announced his decision on Monday, news which sent Iranian stocks lower.
"There were closed-door meetings every week, where top officials were bombarding him with questions about the deal and what will happen next and so on," the ally told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"He and his boss (President Hassan Rouhani) were under huge amount of pressure," the ally added.
Another said: "The US exit (from the nuclear deal) intensified political infighting in Iran.
Anti-Western factions in Iran criticised Rouhani and Zarif after the United States pulled out of the nuclear agreement last May and reimposed sanctions on Iran’s economy and its lifeblood oil industry that were lifted under the deal.
Rouhani – a champion of the nuclear deal – has still not formally accepted Zarif’s resignation. And the majority of lawmakers sent Rouhani a letter asking him to keep Zarif on, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
Rouhani has not responded publicly to the letter from lawmakers, but piled praise on Zarif on Tuesday, saying the minister had been at the forefront of the fight against America, IRNA said.
Unconfirmed media reports indicated Zarif resigned because he had not been informed about Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s visit to Tehran on Monday.
In another apparent olive branch, Rouhani said Assad had specifically thanked Iran’s foreign ministry during his visit.
Zarif was quoted as condemning "factional fighting" in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday – suggesting political tensions may have played a part in his decision.
The Fars news agency reported that the interview had taken place last week, before Zarif’s resignation.
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