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1937

Kansas City, Missouri:
– World Title: Everett Marshall beat Orville Brown to retain the title
– Ali Baba beat Karl Davis
– Bill Lee beat Eddie Newman
– Lou Thesz beat Chris Zaharias by DQ

1943

Dallas, Texas:
– Bobby Managoff defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson

1952

Oakland, California:
– Ron Etchison and Sandor Szabo defeated Ben and Mike Sharpe to win the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Titles

1957

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
– Whipper Billy Watson beat Hard Boiled Haggerty by DQ
– Dick Hutton drew Joe Pazandak
– Johnny Rougeau beat Maurice LaPointe
– Red Bastien beat Johnny Barend

Houston, Texas:
– Pepper Gomez defeated El Medico to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title

1958

Chicago, Illinois:
– Boris and Nicoli Volkoff defeated Reggie (Crusher) and Stan Lisowski to win the Chicago NWA World Tag Team Titles

1960

Memphis, Tennessee:
– Don and Luke Fields won the Mid-America NWA Southern Tag Team Titles by defeating The Corsicans’ (Jean and Joe)

1963

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
– Hercules Cortez won a 12-man battle royal
– Dick Steinborn beat Karol Kalmikoff by DQ
– Kenji Shibuya beat Jack Lanza
– Gene Kiniski beat Jack Pesek
– Doug Gilbert drew Ivan Kalmikoff
– Haystacks Calhoun beat Duke Hoffman

1966

St. Paul, Minnesota:
– Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race by DQ
– Chris Tolos beat Reggie Parks
– Mighty Igor Vodik beat Steve Druk
– Chris Markoff beat Ivan Kalmikoff
– Larry Heiniemi drew George Drake

1967

Lubbock, Texas:
– The Medics defeated Terry Funk and Dan Miller to win the Southwest NWA North American Tag Team Titles

1971

Fort Worth, Texas:
– Fritz Von Erich defeated Toru Tanaka to win the NWA American Heavyweight Title

1973

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Osaka, Japan:
– Killer Karl Krupp and Johnny Valentine defeated Kintaro Ohki and Seiji Sakaguchi to win the NWA International Tag Team Titles

Denver, Colorado:
– Indian Strap Match, Winner must drag his opponent around the ring twice: Wahoo McDaniel beat Superstar Billy Graham
– Billy Robinson beat Dusty Rhodes
– Nick Bockwinkel beat Don Muraco by countout
– Ivan Koloff drew Reggie Parks
– Dick Murdoch beat Lord Blears

Kansas City, Kansas:
– Rufus R. Jones defeated Mickey Doyle
– Togo the Great defeated Argentina Zuma
– Bob Geigel defeated Tokyo Joe via DQ
– Stan Pulaski & Steve Bolus & Abe Jacobs defeated Benny Ramirez & The Viking & Mickey Doyle in three falls
– Roger Kirby defeated Black Angus via countout in three falls

1974

Calgary, Alberta, Canada:
– Harley Race defeated Archie Gouldie to win the Stampede North American Heavyweight Title

1975

St. Petersburg, Florida:
– NWA Title-Jack Brisco defeated Bob Roop by DQ
– Elimination Match-Dick Slater & “Cowboy” Bill Watts defeated Mongolian Stomper & Dick Murdoch
– Bob Armstrong beat Super Assassin
– Johnny Weaver defeated Swede Hanson
– Chris Taylor & Rocky Johnson defeated The Patriots
– Jos LeDuc defeated Baron Scicluna
– “Irish” Pat Barrett & Tony Parisi & Dominic DeNucci beat The Spider & George McCreary & Beautiful Bruce

1976

Memphis, Tennessee:
– Buddy Wayne beat Wayne Petty
– Rosey Jones beat Bill Costello
– Jerry Jarrett beat Al Greene via DQ
– Big Bad John beat Mitsu Arakawa via countout
– Tommy Gilbert, Bearcat Brown, Bill Dundee & Tojo Yamamoto drew The Spoiler, Don Greene, David Schultz & Sam Bass
– Tommy Rich pinned Jerry Lawler in a no DQ match to win the Southern Title

1978

Sacramento, California:
– Dean Ho and Moondog Mayne defeated Black Gordman and Goliath to win the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Titles

Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
– Ray Candy and Steven Little Bear defeated The Brute and Dr. X for the Tri-State NWA United States Tag Team Titles

1979

Kansas City, Kansas:
– Bob Sweetan defeated Randy Allis (Randy Rose) to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title

1980

St. Louis, Missouri:
– NWA Champion Harley Race defeated Kevin Von Erich in 2 out of 3 falls
– David Von Erich defeated Lord Alfred Hayes
– King Kong Brody defeated Sailor Art Thomas
– Jack Brisco defeated Bulldog Bob Brown
– Pak-Song and Takachiho defeated Tom Andrews and Pat O’Connor
– Ed Wiskoski defeated Tommy Sharp
– Eddie Gilbert and Kerry Brown defeated Ron McFarlane and Billy Howard

1981

Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
– Angelo Mosca retained the Canadian Championship pinning Hossien Arab (Iron Sheik)
– The Masked Superstar won by count out over Ray Stevens
– Jimmy (Superfly) Snuka pinned Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon
– Bobby Duncum and Swede Hanson defeated Sweet Ebony Diamond and Dewey Robertson
– Tony Paris went to 20 minute draw against Kurt von Hess
– Cowboy Frankie Maine pinned Ron Ritchie

Greensboro, North Carolina:
– Ivan Koloff and Ray Stevens defeated Paul Jones and The Masked Superstar for the NWA World Tag Team Titles

1982

Memphis, Tennessee:
– Ric McCord pinned Tojo Yamamoto
– Roy Rogers pinned The Iranian Assassin
– Ricky & Robert Gibson drew Sweet Brown Sugar & Dream Machine
– Stan Lane pinned The Cuban Assassin
– Bill Dundee & Ricky Gibson NC Dennis Condrey & Randy Rose
– Stan Lane beat Kenny Shane & Jimmy Hart in a handicap match
– Norvell Austin beat Steve Keirn via DQ
– Southern Champ Dutch Mantel pinned Bobby Eaton

1983

Louisville, Kentucky:
– AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Jerry Lawler by DQ
– Fabulous Ones beat Executioners
– Terry Taylor beat Jacques Rougeau by DQ
– Finals of Tournament for Mid American title: Bobby Eaton beat Sweet Brown Sugar
– Koko Ware beat Kenya Condorie
– Jesse Barr beat Dutch Mantel by DQ
– Bill Dundee beat Carl Fergie

Regina, Saskatchewan:
– The Great Gama defeated The Dynamite Kid for the Stampede World Mid-Heavyweight Title

Columbia, South Carolina:
– Dick Slater defeated Mike Rotundo to win the NWA Television Title

1984

Tokyo, Japan:
– International Champion Jumbo Tsuruta beat Nick Bockwinkel to win AWA Title (Terry Funk special referee)
– Genichiro Tenryu beat Ricky Steamboat to become the new United National Champion
– Bruiser Brody & Super Destroyer I beat Giant Baba & Takashi Ishikawa
– NWA International Junior Heavyweight Champion Chavo Guerrero beat Mighty Inoue when the referee stopped the match
– Ashura Hara & Magic Dragon & Masanobu Fuchi dcor Alexis Smirnoff & Super Destroyer II & Jerry Morrow
– Thomas Ivy beat Tarzan Goto
– Shiro Koshinaka beat Mitsuharu Misawa
– Motoshi Ohkuma & Great Kojika beat Rocky Hata & Yoshihiro Momota
– Ultraseven beat Toshiaki Kawada

1985

St. Paul, Minnesota:
– Sgt. Slaughter & Jerry Blackwell beat AWA Tag Team Champions Road Warriors by DQ
– AWA Champion Rick Martel dcor Bob Backlund
– Greg Gagne beat Nick Bockwinkel
– Jim Garvin beat Baron Von Raschke
– Mr. Saito & Masked Superstar & King Tonga beat Steve O & Larry Hennig & Curt Hennig
– Buck Zumhofe beat Steve Regal
– John Nord drew Tom Zenk

1986

Tampa, Florida:
– The Cuban Assassin defeated Kendall Windham to win the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title

1988

Memphis, Tennessee:
– Jerry Lawler beat Tommy Rich by DQ
– Midnight Rockers beat Rock & Roll Express to win held up AWA Tag Team Title
– Maxx Payne beat Manny Fernandez forfeit
– Jeff Jarrett & Billy Travis beat Gary Young & Bill Dundee
– Ken Wayne beat Jimmy Jack Funk by DQ
– The Samoans Samu & Kokina beat Zebra Warriors
– Bruise Brothers beat Scotty Levy & Terry Adonis
– Doug Gilbert beat Rikki Nelson

1991

Chicago, Illinois:
– Tim Horner defeated Rob Morgan
– Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin defeated WCW 6-man Tag Team Champions Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich
– Brian Pillman defeated Rip Rogers (sub. for Michael Wallstreet)
– Itsumi Yamasaki & Miki Handa defeated Miss A & Mami Kitamura
– Terry Taylor (sub. for WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson) defeated Bobby Eaton
– Tom Zenk, WCW US Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Barry Windham, Stan Hansen, & Larry Zbyszko (sub. for Sid Vicious)
– Sting & WCW US Champion Lex Luger defeated WCW Tag Team Champions Doom via disqualification
– WCW World Champion Ric Flair fought El Gigante to a double disqualification

1993

Memphis, Tennessee:
– The Nightstalker (Tony Falk) beat Scott Campione
– Leslie Ballenger beat Regina Hale
– The Master of Terror beat Hurricane Hatchett
– Miss Texas beat Candy Cane
– PG-13 beat Danny Davis & Chris Michaels
– Tom Pritchard beat Jeff Gaylord via DQ
– The Rock-n-Roll Phantom beat Dutch Mantel
– Eddie Gilbert beat Doug Gilbert via countout
– Moondogs Spot & Splat beat Ron & Don Harris to win the USWA Tag Team Titles
– Lex Luger & Brian Christopher beat Jerry Lawler & Jeff Jarrett via DQ

1997

Ponce, Puerto Rico:
– El Nene defeated Carlos Colón to win the WWC Universal Heavyweight Title

1998

WCW SuperBrawl VIII: San Francisco, California:
– The Ultimo Dragon defeated Shiryu
– The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) with Dusty Rhodes defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) with Ted DiBiase to win the titles
– Sting pinned Hollywood Hulk Hogan to win the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Title
– WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page pinned Chris Benoit to retain the title
– Lex Luger defeated Randy Savage (with Elizabeth)
– WCW Cruiserweight Champion Chris Jericho defeated Juventud Guerrera
– Booker T pinned WCW World Television Champion Rick Martel to win the title
– WCW World Television Champion Booker T pinned Saturn to retain the title

Chihuahua, Mexico:
– Perro Aguayo, Sr. defeated Cibernético to win the Mexican National Heavyweight Title

1999

Nuevo Laredo, Texas:
– El Cobarde and El Cobarde, Jr. defeat Perro Aguayo, Sr. and Perro Aguayo, Jr. for the Mexican National Tag Team Title

2002

Ventnor, England:
– Robbie Brookside defeated Dave Taylor to win the European Heavyweight Title

2004

Tokyo, Japan:
– Kaz Hayashi defeated Blue-K (Taka Michinoku) to win the vacant AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title

In Petare’s Village of Hope, the women cooking for the barrio’s hungry children are praying that this time will be different.

Scraping together meals in a tiny breeze block room where the tap ran dry a year ago, Arielies Ospino and Mariangela Yanis say change is desperately needed.

“Things have got very ugly,” said Ms Ospino, a 62-year-old grandmother who has lived most of her life in this corner of Latin America’s biggest shantytown. “It wasn’t like this before, now the situation is critical.”

Many families could no longer afford food, she told The Telegraph as she picked spoiled grains out of rice. A bag of this, she said, gesturing to the bowl in front of her, cost 4000 bolivars – almost a quarter of Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage.

The soup kitchen is now feeding over 140 children, for many of whom it may be the only meal of the day. “We have children who are in a state of malnutrition,” said Ms Yanis, 39.

Ms Ospino and Ms Yanis spoke approvingly of Juan Guaidó, the parliamentary head recognised as Venezuela’s legitimate leader by 65 countries. "We hope he’s going to resolve this problem," said Ms Ospino, though she admitted that her hopes had been raised by others before him.

Arieles Ospino and Mariangela Yanis say the situation for residents of the barrio is critical, with many families unable to feed themselvesCredit:
Hannah Strange/The Telegraph

Like many poorer neighbourhoods, Petare, a sprawling barrio of up to one million people perched precariously in the hills of Caracas, was once a bastion of support for the revolution begun by Hugo Chávez.

But as the wheels have come off the Socialist project, it has spiralled further into violence and hardship. Amid hyperinflation and crippling shortages of basic goods and medicines, protests once unimaginable in such areas have erupted against the Maduro government. Here, just as elsewhere, many are now looking instead to Mr Guaidó to save them from crisis.

It is more than two months, however, since Mr Guaidó swore himself in as interim leader in front of a rally of thousands in Caracas on January 23, sparking a leadership standoff which has divided the international community.

Despite ever-tightening financial sanctions, international warnings and catastrophic nationwide blackouts, Mr Maduro remains in Miraflores Palace, isolated but resolute. With the military top brass standing firm behind him, his challenger’s next move seems unclear.

Mr Guaidó has denied that his movement is losing steam. On Thursday, as another blackout across much of Venezuela stretched into a fourth day, he prepared to announce what he called "Operación Libertad" (Operation Freedom). Scheduled for Saturday April 6, the operation would involve "the greatest popular uprising the country has ever seen", he said.

The soup kitchen feeds 140 children, for some of whom it is the only meal of the dayCredit:
Hannah Strange/The Telegraph

But the more time that passes, the more likely it seems that Mr Maduro will once again reassert his grip. Last week, Mr Guaidó’s chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, was incarcerated and accused of leading a terrorist plot. And while the government has not dared arrest the opposition leader himself, on Thursday it said it was barring him from holding public office for 15 years – a ban Mr Guaidó immediately rejected.

Meanwhile Moscow, a key backer of the government, has dispatched around 100 Russian servicemen and 35 tonnes of military hardware to Caracas. Washington has railed against these moves, again waving the possibility of intervention, but such action appears increasingly unlikely.

Earlier this week, Luis Vicente León, a Venezuelan political analyst who heads the polling firm Datanalisis, cautioned that Mr Guaidó’s window of opportunity was closing.

"If a lot of time passes, and the offer of change does not materialise, there could be a moment in which the population starts to blame the leader that offered them change and didn’t give it to them," he told a Caracas radio station. Mr León said something had to give in the crisis-battered country, but warned of a "scenario of total destruction."

"Guaidó has a finite time to produce that change," he cautioned.

The soup kitchen has seen numerous cases of malnutritionCredit:
Hannah Strange/The Telegraph

Mr Maduro has mocked Mr Guaidó as doomed to the same failure as previous rivals. Since inheriting the presidency after Chávez’s death in 2013, he has seen off challenges from opposition leaders Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo López, the latter under house arrest since 2017 for heading a wave of protests under the slogan “The Exit”.

Many of Mr Guaidó’s supporters believe that this time, however, the moment has truly arrived. The charismatic 35-year-old with a talent for searing oratory has won hearts and minds across the Latin American nation, and is greeted like a rock star when he appears in public.

“He is our guide now,” Nelson Rendiles, an 80-year-old pensioner, told The Telegraph at a Caracas rally. He had faith that the government was on its way out, he said. "I don’t know how long, but they are going to go.”

Mr Rendiles said he believed that Mr Guaidó would bring change, adding “If not, we don’t have a hope”.

Edward Cazano, a 20-year-old student born as Chávez ascended to power, was slightly more circumspect. He said Mr Guaidó had more favourable conditions than his predecessors, pointing to international support and sanctions.

But, he acknowledged, people could lose faith if they did not see progress soon. “The moment is coming when we’ll get tired,” Mr Cazano said.“I think that there has to be movement now, fast.”

The country has suffered two days-long blackouts in the last three weeks, leaving many struggling to access food and water Credit:
Cristian Hernandez/AFP

Many were dismayed by the failure of February’s attempt to bring in much needed humanitarian aid – even before the blackout that plunged the country further into crisis. As the outage, which began on March 7, stretched on in many areas this week, Dr Julio Castro of the NGO Doctors for Health reported that up to 90 percent of Venezuelans were now struggling to access clean water. The shipment that was barred entry had contained items such as chlorine tablets to purify water for drinking, he said, adding: “It is a tragedy”.

Back in Villa Esperanza (Village of Hope), Ms Ospino lamented that Mr Maduro had rejected the assistance. "We need that humanitarian aid," she said. "He could have accepted it for the people that need medicines, because here there is no medicine."

Desiree Barrios, coordinator for Fundación Pasión Petare, which operates the soup kitchen, said she had never believed that it would be allowed to enter. “This is a repressive government, nothing matters to them”.

Nevertheless, "it was the worst that could have happened, because these people were counting on it getting to them," said her colleague, Emilia López.

Some fear Mr Guaido's window of opportunity may be closing Credit:
Hannah Strange/The Telegraph

Despite previous false dawns, Ms López said she was optimistic Mr Guaidó would succeed where others had failed. But she added, "After January 23, we gave the government 10 days, and now we are in March, two months on, and once again, nothing.”

As he presses for more street protests, Mr Guaidó has eyed one particularly high-risk gambit – a march on the heavily-guarded presidential palace. He has yet to set a date, hoping first to persuade the country’s security forces to stand back.

Ms Ospino and Ms Yanis said they did not know how the leadership showdown will play out. One thing was certain, Ms Ospino said: Mr Maduro "does not look like he’s going to resign".

As they served up plates of plaintain, beans and rice for the children queuing up outside, the pair said their worst fear was that it would end in conflict, one that would cost all sides dearly and claim innocent lives. But, Ms Ospino said resignedly, it was what she was coming to expect.

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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Jim Cornette made his Major League Wrestling debut tonight, joining the broadcast team as a color commentator.

Cornette made his appearance at the start of the show, joining announcer Rich Bocchini prior to the start of the first match. PWInsider reported that this is not a one time appearance and he will be joining the promotion going forward as both a commentator and agent. He will also be working the New York City tapings that will take place next month.

Cornette has worked for a number of promotions in the past in a backstage role including WWE, Impact and Ring of Honor. He also booked Ohio Valley Wrestling and was at one time an owner of the promotion while it was a developmental territory for the WWE.

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He most recently served as the announcer for the NWA 75th Anniversary show last year and will also be a part of the upcoming NWA Crockett Cup.

Swedish police have arrested a prominent Iraqi journalist on suspicion of operating as an Iranian spy, the latest in a series of police actions against alleged Iranian plots in Western Europe.

Raghdan al-Khazali, a journalist based in Stockholm, is suspected of spying on members of an Ahwazi opposition group which has been repeatedly targeted by Iranian assassins in Europe.

The Ahwazi are an Arab minority from western Iran and one of their main dissident groups, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), has been the subject of a coordinated Iranian killing campaign.

One of the group’s leaders, Ahmad Mola Nissi, was gunned down in the Netherlands in 2017. The Dutch government said earlier this year that Iran had hired local gangsters to carry out the assassination.

Last October, Swedish police arrested a Norwegian man of Iranian descent who they alleged was involved in a plot to murder another ASMLA leader based in Copenhagen.

Mr Khazali was Stockholm correspondent for the Euro-Times, a newspaper which has won readers across Europe since it was launched in Sweden in 2016.

However, he is also alleged to have made repeated visits to a television station in the Netherlands that is alleged to have links to ASMLA.

Mr Khazali told the ASMLA that he opposed the Iranian regime.

But members of the group were alarmed to see a photograph of him in southern Iraq meeting with Qais Khazali, the leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, an Iraqi militia with close ties to Iran.

“We asked: ‘How are you able to travel there, when you are against Iran?’ He didn’t have a very convincing answer,” a source said.

Mr Khazali is believed to be a member of the same tribe as the militia leader, which could have guaranteed his safety in the area.

The ASMLA campaign for the Ahwazi to be able to separate from Iran and form an Arab state of their own. Iran considers the group a terrorist organisation and claims the group has carried out a string of bombing attacks in Iran.

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With the addition of a pre-show match, the card for Fastlane is now up to eight matches.

Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade was announced for the Fastlane pre-show on tonight’s go-home edition of SmackDown. Mysterio, Andrade, and Samoa Joe all answered R-Truth’s United States Championship open challenge on the episode, with Joe pinning Andrade after hitting a uranage. Mysterio had hit the 619 and a frog splash on Andrade before Joe broke up the pin with a senton.

This was the second week in a row that Mysterio and Andrade were involved in a US title open challenge. R-Truth pinned Mysterio with a roll-up on last week’s SmackDown after Mysterio hit the 619 on Andrade. Andrade then tried to attack Mysterio in a post-match angle, but Mysterio countered and went for the 619 again. Andrade bailed before Mysterio could hit it.

Andrade pinned Mysterio in a tag match and a singles match on SmackDown in January. They had a two-out-of-three falls match after that, with each winning a fall before the third fall ended in a disqualification.

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The Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio is hosting Fastlane on Sunday. Here’s the updated card:

WWE Champion Daniel Bryan defending against Kevin Owens
Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair (if Lynch wins, she’ll be added to the Raw Women’s Championship match at WrestleMania)
The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose) vs. Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre & Bobby Lashley
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos defending against Shane McMahon & The Miz
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Sasha Banks & Bayley defending against Nia Jax & Tamina
SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka defending against Mandy Rose
Raw Tag Team Champions The Revival defending against Ricochet & Aleister Black and Bobby Roode & Chad Gable in a triple threat match
Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade (pre-show)

Italy’s Matteo Salvini will convene a meeting of Europe’s populist and nationalist parties on Monday in a bid to build a bloc that can contest the European Parliament elections next month, but key figures from the far-Right will be absent.

The meeting in Milan is being billed as the launch of a major election campaign by Mr Salvini, who is deputy prime minister, interior minister and head of the hard-Right, anti-immigration League party.

The conference, themed “Towards a Europe of Common Sense”, will be held in a five-star hotel in the heart of Italy’s financial hub.

The aim is to build an alliance of likeminded parties that oppose immigration and further integration into EU institutions.

Mr Salvini, who has emerged as Italy’s most powerful politician since his election last year, is seeking to cast himself as the leader of a Eurosceptic grouping that includes the likes of Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban and Germany’s AfD party.

Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, will not be attending the summit in MilanCredit:
Reuters

But Ms Le Pen, the leader of the far-Right National Rally, will not attend the meeting in Milan.

“She is busy with her election campaign. She’ll be in Brittany this weekend and next week she has other appointments in her diary in other parts of France,” Alain Vizier, her spokesman, told Italy’s Ansa news agency.

Nor will Mr Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, turn up at the summit in Milan, according to reports in the Hungarian press.

Hungarian newspapers cited sources within Orban’s Fidesz party, saying he does not want to break with his grouping within the European Parliament, the conservative European People’s Party.

Austria’s Right-wing, populist Freedom Party will also not be making the trip to Milan.

The Five Star Movement, which has sharp policy differences with the League despite governing with the party in the national coalition, said the Milan conference was shaping up to be a failure.

The absence of so many leading far-Right figures “shows the political flop of the League’s European project,” said Laura Ferrara, an MEP from Five Star. “Even Le Pen has ditched her ally.”

Marine Pen, the leader of the far-Right National Rally, said she would be too busy campaigning to attend the convention in MilanCredit:
Reuters

A spokesman for The League told The Telegraph that the list of parties planning to attend the event in Milan would be released late on Thursday or on Friday.

Mr Salvini pledged recently that 20 populist parties from many different countries would attend the conference.

Hard-Right parties are in government in Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary and are expected to do well in the European elections at the end of next month.

But differences of political outlook and policies may prevent them from forming a united front.

One party that has confirmed it will turn up is Germany’s AfD. The party enjoyed a surge in support after Angela Merkel’s decision to allow a million asylum seekers to settle in Germany during the 2015-2016 migrant crisis.

Joerg Meuthen, the AfD’s chief candidate for the European elections, expects populist and nationalist parties to perform well but thinks they will have trouble forming an alliance to advance an agenda.

The AfD is in favour of the free market whereas National Rally in France was more inclined towards protectionist policies, he said.

The German party’s natural allies would be among "northern Europeans such as the Danes, the Finns and the Irish who favour an open economy and not strong statism as is the tradition in France,” he told AFP.

Mr Meuthen, one of two leaders of the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam AfD, said diverging interests and clashing personalities would likely prevent a "patriotic alliance" forming in the European Parliament.

Hard-Right parties "have the same or similar positions on migration policy but very different views in other areas," he said. The AfD is currently polling at around 10 percent.

Mario Borghezio, an MEP with the League, also conceded there were wide differences between Europe’s nationalists.

“The Finnish nationalists, for example, are critical of and fearful towards Russia, us much less so. There are very different situations in what is a huge continent, but with some common denominators. The challenge of Salvini will be to identify them, so as to build a common political approach which can be presented at the elections.”

Mr Salvini has pledged to bring about a “new European spring” by working with nationalist parties across the continent.

His party has gone from strength to strength in Italy, doubling its support since the general election last March.

The centre-Right has won five out of the last five regional elections, the most recent victory being in the southern region of Basilicata last month, which had been governed by the centre-Left for 25 years.

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Dark match —

– Chelsea Green defeated Jessie Elaban

NXT TV taping spoilers —

– Triple H opened the tapings by informing us of Tommaso Ciampa’s neck injury and surgery.

Triple H said that the original plan was for him to announce Ciampa defending his title against Johnny Gargano for TakeOver: New York. As a result of Ciampa’s injury, a new NXT Champion will now be crowned at TakeOver.

There will be a fatal five-way match tonight to determine a number one contender to face Gargano in a two-out-of-three falls match for the vacant NXT title at TakeOver.

– Adam Cole defeated Ricochet, Aleister Black, Matt Riddle, and NXT North American Champion Velveteen Dream to advance to the NXT Championship match at TakeOver: New York

Absolutely incredible match — everyone was on top of their game here. Cole pinned Ricochet after a series of finishers were hit on everyone.

The Forgotten Sons attacked Ricochet and Black after the match.

– Punishment Martinez defeated Riddick Moss

Martinez got a decisive victory.

– Humberto Carrillo defeated Albert Hardie Jr. (ACH)

The debuting ACH fell to Carrillo’s handstand corner rebound splash. ACH went by his real name in the match.

– NXT Tag Team Champions War Raiders defeated an enhancement team

War Raiders called out for another team after.

– NXT Tag Team Champions War Raiders defeated Adrian Jaoude & Cezar Bononi

A stack-up double-team powerbomb won it for the War Raiders.

– Jaxson Ryker defeated Oney Lorcan

Ryker got the victory with a powerbomb.

– Kairi Sane vs. Bianca Belair ended in a no contest

The Horsewomen ran in and were followed by the rest of the locker room. Io Shirai stood tall after a corner moonsault onto the pile.

Shirai held the NXT Women’s Championship and pointed at Baszler.

– Raul Mendoza defeated Brennan Williams

Mendoza hit a 450 to win.

– Gargano and Cole took part in a face-to-face segment to build up their NXT Championship match at TakeOver.

– Aliyah & Vanessa Borne vs. Lacey Lane & Kacy Catanzaro ended in a no contest

The Horsewomen ran down and destroyed Catanzaro. Baszler choked her out.

– Matt Riddle defeated Kona Reeves

Velveteen Dream set up shop on the stage to watch the match. Riddle got the submission victory and then declared that he would see Dream at TakeOver: New York.

– Ricochet & Aleister Black defeated The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler) to win the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

The crowd was on fire for this match, with Ricochet hitting a 630 to win it. There was a confetti and fog celebration with the trophy in the ring after. War Raiders then made their way to the ring for a staredown. War Raiders will defend their NXT Tag Team titles against Ricochet & Black at TakeOver: New York.

After the Raiders left, Ricochet and Black informed us that this would be their final appearance at Full Sail — but they will always be NXT. Great match and emotional moment.

In the land where the buffalo once roamed the prospect of meatless, plant-based hamburgers is not going down well.

"I will never, ever try one," Kenny Graner, president of the US Cattlemen’s Association, told The Telegraph from his ranch in North Dakota. "I hear they’re bland anyway. It’s just not meat."

Mr Graner was responding to Burger King’s decision this week to launch a new version of its iconic Whopper hamburger made from a plant substitute. The "Impossible Whopper" is genetically engineered to "bleed" and taste exactly like the real thing.

For America’s two million beef farmers, and it’s 94 million methane-producing cattle, it marked a watershed moment as they increasingly become the…

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Month: July 2020

Daily Pro Wrestling History (02/22): Sting defeats Hogan to win vacant WCW title

Venezuela’s suffering barrios pray for change amid fears Juan Guaido’s time is running out

CLASH OF CHAMPIONS – Three title matches announced for Raw PPV

Jim Cornette joins MLW broadcast team

Stockholm-based Iraqi newspaper reporter arrested for ‘operating as an Iranian spy’

Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade set for WWE Fastlane pre-show

Salvini’s summit of EU nationalists branded a ‘flop’ after key far-Right figures stay away

NXT TV taping spoilers: TakeOver New York build, Dusty Classic finals

Kofi Kingston Hypes New Day Appearance On Nickelodeon’s All That, WWE Releases Classic Match

Burger King’s vegan ‘Impossible Whopper’ pitches rural Republicans against urbanite Democrats

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