Daily pro wrestling history (03/27): Randy Savage wins WWF World Title

1929 Minneapolis, Minnesota:– World Heavyweight Champion Gus Sonnenberg beat Charles Hanson  1952 Kansas City, Kansas:– World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz beat Enrique Torres in 2 out of 3 falls  – World Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny McShain beat Al Massey in 2 out of 3 falls– Jim Henry beat Frank Taylor – Ed “Gardenia” Faieta beat Babe…

Daily pro wrestling history (04/10): Owen Hart wins the Stampede Title, Jeff Hardy wins WWF IC Title

1952 Kansas City, Kansas:– Tarzan Kowalski beat Jim Henry 2 out of 3 falls– Sonny Myers and Bob Orton Sr. drew in 45-minutes (no falls)  1956  Topeka, Kansas:– Richard Brown defeated Iron Mike DiBiase for the Central States Title 1958 Kansas City, Kansas:– Otto Von Krupp beat Don Curtis– Bobby Bruns, Thor Hagen and Sonny…

WWE Dublin, Ireland, live results (Thursday): Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns

Submitted by Manus Cronin – Sin Cara beat Stardust with a top rope senton Kids were into chanting ‘Lucha’ and not much else. Decent match with no heat whatsoever beyond ‘Lucha’ chants. – Darren Young & Zack Ryder beat the Social Outcasts (Slater & Dallas) Ryder pinned Bo with the rough Ryder. Comedy tag match. Basic and short. –…

Polar bear kills Canadian man protecting his daughters in rare attack 

A young Inuit father has died while protecting his children from a rare polar bear attack in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory.  Aaron Gibbons, a 31-year-old resident of the Inuit hamlet of Arviat on the southern tip of Nunavut, reportedly encountered the bear on Sentry Island, a popular hunting and fishing spot situated about 10 kilometres away from the hamlet, on…

British divers who found trapped Thai cave boys should get George Cross, says Lord Ashcroft

There are calls for the British divers who helped rescue 12 schoolboys and their football coach from a flooded Thai cave to be honoured. Rick Stanton and John Volanthen were the first divers to reach the group nine days after they went missing in the underground network in northern Thailand. The pair, along with a…

Trump sends envoys to Afghanistan to open talks directly with Taliban over peace deal

President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered American envoys to seek direct talks with the Taliban to end the country’s longest ever war, in a major shift after years of US diplomatic policy on the conflict. The change in White House stance rolls back a long-held position that any talks must be led and controlled by the…

Israel vows to expand settlements after Israeli father stabbed to death by Palestinian teen

Israel will build hundreds of new settlement homes in response to the killing of an Israeli father by a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence minister said.   A 17-year-old Palestinian crept into the settlement of Adam on Thursday night and stabbed  Yotam Ovadia, 31, to death. He wounded two other Israelis before…