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Wrestling
No pain, no gain: Chinese pro wrestlers fight for recognition – and a livelihood
Hard-core enthusiasts face low incomes, family disapproval to persist with the sport but are sure brighter days are ahead as popularity grows.
23 Sep 2024 - 5:30PM
All Elite Wrestling - AEW
Ho Ho Lun on AEW debut, and fans remembering him – ‘it’s such a surprise’
5 Jan 2022 - 9:54AM
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World Wrestling Entertainment
Ex-UFC champ Lesnar wins WWE’s Fatal 5-Way showdown
2 Jan 2022 - 2:52PM
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Hachimura, Susaki picked as Japan’s Olympic flagbearers
Japanese-Beninese NBA star Rui Hachimura and two-time world wrestling champion Yui Susaki share responsibility at Games’ opening ceremony, with spectators still in doubt.
6 Jul 2021 - 5:51PM
Washington Wizards player Rui Hachimura in a match against the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs in May. Photo: USA Today
All Elite Wrestling - AEW
AEW: Shida ‘proud of my race’ after commentator fired for mocking accent
Japanese former All Elite Wrestling women’s champ Hikaru Shida says ‘I don’t even feel anger so don’t worry’ after Spanish language announcer Willie Urbina’s impersonation.
1 Jun 2021 - 2:19PM
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE’s Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference
John Cena backtracks comments made on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’, says he made ‘a mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’.
26 May 2021 - 10:40AM
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Japan
Japanese sumo wrestler Hibikiryu dies after head injury during bout
His death from acute respiratory failure has prompted calls for reform and more stringent safety measures.
30 Apr 2021 - 3:37PM
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Hibikiryu, a lower-tier wrestler whose real name was Mitsuki Amano, died on Wednesday. Photo: Twitter
ONE Championship
Vitor Belfort wants Chris Jericho cross-promotional clash in AEW
Vitor Belfort wants ‘legendary fights’ that will ‘shake the market’ – starting with All Elite Wrestling icon Chris Jericho after ONE Championship signs new deal with TNT.
2 Feb 2021 - 3:43PM
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Wrestling
Forget Mulan: meet Khutulun, unbeaten Mongolian wrestling princess
Fierce warrior Khutulun lives on in Netflix series, Marco Polo’s writings and the Puccini opera Turandot, plus Mongolia’s Nadaam games.
10 Sep 2020 - 2:33PM
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Khabib Nurmagomedov
How a Moscow boy convinced the American Kickboxing Academy to sign Khabib
MMA manager Gennady Kolesnikov recounts befriending Daniel Cormier and other US Olympic teammates and convincing ‘King Mo’ to bring Khabib Nurmagomedov in.
5 Jun 2020 - 11:28PM
World Wrestling Entertainment
Wrestler Rocky Johnson, Dwayne Johnson’s father, dead at 75
Johnson, along with Tony Atlas, became the first black world tag team champions in WWE history.
16 Jan 2020 - 3:34PM
‘Mean’ Gene Okerlund interviews Rocky ‘Soul Man’ Johnson. Johnson, a WWE Hall of Fame wrestler who became better known as the father of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, died on Wednesday. Photo: AP
World Wrestling Entertainment
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Is WWE now relying on the UFC to remain relevant?
WWE’s stars were once household names but the pro wrestling empire is resorting to snagging retired UFC fighters to covet elusive millennial generation.
30 Nov 2019 - 7:58PM
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Mark Hunt says ‘cheating company’ UFC ‘rips fighters off’
Ex-UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt lashes out at Dana White as court rules against lawsuit claiming conspiracy and fraud over fight against WWE star Brock Lesnar.
26 Nov 2019 - 12:09PM
Martial arts
‘Iranian Hulk’ to make bare-knuckle boxing debut in early 2020
Sajad Gharibi, an Iranian wrestler-turned-bodybuilder, is set to fight on Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s ‘USA vs Iran’ card
18 Nov 2019 - 5:38PM
All Elite Wrestling - AEW
Jon Moxley says WWE ‘made me walk away from all this money’
Former WWE champion says he was bitter, not excited, about his exit before joining AEW – ‘does everything have to make me look like an idiot?’
16 Nov 2019 - 4:35PM
Jon Moxley on AEW Dynamite. Photo: AEW
World Wrestling Entertainment
CM Punk returns to WWE as analyst on ‘Backstage’ show
Former WWE champion vows to ‘change the culture’ in shock appearance on Fox’s ‘WWE Backstage’ programme, where he will feature ‘periodically’ beginning next Tuesday.
13 Nov 2019 - 1:55PM
All Elite Wrestling - AEW
WWE: The Rock praises Cody promo on AEW
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson gives Cody Rhodes some kind words on Twitter – ‘Intent, passion, execution … You dropped that’.
8 Nov 2019 - 12:53PM
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WWE: Lesnar v Cain Velasquez match a sign of greater ills
Two former UFC heavyweights ‘square off’ in a WWE match that tells the wider story of a pro wrestling empire free-falling into obscurity.
4 Nov 2019 - 5:38PM
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Brock Lesnar, fading star and shining light of the WWE right now. Photo: Reuters
All Elite Wrestling - AEW
Chris Jericho’s All Elite Wrestling world title belt stolen
Police investigating report of grand theft at Tallahassee airport on Sunday, after former WWE star won championship belt at AEW’s All Out pay-per-view.
4 Sep 2019 - 2:33PM
Malaysia
Meet Nor Diana, Malaysia’s hijab-wearing teen wrestler taking on hulky men
The 19-year-old, who takes part in Malaysia Pro Wrestling, has spurred the interest of other headscarf-wearing women.
18 Jul 2019 - 9:45AM
Wrestling
Becky Lynch ‘would do very well in MMA’, says McGregor coach
John Kavanagh thinks he could have the Raw women’s champion competing at a ‘high level’ in the cage within a year.
18 Jun 2019 - 4:56PM
Wrestling
AEW and OWE ‘will set the wrestling world on fire’
SoCal Uncensored’s Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky reflect on ‘mind-blowing’ trip to visit OWE’s Chinese wrestlers in Shanghai.
16 Jun 2019 - 6:57PM
Frankie Kazarian, Christopher Daniels and Scorpio Sky pose with flowers after their match in Shanghai, where they visited OWE’s training facilities last month. Photos: Oriental Wrestling Entertainment
Wrestling
After visa snub, Chinese wrestlers make plea to US embassy
Appearance by four OWE stars at All Elite Wrestling’s Double or Nothing show in Las Vegas had to be cancelled – vice-president says ‘please let us come’ for All Out in Chicago.
13 Jun 2019 - 11:51PM
Wrestling
Hart attacked! WWE wrestler Bret Hart tackled during Hall of Fame speech
Hart, 61, was knocked to the ground by Zachary Madsen, 26. The former wrestler, known as ‘The Hitman’, and his fellow wrestlers fended the man off.
8 Apr 2019 - 7:37AM
Wrestling
Former WWE star and model Zeda shines spotlight on Chinese wrestling
Chinese-American is now starring in Oriental Wrestling Entertainment and is on a mission to hone her craft learning new styles from around the world
13 Jan 2019 - 12:41PM
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