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Chad Gable recently opened up about the wrestling legends who inspired him to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Gable revealed that several iconic names shaped his journey, with WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle playing a major role in his development. Gable is widely regarded as one of WWE’s best technical wrestlers. Many fans have compared him to Kurt Angle because of their Olympic backgrounds and elite in-ring abilities. Chad Gable names the WWE icons that made him want to wrestle Speaking on Good Karma Wrestling, Chad Gable was asked which matches or wrestlers first made him want to…
Naomi Osaka arrived on No 1 Court dressed for the occasion – as usual – in a flowing, flower-patterned robe but, 66 minutes later, her tennis was what had spectators on their feet after she dismantled Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last 16 at Wimbledon for the first time.“I’m really happy,” Osaka said during her on-court interview. “I’ve actually never won on this court, so I’m just really glad to have made a really good memory here. It was a really big honour for me to play, so thank you.”The 14th seed has enjoyed the strongest grass-court swing…
Only St Mirren scored fewer goals than Aberdeen last season, with the Dons finding the net 40 times in 38 league matches. That rate was even poorer away from home.It is an issue they simply have to solve if they want to return to the top half of the table. So how might they go about it?No team played more long passes than St Mirren over Robinson’s four years in charge, while only Celtic and Rangers put more balls into the opposition’s box.They used three centre-backs with wing-backs consistently, sometimes with two strikers, but at other points with two advanced…
MondayThe week starts with Penelope Keith, sad news of whose death on Monday sends everyone over the age of 40 screeching back to her greatest hits – and they really were great, weren’t they? There are those sitcom characters from the late 1970s who have more or less faded from view – if I try really hard, I can just about summon the image of Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies – but the Good Life never waned, remaining as stubbornly embedded in the national memory as Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army and the winter of discontent.If Tom and Barbara…
Etsuo Hara/Getty Images Since Forbidden Door was introduced in 2022, the pay-per-view has evolved from being a show that pits some of the best stars that AEW has to offer against the biggest names in New Japan Pro Wrestling, to showcasing talent from several international promotions. In addition to AEW and NJPW, CMLL and STARDOM were also heavily featured at this past weekend’s edition of Forbidden Door, and according to former International Champion Will Ospreay, the European scene should be next to get involved. Speaking on “107.7 The Bone,” Ospreay stated that he’d…
Fiji will be favourites this weekend as they are ranked two places above Wales in the world rankings in ninth, with Steve Tandy’s side in 11th.They also won 24-19 in their previous trip to Cardiff in November 2024, although that game was played at the Principality Stadium.Seruvakula, who took over at the helm in April from Mick Byrne, has named a strong side in his first game in charge.It is close to full strength with a mix of players from the domestic Fiji Drua side that play in Super Rugby and those based in Europe and Japan.It boasts a powerful…
One of the most-storied national teams – and the current world champions – face opponents who only first qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013. Cape Verde was a colony of Portugal when Argentina took part in the first World Cup in 1930, finishing runners-up to Uruguay.La Albiceleste have only failed to qualify for one World Cup, in Mexico in 1970, though withdrew from the three tournaments either side of World War Two.Argentina’s first World Cup success came in 1978, beating the Netherlands 3-1. In 1986, a 3-2 victory over West Germany took the trophy back to South…
iPhone App Android App Send News Tip Leave Comment FollowUs To Stay Connected With Our Updates El Hijo del Vikingo’s NXT title defense got pulled at the last minute, and now we know the injury scare is centered on his left knee. According to False Finish, El Hijo del Vikingo’s left knee is badly swollen, and he is currently in a brace while waiting on an MRI to determine how serious the injury is. That explains why WWE yanked his AAA Latin American Championship match from the June 30 episode of NXT on The CW. Vikingo had been advertised to…
The WTA Finals will leave Saudi Arabia one year early and move to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California this November.The season-ending event, in which the top eight singles players and doubles teams compete, is the governing body’s flagship tournament and has been held in Riyadh since 2024, a move that was negotiated as a three-year contract.It will instead head to the site of the Indian Wells Open, the prestigious ATP and WTA 1000 event and will take place between 8 and 15 November this year.In a joint statement, the WTA and Saudi Tennis Federation said: “Following two impactful…
During her Wimbledon run, Eala has been wearing a white sun visor from sponsor Nike etched with a Tagalog phrase that translates to “once it grows, it cannot be stopped”.She had also worn a hair tie with a white ornament shaped like the sampaguita or Philippine jasmine, in honour of her roots.”It’s a huge reason as to who I am. I think where I come from is a big part of who I am and a big part of who I want to become in the future,” she said, according to a Reuters report.”It’s an amazing thing for me to…