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Former professional wrestler turned pro MMA fighter CM Punk returns to the Octagon next month at UFC 225, facing Mike Jackson.
Punk and Jackson will kick off the main card of the event, which is set to air live on pay-per-view.
UFC Hall Of Fame member Mark Coleman voiced his opinion about the placement of the Punk/Jackson fight on Twitter:
Sometimes u have to make exceptions.$ I'm excited for this fight . I wish @CMPunk the best! But I understand.
— Mark Coleman (@HammerHouseMMA) May 14, 2018
That would lead to Punk issuing a response of his own through Twitter, where the former wrestler admits his bout should be kicking off the event on UFC Fight Pass:
I understand too. If it was up to me, I'd be first fight on fight pass. Don't matter to me. Fans like to be outraged by stuff that doesn't matter. (Appreciate the support Mr. Coleman!!!!! You're truly the man)
— Coach (@CMPunk) May 14, 2018
Such luminaries as former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holl..

Natalya credits fans for helping the women's division.
Natalya has ten years in her WWE career and experience the growth of the women's division. Earlier this year, when the male wrestlers went to Saudi Arabia for the Greatest Royal Rumble event but the female wrestlers did not go as a concession to the Saudi Arabian government. In an interview with Joe, Natalya spoke about the event.
“Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say, but I think definitely we'll get there, I'm excited about it. I was talking with several of the male talents that were over in Saudi Arabia, and Roman Reigns said it was just so incredible, and that he can't wait to go back. So it's exciting for us to think about going there,” said Natalya.
WWE has been putting women in more main events and featured matches but Natalya says she hopes to see women in the WrestleMania main event and attributes the divisions success to the vocal fans.
“I think the women in the WWE would love ..

This may be Flip's last chance.
Since the announcement that The Young Bucks and Cody are going to be presenting their self-financed show entitled 'All In', a number of wrestlers that have been booked for the show have been revealed. Names such as: Jay Lethal, Britt Baker, Chelsea Green, Joey Janela, the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada and others have been declared official for the show on September 1st.
One man that has been consistently and vigorously attempting to get on the card is Flip Gordon. Flip Gordon was regulary featured in numerous episodes of the 'Bullet Club's' 'Being The Elite' YouTube series where he would seemingly fit in with the rest of the crew but could not seem to garner the liking of the former ROH World Champion Cody.
“The American Nightmare” announced via Twitter today that Flip failed to gather the three full votes needed to get booked for 'All In' so he is providing the 26-year old with ano..

The hard-striking Brit will be exclusive to WWE.
Martin Stone, better known as Danny Burch from the NXT brand has reportedly inked a new deal with WWE. During the summer of 2015 Burch did a number of appearances for NXT despite not being signed with the company. While Burch has been competing in NXT he was working matches on the independent wrestling scene for numerous promotions around the United Kingdom. Danny Burch is regularly featured on NXT TV where he has aligned himself with Oney Lorcan.
Earlier today, Burch competed in a singles match against Josh Briggs for 'Beyond Wrestling' and the match would ultimately end up being his last for the promotion as PWInsider has reported that WWE offered Danny Burch a new contract last month and he accepted and has now inked a new deal with the sports-entertainment company.
What a match between @strongstylebrit and @TheJoshBriggs in Martin’s last match ever for @beyondwrestling #WelcomeHome pic.twitter.com/tLLpsaYNGj
— MikeyLaFr..

Fightful.com was sent the following, announcing Vanes Martirosyan's fight with GGG:
Two-time world title challenger and 2004 Olympian VANES “THE NIGHTMARE” MARTIROSYAN (36-3-1, 21 KOs), from Glendale, Calif., challenges undefeated World Middleweight Champion GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN (37-0-1, 33 KOs), from Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The recently announced world championship rumblebetween the 2004 Olympians is only 14 days away and takes place on Cinco De Mayo — Saturday, May 5 — under the stars at StubHub Center and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Martirosyan was one of a handful of boxers in the conversation as Golovkin's May 5 opponent following the cancellation of the Canelo rematch. Martirosyan was ready to go when the call came. He had been sparring with a couple of undefeated Russian boxers.
“Throughout the year, two camps started on and off. Every time we started somebody pulled out.,' said Martirosyan. '..

Called them out.
Over WrestleMania weekend the marketing and booking agency 'Blackcat Events' had a number of wrestling talents scheduled and booked for meet and greet sessions. The owner of 'Blackcat Events' had two talents in particular call him out on the spot via social media today about not being compensated for their appearances.
Former IMPACT Knockouts Champion Chelsea Green and former WWE star James Ellsworth made it known that they were two of many who were booked but not paid by 'Blackcat Events'. The man behind the agency's Twitter account sent out the following message on April 17th which recently caught the attention of Chelsea Green who was not too pleased about the entire situation.
The truth will come out soon.
— Blackcat Events (@BlackCat_Events) April 17, 2018
LOL BRO! The truth came out. You’re a fraud and we’ve made sure the wrestling community knows that!
Goodluck surviving in this industry. https://t.co/5YVZP9opEW
— Chels..

NJPW Hi No Kuni is in the books and a new IWGP Intercontinental Champion has been crowned as Tetsuya Naito captured the gold by defeating Minoru Suzuki in the main event. Evil & Sanada also held onto the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles when they defeated the Killer Elite Squad in a rematch from Wrestle Kingdom.
Also, Hiromu Takahashi & Bushi picked up singles match victories over the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions El Desparado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
Here are the full NJPW Hi No Kuni quick results:
IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Tetsuya Naito def. Minoru Suzuki to win the title
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Los Ingobernables (Evil & Sanada) def. Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.) to retain the titles
Hiromu Takahashi def. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Bushi def. El Desparado by DQ
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin & Kushida def. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Yoshi-Hashi, Hirooki Goto & Will Ospreay)
Suzuki-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi, ..

In what was a long week for some, just got longer.
After traveling to Saudi Arabia for the 'Greatest Royal Rumble' event in what is nearly a 12-hour flight, immediately after the show concluded this past Friday the wrestlers who competed at the event where transported on planes from Saudi Arabia to the United States at midnight.
According to PWInsider, a majority of the talents made it back to the U.S.Saturday afternoon coming through New York City's 'JFK' airport before getting on the flight that would take them to their respective homes. For some of the talents they only had 24 hours to enjoy home as they had to fly out Sunday to get ready for the TV tapings in Canada this week. The site notes that some talents were scheduled to fly back to New York and then connect at 'LaGuardia Airport' for a flight to Montreal. For the talents who had this schedule, after arriving to New York they discovered that that their flight to Montreal had been canceled..

Here's your Fight Size wrestling Update for the morning of April 30th, 2018.
– The “Belt Collector” Austin Aries has lost one of his championships. Yesterday at 'Defiant Wrestling's 'No Regrets' show Austin Aries was defeated by Rampage Brown and lost the Defiant Championship. Aries still is the holder of the DEFY, IPW:UK World, IMPACT World, IMPACT Grand, and WSW Heavyweight Championships.
#AndNew DEFIANT Wrestling World Champion #NoRegrets #WeAreDefiant#NoRegretsRumble is NOW https://t.co/N0ECLTk6Te pic.twitter.com/KiK237yNX4
— FITE (@FiteTV) April 28, 2018
– The following is video from NJPW's YouTube channel that features a post-match highlight from the tranquilo Tetsuya Naito.
– NJPW announced via Twitter that will begin broadcasting live in France.
– During a recent edition of the 'Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast' Sam Roberts & Peter Rosenberg discussed and analyzed the 'Greatest Royal Rumble' event that took place this past Fr..

Los Ingobernables de Japon have a new champion among them.
On Sunday, New Japan Wrestling held the Hi No Kuni event in Kumamoto, Japan which featured some of the promotion's biggest names and two championship matches. Los Ingobernables de Japon members Evil and Sanada defended their IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and then in the main event Tetsuya Naito defeated Minoru Suzuki to capture the IWGP Intercontinental Championship giving the stable three current champions among their ranks.
Los Ingobernables de Japon will soon be touring North America as part of the Ring of Honor War of the Worlds tour where the promotion will visit four cities in the United States and Canada.
This reign is the 2nd time Naito has captured the Intercontinental Championship. He lost the championship last June to Hiroshi Tanahashi after a 259 day reign.
Fightful Wrestling has results for the entire Hi No Kuni event and often has live coverage of other NJPW events. There will also be coverag..