Impact Wrestling revealed a new announce team for their show, as Matt Striker will be the play-by-play announcer and D'Lo Brown will be color commentator.
MLW Fusion exploded into the new year with three title fights for episode 116. The
Kings of Colosseum special event featured the Contra Unit adding a new member, the Von Erichs in a bunkhouse brawl, Lio Rush extinguishing Myron Reed’s fire, and Alexander Hammerstone meeting his match on Muscle Mountain in a hoss fight.
If you have ever been interested in checking out MLW but haven’t taken the plunge yet, this is a good episode to jump in to experience MLW’s style and flavor.
Let’s break it all down.
MLW World Tag Team Championship: Von Erichs vs Dirty Blondes
Calculating the 500 Greatest Wrestlers in WWE History (Part two) By MattySpice on Jan 9, 2021, 6:00pm EST 27
I don t know what you did during your increased amount of free time in 2020, but I spent it doing what I love to do best: making an obscenely large and markedly unimportant spreadsheet in which I attempt in vain to mathematically calculate the greatest wrestler in the history of WWE! I wouldn t be surprised if someone has attempted this before, but my love of meaningless statistics compelled me to do it anyway. After spending countless hours, I just needed to share the fruits of many long, depressing hours. While it is not perfect, and at times disappointing, I do think in general that the rankings brought about from this project match common consensus pretty closely. This list is intended to only describe each wrestler s career within WWE/ WWF/ WWWF/ Capitol Wrestling, though as noted in the Breakdown there are some exceptions to this rule. Wrestlers are count
Kings of Colosseum special for
Fusion.
Fusion is being presented as a special event called
Kings of Colosseum. MLW is making the event live up to special status by offering a grudge match and three championship contests.
World Middleweight Championship: Myron Reed (c) vs Lio Rush
National Openweight Championship: Alex Hammerstone (c) vs Mads Krugger
Tornado World Tag Team Championship: Von Erichs (c) vs. Dirty Blondes (Leo Brien and Michael Patrick)
Grudge Match: Simon Gotch vs Jordan Oliver
Myron Reed is looking to build his legacy as the young GOAT. To do achieve that, he is calling out top wrestlers to challenge for his MLW World Middleweight Championship. Lio Rush is the man of the hour on this evening. The former NXT Cruiserweight Champion will be debuting with MLW while also juggling a music career.
MARK HENRY, TRISH STRATUS, KEN SHAMROCK AND MORE NAMED TO 2021 THESZ/TRAGOS PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME CLASS
By Mike Johnson on 2020-12-31 12:03:00
The following press release was issued:
Tragos/Thesz Hall of Fame announces 2021 induction class
WATERLOO, Iowa - The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum announced on December 31, 2020 that it has finalized the Class of 2021 for the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame induction weekend, which will be held on July 15-17.
The Class of 2021 is Adnan Al-Kassie (Living Inductee), Don Kernodle (Living Inductee), Earl Wampler (Posthumous Inductee), Trish Stratus (Lou Thesz World Heavyweight Championship Award), Mark Henry (Frank Gotch Award), and Ken Shamrock (George Tragos Award). The Gordon Solie Award will be presented for the first time in 2021. The recipient of the Jim Melby Award will be announced in the upcoming weeks.