17/11/2017

Retirement:

Gail Kim officially retired on Impact TV last night. She also vacated the Knockouts title.

LU relax contracts:

Lucha Underground will not be as strict over appearance deals as they have been for their next series. They had demanded that their talent not appear for any other shows that aired on TV whilst theirs was airing, that will not be the case for series 4.

WrestleMania:

WWE have held their on sale party for next years WrestleMania, to mark the tickets becoming available to buy.

WWE star reported to police:

David Otunga's 10 year relationship with singer and actress Jennifer Hudson is over. They have a son together. Hudson has filed for a protective order against him, and police have launched a domestic violence investigation. She claims he is aggressively possessive of her, even asking their son to record any conversation she has with men, to prove she is cheating on him. The boy refused and when they got home he grabbed the boy by the arm and shoved her to the floor, witnessed, she says, by some of her staff. She also accused him of leaving a gun on the kitchen counter top, although later conceded it was a movie prop.

Otunga says, via his lawyer, that she only made the report as he was awarded the custody of their child, due to her busy career...

"David Otunga has been trying to negotiate the terms of an amicable parenting agreement with Ms. Hudson for several weeks now. However, when it became apparent to Ms. Hudson that Mr. Otunga would be the parent granted residential care of the child, as a result of Mr. Otunga being the child's primary caregiver while Ms. Hudson pursues her career all over the world, Ms. Hudson decided to file a meritless Petition for Order of Protection in an effort to gain an unfair advantage in the custody dispute. As a result of Mr. Otunga's career in the WWE, Ms. Hudson felt that she could give an award winning performance in court to portray herself as the victim. Mr. Otunga has never abused or harassed Ms. Hudson or their son, and it is unfortunate, especially in today's climate, that she would feel the need to make these false allegations against him. Mr. Otunga looks forward to his day in court and in being awarded the residential care of the parties' only child."

WWE have granted him time away to prepare for his legal battle.

Kurt Angle:

Triple H talks how Kurt Angle was medically checked and signed off to return to wrestling in an afternoon...

"I think it's awesome that Kurt's back in the ring. When Kurt first came back to the company we said let's take it one step at a time and see where things go. It's funny that we had just started the process of taking Kurt through the medical and making sure he was healthy and all those things. Coincidentally, it ended up being completely a coincidence that Kurt and I had a conversation that started that process and then all of a sudden there was this opportunity and a need, and his results had just come in, so it just was a great coincidence in some ways."

WWE awards:

Kalisto represented WWE at the Latin Grammy awards last night.

Broken Matt:

Matt Hardy may be 30 days away from regaining his broken gimmick, from December 19. An opposition motion will be opened on that date and will then leave any one that opposes ownership 30 days to challenge Matt for it, if no one does, it will be his.

Flair sues manager:

Ric Flair is suing his former manager for keeping the $25,000 from his recent TV documentary and $12,000 for a TV ad he did. They say they used the money to pay his legal fees, he sees he was not informed, and did not give permission and wants his money back.

New job for old boy:

Mr. Kennedy has started working as a boxing ring announcer.