"I do hate him," Morales told Alvaro Colemenoro. "We don't have a very good vibe. But at the end of the day, he's still a fighter. I'm not gonna get overconfident if I had to prepare myself to fight him... That fight is gonna be intense if it happens... I think that if I were to fight him, it would be the first time that I would fight in a very aggressive way."
On the night of her 60th birthday, Sally Goldner climbed on to the top rope of the wrestling ring, to the roars of the crowd, and launched herself on to her competitors with a missile dropkick. The crowd roared. For a second, she was completely airborne, before landing on her opponents. Wow, I'm doing this,' she thought. Exhilarating. I couldn't think of anything I'd rather be doing on my birthday.
Turns out the sci-fi filmmakers got it backwards. All those '70s and '80s dystopias like "Rollerball," "The Running Man," "Death Race 2000," imagined futures in which sports were full of gadgets and gimmicks like armored cars, rocket-powered motorbikes, and electrified arenas. In reality, we got the opposite - the padding's gone, and the high-tech monitoring equipment is nowhere to be found.
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In total, the United States has 232 athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This is great news for me because, as a queer man, I love two things: 1. watching people live out their dreams, and 2. hot men. So, I went through the entire roster to find some of the hottest men who are representing Team USA.
Yes, if your main intersection with pro wrestling was the late-'90s boom on U.S. cable TV, then you definitely saw a product rife with misogyny and homophobia. But it's a much more inclusive hobby than it used to be, and I tell people who I want to convince to go to an independent show with me that they should expect something like a comic-con atmosphere, not a frat house.
Reigns survived Gunther and the rest of the field in the men's Royal Rumble to win the battle royal for the second time in his career. Reigns can now choose between two champions to challenge for a belt at WrestleMania 42, Undisputed WWE champion Drew McIntyre or world heavyweight champion CM Punk. Punk and Reigns were involved in last year's WrestleMania 41 Night 1 main event, though both lost to Seth Rollins. They also worked together despite animosity at Survivor Series: War Games.
The first Monday Night RAW of 2026 came live from the Upside Down, and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Stranger Things themed episode of Monday Night Raw aired on what was the first anniversary of WWE's flagship show airing on Netflix. The show, which featured three title matches, two title changes and a showstopping main event, gave a small glimpse into what 2026 could look like for WWE and Monday Night RAW.
"A few of the lads have played it back to me. We've had a laugh about it. Estevao said he can't believe I was a professional footballer. This is a great job. I love this job. I am serious in many aspects. I'm demanding, but life is too short. You have to enjoy life and be able to laugh at yourself. At the moment a lot of people in this country have been laughing at me."
"100%. Jon, you're always welcome to come over to MVP," Paul told Netflix. "We'll get it popping, and we'll get you paid what you deserve." This statement represents Paul's direct invitation to Jones, emphasizing MVP's willingness to sign the fighter and provide financial compensation that Paul believes exceeds what the UFC has offered.
"It's pretty much my only rule - I've only done it once outside of knocking somebody out," Gaethje told Mark McClune. "If I knock somebody out, then the rush of emotions is too much, where I have to flip off something. But if you don't get that knockout, there really isn't a spike of emotion. So I sure hope to knock [Topuria] out, and I sure hope to do a backflip on the White House lawn. That would be absolutely spectacular."
On Thursday, Dan Ige-who is currently the No. 14 featherweight on the UFC's Official Rankings-posted on social media that he was disallowed to wear red shorts for his upcoming tussle with Melquizael Costa at UFC Houston in February. According to the Hawaiian, his request for shorts is limited to the locales he is permitted to represent. The man once known as "Dynamite" posted a segment of a message from UFC or Venum staff,
I don't wrestle like a normal person, Pimblett told the UFC. I don't shoot double legs and single legs and wrestle like a normal person. I do everything differently. I'm not normal. He's not gonna be able to get a sparring partner that grapples like me or strikes like me, because I'm a weirdo. I'm very awkward: You can't really get a sparring partner to do me because I'm so awkward.
"Everybody has an opinion on who should fight whom in the welterweight division," Garry said on Instagram. "Here's mine: Carlos Prates vs. Michael Morales. Because it's two power heavy hitters, and I want to see who comes out on top. I doubt Morales would take it, because the truth is, Carles Prates hits harder. I kind of want to see Prates vs. JDM too. But I'm gonna match Jack Della Maddalena vs. Kamaru Usman... And finally, the world title fight at welterweight. I want to see the champion Islam Makhachev defend his belt against the No. 1 contender in the world, Ian Machado Garry."