SPORTS NEWS

The latest batch of ratings is in for SmackDown, and WWE saw their Friday viewership stay over two million viewers and gain a boost this week. According to ShowBuzz Daily, this week’s WWE SmackDown viewership came back with a 2.166 million viewership number, up from the 2.051 million viewers the February 26 episode drew. As far as demographics go, the 18-49 demographic also saw no change for team blue. This week’s 0.6 rating was up from the last two weeks. In the 25-54 demographic, SmackDown drew a 0.7 rating, up from last week. This episode of SmackDown centered around the fallout from WWE Elimination Chamber. In the main event, Daniel Bryan challenged Jey Uso in a Steel Cage Match, because he won that match, he will be going on to WWE Fastlane to challenge Roman Reigns for the WWE U...

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s New Japan Cup continued yesterday with Toru Yano defeating Bad Luck Fale and Hirooki Goto eliminating Taichi. Earlier today, Minoru Suzuki beat Tomoaki Honma, KENTA defeated Juice Robinson, and Shingo Takagi took out Kazuchika Okada. The winner of the tournament receives a IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match against Kota Ibushi on April 4 at Sakura Genesis.  The New Japan Cup moves along tomorrow with Garbiel Kidd vs. Zack Sabre Jr. and Will Ospreay vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Below is a look at the bracket: Left Side: * Jeff Cobb defeated Satoshi Kojima* The Great-O-Khan defeated Tetsuya Naito* Toru Yano defeated Bad Luck Fale* Hirooki Goto defeated Taichi* Shingo Takagi defeated Kazuchika Okada* Minoru Suzuki defeated Tomaoki Honma* KENTA def...

WWE can have a lot of things going on backstage and sometimes it directly affects what is going on in the ring.According to Mike Chioda, Daniel Bryan was very angry at Triple H over WWE cancelling one of his matches mid-way through. As Chioda told Wrestle Zone, Bryan had a confrontation with The Game over it.WWE decided to cancel this match because Bryan sustained a possible injury, but that wasn’t a good enough reason for him. Bryan stormed out after the confrontation with Triple H and things apparently weren’t pretty.“The confrontation I remember, he got in with Triple H at the Gorilla position. Daniel Bryan got hurt and they made me call the match. I kept asking Daniel, I said, ‘Daniel, you okay, brother? You okay?’ ‘I’m good, Chioda. I can finish, I can finish.’ I said, ‘You sure?’ ...