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Surgeon fights back in lawsuit brought forward by Bret “Hit Man” Hart

A plastic surgeon who was sued by Bret “Hit Man” Hart is denying the allegations of negligence, filing a defense statement in the lawsuit brought forward by Hart.

The WWE Hall of Famer sued Dr. Justin Young in November 2017 after he alleged he lost the use of his right index finger and thumb after surgery and has severe and ongoing pain in his wrist and a decrease in range of motion.

Now, according to a story on CBC.CA, the surgeon is fighting back.

“Dr. Yeung denies any negligence on his part and states that the treatment provided to Hart was skillful, competent and careful and within the accepted standard of practice of plastic surgery in Calgary and elsewhere in Alberta,” reads the statement of defense.

“Dr. Yeung states, and the fact is, that Hart was at all times made aware of the nature and risks of the procedure performed by Dr. Yeung.”

Hart says he is unable to use his right hand to pick up and use objects, including pens and utensils, and is unable to properly dress himself without assistance.

The lawsuit by the “Hit Man” said that the surgeon advised him that surgery should repair his wrist by performing a partial fusion of the wrist bones and was told he would have no pain in his wrist and movement would be restored.

Hart underwent the knife in November 2015 and two months later he informed the doctor of the severe pain, saying that his complaints were ignored.

“Dr. Yeung ordered all appropriate investigations to address Hart’s post-operative concerns, including diagnostic imaging, urgent electrodiagnostic assessments, electrophysiologic evaluations and nerve conduction studies,” the legal team of the doctor wrote.

“Contrary to the allegations, Dr. Yeung made appropriate referrals to investigate all of Hart’s concerns, including to physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, a neurosurgeon and a neurologist.”

Will Khabib ever box Floyd Mayweather?

Ever since rumors started swirling around in October of last year that Floyd Mayweather Jr was interested in a boxing match against Khabib Nurmagomedov after he defeated Conor McGregor to remain the UFC lightweight champion, fans have been wondering if something would actually come out of this. Thus far, nothing has happened, but it is believed that Floyd is heavily pushing for this fight to happen, and he is well known for getting what he wants.

Odds of Khabib Beating Mayweather

It should be no surprise that most bookies would heavily favor Mayweather if this fight was to happen. In fact, some bookies have already put out odds of winning, making Floyd the heavy favorite with odds of -2000, and Khabib the clear underdog with odds of around +900, which seems about right to us.

Many punters were blinded by the stardom of Conor McGregor, which led them to make outlandish bets that he can beat one of the greatest boxers of all time who is also undefeated. This time around, we expect them to be a little more conservative and realize that no matter how good a fighter is (and Khabib is certainly one of the best), you can’t expect him to be the best in all areas of fighting.

If this fight is ever scheduled, you can look to place a free bet with no deposit at freebets.uk. And don’t let Floyd’s age (41) fool you when placing your bet. He is the best defensive boxer of all time, meaning that he rarely gets hit, which allows him to prolong his career and perform at the highest level.

Floyd is “Desperate” to Fight Khabib?

Over the past weeks, reports have surfaced that Floyd is running low on money and he is essentially “begging” for a fight against Khabib, which will turn into millions of dollars for both of them. However, these are just rumors and you should take them with a grain of salt, as it is very unlikely that one of the richest men in sports (they don’t call him “Money” for no reason) would run out of cash less than two years after the fight that brought him millions of dollars.

Floyd’s statements from November seem to support our theory, as he said that he will only fight Khabib on his own terms, which means only in a boxing match. If Floyd was so desperate for money, wouldn’t he accept a fight in the octagon, where he would still earn an enormous amount, but will probably end up losing the fight?

Should Khabib Consider His Offer?

Even if a fight is set between Floyd and Khabib, it will probably be a little while before it actually happens, since Khabib is currently focused on defending his lightweight title against Dustin Poirier on September 7th. Even with a free schedule, the only reason why Khabib would consider a boxing match against Floyd is money, which is something that is not of the highest priority for a modest guy like Khabib, who can be seen fighting a bear in his hometown in Dagestan.

Khabib is a smart guy and I’m sure that he knows better than any of us that he will lose in a boxing match against Floyd. We are sure that even Conor realized this, but the amount of money he would earn from it was too much to pass on.

When it comes to a boxing match, we are relatively sure that Khabib will not heavily consider that, but if he is able to negotiate a fight in the octagon against Floyd, that’s a whole different story.

When it’s all said and done, it seems that a fight between the two seems relatively unlikely at this point.

Seven of the top WWE executives sell $22 million worth of stock

Ahead of today’s earning report, seven of the top WWE executives sold thousands of shares according to documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The transactions were effected on July 22 and 23.

WWE is set to report another year-over-year decrease in revenue and last time it happened, WWE stocks went down from $99 to $82 overnight for the biggest drop in the company’s history. Yesterday, stocks finished the day trading at $68.50.

Vince McMahon sold 12,627 shares at $70.23, for a return of $886,794. Vince has the majority of shares of the company and remains in total control of voting shares.

Paul “Triple H” Levesque sold 17,563 shares at $70.23 each for a payout of $1,233,449. He remains in possession of 163,901 shares.

Stephanie McMahon sold 17,681 shares at $70.23 each for a payout of $1,241,736. Stephanie has 164,211 remaining WWE shares.

WWE Co-President Michelle Wilson sold 65,318 shares at $70.23 and took home $4,587,283. Wilson has 199,642 remains WWE shares.

WWE Co-President George Barrios had three transactions. 64,497 shares were sold at $70.23, 63,758 at $69.98, and 10,920 at $70.54. At the end of the day, Barrios walked out with $9,761,705. He remains with 143,027 WWE shares.

Kevin Dunn sold 68,628 at $70.23 and received $4,819,744. He has 149,059 WWE shares left.

Senior Vice President and Comptroller Mark Kowal sold 3,845 shares for a total payout of $270,034. He remains with 14,610 shares.

In total, these seven WWE execs cashed out $22,800,745 over two days.

Smackdown rating for 07/23/2019

Smackdown did 2,162,000 viewers on Tuesday, up just 40,000 viewers from last week’s show with no real after effects from Monday’s Raw Reunion.

The show was #1 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #6 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

WWE Network gets an extreme makeover

WWE Network

After five-and-a-half years, the WWE Network is getting an extreme makeover with the new design rolling out this week.

In an e-mail blast sent to all WWE Network subscribers, the company said that the new simpler design with better navigation and smarter search tools will be updated this week and the rollout will happen at different times for different devices. Users will be required to sign in again – and not create new accounts – once the new design is live.

Vince McMahon is rumored to have been very hands-on with the design of the new Network, which has been the same since day one.

In a video hyping the new design, WWE is promising new features although no specific features were announced.

Trish Stratus stepping back in the ring at SummerSlam to take on Charlotte Flair

Multiple wrestling insiders are reporting that WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus will come out for retirement to have a match against Charlotte Flair at this year’s SummerSlam.

Ryan Satin of ProWrestlingSheet.com first reported that the two sides were in negotiations for the match and the news was later confirmed by both John Pollock of PostWrestling.com and Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer.

Hints of the match were dropped on Smackdown when Flair announced that she would have a match at SummerSlam to show the world she is the greatest of all-time and called herself the Queen of All Eras.

This will be Stratus’ first match since the Evolution pay-per-view where she was originally set to face Alexa Bliss but it turned into a tag match with Trish teaming with Lita to take on Mickie James and Alicia Fox. She also was part of a 10-women tag match the next night on Raw.

But her Flair match, the first time that the two will be in the ring together versus each other, will see Trish wrestle her first solo match since she had her retirement match in 2006 against Lita where she won the title at the Unforgiven pay-per-view, coincidentally also in the same arena.

SummerSlam takes place from Trish’s home town of Toronto.

AEW on TNT starts on Wednesday, October 2

All Elite Wrestling today announced that they will officially start their weekly television programs on TNT on Wednesday, October 2.

The show will be airing every week live from different arenas across the United States at 8PM ET.

The historic first show will take place from the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC. Ticket information will be released on Monday, July 29 at Noon ET on AEW’s social media accounts.

The name of the show was not announced today but AEW trademarked the name Wednesday Night Dynamite. It’s unclear if that’s the name they will be using for their weekly live shows.

This will be the first wrestling program on TNT since the last episode of WCW Nitro which aired on March 26, 2001.

Balor vs Wyatt added to SummerSlam 2019

SummerSlam got another match on the card with Finn Balor taking on the returning Bray Wyatt.

Wyatt appeared at the Firefly Funhouse on Smackdown and accepted Balor’s challenge on behalf of The Fiend. Wyatt, wearing The Fiend scary mask, attacked Balor on his first night back on Raw two weeks ago.

This match, or a similar version of it, was supposed to take place in December 2017 with Balor as Deamon Balor and Wyatt as Sister Abigail. Unfortunately, Wyatt got sick along with his brother and they were taken off the road.

One person who was happy that the match didn’t take place was Balor himself, who said that the “wacky storyline” eventually transformed into a match against AJ Styles.

“Obviously, it was unfortunate that three of the boys went down really sick, but I think that you know I was the one who kinda came out with the silver lining on that one,” Balor said at the time.

Balor is expected to take two months off after SummerSlam.

Wise words from wrestling and wrestlers

When we think of wrestling we think of gruesome sport where people need to get hurt in order to keep the audience entertained. And this is partially true. However, there is still a lot that we can get form the sport. That is why we look at some of the interesting wrestling quotes that we are sure that that you can us in your day to day life. Be it you area wrestler or not.

Wrestling Quotes

“Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I’m not going to stop” – Dolph Ziggler. A few simple words to make sure that in all that we do, we should strive to be the best that there ever was. And to be a better person tomorrow than we were yesterday.

“The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing”- John Smith. Basically teaches us that in life, the more you work on something the more painful it will be if it doesn’t come to pass. But that does not mean that you should give up.

“Never back down and never quit”- John Cena. Here we learn to never give up. Even when things are hard, we need to make sure that we carry on. According to New Zealand sports betting, WWE fans are always motivated by John Cena to do better while participating in WWE betting.

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination”- Tommy Lasorda. Where we want to and who we want to be in future all lies in our hands. We have the power to change and be who and what we want to be tomorrow. As aforementioned, it all lies in our determination.

“Success isn’t always about greatness, it’s about consistency”-The Rock. If you want to be a great person, you need to be consistent. As an old saying, patience pays. Even if you want to win in online gambling in United States, you need patience.

“Wrestling teaches you that nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it”- Mike Sullivan. We can’t sit around and expect things to just happen our way. We need to get up and work for them to happen on the way that we want to.

Randy Orton gets WWE title shot at SummerSlam

Kofi Kingston’s WWE title will be on the line at SummerSlam as his opponent, Randy Orton, was announced on Smackdown.

Orton was called out by Kofi during the show with Kofi blaming Orton for keeping him back from moving to main event status in 2009. Orton told him that he did him a favor because he wasn’t ready back then…and still isn’t ready now. Orton also noted that he didn’t have to shake his ass, throw pancakes, or use a fake Jamaican accent to be over. Ouch.

Randy Orton is a former 9-time WWE champion and a former 4-time World Heavyweight champion and he last held the WWE title in 2017.

Meanwhile, another match for SummerSlam was announced between Kevin Owens and Shane McMahon. The stipulation is that if Kevin Owens loses his match, he would quit the WWE.

Impact Wrestling and Twitch renew and expand agreement

Impact Wrestling and Twitch have renewed and expanded the scope of their agreement with more exclusive content to be produced for the Twitch service.

The renewal includes production of original weekly programming, pre and post-shows, live monthly specials, weekly airings of Xplosion which features never-before-seen matches, IRL (in real life) first-person streams, and much more. To support Twitch’s development of its co-streaming features, IMPACT Wrestling will facilitate co-streaming of the weekly flagship show and will be announcing details of a contest featuring co-streamers in the near future.

“Since debuting the weekly premiere of IMPACT! on Twitch this past January, we have been committed to growing the passionate professional wrestling community on the platform and the response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Ed Nordholm, Executive Vice President of Anthem Sports & Entertainment and President of IMPACT Wrestling. “We have grown our subscriber and follower bases significantly, while spreading our reach to new audiences. With our increased slate of exclusive content hosted by the likes of Melissa Santos, Don Callis and top IMPACT Wrestling stars, fans have been able to interact with our larger-than-life personalities like never before.”

“IMPACT Wrestling has quickly established itself as a leading wrestling channel on our platform”, said Jane Weedon, Director of Business Development at Twitch. “We are excited by the potential to expand on the content delivered by IMPACT Wrestling to the Twitch community, and their commitment to delivering live, shared, interactive and entertaining experiences for our audiences.”

VICELAND orders second season of Dark Side Of The Ring

VICELAND today announced that it has ordered a second season of the popular docs-series Dark Side Of The Ring. The announcement came at the Television Critics Association semi-annual Press Tour in Los Angeles by VICELAND president Guy Slattery.

The first season had the best premiere ratings in P18-49 and total viewers of any series in the channel’s three-year history. “We were thrilled with the positive response to Dark Side when it debuted,” said Slattery, “the enthusiasm from fans and non-fans alike was contagious. We can’t wait to tell more of these stories.”

The second season of the series will almost double the initial episode order, with 10 hour-long examinations of the collision of fantasy and reality and the stars’ larger-than-life characters in and out of the ring from returning executive producers Evan Husney and Jason Eisener.

The first season had six total episodes and focused on Macho Man Randy Savage, the Montreal Screwjob, The Von Erich family, the death of Gino Hernandez, the murder of Bruiser Brody, and The Fabulous Moolah.

Raw rating for 07/22/2019

The Raw Reunion show did an average of 3,093,000 viewers this week, an increase of 640,000 viewers from last week’s show. Despite the loaded line-up of Legends, Raw didn’t even come close to the 25th Anniversary episode from January of last year which did 4,530,000 viewers. Raw barely cracked the 3 million viewer mark for this special episode and it was the most-watched Raw since April 23, 2018.

Hour one which kicked off which John Cena did 3,019,000 viewers, then went up to 3,178,000 viewers for the second hour, before wrapping up with 3,083,000 viewers for the third hour that included the toast with Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and everyone else.

Raw was #1, #2, and #3 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #1 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

Stone Cold Steve Austin the highlight of Raw Reunion show

Stone Cold Steve Austin highlighted a pretty dull Raw Reunion show on a night where nearly 40 WWE Legends made their return for a special broadcast.

The trio of Austin, Hogan, and Flair were kept for the final segment of the night as Flair made his way out first, followed by Hogan. The two remained on the stage as the rest of the WWE Legends joined them. Hogan spoke, but Flair did not, and after Hogan’s music finished playing, the iconic glass break sound played and out came The Rattlesnake for a huge pop from the crowd.

Austin got the fans to chant “Hell Yeah” three times, one louder than the other, before reminiscing about the good old days. He said he was happy to be here with his family and thanked all the Superstars, cameramen, those driving the trucks, fans in the arena, those watching on TV, and everyone else for being part of his extended family.

Steve noted that he arrived a day early in Tampa and spent a day with Hulk Hogan, saying he never hang with Hogan before but the two recorded a podcast, drank a lot of beer, and ate sushi. He also hung with Flair at the bar, drinking beer all night long and running down a list of items he ordered when he was hungry as fans chanted “What?” in between.

Austin then invited all the Legends in the ring for a big toast. He also said that he didn’t know what to say when he was out there but Jonathan Coachman helped him out by telling him just to be himself. And that’s what Stone Cold did.

Before asking how long they have left on air, Austin told everyone that they’re not going to receive Christmas cards from them and then his music started to close what should have been a memorable Monday Night Raw.

After cameras went off the air and the ring cleared, Austin ran the ropes a little bit and then stomped on a beer can three times before it exploded to another big pop from the crowd.

24/7 title swaps hands nine times during Raw Reunion broadcast

The 24/7 title changed hands a couple of times during the Raw Reunion show with a lot of comedic backstage segments and even a few female champions.

The title swapped hands a total of nine times during the three-hour broadcast. Drake Maverick was the first to win it from R-Truth but then it moved to Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco before the first female champion, Kelly Kelly, was crowned. Candice Michelle won it next, and then Alundra Blayze. As Blayze was going to bin the title, similar to what she did with the WWE Women’s title on Nitro, The Million Dollar Man came out and bought it himself. DiBiase entered a limo and was ready to go but as the door slammed shut, Maverick was in there with a referee and pinned DiBiase to reclaim the title.

Maverick’s wife Renee Michelle told him that they would only consummate their marriage if he wins the title and with Maverick ready to bang, R-Truth came outta nowhere and rolled him up to pin him again. Truth got in the same limo, with Michelle still inside, and drove away!

Impact Wrestling’s Rob Van Dam shows up on Raw Reunion

Rob Van Dam, who is currently under contract with Impact Wrestling, appeared at the Raw Reunion show in full gear but did not wrestle.

RVD showed up along with Sgt. Slaughter, The Hurricane, and Kurt Angle to prevent Sami Zayn from walking out from his match against Rey Mysterio. Just minutes earlier, Zayn voiced his complaints about such programs and said that this feels like watching the Attitude Era through the Face App!

As Zayn escaped the 619 and started walking out, RVD’s theme song hit to a massive pop from the crowd. After the other three Legends joined in, Zayn went back in the ring, received the 619 and then Mysterio hit the five-star frog splash to finish Zayn in honor of Van Dam.

Van Dam recently rejoined Impact Wrestling and was last seen on WWE TV in 2014.

Raw Reunion undergoes several rewrites due to medical issues

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reported that Monday Night Raw underwent several rewrites throughout the day after many of the WWE Legends were not cleared to do anything physical.

The WWE medical team had a tough day checking everyone who was supposed to be part of something physical and a lot of them failed their basic medical test, giving the WWE creative team an even tougher day to rewrite the segments.

Meltzer noted that rewrites went down to the last minute and this time around it wasn’t because Vince McMahon changed his mind.

What makes a UFC champion?

What you know today as UFC is a mixed martial arts (MMA) company created in the United States in 1993. It is governed by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts without exception and presents more than 20 fights per year. Its rank is international, not only in the US, and its headquarters is in Las Vegas.

In the beginning, the UFC was created under the control of few rules and its objective was to determine which martial art was the most effective in combat situations without weapons. Soon the fighters realized that if they wanted to compete among the best they needed to train in other disciplines, so they began to be specialists of various styles and mixed the better of each one of them, transforming themselves into real fighters capable of defeating against any opponent over the ring.

What makes it so attractive to the 21st-century public?

Day by day, boxing is losing the success it had achieved in the 20th century. See how two athletes use their fists to leave their faces like chrome is still liked among fans of this discipline, but it is not as attractive as seeing two rivals using all their joints as combat weapons. The MMA is the biggest and toughest contact sport that exists because it allows the use of punches, kicks, blows of almost any type, and the use of keys and techniques from sports as diverse as boxing, karate, kickboxing, judo, Greco-Roman wrestling, etc.

What makes a UFC champion?

All you have to do is keep training, Kick Boxing is fine, but I recommend that you also train judo or jiuj-jitsu or enter an academy specializing in MMA because the UFC includes fights standing and on the floor, so you will need to be a fighter as complete as possible. Getting to fight in a company like the UFC will be a very difficult path but never give up or abandon your dreams.

When sailing under the “UFC” flag off the coast of MMA, you have to tighten your belt. Unless you are captain, crowned, or a legend of the oceans, your pay will not allow you much once you return to the mainland.

This is the biggest problem facing the American organization right now. Nothing is done to improve working conditions, relations are deteriorating and mutiny begins to grow. Catch your eye behind the long sight; you are given a top of the forces in presence.

Betway UFC have created the below infographic, showing the best route to the top.

Variety opinion article says Vince McMahon is “out of excuses for WWE woes”

Variety.com has an opinion article titled “Vince McMahon out of excuses for WWE woes,” as the company is just days away from reporting the Q2 2019 financial results.

Last quarter, in a conference call with investors, Vince McMahon blamed the bad business due to several of the top WWE Superstars being out, either injured or due to other circumstances. It was an odd excuse in the first place, with many bashing the company’s top brass for even going that way to cover up for their bad quarter.

Variety, in an analysis exercise, wrote that nearly all of the injured Superstars that Vince McMahon mentioned who had been out in the first quarter, are all back and Raw and Smackdown ratings still sunk lower than ever before. Raw viewership has gone down 20% compared to last year while Smackdown went down 17%.

Variety is one of the most respected publications when it comes to entertainment news such as television and movies and with investors bracing for another bad quarter, it will be interesting to see how Wall Street reacts to the report on Thursday. WWE stocks is down nearly 1% today, trading in the $69 range.

You can read the Variety article here.

Ladder match for AAA Tag Team titles confirmed for AEW’s All Out PPV

Another match has been made official for the All Out pay-per-view next month as The Lucha Bros will be taking on The Young Bucks in a ladder match.

This will be a rematch from their Double or Nothing show where The Young Bucks retained the AAA Tag Team titles during the inaugural All Elite Wrestling show. However, the team of Fenix and Pentagon Jr regained their titles during an AAA show last month.

This ladder match, which will be once again for the AAA titles, was confirmed on the latest episode of Being The Elite when the two AEW EVPs accepted The Lucha Bros’ challenge for a match at All Out. The challenge was laid at the Fight For The Fallen show.

At Fyter Fest, the two teams also went against each other but in a six-man tag team match where The Young Bucks had Kenny Omega with them while Lucha Bros had Laredo Kid. The Elite ended up winning that match.