Bajrang Punia, the 61-kg Indian wrestler, suffered heartbreak in the bronze medal match against Vasyl Shuptar of Ukraine losing the match on a Judges Verdict after the scores were tied at 6-6 at the World Wrestling Championship, Las Vegas.

21-year-old Bajrang had earlier defeated USA's Reece Humphrey in convincing fashion (6-0) and 2015 European silver medallist Beka Lomtadze of Georgia (13-6) in the repechage round in an authoritative display to set up the bronze medal match against Shuptar. 

Geeta Phogat went down in the repechage round of the 58-kg category at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas on Friday morning. The Indian wrestler lost 10-0 (technical superiority) to Turkish wrestler Elif Yesilirmak in the repechage round.

Earlier, the 26-year-old had been drawn to face nine-time World Champion Kaori Icho in the first round of qualifying in the 58-kg category. In what was always going to be an uphill task, Geeta seemed to have begun in confident fashion, not allowing Icho any clear openings in the first 45 seconds. She even managed to get her hands around the Japanese's waist but Icho was quick to break out of the lock. Over the next 30 seconds, Icho's potent double-leg attack helped her garner 10 points, ending up as the victor by virtue of technical superiority.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has had his contract with World Wrestling Entertainment prematurely terminated after a 7 year old taped conversation surfaced in the media in which the former wrestler used the 'N-word' while describing his daughter's boyfriend.

While not directly mentioning the reason for sacking Hogan, WWE did issue a press release in which it stated, "WWE terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan). WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide." - making it rather self evident that the issues were linked.

The chairman of the WWE started off a special three-hour edition of Raw in the ring with John Lauranitis with the intention of a performance evaluation of the General Manager. Lauranitis tried to convince the boss (over loud "Fire Johnny" chants) that he had been the only one who had brought 'People Power' in the almost 1000-episode history of Raw. McMahon looked unimpressed, and asked Lauranitis to explain the reasons behind signing Brock Lesnar (which resulted in two lawsuits against the company) and offering an Iron-clad contract to Big Show. Lauranitis blamed Triple H for the Brock Lesnar fiasco and promised that Big Show will prove him right at No Way Out. Lauranitis said he had the respect of the roster, and that brought Sheamus out to the ring.

The World Heavyweight Champion sarcastically reminded the boss how Lauranitis had fined him half a million dollars for apparently 'disrespecting authority'. Sheamus called Lauranitis 'the worst General Manager in wrestling history' and demanded that he be 'kicked out on his arse'. Lauranitis got frustrated and tried to leave the ring, but McMahon cut him off and announced that Johnny Ace's evaluation will continue through the night and if he fails to impress McMahon by the end of the show, he will be fired. Lauranitis started off with booking Sheamus vs. Lord Tensai in the very first match of the night.