Jan Murphy
Toronto Sun
Kingston, ON, Canada
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MURPHY: Montreal fans show true wrestling colours during Zayn match
The city of Montreal is known for many things. There is its wonderful French culture, one of only a few remaining in North America. → Read More
Edge accepts open challenge from U.S. Champion Austin Theory in Ottawa
Edge has accepted an open challenge from United States Champion Austin Theory in Ottawa on Monday night. → Read More
ELIMINATION CHAMBER: Reigns wins match, Zayn wins hearts
MONTREAL — Mere moments after an incredible and exhausting performance in what he called “the match of a lifetime,” Sami Zayn struggled to describe what he was… → Read More
SMACKDOWN: Sami Zayn whips Montreal crowd into a frenzy as he tees up showdown against Roman Reigns
MONTREAL – Sami Zayn nearly blew the roof off the Bell Centre in Montreal on Friday night as he returned home on WWE → Read More
Headlining Elimination Chamber ‘so special’ for Montreal’s Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn can’t remember a time when he had more fun in professional wrestling. → Read More
WWE legend Undertaker recounts career highlights, failures in ‘1 deadMan Show’
MONTREAL – Failure was the theme of the night as World Wrestling Entertainment legend → Read More
‘THERE’S STILL SO MANY STORIES TO BE TOLD’: WWE’s Natalya Neidhart proud of her career longevity
"But if you think about the people who have come and gone since I broke into the WWE, I’m really proud of my staying power," says Neidhart → Read More
WWE legend Undertaker's '1 deadMAN Show' heading to Montreal
The show will feature the so-called Phenom in an intimate setting, sharing never-before-heard stories from his iconic career. → Read More
WWE’s Braun Strowman relishes at ‘huge opportunity’ to compete at Elimination Chamber
“I realized that I was put on this Earth to be a WWE Superstar,” said Strowman. → Read More
WWE’s Rhea Ripley will ‘beat up anyone and everyone’ when Raw returns to Ottawa
“I knew I loved it and I would have loved to become a professional wrestler one day," says Ripley. → Read More
WWE returns to Montreal in 2023 with 'Elimination Chamber' event
World Wrestling Entertainment will bring one of its premium live events back to Montreal for the first time in more than a decade. → Read More
Long road to fitness gains is worth travelling
One day recently, I gazed into our bathroom mirror and saw someone I didn’t recognize. Me. Not metaphorically. Actually, literally. I could see, under my remaining layers of fat and skin, a chiselled physique beginning to emerge. I stood there, gazing, and even tightening my core and upper body. Each time I did, my outer […] → Read More
Building the bench press, 10 pounds at a time
The bench press … It’s arguably the exercise most synonymous with working out. When one thinks of working out, the first thing that comes to mind is probably weightlifting. And what better than the bench press when it comes to lifting weights? When I first began working out at 247 Fitness with Farr Ramsahoye two […] → Read More
Trish Stratus to call it a career following SummerSlam match
TORONTO — Seven-time World Wrestling Entertainment women’s champion and WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus will lace up her wrestling boots for what she says is the final time on Sunday against Charlotte Flair in Toronto as part of SummerSlam. The women’s wrestling legend told the Toronto Sun on Saturday that the opportunity to have […] → Read More
Natalya to Becky Lynch: 'I'm not going to be pushed around'
Utter the word SummerSlam to World Wrestling Entertainment’s Natalya and — not surprisingly — the first thing that comes to her mind is someone else. “I feel like SummerSlam is the Hart family pay-per-view,” the always upbeat 37-year-old Calgary native said over the phone with a chuckle. “(When I think of SummerSlam), I think of […] → Read More
WWE dreams become reality for Canadian brothers
Toronto has been called the centre of the universe, cynically by some, seriously by others. Next month, it will most certainly be the centre of the so-called WWE universe, as SummerSlam, World Wrestling Entertainment’s second biggest show of the year, returns to Toronto for the first time in nearly two decades. And for the WWE’s […] → Read More
Family comes first as Hart Foundation inducted into Hall of Fame
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Calgary’s Hart family was enshrined yet again in wrestling immortality on Saturday night in Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of World Wrestling Entertainment’s WrestleMania 35 festivities. → Read More
Through adversity came Bliss for WrestleMania 35 host
NEW YORK — You wouldn’t think that the host of Sunday’s WrestleMania 35 once broke down and cried during promo class in WWE developmental, but it’s true. → Read More
Lashley says he has unfinished business in WWE
NEW YORK — Bobby Lashley was just a wide-eyed kid when he experienced his first WrestleMania as a professional wrestler. And he remembers it like it was yesterday. → Read More
Women take centre stage at WrestleMania 35
NEW YORK: The 35th edition of pro wrestling’s grandest spectacle, WrestleMania, will be unlike any in history. The inaugural WrestleMania’s main event featured Hulk Hogan and Mr. T facing Paul Orndorff and Rowdy Roddy Piper. → Read More