LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas will transform into a pro wrestling fan’s paradise for a few days with WrestleMania 42 being the main course for most people who will fly into the city from around the world.

WWE will be sharing the spotlight.

Dozens of pro wrestling companies will be featured throughout the week at various venues all over the city. Imagine as if each college football conference was hosting its championship game every day from Wednesday to Sunday with the NFL’s Super Bowl occurring at the end. It’s the same feeling that will encapsulate pro wrestling fans over the course of the week.

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A West Coast Pro wrestling show takes place outside the Chase Center in San Francisco. (West Coast Pro)

West Coast Pro will be one of the promotions hosting a show with several wrestlers on its roster participating in multiple matches for other companies as well.

In a sea of independent shows, West Coast Pro owner Scott Bregante told Fox News Digital that his promotion offers fans a chance to see the sport in its purest form.

“I think what separates West Coast Pro apart is we have an identity of like, we’re very proud to be from the Bay Area. We’re very proud to still showcase pro wrestling for what pro wrestling is and not what it could be,” he explained. “I think a lot of people want to come in and reinvent the wheel. I think wrestling is beautiful in its rawest form and that is telling stories, putting a spotlight on up-and-coming people, getting people emotionally involved, just in the basics.

“I think we start so far away from it as an industry where you have to have an influencer now or someone that’s famous connected to it. For us, we’ve never really folded on that. It’s always been, like, we have really, really good wrestling. We have really good stories. Our crowd is incredible. The vibe is there. All the things that would make any company great, we’ve leaned into it and just never lost what made us, us.”

Bregante said some of the industry’s top stars have come through West Coast Pro, including WWE’s Royce Keyes and Jacob Fatu while others have been featured at All Elite Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action and in Japan as well.

“We have people all over the place that come out of West Coast, Pro, or had a footprint here,” he continued. “And I think that that stands the test of time. … And I really think that’s what makes us. And I think that’s really what makes us a step away from everybody else. We are just pro wrestling, you know? We’re not sports entertainment, we’re not an influencer, nothing like that. We’re pro wrestling at its core.”

One of West Coast Pro’s rising stars is the company’s world women’s champion Johnnie Robbie.

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Danny Orion enters the ring for West Coast Pro. (West Coast Pro)

Robbie is a Los Angeles native who has leaned into her Latin American background and brought her own flavor into the ring – and it’s made a resounding impact with pro wrestling fans.

Bregante told Fox News Digital that Robbie’s ability to relate to fans has made her incredibly popular. Couple that with her skills in the ring, and the industry has a rising star to contend with.

“Incredibly relatable but not to the point where people see her as an equal, they see her as someone to look up to,” he said of Robbie. “I think that’s a lot of things that are lost within pro wrestling where a lot wrestlers resonate with fans by being fans, where Johnny Robbie is a step above.”

Bregante said that Robbie’s career was nearly ended because of a serious neck injury, but her ability to recover, maintain her momentum with fans and being able to put on banger match after banger match. It’s that part of Robbie’s journey, Bregante said, that makes her even more special.

Johnnie Robbie hits Persephone with a crossbody from the top rope. (Courtesy Marc Blair/Instagram @punchesandpins)

“I think that’s a very, very important part that people forget of why, you know, if you’re just hearing now who Johnnie Robbie is but you hear everyone that’s been around for a while to say like, ‘Yeah man Johnnie Robbie,’ these are these are very important details of a journey with somebody, and her in-ring work speaks for itself,” he said. “She is one of the most sought-after wrestlers, man or woman or otherwise. A lot of people say like, ‘Oh, best unsigned talent,’ I don’t look at it that way. I think Johnnie Robbie, if you put her up pound for pound, she’s top 20 in the world period.

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“You can’t really go and say, ‘Hey, man, I watched the Johnnie Robbie match. It was just OK,’ 99.9% of the time, whenever you watch the Johnnie Robbie match, you go away with thinking, ‘OK, well, I think this woman is redefining what women’s wrestling could be.’ And when I look at her and say this is what it should be. There’s a reason why I have her main eventing over everybody else. And it’s not because it’s her gender or anything like that. It’s because she has the passion, she has the look. She has the effort and the skill set and the overall entertainment value to main event any show that comes out of West Coast Pro. And West Coast pro has a standard and for her to be at the top of that standard should say enough.”

West Coast Pro is set to put on a show in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 16. (West Coast Pro)

West Coast Pro’s “West Coast vs. The World” card looks like this:

• Johnnie Robbie (c) vs. Mio Momono for the West Coast Pro Women’s Championship
• Vinnie Massaro (c) vs. Thomas Shire for the West Coast Pro Championship
• Senka Akatsuki vs. Dani Luna in a singles match.
• Alan Angels and Aaron Solo (c) vs. Cajun Catch Revival for the West Coast Pro Tag Team Championships.
• Miko Alana vs. Aja Kong in a singles match.
• Andrew Cass (c) vs. Adam Brooks for the West Coast Pro Golden Gate Championship.
• Alpa Zo vs. LaBron Kozone in a singles match
• Starboy Charlie vs. Adam Priest in a singles match.

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The event will take place Thursday night at 7 p.m. PT at the Bizarre Bar in Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump said he is “prepared” to appoint up to three Supreme Court justices if vacancies arise, signaling he is ready to further reshape the high court as speculation swirls around a potential retirement from Justice Samuel Alito.

Trump told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo when asked about rumors that Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, could retire that he has a shortlist of nominees in mind, though he did not mention any names. 

The remarks sharpen the stakes around any potential vacancy, as Trump signaled he is ready to seize the opportunity to deepen the court’s conservative majority. With retirement speculation around Alito intensifying and Republicans eyeing the window before the 2026 midterms, the prospect of an opening is already putting fresh focus on succession politics. 

“In theory, it’s two — you just read the statistics — it could be two, could be three, could be one,” Trump said. “I don’t know. I’m prepared to do it. But when you mention Alito, he is a great.”

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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 07: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court’s budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 07, 2019 in Washington, DC. Members of the subcommittee asked the justices about court security, televising oral arguments and codes of ethics for the court. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Rumors about Alito, 76, potentially retiring have grown because of his age, his two-decade tenure on the bench and speculation that he may want to make sure a conservative successor is confirmed by the current Republican-led Senate, especially before the upcoming midterm elections where Republicans are at risk of losing or seeing a diminished majority.

The rumors were further fueled when it was revealed that Alito was treated last month for dehydration after becoming ill at a Federalist Society dinner. A Supreme Court spokesperson clarified at the time that the justice was “thoroughly checked” and returned to the bench the following Monday.

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Justice Clarence Thomas, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, has drawn less retirement speculation despite being one year older than Alito at 77 and his own lengthy tenure. Thomas has been a conservative fixture on the court for more than three decades and holds a record as the second-longest serving justice in history.

President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, center, and Samuel Alito, right. (Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump noted what he viewed as an upside to replacing Alito, who sides with him on nearly every high-profile court case, but said it would come at a cost.

“Justice Alito is an unbelievable justice, and a brilliant justice, and he gets the country,” Trump said. “He does what’s right for the country. It’s the law, and he goes by it as much as anybody, but he gets to the point. That’s good for our country. So … one way you should be, ‘Oh, I’m thrilled,’ but he’s so good.”

While many prominent conservative judges, from appellate court Judge James Ho to Florida-based federal Judge Aileen Cannon, have been floated as options in legal circles, Trump has not publicly revealed any of his preferences at this stage.

Senate Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told reporters this week he would recommend Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, or Mike Lee, R-Utah, as top candidates if Alito were to retire. Grassley emphasized that he hoped Alito would not step down but said his committee is “fully prepared” to process a nominee before the upcoming midterm elections if needed.

Cruz said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that having his name in the mix was a “high honor” but that he did not want the job.

“The reason I’ve said no is that a principled federal judge stays out of policy fights and stays out of political fights. … But I don’t want to stay out of policy fights. I don’t want to stay out of political fights,” Cruz said. “I want to be right in the middle of them.”

Lee’s office did not respond to request for comment.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, on February 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (Jacquelyn Martin/POOL/AFP)

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No president since Ronald Reagan has influenced the Supreme Court more than Trump, who secured three appointments during his first term, underscoring how Trump has shaped the 6-3 ideological divide on the court in favor of conservatives. George H.W. Bush appointed two, as did George W. Bush and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Former President Joe Biden appointed one, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

A California trash removal company was caught on video emptying the contents of a dumpster onto the front lawn of a customer they claim refused to pay their bill.  

The owner of Express Rental Dumpster in the Bay Area said people moving out of a house in San Pablo had rented a dumpster from the company for debris removal, but the credit card they gave for the transaction became a problem, according to KTVU. 

“It’s declined. They declined the card,” Martin Perez told the station. “They keep saying, like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna pay later. I’m gonna pay later. I’m gonna pay later,’ and never did. Or say, ‘I’m gonna put money on the card so you can charge.’ On Monday — happened like Monday — we tried again. Called. ‘Oh, I forgot.'” 

In footage taken from a Ring doorbell camera, a truck operator was first seen talking to a person off camera. He opened the back door of his dump truck, causing some trash to fall onto the homeowner’s yard. The man then got into the driver’s seat of the truck, backed it up toward the property and fully emptied the contents of the dumpster onto the lawn. 

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A California trash removal company was seen dumping trash onto a homeowner’s lawn in San Pablo in a dispute over an unpaid bill, a report said. (Julio via Storyful)

At one point, a man appears to emerge from the home and yell profanities in Spanish in the direction of the dump truck. 

Perez said he already lost money on the dumpster delivery and pickup and would have to pay hundreds more in dumping fees if he took the trash to the dump, KTVU reported. 

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Police later responded to the scene and required the driver to remove debris from the edge of the sidewalk onto the property, the station added. 

A neighbor told KTVU that the homeowner claimed to have paid for the dumpster.

“She says she paid $700 for it, and then, all of a sudden, I see him back up and dump it all on the ground. I don’t really know what that was about,” the neighbor said. 

Police in San Pablo, Calif., later showed up to the scene after the trash was dumped on the homeowner’s property. (Julio via Storyful)

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The pile of trash reportedly was cleaned up and covered by a neighbor after being picked through by scavengers. 

Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker declared the American Empire is “fading fast” and will “inevitably fall” when addressing Yale University’s Political Union on Tuesday. 

Empires “rarely die quietly,” Piker told Yale students, adding, “They go out over the course of sometimes centuries, but in America’s case, probably a lot shorter, with increasing amounts of violence.”

Piker came out in support of a resolution “End the American Empire” during the speech at Yale that irked conservatives before it began.  

“It’s an interesting resolution, end the U.S. empire. It’s interesting because, how do you end something that’s already in the process of dying?” Piker told students, drawing cheers.

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Hasan Piker declared the American Empire is “fading fast” and will “inevitably fall” when addressing Yale University’s Political Union during a controversial speech on Tuesday.  (Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“We must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage. This is a challenge for our time,” he said. “Because if we do not do this, then the American Empire will come to an end in a much more violent way, a curse on future generations that we must avoid at all costs.”

He also suggested the United States “turned against” the Soviet Union following World War II because of “anti-communist fervor.” At another point, he quoted Chinese dictator Mao Zedong’s past words about “reactionaries” being “paper tigers” who weren’t as scary as they appeared.

“It will be proved that the U.S. reactionaries, like all reactionaries in history, do not have much strength,” he said.

The far-left influencer said America eventually “became the monsters that we had supposedly vanquished” and had “imperial bloodlust.”

Piker asked, “What was the point of defeating the Nazis if we went on to dominate so much of the globe as violently as we have? Was the point of all of it so that we could have the rest of the world to ourselves?”

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Hasan Piker came out in support of a resolution “End the American Empire” during the speech at Yale.

“I don’t know how else to put it, the American Empire is fading fast, regardless of what we resolve here today,” Piker said. “The American Empire is going to inevitably fall.”

Piker, who is fiercely anti-Israel and has said he prefers Hamas, also said Israel was going through a “fascist death spiral” that was “not dissimilar to what the Nazis went through.”

Many Yale students stomped their feet with approval throughout the speech. The Yale Daily News interviewed students who called Piker’s remarks “electric” and praised the university for allowing “a modern media presence” to speak.

“He reaches to our demographic exactly, people that are our age,” student Cemre Keles told the Yale Daily News of Piker, who has millions of followers online.

Piker has become an influential figure within the Democratic Party, with some politicians embracing and even campaigning with him ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Others, however, have called out Piker for what they described as antisemitic and anti-American comments.

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Hasan Piker has become an influential figure within pockets of the Democratic Party. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon)

StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez called Yale’s decision to host Piker “indefensible”

“This is not a free speech issue, it’s a moral failure. Piker has a record of inflammatory rhetoric,” she told Fox News Digital.

“Elevating a dangerous figure associated with such rhetoric is not academic inquiry, it is the normalization of extremism,” Rez continued. “This is part of a broader, deeply troubling trend within the Ivy League, where elite institutions are increasingly willing to platform voices that traffic in outrage and hostility while ignoring the real-world consequences.”

Rez added, “Jewish students, already facing a surge in antisemitism on campus, are left to absorb the message that this environment is acceptable,” and universities are not obligated to give a platform to every voice.”

Yale did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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Prior to the Yale event, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called for federal funding to be revoked from Yale for hosting the controversial streamer, who had suggested Scott should be killed for his stance on health care.

“This is WILD,” Scott said on X. “I spoke at the Yale Political Union last year on why we need to buy made in America products. Now, they are hosting a guy who said I should be killed.”

Among Piker’s past comments are claims that America “deserved” 9/11 and defending Hamas as being “a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state” of Israel. Earlier this week, Piker claimed that the Republican Party was the world’s “biggest terrorist” organization.

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Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick and Alex Miller contributed to this report.