According to Tokyo Sports, Tetsuya Naito has been working for New Japan without a contract since January 31st of this year. Naito (via Google translate) said this: “I haven’t decided what to do if I quit, but when I was young, I had a feeling that I would retire at about forty, and it is true that there are parts that I feel that I can not do now that I can not do what I actually did a few years ago. I feel strongly that there is a limit to the remaining time, and I feel that it is better to move as I want rather than continuing to be dissatisfied with strange things.”
Tonight’s Dark Side of the Ring is about Ludvig Borga: “Ludvig Borga’s demeanor in the locker room made him an outsider among his peers, and the discovery of his controversial tattoos made it easy for the WWF to eventually sever ties with him.” Trust me when I tell you that’s only the tip of the iceberg on how messed up his story is.
The updated lineup for Impact this Thursday on AXS TV is below. (TNA)
- Tessa Blanchard, Jacy Jayne, and Jazmyn Nyx vs. Masha Slamovich, Xia Brookside, and Lei Ying Lee
- Frankie Kazarian vs. Elijah
- Steve Maclin vs. TBA
- Santino Marella makes “groundbreaking” announcement
- We’ll hear from The Hardys
The Miss Elizabeth Museum in Frankfort, KY is now officially open.
AEW Dynamite and Collision TV tapings are at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit, MI on May 7th and May 8th respectively. The pre-sale code is AEF4EW. (PWI)
Speaking of AEW, SE Scoops says Dynamite has been averaging 500K viewers a week on MAX, which would give them a combined audience of over 1 million with TBS included.
Here’s the updated GCW card for Philadelphia on April 6th.
- GCW Championship Match: Effy (c) vs. Tony Deppen
- Jonathan Gresham vs Marcus Mathers
- Ruckus vs Matt Tremont
- Ashley Vox vs. Zayda Steel
- The Bev vs. SLADE
- Miracle Generation vs. Wasted Youth
Only two things have been announced for NXT tonight on The CW. (WWE)
- WWE NXT North American Championship Match: Shawn Spears (c) vs. Ricky Saints
- Trick Williams calls out NXT Champion Oba Femi
In this interview Heath Slater says WWE told him he looked too much like Edge ahead of his NXT debut: “Dr. Tom pulled eight of us in the room, and he had an email saying ‘we need your eight best down there that are ready for TV.’ I was one of the eight. Next thing I know, they thought that I looked too much like Edge. My hair was long, I had the long coat, I had long tights with emblems on the side that resembled, but didn’t look like (Edge’s). But they told me before I got called up to go to NXT that I need to cut my hair off, gotta go to trunks and all this stuff to where I’m like, are you just changing everything about me? I was a bad guy in developmental. They wanted me to be a good guy on television to the point that they were stripping from us everything that we’d done, and now we were going on this game show and being people that we don’t know how to be.”
