On his latest livestream, Kenny Omega talked about receiving well wishes from Bayley after his diverticulitis diagnosis even though the two have never met. “Wrestling is a funny business and sometimes people only care about you when you’re useful to them. Not sometimes, most of the time. If, for whatever reason, you’re taken out of the game, you’re not needed. Who cares about you? Especially if you’re considered the competition, which is why I can say Bayley is an incredible human being. I’ve never met her. As far as I know, aside from the Xavier Woods’ of the world, I don’t know if there is a common thread there between us, but she gave me a message when I was going through my diverticulitis, hoping for a speedy recovery. That’s how you know a very genuine, good person, good human being. I could never ever say anything bad of Bayley and I would always stick up for her in any situation, even though it’s not someone I’ve ever met in real life. It meant a lot in that moment for somebody to reach out.”
In a post on social media, Anthony Henry said that both he and JD Drake (collectively The Workhorsemen) are “100% cleared” to wrestle again.
Will Ospreay talks about who he’d like to face at AEW Forbidden Door: “There’s so many. There’s one person I’ve never faced in my time, especially in New Japan, and I can’t believe it that we’ve never wrestlers each other one on one, is the current IWGP world heavyweight champion, Goto. We’ve been in a faction together but we’ve never wrestled one on one. Forbidden Door is coming up and if he wants a challenge, I would love nothing more than to try to regain my championship.”
On his latest podcast, Bill Goldberg gives an update on training for one last match: “I feel a little bit better, I’ve gained a little bit of weight man. Done a little kickboxing on the weekends. I’m getting there man, I’ve got a little bit of time left. Slowly but surely, Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Here’s the new AEW content hitting HBO Max on June 20th — coincidentally my birthday! (PWI)
- AEW Dynamite episodes (Winter 2020)
- AEW All Out (2021)
- AEW Full Gear (2021)
- AEW Forbidden Door (2022)
- AEW All Out (2022)
- AEW Full Gear (2022)
- AEW All In (2023)
- AEW All In (2024)
This week’s NXT did 697,000 viewers and a 0.13 18-49 demo, up from 664,000 viewers and down from 0.14 last week. (PI)
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors night eight results are below. (FF)
- TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita) def. Shoma Kato & Dragon Dia
- United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & Francesco Akira) def. War Dogs (Robbie X & Gedo)
- Yota Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi def. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Master Wato def. KUSHIDA, Yuya Uemura & Katsuya Murashima
- NJPW BOSJ B Block: MAO (3-3) 6 points def. Ryusuke Taguchi (3-3) 6 points
- NJPW BOSJ B Block: Kevin Knight (3-3) 6 points def. SHO (2-4) 4 points
- NJPW BOSJ B Block: Robbie Eagles (3-3) 6 points def. Titan (3-3) 6 points
- NJPW BOSJ B Block: Taiji Ishimori (3-3) 6 points def. Nick Wayne (4-2) 8 points
- NJPW BOSJ B Block: YOH (3-3) 6 points def. El Desperado (3-3) 6 points
Here’s the lineup for Impact tonight on AXS TV. (TNA)
- Joe Hendry & Elijah vs. Moose & Brian Myers (Trick Williams on commentary)
- Mustafa Ali vs. Ace Austin
- First Class vs. Sami Callihan & Mike Santana
- The Northern Armory vs. Aztec Warriors
- Spitfire in action
- Eddie Edwards in action
- In Ring Debate: Robert Stone (w/ Tessa Blanchard) vs. Santino Marella (w/ Arianna Grace)
And here’s the lineup for Collision on TBS. (AEW)
- AEW TBS Championship: Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Reyna Isis
- Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong
- Mike Bailey & Komander vs. RUSH & Dralistico
- Kyle Fletcher vs. Jay Lethal
- FTR, Nigel McGuinness & Daniel Garcia contract signing
The lineup for this year’s Hana Kimura Memorial Show tomorrow at Korakuen Hall is below.
- Battle Royal: Competitors TBA
- Konami & Minoru Suzuki vs. Chihiro Hashimoto & Shotaro Ashino
- Seigo Tachibana vs. Aja Kong
- Menso-re Oyaji vs. Shin Sakura Hirota vs. Jaguar Yokota
- YUNA vs. Tae Honma
- Miyuki Takase & Mika Iwata vs. Sareee & Natsupoi vs. DASH Chisako & Hiroyo Matsumoto
- Rina vs. VENY
AEW Double or Nothing isn’t airing on Triller this weekend, but that’s not the only bad news for the company, as Triller didn’t file their 10-Q with the SEC on time. Companies that fail to comply are in danger of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and according to Dave Meltzer the financials of Triller are in a “bad state.” (WO) As of this writing their stock is trading for under a dollar a share.
