In their announcement to promote the official opening of ticket sales for Saturday Night’s Main Event on July 12th in Atlanta, GA WWE confirmed that this is IN FACT Bill Goldberg’s final match for the company — your “last chance” to see him wrestle live. (WWE)
Next week’s Collision will air on Thursday (June 26th) due to NASCAR on Saturday. (WO)
Paul Walter Hauser says he’s not involved in day-to-day operations for MLW: “So the day-to-day operations, not so much. But my thing is I’m trying to lead us into the next iteration of it. My hope for MLW, my whole desire is, let’s get a TV deal. Let’s get some sort of streaming deal. Let’s get the library up on something, be it a FAST channel And let’s, slowly but surely, get the money to actually build up a full roster and get this thing going. And then at the same time, let’s try to put eyes on it when we can… and find cross promotion wherever we can. I can’t say too much because we’re still figuring stuff out, obviously. But we’ve had a couple of offers and we’ve had discussions and we’re just trying to figure out what makes the most sense for everybody. Because it’s one thing for somebody to throw you some money, it’s another to find people that understand and like the product. So, like, we’re kind of looking for somebody who actually likes wrestling and understands the product and wants to see it grow exponentially. Not get some kind of cheapo buyout just to have it up off of YouTube.”
Here’s the lineup for FantasticaMania tonight. (CMLL)
- CMLL World Women’s Championship: Mercedes Mone (c) vs. La Catalina
- Mascara Dorada & Mistico vs. Bandido & Hologram
- Ricochet vs. Volador Jr.
- Match Relampago: Neon vs. Kevin Knight
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Titan) vs. United Empire (Templario, TJP & Francesco Akira)
- Ultimo Guerrero vs. Yota Tsuji
- Difunto, Zandokan Jr., Rugido & Magnus vs. Lio Rush, Action Andretti, Rocky Romero & Robbie X
- La Jarochita vs. Thunder Rosa
- Kira vs. Red Velvet
Speaking of CMLL their 92nd Anniversary show will be Sept. 19th at Arena Mexico.
Here’s the updated card for Tanahashi Jam on June 29th. (NJPW)
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- NJPW World Television Championship: El Phantasmo (c) vs. TBD
- NEVER Openweight Championship: Oleg Boltin (c) vs. Yuji Nagata
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shota Umino & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Hiromu Takahashi & LEONA
- Katsuya Murashima vs. Daiki Odashima
- United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young) vs. Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & TBD
- Dragon Kid, El Desperado, YOH & Master Wato vs. SANADA, DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, Don Fale and Chase Owens) vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Yuya Uemura, Taichi, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI
RVD and Katie Forbes are having twins! Congratulations to them again.
Here’s the announced card for SmackDown tonight. (WWE)
- King of the Ring Tournament Semifinal Match: Randy Orton vs. Sami Zayn
- Queen of the Ring Tournament Semifinal Match: Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka
- John Cena vs. Ron Killings
El Phantasmo will miss this weekend’s shows due to injury. (NJPW)
Here’s the current card for next week’s Impact. (TNA)
- Street Fight: Mike Santana vs. AJ Francis
- TNA Knockouts #1 Contender’s Battle Royale: Competitors TBA
- Call to Arms Match: Mustafa Ali vs. John Skyler
- The Hardys vs. The Northern Armory
- Joe Hendry appears
IWRG results from last night are below. (FF)
- Superboy & Kali def. Sol & Mirvan
- Avisman def. Tromba
- Lucha Random: Wisin El Perro & Iron Kid def. Big Strippers
- Aquiles def. Emperador Azteca & Tonalli
- Hijo del Pirata Morgan def. Hell Boy
- IWRG Intercontinental Championship Match: Mexa Boys def. Mala Fama
Booker T is returning for season two of WWE LFG.
Elijah (f/k/a Elias) reportedly suffered a triceps tear on NXT this Tuesday. (PWI)
Even though Happy Gilmore 2 is a Netflix film, WWE is reluctant to air any trailers for it during Raw that feature AEW’s own MJF, who plays a major character in the film. So far the only promos to air during Raw on Netflix haven’t included him. (WO)
