You’re no doubt already aware of this but Chris Jericho came back on Dynamite last night. He also uploaded behind the scenes footage before his televised return.
AEW/ROH wrestlers Mina Shirakawa, Alex Windsor, Babes of Wrath, Kris Statlander and Athena will all be competing at STARDOM American Dream over WrestleMania weekend. Here’s the current card.
- NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship Match: Alex Windsor vs. Saya Iida
- Maika & Mina Shirakawa vs. HANAKO & Yuria Hime
- Athena vs. Rina
- Mei Seira, Starlight Kid, & AMZ vs. Babes of Wrath & Kris Statlander
- Aya Sakura & Natsupoi vs. Maki Itoh & Saki
Willie Mack is on a per appearance deal with AEW/ROH and can take any indie dates he wants. (FF) This only came up because of Mack’s tweet on X that alarmed many people: “When ya boy is about to become a homeless superhero because the booker doesn’t think he’s worth the money. It’s like for 2 years straight I’d call every week and ask if you got anything for me? You signed right? You still getting paid right? I want to Wrestle.” He’s also denied claims that he turned down a new contract.
WWE has filed a new trademark for the name “EK Prosper.” (FF)
Lady Frost confirmed her departure from AEW: “As of today, I am a free agent. I want to thank Tony Khan for being an incredibly kind and passionate boss. I had some of the most incredible moments with AEW and I am so grateful for the years that I spent there. For now, I’m on the hunt. Onto the next.”
The card for NXT Stand & Deliver on Saturday is below.(WWE)
- NXT Championship Match: Joe Hendry vs. Ethan Page vs. Ricky Saints vs. Tony D’Angelo
- NXT Women’s Championship Match: Jacy Jayne vs. Kendal Grey vs. Lola Vice
- NXT North American Championship Match: Myles Borne vs. Johnny Gargano
- NXT Tag Team Championship Match: The Vanity Project vs. Los Americanos
- NXT Women’s North American Championship Match: Tatum Paxley vs. Blake Monroe
- Sol Ruca vs. Zaria
- Pre-Show: Shiloh Hill, Wren Sinclair, Eli Knight, and Hank & Tank vs. Birthright
Here’s the current card for the NXT next week after Stand & Deliver. (WWE)
- WWE Men’s Speed Championship Tournament Begins: Competitors TBA
- Josh Briggs vs. Jasper Troy vs. Keanu Carver
Mercedes Mone lost another title to Jody Threat in Winnipeg.
Condolences to Kyle O’Reilly on the passing of his father Rick Greenwood last Friday.
Best wishes to Josh Alexander as he recovers from knee surgery.
Randy Orton will apparently reveal who’s on the other end of the phone on SmackDown.
Starboy Charlie is now Chazz “Starboy” Hall, Jimmy House is now CJ Valor, and Jariel Rivera is going by Santi Rivera in EVOLVE. (WWE)
Janel Grant’s latest filing in her lawsuit against Vince McMahon, TKO and WWE says that Vince demanded she “serve herself as breakfast” to him. I’m not even going to try to unpack that one.
Here are the latest NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis results. (FF)
- Shota Umino & Tiger Mask defeated KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda
- Tiger Mask IV announces his retirement match will be on July 7
- Konosuke Takeshita defeated Tatsuya Matsumoto
- El Desperado, Taichi & Yuya Uemura defeated Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) & Master Wato
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Don Fale, Ren Narita, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yujiro Takahashi) defeated Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI), Aaron Wolf, Oleg Boltin & Toru Yan
- HOUSE OF TORTURE continued their attack
- T.M.D.K. (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) defeated Unbound Co. (Gedo, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
- United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee & Zane Ray) defeated Unbound Co. (Daiki Nagai, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji)
- Unbound Co. (Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori) defeated United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young) to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
- Kosei Fujita challenges Robbie & Ishimori
- DOUKI defeated YOH to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title
- Tiger Mask challenges DOUKI
Here’s a non-spoiler lineup for Collision tonight. (AEW)
- AEW Continental Championship Eliminator Match: Jon Moxley vs. Anthony Bowens
- AEW TBS Championship Open Challenge: Willow Nightingale vs. TBA
- Tornado Tag Team Match: Orange Cassidy, Kevin Knight, Roderick Strong, & Mistico vs. Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Clark Connors, & David Finlay
- Tommaso Ciampa vs. Juice Robinson
- Divine Dominion vs. TBA
- FTR vs. TBA
- Andrade El Idolo & Mark Davis vs. The Rascalz
And here’s the lineup for Impact on AMC. (TNA)
- Knockouts World Championship Match: Arianna Grace vs. Xia Brookside
- Bunkhouse Match: Tessa Blanchard vs. Jody Threat
- AJ Francis vs. The Home Town Man
- We’ll hear from Mike Santana
- The Hardys speak out about The Righteous’ betrayal
Here’s the updated card for Dynasty on April 12th. (AEW)
- AEW World Championship Match: MJF vs. Kenny Omega
- AEW World Tag Team Championship Match: FTR vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage
- Darby Allin vs. Andrade El Idolo
- Jon Moxley vs. Will Ospreay
Tyson Dupont is getting hip surgery. Best wishes to him!
Thunder Rosa would like a dual AEW/CMLL contract: “Of course I’m interested in something like that. It’s a big deal, it is such a big deal and it’s such an honor when they recognize you to be somebody to be part of their organization. Absolutely, it would be an honor.”
