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-Congratulations to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame Class of 2025 Inductees: Spyros Arion, Gran Hamada, Dorrell Dixon, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Bobby Bruns and promoter Raoul Paoli, who essentially began wrestling in France in the 1930s and ran it successfully until the 1950s. (WON)
-The closest people to just miss this year were Hayabusa (4 votes short), Junkyard Dog (4 votes short), June Byers (8 votes short) and Jesse Ventura (9 votes short). (WON)
-Frankie Kazarian won the TNA World Title on the live episode of Impact on Thursday, cashing in his Call Your Shot Gauntlet Trophy after an NXT invasion saw Mike Santana already beaten down. This was TNA’s first show since Bound For Glory when Santana won the title from Trick Williams. (TNA on X)
-Kazarian will appear on the pre-show of tonight’s TNA Turning Point show to address the audience and his win. (TNA on X)
Speaking of which, the card for tonight’s show on TNA+ is as follows:
Frankie Kazarian & Nic Nemeth vs. Mike Santana & Steve Maclin
Knockouts World Champion Kelani Jordan defends against M By Elegance
X-Division Champion Leon Slater defends against Rich Swann
Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy & Cedric Alexander vs. Mustafa Ali, Jason Hotch & John Skyler
AJ Francis vs. BDE
Trey Miguel, Zachary Wentz, Myron Reed, and a mystery partner vs. Moose, Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers & JDC
Triple threat match: Knockouts Tag Team Champions Cassie Lee & Jessie McKay defend against Tessa Blanchard & Victoria Crawford and Lei Ying Lee & Xia Brookside
No DQ match: Indi Hartwell vs. Dani Luna
Countdown to Turning Point: The King’s Speech with new TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian (F4W)
-Fightful Select reports that WWE has officially signed Joe Hendry to a contract (Fightful Select)
-Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI were forced to cancel their indy dates for WXW in Germany this weekend (WXW on Instagram)
-ROH results from last night:
Dalton Castle & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) defeated Savage King, Warren Johnson & Zack Mason
The Don Callis Family (Hechicero & Rocky Romero) defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)
Athena & Billie Starkz defeated Hyan & Maya World
The Swirl (Blake Christian & Lee Johnson) defeated Vin Parker & Will Allday
Lance Archer defeated Aaron Solo
SkyFlight (Dante Martin, Darius Martin, Leila Grey & Scorpio Sky) defeated MxM TV (Johnny TV, Mansoor, Mason Madden & Taya Valkyrie)
Pure Champion Lee Moriarty [c] defeated Willie Mack (F4W)
-TNA Impact results from last night:
Dani Luna defeated Indi Hartwell via DQ
Cedric Alexander defeated Jason Hotch
Kelani Jordan pinned Heather By Elegance
Mike Santana retained over Ryan Nemeth somehow
Frankie Kazarian pinned Mike Santana to win the TNA World Title (F4W)
-SmackDown for tonight (WWE on X)
The Last Time is Now tournament first round: Jey Uso vs. The Miz
The Last Time is Now tournament first round: LA Knight vs. a mystery opponent
Non-title match: WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill vs. B-Fab
Sami Zayn has a message for Solo Sikoa
-In addition to being inducted into the WON Hall of Fame, CM Punk attended the Zootopia 2 premier. The first Zootopia movie was fantastic, so I, personally, am looking forward to this one (X)
-Rey Mysterio will be a special guest at AAA’s television taping on November 28 (AAA on X)
-Beyond Wrestling has their Americanrana show tonight in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. If you are a fan of indy wrestling, Beyond is a good company to check out. If you can’t be there in person, it is available on IWTV.com
Lineup for tonight: (Beyond)
Undisputed Independent Wrestling World Title: Fancy Ryan Clancy (c) sponsored by Jeff Pedersen M.D. vs. TJ Crawford sponsored by @itsaJaime
No DQ: Shotzi Blackheart & Krule vs. Bear Bronson & Gabby Forza sponsored by John Janus
Wrestling Open Title: Bobby Orlando (c) vs. Donovan Dijak
La Hija De Gatubela vs. Allie Katch
The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) vs. Big Business (Love Doug & Brad Hollister)
Lady Leigh vs. Kylie Alexa sponsored by @Stallard999
Rickey Shane Page & ??? & ??? vs. Brett Ryan Gosselin, Oxx Adams & ???
Alex Reynolds vs. Ichiban
Stetson Ranch (Steven Stetson & Brian Morris) & Julius Draeger vs. Eye Black Jack & Wrench And Resolve (Handyman Jake Gray & Erik Chacha) sponsored by Jeff Pedersen M.D.
Plus Eddie Kingston, Ortiz, Ben Bishop, Dan Barry, Pedro Dones, and more!
