Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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EC3 vs. Midas Kreed - Match Madness 1st Round Contest
Daily Wrestling stars EC3 and Midas Kreed go one-on-one in the opening round of the Match Madness tournament! See a new match EVERY day throughout March 2021! First round matches have a 15 minute time limit. Your host is Lena Gonzales, with commentary from Kevin "KG" Gill and Jake Black!
EC3 vs. Hero Leu - Match Madness 2nd Round Contest
Daily Wrestling stars EC3 and Hero Leu go one-on-one in the second round of the Match Madness tournament! See a new match EVERY day throughout March 2021! Second round matches have a 20 minute time limit. Your host is Lena Gonzales, with commentary from Kevin "KG" Gill and Jake Black!
EC3 vs. Lee Moriarty - Match Madness Quarter Final Contest
Daily Wrestling stars EC3 and Lee Moriarty are back for the Quarter-Final Round of the Match Madness tournament! See a new match EVERY day throughout March 2021! Quarter-final round matches have a 25 minute time limit. Your host is Lena Gonzales, with commentary from Kevin "KG" Gill and Jake Black!
MLW Fusion 130: Tom Lawlor vs. Marshall Von Erich | Salina's final opportunity?
•“Filthy” Tom Lawlor vs. Marshall Von Erich •Ross Von Erich vs. Dominic Garrini •Hijo de La Park vs. Bu Ku Dao For the first-time ever Marshall will meet Tom Lawlor ONE-on-ONE, by newlawoffice.com! Fresh off winning the New Japan Strong Openweight Championship, Lawlor looks to keep his winning streak intact but does an iron claw await him? Marshall spent a month on the sidelines with an injured knee. Cleared to return to competition, Marshall Von Erich is chomping at the bit to get the 2020 Opera Cup winner inside the squared circle. Lawlor and the Von Erichs have a long history and were once best friends. Lawlor even recruited the Von Erichs to join MLW… only for Lawlor to become bitter and betray the Von Erichs. Now the stage is set for a big 1-on-1 clash. Who will have their hand raised? In a prelude to the main event, Ross Von Erich will square off against world class Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gold medalist Dominic Garrini. The bout marks Ross' return to the states. The elder Von Erich had spent several weeks on an excursion in Japan training under the tutelage of Keiji Mutoh, better known as the Great Muta. Despite going rogue on Azteca Underground’s proprietor, Salina de la Renta has been given one more opportunity by the mysterious El Jefe. With Los Parks last week seemingly unhappy with her, Salina finds herself at a crossroads after going into business for herself and ignoring El Jefe's game plan for the Muertes/Hammerstone match. Hijo de LA Park faces a man entering the middleweight contest with immense momentum in Bu Ku Dao. The 5' fan favorite defeated TJP last week in the biggest win of his career. Could Salina face severe consequences if Hijo de LA Park losses? Alicia Atout chats one on one with Alex Hammerstone as he responds to CONTRA and continues to push for his ultimate goal, a one on one World Heavyweight title fight with Jacob Fatu! World Middleweight Champion Lio Rush and “The Young GOAT” Myron Reed take questions from the media ahead of their blockbuster World title rematch next Wednesday night! Join Ray Flores, fight analyst Saint Laurent, and backstage correspondent Alicia Atout for a night of top ranked competition.
Dishonor At Ring Of Honor Continues As Danny Cage Calls Out Joey Mercury, Will Ferrara For Their Conduct In ROH
Dan McDonald, also known as Danny Cage, took to Twitter to make some eye-opening allegations against Joey Mercury and Will Ferrara for their behavior as trainers at the Ring of Honor Dojo.
First, Cage claimed that students and coaches at the facility dealing drugs and having sex with spouses and other students was the reason he left ROH.
Cage focused on Ferrara, a veteran coach and wrestler, by criticizing his “recycled pin drill” and hinting that Ferrara engaged in sexual relations with other talent.
In another tweet, Cage explicitly alleged that Ferrara had sex with other wrestlers at the time and claimed that he still is. Then, Cage critiqued trainer Joey Mercury’s conduct. “Do gas & get someone fired,” wrote Cage.
Next, Cage accused Mercury of being intoxicated during a tryout and snapping at Hana Kimura.
In additional comments, Cage stated that Mercury has a pattern of using undesirable information to get people fired, and he also accused Mercury of assaulting a student in front of his peers.
WWE NXT Referee Was Reportedly Suspended & Banned From The WWE PC Over Controversial Heat
WWE NXT referee Drake Younger (Drake Wuertz) was reportedly suspended earlier this year and was not allowed into the Capitol Wrestling Center at the WWE Performance Center for a period of time.
Younger has found himself caught up in some controversies in recent months and now Fightful Select reports that he had his duties reduced at one point.
Younger previously worked as the head referee of NXT, but Darryl Sharma is now working that role. Younger was also considered for the job of timing NXT matches, but officials ended up offering the job to Scott Armstrong, who was briefly furloughed by the company. WWE Hall of Famer and Producer “Road Dogg” Brian James was said to be instrumental in getting his brother Scott back into the fold. Younger was also not offered the back-up timing position, which can and has also led to timing matches for WWE 205 Live. DA Brewer has taken over those duties instead.
The issues surrounding Younger continued into 2021 as he was either formally or informally suspended earlier this year, and was not allowed at the WWE Performance Center for better or for worse for a short period of time, according to the report.
An article referring to Younger as a problem for WWE was published in November 2020 and several WWE higher-ups were said to be “horrified” by what they read. This was compounded by a March incident where Younger and friends interrupted a County Commissioner’s meeting and tested how far county officials would be willing to go to enforce their mask mandate, accusing the county of being more concerned about protecting adults from COVID-19 while being unconcerned about protecting children from violence and trafficking.
When Drake was allowed to return to the WWE Performance Center, the report noted that he appeared to have subdued many mannerisms that got him “substantial heat” with co-workers in the first place.
It was also said that many in NXT are surprised Drake is still with the company, and are worried that his “radical beliefs” may have actually helped him from being fired.
A link to something on that March incident is here.
Bret Hart Names Who He Believes Triple H “Stabbed In The Back A Lot”
In an interview with Asif Zulfiqar Ali on The 81 Podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart talked about Impact Wrestling Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock. While they never wrestled together, Hart was instrumental in getting Shamrock into the WWE in 1997 and was really hoping to work with The World’s Most Dangerous Man.
“Right from the start I wanted to wrestle Ken. I would’ve loved to have worked with him,” Hart said. “I got Ken in and trained him. I put Vader and Ken, Vader and Ken trained in my house. I had a gym in my house. But I trained Ken in there. I had a lot to do, I was the guy that brought him in and kind of got him to do wrestling. H told me he broke his hand in UFC and said ‘I can’t fight for awhile.’ I said ‘well why don’t you wrestle? Make some money doing wrestling. You’d be a big star in wrestling.’
“Ken used to be a pro wrestler before he did the UFC stuff. It wasn’t that hard to go ‘okay I’ll go back to the pro wrestling stuff.’ I said ‘let your hand mend up and heal and we’ll do wrestling stuff.’
So why didn’t the two get to work together? As Hart speculates, it was a combination of management and backstage politics at work.
“I’d have loved to work with Ken; it just never happened,” Hart stated. “I don’t know why, probably more to do with the office. In fact, I remember that Vince was going to fire him. And he (Vince) called me up and basically said ‘I’m just getting ready to call Ken Shamrock. I’m gonna fire him.’ And I said ‘why would you fire him?’ Vince was like ‘lot of guys didn’t like him in management.’ And I said ‘I don’t think you should fire him. We really need a guy like Ken Shamrock. We can use a guy like that, he can be a star and we can make money with him.’ And I changed his mind. He goes ‘okay I’ll keep him.’ And they kept him.
“He (Shamrock) did pretty good. That was all in the early going when he first showed up and did the match where he refereed me and Stone Cold. That was before he got signed so that was a few weeks before WrestleMania. But I always thought he was someone who could’ve been a way better pro wrestling star than what they allowed him to be.
“To be honest, I think Triple H didn’t like him, mostly because he was connected to me. But Triple H I remember didn’t like him and I remember Triple H was working with him a lot, was always criticizing him and talking about him. I think that was one of the guys that stabbed him in the back a lot.”
MEXICO'S CMLL SAYS ''"ADIOS AMIGOS" TO RING OF HONOR AS IT SEVERS ITS WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM
Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, CMLL, has announced the termination of its strategic alliance with Ring of Honor.
CMLL has worked with ROH since 2016, with the likes of Matt Taven gaining major exposure in Mexico through the relationship.
However, some of ROH’s top stars have left CMLL on sour terms in recent times. (So much for "Honor" In Ring Of Honor, eh? ) Dragon Lee and Rush were publicly fired by the company in September 2019 and CMLL also announced Bandido will not wrestle on future shows earlier this month.
The news also comes as Rush’s new promotion, Federación Wrestling, is set to make its debut in June. Bandido and Taven have both been confirmed for the show and the company has teased some big stars will appear at the show. Silhouettes on a graphic posted on Twitter strike an uncanny resemblance to Andrade (the top middle render) and ROH’s Kenny King (the top right render).
