Monday, September 13, 2021
BRITISH STAR MARTIN KIRBY OUT OF RETIREMENT
British wrestler Martin Kirby has come out of retirement, making a surprise appearance at Scottish promotion Insane Championship Wrestling’s television taping last night in a losing effort against Daz Black.
Kirby, 39, announced his retirement last March. He is best known for his work across the British independent wrestling scene, but namely WhatCulture Professional Wrestling (which later rebranded as Defiant Wrestling).
In August 2019, Kirby debuted in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. He regularly competed in the company until last March, teaming with Gamma, Masaaki Mochizuki and Ryo Saito in defeat against Dragon Dia, Jason Lee, Mondai Ryu and Oji Shiiba in what would have been his last match.
British promotion NORTH Wrestling has announced Kirby will compete against Chris Ridgeway, Robbie X and Will Kroos in a four-way match to determine the next challenger for the NORTH Wrestling Championship at its Keep Your Distance show on Saturday, October 23 at the Anarchy Brew Co in Newcastle.
At the same show, Rory Coyle will attempt his first defense of the title against Cara Noir (international fans will also know Noir from his work in England’s PROGRESS Wrestling and German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling on Peacock and the WWE Network). Tickets for the show are available here. All allocated seating has sold out but standing tickets remain available for under £20.
Ticket info https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/ncl-22-keep-your-anarchy-brew-co-tickets/11328335
Gee Where Did They Get This Idea From? Oh Yeah. The NWA Then ROH- IMPACT ANNOUNCES KNOCKOUTS KNOCKDOWN ALL-WOMEN'S EVENT
First Billy Corgan's NWA announced their all women's event, then Ring of Honor 'really quickly' copied that idea with their women's tournament, and NOW, Impact Wrestling, seeing how good the NWA's Women's event was, is now jumping on the bandwagon.
I guess if you're gonna copy an idea, it is nice that they're not ripping off WWE, like many wrestling companies often do.
Impact has announced Knockouts Knockdown, an all-women event that will tape this coming weekend to air in October.
Gail Kim was joined by former Impact star Christy Hemme live on Impact’s Facebook page this afternoon. The show will air on October 9 on Impact Plus and will tape this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Skyway Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Kim announced that Deonna Purrazzo would be on the card, defending the Impact Knockouts title against a mystery opponent. Ticket information for the tapings can be found here.
Other names that Kim mentioned during the stream include Lady Frost, Renee Michelle, and Mercedes Martinez, all of whom will be appearing on the show. Additionally, a Monster’s Ball match will take place that will be dedicated to the memory of Daffney, who was the first woman to take part in a Monster’s Ball match against Taylor Wilde back in 2009.
NWA EmPower, which also had an all-women's card, took place last month. Deonna Purrazzo successfully defended the Impact Knockouts title on the show, defeating Melina.
Here's the announcement by Gail Kim and ChristyHemme.
https://www.facebook.com/ImpactWrestling
Ticket info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-wrestling-tv-taping-tickets-166687036413?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Becky Lynch Confronts Fan Who Calls Her A P***y At WWE Supershow
WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch defeated Bianca Belair during a WWE Supershow at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York, on Sunday night.
Several videos have surfaced of Lynch mocking and trolling the fans during the show. One video shows a fan calling Lynch “a pus*y” after the match. Lynch confronted the fan and talked trash while hoisting up her title.
Lynch antagonized the crowd in Albany throughout the match.
Belair dominated most of the match, until Lynch picked up the pin fall victory with a roll up. The crowd was mostly behind the babyface Belair.
Lynch will defend her title against Belair at the upcoming Extreme Rules pay-per-view. The two women signed a contract this past Friday on SmackDown to make the match official.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1437260148733583363
RING OF HONOR MAY HAVE JUST RUN LAST EVENT BEFORE LIVE FANS IN 2021 AND OTHER NEWS
Following tonight's Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor PPV, the promotion has run its last currently scheduled event in front of a live crowd this year. There had been plans to run several house shows this fall but the decision was made to hold off on those events due to the COVID-19 Delta variant and concerns over how it may affect touring.
ROH will tape their next rounds of TV tapings before a closed set tomorrow and Tuesday in Philadelphia at the 2300 Arena. There are also tapings set for November in Baltimore.
Going forward, decisions will be made on a "week to week" basis as to when they run again before live crowds.
A decision as to whether the promotion's next planned PPV, Final Battle, will be held before live fans has not yet been determined, That show is tentatively set for Baltimore as well.
Chris Hero was backstage tonight working as a producer for the PPV.
The announced injuries for Jay Lethal, Rhett Titus and Tracy Williams were simply storyline to explain why they were not wrestling on the PPV. They will be in action at this week's TV tapings.
Jake Atlas, Alex Zayne and Taylor Rust will be taking part in this week's TV tapings.
Atlas obviously got banged up towards the end of his match with Rust tonight.
Lenny Leonard was brought in to do commentary for the ROH Women's World title bout at the PPV tonight. He is not slated to work this week's TV tapings.