"Filthy" Tom Lawlor Leaving MLW

 

Top MLW star “Filthy” Tom Lawlor is leaving the company

Lawlor’s two year contract is expiring soon, and he is finishing up with the company, according to Fightful Select. Many Sources Inclusding those in MLW confirmed the departure and spoke very highly of the veteran talent.

Lawlor is done with MLW as of now as the recent Casket Match was a way to effectively write him out of the storylines. That match saw Lawlor lose to MLW Caribbean Heavyweight Champion King Muertes at the Fightland taping in Philadelphia earlier this month. There was still some time left on Lawlor’s contract, but it will expire before MLW’s next set of TV tapings in November.

The leader of Team Filthy first started working with MLW in 2017 and is a one-time MLW World Heavyweight Champion. He won the Battle Riot match in 2018, and won the Opera Cup Tournament in 2020.

Lawlor is currently working for NJPW after making his debut for the promotion in July 2020. He became the first-ever NJPW Strong Openweight Champion back in April after winning the New Japan Cup USA tournament, defeating Brody King in the finals.

Lawlor has expressed interest in returning to MMA, and said while he left his gloves in the ring after his last bout, he is not officially retired. Lawlor remains under contract to the PFL (Pro Fighters League). The former UFC star last fought on June 17 of this year, defeating Jordan Young by unanimous decision at the PFL 5 event in Atlantic City. He currently has a MMA record of 11-8-1.

There is no word on if the 38 year old Lawlor has interest from AEW or WWE, or what his contract status is with NJPW.

Free The Narrative 2 | The Monster In Us All | "Nothing Matters" Excerpt

 

"Nothing Matters” A monologue from #TheEssentialCharacter ec3 to a hapless young dreamer, Jake Logan. Would you do anything for your dream? Would you stab your best friend in the back? Would you spit in your father’s face? Would you let someone sleep with your wife? Do you play the game? Or do you prepare for war? Can you handle this dream you seek, sacrificing your body, your soul, your life, and your love being given to someone else? Can you handle your dream being handed to someone with the -right look -right last name -Someone Twice your size with half your passion? Your dream will be given to #monsters. What is the dream? -Titles and accolades. -A moderate 6 salary? -The dopamine hit of celebrity attention, likes/comments/RTs, and star reviews? Look around you. Does this look like your dream? No, your dream is somewhere else. In The corporate culture. The three-letter brands. The soulless void that eventually sucks the very humanity out of you? Your modest dream is to line the pockets of billionaires. WE. DONT. NEED THEM. If we are the neglected of this industry then so be it. We are hired and we are fired we win and we lose cheered, booed pushed, deplatformed and punished for a bottom line and a society obsessed with the superficial. Nothing Matters. A dream is fragile. A dream is greedy. A dream will betray you. A dream becomes a nightmare. But a purpose? That’s worth fighting for. If you want to #controlyournarrative….. you have to fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhrCJ34t2o

Jim Cornette Reviews Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki on AEW's Buy In

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SmS7KvBN_M

Jazz vs Kiera Hogan - Ladies Night Out 10 (Women's Wrestling) Director's Cut

 

From Jazz's Retirement Tour at Title Match Network's LNO10. See the legendary Jazz (former 2x WWE/WWF Women's Champion) battle Kiera Hogan (Impact Wrestling, AEW) live in Tampa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNhAqZJm7R8

Kevin Von Erich and Michael Hayes vs Terry Gordy and Jimmy Snuka. 1981

 

Georgia 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2EamvdDVAw

Prentice Wrestling Network Presents: SICW All Star Wrestling Episode 12

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZs78kMLkM

Chelsea Green Discusses The Negativity On Social Media, How It “Ruins Entire Careers”

 

In an appearance on Busted Open Radio with fiancée Matt Cardona, wrestler Chelsea Green talked about her recent appearance in GCW, where she helped Cardona win back the Internet Championship. Green is approaching her GCW run with the same attitude she had when she worked for Impact and Lucha Underground prior to signing with WWE.

“I feel like I’ve always had that attitude,” Green said. “I definitely lost that kind of passion and the confidence for a couple of years when I was signed. But before that, this is exactly the same thing I was doing before. I was trying to make moments for myself, and those moments translate over to social media and to the dirtsheets. And then the fans think you’re a star when you might not have done anything. I did nothing as the Impact Knockout’s Champion. I did diddly f*****g squat. But people were always talking about the moments I had as the Hot Mess.

“And then I went to Lucha Underground, and I did two weeks there. I did a total of four days, and people still talk about the match I had with Pentagon. It doesn’t matter if you do ten years or two days, you just have to make a moment of that time that you have in the ring.”

Green also talked about the negativity that social media occasionally brings and how to combat against it. For her, it’s taking time to think before responding to someone, as the wrong response could have ramifications for one’s career. She also compared how she handles social media to how Cardona does.

“I already know Matt is going to say he doesn’t care,” Green said. “And I get that. I never thought I was sensitive. But in this weird world, yes, you do have to think for just a split second ‘is this going to ruin my entire career?’ Because we’ve seen that. In 2020 we saw. People lost not only their jobs, they lost their partner, they lost their homes, they lost any opportunity to be in the entertainment industry. And that’s real. That’s not just fake f*****g Twitter world. That’s real life. Perception is reality on Twitter, so you have to be social careful. Do what you want to do, but I feel you just have to give it that extra thought in 2021. ‘Will this ruin my whole f*****g life?’

“We are humans and so of course, when we see that one negative comment, that’s going to get to us. It’s just a matter of how you respond. Do you respond? Well he (Cardona) f*****g responds! I try not to respond but he’ll always respond!”

Green was asked how often she has to restrain herself on social media. She responded by saying every single day, and gave an example of refraining from tweeting at an NXT star earlier in the day.

“Every day,” Green said. “If not, ten times today. It’s 11:11 and I have already deleted one Tweet to an NXT star today. Let me just say that. It’s already been erased. That’s one thing that Matt has taught me. You can’t be a tweeter and deleter. You’ve got to keep it up.”

“It lives forever. If you tweeted it, keep it up,” Cardona chimed it. “It’s there. It’s worse if you delete it. If it’s out there, just keep it. Once you delete it’s the news and ‘oh my god, they deleted this tweet.'”

Eric Bischoff: "I'd Tell Tony Khan To 'Shut Up And Wrestle' "

 

AEW President Tony Khan has recently stepped up the trash talk against WWE, saying he has “more money” to air commercial-free programming, and even commented he thought last Monday’s WWE RAW, “sucked.”

On his 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff podcast, Bischoff commented on what advice he’d give to Tony Khan, which is to focus on his own brand.

“If Tony [Khan] were to call me and ask for any advice, here’s what it would be — shut up and wrestle, dude” Bischoff said. “Just put out the best product you can and you’ve proven you can. Focus on that. Now this is weird coming from me, right? The guy who challenged Vince McMahon. The guy who gave away their finishes. But here’s the difference. I was actually competing with him. I was going head-to-head. Real head-to-head. Like, my show started the same time his show started each and every week.”

Khan also said earlier this month — along with the help of hindsight — he’s “trying not to make the same mistakes WCW made head-to-head.” Bischoff addressed that comment, as well, and felt that until AEW was actually competing every single week, Khan (and other AEW stars saying the same) should “shut the f*** up.”

“And another thing, Tony comes out and says ‘We’re at the 1996 stage of WCW and going to not make their mistakes.’ Tony, you’re inventing some mistakes, brother,” Bischoff stated. “By coming out there and constantly comparing yourself or deriding your competition, but not having the willingness — I almost said balls — the willingness to say, ‘Okay, let’s go head-to-head. Let’s really compete. Let’s see who can get whose market share.’ That’s real competition. So, I’m a little disappointed in the rhetoric that I’m hearing out of Tony, as well as some of the talent. Man, shut the f*** up. Until you’re actually competing and you’re actually competing favorably — and by the way, Tony, in 1996 I was kicking WWE’s ass. Every week! In a real head-to-head competition, not a cosplay competition.”

Change Of Venue For Upcoming Outlaw Wrestling Show

 

Outlaw Wrestling has announced that they have moved this Thursday's return event 15 minutes away from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to Ridgewood on the Brooklyn/Queens border.