Tag: New Japan Pro Wrestling

Sasha Banks drops a hint about a possible name change after WWE

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Sasha Banks (real name Mercedes Varnado) is said to be leaving WWE at the beginning of 2023 and has already been booked to appear on New Japan’s Wrestling Kingdom 17 In Tokyo on January 4th. There has been a lot of speculation about Banks’ future ever since she and Naomi came out on an episode of Monday Night Raw Back in May, including what the name it might be if you tried to wrestle anywhere outside of WWE. In late November, Banks filed a number of trademark filings including “Mercedes…

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NJPW chief ‘angry’ over Karl Anderson’s WWE commitments

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Karl Anderson finds himself in an unprecedented position in the world of professional wrestling. The current Open Heavyweight Champion returned to WWE earlier this month along with partner Luke Gallows, to once again line up with AJ Styles in a fight against The Judgment Day. While Anderson and Gallows signed deals with WWE after ending their commitments with Impact Wrestling, both men still have scheduled dates with New Japan Pro Wrestling through January. Anderson’s presence on those bookings is crucial, because as mentioned, he’s actively reigning supreme with one of…

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Ultimo Dragon wants to come to AEW to face the current champion

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Ultimo Dragon recently spoke with Sports Illustrated About wanting to return to the States and have the result of her settlement with the current AEW star. The heavily decorated Japanese Luchador was in WCW rivalry with Chris Jericho in the late 1990s bringing him a victory in his first match at WCW Monday Nitro, then failing to defeat Lionheart at the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. Six different events (four of which were televised). While Dragon’s run with WCW ended in 1998 and his WWE tenure only lasted from 2003-04, he…

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WWE’s intersection with New Japan has already hit a snag

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It appears that WWE’s plans to cross over with New Japan involving “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson have already hit a snag. Anderson and Luke Gallows surprisingly returned to WWE last week Monday Night RawThe move was even more shocking when you realize Anderson is still the absolute welterweight champion in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. But in an unprecedented move, reports emerged in the days that followed claiming that WWE would allow Anderson and Gallows to continue fulfilling their agreed bookings with New Japan, which is going along the way. Kingdom…

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Fan artist tricks New Japan, Minoru Suzuki into considering a title match booked at AEW Dynamite this week

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this week AEW Dynamite There is no match between Orange Cassidy and Minoru Suzuki in the AEW All-Atlantic Championship. You might have been tricked into thinking this if you were on Twitter Saturday night, but this was just the latest creation from the Toms_Customs account. The account used to create fake matching graphics that look real at first glance, but once you take a closer look, you can see how they simply trolled. The last announced post is from Cassidy vs. Suzuki and it looks like AEW match graphics, but…

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Jon Moxley’s original plans were revealed before re-signing with AEW

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Jon Moxley is All Elite for what might very well be for the rest of his career. News broke last week that the current AEW World Champion has signed a five-year extension with AEW, which is set to expand his role to coaching and mentoring positions and also make him exclusively the only promoter of Tony Kahn. Mox will still be able to work with AEW’s international partners, such as New Japan Pro Wrestling, but this appears to be done through independent bookings such as Game Changer Wrestling. This was…

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AEW’s top stars have been confirmed to attend the upcoming NJPW show

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The New Japan Pro Wrestling trip to the United States is set to feature a huge tag match. It was announced on Wednesday night that AEW’s Eddie Kingston will team up with Kazuchika Okada to face Bullet Club duo Juice Robinson and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White. This clash is set to go down in the main event NJPW Rumble at 44 . Street in New York City later this month. White made enemies with both men standing in front of him, as he routinely mocked Okada before them.…

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FTR Finally Got to Defend IWGP Tag Team Championships, Still Want AEW Tag Titles

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FTR collected its third set of Tag Team Championships again in forbidden door When they defeated Great-O-Khan’s Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Roppongi Vice for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. But since then, the pair have only competed in one record tag team match on television, defeating The Briscoe in a two-out-of-three Super Falls match at the Ring of Honor. death before shame Event. That looks set to finally change as New Japan confirmed on Monday that Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler will defend their IWGP titles for the first time…

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Will Ospreay comment on his future with AEW

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Will Osprey wrestled in AEW six times in 2022, but don’t expect to be back again anytime soon. The US IWGP Champion arrived for the first time in June while creating the AEW x NJPW pay-per-view system. forbidden door He competed three times on Dynamite/Rampage before successfully defending his US title against Orange Cassidy in a pay-per-view system. He then returned to the Aussie Open to compete in the AEW World Trios Championship in August, defeating the Death Triangle before dropping to The Elite at this week’s AEW Dynamite. The…

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The Complete History of This Multi-Year Feud

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Four days before the company’s flagship pay-per-view takes place, All Elite Wrestling is giving fans a taste of a highly-anticipated dream match on weekly television. AEW Dynamite will host The Elite vs. United Empire in the semifinals of the AEW World Trios Titles tournament, pitting Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay on opposite sides. While they’ve been distant since January 2019, Omega and Ospreay have never been shy about verbally sparring at each other on social media. AEW provided a glimpse of the two’s animosity towards each other after Dynamite went…

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