News & Notes: ROH-NJPW, G1 Climax, New SummerSlam Rumor, Owens

ROH Announces Details for War of Worlds UK iPPV Event

Ring of Honor recently announced their next iPPV event will be on August 19th and as part of their upcoming joint tour of the United Kingdom. The iPPV is called “War of the Worlds UK – Liverpool” and will be the first ever ROH iPPV show held outside the United States. The show will be available for purchase on both ROH’s website and FITE TV for $19.99.

In terms of the event’s card, a four-way elimination match for the ROH TV Championship was announced involving Dalton Castle, Hiromu Takahashi, Marty Scurll, and champion KUSHIDA. The main event was announced to be a ROH World Championship match between SANADA and champion Cody.

Day 2 of 2017 G1 Climax to Occur This Thursday

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s on-going 2017 G1 Climax tournament resumes this Thursday with five more block stage matches involving competitors from Block B. Similar to the first show, multi-man tag matches will fill out the rest of the card.

G1 Climax group matches for July 20th:
* Kenny Omega vs. Minoru Suzuki
* Kazuchika Okada vs. Toru Yano
* Evil vs. Sanada
* Michael Elgin vs. Tama Tonga
* Juice Robinson vs. Satoshi Kojima

New Match Rumor for SummerSlam

As previously reported, WWE was rumored to be considering the idea of a multi-women’s match for RAW’s Women’s Championship at next month’s SummerSlam event.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reports those plans have changed with the WWE now leaning more towards a singles match for the title. At the moment, the match would feature champion Alexa Bliss and her opponent to be named as early as next week’s RAW.

WWE Did You Know – Kevin Owens & Universal Championship

In a “WWE Did You Know” type fact, there have been 46 matches for the Universal Championship since its debut last August for RAW. Kevin Owens has had the most matches for the title at 43 matches while Brock Lesnar is currently second all-time with two matches.

Of the 46 matches, only one didn’t feature either Owens or Lesnar which was Finn Balor versus Seth Rollins at SummerSlam 2016. This match crowned the inaugural champion for the title.