Various: Ciampa Update, Sean Waltman on Bischoff & Heyman’s New WWE Roles, Indies

Tommaso Ciampa’s Neck Injury Status Update

As noted before, Tommaso Ciampa has been out of action for WWE since suffering a neck injury earlier this year. While Ciampa’s return status is currently not known, Ciampa himself has provided occasional updates regarding the rehab of his injury.

Ciampa recently posted another update on Twitter on the current status of his rehab and his goal for when he returns.

I’m 4 months out of neck surgery… what an absolute freak.

Send your prayers and well wishes to Adam Cole.

Big Daddy Ciampa wants Goldie back…BayBay 🖤#EvolveMeetAndGreet pic.twitter.com/JEwGpkbo4G

— CIAMPA (@ProjectCiampa) July 14, 2019

Sean Waltman Comments on His Thoughts on Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman’s New Roles in WWE

A recent episode of the X-PAC 1-2-360 podcast had host Sean “X-Pac” Waltman discuss his thoughts on Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman being named Executive Directors of RAW and SmackDown Live.

“I am happy for Paul and happy for Eric, cause I really like them both. And there’s a good reason for why they were chosen. I mean there is a track record there. Eric’s a little bit different obviously, Eric wasn’t really the creative guy, so I am curious to see how this plays out for him or how Smackdown looks with him at the helm. We got a little bit of a taste of how Raw is going to look like with Paul there and so far I think it was a pretty good review on Raw last night…. This is just from my point of view, how I always saw it. What Eric was really smart about was picking guys that were brilliant at the things that he wasn’t…He hasn’t even had a week on the job yet…on the other hand you kind have an idea on what a Raw is going to look like. You could smell Paul Heyman’s scent all over the show last night. As far as Raw goes last night I was happy with that. First week for Paul, seemed like a good one. And you gotta understand, they just can’t {change things} overnight, there has to be a transition, you just can’t all of a sudden halt storylines, it has to be eased into.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla announced that Rey Fenix and Lucky Kid are the next official entrants for their upcoming Battle of Los Angeles tournament.

Starting with this Saturday’s Manhattan Mayhem event in New York City, New York, ROH announced that they will be live streaming select matches from their ROH TV tapings for HonorClub members going forward.

Over The Top Wrestling announced a new match for the card of their Live In Cork event on August 25th in Cork, Ireland:
– “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. PAC

Major League Wrestling announced two new matches for the card of their Never Say Never event on July 25th in Queens, New York:
– Low Ki vs. Jimmy Yuta
– MLW World Middleweight Championship – MJF vs. Teddy Hart (c)