Various: Nyla Rose on AEW Women’s Title Win, ROH News, Indies

Nyla Rose Comments on AEW’s Handling of Her Women’s Championship Victory

TV Insider held a recent interview with Nyla Rose and one of the topics discussed included her recent AEW Women’s World Championship victory and AEW not turning it into a big spectacle simply for public relations reasons due to her being transgender.

“For me, it has been welcoming that they don’t make it a spectacle. They don’t make it a check mark. It’s one of those things that is there. Everyone knows about it, but nobody talks about it. That’s not a matter of us wanting to be hush-hush or hide this. They’re not making it a thing because it shouldn’t be a thing. You are a person and a performer first. That’s what I love so much and makes me feel so proud to be part of this company because they are helping normalize these ideals. We don’t even have a sense or consensus of how many trans people there are because so many people are afraid to speak out and speak up and live so openly. That’s because there is such a stigma of what being trans is. With representation on weekly television and with AEW being the company that it is on the scale that it is, with TNT and the scale they are on, they see me as a person. They see me as someone going out there and doing their job. The transness being secondary or even third to anything else. That is a beautiful statement. It shouldn’t matter and doesn’t. Hopefully, we can get to the point where people stop making it be the front runner.”

Ring of Honor News & Notes, New Match Announced for Supercard of Honor

Ring of Honor is currently offering a special 20% discount on tickets for their upcoming ROH-NJPW War of the Worlds 2020 tour to HonorClub members.

Dalton Castle and Ren Narita were announced to be the next set of official entrants for ROH’s Pure Championship tournament, which starts at their Pure Excellence event on April 10th in Columbus, Ohio.

Gia Scott was announced to be the next official entrant for ROH’s Women’s World Championship tournament, which starts at their Quest for Gold event on April 24th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ROH announced a new match for the card of their Supercard of Honor XIV event on April 4th in Lakeland, Florida:
– NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship – PCO vs. Nick Aldis (c)

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Japanese promotions Stardom and DDT Pro-Wrestling recently announced that they have cancelled several more events this month due to health concerns over the coronavirus outbreak in Japan. In regards to DDT, they cancelled both of their March 14th shows and a show on March 29th.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling announced a new match for the card of their TJPW is Coming to America with DDT event on April 3rd in Ybor City, Florida:
– Maki Itoh vs. Priscilla Kelly

Ohio Valley Wrestling announced that they have recently signed a television deal with cable network Youtoo America. It was announced that OVW will debut on the network on April 3rd and air new episodes every Friday evening.

Impact Wrestling announced that they will be holding an event called Against All Odds on April 17th in Mississauga, Canada and it will air live exclusively on their Impact Plus streaming service.