Various: Kris Statlander on Injury Rehab, UWN Primetime Live World Title Tournament, Indies

Oct 22, 2020

Kris Statlander Comments on Status of Her Knee Injury Rehab

A recent episode of the Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast had Kris Statlander as the guest and some of the topics discussed included the current status of her knee injury rehab and her thoughts on her rehab process and cause of the injury.

On the topic of the status of her knee injury rehab, Statlander stated:

“I’m doing pretty good. I think from what I’ve heard overall is that I might be a little bit ahead of others where I’m at right now, but I still have a real long way to go before I can re-debut basically and get back in the ring before I’m debuting again obviously, and I’m going to want to be training a little bit before. So I’ll be able to get in the ring before you’ll see me back on TV. It could be another eight months or so.”

On the topic of her thoughts on her rehab process and cause of her injury, Statlander stated:

“It’s been more mentally challenging than physically challenging at times because physically, I have the ability to keep pushing myself and to just keep doing everything I need to, and I’ll go harder than I probably should be to try and do my rehab and stuff like that, but mentally, you’re sitting at home all day and you’re alone all day because you can’t go out and go do anything. You can only work out for so long in a day when you’re injured and you just see all your friends, and everyone doing awesomely on TV and you’re just like, ‘Man, I just want to be a part of that so bad, and I just feel like I’m useless to this division.’ So there was a good two-three straight months where I cried every single night because I felt like I had just been failing everybody, and I don’t even know what happened when I got injured.
I just did a suicide dive, and the way I landed, I guess, was not perfectly right. You can actually see the dive on TV when I heard it, but all you see is me quickly grab my leg when I go down, and then the camera’s off of me. But it doesn’t even look like I did anything super insane, or it doesn’t look very noticeable. ‘Oh, she messed up her leg there.’ You cannot tell at all. So I had no idea what happened. I just kind of felt a little ‘pfft’ in my leg. It didn’t even hurt that bad either. I was just like, ‘Oh boy.'”

UWN Announces Tournament for Primetime Live World Championship

United Wrestling Network recently announced that they will be holding a new tournament to crown their first ever Primetime Live World Champion.

UWN also announced that this 8-man tournament will start on next week’s episode of Primetime Live and features talent from the NWA, AEW, MLW, and NJPW.

Full bracket and first round matchups for UWN Primetime Live World Championship tournament:

Erick Redbeard (former Erick Rowan in WWE) vs. Watts
Chris Dickinson vs. Peter Avalon
Karl Fredericks vs. Fred Rosser (former Darren Young in WWE)
Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Mike Bennett

🚨 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐃:

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— United Wrestling Network (@unitedwrestling) October 21, 2020

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

This past Wednesday was the 48th anniversary of All Japan Pro Wrestling’s first ever event. Legendary wrestler Giant Baba founded the promotion following his split from Japanese Wrestling Association in 1972.

Ohio Valley Wrestling and Al Snow Wrestling Academy recently announced that they have signed a partnership deal with Qatar Pro Wrestling.

National Wrestling Alliance owner Billy Corgan announced on Twitter that the NWA is currently working on plans to resume tapings for NWA Powerrr soon.

During a recent interview with the Baltimore Sun, Ring of Honor COO Joe Koff revealed that the company currently has tentative plans to hold a new set of television tapings in December. Koff also revealed that the company is also considering plans to hold tapings in other states besides Maryland.

Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy reportedly has recently signed a deal with Major League Wrestling, according to Sports Illustrated.

Prior to the series cancellation, a signed letter from several cast members of GLOW was sent to Netflix executives outlining their issues with the portrayal of people of color on the series, specifically the usage of racial and offensive stereotypes for minority characters and roles. The letter also asked for changes to be made to address these issues for the show’s benefit.