Various: AEW Revolution Early PPV Buys, New Japan Cup Night 5 Results, Indies

AEW Revolution 2021 Estimated to Set New All-Time AEW PPV Buys Record

This past Sunday’s AEW Revolution 2021 event reportedly is currently expected to become the highest selling pay-per-view event in AEW history, according to PWTorch.

PWTorch’s Sean Radican reported that the early returns for Revolution’s pay-per-view buys revealed that this event was one of AEW’s highest selling events to date. Radican reported that Tony Khan stated that early estimates and data also currently point to Revolution 2021 breaking the company’s all-time record for most PPV buys.

Early returns show that Revolution was one of their highest watched shows to date. Khan said it has a chance to be the highest viewed PPV to date based on early data.

— Sean Radican (@sr_torch) March 8, 2021

In an interesting note, the Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that AEW’s Revolution 2021 event was the fifth most searched term on Google on Sunday with around 200,000 searches overall. Meltzer reported that this was the most Google searches for an AEW event since Double or Nothing 2019.

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NJPW New Japan Cup 2021 Tournament Night 5 Results & Night 6 Card

March 10, 2021
Kyoto, Japan – Sandan-ike Park Gymnasium

NJPW New Japan Cup 2021 Night 5 Quick Match Results:

• Dick Togo, KENTA, Bad Luck Fale, & EVIL defeated Yuya Uemura, Juice Robinson, Toru Yano, & Hiroshi Tanahashi via Scorpion Deathlock (submission 9:47)
• Great-O-Khan, Will Ospreay, & Jeff Cobb defeated Tomoaki Honma, Yuji Nagata, & Satoshi Kojima via Tour of the Islands (pinfall 9:10)
• BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, & Shingo Takagi defeated SHO, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, & Kazuchika Okada via La Magistral (pinfall 10:04)
• New Japan Cup 2021 tournament First Round match – David Finlay defeated Chase Owens via Roll-Up (pinfall 11:20)
• New Japan Cup 2021 tournament First Round match – YOSHI-HASHI defeated Yujiro Takahashi via Karma (pinfall 15:50)
• New Japan Cup 2021 tournament First Round match – Jay White defeated Toa Henare via Bladerunner (pinfall 24:46)

Here is the partial card for Night 6 of NJPW’s New Japan Cup 2021 tournament, which takes place this Thursday at the Item Ehime in Ehime, Japan. Night 6 airs live on New Japan World starting at 4:30AM EST.

• New Japan Cup 2021 tournament Second Round match – Jeff Cobb vs. EVIL
• New Japan Cup 2021 tournament Second Round match – Toru Yano vs. Great-O-Khan

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

The National Wrestling Alliance announced that Crimson and Slice Boogie will be making an appearance at their Back for the Attack event on March 21st.

Major League Wrestling announced that Lio Rush will be issuing a “special invitation” on tonight’s episode of MLW Fusion.

Dragon Gate talent Shuji Kondo announced (English translation via PostWrestling.com) on Twitter that he will be out of action for the company for the foreseeable future due to him recently suffering an Achilles injury.

Ring of Honor announced a new match for the card of their 19th Anniversary Show on March 26th in Baltimore, Maryland:

• Jay Briscoe vs. EC3