Various: AEW Working on Plans to Leave Daily’s Place, Friday’s NJPW Strong Card, Indies

AEW Reportedly Tentatively Planning to Leave Daily’s Place in Late 2021

AEW has been running their weekly television shows and pay-per-view events at their Daily’s Place venue in Jacksonville, Florida for the majority of the on-going coronavirus pandemic. The company at one point considered a brief move to Miami, Florida earlier this year for warmer weather reasons, but ultimately stayed in Jacksonville.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that AEW recently has been working on tentative plans to leave Daily’s Place later this year. Meltzer reported that AEW officials recently started to book tentative dates on the road starting either later this summer or early fall.

Meltzer also reported that the reason why AEW has been taping a lot of hours of content in recent weeks is due to them wanting to evaluate more talent and build up as much content as possible for future benefit, either in the form of their own streaming service or signing a major deal with a streaming company.

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Full Card for Friday’s Episode of NJPW Strong

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for tonight’s New Japan Cup 2021 USA themed episode of NJPW Strong, which airs on New Japan World starting at 10PM EST.

• The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin, & Karl Fredericks vs. Jordan Clearwater, Adrien Quest, Barrett Brown, & Misterioso
• New Japan Cup USA 2021 tournament Semifinals match – Hikuleo vs. “Filthy” Tom Lawlor
• New Japan Cup USA 2021 tournament Semifinals match – Brody King vs. Lio Rush

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

At least one fan has been confirmed to have recently tested positive for COVID-19 from this past week’s WrestleMania week festivities in Florida, according to Post Wrestling. John Pollock reported that this fan tested positive for COVID-19 and had attended three of Game Changer Wrestling’s events and both nights of WWE’s WrestleMania 37 event.

TrillerNet announced that they have recently purchased combat sports and wrestling streaming service FITE TV for an undisclosed sum of money.

During a recent interview with PWInsider, Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis-Bennett revealed that they recently signed full-time contracts with Ring of Honor.

Ohio Valley Wrestling recently announced that their weekly OVW TV series will be moving to a new weekly date of Thursdays starting on May 6th.

As noted before, Major League Wrestling recently signed a new television deal with an unknown network. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that while the identity of the television network is still not known, it is currently speculated to be a network that had been interested in wrestling before and had been in talks with New Japan Pro Wrestling for a United States deal that was never completed.