Various: Scott D’Amore on AEW vs. Impact Women’s Match, NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam 2021 Card, Indies

Jul 14, 2021

Impact EVP Scott D’Amore Comments on AEW’s Britt Baker Wanting a Match Against Deonna Purrazzo

A recent episode of the Excuse Me: The Vickie Guerrero Show podcast had Impact Wrestling Executive Vice President Scott D’Amore as the guest. One of the topics discussed included D’Amore revealing that AEW’s Britt Baker recently contacted over the idea of a potential match between herself and Impact’s Deonna Purrazzo within the near future.

“Yeah, that’s a great question and look, I get it tweeted at me and everything all the time and all I can say is from our perspective — I mean look, I got cornered by Britt Baker down there at Jacksonville a few weeks ago and she’s like, ‘When do I get Deonna?’ And I said, ‘Hey Britt, come on.’ We’ve always said we have an open-door policy and open to doing it. I mean, you know the deal in wrestling. Sometimes there’s a lot of hurdles to jump through but, I think the relationship with AEW has been fantastic. I think that Tony Khan is a breath of fresh air in many ways in the wrestling industry and it’s just been great to deal with a person who’s in a different company, a competitor, whatever you wanna classify it but where — I mean there’s just honesty, transparency and it’s like, ‘Oh hey, let’s do that. You know why? Because it’s cool’ and we share a vision for a world like that and I’d love to see it. Whether it’s Britt or whether it’s Nyla Rose or there’s so many others of the great talent that you have there. I’d love to see it. Imagine if Nyla came in and hit the ring on Deonna [Purrazzo] and just laid Deonna out and left her lying there and just picked up that title, right? And Nyla has a pretty good mouthpiece sometimes if she comes in there and now that the fans are back, could really rile up the crowds so, let’s get Tony on this call. Let’s start hashing this stuff out.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

NJPW Announces Full Card for Wrestle Grand Slam 2021 Event in Tokyo Dome

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for their Wrestle Grand Slam 2021 event on July 25th at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

Provisional King of Pro Wrestling 2021 Championship New Japan Ranbo match – Toru Yano (c) vs. TBA
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship – Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo (c)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship – Robbie Eagles vs. El Desperado (c)
Kazuchika Okada vs. Jeff Cobb
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship – Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi) vs. SANADA & Tetsuya Naito (c)
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Kota Ibushi vs. Shingo Takagi (c)

In regards to the Provisional KoPW 2021 Championship New Japan Ranbo match, NJPW is currently holding a fan vote to determine the official stipulation of the match. The options available are handcuffs to be a legal elimination option or blindfolds to be a legal elimination option for the match.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

The National Wrestling Alliance held a press conference this past Tuesday in St. Louis, Missouri for their upcoming Empower and 73rd Anniversary events. One of the topics discussed included the announcement of a Women’s Invitational Cup tournament for the card of their all-women’s Empower event on August 28th. It was also announced that the winner of this tournament will receive a title shot for the NWA Women’s World Championship at NWA’s 73rd Anniversary event on August 29th.

Indie wrestler Kelsey Heather recently joined a very exclusive list of wrestlers who have appeared on two different notable wrestling television shows that aired on the same night. Heather was among the women associated with Bobby Lashley and MVP during this past Monday’s episode of WWE RAW and she also competed in a match against Leyla Hirsch during this past Monday’s episode of AEW Dark Elevation.

Impact Wrestling is currently offering two free months of their Impact+ streaming service for all new subscribers. The special discount code is “SLAMMIVERSARY” when signing up for a new account at www.impactplus.tv

Northeast Wrestling recently announced that Cody Rhodes will be making an appearance for the company at their Wrestlefest 25 event on August 14h in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Ring of Honor recently announced that this year’s Death Before Dishonor event will be taking place on September 12th at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, Florida. It was announced that tickets for this event will go on sale starting this Friday for HonorClub members and July 23rd for the general public.

All Elite Wrestling recently announced that their upcoming AEW Elite General Manger game for mobile devices will be released on July 15th on Google Play and Apple App stores.