Various: RUSH ROH Contract Update, David Finlay on Working in Impact Wrestling, Indies

Sep 29, 2021

RUSH ROH Contract Status Update

As noted before, RUSH’s contract with Ring of Honor is currently rumored to be expiring at the end of this year.

During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, RUSH revealed that his contract is actually expiring in January of 2022 and he has not had any talks yet with ROH regarding a potential new deal with the company. RUSH stated that he is also currently open to the idea of working for other companies as well.

“My contract expires in January. So far, we have not talked about a contract renewal. I am very grateful to ROH. I am also a man of challenges and goals, and I’m open to listening to everyone.”

RUSH is currently rehabbing from recent knee surgery that is expected to keep him out of action for ROH until at least February or March of 2022.

David Finlay Comments on FinJuice’s Current Run in Impact Wrestling

A recent episode of the Wrestling Perspective Podcast had FinJuice’s David Finlay as the guest. Some of the topics discussed included Finlay revealing how FinJuice ended up working in Impact Wrestling and his experience so far in the company.

On the topic of how FinJuice ended up working for Impact Wrestling, Finlay stated:

“So I got a text from Rocky [Romero] one day like, Hey, man, do you and juice want to do IMPACT? So of course then I text Juice real quick. I’m like, we’re obviously gonna do IMPACT, right? Like, there’s no way we’re saying no to this, especially with like COVID restrictions in Japan and just travel restrictions all that were kind of like — we spent the last year sitting on our ass, kinda. I like staying busy. I love wrestling. When I don’t get to do it, I’m not as happy. So it was just it was an opportunity to just get back in the ring. So I was like, Yeah, let’s do it and we were kind of off to the races and we’ve loved every minute of it.”

On the topic of his experience in Impact so far, Finlay stated:

“That’s a very good way of phrasing is the first day of school feeling because we knew a couple or at least I knew a couple of people I knew Sami Callihan because he had a tour over in Japan and like a handful of other guys saving is another one that comes to mind. But yeah, for the most part, it was like very much the first day of school, like, ‘Hey, what’s up, I’m David,’ trying to figure out where you fit in. Then it was a nice surprise. Everyone was super cool. Like everyone’s good people there. To my pleasant surprise, I found out IMPACT actually has a lot of talent, which made me very happy. It’s something I wasn’t aware of more talent than I realized. So that’s been a nice discovery …
I think it was just learning a new style of wrestling. Because in Japan, it’s not TV wrestling. It’s a live event, so just adapting from that into like TV wrestling, I think too — I’ve never done it. Then, Juice hadn’t done it since he left NXT. So I think he was rusty. I was just inexperienced at it. So we’re kind of learning on the go with all this. So yeah, it was just like a new experience for us and just trying to figure out like, Alright, well, what works, what doesn’t, you know? What works better, what do we stay away from? So yeah, it’s just like a learning curve for us.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Rochester-based news website RochetserFirst.com reported that a new wrestling documentary film based on the life of the late John Huber was released today at the Movie 10 theater in Rochester, New York. This film is titled This is Brodie Lee and focuses on his career in wrestling from his days as a backyard wrestler to his time in WWE and AEW before his tragic passing in December of 2020.

Impact Wrestling announced that Lady Frost is the next official entrant for their Knockouts Knockdown tournament at their upcoming Knockouts Knockdown event on October 9th.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that they will be airing a special countdown show focusing on the upcoming Jon Moxley vs. Nick Gage match for the GCW Championship on their YouTube channel on October 9th. This upcoming match will be taking place at GCW’s Fight Club event in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

GCW also announced that Lucha Libre AAA talent Psycho Clown will be making an appearance for the company at their War Ready event on October 23rd in Los Angeles, California.

GCW also announced a new match for the card of their upcoming War Ready event:

Jonathan Gresham vs. Alex Zayne