Various: Hangman Page on Wanting to Work with Brodie Lee Prior to Passing, Tokyo Sports 2021 Awards, Indies

AEW

Dec 15, 2021

Hangman Page Comments on Wanting to Work with Brodie Lee in AEW Prior to His Passing

A recent episode of the Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette podcast had Hangman Adam Page as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Page revealing that he was working on an idea to potentially feud with Brodie Lee in AEW prior to Lee’s passing in December of 2020.

“I wanted to. A lot of times it feels like what I’m thinking or want to work towards, might not be what that person is thinking or what Tony is thinking, but I’ll do a BTE scene and plant a seed and see what kind of reaction it gets. In almost 99 out of 100 cases, I’m pretty confident in the seeds that I plant and the reaction they are going to get. I know that’s going to drive where the story goes on TV as well. That’s what this company is, let’s be honest. AEW exists because of something like Being The Elite where we could have these stupid ass storylines that Ring of Honor and New Japan started influencing the actual wrestling shows or, in a lot of cases, were more popular than the wrestling shows. I remember wrestling in Ring of Honor and people would chant stuff about our BTE storyline. It’s why AEW exists, because of those things. I was planting seeds to do something with Brodie because I really wanted to. When he was ill, there were points where I felt like, ‘should I keep going in this direction?’ It felt like it would have been a disservice to him and all Dark Order, who are incredible people, to not keep going in the only way it made sense, regardless of where we ended up with it. I’m very glad we did that.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Tokyo Sports Announces Winners of Their 2021 Wrestling Awards

Tokyo Sports recently announced their full list of winners for this year’s Tokyo Sports Wrestling Awards.

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Shingo Takagi was announced to have taken their top award as their MVP of 2021.

NJPW won the most awards at three, followed by Pro Wrestling NOAH, All Japan Pro Wrestling, DDT Pro Wrestling, Stardom, and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling at one each.

Full list of Tokyo Sports 2021 Wrestling Awards winners:

MVP: Shingo Takagi (NJPW)
Best Tag Team: Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. (NJPW)
Best Bout: Go Shiozaki vs. Keiji Muto – NOAH Destination 2021 (Pro Wrestling NOAH)
Outstanding Performer: Jake Lee (AJPW)
Technique: Great-O-Khan (NJPW)
Fighting Spirit: Konosuke Takeshita (DDT Pro Wrestling)
Joshi: Utami Hayashishita (Stardom)
Rookie: Yuki Arai (TJPW)
Achievement: Rumi Kazama

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Ring of Honor held their Final Battle 2021 event this past Saturday in Baltimore, Maryland. Fightful Select reported that both Adam Scherr, former Braun Strowman in WWE, and FTR’s surprise appearances were kept as a closely guarded secret within the company with only a very few people aware of the plans for them at the event. It was also reported that the main event match was originally scheduled to be around 24-25 minutes in length but was cut down to around 15-16 minutes instead due to timing issues throughout the show. ROH reportedly had a hard cut off time of 10:59PM EST for their event on pay-per-view.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Miranda Gordy will be making an appearance for the company at their Blood & Thunder event on January 21, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. It was also announced that Gordy will be facing off against Rok-C in a singles match at the event.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla recently announced that Daniel Garcia and Jack Cartwheel are the next set of official competitors for their upcoming Battle of Los Angeles 2022 tournament, which takes place on January 29-30, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

A referee named Lando Deltoro was the victim of a serious assault by a wrestler named Hannibal, real name Devon Nicholson, at a wrestling event this past weekend, according to Fightful. It was reported that this incident took place at an event for World Class Revolution in Irving, Texas and revolved around Hannibal taking liberties with his attack angle on the referee. It was reported that Hannibal was working as a masked wrestler named Bloodhunter and decided to bludgeon the referee in the head with a spike causing serious lacerations and the mat becoming stained with a large pool of blood. It was also reported that those spoken who were at the event stated that Deltoro had suffered a shock and a torn artery following the attack. Deltoro posted an update on Twitter revealing the damage caused to his head from the attack while a GoFundMe fundraiser was recently launched to help support Deltoro’s medical bills.

Jonathan Gresham and Baron Black recently announced that Gresham, Tracy Williams, Invictus Khash, Liiza Hall, and Jordynne Grace will be making an appearance for Terminus at their debut event on January 16, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.