Various: Kevin Owens on Lack of WWE Help for ROH Final Battle 2021, Pro Wrestling Tees Hacked, Indies

WWE

Dec 22, 2021

Kevin Owens Comments on Lack of WWE Talent Sending Tribute Videos for ROH’s Final Battle 2021 Event

A recent episode of the Les Anti-Pods de la Lutte podcast had Kevin Owens as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Owens claiming that Ring of Honor never contacted any WWE talent to send tribute videos for their Final Battle 2021 event earlier this month.

“The answer is quite simple: Ring of Honor didn’t ask any wrestlers from WWE to do that, nor contacted anyone at WWE. I knew it was going to be their last show, but I didn’t think to send a video so they could play it at the show. I’ve watched it. I was at a WWE show, and I was watching it on my phone, so it was not something I simply ignored. I’ve read some people on the Internet saying that probably WWE didn’t let us do it, but that’s incorrect. It’s just ROH who didn’t ask us, and I bet that if they had, we could have done it, but that wasn’t the case.”

Owens’ statements contradict earlier claims from ROH’s Kevin Eck and former owner Cary Silkin who stated that WWE was uncooperative compared to other companies who allowed their talent to work and send videos for the event.

Eck stated in a recent Eck’s File article that “It was very classy of AEW and Impact Wrestling to allow their talent to appear at Final Battle and send in video tributes. If only every major wrestling company was as classy.”

Silkin stated in a recent interview with the Last Stop Penn Station podcast that WWE was unwilling to allow their talent to participate with videos for ROH’s event.

“I’m sorry, you know what really sucks? Although — Adam Pearce made a really nice tribute and even a YouTube video but, and he’s — you know, WWE doesn’t allow these guys to do that and you know, so at the show, if you saw the show… I was wondering about [Colt] Cabana.
But yeah, if you haven’t seen the broadcast yet, there’s some very nice tributes from Bryan Danielson, Eddie Edwards, CM Punk, Adam Page, Adam Cole, Jimmy Jacobs, always a princess, and The [Young] Bucks.
You know, guys like Kevin Steen, Kevin Owens [helped shape Ring of Honor]
You know how rare it is to get a phone call anymore? I got some nice phone calls from — I got one from Cabana, I got one from Kyle O’Reilly and who else? Someone else in there, couple other in there and I got a bunch of messages from The Bucks, they watched the show. Jimmy Jacobs, number of people. It was also nice to see Prince Nana, who by the way, it was cool that he was on AEW. Good for Nana.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, PostWrestling.com

Pro Wrestling Tees Releases Statement Over Hacking Attack This Past November & Backlash Over the Incident

Pro Wrestling Tees recently announced that they were the victim of a hacking attack this past November that saw hackers gain access to “a small portion of our customers’ credit card numbers had been compromised.

The company also announced that they have removed the malware virus from their servers and are currently offering free IDX identity protection services for those affected.

Despite the announcement, the company is currently facing backlash regarding their handling of the issue due to them only informing customers via regular mail and not via their social media accounts or official company email. The company is also facing additional backlash over their claims that no actual credit card information was stolen despite some customers stating that they have been hit with fraudulent charges on their credit cards.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Fightful Select reported that Major League Wrestling recently resigned Alex Hammerstone to a multi-year contract with the company.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla recently announced that Aramis and Jonathan Gresham 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.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that their NJPW Strong Style Evolved 2022 event will be taking place on March 20, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was also announced that tickets for this upcoming event will officially go on sale starting on January 3, 2022.

NJPW also recently announced four new matches for the card of their NJPW Strong New Beginning USA 2022 event on January 15, 2022 in Seattle Washington: