Various: NJPW Ends Partnership with MLW, Full Card for ROH Final Battle 2021, Indies

Dec 7, 2021

NJPW Ends Partnership with MLW, Pulls Will Ospreay from Scheduled MLW Debut

New Japan Pro Wrestling reportedly recently ended their working partnership with Major League Wrestling, according to SESScoops.com.

It was reported that one source spoken to stated that the reason why NJPW officials decided to end their working partnership with MLW was due to them being upset that MLW was also working with their main rival All-Japan Pro Wrestling. This same source stated that this “didn’t sit well” with NJPW which led to the decision to end their partnership around mid-November.

It was also reported that NJPW also recently pulled Will Ospreay from his upcoming scheduled debut and bookings for MLW as a result of the end of the partnership between both companies.

Following the release of the report, Ospreay commented on Twitter stating that he still is interested in working for MLW at some point in the future.

Lads MLW will happen.
Just not when it was meant too.

Everyone calm your tits.
— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) December 7, 2021

Full Card for ROH Final Battle 2021

Ring of Honor recently announced the full card for their Final Battle 2021 event, which takes place on December 11th in Baltimore, Maryland.

Final Battle 2021 will air live on HonorClub and ROH’s YouTube and Facebook accounts starting at 7:00PM EST for the Hour One pre-show and on HonorClub and traditional PPV providers starting at 8:00PM EST for the main show.

This will be ROH’s final event before going on a hiatus until Spring of 2022.

Full card for ROH Final Battle 2021:

Hour One pre-show: Wildcard 10-Man Tag Team match – TBA vs. TBA
ROH World Championship – Jonathan Gresham vs. Bandido (c)
ROH World Tag Team Championship – The Briscoe Brothers (Mark & Jay Briscoe) vs. The OGK (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) (c)
Fight Without Honor match – Kenny King vs. Shane Taylor
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship – The Righteous (Vincent, Bateman, & Dutch) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Kaun, Moses and O’Shay Edwards) (c)
VLNCE UNLTD (Brody King, Homicide, & Tony Deppen) vs. Eli Isom, Taylor Rust, & Tracy Williams
ROH World Women’s Championship – Willow Nightingale vs. Rok-C (c)
ROH World Television Championship Fatal Four-way match – Joe Hendry vs Silas Young vs Rhett Titus vs. Dalton Castle (c)
ROH Pure Championship – Brian Johnson vs. Josh Woods (c)
Chelsea Green & The Hex (Allysin Kay & Marti Belle) vs. Miranda Alize & The Allure (Angelina Love & Mandy Leon)
Dragon Lee vs. Rey Horus

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Katsuyori Shibata will be making a major announcement at their Best of the Super Juniors 2021 and World Tag League 2021 Finals event on December 15th in Tokyo, Japan.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla recently announced that JONAH is the first official competitor for their upcoming Battle of Los Angeles 2022 tournament, which takes place on January 29-30, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

AEW talent Austin Gunn reportedly will be joining the cast of a new television reality series called Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules, according to People Magazine. It was reported that this new series will be debuting on the E! television network on January 12, 2022.

Impact Wrestling announced that they have recently opened the online voting for this year’s IMPACT Wrestling 2021 Year End Awards. It was also announced that winners will be announced on the December 23rd and December 30th episodes of Impact!

Pro Wrestling NOAH recently announced a new match for the card of their The New Year 2022 event on January 1, 2022 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan: