Various: Charlie Haas on Future of His Career, New Trademarks, Indies

Charlie Haas Comments on Future of His Career

A recent episode of the Mat Men Pro Wrestling podcast had Charlie Haas as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Haas’ thoughts on the future of his wrestling career and potential retirement plans.

“My plan is to get back out there. I would love to work with IMPACT, AEW, any promotion that would have me work with them, not only as a wrestler, but to help teach. The knowledge that I have I can pass on. I can work with these people in the ring, teach them what I learned, how to slow down, how to tell a story. I would like to keep wrestling for another year or two and at the same time work as a coach or a producer to going and working in talent relations and being in the ring like Arn (Anderson) does, Fit Finlay does, working with these individuals and tag teams to teach them what’s missing.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE & Chris Jericho File Several New Trademarks

WWE and Chris Jericho recently filed several new trademarks to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

A trademark for “Brock Lesnar” was filed by WWE on January 14th for merchandise-related purposes.

A trademark for “GFY” was filed by Chris Jericho on January 13th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

This past Friday’s Blood & Thunder event in Dallas, Texas for Major League Wrestling reportedly featured the official MLW debuts of lucha wrestler MircoMan and former ROH talent Bandido, according to PWInsider. Earlier in the day, MLW had announced that Buddy Matthews would also be making his official debut at their show.

Former ROH talent Kenny King reportedly made his official debut for Impact Wrestling at their recent set of television tapings on Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to PWInsider.

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced that they pulled several talent from their New Year’s Golden Series events that were held this past Friday in Tokyo and earlier today in Gunma, Japan due to COVID-19 precautionary reasons. It was announced that one talent had recently developed a high temperature and other talent were pulled as a precaution due to them being in recent close contact with that person. The talent pulled were Toru Yano, Satoshi Kojima, Tomoaki Honma, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, and TAKA Michinoku. (English translation via F4WOnline.com)

Dragon Gate announced that YAMATO and Naruki Doi recently tested positive for COVID-19 and as a result, they have been pulled from their upcoming events in Japan. The company also announced that several talent who had been in close contact with them have also been pulled from their upcoming events for precautionary reasons. (English translation via PostWrestling.com)

Prestige Wrestling announced that Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling talent Maki Itoh will be making an appearance for the company at their Roseland 3 events on May 28-29 in Portland, Oregon.