Various: Erick Redbeard on Recent AEW Appearances, Full Card for NJPW Hyper Battle 2022, Indies

AEW

Mar 29, 2022

Erick Redbeard Comments on His Recent Appearance in AEW & Past Caged Pet Storyline in WWE

A recent episode of the Wrestle Buddy podcast had Erick Redbeard as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Redbeard’s thoughts on his recent appearances in AEW.

“Man, I would love to go and have a feud, a story [in AEW]. I would love to go and have an actual story. That’s why I liked going. There was a short little story where I got to be involved with the House of Black and Penta [Oscuro] and PAC. That was fun, because it was a couple day-story. To me, that was cool. It was cool to come back, do a couple things and then leave. There’s so many guys. I would hate to go and just take up space, take up a spot. I don’t like it when guys go in, take up a spot and they have no plans for them and then they just sit there. Like yeah, paychecks are really nice, don’t get me wrong. Paychecks are always good, like thank you. But, I wanna perform too. So, I wanna present the best part of myself at this point that I can.”

On the topic of WWE’s original plans for his mystery caged pet storyline, Redbeard stated:

“Originally, it [caged beast story] was supposed to lead to a feud with Seth [Rollins], involving the death of a rat accidentally which intrigued me as a character because you get the big guy who has to deal with this grief and then come to terms with this grief and then –
Yeah [Seth was supposed to ‘kill it’] and why would you not wanna feud with Seth in something that could have meant something? But then obviously, he went from babyface to heel maybe like two weeks after the fact so then that whole thing got dropped and then they just didn’t know what was in the cage. They kept giving me TV time which you can’t get mad with TV time. You know, but how many people can you squash and not continue to tell the story. So, you know, to me it just got old and repetitive and you thought it’d make every squash match a little different and tell a little bit more story of the cage but you know, sometimes I wasn’t allowed to.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com 1 & 2

NJPW Announces Full Card for Hyper Battle 2022

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for their Hyper Battle 2022, which takes place on April 9th at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

Jado, Guerillas of Destiny (Tanga Loa & Tama Tonga), & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Gedo, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens, & Bad Luck Fale
Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Aaron Henare & Will Ospreay
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship – El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori vs. Team Six or Nine (Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi) (c)
Provisional King of Pro Wrestling 2022 Championship – Taichi vs. Toru Yano (c)
NEVER Openweight Championship – Hiromu Takahashi vs. EVIL (c)
IWGP Tag Team Championship – Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto (c)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship – SHO vs. El Desperado (c)
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Pro Wrestling NOAH recently announced that Simon Gotch will be making his official debut for the company within the near future.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding an event called Capital Collision on May 14th at The Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, DC.

WrestleCon recently announced that Jon Moxley, Danhausen, Billy Gunn, Penta, Rey Fenix, Jungle Boy, Anna Jay, Colt Cabana, and Chris Daniels will be making an appearance at their WrestleCon 2022 convention on March 31st to April 2nd in Dallas, Texas.

DEFY Wrestling recently announced that Jon Moxley will be making an appearance for the company at their Wild Ones event on April 30th in Seattle, Washington.

Joey Janela recently announced that the Invisible Man and Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp will be making an appearance for Game Changer Wrestling’s Joey Janela’s Spring Break 6 event on April 1st in Dallas, Texas. Both will be competing in the Clusterf*ck Battle Royal match at the event.

Tony Khan recently announced a new match for the card of Ring of Honor’s Supercard of Honor XV event on April 1st in Dallas, Texas: