Various: Mia Yim on Not Joining Keith Lee in AEW, Bret Hart on AEW Honoring Owen Hart, Indies

Jun 15, 2022

Mia Yim Comments on Her Decision to Not Join with Keith Lee in AEW

United Kingdom based newspaper Metro held a recent interview with Mia Yim. One of the topics discussed included Yim’s reasons why she decided to not join her husband Keith Lee in AEW and her signing with Impact Wrestling instead.

“Ever since we started dating, it was like, ‘I never wanted to take his moves,’ we never wanted to be a tag team, we wanted to be our own separate brands. Sometimes we’ll do mixed tags or whatever and do things together, but we didn’t wanna be known just for that. We established very early on that we were own brand, we didn’t have to always stay together. I always get asked, ‘Why didn’t you go with Keith?’ It’s like, because I’m my own person and I wanna do what I wanna do, you know? [laughs] So, as long as we support each other with whatever it is, we don’t always have to be together!
Nothing bad to say about AEW but I’m just like, ‘Babe, that is your realm, go and kill it over there. That is your home.’ He was super supportive of me going back to IMPACT.”

Bret Hart Comments on AEW Honoring His Late Brother Owen

Sportskeeda held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart. One of the topics discussed included his thoughts about AEW’s honoring of the legacy of his late brother Owen Hart.

“I’m happy to see Owen remembered in any way. It was very nice.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pron Wrestling recently released a new video featuring Karl Fredericks and Christopher Daniels announcing that they will be teaming together to compete in the upcoming NJPW Strong Tag Team Championship tournament.

NJPW also recently announced that Hiromu Takahashi and Eddie Kingston will be appearing at their NJPW Strong themed High Alert event on July 24th in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Starrcast recently announced that Mike Tyson will be making an appearance for the company at their Roast of Ric Flair event at their Starrcast V convention on June 29th in Nashville, Tennessee.

As noted before, former wrestler Tammy Sytch was arrested this past May in Florida following a police investigation into a fatal car accident involving Sytch this past March. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Sytch filed a motion on June 2nd requesting that the civil lawsuit against her and her boyfriend James F. Pente be dismissed. Sytch reportedly is claiming that Pente’s daughter Whitney Hill did not have the legal ability to bring a lawsuit against her nor had she been “properly appointed” as the legal representation of the estate of Julian L. Lasseter. Hill’s legal team reportedly filed a response on June 3rd claiming that previous rulings made by the Florida Supreme Court would support that Hill would fall under being a properly appointed legal representative for Lasseter’s estate.

DDT Pro Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled Tetsuya Endo from their upcoming King of DDT 2022 tournament and also have vacated his KO-D Openweight Championship due to him suffering a concussion injury at their co-promoted CyberFight Festival 2022 event this past Sunday in Saitama, Japan.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that they have renewed their working partnership with Dragon Gate.

MLW also announced three new matches for their Battle Riot IV event on June 23rd in New York City, New York:

Scarlett Bordeaux vs. Clara Carreras
MLW World Middleweight Championship – La Estrella vs. Arez vs. Lince Dorado vs. Myron Reed (c)
MLW National Openweight Championship – Davey Richards vs. Alex Zayne (c)

Pro Wrestling NOAH recently announced a new match for the card of their Destination 2022 event on July 16th in Tokyo, Japan:

Hardcore match – Rob Van Dam vs. NOSAWA Rongai

Impact Wrestling recently announced three new matches for the card of their Slammiversary 2022 event on June 19th in Nashville, Tennessee:

Pre-show: Reverse Battle Royal match
Pre-show: Impact Digital Media Championship – Rich Swann vs. Brian Myers
Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship – Taya Valkyrie & Rosemary vs. The Influence (Madison Rayne & Tenille Dashwood) (c)