Various: Billy Corgan on NWA Not Holding Empowerr Event This Year, DDP on Last Match Interest, Indies

Aug 18, 2022

Billy Corgan Comments on NWA Not Holding An All-Women’s Event This Year

A recent episode of NBC Sports’ Ten Count podcast had National Wrestling Alliance owner Bily Corgan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Corgan revealing that the NWA currently does not have any plans to hold another all-women’s Empowerrr event this year and the reasons for the decision.

“No, it is in the cards. In fact, I saw a headline recently that said I don’t plan on bringing [Empower] back and that’s totally false. What it was is that we looked at Empowerrr for this NWA 74 pay-per-view and unfortunately there’s an opacity of female talent available on the open market because there is such a demand for female talent both with WWE and AEW. There just isn’t a ton of free agent talent available that can work at the television level. Is there enough talent, absolutely, but you’re talking about putting people on international pay-per-view where you’re asking fans to pay money. You’re gonna put on an all female pay-per-view, by the way let’s all remember that [if] that PPV doesn’t go well and you put people in positions they are not ready for, it’s gonna blow back on those talents and the company. We will definitely run another Empowerrr pay-per-view, absolutely. Hopefully next year. It’s just one of those things where it has to be the right time. Look at all of the people under contract with WWE and look at all of the people under contract with AEW and you recognize probably 80-90% of the top female talent is already under contract with those companies.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Diamond Dallas Page Comments on Not Having Any Interest in One Last Match

During a recent episode of the DDP Snake Pit podcast, co-host Diamond Dallas Page revealed that Conrad Thompson recently contacted him over the possibility of holding a Last Match type event for him. DDP also stated that he rejected the offer due to him currently having no interest in coming out of retirement for one more match.

“It’s nothing I’ll ever do. Conrad was like ‘You know DDP, you’d be perfect to do one of these,’ I was like ‘Nah bro, I’m good. I had my last match, it’s never going to be better than that.’ I was lucky enough to have all my boys around me and it was fun. I’m good with that.”

Transcript h/t: WrestlingInc.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Alberto El Patron filed a lawsuit against Combate Global this past October claiming that the company still owes him money for his MMA fight in 2019 and has not given up control of his social media accounts despite him no longer working for the company. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that El Patron filed an amended lawsuit to the The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 9th. The reason for the amended lawsuit was due to a ruling last month from the court that removed Combate’s parent company from the original lawsuit.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding this year’s Fightland event on October 30th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MLW also recently announced that Dragon Gate talent Shun Skywalker will be making an appearance for the company at their SuperSeries 2022 event on September 18th in Atlanta, Georgia.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding their next event in the United Kingdom called Royal Quest II on October 1-2 in London, England.

NJPW also recently announced four new matches for their NJPW Strong themed Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2022 event on August 21st in Los Angeles, California:

NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship – West Coast Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson) vs. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis)
Christopher Daniels & Yuya Uemura vs. TMDK (Bad Dude Tito & Shane Haste)
LA Dojo (Kevin Knight & The DKC) vs. Stray Dog Army (Bateman & Barrett Brown)
Cody Chhun & Jordan Cruz vs. Team Filthy (“Filthy” Tom Lawlor vs. JR Kratos)

Impact Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of tonight’s episode of Impact!:

#1 Contender for Impact World Championship match – Eddie Edwards vs. Steve Maclin vs. Moose vs. Sami Callihan vs. Bandido vs. Rich Swann

West Coast Pro recently announced a new match for the card of their West Coast Cup 2022 event tonight in South San Francisco, California:

West Coast Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Championship – “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Jacob Fatu (c)

The National Wrestling Alliance recently announced two new matches for the card of their NWA 74 Night 1 event on August 27th in St. Louis, Missouri:

Pope vs. Rodney Mack
Beelzebub’s Bedlam match – Miserably Faithful (Judais, Gaagz The Gymp, & Sal the Pal) vs. The Ill Begotten (Alex Taylor, Jeremiah Plunkett, & Rush Freeman)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their Art of War Games II event on September 3rd in Hoffman Estates, Illinois:

GCW Tag Team Championship War Games match – Bussy (EFFY & Allie Katch) vs. Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner & Matthew Justice) vs. Los Macizos (Ciclope & Miedo Extremo) vs. Alex Colon & John Wayne Murdoch vs. The Briscoes (Mark & Jay Briscoe) (c)