Various: Impact Planing to Potentially Hold Future Event in the UK, WOW TV Ratings, Indies

Gail Kim Comments on Impact Considering Plans to Hold Event in the UK in the Future

A recent episode of the Women’s Wrestling Talk podcast featured Gail Kim as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Kim revealing that Impact Wrestling has had recent talks regarding the idea of holding more international events in the future with the United Kingdom as a likely destination.

“I mean, we are talking about doing them more internationally. That’s basically the next step that we would love to go because we used to go to the U.K. and do some tours and were talking about that before COVID and then when COVID hit, it really shut things down. It felt like just rebuilding all over again but I feel like now, we’re in the swing of things and these shows are being planned and yeah, hopefully we’ll get to see some more special shows in terms of maybe some joint ventures again, you never know. All-women’s pay-per-views and hopefully some international tours, because we’ve got some incredible U.K. fans over there and we never get to see them anymore so, love to see them.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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WOW TV Ratings – Jan. 15, 2023

WOW: Women of Wrestling reportedly drew 308,000 viewers for their January 15th episode on syndication, down from the prior week’s 309,000 viewers.

It drew a 0.06 18-49 rating, same as the prior week’s rating.

Source: Wrestlenomics

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

The debut episode of Nikki Bella Says I Do this past Thursday drew 202,000 viewers and a 0.08 key demographic rating on E!, according to PWInsider.

WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle recently announced on Twitter that he will be a guest judge for the newest season of PFL’s Challenger Series.

Westside Xtreme Wrestling recently announced that Robert Dreissker suffered a fractured cheekbone, nose, and upper jaw injury at their Back To The Roots event this past Saturday in Oberhausen, Germany. Dreissker recently provided an injury update stating that he is feeling fine after undergoing successful surgery to repair his facial injuries.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced the list of talent from DDT Pro Wrestling who are making an appearance at this year’s The Collective series of events from March 30th to April 1st in Los Angeles, California.

GCW also recently announced that Hijo del Vikingo will be making an appearance for the company at their Gringo Loco’s The Wrld On Lucha 2023 event on April 1st in Los Angeles.

GCW also recently announced that Maki Itoh will be making an appearance for the company at their Joey Janela’s Spring Break 7 event on March 31st in Los Angeles.

GCW also recently announced that Kota Ibushi will be making an appearance for the company at their Joey Janela’s Spring Break 7 event on March 31st and Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 9 event on March 30th in Los Angeles.

GCW also recently announced that Timothy Thatcher will be making an appearance for the company at their Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 9 event on March 30th in Los Angeles.

Major League Wrestling reportedly recently signed a new television deal with television Bouygues for France, according to the Wrestling Observer.

MLW recently announced two new matches for the card of their SuperFight 2023 event on February 4th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

• B3CCA vs. Delmi Exo
• MLW World’s Women’s Featherweight Championship – Billie Starkz vs. Taya Valkyrie (c)

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 recently announced a new match for the card of their 22nd Anniversary Collection event in Tokyo, Japan:

• Jungle Kyona & Jaguar Yokota vs. Unagi Sayaka & mystery partner

Joey Janela recently announced a new match for the card of GCW’s Joey Janela’s Spring Break 7 event on March 31st in Los Angeles, California:

• Hijo del Vikingo vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey