Various: Impact Announces Date & Location for Against All Odds 2023, Real1’s MLW Release Update, Indies

Apr 5, 2023

Impact Wrestling Announces Date & Location for Against All Odds 2023

Impact Wrestling recently announced that this year’s Against All Odds event will be taking place on June 9th at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio.

It was also announced that they will be holding Impact! Against All Odds 2023 Fallout television tapings on June 10th at the same venue.

It was also announced that tickets for this upcoming event and television taping will officially go on sale starting on April 7th.

BREAKING: #AgainstAllOdds is coming to the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio on June 9 followed by #AgainstAllOddsFallout on June 10.

Tickets go on-sale THIS FRIDAY! pic.twitter.com/U0o3RvFAMj
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) April 4, 2023

Real1’s Departure from MLW Update

As noted before, Major League recently released Real1, former Enzo Amore in WWE and nZo in the indies, due to backstage creative-related issues.

Real1 recently commented on Twitter regarding his side of the story over the issues that led to his release from MLW.

Real1 stated that while he thanked everyone he worked with in the company, one of his main issues with the company revolved around what he claimed was “false advertising” over his upcoming MLW World Championship match. Real1 also stated that he had issues with MLW’s creative plans for him to go over Richard Holliday in a feud due to him not wanting to “bury a guy who beat cancer.”

“Let it be known, I’ve always been a free agent. Everything I ever did with any company was in good faith, which I want to keep going. I want to say thank you to MLW. All the people there, the staff, locker room, it was an awesome experience. I had a lot of fun. I had to run and I knew on my way out the door that I had to put somebody over. The biggest star in that locker room is definitely Microman, so him standing on my chest; one, two, three. Hope he’s signing that 8×10 for the rest of his life. Stretcher job, definitely not coming back. I want to address something. There was an advertisement for me wrestling for the MLW Title. That was false advertising. I told the owner there [Court Bauer] that I never wanted to fight for the title, and on my way out the door, an advertisement came out that I was fighting for the title. That’s a false advertisement because I never agreed to that and I’m not under contract. Everything I’ve ever done there, I had to agree upon because I’m not under contract. If I’m under contract and you’re my boss, I’m doing whatever you tell me to do. Everything I’ve done was in good faith. That’s bad business trying to say that you fired me WrestleMania weekend trying to squeeze a headline.
Wrestlers write tell all books and still get jobs and are on TV. That ain’t what I’m about to do. That ain’t me. I’m not the one. I ain’t gonna talk shit and bury people, I just want to get out in front of this thing and let it be known, I was at the 2300 Arena when a stack of advertisements saying I was fighting for the MLW Title was dropped on my table and I sent the picture of the flyer to the owner and I said, ‘What is this?’ He’s like, ‘Sorry, it slipped through the cracks, I’m wearing too many hats at MLW. I totally forgot that you said you never want to fight for the title.’ You forgot bro? I was born at night, but not last night. Don’t play yourself. I’m not fighting for the title, but you played those fans when you put that advertisement out there for something I never agreed upon. I’m not under contract with you. When you send me creative direction to bury a guy who just beat cancer [Richard Holliday], I do a lot of things on a microphone and talk a lot of shit, that ain’t one of them. Cancer is a sensitive subject and I didn’t want to bury a guy who just beat cancer. There was nothing left for me to do at MLW, I put over Microman on the way out the door. They wrote me off TV. Don’t try to catch me with a headline saying you fired me when I’ve never been under contract with you, I’ve just been a man of my word.
Court is the name of the owner of MLW. If I got to Court, I’m not going to take legal action, I assure you of that. I have nothing to say but good things about the two years I had at MLW, great experience. Things just don’t always last forever and in the end, I didn’t like the creative direction of burying a guy who had cancer. I think it was shysty, a guy who put out a bunch of articles, clearly, I know who, the guy who runs the place. You put out articles WrestleMania weekend saying I got fired. That’s a low blow. That’s bad business, especially when all the conversations we’ve ever had, you have and I have, I know what we said to each other. When you put out an ad saying Enzo got release, you’re just blasting my name out there trying to make headline. That’s cold blooded, fucked up, and I would never do that. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience for two years at MLW. In the end, nothing lasts forever. That’s all it was. When I go to Court, it’s the owner. I don’t need legal action, there are no contracts involved here. Thank you for the experience I had and thanks to the fans who watched. It was awesome.”

Thank you to @MLW ‘s fans. I had fun!

Sorry if you saw an advertisement I would be wrestling for the title. That was never something I was aware of or agreed to.

I have never been under contract with MLW but enjoyed my experience and am grateful for the opportunity. pic.twitter.com/AEQWK3UwMF
— REAL1 (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) April 2, 2023

Out front —- THANK YOU!!!!! pic.twitter.com/nbFNW1Kf5t
— REAL1 (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) April 2, 2023

Allow me to beat the hell out the Dead horse. Enjoy wrestlemania, cause this is the last thing anybody should give af about pic.twitter.com/0Ux6sKSMDE
— REAL1 (FKA Enzo Amore) (@real1) April 2, 2023

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Rocky Romero and AEW’s Miro were in attendance backstage at this past Friday’s Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor 2023 event in Los Angeles, California.

Westside Xtreme Wrestling announced that they have recently signed Peter Tihanyi to an official contract with the company. It was announced that besides being an active in-ring talent, he will also be working as a coach for the company.

TYR Sport announced that they recently signed a former WWE talent Eva Marie, real name Natalie Eva Marie, to a fitness contract with their company.

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Bushwhacker Butch, real name Robert Miller, passed away this past this past Monday following a medical emergency incident this past weekend. A GoFundMe fundraiser was recently launched to help financially assist the family of Miller for his medical and funeral costs.

In a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune, National Wrestling Alliance owner Billy Corgan gave his thoughts about him still learning how to be a promoter and juggling it with his music work. Corgan stated “I’m still learning how to be a promoter. It’s a full-time job. There are times when I wish that the music didn’t take so much of my time. But let’s put it this way, the rock still pays for the wrestling.”

The NWA recently announced a new match for the card of their NWA 312 event on April 7th in Highland Park, Illinois:

Pre-show: Natalia Markova vs. Labrava Escobar

Major League Wrestling announced that Davey Boy Smith Jr., Microman, AKIRA, Jay Lion, Midas Black, Delirious, TJ Crawford, Little Guido, Beastman, Ken Broadway, and Dr. Cronwallus are the next official competitors for the Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot V event on April 8th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MLW also recently announced two new matches for the card of their Battle Riot V event on April 8th in Philadelphia:

Billie Starkz vs. Mandy Leon
MLW Openweight Championship Three-way match – Lio Rush vs. Willie Mack vs. John Hennigan (c)

MLW also recently announced three new matches for the card of their War Chamber 2023 event on April 6th in New York City, New York:

Willie Mack vs. Sam Adonis
Ken Broadway vs. TJ Crawford
MLW World Tag Team Championship Hardcore match – Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders & Matthew Justice) vs. Samoan Swat Team (Juicy Finau & Lane Anoa’i) (c)

Black Label Pro Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their 2 Cold 2 Hold event on April 29th in Berwyn, Illinois:

BLP Championship – Skye Blue vs. Billie Starkz (c)