Various: Cassie Lee on Upcoming Return to Wrestling, Court Bauer on MLW-WWE Lawsuit, Indies

Cassie Lee Comments on Her Upcoming Return to Wrestling

As noted before, Cassie Lee, former Peyton Royce in WWE, is currently scheduled to make her return to wrestling this October for World Series Wrestling in Australia. This will be Lee’s first wrestling event since April of 2022.

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast had Lee as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Lee’s thoughts on her upcoming return to wrestling.

“This is a home promotion for me in Australia. Shawn Spears is already doing it, and we thought it was kind of perfect for me to go along with him and take our son. It’s really exciting and they were open to the idea. We’ve been talking about doing mixed tag stuff for a long time and it was a good opportunity to do that.”

Lee also gave her thoughts about the possibility of reuniting with her former tag team partner Jessica McKay, former Billie Kay in WWE.

“At the moment, she’s really focused on her acting career, which I still am too, but being a mom now, I feel I need to contribute a certain amount to our household and my son. I had a whole life before he came along and I had all my big accomplishments before he came along. He’s so young, but we’ll have photos and footage, and he’ll know that he was there to see it all. Jess is still concentrated on acting, but I still want to tag. That’s why I want to tag with Shawn. I love tag wrestling.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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MLW Owner Court Bauer on MLW’s Ongoing Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against WWE

As noted before, Major League Wrestling’s original antitrust lawsuit against WWE was dismissed this past February and had filed a new amended lawsuit this past March.

A recent episode of The Business of The Business podcast featured MLW owner Court Bauer as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Bauer’s thoughts about the current status of MLW’s lawsuit against WWE.

“You’re trying to get me into trouble (Bauer jokingly said when asked about the MLW/WWE lawsuit). I’ll say this, there’s really not gonna be any news on this I guess until mid-summer. But, it’s a process… The judge had the right to just dismiss the case and say peace out. What he did is he said, ‘You need to beef up some of these aspects of your case. Please resubmit,’ which I thought was an encouraging sign. I’m no lawyer. I just play one on MLW TV and my name is Court but, it’s something that you say, okay and hopefully we did our job. He asked us to resubmit our homework, we did and hopefully we’ve satisfied his needs to move forward and if we move forward, I am sharpening my fork and knife for discovery.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Skybound Games and developer Mega Cat Studios recently announced that their upcoming wrestling-based RPG game WrestleQuest is currently scheduled to be released on August 8th for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile devices.

Major League Wrestling talent Lance Anoa’i reportedly will be making his official debut for Pro Wrestling NOAH this July, according to Fightful Select. It was reported that Anoa’i will be one of the competitors for this year’s N1 Victory tournament. It was also reported that NOAH officials are also currently considering the idea of MLW talent Jacob Fatu also competing in this year’s tournament as well.

The National Wrestling Alliance recently released official photos of their new NWA World Women’s Television Championship that will be presented to Kenzie Paige at their Crockett Cup 2023 events this weekend in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, NWA owner Billy Corgan gave his thoughts about his interest in finding a television partner for NWA’s Powerrr series. Corgan stated “I’ve resisted taking any outside money, so it’s 100% self-funded so that way if I do find the right partner, I don’t have to bring somebody else along and convince them that it’s good idea,” he said. “And then secondarily, I resisted taking sea level deals just to sort of puff my chest and say, ‘See I’m with Bob’s BBQ Network.’ You know what I mean?“

Johnny Candido, brother of the late Chris Candido, recently thanked VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring series for telling his late brother’s tragic life story. Candido stated “A huge thank you to @DarkSideOfRing and @evanhusney for telling my brother’s story. You guys did an amazing job.” This past Tuesday’s Season Four premiere episode was based on the trouble life and relationship of Chris Candido and Tammy Sytch.

As noted before, Impact Wrestling talent Gisele Shaw was involved in a transphobic incident with WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner at an autograph signing convention for WrestleCon this past April. In a recent virtual fan signing event for K&S WrestleFest, Shaw was asked about the incident and stated that she will speak more about it when she feels ready to do so. Shaw stated “So I feel like I haven’t really made any other statement other than what I posted out there (concerning the incident with Rick Steiner) and I don’t think that it’s the right time to be talking about this unfortunate incident. I do stand by my story and when I’m ready to talk about it, at the right time, at the right place then people will hear about it.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

Impact Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Against All Odds 2023 event on June 9th in Columbus, Ohio:

• Impact World Tag Team Championship – The Good Hands (Jason Hotch & John Skyler) vs. ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) (c)
• Dog Collar match – Masha Slamovich vs. Killer Kelly

DEFY Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their Heathens event on June 24th in Portland, Oregon:

• Komander vs. El Hijo del Vikingo

Smash Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their Girls Next Door event on June 25th in Toronto, Canada:

• Mercedes Martinez vs. Masha Slamovich

Chris Hero recently announced a new match for the card of West Coast pro Wrestling’s Cruel Summer 2k23 event on July 8th in San Francesco, California:

• Jeff Cobb vs. Black Taurus