Various: Lio Rush Set for Impact Return, Evan Husney on Upcoming Marty Jannetty DSotR Episode, Indies

Jun 14, 2023

Impact Announces Return of Lio Rush for Summer Sizzle TV Tapings This Month

Impact Wrestling recently announced that Lio Rush will be making an appearance for the company at their upcoming Summer Sizzle Impact television tapings on June 23rd in Atlanta, Georgia.

BREAKING: After his incredible match against KUSHIDA at #MultiverseUnited, @IamLioRush returns to IMPACT at #SummerSizzler in Atlanta on June 23!

Get tickets HERE: https://t.co/IQZ1hLHgOr pic.twitter.com/t670vOaK71
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) June 13, 2023

Rush recently commented on Twitter about his upcoming appearance for Impact.

日本で多くの時間を過ごしたことで、一人の男が戦士に変わった。

Looks like summer is going to be crazy this year. Let’s make an #IMPACT, shall we? 🥷🏽 https://t.co/XiuAZb60WW
— The Bad Child (@IamLioRush) June 13, 2023

Dark Side of the Ring Co-Creator Evan Husney on Upcoming Marty Jannetty Episode

A recent episode of The Ringer’s Wrestling Show podcast featured Dark Side of the Ring series co-creator Evan Husney as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Husney’s thoughts on the upcoming Marty Jannetty episode for the current fourth season of Dark Side of the Ring.

“Marty Jannetty, it’s definitely an episode you’re not going to want to miss. It was one that when we were working on Season 3, and that’s when the news broke on this crazy story that Marty had put out there that he had killed somebody at some point in time. It was just like, ‘What is going on?’ … People just went crazy with that, so for us, it was kind of this thing like, ‘Oh my God, what would a Marty Jannetty episode look like?’ Then we realized it can’t just be this thing where we go and interview him for an hour or two, it just wouldn’t be right. So we actually wound up spending four days with Marty and really immersing ourselves in Marty JannettyLand and trying to get his truth. I think the episode is largely about, obviously him being kind of the underdog out of the two in The Rockers, his rise with Shawn, but I think a lot of people are also going to find that this is largely also about his time after the spotlight. How he’s chasing that notoriety. he’s chasing that by any means, whether it be provocative, fabricating things, creating his own universe. So I think we’ve landed on the perfect title for that episode. It’s called ‘The World According to Marty Jannetty.’ So everybody’s going to want to tune in for that. I think everyone’s going to have to decide for themselves what’s truth and what’s fiction in that story.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Reality of Wrestling recently announced that former WWE talent Alicia Fox will be making an appearance for the company at their Summer of Champions IX event on July 15th in Humble, Texas.

Lucha Libre AAA recently announced that they have cancelled their upcoming television tapings on June 18th in Puebla, Mexico.

WrestleCon recently announced that former WWE wrestler Nailz will be making an appearance at their WrestleCon Destination Detroit convention on August 4-5 in Detroit, Michigan. This will be Nailz’s first appearance in wrestling since 2000.

As noted before, Japanese wrestler Shinjiro Otani has been out of action from wrestling since April of 2022 due to a serious cervical cord injury. Pro Wrestling NOAH recently uploaded a video on their official YouTube channel featuring Otani giving a message of encouragement to Takashi Sugiura ahead of his upcoming GHC Heavyweight Championship match against Jake Lee at NOAH’s Sunny Voyage 2023 event on June 17th in Japan. (English translation via PostWrestling.com)

Glory Pro Wrestling recently announced that Rey Fenix will be making an appearance for the company at their Animo event on July 30th in St. Louis, Missouri.

GLEAT recently announced that Bandido, Komander, and Kento Miyahara will be making an appearance for the company at their Ver.6 -2nd Anniversary event on July 1st in Tokyo, Japan.

In a recent interview with the Under the Ring podcast, Rocky Romero gave his thoughts about Minoru Suzuki’s reactions to how crowds outside of Japan react to his “KAZE NI NARE” theme song. Romero stated “For KAZE NI NARE, when Minoru Suzuki walks into a room or into the arena, I don’t know, it’s just really, really cool and Suzuki has sent me videos where he’s all over the world and he’ll shoot me a clip where he’s like, just baffled by it every time. You know, it starts in America but sometimes in Mexico they’ll do it or like, in England they’ll do it and it’s just really, really cool and I think it means a lot to the Japanese wrestlers to have that impact outside of Japan.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their NJPW Strong Independence Day event on July 4th in Tokyo, Japan: