Weekend Roundup: MitB 2023 Notes, London WM Update, Creed Bros, Forbidden Door II Notes, El Desperado & NJPW Update, Indies

WWE

• As noted before, former ECW and WWE wrestler Droz, real name Darren Drozdov, passed away on Friday at the age of 54. In a statement to ESPN, the family of Drozdov announced that they will be launching a sports scholarship fund called the Darren Drozdov Oakcrest High School Athletic Scholarship in memory of him.
• Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event in London, England reportedly generated 200,000 searches on Google for that day, according to the Wrestling Observer.
• As noted before, Drew McIntyre made his surprise return from injury and John Cena made a surprise appearance at Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event in London. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that McIntyre and Cena were kept hidden backstage from everyone until it was time for their appearances on the show. Johnson reported that Cena was able to make the appearance for WWE due to Saturday being an off-night for the filming of his newest film in London.
• Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event also featured John Cena teasing the idea of a future WrestleMania event taking place in London. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that the reason why WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque did not provide any real follow-up during the post-show press conference is due to WWE officials are currently not sure when or if a WrestleMania event could take place in London. Those spoken to stated that the earliest a WrestleMania event could be held in London would be 2026. It was reported that WWE had recently sent out a new fan survey that listed London among the locations for a potential future Royal Rumble or SummerSlam event but did not mention anything about a potential future WrestleMania.
• John Cena reflected on Twitter about his surprise appearance at Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event in London. Cena stated “Im simply unable to express the love and gratitude I have for last nights audience. Thank you to my @WWE family for always welcoming back home. Thank you London for the opportunity to be part of a truly unforgettable evening. WrestleMania Never say never.“
• Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon was not in attendance backstage at this past Friday’s SmackDown show nor Money in the Bank 2023 show in London.
• WWE reportedly had distributed around 17,617 tickets for this past Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 event at The O2 in London, according to WrestleTix. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE has generated a live gate of around $2.2 million which would be the second highest ever for a wrestling event in United Kingdom history. Meltzer reported that Money in the Bank 2023 will drop to third highest ever once AEW’s All In event takes place next month based on the current live gate revenue for AEW’s upcoming event.
• During Saturday’s Money in the Bank 2023 post-show press conference, Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts on winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship would not count towards his “finishing the story” storyline. Rhodes stated “I don’t want to be a downer, but no. Winning the World Heavyweight Championship would be outstanding. It would be amazing. It is the title on the flagship show, Monday Night Raw. It absolutely matters and is important. What Seth is doing with it is a special thing and you’re going to see, that title will mean far more in five minutes and ten minutes. Every second, it gains equity. Finishing the story was always about the title that my dad didn’t get. I’m not going to spoil anything because the Peacock people will murder me. You’ll probably hear some news about my documentary sometime soon. Finally, these people have been filming me for gosh knows how long. It’s covered a lot in there as far as, that’s what the story was. He really did hold it, he held it in the Garden, and it ate me up that he never got it. That’s finishing the story. The World Heavyweight Championship is a whole other story. Very special, the main title on Monday Night Raw. I don’t look down on it in any way.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent interview with the WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves podcast, Finn Balor gave his thoughts about how his current heel run in WWE has “reinvigorated him” on a personal level. Balor stated “I feel like it’s reinvigorated me on a personal level. I don’t really wanna speak too much from a professional level, I haven’t really completed that stage of the journey yet. I feel personally that I’m back enjoying my work, I feel refreshed. I feel invigorated. I feel creative again, and it’s something that I haven’t really had the chance to fully explore this type of character on Raw or SmackDown. It’s something I wanted to really do on a second run in NXT, but when we lost interaction with the crowd, we kinda had to tweak and adjust course to change the character because of no audience in the arena. This is the version of the Prince that I wanted to deliver in NXT three years ago. This has been the goal since I’ve first put on a pair of wrestling boots. I was born to be a heel and when I started this at eighteen years old, I was a heel for years upon years. It wasn’t till I came to NXT during my first run, that I started to learn or taught how to be a babyface and it was something that was very much a WWE directive, that’s how they saw me. That’s not really how I see myself, so it’s been very much an exploratory couple months for me, kinda getting back to what I feel I do best, or at least what makes me happiest in the ring. I don’t know if it’s what I do best, but it’s what I enjoy the most. I’ve really thrived personally in the last couple of months as well.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• As noted before, Trinity, formerly known as Naomi, left WWE this past March and joined Impact Wrestling this past April. In a recent interview with Ariel Helwani, Jimmy Uso gave his thoughts about his wife’s departure from WWE and them working in different companies. Uso stated “It’s been weird. We’ve been on the road together since we first started our WWE career. For 12 years and then all of a sudden [done]. When that happened, it came to a complete stop, a schedule change and then not seeing her much with our schedule and what she’s doing, it’s been an adjustment, but we make it happen and make it work. She’s having a blast, moving at her own pace, which is something we never really get to do. She’s enjoying it and doing what she’s wanted to do; broadway, music, more acting.” Uso also gave his thoughts on if he was ever worried about his position in WWE following his wife’s departure. Uso stated “I was never really worried about myself. Just mainly her. Making sure everything is okay. I was never worried about myself. It wasn’t even about me. I just wanted to make sure everything was good. That day, I was super busy, I had a match and then when I came in the back, she left. It was already boiling then. Then we found out everything.” Uso also gave his thoughts about if he would like to see Trinity return to WWE in the future. Uso stated “Of course, even she would like to comeback. At the end of the day, we started our career here at WWE and in a perfect world, we’d like to finish here in WWE. She is definitely open to coming back and when the timing is right and everything fits, hopefully, it works.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent interview with Love Wrestling Interviews, Kevin Owens gave his thoughts about him being currently unsure of he would like to win the Intercontinental Championship again due to the record he shares with Owen Hart. Owens stated “It means a lot, and it’s funny because I’d love to win the Intercontinental Title back, but I also don’t want to win it back because I don’t want to break that similarity. I want to share that with Owen, so it’s a real conflicting feeling, but it’s really cool to have that, for sure. For me, I think a lot of it happened when I first started watching wrestling, WrestleMania 11 was the first tape I watched with my dad, and then I started going backwards and watching the shows before that that I’d missed, and I watched Royal Rumble, and Bret Hart was wrestling Diesel for the title, and at one point in the match, I knew the backstory of Bret being the older brother, Owen being the younger brother. I was the younger brother, my brother was ten years older than me, and of course, with that dynamic, my brother was stronger, faster, everything. If we got into an argument, obviously my brother would win. If we got into a tussle, Mr brother would win. It was like the little brother complex. When I saw Bret in that match try to cheat, he tried to use cables to wrap them around Diesel’s legs, and I, at that point, was a kid with a lot of morals, and I couldn’t believe that Bret Hart would be cheating. What the hell is that? Then Owen came out to try and stop him. Of course, at the time, I didn’t know that the dynamics of the story with the bad guy, the good guy, who did what. I just knew that Owen Hart, the valiant younger brother, was trying to stop his older brother from cheating. So I immediately latched onto Owen as being, ‘He’s me, he’s just like, and Bret’s like my big brother.’ That was it for me, man. Beyond that, Owen was an absolutely incredible competitor, a great character, entertaining as hell, so obviously he had all the qualities for me to become a huge fan right from the get-go, and he had the younger brother similarity with me, so that sealed the deal.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• As noted before, WWE held a Loser Leaves NXT match between The Creed Brothers and The Dyad as part of their tapings this past Tuesday for the July 4th NXT show. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that the reason why The Creed Brothers and not The Dyad lost the match was something that would be made clear in about a week. Meltzer reported that WWE officials have kept their plans a secret for the Creed Bros with some people being told that it is only an angle and not an actual call-up to the main roster. Meltzer reported that this could also just be a cover by WWE officials to kept their actual plans from being leaked.
• Chicago Bears CEO Kevin Warren reportedly is currently interested hosting a WWE event in the future once construction of the team’s new domed stadium is completed, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that Warren made the comments during a recent community meeting stating that the team is interested in hosting a variety of entertainment events as part of their plans for their upcoming new stadium in Chicago.
• WWE reportedly generated an attendance of 8,592 (7,500 paid) for their June 23rd SmackDown show in Lafayette, LA, 3,652 for their June 24th house show event in Monroe, LA, 4,221 for their June 25th house show event in Mobile, AL, 6,633 (6,000 paid) for their June 26th RAW show in Savannah, GA, 6,000 for their June 28th house show event in Liverpool, England, 6,700 for their June 29th house show event in Sheffield, England, and 5,600 for their June 29th house show event in Dublin, Ireland, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• WWE reportedly has sold around 7,001 tickets for their July 3rd RAW show in Baltimore, MD, 12,335 tickets for their July 7th SmackDown show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY, 7,047 tickets for their July 10th RAW show in Buffalo, NY, 8,876 tickets for their July 14th SmackDown show in Raleigh, NC, 4,436 tickets for their July 15th house show event in Fairfax, VA, 2,462 tickets for their July 16th house show event in Salisbury, MD, 9,324 tickets for their July 17th RAW show in Atlanta, GA, 8,572 tickets for their July 21st SmackDown show in Orlando, FL, 7,344 tickets for their July 24th RAW show in Tampa, FL, 5,600 tickets for their July 28th SmackDown show in New Orleans, LA, 2,483 tickets for their July 29th house show event in Estero, FL, 2,073 tickets for their July 30th house show event in Coral Gables, FL, 2,072 tickets for their July 30th NXT Great American Bash 2023 event in Cedar Park, TX, 12,161 tickets for their July 31st RAW show in Houston, TX, 4,175 tickets for their Aug. 4th SmackDown show in Dayton, OH, 41,163 tickets for their Aug. 5th SummerSlam 2023 event in Detroit, MI, and 6,146 tickets for their Aug. 7th RAW show in Minneapolis, MN as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• The past several weeks of WWE shows have been notable for WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon’s heavy handed involvement in regards to major late changes being made to the scripts and original plans. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that McMahon is fully aware that everyone in WWE had operated for months under the assumption that he would never come back after his resignation. Meltzer reported that McMahon did not get any major support within WWE when he had first announced that he would be coming back in a position of power and this only changed after he made it clear that he was coming back. In regards to McMahon resuming his habit of last minute changes to WWE creative plans for shows, one source spoken to reportedly stated “He believes in what he says. Is he wrong all the time? No. Actually he’s not. He’s actually got better input than most would believe. Is it all good? No, he’s stuck on certain mindsets that are long gone, and it could be damaging. It’s not the interference itself that is the problem. It’s how and when he does it.” This same source reportedly stated that this would not be an issue if McMahon was doing major changes to plans a day or more prior to a show but it is his habit of doing them only hours before a start of a show has caused everything to be thrown into chaos backstage.
• Fightful Select reported that several talent spoken to stated that they still pay out of pocket for their own hotels, rental cars, and flights for regular event but WWE covers those costs when it comes to big events and media-related work.

AEW & ROH

• As noted before, Jade Cargill has been on a break from AEW and wrestling since this past May’s Double or Nothing 2023 event. Cargill recently provided an update on Twitter teasing in a joking manner of enjoying her break so much that it might never end. Cargill stated “Outside of the wrestling bubble is nice. I might stay.”
• AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling reportedly generated an attendance of 13,600 (13,100 paid) for their June 25th Forbidden Door II event in Toronto, Canada, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that Forbidden Door II’s live gate of around $1.2 million would be the largest ever gate for a non-WWE wrestling event in North America in wrestling history. In terms of Canada, Meltzer reported that Forbidden Door II’s live gate revenue was the third largest ever for a wrestling event Canada, only behind WWE’s WrestleMania VI event in 1990 that generated over $3.4 million and WrestleMania X8 in 2002 that generated over $3.8 million.
• In regards to revenues from theaters, Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Forbidden Door II generated around $101,000 to $108,000 for the event, which was down 21.7% to 26.8% compared to this past May’s Double or Nothing 2023’s gross theater revenue of $138,000.
• This past Sunday’s Forbidden Door II event featured a Trios match between Sting, Darby Allin, & Tetsuya Naito and Le Suzuki Gods. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that the spot involving Sammy Guevara hitting a 630 Splash to Sting through a table was not meant to happen for the match. Meltzer reported that Sting was originally planned to dodge the move so that Guevara would be the only one going through the table but he was not able to get away in time and took the full brunt of the spot. Meltzer reported that the reason why Sting no sold the move and got right into the ring was due to his planned involvement for the match’s finish afterwards.
• Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that one member of the media at Forbidden Door II’s post-show media scrum ended up getting injured following an accident. This injury occurred following an angle between Chris Jericho and Sting at the post-show media scrum and involved Jericho swatting away Sting’s water bottle with his bat that accidentally flew into the media pool and struck a reporter named John Muse in the face. Muse reportedly required medical attention due to suffering a cut above his eye. Meltzer reported that Muse said that Jericho had privately apologized to him over the accident and that Khan had checked up on him after the media scrum. Khan reportedly also apologized over the incident and stated that Jericho’s actions were not acceptable. Meltzer reported that Khan and Muse are actual longtime friends dating back to when Khan was a teenager.
• This past Sunday’s Forbidden Door II event was notable for being the first time that both CM Punk and The Elite were backstage at the same show. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that there were no backstage incidents involving the two during the show. Punk and The Elite reportedly were kept in separate locker rooms as far away from each other and had no interactions with each other backstage. In regards to Punk not making an appearance during the post-show media scrum, Meltzer reported that his sources stated that this was due to AEW officials had felt Punk already did a lot of media work since his return and wanted to give him a break.
• As noted before, Jim Ross suffered a black eye injury following a fall incident this past June and is currently on a break from AEW over issues with his vocal cords. Ross recently provided an update stating that his voice got strained during his work for AEW at the recent shows in Chicago and has not fully healed as of yet. Ross also stated that he currently does not have a timetable set for his return beyond that it will not be any time soon.
• As noted before, AEW CEO Tony Khan recently denied a report from Ariel Helwani that stated that the Khan family was interested in purchasing Bellator MMA in the past. Helwani recently responded in defense of his report stating that Khan never specifically mentioned that no representatives of the Khan family had not asked around in regards to interest towards Bellator. Helwani also stated that he only said that he heard of inquires from Khan’s family and Liberty Media over them being potential buyers. Helwani also took offense to Khan’s claim of this just being another lie by him against Khan saying for Khan to name one other story he ever got wrong and claimed to have a perfect batting record for his reporting over the past 16 years.
• Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that despite FTR being close friends of CM Punk, they currently do not have any real backstage issues with The Elite nor anyone else in AEW. Meltzer reported that FTR have actually gone out of their way to work with everyone including the Young Bucks, who also do not have any issues with FTR. Meltzer reported that there is nothing current preventing FTR and Young Bucks from having another match and feud in AEW in the future should AEW CEO Tony Khan decide to go in that direction.
• In a recent interview with the AEW Unrestricted podcast, AEW Senior Vice President Nik Sobic gave his thoughts on when the idea for AEW’s Fight Forever video game was pitched. Sobic stated “On day one, Tony Khan creates AEW. On day two, Tony Khan creates AEW Fight Forever. It’s very close to the truth. I was the first employee to AEW. On day one, we pumped a bunch of money into this company to get it off the ground. On day two, we had the nerve to go back and ask him for another pile of money to make this video game. The nice thing about Tony is that he’s not a super emotional thinker. He’s a super strategic, data and high-level thinker. We just presented our case. We said, ‘we think there is a gap in the market for a game like this. AEW’s audience loves video games. You look at social media sentiment and the type of game people have been asking for, this is like 20 years in the making. People have been waiting for this for a long time.’ It was a pretty easy pitch. It was a successful pitch because three and a half years later, we have a video game ready to go.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• AEW reportedly generated an attendance of 6,500 (5,000 paid) for their June 24th Collision show in Toronto, Canada, 4,600 (4,100 paid) for their June 28th Dynamite show in Hamilton, and 3,800 (3,000 paid) for their June 29th Collision show in Hamilton Canada, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• AEW reportedly has sold around 5,071 tickets for their July 5th Dynamite show in Edmonton, Canada, 1,379 tickets for their July 8th Collision show in Regina, Canada, 2,385 tickets for their July 12th Dynamite show in Saskatoon, Canada, 3,641 tickets for their July 15th Collision show in Calgary, Canada, 4,134 tickets for their July 19th Dynamite show at the TD Garden in Boston, MA, 4,609 tickets for their July 22nd Collision show in Newark, NJ, 1,905 tickets for their July 26th Dynamite show in Albany, NY, 2,427 tickets for their Aug. 2nd Dynamite show in Tampa, FL, 2,021 tickets for their Aug. 5th Collision show in Greenville, SC, 2,085 tickets for their Aug. 9th Dynamite show in Columbus, OH, 3,121 tickets for their Aug. 12th Collision show in Greensboro, NC, 2,288 tickets for their Aug. 16th Dynamite show in Nashville, TN, and 66,618 tickets for their Aug. 27th All In event at Wembley Stadium in London, England as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• Ring of Honor reportedly has sold around 1,634 tickets for their July 21st Death Before Dishonor 2023 event in Trenton, NJ as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Impact, NJPW, Indies, & Misc. Wrestling

• As noted before, television ratings tracking website ShowBuzz Daily recently announced that they would be shutting down due to issues affecting the entire television industry and ratings tracking over the decline of linear television viewership over the years. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that ShowBuzz Daily shutting down will be a great loss to the sports and television industry due to the great demographic detail and breakdowns they regularly provided for shows. Meltzer reported that ShowBuzz Daily was also known for their quick work when it came to getting the rankings of shows and competition numbers for a night. Meltzer reported that while other tracking websites did similar work as ShowBuzz Daily, they are not at the same level in terms of depth nor quick when it came to ratings releases, which will be an issue going forward especially when it comes to tracking the performance of wrestling television shows. Meltzer also reported that Nielsen was well known for never being fond of their ratings data being released to the public to the extent done by ShowBuzz Daily and other ratings tracking websites. Meltzer speculated that it could be possible that other ratings tracking websites could also shut down in the near future over this issue. Meltzer reported that ShowBuzz Daily’s Mitch Salem’s issues with Nielsen’s lack of ratings tracking with streaming services being one reason for the website’s closure only brings up another issue of streaming viewership being a lot more fractured than television viewership. Meltzer reported that streaming service providers are a lot more protective and secretive when it comes to sharing their viewership data unlike linear television providers.
• This past Thursday’s FantasticaMania 2023 event for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Guadalajara, Mexico was notable for Andrade El Idolo being featured among those paying tribute to Satanico for the 50th anniversary of his career’s debut. The CubsFan reported that CMLL allowing Andrade to be included in the video message for Satanico likely was not an indication of their bad blood issues with Andrade being over due to the company had later editing out Andrade and RUSH’s names for the Spanish language release of Tetsuya Naito’s press conference at the show.
• As noted before, RUSH and his father La Bestia del Ring recently left Lucha Libre AAA over backstage frustrations revolving around broken promises from AAA officials. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that RUSH’s brother and Dralistico recently denied Konnan’s claims that RUSH and his father had left AAA over booking-related issues. Dralistico stated that he would have had also left AAA in support of them if that was the actual case. Dralistico also stated that the reason why RUSH left was due to a personal decision he made and that his father should not be blamed for it.
• Pro Wrestling NOAH reportedly generated a paid attendance of 1,312 for their June 24th Kenoh 15th Anniversary Show in Tokushima, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• El Desperado recently refuted on Twitter that a recent report from the Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer about him currently working without a contract in New Japan Pro Wrestling is not true. Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources had told him that this was the reason why El Desperado has been working more often in the U.S. indies of late due to him not signing a contract with NJPW for this year.
• DDT Pro Wrestling reportedly generated a paid attendance of 755 for their June 25th What Are You Doing 2023 event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
• The Outspoken recently released their Power 100 list, which featured the 100 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in the sports world. In regards to wrestling, AEW’s Anthony Bowens was the highest ranked at #44, followed by Impact Wrestling’s Head of Media Relations Ross Forman at #80, and indies wrestler EFFY at #96.
• World Wrestling Council reportedly generated an attendance of 9,000 for their June 24th 50th Anniversario event in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that the event’s attendance was the largest for a non-WWE wrestling event in Puerto Rico in the past ten years.
• As noted before, indies wrestler Cara Noir has been out of action since this past May due to a fractured foot and ankle injuries. Noir recently launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help financially assist his medical and potential surgery costs. Noir claimed that he was misdiagnosed by National Health Services doctors and only found out about an additional fracture around over two weeks ago. Noir also stated that he currently has a bone chip that has not reattached properly and has also been dealing with unexplained swelling issues. Noir also stated that he needs to have an MRI test and surgery will likely be required in order for him to heal properly.
• Game Changer Wrestling’s Ride of Die event on June 23rd in Chicago, Illinois featured a singles match between El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Metalik, which ended in a no contest decision. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the reason for GCW booking a no contest decision was due to political issues between AAA and CMLL. Meltzer reported that GCW had booked this match while Metalik was in the process of renewing his immigration papers for Mexico and was technically not a CMLL talent at the time. The issue reportedly revolved around Metalik’s papers being cleared prior to the event and had returned to Mexico making his an official CMLL talent. This reportedly led to Metalik informing GCW officials that he was not allowed to lose the mach despite the original plans were for Vikingo, who is an AAA talent, to beat Metalik. Vikingo reportedly was also not allowed to lose to a CMLL contracted talent, especially due to his status as the current AAA Mega Champion. Meltzer reported that GCW officials then made the decision for Blake Christian to interfere in the match for the no contest decision as a way to resolve this issue.
• PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Steve Maclin’s injury at this past Friday’s Down Under Tour event in Wagga Wagga, Australia was a legitimate injury and not something done for storyline reasons. No other details were given regarding the nature nor severity of Maclin’s injury beyond Maclin being scheduled for a MRI test once he returns to the United States.
• Sunday’s Dynamite Series 2023 event for All Japan Pro Wrestling in Tokyo, Japan featured Yuma Aoyagi defeating Yuji Nagata to be crowned the new AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion.
• Major League Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their MLW Fusion tapings on July 8th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is a tag team match of Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders & Mance Warner) vs. The Calling (Delirious & Doctor Cornwallis)
• Global Pro Wrestling Summit recently announced that Sting, Rob Van Dam, El Hijo del Vikingo, Selezyia, Rikishi, and Shay Blanco & Idan Boulder will be making an appearance for the company at their All Star Israel event on September 14th in Jerusalem, Israel.
• Sunday’s Midsummer Champions 2023 event for Stardom in Yokohama, Japan featured MIRAI defeating Tam Nakano to be crowned the new Wonder of Stardom Champion.