Various: Mercedes Mone Injury Update, Scott D’Amore on Talk with Jeff Jarrett About Impact Reverting Back to TNA, Indies

Nov 7, 2023

Mercedes Mone Ankle Injury Status Update

As noted before, Mercedes Mone has been out of action for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Stardom since this past May due to an ankle injury.

A recent episode of the WrestlePurists podcast feature NJPW official and talent Rocky Romero as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Romero stating that he has no real update on the current status of Mone’s recovery but is hoping to be able to speak to Mone and her agent soon.

“I honestly don’t have any update right now (on Mercedes Moné). I hope that I’ll be talking to her agent and her maybe soon-ish, but I honestly don’t have any update yet about anything. The last thing I had heard was that she was recovering well and basically they were gonna let me know, reach out when she was getting close to a comeback so, yeah.
There’s definitely still communication and I mean obviously though, I don’t know what she’s gonna wanna do when she comes back for sure. Especially coming back from a serious injury, you know? And that maybe messed up her timeframe of what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it so, I really couldn’t say or speak for her, you know? I don’t think it would be fair.
No (there’s no issue between the two sides). No, no, no. I think that she thoroughly enjoyed her time in New Japan and New Japan loved working with her and obviously would love to continue to work with her. But yeah, I think everybody’s pretty happy with the work that we’ve done obviously.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Scott D’Amore Comments on Talk with Jeff Jarrett Over Impact Reverting Back to TNA

As noted before, Impact Wrestling announced at this past October’s Bound For Glory 2023 that they will be rebranding back to their former name of TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Wrestling at their Hard to Kill 2024 event in January of 2024.

A recent episode of WhatCulture Wrestling podcast featured Impact President Scott D’Amore as the guest. One of the topics discussed included D’Amore’s thoughts about a recent conversation he had with former TNA co-founder Jeff Jarrett over Impact’s decision to revert back to their former company name.

“I had an exchange with Jeff Jarrett about this the other day (IMPACT going back to TNA name). Actually, it was flying over here (to the U.K.) and I was messaging him back and forth and you know, I said, ‘We haven’t really talked about it but I just want you to know, this has our 100. This is getting everything we got because this is something you created and it’s something that means the world to me’ and we had a wonderful exchange about it. He was very supportive.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Tam Nakano has been out of action for Stardom since this past October due to a knee injury. Stardom recently announced that due to Nakano still receiving treatment for her injury, they have pulled her from the card of their Gold Rush event on November 18th in Osaka. Nakano had been originally scheduled to defend her World of Stardom Championship against Suzu Suzuki at the event.

As noted before, Starlight Kid has also been out of action for Stardom since this past September due to an ankle injury. Stardom recently announced that Starlight Kid will be making her in-ring return from injury at their Gold Rush event on November 18th in Osaka, Japan. It was also announced that Kid will be competing in a Three-way match against AZM and Suzu Suzuki at the event.

PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced that The Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) will be making an appearance for the company at their Chapter 162: The Light Of The Dragon event on January 28, 2024 in Camden, England.

Wrestling legend and former WCW wrestler Vampiro filed several new trademarks for “Vampiro” on November 1st for wrestling and merchandise-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

World Wrestling Network recently announced that Ace Steel will be making an appearance for the company for a wrestling training seminar on December 17th in Port Richey, Florida. It was also announced that Steel will be the host of this upcoming seminar.

In a recent interview with the Armbars & Sidebars podcast, National Wrestling Alliance and indies talent Ruthie Jay stated that she recently signed an official contract with the NWA. Jay stated “My goal in wrestling is to go to the WWE of course. It’s to be the first-ever Haitian women’s champion at a major promotion, because I feel like what I said earlier ties into that. Representation matters and for me to come from a third world country which it probably is, I feel like a lot of people don’t get represented from that part of the world at all. I usually put my goals into sections into my life. Like I said, one of my goals was to start training by 20. My other goal was to get signed before I was 25 and I’m signed at 23.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

Pro Wrestling Revolver recently announced that actor Paul Walter Hauser will be making his official debut for the company at their Unreal event on November 16th in Los Angeles, California. It was also announced that Hauser will be facing off against Matthew Palmer in a singles match at the event.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Salina De La Renta was among the cast of a film titled Cop Vs. Killer that was recently released on Amazon Prime. It was also announced that De La Renta portrays the role of Esmeralda in the film.

MLW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Fightland 2023 event on November 18th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: