Various: Sami Callihan on Ronda Rousey’s Booking for Wrestling Revolver, WWE Blocked TNA’s Attempt for MSG Event in the Past, Indies

Nov 2, 2023

Sami Callihan Comments on Ronda Rousey Being Booked for His Upcoming Wrestling Revolver Event

As noted before, Wrestling Revolver recently announced that Ronda Rousey will be making her official debut for the company at their Unreal event on November 16th in Los Angeles, California.

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured Wrestling Revolver owner Sami Callihan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Callihan’s thoughts about Rousey’s upcoming debut for his company and the process that led to her booking.

“I fell into that one. I’m not going to take credit for that, that it’s some mastermind plan that I went, ‘this is going to be the thing, we’re going to run LA on two and a half weeks notice.’ It’s something that I fell into because my relationships with other people and people putting myself over to Ronda, ‘This is the guy you want to work with.’ Ronda wanted to do this for charity. She wants to do something for the Hawaiian relief fund, her husband is from Hawaii, this is a charity she holds near and dear to her heart. As soon as she brought it up to me, I said, ‘Absolutely, this is 100% something I want to be involved with’ because the money will actually go to help people. Every cent we make on ticket sales after production is paid off, every cent is given to charity. A lot of people working the show have said, ‘give my money to charity.’ We’re sending the money directly to families in need.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Former TNA Live Events Coordinator Comments on WWE Blocked TNA’s Attempt at Running Event at MSG

A recent episode of the Refin’ It Up w/ Brian Hebner and Jimmy Korderas podcast featured former TNA Wrestling Live Events Coordinator Craig Jenkins as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Jenkins thoughts about TNA once attempted to run an event at Madison Square Garden in the past only to be blocked out by WWE and Vince McMahon.

“Madison Square Garden (was a venue that TNA wanted to run). Yeah, Vince (McMahon) had that locked down, and I think we wanted to do a show there… I can’t think of one we couldn’t get into though outside of that, because Vince just had, you know, Madison Square Garden locked down.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Stardom recently announced that they have pulled Koguma from their upcoming Goddess of Stardom Tag League 2023 events from November 3-5 due to precautionary reasons over not wanting Koguma’s current injury from becoming worse. (English translation via PostWrestling.com)

Former Stardom talent Mariah May recently teased on Twitter this past Tuesday that she would be making a big announcement on Wednesday. This announcement was revealed on Wednesday to be for a new photobook featuring herself titled The Glamour: Volume I.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that next year’s New Year Dash event will be taking place on its traditional January 5th date. It was also announced that this upcoming event will be taking place at the Sumida City Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan and tickets will officially go on sale starting on November 26th.

Former WWE and TNA Wrestling producer David Sahadi recently released a new autobiographical book titled My Dad My Dying Sun: A True Story of Love and Legends that was co-written with his late father Lou Sahadi. The book focuses on David and Lou’s careers in the wrestling industry.

Ethan Page recently announced that he will be reviving his Alpha-1 Wrestling promotion with their next event to take place on February 3, 2024. This will be Alpha-1’s first event since August of 2021.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling talent Miyu Yamashita will be making her official debut for the company at their One Shot event on December 7th in New York City, New York.

Over 160 indie wrestlers reportedly competed in the Gut Check challenge tryouts for Impact Wrestling during last week’s UK Invasion Tour in the United Kingdom, according to PWInsider.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that those within Impact were very happy over the rave reviews and packed venues for their UK Invasion Tour last week in the United Kingdom. Johnson reported that there were lots of “TNA” chants during every show of the tour leading to those within Impact feeling that it proved the point that the TNA Wrestling name meant more overseas and confirming one of the reasons why they decided to rebrand the company under its former name.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson also reported that one Impact talent spoken to stated that they felt that the current backstage morale in Impact has been the highest since they joined the company and the highest in many years. Johnson reported that those spoken to stated that there is a lot of excitement internally about the upcoming new year and the new production studio currently in construction for the company.

Impact recently announced the first match for the card of their IPWF Throwback Throwdown 4 event on November 11th in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: