Various: Jon Moxley on Getting IWGP World Title Opportunity in NJPW, TNA Announces June Date for Against All Odds 2024 in Chicago, Indies

Apr 12, 2024

Jon Moxley Comments on Getting IWGP World Title Opportunity in NJPW & Upcoming Match Against Naito

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently released a Road To Naito video featuring Jon Moxley’s thoughts about his upcoming match against Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Friday’s Windy City Riot 2024 event.

“Shots at the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship don’t come around every day. Even if I win, it’s not going to matter. I’ll be the most overlooked, disrespected, forgotten about, taken for granted wrestler in the history of this business. It’s not going to matter, but it means something to me. I’ve been doing this since I was 19. Since the first championship I ever won. I see the mountain, I climb the mountain. Everybody standing next to me looks up and says it’s too high. ‘You’re not going to do that, you can’t do that.’ I say, ‘Watch me.’ Then, I find a higher one, and I climb that. Then, I find a higher one, and I climb that, and a higher one. Now, I’m about to do something that nobody in the history of pro wrestling has ever done.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

TNA Announces June Date for Against All Odds 2024 in Chicago

TNA Wrestling announced that this year’s Against All Odds event will be taking place on June 14th at the Cicero Stadium in Chicago, Illinois.

It was also announced that they will be holding a new set of Impact tapings on June 15th at the same venue.

Tickets for this upcoming set of events was announced to officially go on sale starting on April 20th.

BREAKING: TNA returns to Cicero Stadium in Chicago for #AgainstAllOdds on June 14 and #TNAiMPACT on June 15.

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 12, 2024

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be bringing back their Soul brand tour and it will be taking place from June 16th to July 5th in Japan.

NJPW reportedly has sold and distributed around 6,163 tickets for Friday’s Windy City Riot 2024 event at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois as of Thursday morning, according to WrestleTix.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling announced that Hyper Misao recently suffered a fractured ankle injury and will be out of action for the company for the foreseeable future. (English translation via PostWrestling.com)

In a recent interview with the AEW Close Up show on YouTube, Samoa Joe gave his thoughts about him making his official return to Ring of Honor at their Supercard of Honor 2022 event. Joe stated “I mean obviously, Ring of Honor holds a very special place in my heart. To come back to it after all these years and to help it in its next iteration, to become a champion and represent the brand once again. It was a tremendous honor for me and it means a tremendous amount to me because Ring of Honor is a place where I made my mark in the world. Ring of Honor is a place where several, several very talented grapplers of the industry over have made their mark and I think it’ll go down in the annals of history as one of the most influential organizations to ever be in this industry, so to come back and be a part of that, it meant a tremendous amount to me. I think that the ceiling of where I was, oh, this guy, he’s coming off of a lot of inactivity. We’ll put him in ROH. He’ll do what he does there, do what he does best and it’ll be a little bit more familiar atmosphere for him than AEW and listen, if I get a foot in the door anywhere, I’m gonna kick it wide open, I’m gonna take things over. There was no different anywhere else I’ve worked, there’s no different here in AEW.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

Major League Wrestling recently announced that CMLL talent Fuego will be making an appearance for the company at their Azteca Lucha event on May 11th in Chicago, Illinois.

MLW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Azteca Lucha event on May 11th in Chicago:

MLW World Middleweight Championship – Bárbaro Cavernario vs. Mistico (c)

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of their Cinco De Mayo event on May 5th in Jamaica, New York:

HOG Heavyweight Championship – Psycho Clown vs. Mike Santana (c)

DEFY Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Here And Now event on May 10th in Seattle, Washington:

DEFY World Championship – “The Bounty Hunter” Bryan Keith vs. KENTA (c)

United Japan Pro-Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their debut All Together event on May 6th in Tokyo, Japan:

Kosei Fujita vs. Kenoh
SANADA & KAI vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Chris Brookes

West Coast Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Chris Hero’s Pro Wres Mixtape event on April 14th in Los Angeles, California:

Chris Hero vs. Kazusada Higuchi

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Rather You Than Me event on May 3rd in Tampa, Florida:

Billie Starkz vs. Trish Adora