Various: Drew Gulak’s First Post-WWE Appearance Announced, More on Recent TNA Staff Layoffs, Full Card for NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2024 Semifinals

Drew Gulak’s First Post-WWE Appearance Announced for Beyond Wrestling

As noted before, Drew Gulak’s contract with WWE was not renewed and expired this past May. Prior to his departure, Gulak had been dealing with accusations of him inappropriately touching Ronda Rousey backstage during her time in the company and bullying and purposely injuring NXT talent during his time in WWE’s NXT brand.

Beyond Wrestling announced earlier today that Gulak will be making an appearance for the company at their Americanrana ’24: Where Eagles Dare event on July 4th in Worcester, Massachusetts.

BREAKING: @DrewGulak returns at "#Americanrana '24: Where Eagles Dare" presented by #BeyondWrestling & @WrestlingOpen at White Eagle in Worcester on Thursday, July 4th with a special 7pm ET start time.

Tickets will be available soon at @ShopIWTV.

Stream LIVE on @indiewrestling! pic.twitter.com/kM9r5QO7ro

— Beyond Wrestling (@beyondwrestling) June 1, 2024

This will be Gulak’s first wrestling appearance since his departure from WWE.

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More on TNA’s Recent Round of Staff Layoffs

As noted before, TNA Wrestling was impacted by a round of staff layoffs from their parent company Anthem Media Group this past Thursday.

Fightful Select reported that their sources provided additional details about the recent round of staff layoffs affecting TNA.

It was reported that Anthem Vice President of Marketing Lou D’Angeli was also among those who were laid off this past Thursday. D’Angeli’s departure reportedly was due to Anthem wanting to go in a new direction and be more effective in terms of live event markets.

In regards to Robert “RD” Evans, it was reported that their sources confirmed that he left the company on his own accord. It was also reported that an internal email was sent by TNA thanking Evans for his work and confirming he had given his notice for his departure.

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NJPW Announces Full Card for Best of the Super Juniors 2024 Semifinals

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced the full card for their Best of the Super Juniors 2024 Semifinals event, which takes place on Monday, June 3rd at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

• Shoma Kato, Kevin Knight, & KUSHIDA vs. Blake Christian, Ninja Mack, & HAYATA
• TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (Gedo, Drilla Moloney, & Clark Connors)
• Just Five Guys (TAKA Michinoku & Yuya Uemura) vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan)
• Dragon Dia, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, & Yota Tsuji
• Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi vs. United Empire (Callum Newman & HENARE)
• Shota Umino & mystery partners vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, & Ren Narita)
• Best of the Super Juniors 2024 Semifinal match – TJP vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Best of the Super Juniors 2024 Semifinal match – El Desperado vs. DOUKI