Various: TNA World Title 6-Way Elimination Match Set for TNA Slammiversary 2024, Evan Husney on Why Sting & Ric Flair Not Interviewed for Who Killed WCW?, Who Killed WCW? Ratings, Indies

Jun 21, 2024

TNA World Title 6-Way Elimination Match Announced for TNA Slammiversary 2024

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured the first official match announced for TNA Wrestling’s Slammiversary 2024 event, which takes place on July 20th at the Verdun Auditorium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

This new match announced was a TNA World Championship Six-Way Elimination match of Josh Alexander vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. Moose (c).

This match was setup following an in-ring promo segment involving The System, Johnny “Dango” Curtis, and TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella. Marella interrupted The System’s talking about their success at Against All Odds and made a match for Moose’s TNA World title at Slammiversary 2024. Marella stated that Moose will be defending his title in a Six-way Elimination match against the winners of five qualifying matches. The first to qualify for this match was Josh Alexander.

Current card for July 20th TNA Slammiversary 2024 event:

TNA World Championship Six-Way Elimination match – Josh Alexander vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. Moose (c)

Evan Husney Comments on Why Sting & Ric Flair Were Not Interviewed for Who Killed WCW? Docuseries

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featured Who Killed WCW? series producer Evan Husney as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Husney’s thought about the reasons why Sting and Ric Flair were not interviewed for the docuseries despite their importance in the story of the rise and fall of WCW.

“Sting, unfortunately, I didn’t hear back from. When we visited [Jericho] at AEW, that was my mission. I don’t think he likes being on camera in these types of interviews. That’s my gut read. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Unfortunately, didn’t hear back from Sting. He would have been amazing. Hogan would have been amazing. Obviously, he feels like a big absence as well. There were days when I woke up and I felt like we had him and he was going to do it, but ultimately he decided not to. Ric Flair, it was tough, because when you think of WCW, Ric Flair is WCW. For us, it was mapping out the money that we had, wink wink, and when we did our research in terms of guys booked and going into it, Ric wasn’t necessarily a name that had a part of the end days of WCW. He was there, but in trying to maximize the number of people we wanted in the show and people to speak directly about a piece, a part, or some blame…I don’t think of Ric as being synonymous with the death of WCW.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Who Killed WCW? Ratings – June 18, 2024

Tuesday’s episode of Who Killed WCW? drew 148,000 viewers on VICE TV, up from last week’s 117,000 viewers.

It drew a 0.06 rating in the 18-49 demographic, up from last week’s 0.02 rating. The key demographic ranking for the show is currently not known.

Source: Programming Insider

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TNA Wrestling recently announced that they have opened up additional seats for sale for their Slammiversary 2024 event on July 21st and Impact! taping on July 22nd at the Verdun Auditorium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

TNA also recently announced that they will be holding a new set of Impact! tapings on September 27-28 at the Spartanburg Memorial Coliseum in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It was also announced that tickets for this upcoming set of events will officially go on sale starting on July 22nd.

In a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio podcast, Matt Hardy gave his thoughts about his brother Jeff Hardy’s recent return and his belief that The Hardys can get the run they deserve in TNA. Hardy stated “Whenever the match ended and The System jumped everybody and we were all down and they were on top of everyone, here comes the iconic Hardy Boyz music, and Jeff Hardy shows up to have my back, and the Hardy Boyz have been reunited once and for all in TNA. It is very exciting because I believe in TNA, the Hardy Boyz can get the run that we deserve at this stage in our career, and that is the run to cement our legacy. That is very important to both of us.” Hardy also gave his thoughts about his and his brother Jeff’s recent departures from AEW and reuniting in TNA. Hardy stated “We’re both happy now that we are somewhere else where we feel like we’ll get utilized and optimized in our status as legends as we are, legends who can still go.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

National Wrestling Alliance talent Colby Corino reportedly recently signed a new contract that will keep him in the company through at least the end of 2024, according to BodySlam.net. Cassidy Haynes reported that his sources stated that Corino’s new deal includes a pay raise and options in place that take effect every 6 months starting in 2025. Hayes also reported that the terms of Corino’s new deal includes him being semi-exclusive to the NWA meaning he can not work for WWE/NXT, AEW/ROH, GCW, TNA, NJPW, or MLW without NWA’s permission first.

This past Wednesday’s episode of CMLL Informa featured AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone making a special appearance and sending a message to NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer ahead of their upcoming title vs. title match at AEW and NJPW’s Forbidden Door 2024 event on June 30th. Mone stated that she will be in attendance at the Arena Mexico on Friday to watch Vaquer’s match against La Catalina for the NJPW Strong Women’s title at NJPW x CMLL Fantasicsamania Mexico event.

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Afa The Wild Samoan, real name Afa Anoa’i, suffered a fractured back injury following a fall incident this past March and underwent successful surgery earlier this month. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Anoa’i was recently discharged from the hospital and is currently going through physical therapy in Florida, where he resides.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that Chavo Guerrero will be making an appearance for the company at their No Signal In The Hills 4 event on August 17th in Los Angeles, California.

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their GCW Homecoming 2024 Night 1 event on August 24th in Atlantic City, New Jersey:

GCW World Championship Three-way Ladder match – Blake Christian vs. Joey Janela vs. Mance Warner (c)

GLEAT recently announced one new match for the card of their GLEAT Ver. 12 event on July 1st in Tokyo, Japan:

Kota Ibushi 20th Anniversary 5-Minute Exhibition match – Kota Ibushi vs. mystery opponent

Major League Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Blood & Thunder 2024 event on July 12th in St. Petersburg, Florida:

2024 MLW Opera Cup Tournament First Round match – “Filthy” Tom Lawlor vs. Jake Crist

World Wrestling Council recently announced one new match for the card of their Summer Madness event on June 22nd event in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico:

AAA Mega Championship – “Primo” Eddie Colon vs. Nic Nemeth (c)

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of their High Intensity 2024 event on July 26th in Jamaica, New York:

Swerve Strickland vs. Amazing Red

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced three new matches for the card of their co-promoted NJPW x CMLL Fantasticamania USA event on July 13th in San Jose, California:

NJPW Strong Openweight Championship – Ultimo Guerrero vs. Gabe Kidd (c)
Yota Tsuji vs. Barbaro Cavernario
Cozymax (Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA vs. Magnus & Rugido