Various: Chris Jericho vs. Mistico Announced for CMLL 91st Anniversary Show, Joe Hendry on Recent Career Success, Naomichi Marufuji on Wanting to Invite More WWE Wrestlers to NOAH

CMLL Announces Chris Jericho vs. Mistico for 91st Anniversary Show

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre recently announced one new match for the card of their 91st Anniversary Show, which takes place on September 13th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

This new match was a singles match of Chris Jericho vs. Mistico.

During Tuesday’s CMLL Informa show, Jericho announced that he would be returning to CMLL for their 91st Anniversary event and issued an official challenge to Mistico for a match at the event, which CMLL confirmed for the event.

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— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) July 11, 2024

This will be Jericho’s first appearance in CMLL since the June 28th Super Viernes event.

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Joe Hendry Comments on His Recent Career Success

Fightful held a recent interview with TNA Wrestling talent Joe Hendry. One of the topics discussed included Hendry’s thoughts about his recent run of success for his wrestling career.

“It’s everything you want it to be. Let me put this to you. How crazy is this: Signed to TNA, get to work NXT. At the same time can still do cool indies and stuff like that. You get to travel the world … The other week when Jeff Hardy came back [to TNA] and I’m in the ring and we’re all together, and I’m like ‘What is going on?’ It was all worth it. All the struggle, everything. It was all worth it.

I felt like one day it would reach critical mass and people would go back and find the old stuff and think ‘Eh this is pretty entertaining,’” said Hendry on his older work. “I kind of [had] just become okay with it being this niche thing and think ‘Well the people that like it really like it so I’ll keep making it, I’ll keep doing it.’ I feel like wrestling sometimes is like music, a particular genre is popular and then something else is popular … I always encourage people, obviously you have to be mindful of your coaches and the audience and stuff like that, but when it comes to who you are and your act, it has to be wrestling according to you whether it’s in or it’s not. And I felt like I was in it for such a long time where that wasn’t the most popular style of wrestling or it wasn’t in, and it just feels like now my stuff has started to gain traction.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Naomichi Marufuji Comments on Wanting to Invite More WWE Wrestlers to Compete in NOAH

Planeta Wrestling held a recent interview with Pro Wrestling NOAH talent Naomichi Marufuji. One of the topics discussed included Marufuji’s thoughts about his upcoming match against WWE’s AJ Styles at NOAH’s Destination 2024 event on July 13th.

“He (Styles) is a great fighter in every way and one of the best in the world. I want the fans to really enjoy my exchanges during the match with him, and I think we can achieve that.”

Marufuji also gave his thoughts about who else from WWE he would like to compete in potential future matches in NOAH.

“I am interested in all WWE wrestlers. I want to invite several wrestlers to compete in the NOAH ring. To compete in the WWE ring, I think I need more training before that, so I can’t say I want to do it right now.”