Various: Giulia Competes in Farewell Match at 8/25 Marigold Event, JBL on His Appearance at AAA Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City, First Match Set for Maple Leaf Wrestling Revival Events

Giulia Departs from Marigold Following Farewell Gauntlet Match at Sunday’s Marigold Event

Sunday’s Summer Gold Shine 2024 event for Marigold in Tokyo, Japan featured Giulia competing in her final match for the company.

Giulia competed in a gauntlet match that featured 23 different opponents and each match in the gauntlet having a one-minute time limit.

Following the match, Giulia bowed in the ring in respect to the crowd and gave her final goodbye to Marigold and her Japanese wrestling fans.

Giulia bows in respect to the Japanese fans & said goodbye to them for the last time today.

Giulia is now officially on her way to NXT.

Thank You Giulia 🇯🇵 pic.twitter.com/OjAlnXhYRw

— Dark Puroresu Flowsion (@PuroresuFlow) August 25, 2024

Giulia is currently expected to be heading to the United States soon to report to WWE’s Performance Center and officially join the company.

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JBL Comments on His Surprise Appearance at AAA Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City Event

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL) made a surprise appearance for Lucha Libre AAA at their Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City event earlier this month in Mexico City, Mexico.

Slam Wrestling held a recent interview with JBL. One of the topics discussed included JBL’s thoughts about how he tried to keep his appearance for AAA a surprise while in Mexico.

“It was a lot of fun sneaking into Mexico. You know, a lot of people talk about how people are sneaking across the border. I’m actually one of the few people that snuck into Mexico, and I think Mexico is now going to build a wall and ask for the Texans to pay for it, because it keeps Texans out of Mexico.

When I walked in, people thought I was actually him (Tinieblas) because he worked for a different company, until I forgot, of course, being dumb like I am, that I’m not supposed to speak English (JBL laughed). Some fans rushed me for an autograph. I go, ‘Not right now’ in a southern accent. They look at me like, he just learned English somehow. It freaked them out.”

JBL also gave his thoughts about accompanying Nic Nemeth for his match against Alberto El Patron for the AAA Mega Championship at the event.

“Nic Nemeth is a good friend of mine, and I’d worked down in Mexico years ago, and wanted to go back down and see AAA and support Nic, and I was excited to go back down there.

It’s kind of easy for me in Mexico (JBL joked while referencing his programs with Eddie Guerrero & Rey Mysterio). There’s a lot of history there. That’s one of the reasons I want to go down, because of the history, and go have some fun again. I wanted to do something, and I had an opportunity in AAA, and there may be more opportunities. I’m hoping that there will be.”

JBL also gave his thoughts about if he is interested in potentially wrestling another match.

“No, no (I’m not looking to wrestle). I’m looking for an investment and looking maybe to do something with AAA, and I don’t know. We’ll see. I enjoyed what they did. There’s whatever the crowd capacity was, the building was full. 15, 20,000 people, and they drew a heck of a crowd.

Hopefully there’s something that will come out in the pretty near future that will kind of make all of this kind of clear and kind of see a path going forward. I’m not exactly sure the path going forward. I’m not just being vague on purpose because I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen.”

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Josh Alexander vs. Konosuke Takeshita Announced for Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s Revival Events

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling announced the first official match for the card of their Forged In Excellence events, which takes place on October 19-20 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This new match announced was a singles match of Josh Alexander vs. Konosuke Takeshita.

It was not stated which night’s show this match will be taking place as part of the announcement.

BREAKING: #MAPLELEAFPRO debuts with a massive match! Canada’s @Walking_Weapon takes on @AEW‘s @Takesoup at #MLPForgedInExcellence. Their last match was a draw—this time, we’ll get a winner!

Tickets are on sale NOW!

HERE ➡️ https://t.co/PBfpCN5n13 pic.twitter.com/akwNH2TJhO

— MAPLE LEAF PRO Wrestling (@MapleLeafPW) August 26, 2024