Various: Jake Lee Suffered Knee Injury at NJPW Road to Destruction Event, Ricochet on Being “Absolutely Interested” in Competing in NJPW G1 Climax, Indies

Jake Lee Suffered Knee Injury at Wednesday’s NJPW Road to Destruction Event

Wednesday’s Road to Destruction 2024 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Sendai, Japan featured Jake Lee suffering a knee injury during his Six-Man Tag Team match with David Finlay and Gabe Kidd against Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, and YOSHI-HASHI.

Lee suffered the injury following a spot involving him being knocked off the apron and landed rough on he floor leading to him being see clutching his knee. This led to Lee being unable to continue for the remainder of the match and being attended to by NJPW’s Young Lions and medics.

Tokyo Sports reported that Lee was stretchered out to the back and had suffered a right knee injury. It was reported that the severity of Lee’s injury is currently not known.

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Ricochet Comments on Being “Absolutely Interested” in Competing in NJPW G1 Climax

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast featured Ricochet as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Ricochet’s thoughts about his interest in competing in a potential future G1 Climax tournament for New Japan Pro Wrestling now that he is signed to AEW.

“Yeah, absolutely. I already won Best of the Super Juniors. I feel like I should upgrade my goals to the G1, for sure. There are a lot of things in between that I didn’t get to accomplish, that I still plan on accomplishing.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

ECW legend Tajiri announced that he will be holding a 30th Anniversary event on September 28th in Japan and recently launched a Kickstarter fundraiser to help fund this upcoming event.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that ticket sales for this Friday’s Victory Road 2024 event in Lexington, Kentucky is currently one of the highest for a TNA Wrestling event this year in the United States.

Athena is currently five days away from breaking the all-time Ring of Honor record for longest ever championship reign in ROH history. Athena is currently at 641 days as the ROH Women’s World Champion and only behind Samoa Joe’s ROH World Championship reign of 645 days.

PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced that Cara Noir will be making his in-ring return for the company at their Chapter 171: History Is Written By The Victors event on September 22 in Camden, England.

GLEAT recently announced that Ricochet will be making an appearance for the company at their October 6th event in Osaka, Japan. It was announced that Ricochet will be teaming with CIMA in a tag team match against mystery opponents. This will be Ricochet’s first match in Japan since 2017.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that Alex Zayne and Sheldon Jean will be making an appearance for the company at their Forged In Excellence events on October 19-20 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Maple Leaf Pro also announced one new match for the card of their Forged In Excellence events on October 19-20 in Windsor:

• ROH Women’s World Championship – Gisele Shaw vs. Athena (c)

Major League Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their MLW Fusion taping on September 14th in Atlanta, Georgia:

• Taipei Death Match – AKIRA vs. Ikuro Kwon
• MLW Featherweight Championship – Taekwondo Rules match – Delmi Exo vs. Janai Kai (c)

MLW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Slaughterhouse 2024 event on October 4th in St. Petersburg, Florida:

• MLW World Tag Team Championship – Bomaye Fight Club (Alex Kane & Mr. Thomas) vs. Contra Unit ( Minoru Suzuki & Ikuro Kwon)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Tha G-Code event on September 15th in Rochester, New York:

• Four-way match – Sawyer Wreck vs. Maki Itoh vs. Brooke Havok vs. Dark Sheik