Various: Ric Flair Announces He Parted Ways with Wendy Barlow, Update on GCW Cutting All Ties with Zilla Fatu, Indies

Ric Flair Announces Him & Wendy Barlow Have Decided to “Part Ways Respectfully”

WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his wife Wendy Barlow decided to end their relationship of thirteen years and have parted ways respectfully.

“Wendy And I Enjoyed 13 Great Years. As With Every Couple, We Have Experienced Our Ups And Downs. I Think It’s Important For Everyone To Know Right Now That We Have Decided To Part Ways Respectfully. I’ll Never Ever Be Able To Thank Her Enough For Standing By My Side Through My Terrible Health Crisis In 2017. She Never Left My Side! And For That I Will Always Be Grateful! We Both Are Working On Different Projects At The Current Time & It Becomes Difficult With My Schedule & Her Schedule To Make This Work. I Wish Her The Best Of Luck With Her Projects, And I Know That She Supports Mine!”

Wendy And I Enjoyed 13 Great Years. As With Every Couple, We Have Experienced Our Ups And Downs. I Think It’s Important For Everyone To Know Right Now That We Have Decided To Part Ways Respectfully. I’ll Never Ever Be Able To Thank Her Enough For Standing By My Side Through My…

— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) September 23, 2024

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Update on GCW Cutting All Ties with Zilla Fatu

As noted before, Game Changer Wrestling recently cut all ties with Zilla Fatu due to undisclosed issues.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Fatu has not signed a contract with WWE for the reason why GCW dropped all ties with him. It was reported that the actual reason was due to Fatu had no showed an event over a disagreement with GCW regarding an agreed rate.

It was also reported that Fatu and GCW officials have been in recent contact but it is currently not known if both sides will work together again.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TheCubsFan reported that an amber alert was recently issued in Mexico for indies wrestler and former Lucha Libre AAA talent Kerya’s three-year old child. It was reported that Kerya’s child was recently admitted to the hospital for a blood transfusion and the child’s father and current AAA talent Myzteziz Jr. was at the hospital. It was reported that Keyra and Myzteziz Jr. are estranged and the current belief from Keyra’s side is that Myzteziz kidnapped the child. Keyra stated that the police are currently looking for him and he had not even visited his child once since they split two years ago and both him and his family stopped responding to her calls. It was reported that Myzteziz’s side has been telling people that the reason why the child was hospitalized was due to poor parenting issues by Keyra and they view themselves as rescuing the child from improper living conditions.

As noted before, El Hijo del Vikingo has been out of action for Lucha Libre AAA since this past February due to a right knee injury. The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that Vikingo is currently targeting a September 27th date for his potential in-ring return.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that Brandon Kirk is the next official entrants for this year’s Nick Gage Invitational 9 tournament on November 16th in Orlando, Florida.

Jordynne Grace recently revealed on Twitter that she recently flew to the United Kingdom for the filming of an upcoming move titled Welcome to Paradise.

Major League Wrestling announced that Titan and Atlantis will be making an appearance for the company at their co-promoted Lucha Apocalypto event with CMLL on November 9th in Cicero, Illinois.

MLW also announced two new matches for the card of their MLW Fusion taping on October 4th in St. Petersburg, Florida:

• MLW World Middleweight Championship – Averno vs. Mistico (c)
• Three-way match – KENTA vs. Paul London vs. Bobby Fish

Deadlock Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Supper Battle event on October 13th in Charlotte, North Carolina:

• Battle of the Best Finals – Shoko Nakajima vs. Dani Luna

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced one new match for the card of their Super Hero Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous event on November 12th in Tokyo, Japan:

• SHO, Shun Skywalker, & Taiji Ishimori vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, Shuji Ishikawa, & Jeff Cobb