Various: Jai Vidal Confirms He Was Granted Release from TNA, IWGP Jr. Tag Titles Set for Maple Leaf Pro’s Forged In Excellence Night 1 Event, Indies

Oct 19, 2024

Jai Vidal Confirms He Was Granted Release from TNA

As noted before, Jai Vidal recently was granted his release from TNA Wrestling.

Vidal provided an update on Friday on Twitter confirming Fightful Selec’s report that he had asked and was granted his release from TNA.

“I asked for and was granted my release from TNA Wrestling. I appreciate the memories I made and the people I’ve met while I was there. As an LGBTQ+ Wrestler I believe that representation matters, but PROPER representation should be above all. I’ll keep doing my part to show the world that an openly gay man can be featured prominently on TV. I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my wrestling journey. With that being said, stay tuned. Cause I’m about to go as hard as l’ve ever gone in this business.”

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— Jai Vidal (@TheJaiVidal) October 18, 2024

IWGP Jr. Tag Titles Four-way Match Announced for MLP Forged In Excellence Night 1 Event

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced one new updated match for the card of their Forged In Excellence Night 1 event on October 19th in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This newly updated match announced was an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Four-way match of Rogue Squadron (Sheldon Jean & Rohit Raju) vs. El Reverso & Aiden Prince vs. Brett Banks & Johnny Swinger vs. Jet Setters (Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA) (c).

This past Monday, the team of the Intergalactic Jet Setters (KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight) won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles at NJPW King of Pro Wrestling and now the Champions are bringing their titles to Windsor, Ontario for #MLPForgedInExcellence! Is that a challenge… pic.twitter.com/MZk3WPXL4G
— MAPLE LEAF PRO Wrestling (@MapleLeafPW) October 18, 2024

Current card for October 19th MLP Forged In Excellence Night 1 show:

PWA Champion’s Grail – Jake Something vs. Rohan Raja
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Four-way match – Rogue Squadron (Sheldon Jean & Rohit Raju) vs. El Reverso & Aiden Prince vs. Brett Banks & Johnny Swinger vs. Jet Setters (Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA) (c)
Tables match – Bull Ray vs. Raj Dhesi
Six-Man Tag Team match – Josh Alexander, Stu Grayson, & El Phantasmo vs. Trevor Lee, Rocky Romero, & Alex Zayn
Four-way match – Kylie Rae vs. Laynie Luck vs. Aurora Teves vs. Taylor Rising
Konosuke Takeshita vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey
Gisele Shaw vs. Miyu Yamashita
QT Marshall vs. Bhupinder Gujjar

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Friday’s Super Viernes event for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured Persephone defeated Zeuxis in the Finals of the CMLL Women’s Universal Championship tournament to become the new champion.

Friday’s CMLL Super Viernes event in Mexico City also featured La Catalina defeating “Timeless” Toni Storm in Storm’s in-ring debut match for CMLL. Following the match, Storm gave a speech to the crowd vowing to return to CMLL in the future.

Friday’s CMLL Super Viernes event in Mexico City also featured Red Velvet, Viva Van, Alex Windsor, & Samantha Black defeating Amapola, Sanely, Metálica, & Olympia in an Eight-Women Best Two-Out-Of-Three Falls match. This match was notable for being Red Velvet’s in-ring debut match for CMLL.

Former WCW wrestler Marcus “Buff” Bagwell announced on Friday on Instagram that his father had passed away on October 12th at the age of 79.

Lucha Libre AAA talent Lady Shani recently announced on Instagram that she gave birth to a baby boy on October 7th.

As noted before, former MMA fighter and WWE wrestler Cain Velasquez was arrested following an attempted murder shooting incident in February of 2022 in San Jose, California. MMA Fighting reported that Velasquez’s sentencing hearing for the attempted murder and other gun related charges against him that had been originally scheduled for Friday was postponed to a new date of early 2025 based on recent court records. Velasquez had pleaded no contest to the charges against him this past August.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a Lucha Fan Fest event on November 9th in Cicero, Illinois. It was also announced that this fan event will be taking place prior to the start of their co-promoted Lucha Apocalypto event with CMLL that night.

TNA Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a special one-night only concert featuring Jeff Hardy and Joe Hendry on October 27th at the Wayne State University Fieldhouse in Detroit, Michigan.

TNA also recently announced that they will be holding a new set of Impact! television tapings on November 8-9 at the Crown Arena in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Westside Gunn recently announced one new match for the card of his Heels Have Eyes III event on November 2nd in Chicago, Illinois:

AJ Francis vs. Joe Hendry