Various: Shinsuke Nakamura Returning to NOAH for The New Year 2025, CMLL Announces New Date for “Timeless” Toni Storm vs. La Catalina, AEW International Title Match Set for MLP’s Forged In Excellence Event

Oct 14, 2024

Shinsuke Namakura Return Appearance Announced for NOAH The New Year 2025 Event

Monday’s Star Navigation Premium 2024 event for Pro Wrestling NOAH in Tokyo, Japan featured WWE talent Shinsuke Nakamura making a surprise appearance.

During the show, a video aired on the big screen revealing Nakamura and him announcing that he will be making his in-ring return appearance for NOAH at their The New Year 2025 event on January 1, 2025 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.

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🚨【中邑真輔】からメッセージ到着‼‼
再びNOAHのリングに…舞台は、元日の日本武道館‼‼
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中邑「NOAH、久しぶりだな。奇跡の一戦から再び、#WWE SHINSUKE NAKAMURAが元日の日本武道館に戻ってくる！俺の目の前に立つのはどいつだ？滾ろうぜぇ。イヤァオ！」#noah_ghc #あけまして日本武道館 pic.twitter.com/dj2T7HDrRB
— プロレスリング・ノア｜PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) October 14, 2024

It was announced that Nakamura will be facing off against Ulka Sasaki at the event.

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🎍【激速報】1.1日本武道館👺
“#WWE スーパースター中邑真輔”
　 2年ぶり参戦決定‼‼‼‼️‼️
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「ABEMA presents NOAH “THE NEW YEAR” 2025」
📅2025年1月1日(祝・水) 16:00開始
🏢日本武道館・東京

💠スペシャルシングルマッチ
中邑真輔 vs 佐々木憂流迦#noah_ghc #あけまして日本武道館 pic.twitter.com/ENSEtz3Aag
— プロレスリング・ノア｜PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) October 14, 2024

CMLL Announces New Rescheduled Date for “Timeless” Toni Storm vs. La Catalina for This Friday’s Event

As noted before, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre pulled “Timeless” Toni Storm from this past Friday’s Super Viernes event at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico due to travel-related issued caused by Hurricane Milton. Storm had been to compete in a match against La Catalina at the event.

CMLL provided an update earlier today announcing that they have rescheduled Storm’s match against La Catalina to now take place at their Friday, October 18th Super Viernes event at the Arena Mexico.

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📍Arena México
🗓️ Viernes 18 de Octubre ’24
🕣 8:30 p.m.

🎟️ en taquillas y en Ticketmaster:https://t.co/RbX22XIepT

📺 Transmisión EN VIVO en exclusiva para la membresía “Campeón Mundial” y “Leyenda”: https://t.co/wNWdydh9PB #ViernesEspectacularCMLL pic.twitter.com/lcX83QNsRb
— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) October 14, 2024

Konosuke Takeshita Reportedly to Defend AEW International Title at Maple Leaf Pro’s Forged In Excellence Night 2 Event [Update – Match Confirmed]

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Konosuke Takeshita will be making his first official defense of his newly won AEW International Championship at Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s Forged In Excellence Night 2 event on October 20th in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Johnson reported that Takeshita’s previously announced match against Josh Alexander at the event will now be a title match for his AEW International title.

Update:

MLW confirmed that Takeshita will be defending his AEW International title against Alexander on their Night 2 show.

It's Official! As first reported by @PWInsidercom, Night Two's main event between AEW's Konosuke @Takesoup and TNA's @Walking_Weapon Josh Alexander is now for Takeshita's newly won @AEW International Championship! Takeshita's first title defence is this Sunday October 20 at… pic.twitter.com/4iItY7ltXB
— MAPLE LEAF PRO Wrestling (@MapleLeafPW) October 14, 2024

Current card for October 20th MLP Forged In Excellence Night 2 show: