Various: Diamond Dallas Page on Not Having Time for Another Match, TNA Bound For Glory PPV Buys Update, Jake Paul Defeats Mike Tyson, Indies

Diamond Dallas Page Comments on Him Not Having Time for Another Match But “I Have A Couple of Diamond Cutters in Me”

Metro held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page. One of the topics discussed included DDP’s thoughts about him not being interested in wrestling another match for his career.

“My life is so full I don’t have time for any of that. I’m five months from 69 years young. My body – I’m still a Ferrari. I just got nine or 98,000 miles on me [laughs]. So you know, are there a couple of Diamond Cutters in me? Yeah – and if they ever need it, I’m there. But as far as [a] match, I’m good.”

DDP also gave his thoughts about being back in the fold with WWE again.

“Going in the Hall of Fame was huge, and it broke down a lot of those walls and barriers, and I still didn’t feel like I was family until these last couple of pay-per-views. I think Triple H has everything to do with that. He wants the legends to be recognized for paving the way.”

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TNA Bound For Glory PPV Buys Update

TNA Wrestling’s Bound For Glory 2024 event this past October in Detroit, Michigan reportedly generated around 5,800 cable television pay-per-view based on updated late buys purchases numbers, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that Bound For Glory 2024’s buys are currently up 13.3% compared to this past July’s Slammiversary 2024 buys based on the same number of days after the event.

Meltzer reported that when including estimated streaming buys, Bound For Glory 2024 is currently estimated to have generated around 20,000 total buys.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Friday’s Tyson vs. Paul boxing event at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas featured Jake Paul defeating boxing legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mike Tyson by referee’s decision. This fight was notable for the large age gap between Paul (27) and Tyson (58). This fight also featured the crowd starting to boo after they realized in the sixth round that it was going to be headed towards a judges decision in favor of Paul and the mostly lack of action after the first round up until that point. This boxing event was also notable for Netflix dealing with serious connection and feed issues throughout the main card.

Dave Meltzer announced in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that NJPW talent Shingo Takagi, Montreal promoter and wrestler Johnny Rougeau, Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000, & Universo 2000), former Dragon Gate and current GLEAT talent CIMA, former wrestler Johnny Saint, and manager Bobby Davis were among the inductees for this year’s class for the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. They joined Roman Reigns, Paul Orndorff, and the Young Bucks for this year’s class of inductees.

TheCubsFan reported that El Hijo del Santo recently canceled the remainder of his retirement tour events for 2024. El Hijo del Santo reportedly is currently not scheduled to hold any new events for his current retirement tour until March 22, 2025 based on recent schedule changes announced.

Former WWE and TNA talent Mustafa Ali announced on Twitter that he recently signed a deal with Gray Talent Group to act as his representation for television, film, commercials projects.

Post Wrestling’s Andrew Thompson reported that International Wrestling Association of Japan (IWA Japan) co-founder and President Tatsukuni ‘Kinroku’ Asano passed away at the age of 72 on November 12th. Thompson reported that the cause of death for Asano is currently not known.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources within Major League Wrestling stated that MLW officials currently have plans to hold an event in Toronto, Canada in April of 2025 for their debut event in the city. Johnson reported that these plans are currently not 100% set in stone due to the company currently has some red tape and logistics issues to deal with first.

MLW officials reportedly are currently planning to give a big babyface push to “Filthy” Tom Lawlor going forward in the company, according to PWInsider.

MLW officials reportedly also have major plans for their current Mistico vs. Barbaro Cavenario and Matt Riddle & Satoshi Kojima vs. Contra feuds in the company, according to PWInsider.

In a recent Ask Eric Live! episode on AdFreeShows.com, Eric Bischoff gave his thoughts about his current creative plans for his involvement at MLW’s One Shot 2024 event on December 5th in New York City. Bischoff stated “We’re actually having our first official creative morning tomorrow morning to take a look at the format, take a look at what we’re planning on doing right now and then we’re gonna work together and I’m gonna sprinkle some Bischoff dust on it. I’d like to — I’ve already been thinking about the cold open. Opens are a part of the program now that, sometimes at very best they’re serviceable, but in my opinion, show opens are missing the boat by a mile. There’s a lot of opportunity to pre-sell your audience on the show before it even starts but you got to set it up right. Capture their imagination and get their interest right off the bat. So I want to do that. I want to take a close look at how they’re doing their backstage promos or any of their in-ring promos because there’s different ways to do that. Jason and I used to do it over in TNA towards the end of our run there, it’s a very effective way to kind of bring that story forward without doing the traditional standup with one person with the stick doing the Mean Gene bit with two talents that aren’t really that great at what they do anyway trying to be good actors. I want to thread — whatever our main event ends up being, I want this story to be front and center from the beginning of the show to the end of the show. I don’t want anybody getting up to take a piss and forgetting what the main event is, I want them glued to their seat for it. That’s a challenge for me because I talk a lot about these things when we critique WWE or AEW in particular, I talk a lot about these things but now I’m gonna actually have a chance to do them and see how it affects the quality of the show. People may hate it, I don’t know. Those are the things I’m looking forward to. In terms of the in-ring stuff, who’s wrestling who and all of that, this is a one shot only, I’m not here to book a storyline for six months, so my goal is to take whatever they have planned and try to tilt it 15 or 20 degrees in my direction and see if it feels any different.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Prestige Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Roseland X event on January 11, 2025 in Portland, Oregon:

• Kevin Blackwood vs. Josh Alexander