Various: MJF Confronts Big Boom AJ at 12/15 BRCW Event, Sumie Sakai Retirement Match Set for NJPW Battle In The Valley 2025, More on Chris Jericho’s GCW Appearance

MJF Confronts Big Boom AJ at Dec. 15th Boca Raton Championship Wrestling Event

Sunday’s Festival of Fights event for Boca Raton Championship Wrestling in Boca Raton, Florida featured a match between MJF and QT Marshall.

This match was notable for Big Boom AJ, also known as Costco Guy AJ, making a surprise appearance and interfered causing Marshall to be distracted long enough for MJF to lay him out. This led to MJF confronting AJ in the ring and the two had a brief face-to-face staredown that ended with AJ leaving the ring. MJF then continued on with his match and hit a brainbuster to Marshall for the victory.

Holy shit, @ajbefumo and @The_MJF face to face in Boca Raton! #boom #aew #brcw pic.twitter.com/8KWSZP2Y87

— Andrew (@AndrewFTL) December 16, 2024

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Sumie Sakai Retirement Match Announced for NJPW Battle In The Valley 2025

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced one new match for the card of their Battle In The Valley 2025 event, which takes place on January 11, 2025 at the San Jose Civic in San Jose, California.

This new match announced was a Sumie Sakai Retirement Six-Person Tag Team match of Sumie Sakai & mystery partners vs. Hiromu Takahashi & mystery partners. This match was also announced to be Sakai’s retirement match for her in-ring wrestling career.

Breaking@SumieSakai is set to retire at Battle in the Valley January 11- and will face @TIMEBOMB1105 in six person action for her last match!

But who will join them?#njpw #njbitv pic.twitter.com/uT1Teq9H6V

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) December 16, 2024

Current card for NJPW Battle in the Valley 2025:

• NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship – Roppopngi ReVice (Rocky Romero & YOH) vs. West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs) (c)
• Sumie Sakai Retirement Six-Person Tag Team match – Sumie Sakai & mystery partners vs. Hiromu Takahashi & mystery partners

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More on Chris Jericho’s Appearance at This Past Saturday’s GCW Event

As noted before, Chris Jericho made a surprise appearance and attacked both Matt Cardona and EFFY at this past Saturday’s Highest In The Room 3 event for Game Changer Wrestling in Los Angeles, California.

Jericho recently reflected on Instagram about his recent surprise appearance for GCW.

“Hi @themattcardona —- you didn’t think that the King of New York would pop up in Los Angeles at your @gamechangerwrestling Indy Event, did you? You made a big mistake forgetting who you’re dealing with……I always get my man! See you at #rohfinalbattle. @aew @ringofhonor”

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In regards to Jericho’s appearance, the Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that his sources stated that Jericho’s appearance was something that was not something that was planned out ahead of time for the show. Meltzer reported that Jericho was in Los Angeles that night for music concert with Fozzy at the Kuarantine at the Whisky and he figured he could shoot an angle with Cardona at GCW’s show. GCW officials reportedly were on board with the idea when contacted and the idea of Jericho also laying out EFFY as part of his surprise appearance was something that made sense for everyone involved.