Various: Three-way Tag Team Match Set for TNA Final Resolution 2024, Matt Cardona on Challenging for ROH World Title at ROH Final Battle 2024, Indies

Dec 12, 2024

The Rascalz vs. Jake Something & Hammerstone vs. PCO & Sami Callihan Announced for TNA Final Resolution 2024

TNA Wrestling announced one new match for the card of their Final Resolution 2024 event, which takes place on December 13th at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia.

This new match announced was a Three-way Tag Team match of The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) vs. Jake Something & Hammerstone vs. PCO & Sami Callihan.

BREAKING: @ZacharyWentz, @TheTreyMiguel and @PCOisNotHuman will face @TheSamiCallihan, @alexhammerstone and @JakeSomething_ LIVE TMW NIGHT on TNA+ from Center Stage in Atlanta!

Head to https://t.co/zTMPjdYHK8 for all the details on how to watch. pic.twitter.com/XHcBRwyvRi
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) December 13, 2024

Current card for TNA Final Resolution 2024:

TNA World Championship – AJ Francis vs. Nic Nemeth (c)
TNA Knockouts World Championship – Tasha Steelz vs. Masha Slamovich (c)
TNA X-Division Championship – KUSHIDA vs. Moose (c)
TNA World Tag Team Championship Tables match – The System (Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers) vs. The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) (c)
TNA World Championship #1 Contender Four-way match – Joe Hendry vs. Josh Alexander vs. Mike Santana vs. Steve Maclin
Three-way Tag Team match – The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) vs. Jake Something & Hammerstone vs. PCO & Sami Callihan
Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary
Ace Austin vs. Trent Seven
Pre-show: Jonathan Gresham vs. Frankie Kazarian
Pre-show: Leon Slater vs. JDC

Matt Cardona Comments on His Appearances for ROH and Challenging for ROH World Title at Final Battle 2024

Matt Cardona recently reflected on Twitter about his upcoming match against Chris Jericho for the ROH World Championship at Ring of Honor’s Final Battle 2024 event on December 20th at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

“You can’t just work hard when everybody is watching. You have to work hard when nobody is watching.
You can’t just love this business when things are going your way. You have to love this business when nothing is going your way.
Be #AlwayzReady…because you never know when an opportunity will present itself.
Cardona vs. @IAmJericho
for the @ringofhonor
World Title in NYC on December 20!
@AEW“

You can’t just work hard when everybody is watching. You have to work hard when nobody is watching.

You can’t just love this business when things are going your way. You have to love this business when nothing is going your way.

Be #AlwayzReady…because you never know when an… pic.twitter.com/Ula3DgAgay
— Matt Cardona (@TheMattCardona) December 9, 2024

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TNA Wrestling announced that tickets for their Impact! tapings on Saturday, December 14th at the Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia recently reached sold out status.

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured another cryptic “23” video airing directed at Sami Callihan & PCO following their disqualification victory over Jake Something & Hammerstone in a tag team match.

In a recent interview with Wrestleholics, AJ Francis gave his thoughts about his upcoming match against Nic Nemeth for the TNA World Championship at TNA Final Resolution 2024 and his belief that TNA is the hottest company currently in wrestling. Francis stated “I’m winning, first of all, and on top of me winning, I’m ready to take TNA to another stratosphere of where they used to be. TNA used to sell out 10,000-15,000 seat arenas back in the days of Sting and Kurt Angle, AJ Styles, all those guys. The show that we had had Slammiversary is the biggest show that TNA did in the last decade. The show that we had for Bound For Glory was the biggest show in America that we’ve had in the last decade. So we’re on the rise. We’re the hottest company in wrestling. I want to show, when I was in WWE, I was like a backup offensive lineman. I was there when they needed me. I’m a quarterback, and it’s time for me to show you that not only am I a quarterback, but I’m a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. I’m the quarterback you need, the quarterback you’ve always needed.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced that Great-O-Khan and Taichi officially revealed their stipulation options for the fan poll for their Provisional King of Pro Wrestling 2024 Championship match at the Road to Tokyo Dome show on December 22nd. Taichi’s option is a “Best of KOPW Best Two out of Three Falls Match” with the first fall to be held as a No Rope Sumo match, the second fall to be held as a Yoshinobu Kanemaru Special Referee match, and the third fall, if needed, to be held as a Shingo Takagi Style Last Man Standing Lumberjack match. Khan’s option is a Great United Anywhere Falls match.

NJPW also recently announced that Zack Sabre Jr, Gabe Kidd, El Desperado, Tomohiro Ishii, and Jeff Cobb, and AEW talent Konosuke Takeshita, and Stardom talents Maika, AZM, Mina Shirakawa, and HANAKO will be making an appearance at their Battle In The Valley 2025 event on January 11, 2025 in San Jose, California.

This past Sunday’s Cierre De La Gira Origenes tapings for Lucha Libre AAA in Monterey, Mexico featured Mr. Iguana & La Hiedra defeating DECAY (Crazzy Steve & Havok) to become the new AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champions.

As noted before, Ricky Starks was recently pulled from all of his upcoming bookings with Game Changer Wrestling due to issues caused by recent controversial comments made by GCW talent EFFY directed towards AEW CEO Tony Khan, Khan’s father Shad, and the timing of AEW’s booking of the Hammerstein Ballroom for AEW and ROH shows this December. In a recent interview with The Ringer’s The Masked Man Show podcast, EFFY gave his thoughts about if AEW and GCW could potentially work together in the future. EFFY stated “Yeah, I hope so and I don’t think it has to involve Effy necessarily. I think that’s a big point I’ve been trying to make while being a little too on the other topics. They can say I’m fake, they can say I’m don’t believe this, but I’m truly pro wrestling. I’m pro the wrestler doing well. I think AEW is really really good for the wrestling scene. I truly believe that. I think more places for people to work, more TV, more different visions of what they see wrestling as, it’s a very different product than WWE and I think that’s very good. It gives them room to grow. It’s just from perspective being on the outside, I’m looking at everything and going, as someone who is hoping to keep the health of the business up, as someone who is trying to get people to come to indie shows to branch out from the rest of the wrestling world, it’s frustrating to see when someone has that kind of money or has that kind of distribution and press isn’t doing things the way I think good business would be. But, I’m hoping, and what I’m guessing and seeing is, if it involves me being removed from the conversation completely, okay. I’m fine with that. But, I hope that communication with both sides — it’s not been a fun week for me either, it’s my own fault. But, I hope it’s opened communication on these things because a lot of times, I think with humans, our frustrations build and they end up coming out as these things that are seen as, oh, I’m just gonna go over here and do my thing. Sometimes, having those little explosions and bursts, I think they will lead to better conversation. I know with GCW, it’s three years since we’ve ran the Hammerstein Ballroom. We had a few of the AEW people coming back, we had Mox [Jon Moxley] making a big return last time, I had Jeff Jarrett, we had Ruby Soho. These are all wrestlers who believe it or not, I think are great, I look up to. I want to see them work. People think I must hate AEW and I’m over here checking in on Dynamite to see what the Death Riders are doing. I’m still very fascinated by wrestling and the product and it’s hard because everything is cut and dry on the internet. So I say I disagree with this being done — I felt caught out of left field that my statements were pulled into that situation and I think that’s why I got so feisty. Really it’s like, okay, it seems like maybe this leads to AEW and GCW talking some things out that they needed to talk out. Maybe this leads to Ricky and Tony talking things out. Everyone said, oh he’s doubling down, he’s roasting him. No, I said that I want Ricky Starks to succeed wherever that is. If it’s winning a Continental Classic, if it’s headlining Full Gear, if it’s going on a chase for the belt, working a big program with Hangman (Adam Page), something along those lines, I think that’s just as exciting as get him out of his contract and send him to another company or bring him to GCW. For whatever people want to say about us being an indie, there does seem to be a large group of wrestlers when they are able, when they are not under contract, when they have the permission to do so, that are wanting to come work with us and I hope all of wrestling can see like, the reason this is catching on with us is that the wrestling we’re putting out, we’re trying to one-up each other, try new things. Whether it comes with a mistake or not, we’re trying to move wrestling into what we think it can be, whether it’s been seen that way or not. For wrestlers in these positions, creatively, I think it gives them a lot of fun and freedom to come work in GCW. I know Cardona has looked at GCW as something that has helped reinvigorate his career. But, he’s still going to be able to working the other show with Hammerstein. I don’t have an issue with him. I can’t even imagine they really were thinking, we’re gonna run this a month before them, we’re gonna show them. I think the timing was really unfortunate. I think it’s narcissistic of me to think that they’re going, well what’s GCW doing this month, we’re gonna — I don’t think it’s even anything like that.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

GCW recently announced one new match for the card of their Take Kare event on December 28th in Seattle, Washington:

Matt Cardona vs. Super Crazy

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Highest In The Room 3 event on December 14th in Los Angeles, California:

Allie Katch vs. Vipress

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Scene Of The Crime event on December 13th in Mesa, Arizona:

EFFY vs. Juicy Finau

Major League Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Kings Of Colosseum 2025 event on January 11, 2025 in North Richland Hills, Texas:

MLW Women’s World Featherweight Championship Hair vs. Title match – Delmi Exo (hair) vs. Janai Kai (title)
Atlantis & Atlantis Jr. vs. Blue Panther & Dark Panther