Various: Kurt Angle on Being “Very Grateful” Fans Dropping “Perc Angle” Nickname, Competitors Set for Homicide’s Retirement Match at Outlaw Wrestling’s Event on March 20th, Indies/Misc.

Mar 19, 2025

Kurt Angle Comments on Being “Very Grateful” Fans Dropping “Perc Angle” Nickname for Him

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle had revealed in an interview with Chris Van Vliet this past January that the online “Perc Angle” nickname to describe his career with TNA Wrestling actually hurts his feelings to be called it.

Bro Bible held a recent interview with Angle. One of the topics discussed included Angle’s thoughts about him being very grateful for wrestling fans dropping the “Perc Angle” nickname for him.

“Thank you so much. I was really pleasantly surprised that they responded that way. It makes me know that I have true fans out there that really enjoyed my career and loved me for what I did. I’m just grateful that they’re going to drop the name Perk Angle. It reminds me of a dark time in my life, and it’s something that I don’t want to have to deal with it anymore. I dealt with it already, and it’s behind me. Hearing Perc Angle just makes me think I’m known for that. It was not cool. I’m just glad that they’re now using Peak Angle, instead I’m very grateful for that.”

Competitors Announced for Homicide’s Retirement Match at Outlaw Wrestling’s Event on March 20th

As noted before, wrestling legend and Indie Wrestling Hall of Famer Homicide will be having his retirement match for Outlaw Wrestling at their End of an Era event on March 20th in Brooklyn, New York.

Outlaw Wrestling provided an update on Tuesday announcing that Homicide will be teaming up with Bull James in a tag team match against Mike Santana & Afa Jr. at their event.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, “Legit” Leyla Hirsch’s contract with AEW and Ring of Honor expired this past February and she is currently a free agent. Hirsch recently announced on Twitter that she will be returning to the indies after taking some time off to think about the future of her wrestling career and is currently accepting bookings.

WWE Hall of Famer Abdullah The Butcher recently announced on Instagram that he will be releasing an autobiographical book this May.

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, ECW legend and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam gave his thoughts about the future of his wrestling career. RVD stated “I don’t [think I am], and I don’t think I will [retire]. That’s how I feel right now. I feel like even if I don’t take wrestling bookings anymore, I don’t think I’ll make a big deal out of retirement. Because when wrestlers retire and they end up coming back and wrestling anyway. ‘No, I want one more match.’ For me, that is completely eating up the credibility that I had in wrestling retirement matches. I doubt that I’ll ever feel like, ‘No, I’m going to be different. I never want to wrestle right now. I’m done.’ I just see me is just going with the flow. And someday, when you say, are you still wrestling? I might say, It’s been six years, and then I might have a match. I’ve always said also I want to price myself out and not wear myself and my value down. A lot of my peers, they were worth so much in their prime, and then they are not worth as much, can’t get booked as much, so they come down and compromise, and that has a cycle effect where they are worth less. But I’m not gonna do that, I’d rather have less people afford me until I don’t wrestle that way instead of wrestling myself into a grave and my last match was $5.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Cafe de Rene with Rene Dupree podcast, All Japan Pro Wrestling talent Davey Boy Smith Jr. revealed that he recently underwent surgery to fix his eyes from cataracts issues. Smith Jr. stated “I came back home in January from a really successful trip, and I somehow got cataracts in my eyes from the 20 years of those shitty tanning beds. Hopefully people can learn from that. But I had seen people not using the glasses…I didn’t like the lines [it would leave] around your eyes when you go tanning, so a lot of times, I just put a towel on, and the last six months or so, I was using the old tanning beds over in Japan, you gotta lay in them for 30-40 minutes, and they’re the old UV, they’re lousy bulbs. So I had to get the surgery, and both eyes, it was weird. It was like it just sort of came on. It was like my body knew that I had three months off, and I was like, let’s get this taken care of. One thing that I can say is that it cost me about fourteen grand and I had to pay it. For people, with wrestlers, it’s always like, learn from this guy, don’t do this. Hopefully, they learn from me and yourself and your dad to save your money because you don’t know when stuff like that will happen. Luckily, I had the money to pay for it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a new event on September 13th in Indianapolis, Indiana.

EFFY recently announced that Abadon will be making their appearance at GCW’s EFFY’s Big Gay Brunch 10 event on April 19th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Joey Janela recently announced one new match for the card of GCW’s Joey Janela’s Spring Break 9 event on April 18th in Las Vegas:

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. 1 Called Manders

ACTION Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Masquerade Mashup event on March 21st in Newman, Georgia:

Darian Begston & Adam Priest vs. Top Team (Jay Lucas & Terry Yaki)

Pro Wrestling Revolver recently announced two new matches for the card of their GOATED event on March 22nd in Clive, Iowa:

Sudden Death Scramble match – AJ Francis vs. BDE vs. Jeffery John vs. Juni Underwood vs. Bigg Pound vs. Dark Plegde
Dante Leon & JJ Garrett vs. Tye or Die

TNA Wrestling recently announced two new matches and two new segments for the card of their March 20th Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360: