Various: FTR on NWA & Impact Tag Titles Interest, Wheeler Yuta on ROH Pure Title Match Against Garcia, Indies

Jul 21, 2022

FTR Comments on Interest in Going After NWA & Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championships

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast had FTR’s Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood as the guests. One of the topics discussed included FTR’s interest in competing for the NWA United States and Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championships in the future.

Dax Harwood – “I mean, we’ll go wherever will add to our legacy and if the fans think and if we think NWA and IMPACT will add to our legacy, we have to do it. Money has to be right too [Harwood laughed]. We gotta get the ‘OK’ from the boss, but yeah, right now, we’re in a good place financially. Right now, we’re in a good place mentally, kind of physically. So, everything that we’re gonna do from now on to the end of our careers is for our careers. For our enjoyment and for our careers and that’s it. So, yeah, if it’ll add to our legacy, absolutely.”
Cash Wheeler – “If everything lines up perfectly and it is something where it’s gonna do good for bringing spotlight to tag team wrestling and bringing spotlight to us trying to make history and possibly add another star to the collection, then I’m not gonna rule that out, especially, you know, seeing that they’re bringing back the U.S. Tag Titles.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Wheeler Yuta Comments on Upcoming ROH Pure Title Match Against Daniel Garcia

A recent episode of the Under The Ring podcast had Wheeler Yuta as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Yuta’s thoughts on his upcoming ROH Pure Championship match against Daniel Garcia at Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor 2022 event this Saturday in Lowell, Massachusetts.

“I think it’s gonna be a very fun one [match against Daniel Garcia at ROH Death Before Dishonor]. Daniel Garcia and I have only wrestled in a singles match one time before, it was on the independents. We went for an hour-long draw. So I think this will be a really fun way for us to kind of show a different side than what we showed at Blood & Guts. We’ve had the violent, physical brawls and that’s not to say this won’t be violent and physical, but it will be within a very strict set of rules to where we can really find out who the best pure professional wrestler is so I’m very excited for that match and I think it’ll be a different challenge and I think for some of the AEW fans that maybe haven’t seen a Ring of Honor Pure Rules match before, I think it’ll bring something different to the table so I’m excited to have this opportunity.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Impact Wrestling reportedly recently scheduled this year’s Bound For Glory event on October 8th to take place in Danbury, Connecticut, according to Fightful Select. While the venue for the event is currently not known, it was reported that Impact will be in the city for several days for the event itself and post-event Impact television tapungs.

WWE talent Angel announced on Instagram that his wife recently gave birth to a baby girl.

As noted before, Michael Elgin was pulled from two of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s events last week in Japan due to an alleged arrest over a theft incident in Japan that Elgin has denied being true on social media. Dave Meltzer reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources confirmed that Elgin was involved in an incident at a gym which resulted in police being involved. Meltzer reported that he has not been able to confirm if this incident involved Elgin stealing protein powder but he was not arrested and was let go after being questioned by the police. Meltzer also reported that whatever was this incident at the gym is being “kept quiet” from others.

Circle 6 recently announced that they have pulled Brody King from the cards of their Gangreen event on July 22nd in Detroit, Michigan and Here To Stay event on July 23rd in Cleveland, Ohio due to scheduling-related issues.

Pro Wrestling NOAH announced that they have pulled Go Shiozaki from the card of their Star Navigation 2022 event this Friday in Tokyo, Japan due to him suffering a neck injury at their Star Navigation 2022 event earlier today in Tokyo.

Starrcast recently announced a new match for the card of Ric Flair’s Last Match event on July 31st in Nashville, Tennessee: