Various: Monster’s Ball & Joe Hendry vs. Nic Nemeth for TNA World Title Matches Set for TNA Bound For Glory 2024, NXT’s Sol Ruca Makes Appearance on 9/26 TNA Impact Show, Indies

Two New Matches Announced for TNA Bound For Glory 2024

TNA Wrestling announced two new matches for the card of their Bound For Glory 2024 event, which takes place on October 26th at the Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit, Michigan.

The first new match announced was a TNA Digital Media Championship and International Wrestling Championship Monster’s Ball match of Matt Cardona vs. PCO (c).

BREAKING: @TheMattCardona will face @PCOisNotHuman in MONSTERS BALL for the Digital Media and International Wrestling Championships at #TNABoundForGlory on Sat, Oct 26 at the Wayne State University Fieldhouse in Detroit, Michigan LIVE on TNA+

Get tickets: https://t.co/K775dHXQOs pic.twitter.com/ixbBOVDDAC

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) September 27, 2024

The second new match announced was a TNA World Championship match of Joe Hendry vs. Nic Nemeth (c).

BREAKING: @JoeHendry will face @NicTNemeth for the TNA World Championship at #TNABoundForGlory on Sat, Oct 26 at the Wayne State University Fieldhouse in Detroit, Michigan LIVE on TNA+

Get tickets: https://t.co/K775dHXQOs pic.twitter.com/R1dTf1AsXz

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) September 27, 2024

Current card for TNA Bound For Glory 2024:

• TNA World Championship – Joe Hendry vs. Nic Nemeth (c)
• TNA Digital Media Championship and International Wrestling Championship Monster’s Ball match – Matt Cardona vs. PCO (c)

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NXT’s Sol Ruca Makes Surprise Appearance on Thursday’s TNA Impact Show

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured WWE NXT talent Sol Ruca making a surprise appearance in TNA Wrestling.

Ruca was revealed to be the mystery partner from NXT for Jordynne Grace for her tag team match against Wendy Choo & Rosemary on the show.

.@SolRucaWWE is @JordynneGrace's partner!

Watch #TNAiMPACT on TNA+ NOW: https://t.co/mZuIFjzkJA pic.twitter.com/zn49DZMpNq

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) September 27, 2024

This was Ruca’s first ever appearance in TNA and as part of TNA’s current talent crossover partnership with WWE.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Prestige Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled TNA talents Jordynne Grace, Sinner & Saint (Travis Williams & Judas Icarus), and Lei Ying Lee from their Roseland 9 event on September 29th in Portland, Oregon due to contractual obligations-related issues. The reason for the pulled talent is likely due to TNA recently rescheduling their upcoming Impact! tapings due to Hurricane Helene weather-related issues in Florida.

As noted before, WWE parent company TKO Group reached a settlement deal for an anti-trust lawsuit against UFC this past March for the amount of $335 million. This settlement deal was rejected by judge Richard Boulware this past August over Boulware had felt that the settlement dollars from TKO should be higher for Cung Le and Kajan lawsuits and was looking for “major contractual changes” in Johnson’s lawsuit case. In a recent SEC filing, TKO announced that they have reached a revised settlement deal for Le’s lawsuit for a new amount of $375 million.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently released a trailer for an upcoming new video titled “REUNION: Hiroshi Tanahashi x Kenny Omega.” This video focuses on a recent meeting Tanahashi and Omega held together.

During this past Wednesday’s CMLL Informa show, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre announced that Red Velvet, Willow Nightingale, Sumika Yanagawa, Samantha Black, Alex Windsor, Viva Van, Persephone, and La Catalina are the next official set of competitors for Team World for this year’s Women’s Grand Prix event on October 25th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico. It was also announced that Reyna Isis, Dark Silueta, Amapola, Hera, Sanely, Princesa Sugehit, Lluvia, Skadi, and Kira are the next set of competitors for Team Mexico for this year’s event.

This past Wednesday’s CMLL Informa show also featured CMLL talent Vaquerita officially announcing her retirement from in-ring wrestling and will transition into becoming a full-time referee for the company.

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE NXT talent Shawn Spears gave his thoughts about if his wife and former WWE and TNA wrestler Cassie Lee intends to return to wrestling in the future. Spears stated “She watches it a lot. She watches it more than I do. That doesn’t mean I don’t watch wrestling, it just means I’m busy a lot. I’m around, I can see a lot of stuff. Yeah, she keeps up on it. She still loves watching a lot of her friends, and she’s still getting the itch. So she’s already weight training, she’s doing all that kind of stuff. She’s getting back into the mix and things like that. When she feels 100 percent good to go there’s a ring close by, so she plans on getting back into it. She doesn’t know to what capacity, meaning no one’s said anything, no one said hey, when you ready, come on back. Like, not Impact, not anything, but with the working relationship, who’s to say that that’s not a possibility? But yeah, she still misses it. I think she still has a little bit of an itch.” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Hechicero will be making an appearance for the company at their co-promoted Lucha Apocalypto event with CMLL on November 9th in Cicero, Illinois.

MLW also recently announced that next year’s Kings of Colosseum event will be taking place on January 11, 2025 at the NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills, Texas.

MLW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Slaughterhouse 2024 event on October 4th in St. Petersburg, Florida:

• MLW National Openweight Championship – Matthew Justice vs. Bad Dude Tito (c)

TNA announced the current card for next week’s Imapct! show on October 3rd:

• ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) vs. The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy)
• Eric Young & Steve Maclin vs. Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus & Travis Williams)
• Tasha Steelz, Wendy Choo, & Rosemary vs. Jordynne Grace, Masha Slamovich, & Sol Ruca
• Ash By Elegance & The Personal Concierge’s makeover of Heather Reckless