Various: Ricochet vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Set for AEW x NJPW Wrestle Dynasty, Mark Henry Worked on Dark Side of the Ring Episode Based on Tony Atlas, Indies

Nov 6, 2024

Ricochet vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Announced for AEW x NJPW Wrestle Dynasty

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced one new match for the card of their co-promoted Wrestle Dynasty event with AEW, which takes place on January 5, 2025 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

This new match announced was a special singles match of Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet. It was also announced that should Sabre Jr. retain his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 19, then this match will be for the title.

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— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) November 6, 2024

Current card for AEW x NJPW Wrestle Dynasty:

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet
The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) vs. mystery opponents

Mark Henry Comments on Being Interviewed for Upcoming Dark Side of the Ring Episode Based on Tony Atlas

A recent episode of the No-Contest Wrestling podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Henry revealing that he was recently interviewed for an upcoming episode of the Dark Side of the Ring series based on Tony Atlas.

“I just confirmed today that I’m doing the ending of the documentary on JYD [Junkyard Dog]. I’m gonna be talking about his life. I did ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ that’s coming out here pretty soon, and I never did ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ because I didn’t agree with ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ because I thought it was too much of an expose of the bad side of wrestling. But I told them, I said, ‘You know what, man, I can’t do it.’ They said, ‘Why?’ I was like, ‘Because of the way that I feel about it.’ I said if y’all ever put a silver lining on it and ended some of those things with the good of people, then I would do it. Especially the way y’all paint Black people. Y’all don’t paint Black people in a positive light on these shows. They said, ‘So if we allowed you to help produce it, you would do it?’ I said, ‘Yup.’ So I did Tony Atlas, and Tony Atlas is coming out soon. When you see ‘Dark Side of the Ring: Tony Atlas,’ man, that shit is awesome. It’s gonna be the best one. I’m not saying that because it’s me. I’m saying it because I told the truth. His life is tragic. Tony became who he became because he was not loved. His family threw him away….He just had talent. He just happened to be extremely talented, and he was able to succeed in spite of it. That’s the story that I talk about, the strength that he had to persevere and to be who he became, and how he failed. Yeah, he failed. But he got up. It’s a beautiful story.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, the National Wrestling Alliance’s NWA Powerrr series left The CW App this past September and has been airing new episodes on Twitter since then. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that NWA’s Powerrr series is currently expected to remain on Twitter for the time being due to this week’s episode was its sixth week on the platform and beyond the five weeks that was originally announced.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that all of their live event specials on YouTube will be free to watch going forward starting with this Saturday’s Lucha Apocalypto event on the service.

A GoFundMe fundraiser was recently launched to help financially assist wrestling legend Dutch Mantell and his wife’s medical costs due to both of them are currently dealing with serious health-related issues.

This past Monday’s Power Struggle 2024 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Osaka, Japan featured Kenny Omega making an appearance and announced his upcoming in-ring return from diverticulitis. Omega’s appearance was also notable for him being involved in a storyline backstage altercation with Gabe Kidd to potentially setup a match between the two at Wrestle Dynasty. NJPW recently announced that NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi had issued a fine and gave a warning to Kidd over his attack on Omega at their Power Struggle 2024 event.

This past Sunday’s Haywire TV tapings for Destiny Wrestling featured WWE Hall of Famer JBL making a surprise appearance. During the main event match between Hammerstone and Marty Scurll, JBL came out to the ring and hit a Clothesline to Hell to Scrull and helping Hammerstone win the match in the process.

In a recent interview with Victoire, former TNA/Impact talent Awesome King gave her thoughts about her interest in making a potential return appearance in TNA in the future. Kong stated “TNA, for me, it’s like family. When you’re there, you’re family. So, always will come back to TNA or do something for TNA because I came into my own at TNA.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)