Various: Brett Lauderdale on AEW Running Events at Hammerstein Close to GCW’s Own Event in Jan. 2025, Alan Angels Suffered ACL Sprain Injury, Indies

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Nov 21, 2024

Brett Lauderdale Comments on AEW Running Events at Hammerstein Ballroom Close to GCW’s Own Event in January 2025

A recent episode of The Business of The Business podcast featured Game Changer Wrestling owner Brett Lauderdale as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Lauderdale’s thoughts about the timing of AEW running events at the Hammerstein Ballroom this December and very close to GCW’s own The People vs. GCW 2025 event in the same venue.

“I don’t know Tony Khan personally and I don’t know enough of their people well enough to know or to speculate that they would particularly do something like that just to hurt us. Without that being said, the traditional etiquette would be, there is a window where you don’t go to the same buildings. Should that window exist? You can call it an unwritten rule, or in many cases it’s a written rule. I’m sure when AEW goes to venues, they probably have a rule written in that no other wrestling show can go there within 30 days or 60 days. It’s a pretty standard practice in the wrestling business and a lot of entertainment industries, both written and unwritten. Do I think they literally set out to look for a way to hurt GCW? I’m not ready to go that far with it. Do I think that maybe it wasn’t the most polite thing to do? Maybe. They are a billionaire company with endless resources and they run multiple television shows every week so they could run an event there anytime they wanted. They don’t have to do it in December or January. They can do it in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September. They could do it every month if they wanted to, but they chose to do it in late December, which is less than 30 days before we are there. It’s not the greatest of circumstances for us.”

Lauderdale also gave his thoughts about the recent reports of WWE had attempted to book the venue for an event this December.

“I’m not trying to inflammatory or instigate in any way, but it’s in many cases a written rule. There are a certain number of days that you have exclusivity in a building and you don’t go in if somebody is already there. It’s a type of thing that a company like AEW or WWE would sue a venue for if they let somebody else in. It would be a breach of contract. There are rules to this. It doesn’t surprise me that WWE, and I’m only going by reports that you’ve heard, but it wouldn’t surprise me that WWE would be told no because there is already somebody here. That’s the way it goes. Didn’t they used to say Vince McMahon would book Madison Square Garden so frequently just for the purpose of keeping everyone else out? He knew if he ran this many times, the window would be shut on everybody else.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Alan Angels Suffered ACL Sprain Injury

Former AEW and current TNA Wrestling talent Alan Angels announced on Instagram that he recently suffered an ACL sprain injury and will be out of action for the next few weeks for rest and recovery.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Melbourne City Wrestling recently announced that Buddy Matthews will be making an appearance for the company at their End Game event on December 8th in Melbourne, Australia.

House of Glory recently announced that Ricky Starks will be making an appearance for the company at their Watch The Throne event on January 17, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

As noted before, former WWE wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. was charged this in April of 2023 with several criminal charges by the United States Department of Justice over his involvement in embezzling welfare funds as part of a larger welfare scandal in the State of Mississippi. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that a new criminal trial date for DiBiase Jr. has been scheduled to take place on August 26, 2025 based on recent court records. Johnson reported that this is the third time that the start date for DiBiase Jr.’s trial has been delayed and pushed back. Johnson also reported that the reason for the initial delay and change of date is currently not known beyond the original presiding judge recusing himself from teh case.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Major League Wrestling talent Mads Krugger recently signed a new long-term contract with the company. It was reported that Krugger will still be able to continue to work in the indies as part of the terms of his new deal.

MLW recently announced that CMLL talents Averno and Mascara Dorada will be making an appearance for the company at their Kings of Colosseum 2025 event on January 11, 2025 in North Richland Hills, Texas.

MLW also recently announced two new matches for the card of their One Shot 2024 event on December 5th in New York City, New York:

MLW World Tag Team Championship – CozyMAX (Satoshi Kojima & Okumura) vs. CONTRA Unit (Minoru Suzuki & Ikuro Kwon) (c)
EZE’s Roulette Tag Team match – The Andersons (Brock Anderson & CW Anderson) vs. Matthew Justice & mystery partner

TNA Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding their annual Holiday Toy & Food Drive on December 13-14 in Atlanta, Georgia as part of their Final Resolution 2024 event and Impact! tapings that weekend.

TNA also announced four new matches for the card of next week’s Impact! Thanksgiving 2024 special on November 28th on AXS TV:

Casket match – PCO vs. Moose
“Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Jake Something
Jordynne Grace vs. Dani Luna
Nic Nemeth vs. Sami Callihan

Deadlock Pro Wrestling announced one new match for the card of their 3rd Anniversary Show on December 8th in Durham, North Carolina:

DPW World Tag Team Championship – Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) vs. Speedball X Something (“Speedball” Mike Bailey & Jake Something) (c)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their American Dream event on November 23rd in East Rutherford, New Jersey: