Various: Steve Maclin on His Vignette Segment Confronting His Past on 11/21 TNA Impact Show, Ludwig Kaiser Makes Surprise Appearance at 11/23 wXw Event in Germany, Indies

Nov 24, 2024

Steve Maclin Comments on His Vignette Segment Confronting His Past on 11/21 TNA Impact Show

Steve Maclin recently reflected on Twitter about his vignette segment during this past Thursday’s TNA Impact! show that featured Maclin confronting his past issues and struggles with PTSD and him wanting to bring awareness to the mental state and struggles affecting millions of combat veterans.

“Putting this together was a dream come true.
To realistically show the mental state of millions of combat veterans & the struggles we face on a daily basis is, & always has been, a very important piece of my work as a professional wrestler.
I hope you enjoy a look into my mind.”

Putting this together was a dream come true.

To realistically show the mental state of millions of combat veterans & the struggles we face on a daily basis is, & always has been, a very important piece of my work as a professional wrestler.

I hope you enjoy a look into my mind. https://t.co/OxrW3njJGg
— Steve Maclin (@SteveMaclin) November 22, 2024

Ludwig Kaiser Makes Surprise Appearance at Saturday’s wXw Event in Germany

Saturday’s Broken Rules XXII event for Westside Xtreme Wrestling in Hamburg, Germany featured Ludwig Kaiser making a surprise appearance.

Following Peter Tihanyi’s victory over Bobby Gunns to retain the wXw World Heavyweight Championship, Kaiser’s music played and came out to the ring to confront Tihanyi.

Es gibt in der @MarkthalleHH niemanden, der besser performt als @petertihanyi1?

SURPRISE! Look who's here…#wXwBrokenRules LIVE auf #wXwNOW oder TrillerTV+ @FiteTV

wXwNOW: https://t.co/gq1zwxteXO

TrillerTV+: https://t.co/ge2moJDzDe pic.twitter.com/gz3FJ6ZVyK
— wXw Germany (@wXwGermany) November 23, 2024

This was Kaiser’s first appearance in wXw since March of 2019. Kaiser previously worked for wXw under the ring name of Axel Dieter Jr. from 2012 until his signing with WWE in 2017.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Josh Barnett announced on Twitter that MLW talent AKIRA was pulled from tonight’s GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XII event in Jersey City, New Jersey due to him recently suffering an injury and not being able to compete. Barnett also announced that a mystery wrestler will be replacing AKIRA for his scheduled match against Charlie Dempsey at the event. In a follow-up, it was revealed that former ROH wrestler “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams was Dempsey’s replacement opponent for his match.

Saturday’s GCW Dream On event in East Rutherford, New Jersey featured WWE Hall of Famers John Bradshaw Layfield, Kurt Angle, and Mick Foley making surprise appearances. JBL made his surprise appearance during Matt Cardona’s match against 1 Called Manders and helped Cardona to win. Angle and Foley made their surprise appearances to kick off the show and were interrupted by Blue Kane leading to the two attacking Blue Kane in return.

PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced that they had pulled Cara Noir from their Chapter 174: Vendetta 2 event on Sunday in London, England due to a schedule-related conflict and Noir’s scheduled opponent El Hijo del Vikingo recently suffering an injury.

Indies wrestler Charles Crowley recently revealed on Twitter that he did motion capture stunt work for the recently released Gladiator II film.

Film director James Gunn announced on Bluesky that the filming for Season Two of Peacemaker for MAX recently finished. This series features John Cena as the lead actor portraying the role of Peacemaker.

TNA Wrestling recently released a trailer for their upcoming new Immersion special featuring Masha Slamovich and Jordynne Grace.

This past Friday’s Super Viernes event for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured Hechicero and Mistico defeating Místico, Star Black, Ángel de Oro, Averno, Blue Panther, Esfinge, Gran Guerrero, Soberano Jr., and Euforia in a 10-Man Eliminator First Round match to advance to the Finals of this year’s Leyenda Azul tournament.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Major League Wrestling officials currently have scheduled for a MLW World Heavyweight Championship match of Matt Riddle vs. Satoshi Kojima (c) to be the main event for their Kings of Colosseum 2025 event on January 11, 2025 in North Richland Hills, Texas.

Former WWE talent Baron Corbin, real name Tom Pestock, won the gold medal in the Master 2 Open division at Saturday’s IBJJF Tampa International Open 2024 event in Tampa, Florida. Corbin had also won silver in the Master 2 Ultra Heavy division at the event.

As noted before, WWE RAW brand ring announcer Samantha Irvin departed from WWE this past October over issues related to the two sides not being able to come to terms for outside music projects and Irvin wanting to do more than just be a ring announcer in the company. Comedian Kevin Fredericks recently revealed on Twitter that Irvin joined the cast of the Churchy television series. Fredericks posted a photo of him and Irvin and stated “Got to work with an up and coming actress and musician. You all should keep an eye out for her. Her future is BRIGHT. @SamanthaTheBomb.” In response to a fan question, Fredericks confirmed that Irvin will be making an appearance in the next season of the series. This fan stated “Can you tell her to get on Cameo and promote the tour?! lol” and Fredericks responded stating “lol she’s in Churchy. That’s good enough for me.“

In a recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast, co-host Jeff Jarrett gave his thoughts about his belief that the pay-per-view model for wrestling events will never completely go away. Jarrett stated “I’m gonna say no. I really thought pay-per-views were dieing when the WWE Network came online. Okay, we’re moving away from that. Lone behold, AEW comes in, does 100,000 buys. When you kind of look back, okay, Netflix, they came out, oh no no no, we’re never going to have advertisements, it’s going to be ad free. Well, the almighty dollar definitely changed that. I read in synopsis today just how much money that tier is making, the ad tier, it’s crazy. When you look back, cable television, oh man, nobody’s gonna pay for cable. Well, wait a minute, okay. Cable rolled along and at one time there were 110 million people in this country that were paying a cable bill. Now okay, that’s kind of dying off and the cord cutters and now we’ve got streaming online and Netflix is the only one and now there’s going to be bundled and this and that and I think you’re right, there’s gonna be a consolidation and there’s going to be three or four or five, somebody’s gonna figure out how to get their sea legs but when that comes along, there’s going to be an event that people are going to say, ‘You know what, we’ve got to make this available to make the most money.’ So you can buy it on this streamer, but that streamer is going to say, ‘If you don’t have us, we’re gonna cut a deal and this is pay-per-view only.’ I just think if you supply and demand — if you build it, they will come with the right — invite them into the story, get the hook. Create the fear, the fear of missing out, you got to be here, the people are going to buy. So no, I don’t think pay-per-view will ever go. It can come in different shapes and forms and all of that, but I don’t think it’s ever going completely away.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)