Various: Indies, WWE Starrcade Card, WWE Poll on Next Kurt Angle Match

Indie Wrestling News & Notes

Ring of Honor announced they have sold out of tickets for December 15th’s Final Battle pay-per-view event. They also announced tickets are currently on sale for this year’s final ROH television taping show on December 16th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced more international tickets are currently available for sale at their official English language website for Wrestle Kingdom 12 .

WrestleCade announced the main event of their November 25th show in Winston-Salem, North Carolina will be a Triple Threat match of Jake Hager (Jack Swagger in WWE) versus Eli Drake versus Johnny Impact. This event will be directly competing with WWE’s own Starrcade house show event in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In an interesting tidbit, Cow Palace Wrestling is getting a renewed level of interest due to the recent release of previously classified 1963 JFK assassination files. Some believe the new files sheds light on the rumors of the promoter, Roy Shire, being an FBI informant and a specific match being a code-worded announcement to the FBI.


Current Card for November’s WWE Starrcade House Show

WWE recently released the updated card for November 25th’s Starrcade house show event in Greensboro, North Carolina. The event currently has seven matches scheduled including two cage matches for the WWE and Smackdown Women’s championships.

WWE Starrcade’s current card:
* WWE Championship Steel Cage Match – Shinsuke Nakamura versus champion Jinder Mahal.
* Smackdown Women’s Championship Steel Cage Match – Charlotte Flair versus champion Natalya.
* United States Championship Triple Threat Match – AJ Styles versus Rusev versus champion Baron Corbin.
* Smackdown Tag Team Championship Tornado Tag Match – The New Days versus champions The Usos.
* Bobby Roode versus Dolph Ziggler.
* Breezango versus Aiden English & Mile Kanellis.
* The Rock N’ Roll Express versus Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson.
* Appearances by WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat, The Hardy Boys, Kevin Owens, and Sami Zayn.


Newest WWE Poll Asks Who Should Face Kurt Angle for Potential Next Match

WWE is currently holding a poll on their official website asking fans who should face Kurt Angle if he were to have another match in the company. The choices available are AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Cesaro, Dean Ambrose, Finn Balor, Shane McMahon, John Cena, Kevin Owens, Jinder Mahal, Randy Orton, Roman Reigns, Sami Zayn, Seth Rollins, Samoa Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura, and The Miz.

At the time of this report, AJ Styles leads with 33% of the fan vote followed by Cesaro at 11% of the vote.