Various: Seth Rollins on Failed Shield Reunion, NJPW US Update, Indies

Seth Rollins Comments on WWE’s Failed Shield Reunion

New Jersey newspaper Asbury Park Press held a recent interview with Seth Rollins and one of the topics discussed involved his thoughts on WWE’s failed attempts at holding a Shield reunion tour.

“It started off great I thought. The reconciliation over the summer, myself and Ambrose winning the tag team titles, and then bringing Roman into the fold was really well done and a lot of fun and exciting. And then, the mumps happened, and there’s nothing you can really do about that, so that threw a real wrench into the plans. And Ambrose got hurt, so what can you do? That’s part of the business. That’s part of the game.

One thing that’s exciting about it is I think it leaves us a lot of room for future Shield reunions, so that’s cool to see. If we get an opportunity to do that at some point down the road, that would be great. You know, we haven’t done it, and thrown it away and wasted it. It just stuff happens, you can’t predict those variables of people getting sick or injured.”

NJPW Planning to Hold Another Event in the United States This Year

New Japan Pro Wrestling is reported to be considering plans to hold a third event in the United States this year, according to the Wrestling Observer, with September 30th in Long Beach, California being a potential date and location for the event.

NJPW will be holding their G1 Special in San Francisco event this Saturday at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

The card for River City Wrestling’s July 6th event in San Antonio, Texas features a NWA World Heavyweight Championship match of Lance Hoyt versus champion Nick Aldis and a RCW Championship Monster’s Ball match of Joey Spector versus champion Abyss.

RISE Wrestling announced the card for their July 8th RISE TV tapings in Naperville, Illinois features a singles match of Deonna Purrazzo versus Kylie Rae.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Newsletter that ITV’s World of Sport revival series is currently planned to be debuting on July 21st in the United Kingdom.