Various: Tony Khan on WWE’s Interest in MJF, Impact Announces Events Schedule for Early 2022, Indies

Tony Khan Comments on WWE’s Interest in MJF

CBS Sports held a recent interview with AEW CEO Tony Khan. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about the recent reports of WWE being interested in signing MJF once his current contract with AEW expires.

“I think that’s great. I encourage that. I think they should keep talking about him because he’s a wrestler that’s a big part of AEW and is signed here for a few more years. So I think please keep giving us that buzz because he’s been getting great ratings for his segments and those have also been featuring CM Punk pretty regularly as they continue to interact. They’ve had a war of words and now there’ll be on opposite sides of this huge trios match where you got Sting [and] Darby Allin teaming with CM Punk against MJF and FTR. I think that’s great. You know, [WWE] had some wrestlers I really wanted to sign there and I signed him, Bryan Danielson and Adam [Cole] and Ruby Soho.

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Impact Wrestling Announces Touring & Events Schedule for Road to Rebellion 2022

Impact Wrestling recently announced their full schedule of events for the first four months of 2022. This upcoming Road to Rebellion 2022 tour was announced to be starting on January 8, 2022 in Dallas, Texas with their Hard to Kill 2022 event and concludes on April 24th in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Full schedule of Impact events for early 2022:

• January 21, 2022 – Impact! tapings at the Charles Dodge Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• January 22nd – Impact! tapings at the Charles Dodge Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• February 19th – No Surrender 2022 event at the Alamo Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
• February 20th – Impact! tapings at the Alamo Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
• March 5th – Sacrifice 2022 event at the Paristown Hall in Louisville, Kentucky
• March 6th – Impact! tapings at the Paristown Hall in Louisville, Kentucky
• March 18th – Impact! tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• March 19th – Impact! tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• April 23rd – Rebellion 2022 event at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York
• April 24th – Impact! tapings at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

During a recent interview with the Excuse Me: The Vickie Guerrero Show, Davey Richards revealed that besides Major League Wrestling, both AEW and Impact Wrestling had also contacted him regarding a potential contract with either company. Richards made his return to wrestling this past June following a four year hiatus and signed a one year deal with MLW this past August.

Venues Now reported that MLB baseball team Toronto Blue Jays recently scrapped their plans to demolish their current home venue the Rogers Centre and build a new future home for the team. It was reported that the team will be investing around $200 million to $250 million in Canadian dollars to renovate their current stadium instead. The Rogers Centre is notable in wrestling history for being the location of WWF’s WrestleMania VI event in 1990 and WrestleMania X8 in 2002.

As noted before, wrestling merchandise retailer Pro Wrestling Tees recently announced that they were the victim of a hacking attack this past November. Fightful reported that those spoken to within PWT stated that the reason why they did not inform customers earlier of the hacking attack was due to the data breach was part of an active federal investigation with law enforcement agencies. It was also reported that those spoken to stated that this hacking attack did not affect ShopAEW, Global ShopAEW, All Elite Crate, and Pro Wrestling Crate who use PWT’s online retailer services.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla recently announced that Rey Horus is the next official competitor for their upcoming Battle of Los Angeles 2022 tournament, which takes place on January 29-30, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

LuchaBlog reported that FTR are currently scheduled to defend their AAA World Tag Team Championship against the Lucha Brothers at a January 30, 2022 television taping event for Lucha Libre AAA in Merida, Mexico.

Lucha Libre AAA recently announced a new match for the card of their Rey de Reyes 2022 event on February 19, 2022 in Veracruz, Mexico:

• AAA Mega Championship – John Morrison vs. Hijo del Vikingo (c)

Impact Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Hard To Kill 2022 event on January 8, 2022 in Dallas, Texas:

• X-Division Championship – Steve Maclin vs. Trey Miguel (c)
• ROH World Championship – Chris Sabin vs. Jonathan Gresham (c)