Various: Mickie James Rib Injury Update, Dark Side of the Ring Ratings, Indies

Mickie James Rub Injury Status Update

As noted before, Mickie James has been out of action for Impact Wrestling due to a rib injury.

A recent episode of the Cultaholic Wrestling podcast featured James’ husband and Impact talent Nick Aldis as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Aldis providing an update on James’ injury recovery.

“She’s 100 percent, so now it’s just a case of she’s just waiting for her right moment. We do have interests outside of wrestling, we have a supplement company, and Mickie has her show and the music stuff, and we have the horses. We’re also producing a show in Australia and Mickie is also a producer of the Last Match musical. She’s really just sort of weighing up where she wants to spend her time because we also have a son.

So it’s also a case of making the best use of our time that means we have to be away from our son. She needs to be on something that she feels is valuable and worthwhile. She’s certainly going to show up again in IMPACT Wrestling at some point but, like I said, it’s finding the right time. She’s been around enough, she’s not in a rush just to get back for attention’s sake. She’s going to bide her time and make it meaningful.”

Transcript h/t: Cultaholic.com

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Dark Side of the Ring Ratings – June 20, 2023 – Up

Tuesday’s episode of Dark Side of the Ring drew 201,000 viewers on VICE TV, up from last week’s 197,000 viewers.

It was #57 on cable for the day with a 0.07 rating in the 18-49 demographic, up from last week’s 0.06 rating.

This episode focused on Matt Borne and Doink The Clown

More Tuesday ratings: ShowBuzz Daily

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s ROH TV show featured Ring of Honor owner Tony Khan and ROH Board of Directors Stokely Hathaway and Jerry Lynn present current ROH World Television Champion Samoa Joe with a newly redesign ROH World TV title.

In a page straight out of pro wrestling’s book, Twitter and Telsa CEO Elon Musk recently challenged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbeg on Twitter to a real cage match in Las Vegas, Nevada in the future. The Verge’s Alex Heath reported that his sources close to Zuckerberg stated that he is actually serious with going ahead with an actual cage match fight with Musk. Lucha Libre AAA recently responded on Twitter stating that they would be willing to host this potential cage match at their upcoming Triplemania XXI Tijuana event next month in Tijuana, Mexico.

As noted before, VICE TV’s parent company Vice Media officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past May. Deadline reported that a group of VICE’s leading lenders are currently planning to buy VICE out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for around $225 million. It was reported that this group features three investment firms who are Fortress Investment Group, Soros Fund Management, and Monroe Capital.

Atletifo reported that Japanese wrestling legend Genichiro Tenryu was recently discharged from a hospital in Japan. Prior to his discharged, Tenryu had been hospitalized for the past ten months due to several serious health-related issues including him undergoing emergency surgery due to septic shock.

CTV recently announced that Impact Wrestling’s Gisele Shaw and Gail Kim will be one of the teams competing for their upcoming new season of their The Amazing Canadian Race reality competition series on the network.

Impact announced seven new matches for the cards of their Down Under Tour events on June 30th and July 1st in Wagga Wagga, Australia:

• June 30th, Down Under Tour Night 1 – Impact X-Division Championship Three-way match – Frankie Kazarian vs. Robbie Eagles vs. Chris Sabin (c)
• June 30th, Down Under Tour Night 1 – Impact Digital Media Championship – Eddie Edwards vs. Joe Hendry (c)
• June 30th, Down Under Tour Night 1 – Moose & Brian Myers vs. ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)
• July 1st, Down Under Tour Night 2 – Impact World Tag Team Championship – The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs. ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) (c)
• July 1st, Down Under Tour Night 2 – Impact Digital Media Championship – Moose vs. Winner of Eddie Edwards vs. Joe Hendry (c)
• July 1st, Down Under Tour Night 2 – Steve Maclin vs. Frankie Kazarian
• July 1st, Down Under Tour Night 2 – Killer Kelly vs. Steph De Lander

Major League Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their Never Say Never 2023 event on July 8th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

• MLW Feathweight Championship & wXw Women’s Championship Title vs. Title match – Delmi Exo (MLW) vs. Ava Everett (wXw)

Prestige Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their All Rise event on July 23rd in Asbury Park, New Jersey:

• Prestige Wrestling Championship – Jonathan Gresham vs. Alex Shelley (c)

Pro Wrestling NOAH recently announced a new match for the card of their One Night Dream event on July 15th in Tokyo, Japan:

• Jimmy Yang, Super Crazy, & Stallion Rogers vs. Good Looking Guys (Anthony Greene, YO-HEY, & Tadasuke)