Various: Kaito Kiyomiya Suffered Spinal Cord Concussion Injury, RevPro Returning to Copper Box Arena for 12 Year Anniversary Show This August, Indies

Mar 16, 2024

Kaito Kiyomiya Suffered Spinal Cord Concussion Injury & Pulled from This Sunday’s NOAH Event

Pro Wrestling NOAH announced earlier today that they have pulled Kaito Kiyomiya from their Great Voyage 2024 event this Sunday in Yokohama, Japan due to Kiyomiya recently suffering a spinal cord concussion injury.

[Notice of player absence]
Kaito Kiyomiya will be absent from the Yokohama Budokan tournament on March 17th due to a spinal cord concussion sustained during practice.
Thank you for your understanding and understanding.

【📢選手欠場のお知らせ】
清宮海斗選手は練習中の負傷による脊髄震盪のため、3.17横浜武道館大会を欠場させていただきます。

何卒、ご理解ご了承のほどよろしくお願いいたします。#noah_ghc pic.twitter.com/KbkTW87N8D
— プロレスリング・ノア｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) March 16, 2024

It was also announced that Saxon Huxley and Timothy Thatcher will be replacing Kiyomiya and Ryohei Oiwa for their scheduled GHC Tag Team Championship match against Jack Morris and Anthony Greene at the event.

3.17 Yokohama [Change card]
Starts at 15:00 on Sunday, March 17th
Yokohama Budokan
Main Event/GHC Tag Team Championship Jack Morris Anthony Green (Champion) vs Saxon Huxley Timothy Thatcher (Challenger)
※ Kaito Kiyomiya is absent due to injury
※ Fourth defense of the champion group

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📣3.17横浜【変更カード】🔥🔥
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📅3月17日(日)15:00開始
🏢横浜武道館

👑メインイベント・GHCタッグ選手権
ジャック・モリスアンソニー・グリーン(王者)
vs
サクソン・ハックスリーティモシー・サッチャー(挑戦者)

※清宮海斗選手負傷欠場により
※王者組の4度目の防衛戦#noah_ghc #GV2024 pic.twitter.com/qhrqgslSOI
— プロレスリング・ノア｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) March 16, 2024

RevPro Announces Return to Copper Box Arena for 12 Year Anniversary Show During AEW All In 2024 Weekend

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be returning to the Copper Box Arena for their 12 Year Anniversary Show on August 24th in London, England.

It was also announced that the pre-sale for tickets will officially start on May 1st.

SATURDAY AUGUST 24TH
COPPER BOX ARENA, London
RevPro 12 Year Anniversary Show

5.30pm Bell Time

Mailing list pre-sale begins Monday 1st April at midday. pic.twitter.com/tmuJsMdnlx
— Revolution Pro (@RevProUK) March 15, 2024

This event will be taking place one day prior to AEW’s All In 2024 event at Wembley Stadium in London.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Lucha legend Psicosis, former Psychosis in WCW, suffered a broken right hip injury following a fall incident at his work this past February. A GoFundMe fundraiser was recently launched to help financially assist Psicosis’ medical costs.

Major League Wrestling officials reportedly have been extremely happy with the advance ticket sales for their upcoming War Chamber 2024 event in St. Petersburg, May 11th Azteca Lucha event in Chicago, and June 1st Battle Riot VI event in Atlanta, according to PWInsider. Mike Johnson reported that those spoken to within MLW stated that ticket sales for the company’s events so far this year has been the best year for the promotion since 2019.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that MLW talent Salina de la Renta has been producing pre-tape segments behind the scenes for the company and is now the primary director for their Women’s Featherweight division.

MLW officials currently have plans for Brett Ryan Gosselin to be given a big push in the company with some comparing him favorably to Chris Candido and Louie Spicoli, according to PWInsider.

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley is currently considering plans to wrestle one more match for his wrestling career. In a recent Highspots’ Sign-It-Live virtual fan signing event, Foley provided an update on his current plans to wrestle one more match. Foley stated “Yeah (I’m looking to do one more match). But I’d have to lose an extraordinary amount of weight and it’s not falling off like I hoped it would. So I’m gonna have to reexamine where I am at a certain point. It’s not about the money. I wanna have a fun match but I am having trouble. I’ve been working out, I feel better, moving better but it’s not showing up as of yet on the scale. So I’m not sure. I’ll have an answer by the beginning of the year… There’s a lot of different options (opponent-wise) to do such a thing.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

In a recent interview with 102.5 The Bone’s Drew Garabo Live radio show, National Wrestling Alliance owner Billy Corgan provided an update on the status of the NWA’s upcoming new reality television series for The CW. Corgan stated “It was definitely a bit of arm-twisting (to get me to film reality series). My partner on the show, who’s a pretty well-known guy in the toy and in the TV space, we had-had a meeting and at the end of the meeting which was extensively to talk about doing some toys for the NWA, he started pitching me the idea of doing a reality show or as they like to say in the biz, an unscripted show… And I said no and I said no for a year and then eventually kind of talked me into it with the idea that I would have control of how it went so, what’s interesting about the show which is coming soon on the CW’s streaming side is that it’s sort of a look between my life in wrestling contracted with my life everywhere else; with my family and obviously The (Smashing) Pumpkins. So, yeah, it’s interesting but it was difficult for me because I’ve been pretty private the last sort of decade or so, after being so open for the first 20 years.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

Anthem executives reportedly were in attendance backstage at last Friday’s Sacrifice 2024 event for TNA Wrestling in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, according to PWInsider. Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Anthem executives have been very happy with the recent ticket sales and TNA+ subscriber numbers.

Former Impact/TNA talent Rohit Raju reportedly was in attendance backstage at last Friday’s TNA Sacrifice 2024 event, according to PWInsider.

TNA Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their TNA Impact! taping on March 23rd at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs. The System (Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers)
Josh Alexander vs. “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams

In a recent interview with New Japan Pro Wrestling’s official website, Zack Sabre Jr. gave his thoughts about Hiroshi Tanahashi becoming the new President of the company. Sabre Jr. stated “The timing (of Hiroshi Tanahashi becoming NJPW President surprised me), maybe, but not the result. I think most of us thought that would be the end goal for someone like Tanahashi, with his tenure as well as his journey through the generations of New Japan. And he’s a very astute and intelligent man. So I definitely thought if there was going to be another wrestler-president, it would be him. It’s just that he takes so much pride in his wrestling that I thought it would be further into the future. So the timing did surprise me, but I think the way he slotted in, there’s nobody more equipped for the job. I think there’s more avenues for a free flow communication between the office and the wrestlers now and not two separate groups in a way.“

NJPW announced one new match for the card of their New Japan Cup 2024 Finals event on March 20th in Nagaoka, Japan: