Various: Omos Appearance Set for 1/17 AAA Show, Kazuchika Okada on He Wanted To Do A Proper Destino To Hiroshi Tanhashi at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20, Indies/Misc.

Jan 16, 2026

Omos Appearance Announced for Jan. 17th AAA Show

Lucha Libre AAA announced that Omos will be making an appearance for the company at this Saturday’s AAA at the Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City.

This upcoming show will be AAA’s premiere show on FOX One in Mexico.

No te pierdas este sábado a Omos completamente en vivo a las 8PM por Fox Tubi y Fox One y a las 9PM por Fox
Lucha Libre AAA todos los sábados por Fox pic.twitter.com/hETPnjnaiv
— Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (@luchalibreaaa) January 16, 2026

Current card for January 17th AAA TV show:

AAA Mega Championship #1 Contender’s match – El Grande Americano vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
Trios match – Nino Hamburguesa, La Parka & Mr. Iguana vs. Abismo Negro Jr., Taurus & Histeria
Flammer vs. Lady Shani
Omos to appear

Kazuchika Okada Comments on He Wanted To Do A Proper Destino To Hiroshi Tanhashi at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20

As noted before, NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 event earlier this month in Tokyo, Japan featured Kazuchika Okada defeating Hiroshi Tanahashi in Tanahashi’s retirement match. This match was notable for both Okada and Tanahashi paying tribute with spots involving them hitting the finishing moves of Katsuyori Shibata, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Tetsuya Naito

Tokyo Sports held a recent interview with Okada. One of the topics discussed included Okada’s thoughts about his Destino spot in tribute to Naito that he was unable to perform properly during his match against Tanahashi.

“I actually wanted to do a proper (orthodox) Destino. But when I practiced, I couldn’t do it at all. Maybe it’s because I’m big, but it was hard to do… It’s such a difficult move that I wonder how Naito was able to do it. Well, the form was a little awkward, but I think I was able to do it for Naito.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! premiere show on AMC in Garland, Texas featured The Elegance Brand officially debuting their new Mr. Elegance member for the group. Fightful’s Andrew Thompson reported that the identity of Mr. Elegance is indies wrestler A.J.Z. (Andreas John Ziegler). A.J.Z. previously made two appearance for TNA in 2025.

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! AMC premiere show also featured former WWE wrestler Candice Michelle being among those shown in attendance.

In a recent interview with Fightful, TNA commentator Matthew Rehwoldt gave his thoughts about his transition from his in-ring wrestling career to his current commentary career. Rehwoldt stated “That was a weird time. Because I joined TNA in the summer of 2021 and I was wrestling. I was with Deonna Purrazzo and stuff. I had also made a couple of small appearances for New Japan Strong at the time and within a couple months of each other, both New Japan and TNA asked me to do commentary for shows. It was really one of those things, ‘cause at the time in TNA, D’Lo Brown and Matt Stryker were leaving. They were bringing in Tom Hannifan and they just needed somebody else for Strong in New Japan. So it was one of those moments of just like, ‘Hey, the world is knocking on this door. It’s kind of put nudging you this way.’ Not that I’m not proud of what I have done and can, in theory, still do in the ring. I’m not hurt, people. So many people always ask that. No, I’m not irreparably injured. But it was just the more and more I leaned into it the more and more I kind of realized that this, I think at the end of the day and at the end of my career, is my superpower in pro wrestling—behind the microphone telling the stories. I always say my superpower is getting people excited about the things that excite me. Which is why I do the podcast that I do. Which is why I dive so headfirst into the commentary and into the broadcasting and I’ve really, really loved it and I have not regretted it once.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE and Lucha Libre AAA’s current plans is for AAA to hold a live show once every three weeks on FOX One in Mexico. It was reported that the current plan is also for AAA to tape another two weeks of AAA television at each live show.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Anthony Greene is the next official competitor for this year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VIII event on January 29th in Kissimmee, Florida.

NJPW recently revealed that they held a secret wrestling show on January 13th at the Hachioji Jissen Junior & Senior High School in Hachioki, Japan to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the school. It was announced that around 1,250 students and teachers were in attendance and an in-ring training session and ring announcing session was held prior to the start of the show.

Squash A Jobber Wrestling recently announced that Los Tranquilos de Japon member Ryusei will be making his official in-ring debut at their Evil Eye event on January 31st in Milan, Italy.

Deadline reported that USA Network recently ordered a second season of the Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman television series. This series features former WWE talent Braun Strowman traveling around different cities and states to try their specialty food.

Highspots announced that they will be shutting down their Highspots.TV website and streaming service on February 22nd.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Crime Wave event on January 18th in Wichita, Kansas: