Various: Brody King vs. Zilla Fatu Set for HOG Culture Clash in Las Vegas, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles Matches Set for 4/2 Road to NJPW Sakura Genesis 2026 Event, Indies/Misc.

Mar 8, 2026

Brody King vs. Zilla Fatu Announced for HOG Culture Clash in Las Vegas

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of their Culture Clash event on April 16th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This new match announced was a singles match of Brody King vs. Zilla Fatu.

LAS VEGAS… are you ready for WAR?

FIRST TIME EVER
🔥 BRODY KING vs ZILLA FATU 🔥

CULTURE CLASH / April 16th – 8pm@Brodyxking @Zillafatu

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS NOW https://t.co/m6xcUTzEXx pic.twitter.com/DeTR2EBe93
— House Of Glory Wrestling (@HOGwrestling) March 8, 2026

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles Matches Announced for April 2nd Road to NJPW Sakura Genesis 2026 Event

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Road to Sakura Genesis 2026 event, which takes place on April 2nd at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

The first match announced was an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match of United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young) vs. Unbound Co. (Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori) (c).

The second new match announced was an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match of YOH vs. DOUKI (c).

ICYMI

The Road to Sakura Genesis on April 2 will see two junior heavyweight title matches as YOH challenges DOUKI, and new tag champions Robbie X and Taiji Ishimori face United Empire!

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— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) March 8, 2026

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Sunday’s NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 Night 4 event in Tokyo, Japan featured Shota Umino defeating Chase Owens and Ryohei Oiwa defeating Yuto-ICE in First Round matches in this year’s New Japan Cup tournament. As a result of their victories, Umino will be facing off against Yujiro Takahashi and Oiwa will be facing off against Zack Sabre Jr. in the Second Round of this year’s New Japan Cup tournament.

NJPW reportedly drew a paid attendance of 2,605 for their Feb. 27th The New Beginning USA 2026 event in Trenton, NJ, 1,499 for their Feb. 27th NJPW x CMLL Fantasticamania 2026 event in Tokyo, 1,136 for their March 4th New Japan Cup 2026 event in Tokyo, and 1,080 for their March 5th New Japan Cup 2026 event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Saturday’s So Alive event for Game Changer Wrestling in Columbus, Ohio featured former TNA talent Mance Warner and Steph De Lander making a surprise appearance. During the show, Warner and De Lander came out and Warner reunited with the Second Gear Crew to fend off VNDL48. This led to a match being made between the two groups that ended with EFFY running out to interfere and helped cost Second Gear Crew the match. This was Warner and De Lander’s first appearance in GCW since this past August’s Homecoming 2025 event and their first appearance in wrestling since their departures from TNA this past week.

Steven Borden, son of wrestling legend and former AEW wrestler Sting, recently filed a trademark for “Steven James” for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Sting’s other son Garrett Borden also recently filed a trademark for “Garrett Lee” for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the USPTO.

As noted before, Ring of Honor owner Tony Khan announced during the ROH TV tapings earlier this month that the WJCT Studios in Jacksonville, Florida would be the new home for ROH tapings going forward. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW and ROH officials’ plans to move their ROH TV tapings to the WJCT Studios was something that had been in the works for some time. AEW and ROH officials reportedly had planned a semi-permanent shift to Jacksonville, Florida for ROH tapings well before their most recent set of tapings on March 1st.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that CMLL talent Kira will be making her official debut appearance for the company at their MLW Fusion taping on March 14th in Atlanta, Georgia.

Beyond Wrestling recently announced that current AEW World Champion MJF will be making an appearance for the company at their Break The Walls Down event on June 5th in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Beyond Wrestling also recently announced one new match for the card of their Life and Limb Supershow event on March 22nd in Somerville, Massachusetts: