Various: Rey Mysterio Provides Octagon Jr. Neck Injury Update at 7/18 AAA TV Show, Steve Maclin on He’d Love To Work in ROH for Potential Next Destination in His Wrestling Career, Tetsuya Naito vs. Shane Haste for GHC Heavyweight Title Set for 8/9 NOAH Legacy Rise 2026

Rey Mysterio Provides Octagon Jr. Neck Injury Update at 7/18 AAA TV Show

As noted before, Octagon Jr. has been out of action for Lucha Libre AAA since this past May’s Noche de Los Grandes 2026 event due to a neck injury.

Saturday’s AAA TV show on FOX Latin America and WWE and AAA’s YouTube channels featured AAA General Manager Rey Mysterio providing an update on Octagon Jr.’s recovery from his neck injury.

Mysterio confirmed that Octagon Jr. had suffered a neck injury and that he has a long recovery and rehab ahead of him.

¡Importantes anuncios de nuestro Gerente General! No te pierdas todo lo que viene para AAA. 🚨💥 pic.twitter.com/sHlyyWJIZ3

— Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (@luchalibreaaa) July 19, 2026

---

Steve Maclin Comments on He’d Love To Work in ROH for Potential Next Destination in His Wrestling Career

As noted before, Steve Maclin was released from TNA Wrestling this past June. Maclin’s release was revealed to have been something he had requested and was granted by TNA due to his growing frustrations with the creative direction and talent pay issues in the company.

A recent episode of the Boots to Boots podcast featured co-host Maclin giving his thoughts about his interest in potentially joining Ring of Honor in the future.

“Yes, I would love that. I got to wrestle Gresham a few times for the Pure Title when he was at TNA. At that time they were using ROH before ROH was bought by AEW. It was kind of cool to stick my toes into that water a little bit and kind of dabble into Pure Rules. It was fun because it just opens up the playbook. But to go there and have the Code of Honor and then just the history to be a part of that too. Then again, it’s another check off a bucket list of working for almost every major company. ROH was a big part of the boom and how wrestling changed. It wasn’t about the big burly muscular guys flexing and saying, ‘Hey, brother.’ Like it got to where it’s normal guys being athletic, which opened up the floodgates for everybody on independents to finally like step it up a little bit. It’s like, ‘All right, cool.’ Like it was also just the proving ground. The amount of names that have come through ROH that are where they are now is just insane. So yes, the answer to your question, if I was to go to Ring of Honor, I would love to work there cause somebody else works there too.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

---

Tetsuya Naito vs. Shane Haste for GHC Heavyweight Title Set for 8/9 NOAH Legacy Rise 2026

Saturday’s Summer Epic 2026 event for Pro Wrestling NOAH in Osaka, Japan featured Tetsuya Naito defeating Kaito Kiyomiya in a singles match and Shane Haste defeating OZAWA to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship.

Following Haste’s victory, Naito came out and issued a challenge to Haste for his GHC Heavyweight title, which Haste accepted.

Tetsuya Endo:

“Congrats on the defense.

Next up is Naito — show RYUSEI something cool out there.

But hey, Shane, win it.”#noah_ghc https://t.co/Kn66VbCclI

— PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) July 18, 2026

It was announced that this title match will be taking place at NOAH’s Legacy Rise 2026 event on August 9 in Tokyo, Japan.

👑 8/9 Korakuen — GHC Heavyweight Title Match SET‼️‼️

LEGACY RISE 2026
📅 Sunday, August 9th — 6:30 PM JST
🏢 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

👑 GHC Heavyweight Championship
(Champion) Shane Haste
vs
(Challenger) Tetsuya Naito

※ 50th champion’s 4th defense#noah_ghc pic.twitter.com/iKLvX7KUxz

— PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) July 18, 2026