Various: Francesco Akira Suffered Fractured Wrist Injury, Evil Uno on Putting Longest Match Ever Together for Mystery Wrestling Being “It Was A Logistical Nightmare, But I’m Glad We Did It”, Indies/Misc.

Aug 27, 2025

Francesco Akira Suffered Fractured Wrist Injury

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced that Francesco Akira had suffered a fractured wrist injury at this past Friday’s RevPro 13th Anniversary event in London, England and will be out of action for the foreseeable future.

NJPW’s official website:

Francesco Akira to miss action with wrist fracture
Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
On August 22, while competing at RevPro’s Anniversary Event in the UK, Francesco Akira sustained a fracture to his right wrist, and will be missing action to allow the injury to heal.
We apologise for any concern caused and appreciate your understanding. NJPW joins fans in wishing Akira a speedy, full recovery.

Evil Uno Comments on Putting Longest Match Ever Together Being “It Was A Logistical Nightmare, But I’m Glad We Did It”

As noted before, Mystery Wrestling broke the record for longest ever match in wrestling at their co-promoted Fighting Back: The Longest Match event earlier this month in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

Fightful held a recent interview with Mystery Wrestling owner Evil Uno. One of the topics discussed included Uno’s thoughts about putting together the record setting longest match ever in pro wrestling history.

“No, I thought I would. I thought by now, I’ve had four nights of sleep, I would feel good. I don’t. Truthfully, for as bad as it is for me, I think it’s probably far worse for the men and the women who wrestled the full 22 hours. I only did an hour of wrestling and I sat on a chair most of it. But even then, if you get the chance to watch it on YouTube, you can watch us all be delirious between like 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. It’s a feat to see for sure.
So I know every year we do a charity stream and typically I’ll do like a 12 hour marathon on Twitch. Most years what we’ve done is I’ve brought in guests from all over the world of wrestling, from AEW, Impact, so on and so forth, a lot of like influencers and so on. So I knew I was at least gonna commit 12 hours to it and then on a completely different conversation unrelated to it, somebody had asked me, ‘I wonder what the longest match in the world is.’ When I Googled it, it said it was under 22 hours and unfortunately, this was like three weeks before we did the event. I went, ‘F it, we’re doing it. We’re gonna do 24 hours, I’m committing to it.’ Then I asked all of our local wrestlers who would be willing to do it and practically everyone did. The day we announced that we were doing it, was the day I thought of it. So, it was very poorly planned, but that is the Mystery Wrestling way, so.
So we knew we were gonna raise a decent amount of money just with the guests we were gonna have. If we’re basing it on previous years, we knew we would do well. My main concern is how are we going to keep this interesting for 24 hours and how are we going to make sure that, while we are aiming for 22 hours+, how am I going to make sure that no one gets hurt? That was definitely a logistical nightmare. I pressured my friends to do this match, but I thought like, ‘Oh, we’ll do eight on each side. It’ll give plenty people time to rest.’
What I didn’t anticipate was everyone is going to try to rest between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. So at a certain period of time, I went to the back to eat food, because I hadn’t had any food in 10 hours and I realized everyone was asleep on one side of the team, except for one guy, and he had been in there for several hours. So on the fly, we added people in. Surprisingly, some people had called in, they were around town and like, ‘Hey, I would love to join in.’ So we just added people to it. I would say it felt fine for the first six hours. I felt like, ‘Oh, we’ve got this,’ and then the next eight felt like, ‘This is a mistake. We’ll never do this again. What are we doing? This is not even wrestling,’ and then the last two felt good again. So logistical nightmare for sure, but I’m glad we did it. I do not think I’ll ever do that again though.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page recently released a new video on Twitter featuring an update on WWE Hall of Famer Lex Luger’s physical fitness rehab from a spinal stroke that has left him wheelchair bound since 2007. In the new video, it was revealed that Luger has been able to walk without needing the support of others.

Former WWE and WCW wrestler Jimmy Yang Wang, real name James Yun, will be releasing a new memoir titled James Yun: Yun’s Time on October 1st on Amazon Kindle.

As noted before, Raja Jackson, son of former UFC fighter Quintin “Rampage” Jackson, was involved in an incident over him legit assaulting a pro wrestler named Syko Stu, real name Stuart Smith, at an event for KnokX Pro Wrestling this past Saturday. YouTuber personality Mr. Beast and wrestlers Chris Jericho, Swerve Strickland, Rusev, and Ariya Daivari have been among those who have donated to Stu’s GoFundMe fundraiser which has currently reached over $135,000 raised out of a goal of $200,000.

The National Wrestling Alliance recently announced that they will be holding a new live event on September 26th in Queens, New York.

Jersey Championship Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding their the first-ever Luna Invitational tournament in honor of the late WWE Hall of Famer Luna Vachon at their Possession event on October 26th in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. It was also announced that Mara Sade, Nicole Matthews, Lena Kross, and Jade Stone are the first set of official competitors for this upcoming tournament.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that Toru Yano has taken on a more important role within New Japan Pro Wrestling. Those spoken to reportedly stated that Yano’s current role does not technically have an official name due to him dabbling in a “little bit of everything” including helping Gedo with the overall booking of the company. Sapp reported that Gedo is not expected to be stepping down from his head booker position anytime soon but Yano currently has enough responsibility backstage to influence some booking decisions.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp also reported in a recent Q&A article that despite his recent bookings for Ring of Honor and being paired together with The WorkHorsemen as a new Trios team, Adam Priest is currently not signed with any company and remains a free agent. Sapp reported that Priest is currently planned to work for AEW’s ROH brand.

In a recent interview with PWMania, TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater gave his thoughts about TNA Wrestling and WWE’s NXT brand working together and what his ideal storyline surrounding the working relationship would look like. Slater stated “As far as the storyline goes, my ideal storyline would be almost like an ‘Invasion’ storyline. That’s how I picture this culminating. There’s been all of this talk on who has the better wrestlers, better this, better that, but I think there’s only one way to see who’s the better brand. We take a team of four or five TNA all-stars and put them against a team of four or five NXT all-stars, and we see which brand is better. For me, that would be an incredible storyline. If that does happen one day, I’d be super eager to be a part of that TNA squad and represent my company.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Prestige Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Roseland XII event on October 5th in Portland, Oregon: