Various: AJ Mana Says He Was Fired from His Day Job Over His Involvement with Raja Jackson’s Attack Incident at 8/23 Knokx Pro Event, Current Card for 9/4 Live TNA Impact! Show, Indies/Misc.

Aug 29, 2025

AJ Mana Says He Was Fired from His Day Job Over His Involvement with Raja Jackson’s Attack Incident at 8/23 Knokx Pro Event

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.

A recent episode of the F’Yall Podcast with C.T. Fletcher featured Knokx pro talent AJ Mana as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Mana revealing that he has been fired from his regular day job over his involvement in Jackson’s attack incident.

“For those that are offended at the fact that I just told the truth, f**k you, because now my f**king life is ruined over your lies. So f**k you…I got a call from my f**king job, ‘We saw the TMZ video. You’re an accessory to an attempted murder. We gotta let you go.’ I can’t wrestle anymore.”

Prior to his firing, Mana had been caught on camera telling Jackson that he should get a “receipt” on Stu over a beer can incident earlier in the show that involved Stu tossing the can at Jackson’s head and apologizing for it afterwards.

Transcript h/t: Cultaholic.com

Current Card for Next Week’s Live TNA Impact! Show

TNA Wrestling recently announced the current card for next week’s live TNA Impact! show on September 4th at The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The path to #TNABoundForGlory continues through #TNAVictoryRoad! But first…

Don’t miss an all-new #TNAiMPACT—LIVE THURSDAY at 8/7c on TNA+ worldwide, @Sportsnet360 in Canada, and at 9/8c on @AXSTV in the US. pic.twitter.com/cv2dfQKi0c
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) August 29, 2025

Current card for September 4th TNA Impact! show:

TNA Knockouts World Championship #1 Contender Three-way match – Indi Hartwell v. Jody Threat v. Dani Luna
Six-Person Tag Team match – The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) & Mara Sadé vs. Order 4 (Tasha Steelz & The Great Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch))
Moose v. AJ Francis
Ash by Elegance TNA Knockouts World Championship celebration
Nick Nemeth to return

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured TNA announcing the The System’s JDC is out of action indefinitely with a head injury following Order 4’s Agent Zero’s attack on him during last week’s show.

This past Wednesday’s episode of CMLL Informa featured the announcement of Brodido (Brody King & Bandido) will be making an appearance for CMLL at their Super Viernes show on September 12th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

CMLL also recently announced that they signed a partnership deal with Game Freaks for a Pokemon themed crossover event on September 25th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City.

Westside Xtreme Wrestling recently announced the full field for this year’s Femmes Fatales tournament on September 26-28 in Oberhausen, Germany. The full field of competitors are Leyla Hirsch, Safire Reed, Stephanie Maze, Emersyn Jayne, Anita Vaughan, Baby Allison, Orsi, and B3CCA.

House of Glory recently announced that The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) will be making an appearance for the company at their With Glory Comes Pride event on October 10th in Jamaica, New York.

Prestige Wrestling recently announced that they raised $4,500 from their FJR charity event on August 23rd in Portland, Oregon. It was announced that all proceeds generated will be going towards RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) non-profit organization. This charity event was held in response over Portland Wrestling’s booking of disgraced wrestler Joey Ryan for an event that was later cancelled due to online backlash against the company and Prestige warning any talent who worked at Portland Wrestling’s show would never be booked by them again.

Action Wrestling recently announced that Angelico is the next official competitor for the Maestros Trios match at their D3AN!!! event on September 6th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, former WWE referee Mike Chioda gave his thoughts about him being “pretty much” retired from wrestling but he is open to working a match “here or there.” Chioda stated “Pretty much, yeah. I mean, if there’s a match or two, or something like that, I’ll do here and there. Ric Flair’s Last Match I did, I had done a match in the Jersey Shore for Fight Factory and for New Jersey. So it was nice to get down there, and those guys are great at Fight Factory. So it’s really pick and choose, but I’m doing seminars, training refs in Orlando, doing a bunch of and signings and stuff. And the podcast, yeah, Monday Mailbag with Mike Chioda, with Conrad Thompson, on ad-free shows. They’ve been great to me for four and a half years, five years almost.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with NJPW’s NJPW1972 website, Konosuke Takeshita gave his thoughts about his match against EVIL in the Finals of this year’s G1 Climax tournament. Takeshita stated “I think when it comes to being the worst, he’s the best. I really think he’s one of the best opponents I’ve ever had. And he’s tough, you know? He has to be. He really is the best at being the worst. What we do in the ring is completely different, but I think we both have a strong idea of what we want to show the people. We both have something clear in mind that we use wrestling to get across, and I think in that regard, I might be closer in wavelength to EVIL than anyone in NJPW.” Takeshita also gave his thoughts about the crowd cheering for EVIL during the match despite him being the bad guy. Takeshita stated “No, I expected that (crowd to cheer for EVIL in G1 Final). If I was a fan in the same situation, I would want EVIL to win, I think. So I figured I had an uphill climb in front of me and it was all about spirit on my part. I was hurt from the day before with Zack (Sabre Jr.) as well, so it was really about giving it all the spirit I had and getting through, come what may. And EVIL really responded in kind.“

Shotzi Blackheart recently announced that she will be holding a new event for Game Changer Wrestling called Shozti Blackheart’s House of Horrors on October 24th in Rochester, New York.

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Homecoming Los Angeles event on September 20th in Los Angeles, California: