Various: Kurt Angle on WWE Partnering with TNA & Potential of WWE Buying TNA Library, El Fiscal vs. El Grande Americano Set for 9/7 AAA Alianzas Show, Five New Matches Set for MLP Sacred Ground, Indies/Misc.

Aug 31, 2025

Kurt Angle Comments on WWE Partnering with TNA & Potential of WWE Buying TNA Library

A recent episode of the Mic Check with Ken Anderson podcast featured former TNA and WWE wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Angle’s thoughts about WWE’s current working partnership with TNA Wrestling and his belief that WWE will end up buying the TNA tape library.

“I was actually really excited, to be honest with you. I think I never thought in a million years, especially when we were competing against WWE, when Ken and I was at TNA, I never thought in a million years WWE would ever partner up with TNA, and the thing is, the reason why I love it, because I know eventually the WWE is going to buy the TNA library, and the WWE will now own all the Kurt Angle footage at TNA. The WWE fans are going to be able to have access to it. You know, I’m going to tell you right now, I had a much better career at TNA than I did WWE. I was there a lot longer, too. So most of my career was in TNA. A lot of the WWE fans didn’t see me. So now I have the opportunity of having the fans being allowed to see me compete in TNA and perform. It just…I know it’s going to happen eventually. I just never thought it would in a million years, but you know, now that they have partnered and they’re both, invested in each other. I think eventually they’re going to buy the library.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

El Fiscal vs. El Grande Americano Announced for September 7th AAA Alianzas Show

Lucha Libre AAA announced one new match for the card of their Alianzas show on September 7th at the Showcenter Complex in Monterrey, Mexico.

This new match announced was a singles match of El Fiscal vs. El Grande Americano.

El Grande Americano en Showcenter 🤯 ante El Fiscal 🤯🤯🤯

7 de septiembre, 5 PM gira #AlianzasAAA en @showcentermty.

🎟️ Boletos disponibles en: https://t.co/KhyPfAa8dg #AlianzasAAA 💫 pic.twitter.com/mSvmKIoGR1
— Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (@luchalibreaaa) August 30, 2025

Current card for September 7th AAA Alianzas show:

AAA World Trios Championship – Tokyo Bad Boys (Takuma, Kento, & Nobu San) vs. Psycho Circus (Panic Clown, Murder Clown, & Dave The Clown) (c)
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship – Lola Vice & Lince Dorado vs. La Hiedra & Mr. Iguana (c)
La Parka vs. Mecha Wolf
El Fiscal vs. El Grande Americano

Five New Matches Announced for MLP Sacred Ground

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling announced five new matches for the card of Sacred Ground, which takes place on September 5 at the Six Nations Sports & Cultural Centre in Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada.

Current card for MLP Sacred Ground:

MLP Canadian Women’s Championship & Destiny Women’s Championship Winner Takes All match – Gisele Shaw (MLP) vs. Priscilla Kelly (Destiny)
PWA Champions Grail match – Bishop Dyer vs. Rohan Raju (c)
Six-Man Tag Team match – Billy Gunn, Mike Rollins, & Bhupinder Gujjar vs. Sheldon Jean, Brent Banks, & Bryce Hansen
The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows) vs. The Flatliners (Asylum & Matt Burns)
PCO & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Taylor Rising & Kris Chambers

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Saturday’s debut event for Real American Freestyle Wrestling in Cleveland, Ohio featured former UFC fighter and TNA wrestler Tito Ortiz making a surprise appearance. During the show, Ortiz was shown in the crowd and later came out and confronted RAFW commentator Chael Sonnen. Ortiz issued a challenge to Sonnen to a match at a future RAFW show, which Sonnen accepted.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Bushiroad recently released their 2024-2025 fiscal year report revealing that New Japan Pro Wrestling and Stardom generated a combined net revenues of $43 million, down from last year’s fiscal year combined net revenues of $44.8 million. It was stated that profits was $1.2 million, down from last year’s profits of $3 million. Meltzer reported that NJPW’s overall live gates and overall revenues were down compared to last year while Stardom had a similar issue but managed to rebound in the final fiscal quarter of April to June. Meltzer reported that Bushiroad currently is hopeful that things will turn around in 2026 and believe attendance and total revenue will growing in the upcoming year due to Stardom being successful at establishing younger stars.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling reportedly drew a paid attendance of 742 for their Aug. 23 Tokyo Princess Cup 2025 Finals event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Pro Wrestling NOAH reportedly drew a paid attendance of 1,189 for their Aug. 25 Mohammed Yone 30th Anniversary ~ Disco Ball ~ event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This event was notable for being held in honor of the 30th anniversary of Mohammed Yone’s wrestling career debut.

Rob Viper reported that Lucha Libre AAA talent Taurus was involved in a fan incident at an indies event on August 23rd in Veracruz, Mexico. Taurus was competing in a tag team match with Abismo Negro Jr. against Octagon Jr. & Myzteziz. Taurus was involved in a double dive spot to the outside landing in the guard rail area resulting in a fan in the crowd hitting Taurus in the back with a camera. Taurus responded turning around and attempted to punch the man but missed him and ended up hitting a girl in the head instead. This led to girl getting busted open above the eye and required medical attention. Viper reported that this girl posted the full video of the incident online to clarify the situation after people had started accusing Taurus of punching her on purpose. This girl stated that Taurus and other wrestlers apologized for the incident and gave her gifts and all reached out to see if she was okay. Viper reported that the man who had hit Taurus managed to walk away as if nothing had happened and there was no security around. Viper also reported that many people in response to her video were telling the girl to sue WWE due to them being the new owners of AAA and it was an AAA talent who struck her despite it not being an AAA show.

In a recent interview with The Angle Podcast, Jeff Hardy gave his thoughts about his Willow character making a potential return appearance in TNA Wrestling in the future. Hardy stated “I actually have a TikTok now which is Enlightened Jeff Hardy and speaking of TNA and being open-minded, I have a feeling Willow will reemerge at some point, my alter ego. And on my TikTok I’m going to experiment with a conversation between present Willow and future Willow, so get ready.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

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 on August 23rd for KnokX Pro Wrestling. In a recent interview with The Masters of Wrestling podcast, indie wrestler and former KnokX Pro talent Douglas Malo stated that a detective friend of his recently informed him that the state of California will be getting involved in the investigation into Jackson’s attack incident. Malo stated “I talked to a detective friend of mine, and he told me the process of everything and how bad they drag their feet, especially LAPD. He’s saying that, because of the all the evidence, the state is going to pick it up. I’ve already talked to a detective who is on the case. It’s not like he’s not going to jail. He’s just not there yet.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

This past Friday’s ROH Death Before Dishonor 2025 event at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featured The Swirl (Blake Christian & Lee Johnson) defeating The Kingdom (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) in a tag team match. Bennett recently reflected on Twitter about him making his return to the 2300 Arena for the first time since 2021. Bennett stated “It felt really, really fucking good to be back last night. 2300 Arena, Ring of Honor, Death Before Dishonor. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I didn’t know what kind of reaction we were going to get; the Kingdom and ECW Arena, we have a love-hate relationship. There’s a lot of hate on their side, but they love to hate us. So last night, it was tricky. I didn’t know what was gonna happen. I was a little nervous. Fuck, man, you guys brought the love. You brought the love 100%. I can’t thank you enough. It’s just those moments like that. Last night was what I got. I have got goosebumps thinking about it. Last night was a moment I’m just going to remember forever. I’m going to appreciate it forever. I’m going to have that stored. It’s a core memory that’s going to stick in there forever, because I spent so many moments in my career in that building, so many moments with Taven, so many moments with Maria, so many moments with all the ROH guys, and that was just special. It was really, really fucking special. I’m constantly telling myself in the bad times that this too shall pass, but I need to remember the good times to remind myself that this too shall pass. I remember doing that in the ring last night after the match, lying there and crawling over to Taven and telling him that I love him and that that was so much fun. I just remember thinking to myself, appreciate this, because this too shall pass. This moment will go away. But if you just appreciate it now, it’ll last somewhere in the heart, somewhere in the brain forever.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, former AEW wrestler Jake Hager, former Jack Swagger in WWE, gave his thoughts about his recent decision to retire from wrestling. Hagger stated “I had done it since 2006, dedicated a lot of my best parts of my life to the sport, roughly 17-18 years, very grateful. Had a good gig for most of that and blessed to have done it. Because pro wrestling is very tough to get into, and there’s literally hundreds of thousands of people who want to become pro wrestlers, and it’s grown every day. Like I said, I don’t watch it anymore. So I think for me, I had accomplished everything that I really cared about and wanted to move on for the longest time. I always was like, what am I going to do after pro wrestling? What trade do I have? And this is a great story, I rode with Dutch Mantell for years, and I’ll put winning the World Heavyweight Championship up there with riding with Dutch Mantell, it was that important to my career, the things that I learned, the things that he taught me, and just his f*cking funny phrases. The guy has just a way with words. He could insult you and you’re like, Thank you Dutch. But he was always like ‘Jack, whatever you do from here, you gotta use what you did in pro wrestling at the WWE, the way they use you. You gotta use that background in whatever you venture into next.’ And if you think about it like that, advice always stuck with me. Okay, I could be a salesperson because I can talk on the mic in front of live people, or I could be endearing and be vulnerable at the same time. So that could help me with something else, but pretty much with pro wrestling, you’re a professional driver. You are gone Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then you’re home Wednesday, home 36 hours, and then you’re back out on Friday, and every single one of those days, you’re in a rental car, and you are driving town to town, making the town. So that really stuck with me, and it kind of like influenced me to go into the truck driving business, because I’m already a professional driver. I told Vince this once, the wrestling I’ll do for free, you got to pay me for the driving. And so it kind of led me to where I’m at now, and I’m excited.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)