Various: Braun Strowman on His In-Ring Career Future Being “I’ll Get Back In The Ring When A Dump Truck Of Gold Blocks Gets Dumped On My Porch”, Big Damo on His Decision to Sign with MLW & How Shoulder Injury Delayed His Signing, Indies/Misc.

May 5, 2026

Braun Strowman Comments His In-Ring Career Future Being “I’ll Get Back In The Ring When A Dump Truck Of Gold Blocks Gets Dumped On My Porch”

Former WWE talent Braun Strowman, real name Adam Scherr, has not wrestled since April of 2025 and has been absent from wrestling since his departure from WWE in July of 2025.

Strowman recently responded to fans asking him questions about when he will be making his in-ring return. Strowman also promoted the upcoming new season of his Everything on the Menu television series on USA Network.

“For everyone asking when I’m getting back in the ring.
When a dump truck of gold blocks get dumped on my porch!!!
Otherwise I’ll see ya Jun5th for season two of Everything On The Menu!”

For everyone asking when I’m getting back in the ring.

When a dump truck of gold blocks get dumped on my porch!!!!

Otherwise I’ll see ya Jun5th for season two of Everything On The Menu!#AlwaysTheMainEvent #BillionDollarBraun #IAmInevitable #BraunStrowman #icon
— The Monster of all Monsters (@Adamscherr99) May 4, 2026

Big Damo Comments on His Decision to Sign with MLW & How Shoulder Injury Delayed His Signing

As noted before, Big Damo, former Killian Dain in WWE, recently signed an official contract with Major League Wrestling.

A recent episode of Fightful’s In The Weeds podcast featured Big Damo as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Damo’s thoughts about his decision to sign with MLW.

“You hear a million times, it’s pretty easy to get dangled carrots and things like that when you’re a former WWE superstar. MLW has been very straightforward. They got in touch, they were very patient, I was recovering from a minor injury, and they were very patient with me. We were able to work out something very quickly. I’m delighted. It’s an incredible roster. My mind was kind of blown when I was looking at it because there are so many lads I’ve worked with and some that I’ve trained. One of my best friends, Donovan Dijak is there as well. It’s really checking all the boxes for me. Most importantly for me, they were very patient with my recovery and little things like that go a long way for me. I’ve been wrestling for 22 years. To have a stacked roster and to be straightforward is as good as it gets 22 years in.”

Damo also gave his thoughts about how his shoulder injury this past January ended up delaying his signing with MLW.

“I dislocated my shoulder in January. I had a minor tear after. I’ve done my best to work around it as best I can, but I’ve had to miss a couple of dates in Ireland for OTT. They’ve been very gracious to help me recover, and MLW were great. I was meant to start in January, but I had to miss due to rehab. I’ve been working around it as best I can. MLW has been very patient. I’m fighting fit and ready to go. It’s been phenomenal to have that grace. It’s one of those things where a big opportunity might come around, and you end up missing it because of one thing or another. I thought this was one of those times, but MLW worked with me, and I’m very excited it paid off.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Kraneo recently announced that he has departed from CMLL. Kraneo’s announcement was first made by a video posted by his nephew and lucha wrestler El Hijo de Alebrije on Instagram. Prior to his departure, Kraneo had been with CMLL since 2010.

The National Wrestling Alliance recently announced that this year’s Hard Times 6 event will be taking place on June 6th in Atlanta, Georgia.

WrestleCon recently announced that their Destination WrestleCon Minneapolis convention event will be taking place from July 31st to August 2nd at the Hilton, Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Monday’s NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Night 2 event in Fukuoka, Japan featured Konosuke Takeshita being revealed as the newest member of the Hontai stable. During Takeshita’s match against Chase Owens for the NJPW World Television Championship, several members of HOUSE OF TORTURE came out to attack Takeshita to help out Owens. This led to Shota Umino and several others from Hontai coming to even the odds and help Takeshita deal with HOT. Following the match, Takeshita gave some comments about his match to the backstage press leading to Umino, Toru Yano, and Aaron Wolf showing up. All three congratulated Takeshita on his title defense and Takeshita responded back asking if he could join Hontai. Umino accepted the proposal making Takeshita an official member of Hontai.

Monday’s YES! Wonderland ’26 event for Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling in Tokyo, Japan featured Hakuchumu (Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi) defeating The IInspiration (Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee) to become the new TJPW Princess Tag Team Champions.

Monday’s Chapter 194: Super Strong Style 16 2026 Night 2 event for PROGRESS Wrestling in London, England featured Charles Crowley defeating Charlie Sterling in the Finals of the Men’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament to become the winner of this year’s Men’s tournament.

Monday’s Chapter 194: Super Strong Style 16 2026 Night 2 event for PROGRESS in London also featured Rhio defeating Gisele Shaw in the Finals of the Women’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament to become the winner of the inaugural Women’s tournament.

This past Sunday’s AJPW Champions Carnival 2026 Night 8 event in Utsunomiya, Japan featured Yuma Anzai suffering a right knee injury during his A Block match against Kuma Arashi. Anzai had attempted to continue the match through the injury but was eventually unable to do so resulting in the referee calling for the bell. Following the match, medics entered the ring to attend to Anzai.

Reality of Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Power Shift event on May 9th in Texas City, Texas: