Various: CMLL 93 Anniversary Show Set for 9/18 in Mexico City, Mads Kruger (Krule) Reportedly Departed from MLW, Indies/Misc.

May 21, 2026

CMLL 93 Anniversary Show Announced for September 18th in Mexico City

CMLL announced that this year’s 93rd Anniversary event will be taking place on September 18th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

⚠️ DE ÚLTIMA HORA: YA HAY FECHA PARA EL 93 ANIVERSARIO DEL CMLL
Será el próximo Viernes 18 de Septiembre cuando en la Arena México se celebre La Fiesta Máxima de la Lucha Libre. #CMLL pic.twitter.com/zXkZkFGz0t
— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) May 22, 2026

Mads Kruger Reportedly Departed from MLW

PWinsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Mads Kruger, also known as Krule, recently departed from Major League Wrestling.

No other details were given regarding Krugger’s departure from MLW.

Prior to his departure, Krugger had been working for MLW since February of 2024, following a prior stint from November of 2019 to September of 2022. Krugger was a one-time MLW World Champion during his time in the company.

Outside of MLW, Krugger was involved in a alleged fan stabbing incident that was later confirmed to have been faked at an event for Ruthless Pro Wrestling this past April at the Berwyn Eagles Club in Chicago, Illinois. This incident led to the venue no longer hosting wrestling events due to legal-related issues caused by it.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show on AMC and Sportsnet 360 featured Jeff Hardy’s Willow persona making a surprise appearance. Near the end of the singles match between Vincent and “Broken” Matt Hardy with the stipulation of Jeff and Dutch being handcuffed to ring posts, Vincent laid out “Broken” Matt and held up a key teasing he was going to free Dutch. This led to the lights going out and when it came back on, Willow was seen standing in the ring. Willow then attacked Vincent and left the ring as the lights went out again. When the lights came back a second time, “Broken” Matt got back on his feet and laid out Vincent with a Twist of Fate for the pinfall victory. This was the first time Willow made an in-person appearance in TNA since April of 2025.

TNA Wrestling announced five new matches for the card of next week’s TNA Impact! show on May 28th on AMC and Sportsnet 360:

Men’s Champions Challenge match – TBAs vs. TBAs
Knockouts Champions Challenge match – TBAs vs. TBAs
Santino Marella vs. Channing ‘Stacks’ Lorenzo
Fabian Aichner vs. Eddie Edwards
Harley Hudson vs. Tessa Blanchard

Ring of Honor announced that next week’s ROH TV show on May 28th on HonorClub will feature a replay of the ROH World Championship match between Volador Jr. and Bandido at CMLL’s Super Viernes show on May 22nd in Mexico City, Mexico.

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch passed away on Thursday at the age of 41 following his hospitalization for a severe illness. Busch’s passing was first announced by his family and NASCAR who issued an official joint statement. Busch was notable in wrestling history for being a one-time WWE 24/7 Champion and also for his appearance as a guest host for an episode of WWE RAW in 2009.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a fan fest event on July 10th in Chicago, Illinois. This upcoming fan event will be taking place the day before NJPW’s G1 Climax 2026 Night 1 event in Chicago.

Evil Uno’s Mystery Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding three new events this summer in Canada and the United Kingdom. These new events are a Mystery Wrestling 27 event on July 25 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a Mystery Wrestling 28 event on August 29th event in London, England, and a Mystery Wrestling 29 event September 13th event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Recently leaked footage from Sega’s yet to be announced new Virtua Fighter VI: Crossroads game revealed that Will Ospreay’s Hidden Blade finisher and Ricochet’s Spirit Gun finisher are some of the moves included in the game.

As noted before, Kim Turman Laurinaitis, widow of Road Warrior’s Animal, recently publicly criticized A&E over her issues with their “disgusting” treatment of her late husband and Hawk in this past Sunday’s episode of Biography: WWE Legends on the Road Warriors. In a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio podcast, Laurinaitis gave her thoughts about her issues with A&E’s handling of the episode and Bruce Prichard being among those who were interviewed. Laurinaitis stated “I’ll be quite honest, Bruce Prichard, I battled with him online lately. He rips my husband on his podcast a lot of times or little clips. And I’m thinking, why are you even on here talking about him? We know you don’t really care for him. So I would have rather had people that had positive things to say and really meant them.” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

Indies wrestler Joseph Alexander recently announced on Twitter that his father’s car that he was using to travel to do some extras work for AEW and weekend bookings caught on fire and he escaped unharmed. Alexander stated that this fire destroyed nearly all of his merchandise he had inside of it that he was planning to sell this week and also caused him to miss his scheduled commitments. Alexander also stated that those wishing to help him financially recover can donate to his CashApp or buy his remaining shirts. Alexander stated “Hi guys…. I’ve honestly never ever had to do this so please be easy on me. It’s a long read. On Tuesday this week I was driving up north for some shows and extra work for AEW which I was very excited about. I took my dad’s car up and in the middle of Virginia I heard a sound and then saw smoke and immediately after the car caught fire while i was still inside. Thankfully I was able to pull off and get out without any harm done. This was a very traumatic experience that I was not going to share. However when I got home yesterday and saw all the damages I seen mainly all my merch was destroyed, 8x10s, cards, stickers and most of my shirts As you know this stuff is very expensive and I just genuinely do not have all the funds to just whip up a new set of shirts and merch instantly. However I have about 6 shirts left (select sizes) completely untouched and I washed them to rid of the smell of smoke. I’d love to send them out to whoever wants them. Below I’ll leave my cashapp for any donations which would be greatly appreciated you don’t understand. First and foremost I want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ for making sure I was safe unharmed and walked away alive. I hope there’s more opportunities to come with AEW and the other shows I would have done this weekend, but I am just grateful for my health. Again if you want a shirt please DM me, any donations again are greatly appreciated. Thank you! – Joseph“

As noted before, Major League Wrestling recently announced that their MLW Fusion series will be returning for a new season on May 30th on beIN Sports and YouTube. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that the reason why MLW announced Fusin’s return to beIN and YouTube was due to the company is still working on something else for a deal for Fusion but they want to make sure they are also on YouTube. MLW officials reportedly feel that YouTube is where the younger generation of fans consumes their content now.

MLW recently announced one new match for the card of their MLW Fusion season premiere show on May 30th on beIN Sports and YouTube: