Various: Maria Kanellis on Evolution in Women’s Wrestling & Biggest Difference Being Women’s Wrestlers Who Have Kids Compared to When She First Started, Mistico’s In-Ring Return and More Set for Card of 6/5 CMLL Super Viernes Show, Indies/Misc.

Jun 3, 2026

Maria Kanellis Comments of Evolution in Women’s Wrestling & Biggest Difference Being Women’s Wrestlers Who Have Kids Compared to When She First Started

Wrestling Life Online held a recent interview with former WWE, TNA, and AEW/ROH wrestler Maria Kanellis. One of the topics discussed included Kanellis’ thoughts about the biggest differences in today’s era of women’s wrestling compared to when she started her wrestling career being the changes for women’s wrestlers who have children.

“When I first started, if you had a kid, you were quiet about it. You didn’t talk about it. You didn’t talk about your children and bless the women that did because that schedule way back when was so much harder than what I left wrestling and You used to be on the road four or five days a week, and at the time there was no FaceTime. So you were leaving your baby at home. You didn’t have the opportunities that you do now, as far as FaceTime and being able to connect on the phone. A lot of times, if you went internationally, you didn’t talk to anybody back home. There was no way. So the women that were able to have children back then and kept it quiet, they had to be strong women.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Mistico’s In-Ring Return and More Announced for Card of June 5th CMLL Super Viernes Show

CMLL recently announced the card for this week’s Super Viernes show on June 5th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

Current card for June 5th CMLL Super Viernes show:

Trios match – El Sky Team (Mistico, Mascara Dorada, & Neon) vs. Galeon Fantasma (Zandokan Jr., Difunto, & Furia Roja)
Soberano Jr. vs. Komander
Trios match – Barbaro Cavernaro & Los Villanos (Villano III Jr. & El Hijo del Villano III) vs. La Faccion Ingobernable (Sammy Guevara & The Beast Mortos) & Magnus
Trios match – Lluvia, Garra Negra, & Kira vs. Lady Frost, Dark Silueta, & Keyra
Trios match – Brillante Jr., Diamond, & Oro Jr. vs. Los Forajidos (Polvora, El Coyote, & Vaquero Jr.)
Rey Cometa & Espiritu Negro vs. Infarto & Cerebro Negro Jr.

🌎⏳🫰🏻🆚🫡 |😎♉
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📍Arena México
🗓️ Viernes 5 de Junio '26
🕣 8:30 p.m.

🎟️ en taquillas y en Ticketmaster:https://t.co/2XNmty9xZJ

📺 Transmisión EN VIVO para miembros nivel “Campeón Mundial” y “Leyenda”: https://t.co/5P6Lo6oSLQ #ViernesEspectacularCMLL pic.twitter.com/VRWCcUg5yo
— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) June 2, 2026

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Wednesday’s NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 2026 Night 12 event in Tokyo, Japan featured Master Wato winning A Block with 12 points and Kosei Fujita being the runner-up with 12 points due to tiebreakers and Robbie Eagles winning B Block with 12 points and YOH being the runner-up with 12 points due to tiebreakers in this year’s tournament. Master Wato will be facing off against YOH and Eagles will be facing off against Fujita in the Semifinal Round of this year’s tournament.

Variety reported that AAA’s Noche de Los Grandes 2026 event on May 30th drew around 2.24 million total views on WWE and Lucha Libre AAA’s official YouTube channels. This event was headlined by the Lucha de Apuestas, Mask vs. Mask match of El Grande Americano vs. Original El Grande Americano.

Deonna Purrazzo recently announced that Megan Bayne and The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) will no longer be making an appearance for her co-owned Battle For The Brave promotion’s event on May 30th due to circumstances beyond their control. Purrazzo also announced that Kris Statlander and a mystery AEW tag team will be replacing Bayne and The Infantry at the upcoming event.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that PCO will be making an appearance for the company at their MLW Mayhem Night 1 and Night 2 tapings on June 12-13 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Maple Leaf Pro also recently announced that Mauro Ranallo and Don Callis will be making a return as the commentary team for their MLW Mayhem tapings on June 12-13 in Windsor.

QT Marshall and Cody Rhodes’ Nightmare Factory recently announced that they will be holding a WWE ID Showcase event on June 26th in Atlanta, Georgia.

TNA Wrestling announced that they have recently launched this year’s PRIDE merchandise collection set in honor of this year’s Pride month with proceeds generated to be donated to the LGBTQ sports charity organization Out Athlete Fund.

In a recent interview with the Sports Jedi Network, Leon Slater gave his thoughts about his three favorite moments from his record tying TNA X-Division Championship reign that came to an end at then hands of Cedric Alexander at the May 14th episode of TNA Impact! Slater stated “I would say moment number one, the beginning of me and Je’Von. We didn’t touch, we didn’t move a muscle. We stood there and people stood up, we got a standing ovation before we even touched. I think that was a testament to the work that he was doing in NXT and a testament to the work I was doing in TNA. Number two for me would probably be the match itself against Myron Reed. That was the first time I’ve ever main evented at TNA pay-per-view in a singles match. Not only to have a killer match against someone I’ve looked up to for a while — I used to watch Myron’s highlights on the way to training. Not only to have a match against him but for the company to trust us to go and deliver the main event of a TNA PLE, that’s something super special. I’m tossing and turning between John Cena’s last match and being on that sort of stage as the X-Division Champion and doing SmackDown in my home country as the X-Division Champion. That’s like 3A and 3B for me, you know what I mean? Both super special moments obviously.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Austin Aires and Trevor Lee were awarded their Best Bout bonuses for their singles match against each other at their MLW Fusion season premiere show on May 30th on beIN Sports, Veeps, and MLW’s YouTube channel.

MLW also recently announced one new match for the card of their MLW Fusion show on June 6th on beIN Sports, Veeps, and MLW’s YouTube channel: