Various: AJ Styles on Him Being “Blown Away” By His Son’s Avery Pro Wrestling Career Debut Match, Deonna Purrazzo Provides Update on Right Leg Injury Suffered at 6/22 ROH TV Tapings, Indies/Misc.

AJ Styles Comments on Him Being “Blown Away” By His Son’s Avery Pro Wrestling Career Debut Match

As noted before, this past Friday’s Freedom Fling event for Squared Circle Action in Royston, Georgia featured Avery Styles, son of WWE Hall of Famer AJ Styles, making his official in-ring wrestling career debut. AJ made an appearance at the event being in the corner for his son’s pro wrestling debut match.

A recent episode of The Phenomenally Retro Podcast featured AJ giving his thoughts about his son’s recent in-ring debut for his pro wrestling career.

“I don’t think they disappointed anyone whatsoever. Ashton Martin, Avery Styles, it was the main event. Listen, dude, I’ve never been so impressed with two young guys. I mean, they’re young. I think Ashton’s maybe a year, a year and a half in. And then of course, this is Avery’s debut match. And there’s a lot of things that we do with all this energy when we have that young energy that is — we use it in the wrong way. They used it really, really well. They didn’t rush through anything. They took their time on things they should have.

And listen, it’s not going to be perfect, but this is a debut match for Avery, and Ashton hadn’t had that many matches. So to see them do so well in a main event, both of them, I was blown away. If you would have seen my first match — terrible. Terrible. But these guys did really, really well. I am so impressed with everything they’ve done, their training. To see them put together that match and execute it so well — blown away.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Deonna Purrazzo Provides Update on Right Leg Injury Suffered at 6/22 ROH TV Tapings

As noted before, ROH Women’s Pure Champion Deonna Purrazzo confirmed that she had suffered a right leg injury at Ring of Honor’s ROH TV tapings on June 22 in Jacksonville, Florida. Purrazzo’s injury took place during her title match against Steph De Lander which resulted in the match being called off after Purrazzo was unable to continue.

Purrazzo provided an update on Monday on Instagram posting a photo of her in the gym and being on day one of her recovery from her injury.

“Day 1️⃣

#injuryrehab #gymtok”

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, TNA Head of Talent Relations and booker Tommy Dreamer departed from TNA Wrestling earlier this month. Dreamer’s departure was later confirmed by TNA to be part of a larger workplace reductions taking place within the company. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that there were no major creative departures from what had been planned by TNA going into this past Sunday’s Slammiversary 2026 event following the recent creative team changes ahead of the show.

As noted before, Trey Miguel has been out of action for TNA Wrestling since this past April’s Rebellion 2026 event due to a broken patella injury. Miguel recently provided an update on Twitter stating that he tried to get medically cleared in time for this past Sunday’s Slammiversary 2026 event but was unable to do so. Miguel stated “Second Slammiversary in a row I missed. Missing today hurt a little different. Congrats to everyone who worked their ass off today to put on another great PPV. I really tried to push hard enough to be cleared by today.“

CNBC reported that Comcast will be spinning off NBCUniversal into a separate publicly traded company. This new separate company will include Universal Pictures film studio, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, NBC News, Peacock, Bravo cable network, a theme parks division, and British television network Sky. It was reported that this separation is currently expected to be officially completed in about a year. NBCUniversal is the current partner of WWE for their WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event shows on Peacock.

GLEAT recently announced that they have joined United Japan Pro-Wrestling as the newest member promotion of the organization. GLEAT becomes the seventeenth promotion to join the organization, which includes NJPW, Pro Wrestling NOAH, All Japan Pro Wrestling, DDT Pro, Dragongate, and Stardom among its notable members.

GLEAT also recently announced that Kota Ibushi will be making an appearance for the company at their Fifth Anniversary Event on July 1 in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW recently announced one new match for the card of their Road to G1 Climax 2026 event on July 6 in Tokyo, Japan:

• IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship – Gabe Kidd vs. Shota Umino (c)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their You Only Die One event on July 11 in Hartford, Connecticut:

• GCW World Championship – Alec Price vs. Atticus Cogar (c)

Jersey Championship Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their In Our House event on July 26 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey:

• GCW Tag Team Championship – Controlled Kaos (Kid Chaos & Papa Juice) vs. Bustah & The Brain (Alec Price & Jordan Oliver) (c)

Boca Raton Championship Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Summer Smash 2026 event on August 16 in Boca Raton, Florida:

• BRCW Tag Team Championship – Ben Bishop & Kerry Morton vs. Sons of Boca (Cezar Bononi & Noah Kekoa)