Various: Jake Hager Gets Knocked Out in Power Slap Match at 7/10 Power Slap Event, Evan Husney on Working With Missy Hyatt For Dark Side Of The Ring Season 7, Indies/Misc.

Jul 10, 2026

Jake Hager Gets Knocked Out in Power Slap Match at July 10 Power Slap Event

Friday’s Power Slap 21 event for American slap fighting promotion Power Slap in Las Vegas, Nevada featured former WWE and AEW wrestler Jake Hager suffering his second ever loss in his Power Slap fighting career.

Hager competed in a match against Amanpreet Singh, former TNA wrestler Mahabali Shera. This fight went to the third round and ended with Hager getting knocked out by Singh and the referee calling off the fight awarding the victory to Singh.

HAGER GOES DOWN

Amanpreet Singh with the R3 KO 💥

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Evan Husney Comments on Working With Missy Hyatt For Dark Side Of The Ring Season 7

Fightful held a recent interview with Dark Side of the Ring series co-creator and Executive Producer Evan Husney. One of the topics discussed included Husney’s thoughts about working with former wrestler and valet Missy Hyatt for the upcoming episode based on her for season seven of the series.

“It was great. It’s a story that, again, we’d been kicking around a little bit over the years to tell. We had interviewed her, I think for the Buff Bagwell episode a few seasons ago, and we sprinkled in some questions about her story and it was just very compelling. Not only is she a pioneering woman in the industry, who really in her time, she definitely was the most famous woman in wrestling at a particular point in time, and vital in terms of a lot of the storylines and angles that were going on at her peak.
Yeah, you’re 100 % right. She she’s still such a fan and student of wrestling. It feels like she’s always going back and watching wrestling history and brushing up on different areas or countries or things that she hasn’t seen yet before. I knew her story was dark going into it and I knew that she has overcome a lot and she’s been through a lot, whether that was like really intense substance abuse of many different kinds, but also just that the industry always hasn’t treated her in the best way.
She’s been exploited in certain ways. She’s been sort of humiliated. There’s been just horrible things that have happened to her in the business and the business hasn’t always been so kind. So I am, too, surprised that, she still loves the art of wrestling and appreciates it despite all of that. But thankfully she’s here to tell her story and she does a great job. The story is very emotional and gets into her history while also being very fun, looking at her entire ride from Jim Crockett promotions into WCW and even her brief WWF run, which didn’t work out, but just all of that is such a roller coaster ride in and of itself. So I’m glad for people to be able to get a chance to know more to know more about her.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, former WWE wrestler Mike “Duke The Dumpster” Droese was arrested this past May in Warren County, Tennessee on charges of attempted aggravated sexual exploitation of children. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Droese’s scheduled court hearing was once again postponed based on recent court records. Johnson reported that the court ordered Droese to make a plea with prosecutors by January 27, 2027 and if he does not, then a jury trial will take place in March of 2027.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the reason for the lack of ratings numbers for the July 2nd episode of TNA Impact on AMC was due to the show did not chart in the Top 100 shows on cable television for that night. Meltzer reported that would mean that week’s show drew a key demographic rating of 0.02 or under.

TNA Wrestling reportedly drew an attendance of 743 for their July 1st TNA Impact! tapings in Albany and 852 for their July 2nd TNA Impact! tapings in Albany, New York, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

NJPW reportedly drew an attendance of 1,486 for their July 6th Road to G1 Climax 2026 event in Tokyo and 1,490 for their July 7th Tiger Mask IV Retirement event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that Nick Wayne will be making an appearance for the company at their 20 Years of Bad Boy event on August 6 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

GCW also recently announced that they will be holding an event called Mind Your Business on September 11 in Denver, Colorado.

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Melee in Manchester event on July 12 in Manchester, New Hampshire: