Various: AJ Styles on “I May Have Gotten Rage Baited Into Chair Argument” Involving His Son Avery Styles At GCW Event, Sinner & Saint on Their Reasons For Their Departure Decision From TNA, Current Card for 10/1 TNA Impact! Show, Indies/Misc.

Oct 1, 2026

AJ Styles Comments on “I May Have Gotten Rage Baited Into Chair Argument” Involving His Son Avery Styles At GCW Event

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer AJ Styles and indies wrestler Arik Cannon were involved in an online incident on social media this past August over an argument revolving around Cannon’s claims that Styles’ son Avery did not help out with the ring setup at an event for Game Changer Wrestling this past July and Styles stating that his son was only paid to wrestle and not do other work. This dispute originated after Cannon had responded to online comments from Nattie who had praised Avery for being someone who was “paying his dues” for his wrestling career.

A recent episode of the What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes podcast featured AJ as the guest. One of the topics discussed included AJ’s thoughts about the “setting up the chairs” controversey situation involving his son Avery.

“Probably the most ridiculous thing that was ever talked about on X. I may have gotten rage baited into that.”

Host Cody Rhodes responded stating:

“I was standing by. I like to get in there every now and again. That one, I thought, ‘This kid. We’re not doing that.’ Ben Bishop had oddly a really good take on it. I wish it would’ve ended with that. One guy thought he was supposed to, and he was there, another guy wasn’t even on the show. He had a really good ‘let it be.’ Some of us, myself included, couldn’t let it be. I didn’t mean multi-gens didn’t need to do the thing they’re supposed to do. What I meant is there is a level of knowledge and osmosis. My mom and sister, I consider them wrestlers. They’ve never set up a chair in their life. They lived it. You went through your run with your children, you lived by it. A little grace, it all I’m saying. He’s got a target on his back and that’s never going to go away. I don’t regret for one second getting in there, but I didn’t mean second gens don’t need to set up chairs.”

Rhodes’ comments were in reference to a video Bishop posted on social media stating that new wrestlers usually help set up to earn a booking but Avery was already getting booked. Bishop also stated that the demand for Avery to help with things was pointless.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Sinner & Saint Comments on Their Reasons For Their Departure Decision From TNA

As noted before, Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus & Travis Williams) were granted their releases from TNA Wrestling this July.

A recent episode of Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds podcast featured Sinner & Saint as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Icarus and Williams’ thoughts about their reasons for their decision to leave TNA.

Judas Icarus – “We had just been there for a pretty long time and we had been really happy with a lot of the experience that we had gotten and gotten to work with Josh Alexander and Eric Young, I think specifically were big highlights and getting to do that for so long. I think it just got to a point where we really wanted to show that we were tag team wrestlers and that that was our speciality and that’s what we were there for. It felt like… there wasn’t too big of an interest in running with that at the moment and I think — I just felt like we had to prove ourselves and we wanted the chance to do that so I think, yeah, asking for our release was kind of the best route for us, just as far as, yeah, going back out there and being able to prove ourselves again I think. Because that’s kind of how we got there in the first place, right? As tag team wrestlers. I think we wanted to just show ourselves (the) best we could again. Put ourselves out there so I think, yeah, that’s what we’re doing now.”
Travis Williams – “I would just say yeah, give ourselves an opportunity and kind of bet on ourselves, and kind of pick up the ball on our own, which is just something that I think we both knew we needed to do for a little bit. But yeah, everything Judas said — 10-fold — and then also prove ourselves to ourself I think was another thing as well. As much as we needed to prove ourselves to everyone else, I think just being, ‘We can do this. This is something we know we can do and we could prove that ourselves and gotta go test ourselves against the best,’ whether that’s in Germany or whether that’s in England or whether that’s Wales… Check, check and check…”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Current Card for Thursday’s TNA Impact! Show

TNA Wrestling announced the card for Thursday’s TNA Impact! show on AMC and Sportsnet 360.

Current card for October 1st TNA Impact! show:

Vacant TNA X-Division Championship Qualifier match – BDE vs. Mr. Elegance
Order 4 (Special Agent 0 & Mustafa Ali) vs. The Great Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch)
Ricky Sosa vs. Cedric Alexander
Moose vs. AJ Francis
Leon Slater vs. Joe Alonzo
Zoey Serrano vs. Indi Hartwell
Syx (Joseph Sawyer & Samuel Shaw) to speak

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Joseph Sawyer and Samuel Shaw, former Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis in WWE, made their official surprise debuts for TNA Wrestling at last week’s live TNA Impact! show on September 24 in San Antonio, Texas. TNA recently confirmed that Sawyer and Shaw will be going by the team name of “Syx” in the company, which is a play on their former Wyatt Sicks group name in WWE.

As noted before, Joseph Sawyer suffered a knee injury at an event for Game Changer Wrestling this past Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pro Wrestling REVOLVER recently announced that they have pulled Sawyer from their upcoming REVOLVER IX: Tales From The Ring event on October 2 in Dayton due to his knee injury situation. It was announced that Sawyer’s previously scheduled Three-way match for the REVOLVER World Championship will now be a one-on-one match between Mance Warner and Damian Chambers (c).

Variety reported that streaming television provider Black Bear will be launching a new digital network called Black Bear Digital Networks. It was reported that the National Wrestling Alliance is among the companies that have joined this new network.

Indie wrestler Uncle Chase Burnett recently announced on Twitter that he has retired from his in-ring wrestling career due to him recently suffering a serious broken leg injury.

Billie Starkz recently revealed on Twitter that she had bought a new home.

The Chris Jericho cruise recently announced that a live episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featuring The New Level (Kofi & Austin Creed) as the guests will be taking place at their next Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise event this November.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Shotzi Blackheart’s Drive-In From Hell event on October 25 in Grindstone, Pennsylvania: