Alex Shelley will defend the Impact Wrestling World Championship against Vinny Pacifico at an FWE event on September 9.
Before that, Shelley will put the Impact World Title on the line against Nick Aldis at Impact Wrestling’s Slammiversary pay-per-view event next weekend.
It’s unclear if Aldis will replace Shelly at FWE in case the title changes hands at Slammiversary, or whether Shelly will wrestle Pacifico without the title.
First time ever.
Alex Shelley VS Vinny Pacifico for the @IMPACTWRESTLING World Championship.
Be there @fwe_live. pic.twitter.com/4RBpAItOKq— Vinny Pacifico (@VinnyPacifico1) July 6, 2023
David Finlay is pleased with his current run as the leader of the Bullet Club, and he discussed the upcoming G1 Climax 33 tournament in a recent interview with NJPW.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On how his time in Bullet Club has gone so far: “Everything is going according to plan. I said last year to expect me, and I don’t think people knew what to expect. But I had this in the works for a very long time. I’m having a killer year- the best of my career. The only one that’s been able to beat me one on one is SANADA, and he’s the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. That’s the only guy that’s been able to come anywhere close.”
On tapping into his new, more brutal side: “When I first came to Japan, I was this 21 year old kid and they told me that ‘oh, if you just follow the system, if you do things the Japanese way, you’ll get X,Y,Z’ but that never happened to me. I started noticing that the people that were successful- Juice Robinson got successful when he dropped the façade and became his true self. Jay White did the same. In the end I realized that opportunities don’t get handed to you, you have to take them… One day I looked at myself in the mirror, and I remembered that my last name is ‘Finlay’. I’m a Fighting Finlay. That last name has a reputation. But a legend in this business made a point of telling me he wasn’t scared of me, that I made him laugh? That ate at me for years. I don’t think anyone’s laughing now. My goal is to be feared.”
On Kingston: “Eddie got to do what I wish I could have done when he sent Jay White packing. Beyond that though, I’ve never had any thoughts about Eddie Kingston… Look, he was an indie darling for years and years, and finally got his big chance to talk and talk on national TV. But not he’s in deep waters. By the time he gets to me, he’ll have wrestled an entire G1, so I can’t wait for him to find out what the real big leagues are. I’m not Jay White, he fought like a coward. I fear no man, people fear me.”
