— MCW Pro Wrestling held an event last night at the MCW Arena on 1000 Joppa Farm RD in Joppa, MD for “Slamboree”, sponsored by Jimmy’s Famous Seafood. There was a meet and greet at 6:30 PM with the event starting at 8 PM. Jack Swagger, Stevie Richards, Gail Kim and Kevin Matthews all appeared.
— AAA Lucha Libre from Mexico sent out the following today…
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide wrestling to be aired on free UK sports channel Front Runner
Mexico’s biggest wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide is set to be broadcast on UK television for the first time in its history, exclusively on the free-to-air sports channel Front Runner.
The first show will be aired on Wednesday 14th June at 9.30pm to 19 million homes across the UK and Northern Ireland on SKY ch469, Freesat ch250, Freeview ch91, Talk Talk/ BT ch91.
The fast action wrestling style of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, which is celebrating its 25-year anniversary this year, offers wrestling fans the chance to see some of the world’s greatest luchador wrestlers such as Johnny Mundo, Angelico, La Parka, Super Fly, Drago and luchadora Taya.
The Mexican promotion showcases the best ‘lucha libre’ style wrestling, focusing on rapid sequences of chain and grapple wrestling manoeuvres as well as high-flying offence from the top ropes. Many of the international competitors wear masks when competing.
Ross Ravago, from Front Runner said: “We are thrilled to be able to broadcast one of the biggest wrestling company’s to UK wrestling fans and believe that it is a fantastic alternative to similar programmes already shown in the UK.
He added: “Wrestling has a long heritage both here in the UK and in Mexico and we are delighted to be able to gain the rights to broadcast this world renowned weekly episodic show, every Wednesday night from 9.30pm.”
— Here is the card for NJPW’s June 11th Dominion event: * IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega * IWGP IC Title Match: Champion Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi * IWGP NEVER Openweight Title Lumberjack Death Match: Champion Minoru Suzuki vs. Hirooki Goto * IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match : Champions Roppongi Vice vs. the Young Bucks * IWGP Tag Team Title Match: Champions War Machine vs. The Guerrillas of Destiny * IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Champion Hiromu Takahashi vs. KUSHIDA * IWGP Never Openweight Six Man Title Gauntlet Match: Champions BUSHI, EVIL, & SANADA vs. Ricochet, Juice Robinson, & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Zack Sabre Jr vs. YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page * Michael Elgin vs. Cody * Tiger Mask W, Togi Makabe, Tiger Mask IV & Yuji Nagata vs. Jushin Thunder Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan * Pre-Show Match: David Finlay, Tomoyuki Oka, & Syota Unimo vs. Tetsuhiro Yagi, Hirai Kawato, & Katsuya Kitamura
— As we’ve been reporting, iMPACT! Wrestling will run its first live event in years on Saturday August 5th at 6 PM in Staten Island, NY at Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George. Tickets are now officially on sale (after the online pre-sale that they already did) at Siyanks.com and at the ballpark ticket office.
Lashley, Alberto El Patron, EC3, James Storm, Eli Drake, Eddie Edwards, Allie and LAX are currently scheduled to appear at the event, and all fans in attendance will receive a commemorative trading card set featuring iMPACT! Wrestling stars.
There will also be a VIP meet and greet featuring eight iMPACT! Wrestling talents at 4 PM for fans holding VIP tickets, prices are below…
* $70 – First Two Rows of Field Seats, which includes a pre-show VIP Meet & Greet at 4 PM.
* $60 – Rows 3-4 of Field Seats, which includes a pre-show VIP Meet & Greet at 4 PM.
* $50 – Rows 5 & Higher of Field Seats.
* $40 – First Seven Rows of Ballpark Seating.
* $25 – Rows 8 & Higher of Ballpark Seating.