Eddie Kingston appeared at Sunday’s ROH TV tapings in Orlando, FL to provide an update on his injury.
Just last month, it was reported that Kingston has been dealing with a hernia injury and would likely need surgery. Kingston has now confirmed that he’ll be undergoing surgery on Tuesday, and he believes he’ll be able to return to action in around six weeks.
Kingston’s last match came at the ROH Supercard of Honor pay-per-view event on March 31st.
Source: eWrestlingNews
Earl Hebner, the iconic referee who called the infamous Montreal Screwjob, has announced that his daughter Katie will soon be following in his footsteps.
During a recent appearance on the “Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw” podcast, Earl announced that his daughter will be working as a referee for AEW very soon.
Katie Hebner will travel down to Florida to referee some matches at an upcoming TV taping, her father confirmed.
The younger Hebner had initially hoped to become a wrestler before a cracked bone in her back derailed those plans. Earl added,
“I wanted her to be a referee to begin with, but everybody wants to do their own thing. It’s fine with me, whatever she wants [to do], what makes her happy. So, if it works out, we’ll have another Hebner in the business.”
While Earl said his daughter has come to a deal with AEW, it is unclear which show she will be appearing on.
Source: eWrestlingNews
AEW Rampage will air tonight at a special time – 6:30pm EST. / 3:30pm PST on TNT
AEW Collision will air on TNT starting June 17, 2023, and will be built around the returning CM Punk.
The program joins AEW Dynamite, which airs every Wednesday night on TBS, and AEW Rampage every Friday night on TNT.
As reported earlier AEW has ended Dark and Dark: Elevation ahead of the launch of the new show.
Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Rampage would turn into what Dark and Dark: Elevation were as those programs showcased younger talent.
“The idea right now is for Dynamite and Rampage to tape together on Wednesday nights and Collision and ROH to tape together on Saturday nights,” Meltzer wrote.
Source: eWrestlingNews
There is believed to be a roster split in AEW with the idea of building their reported Saturday show, AEW Collison, around CM Punk as a way to separate him from those who don’t like him.
Thus, AEW will have to have some sort of roster split for Punk to have people to work with.
Punk is slated to return on June 17th, 2023, at the United Center in Chicago for the debut of the show.
In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com wrote the following,
“Punk will be the star of Collision most weeks, but he will be on Dynamite at times when needed. Those with unresolved issues with Punk would be on Collision the week he’s on Dynamite,” Meltzer wrote.
Meltzer added that there will be less of a split with the women’s roster due to a lack of depth. Plans are said to be “up in the air” and nothing is final. The idea is still to get people to resolve their issues.
Source: eWrestlingNews
Ahead of AEW launching its Collision show, a two-hour program on TNT starting June 17, 2023, the company has nixed its two streaming shows.
On YouTube, AEW had been airing Dark and Dark: Elevation every Monday and Tuesday. That is no longer the case, as reported by Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men Podcast. He wrote,
“AEW Dark and Dark Elevation have ended for the time being. This in part has to do with AEW signing a new deal for AEW Collision to air on Saturdays. Part of the new deal is that AEW Wrestling content will exclusively air on WBD. As of today, this doesn’t include ROH.”
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AEW Dynamite will air live tonight on TBS and emanate from the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
AEW will launch Collision on June 17th, 2023 with it airing on TNT as a two-hour program airing every Saturday night.
It will be built around CM Punk as a way to separate him from those who have issues with him and vice versa dating back to the All Out incidents.
Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that The Elite will remain on Dynamite while Punk and FTR will be used on Collision.
“If the idea is a talent split, with one group working Wednesday and another working Saturday, because Rampage is likely to be taped on Wednesday, that would mean it would have the Wednesday night crew predominately. The Saturday crew will be headed by Punk and FTR, and the Wednesday crew by The Elite and BCC,” Meltzer wrote.
Tonight’s AEW Rampage will have a special start time of 5:30 PM ET. on TNT.
AEW shocked the wrestling world on Wednesday night with Roderick Strong’s surprise debut on “Dynamite” in Sunrise, Florida. He had requested his WWE release last May, hadn’t been seen on WWE programming since August, and as of mid-March, was reportedly still under contract. So for him to show up on “Dynamite” to run in and save Adam Cole from the Jericho Appreciation Society was something almost no one saw coming. Very quickly, Fightful Select reported some details to try to help give context to what was a very left-field debut.
The most recent information that Fightful had was that the AEW talents they spoke to were “pleasantly surprised” that Strong had signed. On the WWE side, the newest information was that 2K Games had been told not to include Strong in the “WWE 2K23” video game, that other WWE talent had never been updated on his status, and he had not been at the WWE Performance Center “in quite some time” even though he was fully cleared to wrestle. The report also noted that Strong’s WWE run started its downward slide when Paul “Triple H” Levesque lost power in “NXT,” as he was behind Strong’s push as the center of a revitalized cruiserweight division.
Strong has been wrestling since 2000, breaking into the business when he was 16 years old after years of training under Jim Neidhart. After initially getting on the map for his work in the IPW promotion in Florida, he made a name for himself in Ring of Honor, where he was a mainstay for over a decade before signing with WWE in 2016.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
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