The Following is scheduled for tonight’s Lucha Underground on the El Rey Network:
* Johnny Mundo and the Worldwide Underground plot revenge
* Jack Evans issues a Put Up or Shut Up Challenge
* A new competitor comes for the Lucha Underground champion
* Fenix, Jeremiah Crane, and Mil Muertes battle it out in an epic 3-Way to the Grave Match
* Lucha Underground Championship: (C) Pentagon Dark vs. “The Monster” Matanza Cueto
* Still in the clutches of Kobra Moon, the fire-breathing DRAGO returns
* El Dragon Azteca Jr flies into the Temple
Lucha Underground returns tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern (7:00 CT) on the El Rey Network with their Season 4 premiere episode.
Preview synopsis for the premiere episode reads as the following:
“The Lucha Underground’s Temple moves to a new location and Pentagon Dark mut defend his Lucha Underground Championship for the first time. Dario Cueto’s fate is revealed.”
El Rey has also issued the following videos to hype up the Season 4 premiere. 22 episodes were shot for Season 4 back in March in Boyle Heights, California.
New Japan Pro Wrestling is continuing to gain popularity as a promotion. Although the company has been in operation since 1972, it has only been the past few years that they have made such a strong American presence. For years, NJPW has partnered with American promotions such as the NWA and Ring of Honor, even featuring these promotions and the NWA and ROH World Championships on their annual Wrestle Kingdom pay-per-view.
However, due to the ongoing western popularity, New Japan had their first American independent event last year, G1 Special in USA, which crowned Kenny Omega as the inaugural IWGP United States Champion after winning an eight-man tournament. Since then, the promotion announced two more U.S. events, Strong Style Evolved which occurred on March 25, and G1 Special in San Francisco, scheduled for July 7.
With the influx of gaijin (non-Japanese, or “foreign”) wrestlers now frequently competing in New Japan, such as Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Cody, Will Ospreay, Marty Scurll, Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin, Zack Sabre, Jr., Jay White, Bad Luck Fale, Killer Elite Squad, Beretta, and more, other names have become interested in joining the promotion. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, former Intercontinental Champion John Morrison has inquired to New Japan to compete for the company.
Morrison, 38, left WWE in 2011. Since then, he has competed for a number of promotions, primarily Impact Wrestling, Lucha Underground, and AAA. According to the Observer, Morrison’s relationship with AAA may cause a snag in being able to join New Japan. There had been some interest previously, but this same issue kept him from joining the New Japan roster. New Japan typically does not use anyone from the AAA roster, due to their working relationship with CMLL. However, New Japan executives have seemingly softened their restrictions on the AAA ban, since Rey Mysterio is competing for both promotions.
Source: WrestlingINC
A trailer for the latest season of CBS’s award-winning reality series Survivor revealed Impact Wrestling/Lucha Underground star John Morrison has slingshot his way into the cast.
The theme for season 37 is “David vs. Goliath.” As you can imagine, Morrison will be on Team Goliath.
“I’m as fast as a Corvette and as big as a Hummer,” Morrison says in the trailer. “Millions of wrestling fans know me as Johnny Mundo, the mayor of Slamtown. I’ve been a champion of every organization that I’ve worked for. I’m something extraordinary.”
Team Goliath is described as competitors who come from privilege and have capitalized on their advantages to crush the competition — including in the professional wrestling ring. Naturally, that leaves Team David to be like the rest of us who don’t have an 8-pack and luscious, flowing hair.
Earlier this month, we reported Morrison had been rumored to be part of the latest Survivor taping.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
Survivor is about to get taken to Slamtown — as John Morrison (Johnny Impact/Johnny Mundo) is reportedly part of the cast in the upcoming season which recently wrapped filming.
According to Inside Survivor, Season 37 is scheduled to air this fall and the Impact Wrestling/Lucha Underground star is one of the new castaways who lived on Fiji’s Mamanuca Islands during filming.
Sources close to Morrison were coy about confirming the casting news, but none denied the report when The Sheet reached out to verify its authenticity.
The last wrestler to be featured on Survivor was Ashley Massaro in 2007.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
During last weekend’s Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground show it was announced season four of Lucha Underground will begin on June 13 at 8pm ET. Season three finished up back on October 18, 2017. The show will return on the El Rey Network.
Lucha Underground stars Angelico and Jack Evans both announced on Twitter they would be parting ways with the company. Angelico began his run in 2014 with the company and commented, “Now it is time to take another leap of faith.”
Evans retweeted Angelico and also said he is finished with Lucha Underground after being with the company since 2015. A fan asked him why he was leaving and Evans said the main reason was being “lied to about the contract.” Although the company has now relaxing their restrictions, wrestlers weren’t able to work televised appearances outside of Lucha Underground, even between tapings. He also referenced an argument with Ivelisse as a catalyst, unclear if that was joke or not. Evans also noted he will make an appearance in the upcoming season.
https://twitter.com/Zulfiqar_Impact/status/983879348116652032
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Impact X-Division Champion Matt Sydal vs. MOOSE vs. Caleb Konley vs. Matanza Cueto vs. Jack Evans vs. Chavo Guerrero – Winner: Matanza
* Impact Knockouts Championship: Allie (c) vs. Taya Valkyrie – Winner: Allie
* Scott Steiner & Teddy Hart vs. oVe – Winners: Scott Steiner & Teddy Hart
* Drago, Aerostar & King Cuerno vs. Andrew Everett, DJZ & Desmond Xavier – Drago, Aerostar & King Cuerno
* Trevor Lee vs. Marty “The Moth” Martinez – Winner: Trevor Lee
* Impact Tag Team Championship: LAX (c’s) vs. Killshot and The Mack – Winners: LAX
* Eli Drake vs. Brian Cage – Winner: Brian Cage
* I Quit Match: Eddie Edwards vs. Jeremiah Crane (Sami Callihan) – Winner by Forfeit: Jeremiah Crane (Sami Callihan) – Crane pulls out the bat from under the ring! Crane sets the chair up over Eddie’s face again and then Crane decks the referee with the bat as he begged Crane not to do it. Don Callis comes out and screams at Crane not to do it. Callis throws a towel in the ring to call the match. Crane decides to hit Eddie with the bat anyway but Moose hits the ring with a chair and chases him off.
Alberto Del Rio was not there main event changed to a Triple Threat Match
* Triple Threat: Impact World Champion Austin Aries vs. Fenix vs Lucha Underground Champion Pentagon Jr. – Winner: Pentagon Jr.
The following card will air on tonight’s Impact vs. Lucha Underground live special on Twitch from WrestleCon in New Orleans, beginning at 10:00 PM ET:
* Impact World Champion Austin Aries & Fenix vs. Alberto El Patron & Lucha Underground Champion Pentagon Jr.
* Impact Tag Team Championship: LAX (c’s) vs. Killshot and Da Mack
* Impact Knockouts Championship: Allie (c) vs. Taya Valkyrie
* I Quit Match: Eddie Edwards vs. Jeremiah Crane (Sami Callihan)
* Scott Steiner & Teddy Hart vs. oVe
* Eli Drake vs. Brian Cage
* Trevor Lee vs. Famous B
* Impact X-Division Champion Matt Sydal vs. MOOSE vs. Caleb Konley vs. Matanza Cueto vs. Jack Evans vs. Chavo Guerrero
* Drago, Aerostar & King Cuerno vs. Andrew Everett, DJZ & Desmond Xavier
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