Category: MLW

Killer Kross Set For MLW Return

Former WWE Superstar Killer Kross (Karrion Kross) will return to MLW for the first time since 2020.

The Killer Kross comeback will continue in MLW! A vignette promoting Kross’ imminent return to promotion aired during the most recent edition of MLW Fusion.

Kross will perform in an MLW ring for the first time since 2020 at the company’s Super Fight event, which takes place at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on February 26.

Shortly after making his MLW debut in February 2020, Kross signed for WWE and reported for duty on the company’s developmental brand NXT. Kross debuted for NXT in April 2020 and had the proverbial rocket strapped to him. He went on a dominant streak that culminated at NXT TakeOver: XXX with a win over Keith Lee for the NXT Championship. Kross relinquished the title a few days later due to a shoulder injury he sustained in the TakeOver: XXX main event, but won it back from Finn Balor upon his return in April of this year.

The 36-year-old was still NXT champ when he was called up to Raw, but he lost the title to Samoa Joe at NXT TakeOver 36 back in August. Kross was released by WWE along with several of his now-former colleagues on November 4.

“Everything felt wrong and I felt something bad coming, like four months before it happened,” Kross said of his doomed main roster tenure during a recent chat with Renee Paquette on her The Sessions podcast, on which he was interviewed alongside his real-life partner and fellow-former WWE Superstar, Scarlett Bordeaux. “But everyone I would talk to was like ‘oh no. Everybody loves you. It’s good. You have no problems, yada, yada, yada.’ But I felt it coming. I tried to, as professionally, politely as I could, talk to people in the chain of command about that. And I just tried to be a good sport about everything,” he added.

Source: TheSportster

MLW Fusion Preview 2/10/22

A new season of Major League Wrestling’s flagship show FUSION returns Thursday at 8pm ET featuring a World Heavyweight Championship bout, and streaming worldwide for free on MLW’s YouTube channel and Saturday nationwide on cable and dish on beIN SPORTS. 

  • Falls Count Anywhere Match for the World Heavyweight Championship: Alex Hammerstone (C) vs. Pagano
  • King Muertes vs. Richard Holliday
  • EJ Nduka vs. Ikuro Kwon

After last week’s targeted Azteca attack on Richard Holliday, his dynastic bro Alex Hammerstone puts the World Heavyweight Championship on the line against Pagano in a Falls Count Anywhere match.

Can Your Boy Hammer power through Cesar Duran’s agent of chaos in the type of environment that Pagano thrives in, or will the hellraiser from Juarez bring World Heavyweight gold to AZTECA? 

Duran has made it double jeopardy for The Dynasty as a battered Richard Holliday rumbles with the monstrous Caribbean Champion King Muertes.

Part 3 of the All Access look at Jacob Fatu touches on wrestling saving his life, and his plans for regaining the MLW World Heavyweight Championship.

“The Judge” is in session as EJ Nduka looks to show out in his Dallas homecoming as he faces Ikuro Kwon.

The double tag team champions 5150 cope with adversity as a big title fight looms.

Mister Saint Laurent embarks on adventure to find the world’s greatest fighter?

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Dombrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents the season premiere of MLW Fusion!

WWE Hall of Famer Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat To Debut As MLW Matchmaker

WWE Hall of Famer Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat is headed to MLW.

MLW announced today that Steamboat has signed on to be the matchmaker for the SuperFight tapings on Saturday, February 26 at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, NC, which will also serve as a MLW Fusion TV taping. This will be MLW’s Charlotte debut, and Steamboat lives in the city.

MLW noted, “Promising to give Charlotte fans a night of great wrestling action, Steamboat is actively putting together what promises to be a stacked card for a city Steamboat considers his hometown. How will the ruthless Cesar Duran react to Steamboat’s presence?”

Steamboat will also appear for autographs and photos before the show begins.

The MLW SuperFight show will be headlined by Davey Richards vs. MLW World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone with the title on the line. Other names announced to appear include MLW World Tag Team Champions 5150 with Konnan, MLW National Openweight Champion Alex Kane with Mr. Thomas, MLW World Middleweight Champion Myron Reed, Jacob Fatu, Cesaro Duran, nZo, Alicia Atout, Mads Krugger, Calvin Tankman, Pagano, Richard Holliday, Aramis, Arez, EJ Nduka, KC Navarro, Mat Cross, TJP and Ikuro Kwon, among others.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

MLW AZTECA Preview 1/27/22

Major League Wrestling returns tonight at 8pm ET with the MLW AZTECA mini-series, featuring both MLW and AAA’s top championships on the line, and streaming worldwide for free on MLW’s YouTube channel, Fite.TV and Saturday on beIN Sports. 

  • World Heavyweight Championship: Alex Hammerstone vs. Octagon Jr
  • AAA Mega Championship: El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Aramis
  • Arez vs. Black Tigre

Cesar Duran has put together a historic and with two of the world’s top promotion’s belts on the line in one broadcast in a historic double main event.

Just weeks after being freed from Cesar Duran’s clutches, an injured Alex Hammerstone enters the Espada Underground Fight Club to put the MLW World Heavyweight Championship on the line against Octagon Jr!

Can a wounded but unbroken Hammerstone power through one of Mexico’s top luchadores and send a clear message to El Jefe, or will the champ succumb to Cesar’s wrath in Tijuana with the title switching hands?

In the second interpromotional bout, AAA MEGA Champion El Hijo del Vikingo will defend his coveted championship against Aramis. 

Plus, “The Master of Strange Style” Arez brings his unique offense to MLW Azteca as he takes to the skies against Black Tigre.

Cesar Duran presents The Bomaye Fight Club’s Alex Kane with a violent opportunity for next week. What does Duran have in store for the National Openweight Champ?

Tune in for an All Access look at EJ Nduka as “The Judge” prepares for a huge Dallas homecoming this March.

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Dombrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents AZTECA!

MLW Azteca Preview 1/20/22

Major League Wrestling returns tonight at 8pm ET with the MLW AZTECA mini-series, featuring a Tijuana Street Fight and World Tag Team Championship bout, and streaming worldwide for free on MLW’s YouTube channel, Fite.TV and Saturday on beIN Sports.

•World Tag Team Championship: 5150 (c) vs. Aerostar and Drago
•Tijuana Street Fight: Mads Krugger vs. Bestia 666
•Barrio Brawl: Pagano vs. Richard Holliday
•Toto vs. Proximo

After nearly 3 months Jacob Fatu finally breaks his silence. For the first time ever, take an all access look at the “Baddest Man on Planet Earth”.

Following last week’s altercation, one of Mexico’s top tag teams go for the gold as 5150 defends the World Tag Team Championship against Aerostar and Drago.

Find out the main event for SUPERFIGHT in Charlotte! In the ultimate effort to impress Cesar Duran and secure his desired match with Jacob Fatu, Mads Krugger enters El Jefe’s cathedral of violence to face Bestia 666 in a street fight!

Can the masked mercenary take down the Tijuana gremlin, or will Bestia unleash his arsenal of chaos and topple the undefeated Krugger? Tune in and find out!

After being freed by Richard Holliday, World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone looks for answers from Cesar Duran but a certain hellraiser from Juarez looms large.

The National Openweight Champion Alex Kane has a new sponsor?

In other action, Toto takes on Proximo in a high flying lucha showcase!

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Dombrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents AZTECA!

MLW AZTECA Preview 1/13/22

Major League Wrestling returns tonight at 8pm ET with the MLW AZTECA mini-series, featuring two world title matches and a hardcore brawl, and streaming worldwide for free on MLW’s YouTube channel, Fite.TV and Saturday on beIN Sports. 

  • Hardcore Match: Pagano vs. Savio Vega
  • National Openweight Championship: Alex Kane (C) vs. Aerostar
  • World Tag Team Championship: 5150 (C) vs. Destiny and Skalibur

Witness the violence and unpredictability of Cesar Duran’s underground fight club on this edition of the limited mini-series MLW AZTECA.

Pagano goes to war with Puerto Rico’s legendary brawling boricua Savio Vega in a violent hardcore match at the Espada underground fight club!

Furious at Savio’s recent public rebuke of El Jefe following the disappearance of Alex Hammerstone, Cesar Duran has dispatched the man who blindsided Hammer last week to spill blood with The Pride of Puerto Rico!

In an effort to add intrigue to chaos, Cesar has also stipulated that if Savio wins, he’ll regain control of IWA Puerto Rico!

Can Savio Vega pick up a monumental moral victory in the name of the missing World Heavyweight Champion and finally regain control of his company in the process, or will he be AZTECA’s latest sacrifice courtesy of The Juarez Hellraiser? Tune in and find out!

It’s the question on everyone’s mind: Where is Alex Hammerstone?? Emilio Sparks is on the scene as Richard Holliday and the members of the MLW roster search for answers on the whereabouts of the World Heavyweight Champion following last week’s alleged kidnapping at the hands of Cesar Duran!

The Leader of The Bomaye Fight Club rumbles with lucha libre’s finest as Alex Kane goes one on one with Aerostar for the National Openweight Championship!

5150 put the World Tag Team Championship on the line against Cesar Duran’s handpicked team of Destiny and Skalibur!

Plus MLW takes an all access inside look at “The Judge” EJ Nduka.

nZo breaks his silence following his unprovoked attack on KC Navarro last month.

Mads Krugger accepts an offer he can’t refuse?

PLUS: 2021 Opera Cup winner Davey Richards is in the house! What does the future hold for The American Wolf? Tune in and find out!

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Debrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents AZTECA!

MLW Has Filed An Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against The WWE

Court Bauer’s Major League Wrestling promotion has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the WWE.

The WWE legal team is working overtime this week … and probably for the next few months.

MLW (Major League Wrestling), the New York-based professional wrestling promotion founded by former WWE writer Court Bauer, has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. MLW is alleging that WWE interfered in some of its business deals and even pressured some third parties to pull the plug on their existing arrangements with MLW.

“WWE’s pattern of predatory and exclusionary conduct has hampered competition in the U.S. wrestling market by deprivingMLW and other competitors of distribution channels, and its conduct has harmed consumers by depriving them of content and keeping prices high,” MLW’s lawsuit states.

MLW claims that WWE sabotaged a “lucrative” agreement between MLW and streaming platform Tubi, which is owned by Fox. According to the lawsuit, a WWE executive contacted Fox and asked Fox to terminate the MLW deal.

As you might recall, WWE and Fox signed a $1 billion broadcast deal in 2018 that facilitated SmackDown’s move from USA Network to Fox. WWE signed another big-money deal with Fox in 2020.

WWE allegedly implied that they would cease doing business with Fox if their demands were not met. Soon thereafter, Fox informed MLW that it had canceled the company’s Tubi contract, which ultimately led to a downturn in MLW’s profits and ticket sales.

MLW also claims that WWE interfered in its deal with VICE TV when WWE senior vice president Susan Levison called VICE to inform the network that Vince McMahon was unhappy that VICE had agreed to air MLW programming As a result, VICE only aired one MLW show.

“WWE has been wrongfully depriving its competitors of critical opportunities for many years, but its latest conduct has been even more unconscionable,” Bauer said in a statement. “I think we speak for the rest of the professional wrestling world when we say that this anti-competitive behavior has to stop.”

In a statement of its own, WWE disputed MLW’s claims.

“WWE believes these claims have no merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against them,” the WWE statement read.

Source: TheSportster

MLW Fusion: ALPHA Preview 12/15/21

This weeks show is billed as the series finale of the MLW Fusion Alpha miniseries. MLW will return with the MLW Azteca miniseries starting Thursday, January 6. Alpha streams tonight on the MLW YouTube page and FITE TV at 6CT/7ET. The show will be replayed Saturdays on beIN Sports at 9CT/10ET.

-Tajiri vs. Atsuki Aoyagi for the MLW Middleweight Championship

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Debrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents Fusion: ALPHA!

MLW Fusion ALPHA Preview 12/8/21, NZO Debut

MLW Fusion Alpha streams Wednesdays on the MLW YouTube page and FITE TV at 6CT/7ET. The show is replayed Saturdays on beIN Sports at 9CT/10ET. 

The following matches and segments are advertised for tonight’s Major League Wrestling Fusion Alpha online show.

-MLW Heavyweight Champion Alexander Hammerstone in action.

-Los Parks vs. 5150 in a Street Fight for the MLW Tag Titles.

-NZO vs. Matt Cross.

MLW War Chamber Preview 11/17/21

Major League Wrestling returns tonight at 7pm ET with WAR CHAMBER, streaming worldwide for free on MLW’s YouTube channel, Fite.TV and Saturdays on beIN Sports. 

  • WAR CHAMBER: Hammerheads vs. CONTRA Unit: Hammerstone, Richard Holliday, EJ Nduka, Savio Vega and Cesar Duran’s mystery partner vs. Jacob Fatu, Mads Krugger, Ikuro Kwon and The SENTAI Death Squad

Major League Wrestling’s two and half year war with CONTRA reaches its final battle as World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone and his team meet the global dealers in violence inside the WAR CHAMBER, presented by newlawoffice.com.

Hammerstone leads a team joined by Dynastic teammate Richard Holliday, 6’8 IFBB Bodybuilding and football standout “The Judge” EJ Nduka, legendary brawler Savio Vega and a mystery partner handpicked by one “El Jefe” Cesar Duran. 

Standing in their path to victory however is the best within CONTRA’s ranks in the form of CONTRA’s kingpin Jacob Fatu, the “ Black Hand of CONTRA” Mads Krugger, pit fighter Ikuro Kwon, and the SENTAI Death Squad.

Can Hammer and his team take out CONTRA inside the WAR CHAMBER and purge MLW of the international cabla once and for all, or will CONTRA conquer MLW?

5150 speak on the introduction of “The Notorious 187” Homicide to the crew and re-up on their calls for a World Tag Team title shot following the chaotic ending to their trios match with Los Parks last week.

PLUS: While rumors swirl regarding Cesar Duran’s handpicked 5th man on Hammerstone’s WAR CHAMBER team, “El Jefe” has already sent more shockwaves through the league by promising to unveil yet another surprise. What could Azteca Underground’s proprietor have in store for his loyal believers? 

Join Rich Bocchini, Joe Debrowski, and broadcast journalist Alicia Atout as MLW presents WAR CHAMBER!