AEW Collision live tonight from the Brandt Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on TNT at 8/7c.
Steve Maclin will not be able to compete at next week’s Slammiversary PPV where he was scheduled to team with Bully Ray against PCO and Scott D’Amore. Impact Wrestling issued the following:
Major Change Confirmed For Slammiversary Match On Saturday, July 15
Former IMPACT Wrestling World Champion Steve Maclin is unable to participate in the high-profile Slammiversary tag team match on Saturday, July 15, at the St. Clair College Sportsplex in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Maclin suffered a serious injury during IMPACT’s just-completed Down Under Tour in Australia and is unable to participate at Slammiversary, IMPACT Wrestling confirmed.
Maclin was scheduled to team with Bully Ray in a Special Grudge Match against PCO and Scott D’Amore. The match will continue as scheduled and Bully Ray’s new tag team partner will be announced live on Busted Open this Monday, July 10, airing on SiriusXM Fight Nation, channel 156. Busted Open airs from 9 a.m. to 12noon ET with host Dave Lagreca, plus a crew of rotating co-hosts, including Bully Ray, Tommy Dreamer, Mickie James and others.
“First and foremost, everyone at IMPACT Wrestling wishes Steve Maclin a full and speedy recovery,” said Santino Marella, IMPACT Director of Authority. “Whoever Bully Ray brings aboard as his new tag team partner will step into a violent fight, that’s for sure. PCO is fearless and nearly unstoppable; Scott D’Amore is bent on revenge against Bully Ray, so any new partner for Bully Ray also will feel the wrath of D’Amore and his 30 years of pro wrestling knowledge.”
Former NHL star Darren McCarty, a 4-time Stanley Cup winner for the Detroit Red Wings, will be the Special Enforcer for this Special Grudge Match.
Slammiversary is one of IMPACT Wrestling’s premiere events of the year, airing live around the world on pay-per-view, starting at 8 p.m. ET. Slammiversary kicks off with the Countdown to Slammiversary show, streaming LIVE & FREE at 7:30 p.m. ET on YouTube, IMPACT Plus (live player) and FITE. For all the latest Slammiversary news, as well as ticket information, go to: impactwrestling.com.
About IMPACT Wrestling:
A subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment Inc. and a division of Anthem Sports Group, IMPACT Wrestling® is one of the world’s top wrestling brands, producing over 200 hours of original content annually and televised in 120 countries including AXS TV in the United States. Founded in 2002, IMPACT Wrestling’s deep library of premium content is streamed across the world on key OTT platforms including Pluto TV, XUMO and its own on-demand subscription service IMPACT PLUS©. IMPACT Wrestling has a powerful social media presence with over 10 million engaged followers across all major services. Ancillary businesses include live events, merchandise, licensing, and sponsorship.
Source: eWn
Tonight’s AEW Rampage – 100th episode – on TNT at 10/9c
All Elite Wrestling is gearing up to put on one of the most highly-attended shows in wrestling history next month with AEW All In, and according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there’s a chance the show could break the all-time “verified attendance” record set by WWE WrestleMania 32 in 2016.
AEW All In: London is continuing to sell tickets.
According to The Wrestling Observer and Fightful, AEW All In at Wembley Stadium is now up to 75,030 tickets distributed with “about” 68,000 sold. The stadium is now currently setup to seat a total of 87,825 fans
It was just this past Tuesday, WrestleTix had reported that the event was up to 74,888 tickets distributed.
AEW All In: London is scheduled for Sunday, August 27. AEW still has yet to officially announce any matches for the event.
AEW would need to sell about 6,000 more tickets to break WrestleMania 32’s total attendance record, which seems well within the range of possibility for the four-year-old wrestling promotion. However, Meltzer believes it’s unlikely that the company will reach the paid attendance record of 79,800 people.
All In will be AEW’s first event outside North America, with wrestling fans from across Europe making their way to the United Kingdom to experience the company’s continental debut. Details on how fans at home can watch All In have yet to be announced, with AEW President Tony Khan stating back in May that a deal was still being worked out. Just one week after the massive London event, AEW is planning to hold its annual All Out pay-per-view in Chicago, Illinois, making the waning days of summer a very busy time for wrestling fans.
Sources: eWn and Wrestling Inc.
Thunder Rosa has been out of action since August 2022 due to issues with her back.
In her new YouTube vlog, Rosa shared an update on her recovery and tentative return timetable.
Rosa met with AEW’s ringside doctor Michael J. Sampson who said,
“So looking at the most recent MRIs and all the conservative stuff we’ve done in the past, you’re progressing well right now. You still have all the pathology in your lower back, L-405. And you know, I think that with our progression go into pushing it to the limit, but taking it sequentially — so going week to week to week, we push a little bit more. If we hit a roadblock, we back it up a step. But I think you know over the next four to six weeks, we’ll see how it’s going. So far we’ve done a week or two… and you’ve been progressing very well, pain free.”
“I think if we continue to do that, we know where we stand. Gets you stronger, get you more ring-ready. As long as you don’t have that pain, we’re good. We still have to protect your back, we still have — the pathology has not gone away, it’s just a matter of. we’re treating it so that it helps you improve yet also protects you from not worsening. So that’s where we are with it… I would say [six weeks is] a good shooting point to our goal point to go to is six weeks to see how we go with that.”
Source: eWn
Just 9 nights away from Slammiversary, don’t miss an all-new IMPACT! this Thursday at 8/7c on AXS TV and 8:30pm ET on YouTube for IMPACT Insiders.
When AEW Dynamite went off the air on TBS on Wednesday night, the action continued.
Kenny Omega got on the microphone and cut a promo after the show wrapped up for the crowd inside Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
“Now you guys listen to this,” Omega said. “There was a week when my whereabouts were unknown. I didn’t stay home. I didn’t go to Canada.”
From there, he would go on to tease the fifth member for The Elite team in their AEW Blood & Guts showdown against the Blackpool Combat Club.
“I went to recruit an old friend, somebody who’s very near and dear to my heart,” Omega said. “I’ve got no doubt in my mind that as much as he cares about me, he cares about the men in this ring, he cares about this promotion, he cares about changing the face of professional wrestling. At Blood and Guts in two weeks, there is no way we lose.”
Source: PWMania
AEW Dynamite will air live tonight on TBS and emanate from Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
AEW taped tonight’s (7/1) episode of Collision on Thursday night (6/29) at the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The reason AEW taped this week’s Collision is because July 1 is Canada Day.
AEW will resume live episodes of Collision on Saturday, July 8 at the Brandt Centre in Regina, SK.
Announced lineup for tonight’s new Collision:
AEW has announced the lineup for tonight’s Rampage that was taped this past Wednesday from the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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