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** Alongside AEW President Tony Khan and Britt Baker, at an SXSW 2024 panel, Bryan Danielson looked back on the AEW/WWE NXT head-to-head from 10/10/23. Danielson stated that he was focused on what AEW had going on that night.
So, I think everybody in the company was really proud of that show, that we did (10/10/23 AEW Dynamite) and in my mind, I don’t even — and this is probably a little bit different from the way Tony (Khan) views it from like a business perspective. I don’t necessarily look at what the competitors are doing. On that particular night, I wasn’t worried about it. My thing is, okay, focus on what we do, focus on what we do best. We do things differently and our fans base loves the way that we do things and let’s embrace the things that we do really well, let’s put on our best possible show and not worry about necessarily what’s going on-on a different channel because realistically, it’s not just that particular Tuesday night when we were moving nights. It’s every Wednesday. Every week, you’re battling something and it’s every night of the week. You’re not just battling other shows, you’re battling people’s addictions to their phones, you’re battling all sorts of things. How do you keep people’s attention? And in my mind, it keeps going back to this idea of quality and something I said when I first joined AEW is that if you put on excellent professional wrestling, people will enjoy it, and so that’s kind of the goal is to, weekly, put out an excellent professional wrestling show.
** Coming up on March 17th, Konosuke Takeshita will be back in action for DDT Pro-Wrestling to compete against former AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Yuma Aoyagi. Takeshita told DDT Pro-Wrestling’s official website that with where he’s at in his career, when he goes back to Japan for matches, he does not want those opportunities to be wasted.
I’m not saying that I’ve become great, but with my current status and career, I think I have reached the point where I can choose my opponents to a certain extent, and I don’t want to waste any of my limited matches in Japan.
** Episode #132 of WWE – Die Woche spotlighted R-Truth. He expressed his feeling that present day, he’s the most over he’s ever been in his career.
And right now, I am more over, I’m more popular, I’m making more of an impact than I ever made in my whole career and it’s because of the quad injury so it’s because of that time being gone and coming back now, it’s all good. I’d do it all over again.
** Hitting The Turnbuckle pushed out their chat with Clark Connors. The BULLET CLUB War Dogs member believes BULLET CLUB as a whole has become bigger than the nWo.
Yeah, yeah (BULLET CLUB is one of the biggest factions in wrestling). I mean, I think it’s eclipsed the n.W.o. in terms of that, in terms of being the biggest faction of all-time, whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I don’t know, I don’t necessarily say, because everyone knows the n.W.o. was at its best when it was a clusterf*ck. I think in terms of BULLET CLUB, it’s a cool idea that spans through all the major promotions in wrestling which I find, you know, so unique and never really been done before. But that being said, the real BULLET CLUB is the Japanese BULLET CLUB, it is the War Dogs, led by David Finlay and that’s all there is to it. The lineage runs through there. There’s guys who have obviously created the damn thing in other companies but they’re not there anymore. It’s ours and we’re the only ones doing it correctly… The War Dogs in particular is how the BULLET CLUB always has been and should be. A bunch of foreigners kicking ass, doing whatever the f*ck they want and that’s damn sure what we’re doing.
On the lead-up to NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18, Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney clashed with Catch 2/2 (TJP & Francesco Akira) in a Coffin match. Connors reflected on that bout.
We called up a couple places and and we had went and got it so we played around with it and saw what it was about. We weren’t planning on being in it so, yeah, it was cool. A match like that is pretty f*cking cool and different. I never thought that I’d be doing a Coffin match in f*cking New Japan. But, sometimes, that’s the cool part about being in the War Dogs is we have a lot of ideas that we all want to do so we just do ‘em and for the most part, it just makes sense and works for us as a group because who’s gonna stop us?
** Pro Wrestling NOAH, PROGRESS and DEFY Wrestling will be represented in wXw Germany’s World Tag Team Festival in October.
** Jack Perry’s NJPW entrance video and theme:
** All Japan Pro Wrestling Results (3/12/24) from Shin-kiba 1stRING in Tokyo, Japan
– MUSASHI def. Ryo Inoue
– Hikaru Sato & Yuma Aoyagi def. Hokuto Omori & Seiki Yoshioka
– Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Shotaro Ashino def. Dan Tamura & Ren Ayabe
– Jun Saito def. Seigo Tachibana
– Katsuhiko Nakajima def. Fuminori Abe
– Ryuki Honda, Yuma Anzai & Rising HAYATO def. Hideki Suzuki, Kento Miyahara & Suwama
** Daily Niigata conducted an interview with SANADA.
** Togi Makabe wrote an article for 5PM Journal.
** Joining Busted Open Radio was MLW owner Court Bauer.
** March 12th birthdays: KENTA.
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