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NJPW Strong Women’s title match announced for Ring of Honor TV

Posted on by Josh Nason

Willow Nightingale will defend her NJPW Strong Women’s title for the second time on this Thursday’s 12-match Ring of Honor on HonorClub.

The challenger is former Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion Rachael Ellering who will be making her return to ROH for the first time since October 2016.

The show will also feature the return of Griff Garrison. He faces Lee Moriarty in his first match since last October in either AEW or ROH due to an injury.

The show also features Rey Fenix vs. Gravity, an ROH Six-Man Tag Team title Proving Ground match, Kyle Fletcher, Dark Order, Dralistico, and more.

Here’s the lineup, taped last weekend in Orlando, Florida:

  • NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale defends against Rachael Ellering
  • Matt Sydal vs. Zack Clayton
  • Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. The WorkHorsemen (JD Drake & Anthony Henry) and Shane Taylor
  • ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Embassy (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. Marcus Kross, Eli Isom & Cheeseburger in a Proving Ground match
  • Kiera Hogan vs. Robyn Renegade
  • Mercedes Martinez vs. VertVixen
  • Darius Martin, Action Andretti & AR Fox vs. Sonny Kiss, Jeeves Kay & Slim J
  • Griff Garrison vs. Lee Moriarty
  • Kyle Fletcher vs. Christopher Daniels
  • Dralistico vs. Willie Mack
  • The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. El Cobarde & El Dragon
  • Rey Fenix vs. Gravity

The Varsity Blonds officially sign with AEW

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison of the Varsity Blondes have officially signed with All Elite Wrestling.

AEW confirmed both Pillman and Garrison had signed this afternoon on social media. Both team regularly together as the Varsity Blonds, with Julia Hart (no relation to the Hart wrestling family) serving as their manager. Fightful had reported earlier in the day that both were to be signed to full term deals, and that Pillman was finishing up with MLW “very soon”.

Both Garrison and Pillman had wrestled regularly for AEW during the pandemic. Garrison started to appear for AEW in June of last year, with Pillman making appearances the following month. Both were put together starting in September and have since adopted the name Varsity Blondes.

Pillman has been wrestling since 2017, signing with MLW the following year. Garrison, who started wrestling in 2016, previously made appearances for Ring of Honor as one half of The Master and The Machine, with Marcus Kross as his tag team partner.