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Minoru Suzuki wins MLW Tag Team titles with Ikuro Kwon

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Japanese wrestling legend Minoru Suzuki is now a champion in MLW.

At Summer of the Beasts in New York City on Thursday night, Suzuki and his Contra Unit partner Ikuro Kwon defeated Satoshi Kojima & Okumura to win the MLW Tag Team titles. After Kwon blinded Okumura with mist, Suzuki pinned him with a Gotch-style piledriver.

Contra Unit’s Mads Krugger and Janai Kai joined Suzuki and Kwon as they laid out Kojima in a post-match angle. Krugger will challenge Kojima for the MLW World Heavyweight Championship next month at Fightland.

Kai also holds MLW gold as the Women’s Featherweight Champion.

Since debuting for the promotion in October 2023, Suzuki has made regular appearances for MLW. He’s currently working as a freelancer in Japan and the United States.

Summer of the Beasts saw former WWE wrestler Donovan Dijak make his MLW debut, promising to bring destruction and devastation. He mentioned Kojima, Suzuki, Matt Riddle, and Timothy Thatcher as targets and vowed to become the next MLW World Heavyweight Champion.

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The full Summer of the Beasts event can be watched for free on MLW’s YouTube channel.

Tag Team title match added to MLW Blood & Thunder

Posted on by Joseph Currier

A Tag Team title match has been made official for MLW’s first television tapings of 2023.

It was announced today that EJ Nduka & Calvin Tankman will defend their MLW Tag Team titles against The Samoan Swat Team (Lance Anoa’i & Juicy Finau) at MLW Blood & Thunder on Saturday, January 7. The event is a TV taping for MLW Fusion.

Nduka & Tankman have held the MLW Tag Team titles since defeating 5150 (Danny “Limelight” Rivera & Slice Boogie) this February.

Anoa’i & Finau are part of a new-era Samoan Swat Team in MLW alongside Jacob Fatu. Fatu is facing Dragon Gate wrestler Ben-K at Blood & Thunder. 

MLW is billing the Nduka & Tankman vs. Samoan Swat Team title bout as a matchup between two undefeated teams.

Blood & Thunder is taking place at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. The updated card for the tapings is listed below:

  • MLW World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone defends against Yamato
  • MLW Tag Team Champions EJ Nduka & Calvin Tankman defend against Lance Anoa’i & Juicy Finau
  • Jacob Fatu vs. Ben-K
  • Johnny Fusion (the former John Morrison) returns to MLW

Title change at MLW SuperFight TV tapings

Posted on by Ian Carey

EJ Nduka and Calvin Tankman are the new MLW World Tag Team Champions. 

At tonight’s MLW SuperFight tapings in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nduka revealed Tankman as his mystery partner in a match for the titles. They then defeated 5150’s Danny Rivera and Slice Boogie to win the belts. Matches from the taping will air in coming weeks on MLW Fusion.  

5150 had defeated Los Parks to win the titles at War Chamber on November 6th, 2021. They had been scheduled to defend them against Marshall & Ross Von Erich at MLW Blood and Thunder on January 21st, but the brothers tested positive for COVID-19 and were removed from the card. 

Other matches taking place Saturday at MLW SuperFight include the following:

  • MLW World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone defends against Davey Richards
  • Stairway to Hell match: Jacob Fatu vs. Mads Krugger
  • Killer Kross vs King Muertes
  • MLW National Openweight Champion Alex Kane defends against Calvin Tankman, Matt Cross, and ACH in a four-way match
  • MLW Tag Team Champions 5150 defend against EJ Nduka and a mystery partner
  • Ross & Marshall Von Erich vs. Ricky & Kerry Morton
  • nZo vs. KC Navarro
  • Alex Shelley vs. Richard Holliday
  • Trios match: Arez, Gino Medina & Mini Abismo Negro vs. Puma King, Octagon Jr., and a mystery partner
  • Gangrel vs. Gnarls Garvin
  • Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat appears

New Tag Team Champions crowned on MLW Fusion

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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New Tag Team Champions were crowned in the main event of this week’s MLW Fusion.

Los Parks (LA Park & El Hijo de LA Park) defeated Marshall & Ross Von Erich in a tornado tag match to win the MLW Tag Team titles. In storyline, Salina de la Renta was the executive producer of this week’s MLW Fusion episode. De la Renta said she cut a deal with Park for Park and his sons to re-join Promociones Dorado if she could get them a title match. Park had threatened to retire if he didn’t get a title shot.

De la Renta also made Tom Lawlor, a rival of the Von Erichs, the special guest referee for the Von Erichs vs. Los Parks Tag Team title match. Lawlor was biased against the Von Erichs throughout the match, including doing fast counts when Los Parks went for pins and refusing to count to three for the Von Erichs at one point.

After Lawlor was sent to the outside during the match, de la Renta sprayed something into Ross Von Erich’s eyes and LA Park Jr. got involved. Lawlor recovered and quickly counted the pin.

Prior to losing the titles to Los Parks, the Von Erichs had been MLW Tag Team Champions since November 2019.