Malakai Black has been removed from the lineup for Friday’s Northeast Wrestling show.
NEW posted to social media on Wednesday that Black was off the event “due to health issues.” He had been scheduled to face Matt Taven. The promotion has booked Jay Lethal and nZo as replacements.
“Due to health issues @malakaiblxck will not be appearing for @northeastwrestling @mvscrappers this Friday night at Eastwood Field in #nilesohio Replacing him are @aew star @thelethaljay & @real1 fka NZO!!” NEW wrote on Instagram.
After his All Out match on Sunday, Black took a bow and blew a kiss to the fans. While this did not air on the pay-per-view, many have speculated it was Black saying goodbye to AEW and its fans. Tony Khan then offered no comment on Black’s status with the company during the post-event scrum.
“I’m not sure, I can’t comment on that, though. That was for the live fans and it definitely got some people talking, so it is a thing that happened but no I can’t comment on that,” Khan said.
It has since been reported that some in AEW believe Black has been granted a conditional release from the company.
Northeast Wrestling presents Wrestling Under the Stars on Friday, September 9 from Eastwood Field in Niles, Ohio. The lineup for the show is as follows:
John Morrison vs. Brian Pillman Jr.
Penta Oscuro vs. Derek Dillenger
Jerry Lawler vs. Man Dime Elijah Dean
Cole Karter vs. Spencer Slade
Ray Lyn vs. Katie Arquette
Bill Collier vs. Jaxon Argus
Ricky Starks, Erick Redbeard, nZo, and Jay Lethal are scheduled to appear
AEW’s Jon Moxley made a surprise appearance at tonight’s Northeast Wrestling Wrestlefest 26 event.
In Poughkeepsie, New York tonight, Moxley appeared in the opening match at Wrestlefest, defeating Channing Thomas. A number of AEW talents are scheduled for the show, including Malakai Black, Penta El Zero Miedo, Christopher Daniels, Thunder Rosa, and Mark Henry. Jay Lethal was pulled from the event “due to a medical issue.”
Both Moxley and wife Renee Paquette have made appearances for NEW in the past.
Wrestlefest is set to be headlined by a Wyatt Family reunion, with Adam Scherr and Erick Redbeard teaming against Bully Ray and NZO.
Moxley returned to AEW this week after seeking inpatient treatment for alcohol. He defeated Ethan Page on Friday’s AEW Rampage in Washington, DC, and is set to defend the GCW World Championship against Homicide at Sunday’s The Wrld on GCW pay-per-view at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
The former Braun Strowman and Erick Rowan are set to reunite in a tag team match for Northeast Wrestling.
It was announced today that Adam Scherr & Erick Redbeard will face Bully Ray & nZo in the main event of Northeast Wrestling’s WrestleFest 26 show on Saturday, January 22. The event is taking place at the MJN Convention Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Scherr and Redbeard were formerly part of The Wyatt Family in WWE. Scherr was released by WWE last June, while Redbeard was released in April 2020.
Scherr’s first post-WWE match was a cinematic bout against EC3 on EC3’s Free the Narrative II. EC3 and Scherr then teamed up at Great Lakes Championship Wrestling’s Blizzard Brawl event last month, defeating Jake Something and Rohit Raju.
Redbeard will face nZo in a singles match at Northeast Wrestling’s Over the Top show in Waterbury, Connecticut on Friday, January 21. Strowman & EC3 vs. Vincent Marseglia & Dutch is also set for Over the Top.
Northeast Wrestling’s full announcement of the Scherr & Redbeard vs. Bully Ray & nZo match is available below:
Broken on Busted Open Radio on SiriusXM with David LaGreca and Bully Ray – NZO put out the challenge and it was accepted.
The Main Event of Northeast Wrestling – Wrestlefest 26 MJN – Majed J. Nesheiwat Convention Center in Poughkeepsie, New York is:
Former Wyatt Family Members team up for the first time since leaving the WWE – Adam Scherr fka Braun Strowman and Erick Redbeard face NZO and WWE Hall of Famer BULLY RAY!!!
Plus:
First Time Ever Dream Match Malakai Black vs. The Trend Matt Taven
All Elite Wrestling Tag Team Champions – The Lucha Brothers REY FENIX Penta El Cero Miedo vs. Ring of Honor Wrestling Bandido and Flip Gordon
NEW Title Match Danny Maff vs. JT Dunn
Thunder Rosa vs. Megasus Megan Bayne
Eddie Kingston will be in action!!
Jay Lethal vs. Christopher Daniels
Vincent w/Dutch vs. Hale Collins
8 Man Tag Team Match NEW Tag Team Champions Club Cam Cameron Zagami Antonio Zambrano and The Trust Fund – NEW LIVE Champion Mike Verna & Channing Thomas w/ Nikii Duke vs. Wrecking Ball Legursky Waves and Curls Traevon Jordan Jaylen Brandyn & Giovanni Galvano
Appearances by WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter – The Godfather and more….
Autograph Session with all the the stars at 4pm.
Get your tickets now at www.northeastwrestling.com
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Jim Valley is back with tons to talk about including the full WWE WrestleMania lineup and thoughts on this weekend’s slate of shows.
They also talk about AEW vs. NXT ratings and why they matter, a detailed look at the decline of Raw ratings following football season the past few years, plus Michael Lombardi of Northeast Wrestling joins us to talk tons of topics.
Matt Hardy is heading to Northeast Wrestling for his first announced post-WWE match.
Northeast Wrestling announced today that Hardy will be in action at their Wrestlefest XXIV show later this month: “Matt Hardy returns to Northeast Wrestling for his 1st match since becoming the most sought after Free Agent in Wrestling. Northeast Wrestling LIVE! in Waterbury, Connecticut on Friday, March 27th. He will also be a part of the preshow Meet and Greet. Get your tickets now at northeastwrestling.com“
Hardy’s opponent for the show has yet to be revealed.
Darby Allin vs. Sammy Guevara, Dan Maff vs. Jake Manning for the Northeast Wrestling Championship, and Brian Pillman Jr. vs. Keith Youngblood have also been announced for Wrestlefest XXIV. The show is taking place at the Waterbury PAL Building.
Hardy became a free agent when his contract with WWE expired on March 2.
Hardy also released episode 11 of his Free the Delete series today. It’s titled “The Burial” and features The Young Bucks and the follow up to their appearance on last week’s episode.
This week’s Free the Delete is available to watch below:
Headlined by Jon Moxley vs. Darby Allin, Northeast Wrestling’s Brass City Brawl took place in Waterbury, Connecticut on Friday night.
– Hale Collins defeated Chris Battle
– Inzanely Rude (RJ Rude & Zane Bernardo) defeated The Amazing Graysons (Tommy & JP Grayson) and Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) in a three-way tag match
This was like a scramble match from a 15-year-old ROH show: all big moves, bigger dives, and creative double teams. The finish came when Bernardo did a top rope superplex on a Grayson, then Quen did a top-rope frankensteiner to Rude. Rude landed on top of Grayson, and while the ref counted it as a pin, Bernardo speared Quen so that Quen couldn’t break the pin.
There were multiple “All these guys” chants during the match. Rude & Bernardo seem like they could go somewhere with a little more time.
– Renee Young was introduced (WWE announcers are allowed to make outside appearances). She came to the ring and introduced Flip Gordon, who was a surprise.
Gordon did a quick promo, he and Young threw some T-shirts into the crowd, and that was that.
– The Trustfund (Jimmy Preston & Ron Zombie) defeated The Perfect Gamble (Dexter Loux & Mike Gamble)
Preston pinned Loux.
– King Brian Anthony defeated Keith Youngblood
After the match, The Boogeyman came out and ran off King Brian and his cronies.
– Joey Janela defeated Brad Hollister in a no DQ match
Hollister looks kind of like if Taz had been a foot taller. This was not a crazy match at all by Janela’s standards, but the crowd was still totally on board for it.
Janela and Hollister sat chairs across from each other and had an elbow duel. Janela hit a splash from a ladder for two. Hollister powerbombed Janela through the ladder.
The finish came when Janela did a sunset flip powerbomb from the top rope and slammed Hollister into the two chairs that had been set up across from each other.
– Penelope Ford defeated Alisha Edwards
Ford won with a diamond cutter. Just a match.
– NEW Champion JT Dunn defeated Wrecking Ball Legursky to retain his title
Dunn used to be Chris Hero’s tag partner in Death by Elbow. Legursky is probably the top babyface out of NEW’s regular roster. He’s a big guy who works hard, but probably doesn’t have the body to make it in WWE.
This was big guy vs. little guy, and it wasn’t a half-bad match. Dunn escaped a superplex attempt by going between Legursky’s legs and powerbombing him. Dunn then hit a rolling elbow in desperation and collapsed on top of him to retain.
Dunn isn’t quite as good as Hero at timing the thigh slaps to make things sound devastating, but “not quite as good as Chris Hero” is still better than most people will ever be at it.
– Jon Moxley defeated Darby Allin
This went about 20 minutes. Moxley wasn’t announced as the IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion and didn’t have the belt with him. He got a gigantic reception.
Moxley worked as the heel in the match, but you couldn’t have paid the crowd to boo him. He used his size advantage over Allin to play the bully.
Early in the match, Moxley was chopping Allin around ringside and Allin ducked, making Moxley chop the post. Throughout the match, they would go back to working Moxley’s left hand whenever Allin was making a comeback, with Moxley selling it like he had a broken finger or something.
The pacing of the match was pretty relaxed, with Allin spending a lot of it selling like he’d been killed, and Moxley soaking up the crowd. Moxley threw Allin out of the ring at one point and Allin crashed right onto the timekeeper’s table at ringside. The timekeeper and ring announcer very clearly were not expecting it.
Moxley got a table from underneath the ring and set it up in the corner. Allin caught him in a sleeper hold with a body scissors, but Moxley reversed it by running backwards into the table. The table didn’t quite break on the first try, so Allin kept the choke on and they repeated the spot. The table broke the second time.
Moxley wedged a chair into one corner, but then Allin tricked him into running head-first into it.
Moxley retrieved tape from under the ring and used it to tie Allin’s wrists behind his back. Allin then worked the match for a few minutes with his hands literally tied behind his back, including doing a tope con hilo to the outside with his hands tied up, which got maybe the biggest reaction of any single move.
Finally, Moxley caught Allin with the high-angle Dirty Deeds and pinned him.
I thought this was probably a ***1/2 match live, and I’d imagine it’d hold up the same on TV. They didn’t go for an in-ring classic — probably because they didn’t need to with how over Moxley was with the crowd.
Moxley got on the mic after the match and cut a quick promo thanking the crowd, saying that people who go to see independent wrestling in high school gyms are the luckiest fans in the world, because they get to see the wrestlers who really care. He also put over Allin and said that Allin was going to be a very big name, very soon. He posed for a little bit longer and left.
Jon Moxley will be facing Pentagon Jr. for Northeast Wrestling this summer.
Northeast Wrestling has announced Moxley vs. Pentagon for their show at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York on Friday, August 16. The event is being called “Prison Break.”
Moxley vs. Darby Allin is also set for Northeast Wrestling’s show in Waterbury, Connecticut on Friday, June 14, and Northeast Wrestling’s Twitter announcement lists Moxley for their events in Jackson, New Jersey on June 15, Norwich, Connecticut on August 17, and Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 18.
The former Dean Ambrose made his first appearance for AEW at the end of Double or Nothing on Saturday night. AEW has announced that Moxley has signed a full-time, multi-year deal with them, with his in-ring debut for the promotion set for Fyter Fest in Daytona Beach, Florida on June 29.
Moxley has also been revealed as the person NJPW was hyping in their “Time’s Up” video that targeted IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson. Moxley will appear at the Best of the Super Juniors finals on June 5.
AEW president and CEO Tony Khan spoke about Moxley’s contract with them after Double or Nothing, noting that he’ll be able to work some international and indie dates.
Here are results from yesterday’s Northeast Wrestling Redemption show in Poughkeespie, New York.
– Hale Collins defeated Jake Manning, Keith Youngblood, Christian Casanova, Wrecking Ball Legursky and JT Dunn in a ladder match
Great opener to get the crowd going, everyone used multiple ladders & tables and there were also some pretty vicious bumps on the ladder. Good spot to showcase some of the NEW guys.
– Katie Forbes defeated Karen Q
Awful match. Q did fine, it’s not her fault. Thankfully was short.
– Jerry Lawler defeated Brian Anthony in a No DQ Match
Not much, Lawler threw punches and threw a beer and water bottle at Anthony. Anthony’s team of Daniel Evans and Anthony Battle came out and triple teamed Lawler until David Arquette ran out for a surprise appearance. He nailed a pretty good spear on Brian Anthony. Anthony Battle got hit with a fireball by Lawler. Battle got very close and the fireball really connected to his face, looked bad for him. Then Mick Foley came out and helped Lawler.
The three former world champions posed after. Arquette was super over.
– NEW Champion Brad Hollister defeated PCO
Nice match, a bit short but a nice showcase for Brad. PCO was very over, but the crowd liked Brad too. Brad kicked out off a top rope moonsault.
– Pentagon Jr. defeated Darby Allin
Pentagon Jr. won after the arm break and package piledriver. Allin was just plain nuts, did two trust falls. Penta landed a Canadian Destroyer on the ring apron. Allin was thrown into the corner and he slipped right through the top and middle and landed on the ring announcer. Reminded me a bit of the old Chris Hamrick spot. I’d recommend to go out of your way to watch this.
– RVD defeated Jack Swagger
RVD scored the win after a Five Star Frog Splash. Terrible match. A lot of stalling by Rob early on. He wasn’t playing heel, he just didn’t do anything. Swagger eventually went after him. Crowd was booing. Swagger got busted open after Rob dropkicked a chair into Swagger. They tried to win the fans back by brawling up the stage, but didn’t work.
Swagger was pissed after the match, tossing the bell table.
– Kenny Omega defeated Fenix
Omega pinned Fenix after a One Winged Angel. Obviously the best match of the night. Don’t know the exact time, but went a decent amount. Definitely worth watching. So many different sequences that just were fantastic. I didn’t think it was as good as Omega vs. Pentagon.
Kenny was on the microphone after the match and apologized for NJPW not coming to the northeast, and said he couldn’t turn down this opportunity. Mentioned there were certain people not happy with him wrestling the AAA champion. Omega just has the presence where you feel like you’re watching something special.
After facing Pentagon Jr. at All In, Kenny Omega has a match booked against the other member of the Lucha Brothers.
Northeast Wrestling has announced that Omega will be facing Fenix at their show on Friday, November 9 at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. The event is Northeast Wrestling’s 23rd anniversary show.
Prior to defeating Pentagon at All In, Omega teamed with The Young Bucks in a non-tournament six-man tag match against Pentagon, Fenix & Flamita during PWG’s Battle of Los Angeles in 2017. Fenix was in the main event of All In, teaming with Rey Mysterio & Bandido against The Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi.
This will be Omega’s debut for Northeast Wrestling. In addition to NJPW’s events, he’s wrestled in the United States at All In, ROH’s Supercard of Honor, and WrestleCon’s SuperShow this year.
Rob Van Dam, PCO, Darby Allin, JT Dunn, and Brad Hollister are also advertised for the November 9 Northeast Wrestling event. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time, and meet and greets for Omega, Fenix, and RVD are on sale now.
