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AEW duo captures indie tag team gold

Posted on by Joseph Currier

In Brooklyn, New York last night, AEW stars Eddie Kingston & Ortiz won gold for indie promotion Outlaw Wrestling.

Kingston & Ortiz became the new Outlaw Tag Team Champions by defeating The Audacity (Micah Cortez & Seth Cortez) on Friday. It’s already been announced that the two teams will meet again for Outlaw Wrestling on February 20, with Kingston & Ortiz facing off against The Audacity and Silk City Kings (Kenny Bengal & Ray Pittman) in a triple threat match.

Along with their AEW work, Kingston & Ortiz are taking indie dates and teaching seminars as they get ready to open their own wrestling school. Their goal with the seminars is to learn what works and what doesn’t work so they’re fully prepared when the school opens.

“That is the method behind why we’re doing seminars,” Ortiz said on AEW Unrestricted this month. “We need to start doing them so we can learn when we do something wrong or something right and be like, ‘Okay, we’ll keep this. Hey, this kind of dragged out at this part. That’s not that important.’ And just how to really utilize the time given to us, the three, four hours or however long it’s going to be. And what we can give the people attending the best bang for their buck…

“Our whole goal is to help change wrestling culture internally by producing and trying to have solid workers just go out there and they become who they become based on their experience. But just giving them a solid foundation and just passing on all the knowledge that we still have and then just bringing in a Jerry Lynn, bringing in a Homicide, bringing in a Billy Gunn to come and do weekend seminars so you learn from all different types of people.”

Kingston & Ortiz have an indie show and seminar coming up for Pro Wrestling Junkie in New Jersey on March 1. They’ve also been announced for a Beyond Wrestling event that’s taking place in Rhode Island on February 27. Kingston is planning to no longer take indie dates by November of this year.

A timeline for when their wrestling school will open has not been announced.

ROH and TNA legend Homicide to have retirement match this month

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Homicide — an independent wrestling legend best known for his time with Ring of Honor and TNA — is wrapping up his in-ring career in just a couple of weeks.

Indie promotion Outlaw Wrestling announced today that Homicide will wrestle his final match on Thursday, March 20. The show is titled “End of an Era” and is taking place in Brooklyn at Arlo Williamsburg. Outlaw Wrestling said they will honor Homicide’s legacy that night in addition to presenting his final match.

An opponent for him has not been named yet.

Homicide was one of the faces of ROH in the early years of the promotion, winning the ROH World Championship from Bryan Danielson at Final Battle 2006. He held the title for 56 days before dropping it to Takeshi Morishima.

In TNA, Homicide was part of the Latin American Exchange and held tag team gold with Hernandez.

The 47-year-old Homicide told Counted Out last month that he would be retiring from the ring soon. Looking back on his career, he said he accomplished more than he ever dreamed was possible.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be wrestling for so long — I traveled all over the world — until Eddie Kingston told me, ‘Do you know you’ve been wrestling for 30 years? Do you know you did this? You teamed up with Kenta Kobashi. You wrestled Minoru Suzuki. You [faced] Jun Akiyama’ — because I’m a big Japanese mark, whatever you call it.” Homicide said. “But I also wrestled Jerry Lynn. I wrestled The Dudley Boyz. I wrestled Kurt Angle. Like, I did things that people wish they were in my shoes. I never thought about it. Then I realized — I was like ‘Oh my God.’ But I realized that in the end. Then I was like, ‘Listen, I think I’m kind of done.'”

GCW and Orange Crush Magazine inducted Homicide into their Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2022. He made an appearance for AEW at Grand Slam 2021 and showed up back in ROH in December 2024.