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People other than Tony Khan don't have strong feelings on the situation. As for Tony, Tony likes Rey Fenix. He's always liked and respected Rey Fenix. He just felt that if he let this thing slide that other people were going to start taking advantage of him and it was going to lead to a dam breaking. So they're fucked and Penta has another month I believe and Fenix has 9-10. Tony found out what the plan was for them on SmackDown by the way and that also informed this. Take a wild guess who leaked that one backstage in AEW.

Relevant portion starts at 33:15 below. https://www.youtube.com/live/jGakR_xNSf4?si=fO6RzmSVRTMuei5-

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(Drumming is actually one of the special skills she displayed during her entrance exam/tests when she signed up with Stardom so we've seen her before but she's getting even better now.)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The claims brought forth by Wrestler Jerry Lawler regarding his son’s in-custody suicide at the Hardeman County Jail were officially dismissed, according to the Hardeman County Sheriff’s Office.

Brian Lawler was booked into the Hardeman County Jail in Bolivar on July 7, 2018, on DUI charges, evading arrest, and driving with a revoked license. The sheriff’s office said he later committed suicide in jail.

Jerry Lawler filed a wrongful death lawsuit against officials in Hardeman County one year after his son’s death. He was seeking $3 million in compensatory and an undetermined amount in punitive damages.

In September 2022, the district court denied claims against county Sheriff Doolen and Leonard Brown but claims against Judy Wiggins, Ellen Futrell, and William Gonzalez were not denied.

The original court’s ruling was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. They claimed that Wiggins, Futrell, and Gonzalez had qualified immunity that protected them from being sued.

All of Jerry Lawler’s claims regarding his son’s death in the county jail have been dismissed by the court as a result.

The lawsuit claimed that Hardeman County authorities did not get Brian Lawler treatment for drug and alcohol issues and, after he was injured in a fight, they put him in solitary confinement, where he used his shoelaces and bolts in his cell to commit suicide.

tl;dr - qualified immunity so suck it, or the tale of "we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong!"

“I did that on purpose. I went [blows out], and I overexaggerated so Triple H had time to hit me. But it was so bad, it looked like I didn’t plan it. It was horrible [laughs]. [Blows out, laughs]. That was a pro wrestling I guess gimmick. That’s what pro wrestlers would do. It’s like when they sell, when they get hit in the stomach, and they turn around in a circle and come back to you. It’s like, ‘Why would they be turning in a circle?’ But me, I was doing the [blows out], ‘Hit me, hit me, hit me.’ [Laughs]," Angle said.

Tonight, TNA Impact comes to us from Nashville, Tennessee!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
Eric Young vs. Josh Alexander

Tag Team Match
The Hardys (Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy) vs. ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)

TNA X-Division Title #1 Contendership Three Way Match
Laredo Kid vs. Jason Hotch (w/John Skyler) vs. Leon Slater

Six Man Tag Team Match
Rosemary, Tasha Steelz & Wendy Choo (w/Alisha Edwards) vs. Jordynne Grace, Masha Slamovich & Sol Ruca

And more!

Please check your local listings and TNAWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Tonight, ROH on HonorClub comes to us from Toledo, Ohio!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Tag Team Match
Derek Dillinger & Ren Jones vs. Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)

ROH World Title Match
Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Josh Woods

ROH Women's World Title Proving Ground Match
Athena vs. Lady Frost

Tag Team Match
The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)

Singles Match
Lance Archer vs. Sam Beale

ROH Women's World Television Title Match
Red Velvet (c) vs. Diamante

NJPW STRONG Openweight Title Match
Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Anthony Henry

Singles Match
Billie Starkz vs. Ella Elizabeth

Singles Match
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Brandon Cutler

And more!

Please check your local listings and RingOfHonor.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

"He is not back in the gym and he will not be back in the gym for a while and he’s not going to be back wrestling, probably, for a while. And it’s hopefully, he will be back wrestling in a while.”

“Apparently, there were complications,” Alvarez continued, mentioning he may have had a compromised immune system as well due to other factors, possibly sleep apnea.

“He ends up getting this flu and bad oxygen uptake as a result of whatever else, turned into pnemenuioa. And apparently he’s at high risk for a relapse, is what I was told. The big concern is that after all of this, they’ve been running test after test, and apparently there may be permanent damage. They found calcification in a heart valve and his body is not producing iron and so he’s got a whole bunch of tests that he apparently has to take. It’s bad. It’s bad enough that he’s out of the hospital, apparently, but he still has to do oxygen.”

He still needs oxygen at home because even day-to-day activities can leave him out of breath and he is not being allowed to train since he’s at high risk for a relapse. He also can’t travel for at least 4-6 weeks and has to see a specialist as soon as he can get in.

“I don’t want to say it’s a career-ending issue, but it could be a career-ending issue,” Alvarez continued.

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“AEW All Elite Show” will be a recap show airing on Mondays.

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LFG!

The entire WWE NXT crew will be staying in St. Louis until Friday morning as they cannot travel back to Florida due to Hurricane Milton. Matt Bloom was among the NXT officials remaining with the talent in. St. Louis. We are told the main roster talent that were not heading to Florida are believed to have returned home. Everyone at PWInsider.com wishes everyone in Florida all the best given the dangerous severity of the storm. Please be careful.

CM Punk was backstage at NXT in Missourii We are told he traveled with the NXT talents via bus to and from the show and was giving advice to talents at the taping.

There was a fan incident at the NXT hotel last night, PWInsider.com has learned. We are told that a male fan was allegedly caught trying to take photos of the feet of female talent as they made their way through the hotel and was ejected not once, but twice from the location.

Sol Ruca vs. Wendy Choo was held as a dark match last night.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

A former WWE employee who filed a lawsuit against the company and ex-leader Vince McMahon, accusing him of sexual battery and trafficking, is asking them to not enforce nondisclosure agreements with other former and current employees and contractors so they can potentially come forward with similar accusations.

A lawyer for Janel Grant emailed a letter making the request late Monday to attorneys representing WWE, McMahon and John Laurinaitis, a former WWE executive and wrestler, in Grant’s lawsuit against them.

A spokesperson for McMahon, Curtis Vogel, declined to comment. Lawyers for WWE and Laurinaitis did not immediately return emails seeking comment late Monday. Emails to the WWE and its parent companies, Endeavor Group Holdings and its subsidiary, TKO Group Holdings, also were not returned immediately.

McMahon, former CEO and chairman of WWE, has denied Grant’s allegations.

Grant, who worked in WWE’s legal and talent departments from 2019 to 2022, sued the company, McMahon and Laurinaitis in January, making graphic allegations of sexual assault, harassment, trafficking and other physical and emotional abuse.

McMahon stepped down as WWE’s CEO in 2022 amid a company investigation into allegations that match those in Grant’s lawsuit. He also resigned as executive chairman of the board of directors TKO Group Holdings in January, a day after Grant filed her lawsuit.

“If WWE and its parent company Endeavor are serious about parting ways with Vince McMahon and the toxic workplace culture he created, their executives should have no problem with releasing former WWE employees from their NDAs,” Ann Callis, Grant’s attorney, said in a statement. “This is the first step to rehabilitating a company that covered up decades of sexual assault and human trafficking.”

McMahon previously responded to Grant’s lawsuit with a statement calling it “replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred, and is a vindictive distortion of the truth. I intend to vigorously defend myself against these baseless accusations, and look forward to clearing my name.” His lawyers said in court documents that he had a consensual relationship with Grant and never mistreated her.

Laurinaitis’ lawyer has denied the allegations, and said Laurinaitis was also a victim in the case.

Grant says she was pressured into leaving her job with the WWE and signing a $3 million nondisclosure agreement. The lawsuit also seeks to have the agreement declared invalid, saying McMahon breached the deal by giving her $1 million and failing to pay the rest.

Four other women — all formerly affiliated with WWE — signed agreements with McMahon that bar them from discussing their relationships with him, the Wall Street Journal reported in July 2022, citing people familiar with the deals and documents it reviewed. Grant was not among those women, her representatives say.

In December 2022, McMahon agreed to pay a female former wrestling referee millions of dollars to settle her allegations that he raped her in 1986, the Journal also reported. McMahon said the alleged sexual assault never happened, and his lawyer said he settled the suit to avoid costly litigation.

Grant’s request for the Stamford, Connecticut-based WWE to waive enforcement of the NDAs is similar to ones made to other companies when sexual misconduct allegations arose.

In 2018 and 2019, respectively, the Weinstein Co. and NBC Universal released employees, former employees and others from NDAs made in connection with sexual misconduct claims against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and “Today” host Matt Lauer.

Victims’ lawyers call NDAs instruments to silence accusers while allowing alleged abusers to avoid accountability. A federal law approved in 2022 and similar laws in more than a dozen states curb the use of NDAs that block victims of sexual harassment from speaking publicly about their allegations.

The Associated Press does not normally name people who make sexual assault allegations unless they come forward publicly, which Grant did.

She alleges McMahon forced her into a sexual relationship with him in order for her to get and keep a job, and later directed her to have sexual relations with others including Laurinaitis. She also accuses McMahon and Laurinaitis of sexually assaulting her at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.

The lawsuit further claims McMahon recruited other people for sexual relations with Grant, shared pornographic photos and videos of her with other men including WWE employees despite saying he wouldn’t and subjected her to cruel and humiliating acts.

McMahon bought what was then the World Wrestling Federation in 1982 and transformed it from a regional wrestling company into a worldwide phenomenon. Besides running the company with his wife, Linda, he also performed at WWE events as himself.

Maria Kanellis shared an update on Instagram, as she said that her surgery was coming up, and her AEW contract was set to expire on October 31st as well.

“Hello, it’s been a little bit since I’ve checked in. We’re getting close to my surgery, and we’re within 20 days of it at this point. This week, I have an ultrasound, I have genetic testing, and I also am meeting with my surgeon to make a plan and hopefully start discussing what time of day we’ll be doing the surgery and if we’re going through the front or though the back. So I’m trying to not focus too much on that, and also my contract with AEW is coming up October 31st. I’ve reached out to them to find out whether or not they are going to be signing me, but I haven’t really heard anything yet, so of course that is weighing on me as well. But because it’s that time of year where it’s spooky season, I’m trying to focus on that. Today, I’m gonna work on some outdoor Halloween decorations because the rest of it, I can’t control right now. I can’t control, I can’t control the surgery. But what I can do is make some wonderful memories for my kids, so today, that is going to be my focus is making my kids happy," Kanellis said.

Update: Kanellis then took to Twitter/X on October 8th and wrote that she would be accepting interviews about her time and treatment in AEW after October 31st. She stated that she would be able to start taking bookings six weeks after her surgery, meaning the second week in December.

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I,unfortunately, have to announce that I'm out of commission for the foreseeable future. During my match with Gabe Kidd this past Saturday, I tore my left biceps off the bone. Surgery this week, and then I start the road to recovery. I am sorry to any fans I am letting down.