During a recent appearance on the “Under the Ring” podcast, Roderick Strong commented on his son Troy’s love of wrestling, and whether he’d push for him to get into the business. He said,
“Well, he seems to love it. It’s not something that we push on him, but he loves what we do. He’s always telling me, he’s gonna be a professional wrestler, when he turns 18. That’s one of those things where it’s like, ‘Oh, we’ll see,’ but the fact that he’s so passionate about it, like right now, He’s really into Daniel Garcia. He loves the dance and is just fully behind him. I have heard Daniel Garcia’s entrance music probably over 1000 times in the last couple of months because we have different drives. We take him to school or we go to his baseball practice or something, and we have a list of songs that he likes. We gotta listen to that two or three times before we get to our location. So he’s just dancing, I don’t know. It’s awesome. You know, Daniel Garcia is a young man with a ton of potential with a great head on his shoulder. So it’s cool that my son looks up to someone like that currently.“
All Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the participants for this year’s Champion Carnival, a round robin tournament. You can check out the updated brackets below:
[A Block]
Shotaro Ashino (5th appearance in 5 consecutive years / 2023 winner)
Kento Miyahara (11th appearance in 11 consecutive years / 2019 winner)
Yuma Aoyagi (6th appearance in 6 consecutive years / youngest winner in 2022 (26 years 6 months))
Hokuto Omori (2nd appearance for 2 consecutive years)
Ren Ayabe (first appearance)
Kuroshio TOKYO Japan (2nd appearance in 4 years)
Cyrus (2nd appearance in 2 consecutive years)
[B Block]
Ma Suwa (8th consecutive year, 19th appearance, 2008 champion, current world tag team champion)
Tatsuki Honda (3rd appearance in 3 consecutive years)
Jun Saito (2nd appearance for 2nd year in a row)
Yuma Anzai (2nd appearance for 2 consecutive years)
Hideki Suzuki (First appearance / Current World Tag Team Champion)
Hartley Jackson (first appearance)
Road Crew (Lord Crewe) (first appearance)
