Thunder Rosa has been vocal about her desire to wrestle Mercedes Mone, and now she has even come up with a stipulation for their match.
During a recent interview with Tim Hann Rivera, Rosa said, “I just want to beat her a*s. I just want to beat everybody’s ass. But I don’t want to do a street fight. I would love to do, because she’s been having some badass matches, she did this in NXT with Bayley, I want to do an Iron Woman match with her. It’s time for her. She likes doing some crazy s*it, and I think she’s at another level, and that would definitely put my a*s in shape. I really do want to do that.”
Matt Riddle appeared to be on track for a lengthy run in NJPW after debuting at ‘New Year Dash’ 2024 and later winning the World TV Title.
However, Riddle lost that title a few months later to Zack Sabre Jr. and has been absent from NJPW since then.
During a recent appearance on the “Shak Wrestling” podcast, Riddle explained why he has been absent from NJPW, citing scheduling conflicts.
He said, “New Japan was great. I was supposed to go do a tour when I first started working with them, but I had a scheduling conflict. I had a match with RVD, and me being me, there is no way that I could miss a match with RVD. I told New Japan that I could come in the first week of the tour, but then I had to leave the second week and I’d be back before the weekend was over. They said that wasn’t going to work. I was like, ‘Okay.’ I worked for them in Chicago and dropped the title to Zack Sabre, and then they wanted me to wrestle again. When they did the next one in California, I had a booking with MLW, and MLW comes first. They’ve been taking care of me, I’ve worked with them in the past, and ever since I said, ‘I have a booking that day with MLW,’ they have not reached out. I don’t think it’s anything personal. I fill up my schedule early and wrestle two or three times a weekend, usually. Their schedule, they didn’t pencil me in. They would a lot of times call me or ask me to do a date and I was already booked. I think that was it. They have a lot going on and a lot of moving pieces. When you’re dealing with somebody like me, Mustafa Ali, or Donovan Dijak, we’re in demand. I wrestle all over the world all the time. You may not see me on TV, but I’m very busy.”
