Date: 02/28	4:00 PM
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Mon. #1 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Monday's latest wrestling news.

Even though Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns for night two of WrestleMania 38 is being advertised as a title unification match, that's not the actual plan for after WrestleMania. They will "unify" the titles the night of, but after that on television, either the champion will vacate one title and keep the other OR they will introduce a new world title so that both Raw and SmackDown have their own champion. That's what FOX and USA Network both want. (WO) There's no word on how long a "unified" champion will be in effect, but based on these reports I'd be surprised if it even lasts all the way to SummerSlam before we have two champions again.

From NJPW.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kota Ibushi to miss Anniversary, New Japan Cup [50th]

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Kota Ibushi has been diligently preparing for a scheduled return on March 1 at the Nippon Budokan. However, after careful consultation with trainers, medical staff and the NJPW medical committee, and based on the results of a final medical evaluation, the difficult decision has been made to delay Ibushi's return, and remove him from Wednesday's Anniversary card. The following change has been made to the event.

4th match:

Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Kota Ibushi vs Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare ->

Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, Yuto Nakashima & Kosei Fujita vs Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare

Furthermore, after concerns around Ibushi's condition across several potential singles matches in the New Japan Cup tournament, the decision has been made for him to withdraw. His first round match against Great-O-Khan on March 6 will be considered forfeit, and O-Khan will advance to March 12 in Aichi where he will face Taiji Ishimori.

Additionally, Hiroyoshi Tenzan is still recovering from a knee injury, and will not be taking part in the New Japan Cup. His second round match against the winner of Taichi and Toru Yano on March 9 in Korakuen will be considered forfeit, and either Yano or Taichi will advance to the third round March 16 in Aichi.

We deeply apologise to fans who were looking forward to seeing Tenzan and Ibushi wrestle and appreciate your understanding. New Japan Pro-Wrestling joins fans in wishing the very best for both men in their recovery.

New WWE related videos are available below.

Unfortunately Alex Zayne was seriously injured working GCW The Coldest Winter against Jimmy Lloyd, but I'll let him explain further: "I'm out of surgery, drowsy af, someone drugged my Baja blast. Doc said it went well. Time will tell. Thank you all so much for all the love and well wishes. These peanut butter crackers taste nothing like Taco Bell. Update: they had to give me some stitches before they could move forward on the eye situation. Have a Ruptured Globe, heading into surgery for that and to, of course, remove the glass from my eye. Should be in there soon. Thanks to everyone who has reached out."

WWE house show results from Rochester are below. (WBS)

* Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs defeated Sheamus and Ridge Holland
* United States Championship: Damian Priest (c) defeated Kevin Owens
* Omos defeated R-Truth
* Raw Tag Team Championship: The Alpha Academy (c) defeated The Mysterios and The Street Profits
* SmackDown Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair (c) defeated Naomi
* Ronda Rousey defeated Sonya Deville
* Finn Balor defeated Apollo Crews
* Bianca Belair defeated Liv Morgan
* New Day and Drew McIntyre defeated Roman Reigns and The Usos

The latest Prestige Wrestling results are below. (FF)

* Calvin Tankman def. PCO
* Kevin Blackwood def. Ethan HD, Adrian Quest, Kidd Bandit, Tyler Bateman and MV Young
* Chelsea Green def. Delilah Doom
* Clark Connors def. JTG
* Devil's Playground: Drexl def. Vinnie Massaro
* Prestige Tag Team Championships: C4 (Cody Chhun & Guillermo Rosas) (c) def. Midnight Heat (Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson), The West Coast Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson) and Nick Wayne & Sonico
* Taya Valkyrie def. Viva Van
* Prestige World Championship: Alex Shelley (c) def. Dalton Castle, Tom Lawlor and Mike Bailey

Thunder Rosa will team with Mercedes Martinez against Jamie Hayter and Britt Baker either on Dynamite in Jacksonville this Wednesday or the live Rampage in Orlando this Friday. (WO)

Here's the updated WrestleMania 38 card. (WWE)

Night One (April 2):
* Smackdown Women's Championship: Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Ronda Rousey
* RAW Women's Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Bianca Belair

Night Two (April 3):
* Winner Takes All Title Unification Match: Roman Reigns (Universal Champion) vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE Champion)

MLW has signed Microman to a new multi-year deal.

1:00 PM ET. New episodes of NJPW on AXS begin this week. Here are the lineups for the next two shows.

March 3rd:
* NEVER Openweight Championship: EVIL (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii
* Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito & SANADA

March 10th:
* IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs. Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask
* IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL (c) vs. YOSH-HASHI & Hirooki Goto

Bryan Danielson says he tries to build camraderie backstage in AEW: "One of the things I like is to create discussion, interesting conversation, camaraderie amongst the boys, more so than anything else. I'm not trying to teach them anything about professional wrestling per se. One of the things I enjoy the most and one of the things I miss being away from professional wrestling when I was forced to retire and not one of the boys, most of us, for the most part, are a little weird and we all have little weird things. I enjoy being in the locker room, the different conversations, the different dynamics of different people. We come to this from a different thing I've really enjoyed that over the years. You get younger guys in there, someone like HOOK, Lee Moriarty, Daniel Garcia."

Johnny Gargano says he wants to be a free agent for now to take care of his family but he is still open to being booked for appearances.

The latest Being The Elite is now available, and...

... they confirmed a date for California: June 3rd at the Toyota Center in Ontario for Rampage. (AEW)

To make a long story short Drew McIntyre says Cody Rhodes may have "unfinished business" in WWE.

5:00 PM ET. The stream for tonight's episode of Elevation airing in two hours can be found below.

Tickets for this year's Money in the Bank on Saturday, July 2nd at Allegiant in Las Vegas go on sale March 17th. (WWE)

Sw3rve says he may abandon using Chaka Khan for his indie theme song.

Sasha Banks and Naomi will team up to challenge Carmella and Zelina Vega at WrestleMania 38. (PWI)

Hulk Hogan has confirmed via social media that he and Jennifer McDaniel got divorced.

AEW will also be running the Forum in Inglewood on June 1st for Dynamite.

Here's a new Sonya Deville interview.

The last Rampage did 473,000 viewers, up ever so slightly from 471,000 the week before, while the 18-49 demo dropped from 0.20 to 0.18. (SBD)

The Miz & Logan Paul vs. Rey & Dominik Mysterio is now set for WrestleMania 38 night 1. (WWE)

The Hardy Boyz respond to DEM BOYS (The Briscoes) below.

Last week's SmackDown did a 0.57 18-49 demo with 2.114 million viewers, up 5.6 % and down 2.7% from a 0.54 demo rating and 2.173 million the week before. (Wrestlenomics)