Date: 03/02	4:00 PM
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Wed. #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 Wednesday's latest wrestling news.

Here are results from the first night of the New Japan Cup. (FF)

* New Japan Cup First Round: CIMA def. TAKA Michinoku
* New Japan Cup First Round: YOSHI-HASHI def. Tomoaki Honma
* New Japan Cup First Round: Hirooki Goto def. Yuji Nagata
* New Japan Cup First Round: Jeff Cobb def. Togi Makabe
* New Japan Cup First Round: Taichi def. Toru Yano
* New Japan Cup First Round: Hiroshi Tanahashi def. YOH
* New Japan Cup First Round: Tetsuya Naito def. Yujiro Takahashi
* New Japan Cup First Round: Kazuchika Okada def. El Desperado

The lineup for AEW Dynamite tonight is below. (AEW)

* Hangman Page, John Silver & Alex Reynolds vs. Adam Cole & reDRagon
* Britt Baker & Jamie Hayter vs. Thunder Rosa & Mercedes Martinez
* Casino Tag Royale For A Shot at AEW World Tag Team Titles
* Tony Khan has a big announcement

Here are last night's NWA Powerrr results. (FF)

* Crockett Cup First Round: The Fixers (Jay Bradley & Wrecking Ball) def. The OGK (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven)
* Mike Knox def. The Pope
* NWA National Championship: Anthony Mayweather def. Chris Adonis

New WWE related videos are available below.

In addition new AEW related videos are below.

After NXT last night Amari Miller revealed she had been diagnosed with a concussion following reports she was stretchered out after wrestling Lash Legend. I hope she's doing better today.

Biff Busick is out of the wXw 16 Carat tournament after a positive COVID-19 test.

1:00 PM ET. Alexa Bliss isn't expected to have a major program until after WrestleMania 38. Asuka is cleared following shoulder surgery and could return at any time but is waiting for "creative to have something" for her. Bayley is not schedule to return until after WrestleMania. (PWI)

2:00 PM ET. Control Your Narrative (CYN) has inked a deal with Pro Wrestling TV. That's the promotion of EC3 and Adam Scherr, just for reference, the same one who recently announced a "rant room" where fans could yell and scream at the wrestlers they hate. I can't see that working out well. There's also apparently a problem with some of the comments EC3 has made about the current news situation but unfortunately I don't have a link to share with you at the moment.

Tony Khan promises "new storylines will begin" at AEW Revolution. Also Khan says he'll make the "big announcement" on Dynamite tonight personally.

Johnny Gargano says when he's ready to come back everyone will know.

Keith Lee says he ignores the rumors he was "difficult" backstage in WWE: "At the end of the day, man, I'm very much like these old school guys like I really don't pay attention to the internet like that, and half the time I don't really pay attention to the apps. Like I may post a thing and someone who helps me with my account may post a thing that's trying to be positive for other people or promote what I do here in AEW, especially now. I feel like this. If there's no truth to it then why should I give it any credence? This is going to sound arrogant and I don't really care. At the end of the day it is beneath me and I treat it as such."

Samoa Joe wants Homicide in the ROH Hall of Fame. I agree.

Flip Gordon was backstage at Dynamite last week but it doesn't appear that he's signed with the promotion. (FF)

4:00 PM ET. Hikaru Shida says she almost turned down AEW because she wanted to stay in Japan working for MAKAI.

Bryan Danielson talks about his experience in AEW: "My time in AEW, I've been excited for all the matches because they are all... it's not like I'm wrestling the same guy twice, with the exception of the Hangman matches and both of those matches were different animals and I was excited for both of them. I wrestled Lee Moriarty and Daniel Garcia in the last two weeks, and not that I picked those two people, they just made sense with the story. I was really excited to see what they would bring to the table. To put to them, 'Hey, what do you want out of this match? I don't want to tell you how to do this match, I want to see what you think this match should be.' That was a lot of fun for me. They're both young, but they both have really good heads on their shoulders and two completely different human beings and different approaches to wrestling. That's been fun for me too, being around the younger guys. Maybe they learn something from me, I don't know, but I'm always interested in their perspective on wrestling because, I don't know how Daniel Garcia is, but say HOOK, he wasn't even born when I started wrestling. He doesn't know Vader vs. Sting from 1992, let alone the 80s stuff I watched as a kid because he has no reference to that. His reference for wrestling is completely different. I'm interested to see their perspective. It's always a learning experience for me and that's a lot of fun."

Samoa Joe on Pat McAfee vs. Vince McMahon: "My thoughts were, every WrestleMania, I think needs a little bit of celebrity involvement. And if you're going to have a celebrity involved, I definitely would have Pat McAfee at the top of that list. The guy has dove full head in. When I met him initially, I thought I wouldn't like him. I was proven wrong within five minutes of having a conversation with him. Which is something people rarely do when they meet me. He is very, very passionate about the business. I know he wants to go out there and perform at a high level. Not just go out there and kind of go through the motions. I don't really have any questions about Pat. Vince, he does his best to keep himself in shape, that's a tough load to bear coming up at 'Mania time. I could see some Austin Theory involvement. It will be interesting to say the least, I am good with Pat being involved."

Sami Zayn is celebrating 20 years in pro wrestling today.

The card for this week's Impact has been updated. (IW)

* Knockouts Championship #1 Contender: Tasha Steelz vs. Chelsea Green
* Eddie Edwards vs. Steve Maclin
* Bullet Club vs. Violent by Design & Guerrillas of Destiny
* JONAH vs. Johnny Swinger
* Cassie Lee vs. Madison Rayne
* Mike Bennett & Matt Taven vs. Willie Mack & Rich Swann

5:00 PM ET. Arn Anderson on AEW vs. WWE and if AEW can replicate the success of WCW: "I don't know if that will ever happen again because it was a different time. You had a lot of talent with those two companies who were seasoned, who were veterans, who had been around. Today we have a few veterans in the locker room and mostly young guys and ladies, and it's hard for them because they don't have enough tools on their tool belt yet as far as having experience to be able to pull that off. So if it happens down the road, who knows? I don't think we'll see that anytime soon."

Jimmy Wang Yang on being a producer for WWE: "Being a WWE producer is not a bad job. If you can handle the pressure and the intensity of working with WWE. This last run was my fourth time. So, I'm kind of used to the WWE system. It wasn't hard for me. Wrestling TV days, always long days. That's how the wrestling business is. It's always crazy. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of stuff that goes on that day, but that's what I love about WWE. I like the pressure, the intensity, the craziness, everything, and those moments that you're on that headset and there's so much going on. That's the first time I really got nervous since I was wrestling. It was so intense. You've got Vince in your ear. You got Kevin Dunn in your other ear. You got a million things going on, but I actually enjoyed it. I wish it would've lasted longer, but things didn't work out... at this time."

NXT 2.0 did 551,000 viewers down from 612,000 viewers last week and the lowest number on USA in the past 12 months. Inexplicably though the 18-49 was up slightly from 0.12 to 0.13. (SBD)

WWE recently released Lisette Pineda, WWE Manager of Global Talent Strategy & Development, who was reportedly a "top aide" to Paul Levesque (Triple H) in the company. HHH is said to be "nowhere close" to returning after his cardiac event last year. (PWI)

Here's a new story time with Adam Cole bay bay.