Date: 03/26	11:00 PM
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During a recent signing Jake Atlas detailed a talk given by Edge to the NXT roster about mental health: "During COVID, he came and spoke to us for a few hours where we all sat down and we got to learn from Adam Copeland. He was very adamant that during that whole speech, that we addressed him as such, and I really took a lot out of him. Because he didn't really talk much, he did talk about wrestling, obviously, that's what he made his career in. But he talked more about the mental health side of what we do and that to me was just, at a time when I was confused, wanted out by any means necessary, and was just having a miserable time. And just hearing him speak about how important it is to have something out of wrestling, and have something out of it. You know, at the time I was with WWE, having something outside of WWE, that you're not always talking about WWE. You're not always talking about wrestling and having something that is for you. He would always speak about every time he introduces himself he's like, 'I'm Edge,' sorry, 'I'm Adam'. And just that kind of distinction was just so powerful coming from him. And he said, 'I was in a dark place when I just mixed the two together. The second I separated, I was like 'this is who I am' was just a beautiful thing.' That was the one thing I most remember, and he gave us all his number, and I said, 'Text me with any critiques on matches.'"

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Here are the official semi final results from the New Japan Cup. (NJPW)

* Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & Gedo beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Master Wato, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Hiroshi Tanahashi at 9m08s.
* Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Togi Makabe beat Taichi, Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru at 9m13s.
* SHO, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL (House of Torture) beat DOUKI, Taka Michinoku & El Desperado at 9m45s.
* CIMA, T-Hawk & El Lindaman beat Hirooki Goto, Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask at 9m26s.
* The Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat YOH & YOSHI-HASHI at 13m23s.
* Will Ospreay & Aaron Henare beat BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi at 7m10s.
* New Japan Cup Semifinals: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Shingo Takagi via Referee Stoppage (Rear Naked Choke) at 19m24s to advance to the finals.
* New Japan Cup Semifinals: Tetsuya Naito beat Kazuchika Okada at 27m42s to advance to the finals.

And here is the lineup for the finals. (NJPW)

* New Japan Cup Finals: Tetsuya Naito vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
* Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Satoshi Kojima & Tiger Mask vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, CIMA, T-Hawk & El Lindaman
* Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi vs. EVIL & Dick Togo
* Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, The Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare
* El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku vs. SHO & Yujiro Takahashi
* Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & YOH vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
* Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Jado, Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs. Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo
* BUSHI vs. Kosei Fujita

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Here Charlotte Flair talks about her current title reign: "For me, I think I would've liked to have more title defenses on pay-per-views, but under certain circumstances... It was cool being champion going into the Royal Rumble because that's never happened before. Having that match with Naomi, I've been waiting for that match for five years now and we were finally able to have it on SmackDown last month. I thought that was incredible. It's so cliche, but that was only a taste of what we can do. It was only one match. That was special for me. With Survivor Series, all I can say is that number one doesn't talk about number two, but it was fun to revisit that bitter best friend."

The latest STARDOM results can be found below.

* Future of STARDOM Championship: Hanan (c) beat Rina at 7 minutes 5 seconds.
* MIRAI beat Saya Iida at 10 minutes 23 seconds.
* Trios Tag Team Gauntlet: Himeka, Natsupoi, & Mai Sakurai beat Mina Shirakawa, Momo Kohgo, & Waka Tsukiyama and Saki Kashima, Fukigen Death, & Ruaka and AZM, Lady C, & Miyu Amasaki.
* Risa Sera & Suzu Suzuki beat Thekla & Maika at 10 minutes 27 seconds.
* Goddesses of STARDOM Tag Team Championships: Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe beat Hazuki & Koguma (c) to capture the titles at 14 minutes 8 seconds.
* KAIRI (aka Kairi Sane) & Mayu Iwatani beat Tam Nakano & Unagi Sayaka at 17 minutes 36 seconds.
* Wonder of STARDOM Championship: Saya Kamitani (c) beat Utami Hayashishita at 27 minutes 11 seconds.
* World of STARDOM Championship: Syuri (c) beat Giulia at 26 minutes 54 seconds.

The latest PROGRESS results can be found below. (FF)

* PROGRESS Women's Championship No. 1 Contendership: Laura Di Matteo beat Alexxis Falcon and Rhio and Skye Smitson.
* Ilja Dragunov beat Cara Noir.
* The Atlas Championship will return in April with a tournament to crown a new champion.
* PROGRESS Tag Team Championships: The 0121 (Dan Moloney & Man Like DeReiss) beat The Smokin' Aces (Charlie Sterling & Nick Riley) (c) and Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II) and The Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo & TK Cooper) and North West Strong (Chris Ridgeway & Luke Jacobs) to capture the tag team titles.
* PROGRESS Women's Championship: Gisele Shaw (c) beat Alex Windsor.
* PROGRESS World Championship: Jonathan Gresham (c) beat Warren Banks.

In this interview Jonathan Gresham says he thought COVID-19 would end his career: "Yes. I try to stay optimistic. I'm a pessimist from the start, but when it hit I was financially in a pretty good situation but I was more concerned about my comrades, guys that were coming up and on pay-per-appearance with Ring of Honor. So, I was really thinking about them. ROH did a really good job of keeping us on payroll the entire pandemic, so I was concerned but I was also thinking, 'Okay, I'm going to jump to what next?' I spent my entire adult life becoming a professional wrestler, so there was really nothing else I could really use that knowledge for, so that was kind of scary. But yeah, I thought it was over for me. But I was just going to ride the wave of the contract. Money was still coming in and hope for the best."

Blitzkrieg! Pro results are below. (FF)

* Travis Huckabee def. Anthony Greene
* MSP (Aiden Aggro & The DangerKid) def. The Haven (Jay Onyx & Shawn Knyte)
* JGeorge def. 50 Cal and Bobby Orlando and Ichiban and Jimmy Townsend and Veda Scott
* CPA def. Gnarls Garvin
* Miracle Generation (Dustin Waller & Kylon King) & Sammy Diaz def. Mike Anthony & The New Gore Order (Devin Blaze & Mike Graca)
* Kirby Wackerman def. Dante
* Masha Slamovich def. MV Young
* A Message To You (Leary & Perry Von Vicious) def. CDC (Devantes & Juba) and The Apostles Of Chaos (Chris Benne & Logan Black)
* Alec Price def. Mike Bailey

In this interview Kidd Bandit talks about their gimmick: "It might come off as naive, but I like to believe that good always triumphs over evil and I think that's what makes anime great, Shonen anime, specifically. Because if you look at the plots of Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, My Hero Academia. These coming-of-age young adult animes, it's always about someone from meager means overcoming so many obstacles to save the world, more or less. It's funny because that relates to so many people. The 'I'm nobody, and I can become somebody and save the world in the process.' That's the basic JRPG plot, right? You're playing a game, you live in some minor village, suddenly something happens and then you end up with the magic sword from a cave or something. It's a tale that's been told multiple times. That's what wrestling does. If you think about it, the greatest wrestling storylines have that pay off of good beating evil. As naïve as it sounds, I like that. Yeah, I've gone through hardships in life that made me kind of jaded about certain things, but I like to think that good winning over evil, or good beating bad, that still holds weight to people struggling with things."

Kurt Angle talks about his WrestleMania 19 match with Brock Lesnar: "The whole reason why I helped Brock up and tried to assist him to win the match is that my neck was broken and I couldn't carry the title any longer. I was going to have surgery the next day. So I was in a position where Brock might have broken his neck, he got knocked out, I didn't know what to do because I couldn't hold the title another night. I had to basically wake him up and get him moving and see if he was OK and make sure that he could complete the move. It was very stressful. Those 15 seconds were one of the most stressful situations that I've ever been in. But Brock being the beast that he is followed through, hit the F5 and he won the world championship."

Johnny Knoxville says he'll have "something special" for Sami Zayn at WrestleMania.