Like many US-based independent wrestling veterans, Matthew and Nicholas Jackson had memorable runs with PWG, with both stars competing for the promotion over 100 times each from 2007 to 2018.

With PWG not running a show since 2023, Matthew Jackson has revealed that he and Nicholas would be interested in making an offer to buy the promotion.

Speaking in a live Q&A session on YouTube, Matt Jackson commented on the duo potentially running their own indie promotion, noting:

“Me and Nick have talked about a lot of things. We’ve talked about buying PWG. Starting our own indie. A wrestling school. In the next few years, if we’re going to do something, it’ll probably happen in the next few years.”

Matthew later clarified:

“Let me clarify, I don’t know if PWG is for sale. If it was for sale, I would make an offer.”

PWG’s most recent show, PWG TWENTY: Mystery Vortex, took place on August 13, 2023, and saw Daniel Garcia defeat Mike Bailey in an 60-minute Ironman match for the PWG World Championship in the main event.

PWG owner Super Dragon announced an indefinite hiatus for the promotion so he could focus on caring for his girlfriend through her health issues.

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Two WarGames matches took place at last night’s WWE Survivor Series show, with the women’s match opening up the show.

The match saw Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, IYO SKY, Naomi and Bayley defeat Liv Morgan, Nia Jax, Tiffany Stratton, Raquel Rodriguez and Candice LeRae.

The match was Candice’s first WarGames match on the WWE main roster, having been part of two in NXT previously, and she has now shared a closer look at her ring gear from the show, which featured a cool easter egg.

Taking to Instagram, Candice showed off the making of her gear, which featured a bloody picture of her from the 2014 Guerrilla Warfare match in PWG.

She wrote:

“You Don’t Have To Look Tough To Be Tough.” My Easter egg for the “Reseda” peeps. Thanks for helping me stay tough.

Candice has been aligned with WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax in recent weeks, with her and Tiffany Stratton butting heads.

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The Bucks have wrestled in numerous places during their tenured careers, but are mostly associated with their time in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where they really made a name for themselves.

The Bucks were guests on Swerve Strickland’s Swerve City Podcast, where they discussed the topic of what would be next for them when they retire from wrestling.

While Matt Jackson suggested that he would simply disappear from the business, Nick Jackson discussed potentially opening a new independent promotion akin to PWG, or even outright buying PWG.

He then noted that he did once attempt to buy the company from Super Dragon, but the offer wasn’t accepted.

He said:

“How fun would that be? I don’t know, buy PWG from Super Dragon. You know what’s funny is I tried to buy PWG and he didn’t go for the offer.”

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During the segment, Owens and Zayn would state that winning the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Titles in Los Angeles would be special due to LA’s significance to both of their careers.

This reference was a nod to the Pro-Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) LA-based promotion which Owens and Zayn made their names in prior to their runs with ROH and WWE.

Ahead of their massive weekend at WrestleMania, Owens would speak to TVA Sports, where he revealed that as well as Monday’s nod to PWG, their will be yet another one coming at the ‘show of shows’.

Owens said, while shouting out PWG co-founders Excalibur and Super Dragon:

“For sure, I’d like to thank Excalibur and Super Dragon. The fact that WrestleMania is in Los Angeles is huge for us and the gear we’ll be wearing for our match, will have a little nod to PWG. Without Super Dragon, we would not be where we are today.”

Much of the build to this year’s WrestleMania has surrounded Owens and Zayn and their war with the Bloodline, with their match with The Usos as well as Cody Rhodes’ main event match with Roman Reigns set to potentially end the over two-year Bloodline saga.

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Chris Jericho and the entire Jericho Appreciation Society made a surprise appearance at PWG’s BOLA show in January 2023.

The group accompanied PWG World Champion Daniel Garcia, taking on the team of Evil Uno, Jonathan Gresham, Kevin Blackwood, Michael Oku & SB KENTo.

This encounter was enough for Jericho to tell Oku that the British star would be on an AEW show AEW comes to the United Kingdom.

Whilst the appearance of AEW stars in PWG have made history for the company, Dave Meltzer has revealed that a WWE star had been interested in working the show.

Writing in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscription required), Meltzer reports:

“We also know that a main roster top star asked to work PWG, and this was before Chris Jericho and company appeared there but nothing came of that.”

Unfortunately, aside from “main roster top star”, Meltzer doesn’t hint as to who that person may have been or what capacity their appearance would have taken.

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The group accompanied PWG World Champion Daniel Garcia, taking on the team of Evil Uno, Jonathan Gresham, Kevin Blackwood, Michael Oku & SB KENTo.

Jericho spoke about the appearance on Talk Is Jericho, and how it came to be.

He said:

“For anybody that wants to know how that happened, Excalibur and I had spoken about it months ago. After a show, we were having some drinks and I was like ‘Yeah sure, I’d like to do PWG. Let’s try and figure it out sometime.’

“Then, about a month or so ago, Danny [Garcia] mentioned that he’s in BOLA and that there’s always this tournament. He said ‘Why don’t you and Sammy come and we’ll do the six man.’ I was like ‘Why don’t we make it the whole gang, all eight of us and do like a ten man, but still have Anna and Tay and Jake on the outside with us as well.’ I think that was kinda the cool part was that the entire group showed up.

“Once I suggested it to Tony Khan, he was super excited about it. When we first started AEW, I think the Bucks did a few of these [types of shows] and I think Kenny and I showed up at a small indie in Georgia. Not to have a match, but I think I did a run in. We were kinda like the new company that was just showing up wherever we wanted to and we kinda had this street credit because of it. I felt like this kinda took us back to that. No one’s gonna expect this and everyone’s gonna be talking about it. So no matter what we do in this match, it doesn’t matter because they’re going to be going nuts because it’s such a cool surprise.”

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Originally, Dave Meltzer had awarded the coveted five-star rating to Bryan Keith and Speedball Mike Bailey’s match at PWG Battle of Los Angeles Night 2.

The event, which took place on January 8 2023 would see both men collide in the semi-final match before Bailey would go on to face and defeat Konosuke Takeshita in the final.

In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscription required) dated January 16, Meltzer would say:

“Mike Bailey pinned Bryan Keith in 18:04. They tore the house down. There was a great elbow trade early. Bailey came off the top with double knees to a draping Keith. They traded hard chops to the back. Keith used an exploder int the turnbuckles. Bailey used the speedball kicks. Bailey did another moonsault off the middle rope to the floor. Keith did an exploder off the top rope and a shining wizard before Bailey won with a 450 double knees.”

He would award the match a respectable five-and-a-quarter stars.

Meltzer has since issued a correction to the rating in the current Wrestling Observer Newsletter a week after the fact, clarifying it was supposed to be listed as four-and-a-quarter stars:

“A correction from last week, the Bryan Keith vs. Mike Bailey PWG match should have been listed as ****1/4″

Mike Bailey invoked a “no take backs” policy on the review on January 18 through his personal Twitter account.

5.25
NO TAKE BACKS! pic.twitter.com/oVQXjw8cCM

— Speedball Mike Bailey (@SpeedballBailey) January 18, 2023

Dave Meltzer did also issue a statement on the misinformation spread in what would be revealed as a ‘hoax’ story relating to Dragon Gate.

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On January 8, Chris Jericho made an appearance on PWG Battle of Los Angeles Night Two, teaming with Sammy Guevara, Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker to take on and defeat the team of Player Uno, Kevin Blackwood, Jonathan Gresham, SB KENTo and Michael Oku.

Conrad Thompson addressed the appearance on the To Be The Man Podcast, asking if Flair had any comment of his own and whether WWE would have endorsed an appearance like this.

The two-time WWE Hall of Famer would respond by saying:

“No. Because they’re the WWE [laughs]. Why would they endorse something else?

“I mean, I get it. First of all, I’m the first to say I don’t know everything, but I’ve never heard of the company you’re talking about.

“They may never have heard of me, but I don’t think that’s the case [laughs].

“Right now, I’m focused on the fact that two hours of Flair is worth more than two hours of live TV.”

Flair would be referring to his two-hour To Be The Man documentary on Peacock.

The Nature Boy recently expressed his love for Vince McMahon and that he was glad that McMahon is back in WWE.

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Chris Jericho notably made his PWG debut during the show, teaming with Daniel Garcia, Sammy Guevara, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker to face Jonathan Gresham, Evil Uno, SB Kento, Michael Oku, & Kevin Blackwood in 10-man tag team action.

Jericho scored the victory for the Jericho Appreciation Society, pinning Blackwood following a Judas Effect elbow.

Eddie Kingston was notably on commentary for the Bryan Keith vs Masha Slamovich tournament match.

AEW also filmed content at the show, with Don Callis scouting Takeshita in a segment being filmed for AEW.

The Battle of Los Angeles 2023 tournament was ultimately won by Mike Bailey, who defeated AEW’s Konosuke Takeshita in the tournament finals.

Here are the results from the show:

– Mike Bailey def. Jordynne Grace – Second Round Tournament Match

– Konosuke Takeshita defeated Titus Alexander – Second Round Tournament Match

– Bryan Keith defeated Masha Slamovich- Second Round Tournament Match

 – Komander defeated Bandido – Second Round Tournament Match

 – Mike Bailey defeated Shun Skywalker – Second Round Tournament Match

 – Latigo & Black Taurus defeated Rey Horus & Aramis

 – Konosuke Takeshita defeated Komander – Semi Final Match

 – Mike Bailey defeated Bryan Keith – Semi Final Match

 – Jericho Appreciation Society def. Jonathan Gresham, Evil Uno, SB Kento, Michael Oku, & Kevin Blackwood

 – Mike Bailey def. Konosuke Takeshita – Battle of Los Angeles 2023 Tournament Finals

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The notable tournament returned on January 8, with eight first round matches taking place at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Masha Slamovich, Bryan Keith, Komander, Jordynne Grace, Shun Skywalker, Konosuke Takeshita, Titus Alexander and Bandido won their tournament bouts, advancing to the next round.

Check out the results from the January 8 event below (via So Cal Uncensored):

– Masha Slamovich def. Alex Shelley – First Round Match

– Bryan Keith def. SB Kento – First Round Match

– Komander def. Latigo – First Round Match

– Jordynne Grace def. Jonathan Gresham – First Round Match

– Shun Skywalker def. Aramis – First Round Match

– Konosuke Takeshita def. Michael Oku – First Round Match

– Titus Alexander def. Daniel Garcia via DQ – First Round Match

– Bandido def. Black Taurus and El Hijo del Vikingo – First Round Match

Last year’s tournament was won by AEW’s Daniel Garcia, who defeated Mike Bailey in the tournament finals on January 30, 2022.

Garcia went on to win the PWG World Championship from Bandido that May at PWG Delivering The Goods.

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Garcia defeated Bandido for the gold after a competitive match, defeating the luchador via submission with a sharpshooter. Bandido had held the title for 863 days before his reign was ended.

The new champion had previously won the Battle of Los Angeles 2022 tournament in January.

Garcia is currently signed to AEW, and is affiliated with the Chris Jericho’s ‘Jericho Appreciation Society’.

AEW had reportedly pulled several names from indy shows slated for Sunday, following a scheduling conflict, with JD Drake, Dante Martin and Wheeler Yuta notably pulled from the ‘Delivering The Goods’ line-up ahead of the event.

Here are the full results from the event (via F4WOnline):

• Jack Cartwheel def. Shane Haste
• Aussie Open (Kyle Davis and Kyle Fletcher) def. World Class Wrecking Crew (Royce Issacs and Jorel Nelson). After the match, Aussie Open challenged PWG World Tag Team Champions Malakai Black and Brody King to a future match. The WCWC replaced The Briscoes, who pulled out of the show due to a family emergency.
• Jonathan Gresham def. Kevin Blackwood
• Konosuke Takeshita def. Aramis.
• Taurus def. Blake Christian
• Biff Busick def. Speedball Mike Bailey. Busick came to the ring wearing a Super Dragon mask and was billed as Super Dragon. After the match, Busick took a shot at Dragon and said that he wanted a shot at the PWG Championship.
• Daniel Garcia def. Bandido to win the PWG Championship. After the match, Garcia challenged Konosuke Takeshita to a match at the next PWG event. Takeshita said he would be the next champion.

Garcia’s most recent AEW match was against Eddie Kingston on the April 22 edition of Rampage.

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Daniel Garcia hit Bandido w/ low blow, 2 Spinning forearms & then won the #PWG title by submission w/ sharpshooter. #Deliveringthegoods #wrestling pic.twitter.com/cQTbEhzrei

— TARO (@loknloll) May 2, 2022

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AEW star Daniel Garcia was the ultimate winner, defeating Speedball Mike Bailey to win the 2022 Battle of Los Angeles.

Unfortunately, the event also saw soon-to-be free agent Lio Rush suffer an injury that reportedly could have occurred at least in part, due to “fans” throwing a drink during Rush’s opponent, Buddy Matthews (formerly known as Buddy Murphy in WWE) pre-match promo.

The results are as follows: (per Cageside Seats)

• Black Taurus defeated Aramis (second-round match)
• Daniel Garcia defeated Alex Shelley (second-round match)
• Lio Rush defeated Buddy Matthews by DQ (second-round match)
• Speedball Mike Bailey defeated Wheeler Yuta (second-round match)
• Daniel Garcia defeated Black Taurus via submission in a semifinal match
• Speedball Mike Bailey defeated Buddy Matthews in a semifinal match
• JONAH, Kevin Blackwood, Rey Horus & Blake Christian defeated Bandido, JD Drake, Jack Cartwheel & Lee Moriarty
• Daniel Garcia defeated Speedball Mike Bailey to win the 2022 Battle of Los Angeles

Lio Rush has since provided an update regarding his injury as well as expressed disappointment in the “fans” behavior both for throwing objects but also hate speech.

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