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I’m Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Friday, March 5, 2021.

This update is brought to you by IndyWrestling.us.

Results from Thursday’s NXT UK are straight ahead in this update but first...

(STINGER: AEW)

Speculation is swirling around AEW’s next big signing.

On Wednesday’s Dynamite, Paul Wight described the person as "Hall of Fame worthy" and a “huge surprise”.

Tony Khan is not backing away from the growing hype surrounding who’s showing up at Sunday’s Revolution pay per view.

(Khan Revolution Surprise)

That clip from the AEW Unrestricted podcast.

CM Punk was asked about this during a Twitter Q&A on Thursday...and said he is NOT the surprise signing.

Khan did describe the person as a “he” during the podcast.

Khan also said the “huge surprise” is different from the 6th entrant in a ladder match for a TNT Title shot, who will be revealed during Sunday’s show.

That the TNT Title match is set to happen on Wednesday’s Dynamite.

One more note from that podcast. Khan mentioned Anthony Bowens from The Acclaimed is out of action with a knee injury.

(STINGER: WWE)

SmackDown Women’s Champ Sasha Banks and her WrestleMania challenger Bianca Belair will get another shot at the Women’s Tag Titles. WWE announced Thursday that Banks and Belair will challenge Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax at Fastlane.

Tonight’s SmackDown main event has Daniel Bryan vs. Jey Uso inside a STEEL CAGE. If Bryan wins, he gets a shot at Roman Reigns’ Universal Title at Fastlane. If Uso wins, Bryan must ACKNOWLEDGE Reigns.

Kay Lee Ray’s 500+ day reign as NXT UK Women’s Champion...rolls on. She beat Meiko Satomura on Thursday’s show.

(STINGER: ROH)

A high stakes match on this weekend’s Ring Of Honor TV. Jay Briscoe vs. Matt Taven vs. Jay Lethal vs. EC3 in a Four Corner Survival Match. The winner gets the shot at Rush and the ROH World Championship at 19th Anniversary pay per view on March 26.

Also this weekend, a Pure Rules rematch between Josh Woods and Dalton Castle.

Dragon Lee beat Brian Johnson to retain the ROH TV Title. The match was shown earlier this week on ROH’s The Experience Facebook group and YouTube channel.

(STINGER: New Japan)

The first “official” New Japan Cup show is being held this morning.

Saturday’s show has THREE first round matches - Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi...KENTA vs. Juice Robinson...and Tomoaki Honma vs. Minoru Suzuki.

TWO Cup matches were held at Thursday’s Anniversary Show. Great-O-Khan BEAT Tetsuya Naito via referee stoppage...and Jeff Cobb beat Satoshi Kojima.

Kota Ibushi beat El Desperado in the main event - his final defense of the “double gold” as they will now be merged into the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

New Japan announced two stadium shows coming up in May - at Yokohama Stadium on May 15th...and in Tokyo Dome on May 29th.

Tonight’s New Japan Strong has a pair of qualifying matches for the U.S. version of the New Japan Cup tournament - Rocky Romero vs. Lio Rush...and FILTHY Tom Lawlor vs. The DKC.

There was plenty of backlash over reports that Marty Scurll attended recent tapings of New Japan Strong. Now, there are new reports that New Japan has pulled any plans for an on-screen appearance by Scurll.

That’s JUST Pro Wrestling News for Friday, March 5. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review..

I’m Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening.

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