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I’m Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Saturday, March 13, 2021.

This update is brought to you by IndyWrestling.us.

Results from Friday’s SmackDown and New Japan Strong are straight ahead in this update but first…

(STINGER: Impact)

A title unification match headlines Impact’s Sacrifice show tonight. It’s Impact World Champion Rich Swann and TNA Champ Moose. The winner tonight gets BOTH belts...AND he gets AEW Champion Kenny Omega in a Title vs. Title Match at the Rebellion pay per view on April 24th.

Also on tonight’s show - New Japan’s Juice Robinson and David Finlay challenge the Good Brothers for the Impact Tag Titles.

Ace Austin goes after TJP’s X-Division Championship.

Deonna Purrazzo puts the Knockouts Championship on the line against ODB.

Fire And Flava defend the Knockouts Tag Titles against Jordynne Grace & Jazz.

Eddie Edwards vs. Brain Myers in a Hold Harmless Match.

Violent By Design’s Joe Doering and Deaner face James Storm and Chris Sabin.

Tenille Dashwood & Kaleb With A K vs. Havok & Nevaeh.

Decay vs. Reno Scum

Sacrifice is an Impact Plus exclusive show.

(STINGER: WWE)

Last night’s SmackDown set up a couple big matches for NEXT Friday.

Edge will wrestle on SmackDown for the first time in ELEVEN years...next week against Jey Uso. The winner will be the special enforcer for the Universal Title match at Fastlane between Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan.

Also next Friday, Nia Jax will get a shot at Sasha Banks’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

Banks and Bianca Belair lost a tag match to Natalya and Tamina last night. Nia Jax, Shayna Baszler and Reginald were at commentary during the match. Banks eventually went after Reggie. That distracted Belair, and allowed Tamina to steal the pin with a rollup. Banks and Belair were arguing after the match.

Big E returned to SmackDown. He issued an open challenge for his Intercontinental Title. Sami Zayn beat King Corbin to the ring to answer. Big E beat Zayn. After the match, Apollo Crews attacked Big E from behind.

An 8-man tag ended with Montez Ford pinning one-half of the SmackDown tag champs, Robert Roode.

Cesaro beat Murphy for the second straight week - this time via disqualification when Seth Rollins got involved. He hit a pair of Curb Stomps...tried a third with Cesaro’s head wrapped in a steel chair - but the refs stopped Rollins.

Rollins later had a brief staredown with Shinsuke Nakamura.

NXT referee Tom Castor was in the ring Wednesday night for the women’s title match between Io Shirai and Toni Storm. But the following day, he says he tore his biceps...and it will require surgery. Castor spent 10 months on the shelf after he suffered a gruesome broken ankle during a match in 2019.

(STINGER: AEW)

AEW has a lot more planned for Monday’s debut episode of Dark: Elevation than the five matches announced Thursday. It’s now an ELEVEN match card - including matches for Miro & Kip Sabian...Big Swole...and an 8-man tag with The Butcher & The Blade and Private Party teaming up on one side.

One-Half of The Acclaimed, Anthony Bowens, responded to a report that he recently had knee surgery. Bowens tweeted “What you’ve seen the last 4 months was me basically wrestling on 1 leg.” He promised plenty of Acclaimed content every week while he’s away from the ring.

More injury news - veteran pro wrestler B-Boy announced on Twitter that he suffered a ruptured Achilles while working a match for AEW this week.

(STINGER: ROH)

Another title match added to Ring Of Honor’s 19th Anniversary pay per view - Shane Taylor Promotions will defend the ROH 6-man Tag Titles against Bandido, Flamita and Rey Horus.

(STINGER: New Japan)

The Second Round of the New Japan Cup tournament rolls on this morning.

Two more Second Round matches are set for Sunday’s show - Will Ospreay vs. Zack Sabre Jr….and Yuji Nagata vs. SANADA.

Two qualifying matches for the U.S. version of the New Japan Cup on last night’s New Japan Strong - Fred Rosser beat JR Kratos...and Hikuleo beat Jordan Clearwater.

A big show from Pro-Wrestling NOAH coming up on Sunday. The main event has Keiji Mutoh defending his GHC Heavyweight Championship for the first time...against Kaito Kiyomiya.

That’s JUST Pro Wrestling News for Saturday, March 13. Our next update comes your way Monday morning. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and 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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