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I’m Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Friday, December 10, 2021.

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(STINGER: WWE)

Wrestlers and fans are offering well wishes after Fightful reported Thursday that WWE has released Jeff Hardy.

The news comes less than a week after an incident at a weekend house show in Texas, where Hardy left the ringside area mid-match by exiting through the crowd.

Hardy retweeted a tweet by his wife Beth Thursday, that read “Jeff is good. We are good.”

Jeff Hardy was being promoted for a tag team match on tonight’s SmackDown. Obviously, that will not be happening.

But WWE announced Thursday that the RAW Tag Champs Randy Orton & Riddle will be on tonight’s show. They’ll be in a 3-Way Match against the Smackdown Tag Champs The Usos AND King Woods & Kofi Kingston.

Plus, SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Toni Storm in a non-title match…Naomi vs. Sonya Deville…and the SmackDown debut of Xia Li.

Tonight’s 205 Live has the in-ring debut of Lash Legend.

There are new tag team champions in NXT UK. Moustache Mountain dethroned Pretty Deadly on Thursday’s show. That makes Tyler Bate the first Triple Crown Champion in NXT UK.

Also on Thursday’s show, Blair Davenport beat Emilia McKenzie…and Sam Gradwell beat Sha Samuels.

(STINGER: ROH)

Ring Of Honor World Champion Bandido will NOT be part of Saturday’s Final Battle pay-per-view.

He was pulled from the show after testing positive for COVID-19.

Bandido was set to defend the ROH Title against Jonathan Gresham. It sounds like he will be stripped of the gold and Gresham will face someone else for the title. Nothing official had been announced as of Thursday night.

A new match was added to Final Battle: The Hex - Allysin Kay & Marti Belle - plus, Chelsea Green vs. Angelina Love, Mandy Leon & Miranda Alize.

In addition to Final Battle, this weekend’s ROH TV has PCO vs. Sledge in a Falls Count Anywhere Match…EC3 vs. Eli Isom…and Chelsea Green vs. Miranda Alize.

(STINGER: AEW)

Chris Jericho was hospitalized in the United Kingdom on Thursday. He’s on tour with Fozzy, but their show in Wales scheduled for Friday is now canceled. The venue explained that Jericho was “hospitalized due to a non-COVID-19 health issue that can be treated.”

The AEW Tag Team Titles are on the line on tonight’s Rampage. The Lucha Brothers defend against FTR.

Also tonight, it’s time to SEND HOOK. The son of Taz makes his in-ring debut against Fuego Del Sol.

Plus, Adam Cole vs. Wheeler Yuta…and Ruby Soho, Tay Conti & Anna Jay vs. Nyla Rose, The Bunny & Penelope Ford.

(STINGER: Impact)

New matches are set for Impact Wrestling’s Hard To Kill pay-per-view, including Josh Alexander vs. JONAH.

Also, the lineup is set for the women’s Ultimate X Match at Hard To Kill: Rosemary, Jordynne Grace, Tasha Steelz, Chelsea Green, Rachael Ellering, and Lady Frost, who has now officially signed with Impact. Frost also beat Kimber Lee on last night’s Before The Impact.

Getting back to the main show last night…

Eric Young won a Street Fight against Rhino,

Deonna Purrazzo & Matthew Rehwoldt beat Knockouts Champion Mickie James & Chris Sabin. Purrazzo pinned James…with a little help from Rehwoldt.

Matt Cardona beat W. Morrissey via disqualification.

And FinJuice beat The Learning Tree’s VSK & Zicky Dice.

This week’s episode of MLW Fusion Alpha premiered on its YouTube channel on Thursday.

There are new MLW Tag Team Champions! 5150 - Slice Boogie & Rivera - ended the reign of Los Parks.

Also on the show, NZO won his MLW debut over Matt Cross.

Arez beat Aramis…and was rewarded with a briefcase full of cash.

And Alex Hammerstone was attacked backstage by Matanza Duran…and they brawled basically all over the place.

(STINGER: New Japan)

There is now a three-way tie for the top spot in New Japan’s World Tag League tournament.

Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI beat Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare to move to 16 points.

Tetsuya Naito & SANADA…and Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. kept pace with wins on Thursday to also get to 16 points.

The final day of pool matches is on Sunday.

Saturday is the last day of pool matches in the Best Of The Super Juniors. The top two men in the standings will advance to Wednesday’s final.

Hiromu Takahashi and El Desperado will enter the day tied for first at 13 points.

Takahashi will face Robbie Eagles, who is one of four men just one point behind the leaders.

Despy will face El Phantasmo, who is mathematically eliminated.

SHO and YOH will go head to head. Both are still alive in the tournament - just a point back of the leaders.

The fourth man at 12 points is Taiji Ishimori. He’ll face Ryusuke Taguchi.

Again, this coming up on Saturday.

That’s JUST Pro Wrestling News for Friday, December 10th. 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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