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I’m Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Friday, March 18, 2022.

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(STINGER: WWE)

WWE unveiled its new Performance Center class on Thursday.

The list of prospects includes former Ring of Honor Women’s Champion Rok-C. The class also includes Bianca Carelli - the daughter of Santino Marella…a pair of 18-year-old prospects from the indies: Nikita Knight and The Notorious Mimi…along with a handful of other indie wrestlers and athletes from outside the world of pro wrestling.

WWE is promoting a confrontation between WWE Champion Brock Lesnar and Universal Champ Roman Reigns for Friday night’s SmackDown.

The next challenger for Ilja Dragunov’s NXT UK Championship…appears to be Roderick Strong. He laid out a challenge after he beat Wolfgang on Thursday’s NXT UK.

Oliver Carter got a roll-up win over one-half of the NXT UK Tag Champs Tyler Bate.

If Ashton Smith beats Bate’s partner Trent Seven next week, Carter & Smith get another shot at the tag titles.

Also on the show, Emilia McKenzie beat Nina Samuels…and Aleah James beat Stevie Turner.

(STINGER: AEW)

A special LATE start time for Rampage Friday night. It’s on after NCAA Tournament coverage concludes on TNT. They’re estimating around 11:30 Eastern.

Friday’s episode has Keith Lee vs. Max Caster…Darby Allin vs. The Butcher…LEGIT Leyla Hirsch vs. Red Velvet…and the House of Black vs. Bear Country & Fuego Del Sol.

(STINGER Impact)

Moose’s defense of the Impact World Championship against Josh Alexander is officially on for the Rebellion pay-per-view. Moose personally delivered the contract to Alexander’s family on Thursday night’s Impact.

Josh Alexander beat Matt Taven in Thursday’s main event.

The Motor City Machine Guns reunited on last night’s Impact Wrestling…and they got a win over Bullet Club’s Jay White & Chris Bey, who took the pin.

Deonna Purrazzo successfully defended the ROH Women’s Championship and AAA Reina de Reinas Championship in a 3-way against Gisele Shaw and Lady Frost, who took the pin.

Steve Maclin used the Gore to pin Rhino.

Bhupinder Gujjar beat Larry D

We also got some quick wins for JONAH…and Masha Slamovich.

Impact Tag Team Champion Deaner beat Karl Anderson on Before The Impact.

The Impact Tag Titles will be defended in a 4-way at Rebellion, BUT FIRST Violent By Design will defend the titles against the Good Brothers in a lumberjack match on next week’s Impact.

Also next week, Mickie James will get a title rematch against Knockouts Champ Tasha Steelz in a street fight.

Those matches and more are being recorded this weekend at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.

On Thursday’s MLW Fusion…TJP beat Buddy Matthews…and Miranda Gordy beat Rok-C.

(STINGER: New Japan)

New Japan announced Friday that IWGP United States Champion SANADA has a fractured left orbital bone. It happened during SANDADA’s New Japan Cup loss to Will Ospreay on Thursday. There’s no timetable for SANADA’s recovery.

The injury appeared to happen when Ospreay went for a running shooting star press and landed on SANADA’s head.

In the other tournament match Thursday, Zack Sabre Jr. beat Great-O-Khan.

The last of the third-round matches are being held Friday.

The quarterfinals begin on Sunday.

New Japan’s Windy City Riot show on Saturday, April 16th will be a LIVE pay-per-view broadcast exclusively on FITE TV. It will show up later on New Japan World.

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