Pro Wrestling News Round-Up (10/15/24): Joe Koff Passes Away, New AEW Dynamite Match Added & More

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Miss anything today? The pro wrestling news cycle moves fast, but The Takedown has you covered for a full round-up on the important news of the day from WWE, AEW, NXT, TNA, and more.

Today's News Round-Up: Tuesday October 15, 2024

• Former ROH COO, Joe Koff, passed away from cancer at the age of 73.

• Vikingo will make his return to TNA at the Bound For Glory PPV event on October 26. There is no news on who his opponent will be on the show.

• Janel Grant submitted a new filing in her lawsuit against Vince McMahon. The filing seeks to gain access to all of Grant's medical records and communication between Dr. Carlon Colker and Vince McMahon.

• A new match has been added to this week's episode of AEW Dynamite. The Conglomeration will face The Elite in a Trios Match. New AEW World Champion, Jon Moxley is scheduled to speak on this week's show as well.

TOMORROW, Wed 10/16
San Jose, CA
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, TBS

The Conglomeration vs The Elite

Following KOR + Okada brawling backstage before #AEWWrestleDream,
their partners will join them for a trios fight on Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS, live TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/Jd9XtYp66S

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) October 15, 2024

• New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the participants for both blocks in the Super Jr. Tag League tournament that will begin on October 24. The teams are as follows:

A Block —

• Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney
• SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita
• Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI
• Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Dia
• Tiger Mask & Capitan Suicida

B Block —

• KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight
• TJP & Francesco Akira
• YOH & Rocky Romero
• The DKC & Ninja Mack
• Taiji Ishimori and a mystery partner
• Paris De Silva & Jude London

• Toni Storm topped this year's PWI Women's Top 250 list. The PWI top 10 looks like this:

10. Athena

9. Mariah May

8. Willow Nightingale

7. Bayley

6. Sareee

5. Stephanie Vaquer

4. Maika

3. Rhea Ripley

2. Jordynne Grace

1. Toni Storm

• AJ Styles provided an update on his injury. In a post on social media, Styles said that he was suffering from a Lisfranc injury. The injury will delay plans that WWE had for Styles upon his return to WWE. Styles injured his foot in his return match on Smackdown.

It’s called a Lisfranc injury. Look it up, it sucks! I thought when I took off my boot. I would have a bone sticking out of my foot. https://t.co/7eEHiHC0Zg

— AJ Styles (@AJStylesOrg) October 15, 2024

• Swerve Strickland took to social media to pay tribute to Bryan Danielson, now that Danielson is no longer AEW World Champion and headed for retirement from his full-time wrestling schedule.

Oh yeah...... #ThankYouBryan pic.twitter.com/ToD9dbzh99

— The Realest Swerve Strickland (@swerveconfident) October 15, 2024

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