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

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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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