It is not an uncommon occurrence in professional wrestling for strong friendships to be formed between groups of wrestlers. At the same time, it’s also not uncommon to see those same friendships fall apart. It is just sad fact of life for professional wrestlers. You can blame the loss of a friend to life on the road, to politics, to competition, and number of trials and tribulations that wrestlers have on a daily basis.

One of those friendships that is currently seeing some growing pains, is the friendship between Drake Younger and the Nation of Intoxication. Younger became particularly close with Danny Havoc during their many tours of Big Japan Wrestling. Through his friendship with Havoc, Younger would become close with the fellow members of the Nation. Many would say the friendship between those four men only strengthened as Younger’s driving partners from the Midwest left the Combat Zone.

As quickly as the four seem to bond, the four have quickly grown apart. As seen from an exclusive video sent in from Big Japan Wrestling, Havoc and Younger had a heated exchange over a mistake Younger made during the Nation’s final Tag Team Championship defense. Havoc believed that Younger may truly have wanted to strike Havoc over the head with that steel chair. He felt that Younger’s “Golden Boy” days aren’t over.

For those new to CZW, it was beginning in 2011 when Younger was the first to sign an exclusive contract with CZW he began calling himself the Golden Boy. As part of this persona, Younger denounced his friendship with longtime friend, Scotty Vortekz. The two eventually settled the score at Tangled Web 4.

After taking a brief sabbatical from the Combat Zone, Younger came back “clean and serene.” He was humbled and once again won back the adulation of the CZW fans. It didn’t take long for Younger to find great success again. Younger trimmed down and entered into last year’s Best of the Best and even won the CZW Junior Heavyweight Championship. Younger then moved to California and has been invited to the Golden State’s top promotions where he has seen success.

The April 26th TNA live event in Erie, Pennsylvania drew 950 fans. The April 25th Impact Wrestling tapings in Indiana, PA drew 3,300 fans. No word yet how much of it was papered.
- Tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling will feature Chris Sabin’s return against Zema Ion and Sonjay Dutt in a contender’s match, Kurt Angle’s open challenge to Aces & 8s plus Taryn Terrell and Mickie James vs. Tara and Gail Kim.
- As noted before, TNA has hired former WWE Live Events employe Rafael Morfii recently, to work in their new restructured live events department. Morfii was highly regarded in WWE and it was a big deal internally when he was let go. Nobody had anything negative to say about him but he was a victim of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon trying to hire their own people in that department.
- TNA is building to a match between Bully Ray and Hulk Hogan, possibly for this year’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

CM Punk’s return date has been changed to the last Raw in May.
WWE is now listing Punk for the May 27 Raw TV in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally Punk’s first show back was listed on WWE’s touring schedule as June 3 Raw TV in Hartford, Conn.
Here is an updated list of WWE events that CM Punk is advertised for:
* WWE RAW TV Taping on Monday, May 27th from The Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
* WWE Raw TV Taping on Monday, June 3rd from The XL Centre in Hartford, CT.
* WWE Raw TV Taping on Monday, June 17th from The Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI.
* WWE Raw World Tour House Show at The Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, July 4th and Friday, July 5th.
* WWE Raw World Tour House Show at The Linco Stadium in Taipei, Taiwan on Saturday, July 6th.
* WWE Raw World Tour House Shows in Australia between Friday, July 26th – Tuesday, July 30th.

The WWE Magazine is featuring a short interview with Alberto Del Rio. During the interview, Del Rio was asked about why he became a babyface.
“It was the WWE Universe who put me in this position. They wanted to see me as a good guy, so I want to do whatever they want because, at the end of the day, we’re here for them. It actually has nothing to do with my old name. I was using the “Dos Caras” name to pay tribute to my father because that was the name my father used for years and years all over the world. So no — it doesn’t have anything to do with my personality.”
Del Rio was also asked if we would ever see him wrestle in a mask again.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen in WWE. Maybe someday when the WWE Universe decides that it’s time for Alberto Del Rio to retire. Maybe, and this is just maybe, I will do my last match in WWE, and then I will go to Mexico to contest one more match in my homeland, and then after that I will retire and spend time with my family and give back to my community and my family, something after all these years in the ring.”

- WWE is now saying that John Cena’s bruised Achilles heel injury took place on April 23rd at the RAW live event in Nottingham, where he faced Ryback in a Tables Match.
- We noted a few weeks back that MMA veteran Mark Coleman got upset at the April 13th UFC event in Las Vegas because UFC producers chose to show CM Punk in the crowd and not Coleman. Coleman reportedly wanted to fight Punk at the event.
Coleman contacted The Wrestling Observer Newsletter and was sorry about what happened. He said he was only trying to work on his image and was playing around. He added he has nothing but respect for Punk and said he was his favorite WWE performer.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter