Various: Backstage Update on Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) Walking Out of Match at Indie Event, Shotzi Blackheart Announced for Multiple Appearances for GCW This Summer, Indies/Misc

Jun 11, 2025

Backstage Update on Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) Walking Out of Match at Indie Event

Raj Dhesi, former Jinder Mahal in WWE, was involved in an incident at event event for Battleground Championship Wrestling this past May in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This incident revolved around Dhesi abruptly walking out of his match against MASADA mid-way into it leading to MASADA being awarded a count out victory and fans in attendance being confused over what had happened.

Following the incident, BCW promoter stated that the situation was caused due to complications involving hotel arrangement and shared a message he claimed to be from Dhesi’s agent for his actions at the event. MASADA later publicly claimed that Dhesi had imposed restrictions on what could and couldn’t be used during their match and walked out over his issues.

Fightful Select reported that those spoken to close to Dhesi insist that the entire ordeal was just a work and something that was orchestrated in advance by the show’s booker.

It was reported that despite the claims of it being a work, Dhesi is currently not scheduled for any future appearances with BCW.

Shotzi Blackheart Announced for Multiple Appearances for GCW This Summer

Former WWE talent Shotzi Blackheart recently announced that she will be making several appearances for Game Changer Wrestling this summer.

Full list of Shotzi Blackheart’s upcoming appearances for GCW:

June 20 – GCW Bangin in Little Rock event in Little Rock, Arkansas
July 11 – GCW Boss of All Bosses event in Dallas, Texas
July 28 – GCW event in Tokyo, Japan
July 29th – GCW event in Tokyo
July 30 – GCW event in Tokyo
August 1 – GCW Hit Em’ Up 2025 event in Rutherford, New Jersey
August 24 – GCW event in Atlantic City, New Jersey
September 19 – GCW event in Phoenix, Arizona
September 20 – GCW event in Los Angeles, California

The NEW Indy God is taking over @GCWrestling_ pic.twitter.com/fPyeujmoS8
— Shotzi (@ShotziWWE) June 9, 2025

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, and Hiromu Takahashi will be holding a press conference on Thursday at 5:30AM EST in Japan to discuss what is next for them in the company following the recent end of the Los Ingobernables de Japon stable.

TKO Boxing recently announced that their Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford debut boxing event will be taking place on September 13th in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was also announced that this upcoming debut event will be airing live on Netflix.

WWE Hall of Famer and ECW legend Rob Van Dam, former ECW founder Todd Gordon, and other former ECW wrestlers recently announced that a special celebration of life event honoring the late Sabu, real name Terry Brunk, will be taking place on June 25th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was announced that this upcoming memorial event will be open to the public.

In a recent interview with the Unwrapped with Daria & Tony podcast, former WWE talent Shotzi Blackheart gave her thoughts about directing horror movies being her dream career goal after she retires from wrestling. Shotzi stated “Honestly, after wrestling, when my body just can’t take it anymore, I would love to be a horror movie director. That is the dream. Obviously, be in them also, I just want to get my head chopped off a bunch. I would love to direct horror movies someday. That is the dream.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, The IInspiration’s Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee made their surprise returns to TNA Wrestling at this past Friday’s Against All Odds 2025 event in Phoenix, Arizona. Fightful Select reported that their sources provided some clarifications and new information regarding the IInspiration’s surprise return and new deals. Those spoken to reportedly stated that TNA’s recent regime change was not a major factor in the IInspiration’s return decision and instead McKay and Lee had good working relationships with the previous regime including Gail Kim. In regards to the IInspiration’s new deals, it was reported that McKay and Lee’s new deals were finalized less than a week in advance of their surprise return.

TNA recently announced one new match for the card of this Thursday’s Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360:

The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) vs. FIR$T CLA$$ (KC Navarro & AJ Francis)

In a recent interview with Fightful’s In The Weeds podcast, Mads Krugger stated that he has “another year” remaining on his current contract with Major League Wrestling. Krugger stated “I’m still with ‘em. I re-signed last summer. I started back last January and then after a couple shows, they were like, ‘Hey, we really want you to come back and be with us’ and I was like, ‘Sure.’ Everything was going great, and I was really happy to be back and I like where things are going, the locker room’s phenomenal and we keep adding new people to that. It felt like a good thing to do, the right thing to do and I haven’t been disappointed a year later, and I’ve got another year and hey, doesn’t (look) like anything’s gonna stop right now. So, it’s going great.” Krugger also gave his thoughts about him also working in a behind-the-scenes role in MLW. Krugger stated “I really hope to get into the production and the backstage part of it. I’ve already took that step with MLW, and some of the things I’m doing behind the scenes. I love pro wrestling, I love the storytelling, I love creating stories and I’m enjoying starting to tap into that aspect of it and telling stories for someone besides myself and seeing what else I can create here besides just for me.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

MLW recently announced one new match for the card of their Summer of the Beasts 2025 event on June 26th in New York City, New York: