Various: MJF Makes Surprise Appearance at MLW Summer of the Beasts 2025 Event & Attacks Mistico, Steve Maclin’s TNA Contract Reportedly Set To Expire At End of 2025, Indies/Misc.

Jun 27, 2025

MJF Makes Surprise Appearance at MLW Summer of the Beasts 2025 Event & Attacks Mistico

Thursday’s Summer of the Beasts 2025 event for Major League Wrestling in New York City, New York featured MJF making a surprise appearance.

During the show, Mistico came out to the ring with a microphone and was preparing to give a promo speech. This led to several masked members of Contra Unit running out and attacked Mistico. One of the masked mystery men took off their mask revealing a Mistico mask and then took this mask off revealing himself to be MJF.

MJF then grabbed the microphone and stated they will wrestle again and he is going to embarrass Místico, CMLL, and Mexico.

FINAL FORBIDDEN DOOR UNLOCKED!#MLWBeasts ▶️ https://t.co/cOUSkyRNU1 pic.twitter.com/K3lLjsMNGx
— MLW (@MLW) June 27, 2025

This was MJF’s first appearance in MLW since 2020.

Steve Maclin’s TNA Contract Reportedly Set To Expire At End of 2025

Current TNA International Champion Steve Maclin’s contract with TNA Wrestling is currently set to expire at the end of this year, according to Fightful Select.

It was reported that their sources stated that Maclin is among several TNA talents whose contracts are currently set to expire by the end of this year and this December will be a significant month for TNA due to this situation. No other specific names for talents with expiring contracts were given.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s Summer of the Beasts 2025 event in New York City, New York featured indies talent Diego Hill being signed to an official contract with Major League Wrestling following his match against KUSHIDA on the show.

Thursday’s MLW Summer of the Beasts 2025 event also featured The Skyscrappers (Donovan Dijak & Bishop Dyer) defeating Magnus & Rudigo to become the new MLW World Tag Team Champions.

SiriusXM recently announced that they will be launching a new 24-hour wrestling channel called Pro Wrestling Nation on channel 156 on July 1st.

Pro Wrestling Revolver recently announced that Ninja Mack is the next official competitor for their Jerry Lynn Invitational tournament at their Jerry Lynn Invitational event on August 9th in Dayton, Ohio.

Ring of Honor recently announced that they will be live streaming The Briscoes vs. FTR trilogy of matches on their official YouTube channel on Sunday, June 29th starting at 9PM EST.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Aaron Wolf will be making an appearance at their Tanahashi Jam event on June 29th in Nagoya, Japan. It was also announced that Wolf will be giving a speech in the ring for his appearance on the show.

Josh Barnett recently announced that Jonathan Gresham will be making an appearance for Game Changer Wrestling’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIV event on August 2nd in Rutherford, New Jersey.

GCW recently announced one new match for the card of their GCW Bash event on July 19th in Coney Island, New York:

Elayna Black & Priscilla Kelly vs. The Cogar Brothers (Atticus & Otis Cogar)

In a recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, co-host Matt Hardy gave his thoughts about The Hardys’ upcoming Four-way Ladder match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship at TNA Slammiversary 2025 and how the Hardys might consider calling it a career in TNA if they fail to win the titles. Hardy clarified that this does not mean that The Hardys would be retiring from wrestling but just make them rethink the future of their careers in TNA. Hardy stated “We have kind of made this a do-or-die situation for myself and Jeff, like if, if myself and Jeff, if we can’t perform as a top-level tag team, if we can’t be the best of the best, and we can’t get in there and hang with the current tag teams that are up and running today, and we don’t win those titles at Slammiversary, maybe it’s time for the Hardys to call it a career. So we’re kind of putting a tough stipulation on our match, just for ourselves. We’re putting these expectations on ourselves… It’s going to make us rethink things. It’s going to make us refocus. It’s going to make us get to where we need to get.“

TNA Wrestling announced five new matches for the card of next week’s Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360:

TNA Knockouts World Championship Chain match – Killer Kelly vs. Masha Slamovich (c)
The Iinspiration (Cassie Lee & Jessica McKay) vs. Tessa Blanchard & Victoria Crawford
Nic Nemeth vs. Trey Miguel
Jake Something vs. Mance Warner
Matt Cardona vs. Eddie Edwards

Lucha Libre AAA recently announced one new match for the card of their Verano de Escándalo event on July 11th in Aguascalientes, Mexico: