Various: KENTA on His GCW Heavyweight Title Victory at NOAH 25th Anniversary Show, Carlos Silva on Fans Being Upset Over Trick Williams & Jacy Jayne Winning at TNA Slammiversary 2025, Indies/Misc.

KENTA on His GCW Heavyweight Title Victory at NOAH 25th Anniversary Show

As noted before, this past Sunday’s 25th Anniversary New Departure Night 2 event for Pro Wrestling NOAH in Tokyo, Japan featured KENTA winning the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the second time in his NOAH career.

NOAH’s official website held a recently interview with KENTA. One of the topics discussed included KENTA’s thoughts about his recent GHC Heavyweight title victory.

“Of course, I’m happy, but NOAH is on a roll right now, and I’ve become the champion again. I feel a sense of responsibility to maintain that momentum.

After I left NOAH, many things happened, I made many choices, and I came back to NOAH. I was able to create something, so I knew my choice was not wrong, and I think that a lot of things have come together to get me to this point.”

KENTA also gave his thoughts about his belief that Kenoh was the “MVP” of NOAH’s set of shows over this past weekend.

“Looking back on these two days, I think Kenoh was clearly the MVP. He really helped to energize the crowd… As someone who was with NOAH from the beginning, Kenoh isn’t a native member, but he’s done so much for NOAH. I want to work together to make NOAH even better. Of course, there’s the joy of winning the belt, but these two days also brought out those feelings.”

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Carlos Silva Comments on Fans Being Upset Over Trick Williams & Jacy Jayne Winning at TNA Slammiversary 2025 & Being “Glad Fans Are Talking About It”

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast featured TNA President Carlos Silva as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Silva’s thoughts about the negative fans reaction towards WWE’s Trick Williams retaining the TNA World Championship and Jacy Jayne winning the TNA Knockouts World Championship at Slammiversary 2025.

“How do you respond? You respond that I understand and I get it. If you saw the look on my face, that’s all part of wrestling. There were some great payoffs at Slammiversary with Leon (Slater) and there are going to be some great payoffs as we build again to Bound for Glory. These are the paths that happen as you build these matchups. For the fans, I guess what I would say is, I’m glad the fans are talking about it. That means we matter and they care. We care and we’re going to keep growing it together.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) will be making an appearance for the company at their Hit Em Up event on August 1st in Rutherford, New Jersey.

WrestleCon recently announced that Chris Bey, The Amazing Red, Shayna Baszler, Indi Hartwell, Francine, Big Mama, Mercedes Martinez, Zilla Fatu, Raj Dhesi, Thekla, The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) and WWE Hall of Famers Kevin Nash and Teddy Long will be making an appearance at their WrestleCon Destination Newark event on August 1-2 in Newark, New Jersey.

Deadline reported that Paradigm’s Sports Group will be launching a new book-to-film initiative. It was reported that Paradigm is collaboration with CJ Perry on the publication of her new “Bulletproof Angel” book for this new program. Synopsis of Perry’s new book is “Bulletproof Angel is a high-octane international spy thriller that centers on a brilliant young CIA agent and her estranged mother, a retired operative with a haunted past. They are forced to work together behind enemy lines to stop an AI-powered weapon system capable of triggering global catastrophe.”

The International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame recently announced that Johnny Rodz is the final inductee for this year’s IPWHoF class. Rodz joins Trish Stratus, Tito Santana, Tony Atlas, and Rocky Johnson for this year’s class.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that CMLL talent Esfinge will be making an appearance for the company at their Fightland 2025 event on September 13th in Dallas, Texas.

MLW also recently announced the full card for their Blood & Thunder 2025 event on August 9th on beIN Sports and MLW’s YouTube channel:

• MLW World Heavyweight Championship – Donovan Dijak vs. Matt Riddle (c)
• Shotzi Blackheart vs. Ava Everett
• 2025 Opera Cup Tournament Opening Round match – Mistico vs. Ikuro Kwon
• 2025 Opera Cup Tournament Opening Round match – Satoshi Kojima vs. Bobby Fish
• 2025 Opera Cup Tournament Opening Round match – Bishop Dyer vs. Anthony Greene
• Lighting match – Neon vs. Paul London

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of their High Intensity event on August 1st in Jamaica, New York:

• HOG Crown Jewel Championship – Bully Ray vs. Zilla Fatu (c)

Lucha Libre AAA recently announced one new match for the card of their AAA Alianzas taping on July 25th in Mexico City, Mexico:

• Three-way Tag Team match – Lady Shani & Faby Apache vs. Dalys & Chik Tormenta vs. Natalya & Lola Vice

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Summer Sizzler 2025 event on July 25th in Wolverhampton, England:

• Robbie X vs. The Beast Mortos

Deadlock Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Showdown In Cary event on August 8th in Cary, North Carolina:

• DPW World Tag Team Championship – MxM Collection (Mason Madden & Mansoor) vs. Miracle Generation (Dustin Walker & Kylon King) (c)

Jersey City Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their High Noon event on August 3rd in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey:

• JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) & Darian Bengston vs. YDNP (Alec Price & Jordan Oliver) & Drew Parker