Various: MLW Announces Full Field of Competitors & Bracket for Opera Cup 2025 Tournament, Current Card for 7/13 ROH TV Show, Indies/Misc

Jul 3, 2025

MLW Announces Full Field of Competitors & Bracket for Opera Cup 2025 Tournament

Major League Wrestling recently announced the full field of competitors and bracket for this year’s Opera Cup tournament.

It was also announced that this year’s tournament will officially start at their Blood & Thunder 2025 event on August 9th.

Full bracket and First Round matches for 2025 MLW Opera Cup tournament:

Místico vs Ikuro Kwon
Último Guerrero vs Esfinge
Austin Aries vs KUSHIDA
Paul London vs Okumura
Volador Jr. vs Titán
Zandokan Jr. vs Blue Panther Jr.
Satoshi Kojima vs Bobby Fish
Bishop Dyer vs Anthony Greene

The brackets for the 2025 Opera Cup 🏆, featuring 16 fighters from MLW, @njpwglobal & @CMLL_OFICIAL, have been released!

The tournament will unfold across four major U.S. cities — New York, Dallas, L.A. & Chicago — with the opening round beginning Aug. 9 at MLW Blood & Thunder. pic.twitter.com/PgqQXsm2yA
— MLW (@MLW) July 2, 2025

Current Card for Thursday’s ROH TV Show

Ring of Honor recently announced the current card for Thursday’s ROH TV show on HonorClub:

Current card for July 3rd ROH TV show:

ROH World Tag Team Championship #1 Contender match – The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) vs. Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin)
Spanish Announce Project (Serpentico & Angelico) vs. mystery opponents
Wheeler Yuta vs. Alex Zayne
B3CCA vs. Serena Deeb

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Starrcast recently announced that Moose will be making an appearance for the company at their Starrcast Texas event on July 11-12 in Arlington, Texas.

House of Glory recently announced that Ricochet will be making an appearance for the company at their High Intensity event on August 1st in New York City, New York.

In a recent interview with KISS El Paso, Cinta de Oro, former Sin Cara in WWE, announced that he recently opened a new wrestling school in El Paso, Texas. Cinta de Oro stated “

DDT Pro Wrestling announced that Shunma Katsumata recently suffered a ruptured left ACL injury and will be out of action for the company for the foreseeable future.

Diamond Championship Wrestling recently announced that former NWA and WCW wrestler and former WWE referee Scott Armstrong will be making an appearance for the company at their Pay The Piper II event on July 12th in Theodore, Alabama. It was also announced that Armstrong will be competing in his retirement match at this upcoming event.

This past Tuesday’s NWA Powerrr taping in Tampa, Florida featured former TNA talent Rich Swann making his official debut appearance for the National Wrestling Alliance. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Swann will be working as a regular for the NWA going forward and also will be competing at their NWA 77th Anniversary event this August in Long Island, New York.

TNA Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding their first ever TNA SLAMMing Softball Classic game on July 19th at Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York. It was announced that this upcoming game will be helping raise funds to benefit the Merrick Bellmore Little League.

In a recent interview with The Ariel Helwani Show, Jeff Hardy revealed that he recently surpassed the milestone of three years sober. Hardy stated “Three years, two days” as of the time of his interview. (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Jim Conlan Chats, Leon Slater gave his thoughts about his upcoming match against Moose for the TNA X-Division Championship at this month’s TNA Slammiversary 2025 event. Slater stated “Although the X-Division was built on that flyer vs. flyer action like you were saying, I feel like there’s always kind of been an underbelly of these styles clashing, even back to when Samoa Joe was in the X-Division or Abyss was in the X-Division at one point I feel like me and Moose is just another chapter in that book, you know what I’m saying?” Slater also gave his thoughts about his praise of Moose’s work as current TNA X-Division Champion. Slater stated “The lessons I’ve learned from watching these previous styles clashes is obviously leading us to July 20th at Slammiversary with me and Moose. Moose is a freak, man. I’mma tell you straight, Moose is a freak. He can do everything I do, but he’s 6”5 and 240 plus. So I have a hell of a challenge on my hands. The styles clashing is what makes interesting fights and I think it’s going to make an extremely interesting fight and an extremely interesting win for the boy on July 20th.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

United Kingdom indies talent and current PWA Heavyweight Champion Charli Evans announced on Twitter that she recently suffered an undisclosed injury and has pulled out of her bookings for this July in order to recover properly. Evans stated “turns out the injury i got in the UK is worse than initially thought so i am taking july off to allow myself to recover properly! Deepest apologies to anyone that was looking forward to seeing me at shows this month but thank you for the understanding & for all the support!“

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their The Top Play event on July 5th in Hartford, Connecticut:

Mance Warner vs. Man Like Dereiss