Various: Rich Swann Makes Surprise TNA Return & KC Navarro Kicked Out of FIR$T CLA$$ on 8/7 TNA Impact! Show, QT Marshall Responds to Paul Walter Hauser’s Match Challenge & Invites Him to 8/14 ROH TV Show, Indies/Misc.

Aug 7, 2025

Rich Swann Makes Surprise TNA Return & KC Navarro Kicked Out of FIR$T CLA$$ on Thursday’s TNA Impact! Show

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Rich Swann making his surprise return to TNA Wrestling.

During the show, FIR$T CLA$$’s AJ Francis and KC Navarro came out to the stage for a new FIR$T CLA$$ Penthouse talk show segment. KC Navarro, who was on crutches announced that he had suffered a torn ACL injury at Slammiversary 2025 and will be out of action for a long time. This led to Francis stating that just like in sports, its “next man up” and introduced the return of Swann to TNA and the group. Francis then proceeded to kick Navarro out of the group after pointing out how Navarro did the same when Swann first left.

Rich Swann is back in TNA and has rejoined FIR$T CLA$$!

AJ Francis has kicked out KC Navarro because of his injury. WOW WOW!! #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/rGVdro12Fm
— 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐕𝐞𝐧 (@WrestlingCovers) August 8, 2025

QT Marshall Responds to Paul Walter Hauser’s Match Challenge & Invites Him to Next Week’s ROH Tapings

As noted before, the July 31st episode of ROH TV featured actor and MLW and indies talent Paul Walter Hauser issuing a challenge to QT Marshall for a future match due to his bad blood issues with Marshall since this past March’s AEW Revolution Zero Hour pre-show.

Thursday’s ROH TV show featured Marshall responding to Hauer’s challenge and Hauser’s claims that he purposely threw an alcoholic drink at him knowing he was sober for the past four years. Marshall invited Hauser to attend ROH’s tapings next week in Roanoke, Virginia so that Hauser can see a true professional wrestler in action and after he is done, he wants to settle things out between him and Hauser.

.@QTMarshall heard what Paul Walter Hauser had to say last week on ROH TV, and now he’s ready to respond with a message of his own!

Watch #ROH TV on #HonorClub at https://t.co/8dcdtxqvDf pic.twitter.com/cCKdLFr1mN
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 7, 2025

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, TNA backstage interviewer Gia Miller has been out of action for TNA Wrestling since this past July’s Slammiversary 2025 event due to Tessa Blanchard’s ambush attack on her. Besides Miller, Blanchard has also been absent from TNA since the same show due to her storyling suspension by TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella. Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Miller making her surprise return. Miller issued a statement threatening to kill Blanchard if she ever laid her hands on her again and then proceeded to transition into interviewer mode for a backstage interview with Joe Hendry.

Former WWE and current TNA Wrestling ring announcer McKenzie Mitchell is currently working on a new book about fashion titled “Threads of Triumph (Professional Wrestling’s Most Iconic Looks).” This new book is currently scheduled to be released in April of 2026 and will feature a foreword written by Mercedes Mone.

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

Six-Man Tag Team match – The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) & Leon Slater vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) & Cedric Alexander
The IInspiration (Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee) v. Myla Grace & Harley Hudson
Matt Cardona v. John Skyler
Mike Santana v. Eric Young
The King’s Speech talk show with Franike Kazarian to interview Jake Something and Steve Maclin

Mercedes Mone recently released a new vlog featuring her recent trip to Poland for Prime Time Wrestling and her winning another two championships for her growing belt collector gimmick.

ECW legend Raven recently announced that his upcoming new documentary film titled Nevermore: The Raven Effect will be having its first screening on August 23rd in Lexington, Massachusetts. Raven stated “The documentary will be released over the next couple months playing in select theaters first and then streaming or video on demand. First screening Aug 23 in Boston.” The debut trailer for this upcoming documentary was also recently released.

In a recent interview with The Ringer’s The Masked Man Show podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart gave his thoughts about his issues with his time in WCW and how both Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff were the reasons why WCW did not do anything with him. Hart stated “[Hulk] was a great guy and a great star and I got along really good with Hulk for years. I was one of his first matches. I helped make him from day one when the only move he knew how to do was a bear hug. I remember going out there and making him. I was a young guy and I was happy to do for him. I was good friends with Hulk. I was in Japan with him. In WWF, I always worked his undercards. I had so much respect for him and was always a friend to him. He was on top from 84 to 94. That’s a long time wearing the crown. I will always shake my head and wonder what it was as to why he was such a roadblock for me. He wouldn’t do anything for me. He made sure, and I know this for a fact, he made sure when I was in WCW that they didn’t do anything for me. ‘Don’t do anything with him. Just leave him. Let him sit on the bench in the dressing room.’ WCW would fly me down in first class, first class car rental, first class hotel, and when I got to the building, they would tell me I was off and I’d just fly home. That’s how stupid they were. They were a stupid bunch of idiots. Eric Bischoff, he was an absolute moron. I can’t say anything about WCW and how stupid they were. They were the dumbest idiots I ever had any involvement with.” (Transcript h/t: Figthful.com)

As noted before, National Wrestling Alliance talent Colby Cornio underwent emergency surgery this past Thursday for his neck and back. Corino provided an update on Thursday on Instagram thanking everyone who has donated to his GoFundMe fundraiser for his medical costs. Corino stated “I really want to thank everyone who has reached out/donated to my GFM in the past week. I’ve been trying to get back to everyone individually, but the (positively) overwhelming support and love everyone has shown me has been, well, overwhelming, in a good way though. For those who don’t know, I had to undergo emergency neck/spine surgery last Thursday. It was probably the scariest thing I’ve ever had to deal with and I never anticipated something like this would happen, especially so suddenly. The scariest part is I probably wouldn’t have even gone to the hospital if it wasn’t for @ariana.corino making me go when she noticed I had difficulty walking after using a massage gun on my neck one night. But after 5 nights in the hospital, a hair and beard cut, and picking up my old man walker, I am finally home! I have no idea how long I’ll be out for, even the shortest estimates place my return to the ring far on the horizon, but at least I will be able to take it one day at a time at home with my wife, son, and our animals. Given that wrestling was our family’s primary source of income, you’ll probably be seeing me post merch for sale very soon, but if you’d like to donate to the GFM set up by @sean_henderson_w (who deserves a post all to himself), I’ll post that in the comments. Thank you everyone who’s shown me love this past week. It really has helped me accept this situation and focus on my recovery and moving on to becoming the strongest I’ve ever been. No roadblock is big enough to keep me out of a ring. It’s just a matter of time.“

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their co-promoted Global Wars UK 2025 event with NJPW, ROH, and CMLL on August 22nd in London, England: