Various: Three Wrestlers Advance from B Block in NJPW G1 Climax 2025 & Playoffs Round Matches Set, TNA President Carlos Silva on Potential New TNA Video Game & Potential U.K. Distribution Deal, Mystery Wrestling Breaks Record for Longest Match During 8/11 Charity Event

Three Wrestlers Advance from B Block in NJPW G1 Climax 2025 & Playoffs Round Matches Set

Wednesday’s NJPW G1 Climax 2025 Night 16 event in Hamamatsu, Japan, featured three wrestlers advancing from B Block to the Playoffs round in this year’s G1 Climax tournament.

These three wrestlers were Zack Sabre Jr., Shota Umino, and Konosuke Takeshita. Sabre Jr. won the group with 14 points while Finlay and Tsuji both advanced with 12 points each.

Umino will be facing off against Yota Tsuji while Takeshita will be facing off against David Finlay in the First Round Playoff matches at the August 14th event.

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TNA President Carlos Silva on Potential New TNA Video Game & Potential U.K. Distribution Deal

The Daily Star held a recent interview with TNA President Carlos Silva. One of the topics discussed included Silva’s thoughts about him being hopeful TNA returning to the United Kingdom for a tour in 2026, the potential of a new distribution deal being signed for their U.K. market, and the potential of a new TNA video game being made.

“I think there’s one that you left out. There’s some better distribution in the U.K., there’s maybe a game in the U.K., but there’s also coming to the U.K. and showing up in the U.K. for an event… Working on distribution. UK’s a very important market for us so as I talk about working on distribution in the States, we now have a great deal in Canada with Sportsnet. We have a great deal in Mexico and South America in Claro. We have a great deal in India with Warner Bros. Discovery. We wanna have a great deal in the U.K. and we’re working on that with a partner and I think as we look at that, plus some sponsorship, we will then also come to the U.K. and we’re hoping that that’ll happen in 2026. It’s in our goals list, and so I think that will hopefully launch us. In terms of the game, we didn’t set that as a priority in these first six months since I’ve been here, but it’s now gotten added to the list. We had to do some things to really drive and create the kind of stuff that we have with Slammiversary. Like everything in an organization, if you do too many things, you don’t get anything done, and so we had to concentrate on some successes but I think now coming out of some success, we can now put that on the docket and look to understand where we go with a TNA game for sure.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Mystery Wrestling Breaks Record for Longest Match During 8/11 Charity Event

This past Monday’s co-promoted Fighting Back: The Longest Match event for Mystery Wrestling and C4 Wrestling in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada featured Mystery Wrestling breaking the record for longest ever match in wrestling.

This was a 16-person Cibernetico match that had started on Monday, August 11th and concluded on Tuesday, August 12th. This match finished at 21 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds after Stu Grayson became the last man standing. This match also featured Grayson, Junior Benito, Dante Dubois, Gabriel Floyd, HADDY, Jeff Fury, Joe Jobber, Katrina Creed, KJ Swayde, Alvin Turner, Cecil Nyx, Dreya Mitchell, Jason Exile, Mathis Myre, Top Dog, and Xander Orion as the competitors.

This event also raised over $38,000 Canadian dollars (over $27,000) in funds for the Fighting Back charity.

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I’m the winner of the longest wrestling match ever !

Praise me !
21 hours, 49 minutes, 12 seconds!

We raised over $38 000 for the cancer society !!!

— Stu Grayson (@stu_dos) August 12, 2025

Following the event, Mystery Wrestling’s Evil Uno stated on Twitter that this new record will not be recognized by the Guinness World Records due to them not wanting to spend the minimum of a $16,000 fee to make it official.

We were in contact with Guinness World Record to make our attempt official.

BUT… they’ve just told us it’s a minimum of 16000 USD to do so. We just can’t spend that in good faith.

All to say, this will be an unofficial attempt at the world’s longest pro wrestling multiman… https://t.co/pbRfa7Yc0e

— EVIL UNO of DARK ORDER 🇨🇦 (@EvilUno) July 24, 2025