Various: War Dogs Wins Dogpound Cage Match & House of Torture Kicked Out of Bullet Club at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1 Event, Danielle Moinet on Having ‘The Itch’ To Return To Wrestling, Indies/Misc.

May 3, 2025

War Dogs Wins Dogpound Cage Match & House of Torture Gets Kicked Out of Bullet Club at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1 Event

Saturday’s Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1 show for New Japan Pro Wrestling at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan featured War Dogs (Taiji Ishimori, Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, Gabe Kidd, & David Finlay) defeating HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, SANADA, Ren Narita, & EVIL) in a 10-Man Tag Team Dogpound Cage match.

This match featured the stipulation of the losing team would be kicked out of Bullet Club and held under Tornado Tag style rules.

As a result of their loss, House of Torture was officially kicked out of Bullet Club as per match stipulation.

It was so fucking amazing seeing WAR DOGS WIN…. Also Takeshita wrestling… and then on commentary that was amazing. #NJPW #njDONTAKU pic.twitter.com/jnkWY3j4za
— RingRogue_ (@RingRogue_) May 3, 2025

🎆レスリングどんたく 2025🎆

ドッグパウンドケージマッチ〜Losers Leave BULLET CLUB〜‼️

🆚 BC WAR DOGS💀 × BC HOUSE OF TORTURE😈#njpwworld で配信中📡

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— NJPW WORLD (@njpwworld) May 3, 2025

Danielle Moinet (Summer Rae) Comments on Having ‘The Itch’ To Return To Wrestling

The Wrestling Classic held a recent interview with Danielle Moinet, former Summer Rae in WWE. One of the topics discussed included Moinet’s thoughts about her currently having the “itch” to return to wrestling following recently Hollywood projects she had with Chavo Guerrero Jr.

“I’ve been getting the itch a little bit. I’ve been doing some projects in Hollywood that require some wrestling, and so Chavo Guerrero recently told me that I still have it, and I’m like, ‘Chavo, don’t say that!’ He also gave me a Guerrero shirt, and I wear it now, and I feel like I’m one of them.”

Moinet last wrestled at WWE’s Royal Rumble 2022 event in January of 2022 and has only wrestled three times since her release from WWE in 2017.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Friday’s CMLL vs. MLW event at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured Ultimo Guerrero defeating Matthew Justice to become the new MLW National Openweight Champion.

WrestleCon recently announced on Twitter that they will be officially announcing on May 9th their plans for their upcoming Destination WrestleCon event on SummerSlam 2025 weekend in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Sendai Girls Pro reportedly drew a paid attendance of 1,660 for their April 29th Satomura The Final event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This event was notable for featuring Japanese Joshi wrestling legend Meiko Satomura’s retirement match for her wrestling career.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the official attendance for TNA Wrestling’s Rebellion 2025 event on April 27th at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, California is currently not known due to a very strange situation taking place. Meltzer reported that the Galen Center has a max capacity of around 10,000 for regular events and around 7,000 to 7,500 for wrestling events. Meltzer reported that while TNA had announced a sold out status for the show, they were still selling tickets for it which would go contrary to their official statement. Meltzer also reported that TNA’s attendance very likely was much lower than the number of 6,000 that was floating around online due to a lot of the venue was empty. Meltzer reported that the real attendance for the event likely was closer to 3,500 to 4,000 but this is something that has yet to be confirmed for a potential number.

In a recent interview with the This Past Weekend with Theo Von podcast, famous actor Ben Affleck gave his thoughts about his interest in portraying Ric Flair in a potential film based on him. Affleck stated “I did a movie where I had a very blonde wig.” Host Theo Von responded stating “Ric Flair or something?” Affleck responded back stating “I wish I was Ric Flair, that would be spectacular, I’d love to play [him].” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

The National Wrestling Alliance recently announced that The Lost (Gaagz the Gymp, Lev, or Alex Misery), The Country Gentlemen (AJ “The Brute” & KC “White Lightning” Cazana), Daisy Kill & Talos, and The Immortals (Odinson & Kratos) are the next official teams for this year’s Crockett Cup tournament at their Crockett Cup 2025 event on May 15th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The NWA also recently announced one new match for the card of their Crockett Cup 2025 event on May 15th in Philadelphia: