Various: Konosuke Takeshita & Yota Tsuji Advances in NJPW G1 Climax 2025 Playoffs, Current Card for 8/14 TNA Impact! Show, Indies/Misc.

Aug 14, 2025

Konosuke Takeshita & Yota Tsuji Advances in NJPW G1 Climax 2025 Playoffs

Thursday’s NJPW G1 Climax 2025 Night 16 event in Tokyo, Japan, featured two First Round Playoff matches in this year’s G1 Climax tournament.

The first match was Konosuke Takeshita defeating David Finlay.

The second match was Yota Tsuji defeating Shota Umino.

Two nailed on Korakuen classics put Konosuke Takeshita and Yota Tsuji to the semifinals on playoff night!#G1CLIMAX35 update:https://t.co/sZscWDvDug

Watch the replay!https://t.co/79Y4bTOrax #njpw pic.twitter.com/5WOTp8e8Hl
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) August 14, 2025

As a result of their victories, Takeshita will be facing off against Zack Sabre Jr. and Tsuji will be facing off against EVIL in the Semifinal Round of this year’s tournament.

Current Card for Thursday’s TNA Impact! Show

TNA Wrestling recently announced the current card for tonight’s Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360.

Current card for August 14th TNA Impact! show:

Six-Man Tag Team match – The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) & Leon Slater vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) & Cedric Alexander
Six-Man Tag Team match – FIR$T CLA$$ (AJ Francis & Rich Swann) & Trick Williams vs. The System (Brian Myers, Eddie Edwards, & JDC)
Dani Luna & Indi Hartwell vs. Harley Hudson & Myla Grace
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
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Summit

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Ring of Honor announced that they will be airing a special episode of ROH TV on Friday, August 16th starting at 7PM EST on YouTube.

The Big Event recently announced that Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux, former Karrion Kross and Scarlett in WWE, will be making an appearance for the company at their The Big Event EXS convention on November 15th in Brentwood, New York.

Pro Wrestling EVE recently announced that Billie Starkz will be making an appearance for the company at their EVE x The World event ojn Augist 23rd in London, England.

Fandango Media LLC announced that they have recently acquired sports and wrestling pay-per-view streaming provider PPV.com.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that ORO, former Oro Mensah in WWE, will be making his official debut appearance for the company at their Homecoming: LA event on September 20th in Los Angeles, California.

Wednesday’s CMLL Informa show featured CMLL announcing that Poseidon, Fury Boy, Pendulo, and El Troyano have been officially added to their roster.

CMLL also announced that Mascara Dorada will be making an appearance for Revolution Pro Wrestling for their co-promoted Fantasticamania Mexico 2025 event on October 18th in Wolverhampton, England.

CMLL also announced one new match for the card of their 92nd Anniversary event on September 19th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico:

CMLL World Tag Team Championship – Villanos (Villano III Jr. & Hijo del Villano III) vs. winner of Galeon Fantasma (Zandokan Jr, El Barboza, and/or Difunto)/Los Hermanos Chavez (Ángel de Oro & Niebla Roja Hermanos) (c)

CMLL also recently announced one new match for the card of their Super Viernes event on August 15th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico: