Various: Mercedes Mone on Tonga Loa Got Her In Touch with Rocky Romero & NJPW, Current Card for 8/15 Special ROH TV Show, Indies/Misc.

Aug 15, 2025

Mercedes Mone Comments on Tonga Loa Got Her In Touch with Rocky Romero & NJPW

A recent episode of the Marking Out with MVP and Dwayne Swayze podcast featured Mercedes Mone. One of the topics discussed included Mone giving her thoughts about former NJPW and current WWE talent Tonga Loa being the person who got her in touch with Rocky Romero and New Japan Pro Wrestling for a deal with the company.

“When I got let go, I was like, ‘Oh my Gosh, I don’t know who I am. Who am I?’ I went back to the kid (in me) and was like, ‘Your dream has always been Japan. You always wanted to wrestle in Japan. Go chase your dreams and your goals that you haven’t gotten to achieve.’ I remember being at Mojo’s wedding and I ran into T [Tonga Loa]. We just talked wrestling because he was in New Japan at the time. I’m like, ‘I always wanted to go to New Japan.’ He’s like, ‘Let me get you in contact with Rocky (Romero).’ I messaged Rocky right away, ‘Hey, I’m really interested in joining New Japan.’ He’s like, ‘Shit. Okay. Absolutely. Let’s get it going.’ Just from that text message, two months later, I signed a contract with New Japan.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Current Card for Friday’s Special ROH TV Show

Ring of Honor recently announced the current card for tonight’s special episode of ROH TV on their YouTube channel.

This upcoming special was announced to be airing starting at 7PM EST.

TOMORROW on the special ROH TV episode on the Official ROH YouTube Channel!@MascaraDoradMD & Neon vs. @TonyNese & @AriyaDaivari!
ROH World TV Title: @thenickwayne vs. @Willie_Mack! pic.twitter.com/A6hb7n2hqt
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 14, 2025

Current card for August 15th ROH TV show:

ROH World Television Championship – Willie Mack vs. Nick Wayne (c)
Premier Athletes (Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari) vs. Sky Team (Neon & Mascara Dorada)

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360 featured Rosemary making a surprise return appearance. Rosemary attacked Indi Hartwell with a green mist attack following Hartwell & Dani Luna’s tag team victory against Harley Hudson & Myla Grace. This was Rosemary’s first appearance since this past June due to an undisclosed injury.

As noted before, KC Navarro has been out of action for TNA Wrestling since this past July’s Slammiversary 2025 event due to a torn ACL injury and surgery. Navarro provided an update on Thursday on Twitter stating “Just to Update Everyone; My surgery was a complete success! Now the road to recovery begins. Thank you for all the love thoughts and Prayers! Join me on my journey of recovery! I’ll need y’all more than ever LFG.“

As noted before, TNA Wrestling is currently seeking a new media rights deal for around $10 million per year and has been in recent talks with A&E and The CW for the potential new broadcast homes for the company. In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI, TNA President Carlos Silva provided an update on the time line for when the promotion could agree to a new media rights deal. Silva stated “I think Bound For Glory is a great stake in the sand in terms of us getting everything together as we look to the 2026 year and season. And so, I think August will be quiet. It usually is in the media, in the media deal space, but hopefully we’ll work through a few things, move the ball forward a little bit in August, and then I think in September and October as we get to Bound For Glory, that would absolutely be the goal to try and get it done by then. Or certainly, if it’s not done, have it agreed to.”

As noted before, WWE has been considering plans for Omos to potentially work in Lucha Libre AAA for a stint similar to the one he had in Pro Wrestling NOAH earlier this year. WrestleVotes Radio reported that their sources stated that Omos could make his official debut appearance for AAA as early as this Saturday’s Triplemania XXXIII event in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California recently announced that they will be holding a art exhibit event called “Balance” featuring a solo exhibition of works by artist and AEW/ROH talent Lee Moriarty starting on September 27th.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that CMLL talent Volador Jr. will be making his official debut appearance for the company at their Fightland 2025 event on September 13th in North Richland Hills, Texas.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that Frankie Kazarian will be making an appearance for the company at their Homecoming Los Angeles event on September 20th in Los Angeles, California.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Taiji Ishimori will be holding a new self-produced event called “Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous” on October 7th at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Best Media Info reported that a new wrestling promotion called “Global Wrestling League” will be launching in India and will broadcast events on DD Sports, OTT streaming platform ‘Waves’, and All India Radio. It was also reported that WWE Hall of Famer The Great Khali is among those involved in this upcoming new wrestling promotion. It was also announced that this upcoming new promotion will be officially unveiled on September 17th and is currently scheduled to hold their debut event on October 4th.

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their co-promoted Global Wars UK 2025 event on August 22nd in London, England:

Blue Panther vs. Chris Ridgeway
Persephone vs. Alexxis Falcon