Various: Grado Enters to “Like A Prayer” By Madonna During Wednesday’s ROH TV Taping in Scotland, Spike Dudley on When He Knew It Was Time To Leave Wrestling, Current Card for 8/21 ROH TV Show, Indies/Misc.

Indie / Misc

Steve C.

Aug 21, 2025

Grado Enters to “Like A Prayer” By Madonna During Wednesday’s ROH TV Taping in Scotland

Ring of Honor held a new television tapings for ROH TV on Wednesday at the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.

Among the notable moments included British indies and former TNA wrestler Grado making a surprise appearance.

Grado came out to his “Like A Prayer” by Madonna theme song for his match against Lance Archer on the show.

It’s yersel @gradowrestling #AEW pic.twitter.com/rjkHzFlkPD
— Westie (@Wee_Westie29) August 20, 2025

It is currently not known if Grado’s entrance and theme song will air in full on a future episode of ROH TV.

Spike Dudley Comments on When He Knew It Was Time To Leave Wrestling

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured former ECW and WWE wrestler Spike Dudley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Dudley’s thoughts about when he knew it was time to leave his wrestling career.

“I don’t really have one. I’m out of it. When it was time to get out, it was time to get out. My wife was pregnant and — okay, so this is what happened. This is how I officially got out of the business. My wife was a few months pregnant with our first daughter, first kid. I was working for 2CW in Syracuse, New York, which is a great promotion. It’s no longer there, but at the time, it was an awesome promotion, just great, great guys, truly, aside from like ECW, this group is the group that’s closest to my heart in terms of the boys and all of that. And they used me a lot at that company, but they booked me in a match against Sabu — RIP. I drove up there, it’s about a five-hour drive. Drove up and I did the show, and I got my arm sliced. That’s my Sabu scar. It wasn’t bleeding that bad, it was a slice…
So I saw it, and I just taped it up, and I got into my car. and I drove home. And I got home at like, four or five in the morning. My wife, she’s like, ‘Are you okay? Everything all right?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.’ I fell asleep. And I woke up at like nine the next morning, and I start to peel the tape off, and blood just starts gushing. I was like, ‘Honey, I think we got to go to the emergency room.’ But then that was the moment where I realized, ‘Okay, I’m going to be a father. I can’t be doing this crazy stuff anymore.’ Because physically, that’s what I did, was take bumps. And no matter how indestructible we all think we are, you hit a wall where you cannot do that anymore. So I was 40-41, something like that at the time, and that was the eye opener that okay, I can’t do this and be a responsible parent any longer. So I got my stitches and I called it quits. I had a couple of matches after, but that was the signal that you’re done with the business.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

Current Card for Thursday’s ROH TV Show

Ring of Honor recently announced the card for Thursday’s ROH TV show on HonorClub.

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Current card for August 21st ROH TV show:

CMLL World Trios Championship – Los Depredadores (Magnus, Rugido, & Volador Jr.) vs. El Sky Team (Neon, Mascara Dorada, & Mistico) (c)
Six-Man Tag Team match – Adam Priest & The WorkHorsemen (Anthony Hendry & JD Drake) vs. mystery opponent
The Von Erichs (Ross & Marshall Von Erich) vs. mystery opponents
The Beast Mortos vs. AR Fox
Blake Christian vs. BEEF
Jay Lethal vs. Hechicero
Trish Adora vs. mystery opponent

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TNA Wrestling launched a newly redesigned version of their website on Wednesday.

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 Wednesday on Twitter posting a video of his first day of post-surgery rehab and stated “Day ☝🏽 One Week Post-Op and Ready for this road to recovery🤕❤️‍🩹 Hope you all support me on this Ride🙏🏽‼️“

DDT Pro Wrestling recently announced that Evil Uno will be making an appearance for the company at their DRAMATIC INFINITY 2025 event on September 28th in Tokyo, Japan.

The Hollywood Reporter recently released their Top 10 Wrestlers Turned Actors list featuring Dave Bautista taking the top spot. The list in order was Bautista, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, John Cena, Roddy Piper, Adam Copeland, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, Paul Wight, Jesse “The Body” Ventura, and Andre The Giant.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Shinnichi Champion will produce an upcoming event for the company called Pion! on September 12th in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW also recently announced one new match for the card of Taiji Ishimori’s self-produced Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Goes Even More Crazy on October 7th in Tokyo, Japan:

120-Minute Iron Man Rumble

WrestlePro recently announced one new match for the card of their Killer Smokeshow event on September 21st in Rahway, New Jersey:

Killer Kross (former Karrion Kross in WWE) vs. Richard Holliday

DEFY Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their AEON event on September 19th in Seattle, Washington:

Killer Kross vs. mystery opponent

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their 13th Anniversary Night 1 Global Wars UK event on August 22nd in London, England: