Various: Killer Kross & Scarlett Make Surprise Appearance at GCW Homecoming 2025 Part One Event, Bea Priestley Officially Joins Stardom, Indies/Misc

Killer Kross & Scarlett Make Surprise Appearance at GCW Homecoming 2025 Part One Event

Saturday’s Homecoming 2025 Part One event for Game Changer Wrestling in Atlantic City, New Jersey featured Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux, former Karrion Kross and Scarlett in WWE, making a surprise appearance.

During the Vacant Garage Beer World Championship match between Matt Cardona and Shotzi Blackheart, several druids came out to interfere in the match to help Cardona. This led to Shozti managing to lay all of them out. Two more druids then came out leading to one of them hitting a low blow to Cardona. These two druids then took off their masks revealing themselves to be Kross and Scarlett. Kross then slammed Cardona through a door leading to Shotzi hitting a top rope senton to Cardona for the pinfall victory.

KILLER KROSS AND SCARLETT JUST SHOWED UP IN GCW!!! #GCWHomecoming pic.twitter.com/sqgSrZI171

— 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐕𝐞𝐧 (@WrestlingCovers) August 24, 2025

Following the match, Kross posted a backstage promo video on Twitter to those who still believe that his and Scarlett’s recent departures from WWE is just a work. Kross played a violin and stated “I lost my dream job and I’m so sad. This isn’t WWE.” Kross then smashed the violin and stated “It’s clearly not a fucking work” and he is not sad anymore.

No need for rhyme.

No need for reason.

This ain’t PG land.

And it isn’t for everybody.

THIS IS

G
C
FUCKING
W
.#GCWHomecoming 🩸 #GarageBeer @ShotziTCB@Lady_Scarlett13 @GCWrestling_ pic.twitter.com/grp1F0zFt8

— Kevin Robert Kesar (@realKILLERkross) August 24, 2025

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Bea Priestley Officially Joins Stardom

Stardom held a press conference on Saturday in Japan.

During the press conference, Stardom President announced that Bea Priestley, former Blair Davenport in WWE, has officially rejoined the company.

🚨BIG NEWS🚨
Bea Priestley has announced her intention to continue competing as a Stardom roster member! https://t.co/VEvw8em1DU

— STARDOM Global (@we_are_stardom) August 24, 2025

Prior to the announcement, Priestley had made several appearances for Stardom since this past July and had previously worked for the company from 2017 to 2021.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Saturday’s Homecoming 2025 Part One event for Game Changer Wrestling in Atlantic City, New Jersey featured Nick Gage making a surprise return appearance to GCW. This was Gage’s first appearance in GCW since August of 2024.

Saturday’s EVE x The World event for Pro Wrestling EVE in London, England featured Nyla Rose defeating Nightshade to become the new EVE Champion.

Pro Wrestling EVE announced that Willow Nightingale will be making an appearance for the company at their Elite Encounters event on November 7th in London.

Saturday’s Memphis Wrestling event in Memphis, Tennessee featured former WCW wrestler Marcus “Buff” Bagwell making his first wrestling appearance since his leg amputation surgery this past July.

Saturday’s 13th Anniversary Night 2 event for Revolution Pro Wrestling featured Zozaya receiving a farewell celebration from the company. Zozaya is currently expected to be joining this September.

Pro Wrestling NOAH announced that they have pulled Ulka Sasaki from their upcoming events due to him currently suffering from shingles.

New Japan Pro Wrestling reportedly drew a paid attendance of 4,558 for their Aug. 16th G1 Climax 2025 event in Tokyo and 6,870 for their Aug. 17th G1 Climax 2025 Finals event in Tokyo, Japan, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that NJPW drew a total paid attendance of 43,078 for this year’s G1 Climax tournament events. Meltzer reported that this was down by 11.5% compared to last year’s total of 48,683 paid attendance. Meltzer also reported that this year’s average attendance was 2,267 per event and also down compared to last year’s average of 2,562 per event.

TheCubsFan reported that Lucha Libre AAA talent Pimpinela Escarlata had suffered a shoulder and foot injury at AAA’s Triplemania XXXIII event earlier this month in Mexico City, Mexico.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that WWE President Nick Khan gave a speech to AAA talent before the start of AAA’s Triplemania XXXIII telling them that he wanted to make it clear that WWE is not there to take over the product. Khan reportedly told those in attendance that they are only there to assist them in being seen globally and to ultimately put more money into all of their pockets. Meltzer reported that several AAA talents afterwards stated that they were hopeful it is true but also noted that with the new restrictions in their contracts with WWE, they are only allowed to take a small booking in Mexico during a day off but are not allowed to take a booking in the United States.

In a recent episode of the Beyond The Lens podcast, co-host and former MLW Executive Producer David Sahadi revealed that Major League Wrestling was close to signing a new television deal this past April. Sahadi stated “We were so close to having a TV deal when we were in L.A. back in April, and it didn’t happen but, Court (Bauer) is so persistent. He’s got such a great passion that eventually — I believe in Court. I believe he will get that to the mountaintop one day and I hope to be part of MLW when that happens and if I’m not, I’ll still cheer for them and root for them. But it’s that close. They’re a great product. They just need a better streaming deal.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)