WWE: Mercedes Mone on Being Hopeful to Return to Japan Soon, Gia Miller on Her Match Against Tessa Blanchard at TNA Bound For Glory 2025 & Her Post-Bound For Glory Future Plans, Indies/Misc.

Oct 11, 2025

Mercedes Mone Comments on Being Hopeful to Return to Japan Soon

Mercedes Mone recently held an Instagram Live fan Q&A session. One of the topics discussed included Mone’s thoughts about her currently being hopeful of returning to Japan soon and being able to compete at next year’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

“I miss Japan. I really, really want to go back to Japan. I’m definitely hoping for Wrestle Kingdom that I would be back for Japan.”

Mercedes Mone said on IG Live that she misses working in Japan and hopes to wrestle at Wrestle Kingdom. pic.twitter.com/HvKVH09Zca
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) October 10, 2025

Gia Miller Comments on Her Match Against Tessa Blanchard at TNA Bound For Glory 2025 & Her Post-Bound For Glory Future Plans

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio After Dark podcast featured Gia Miller as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Miller’s thoughts about getting to compete at TNA’s Bound For Glory 2025 event and her upcoming match against Tessa Blanchard.

“I’m a little conflicted because it’s very exciting. It’s bound for glory, it’s the biggest show of the year, the biggest stage for TNA Wrestling and it’s so exciting. Never in a million years did I think I would be having a match at Bound For Glory, but here we are and that’s really exciting. It’s just that it has to be with somebody that I cannot freaking stand. I would’ve loved for it to been where somebody needed a friend or needed some help or maybe I even became a wrestler, you never know what the future holds. I don’t like bullies.”

Miller also gave her thoughts about her post-Bound For Glory plans and the potential of her focusing on becoming a full-time wrestler afterwards.

“Well, I’ll give you another Shonda special. She has called me a gill of all trades my entire life and that will not change. I will always have a hand in every pot I can, so we’ll see. Only time will tell what happens after this match but that’s what I got to focus on first and foremost.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Friday’s With Glory Comes Pride event for House of Glory in New York City, New York featured The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) defeating The Mane Event (Jay Lyon & Midas Black) to become the new HOG Tag Team Champions.

Friday’s HOG With Glory Comes Pride event also featured Allie Katch making a surprise appearance and return from injury. Following Indi Hartwell’s victory over Zayda Steel to retain the HOG Women’s Championship, Steel attacked Hartwell leading to Katch running out to save Hartwell. This was Katch’s first appearance in wrestling since this past January due to a broken leg injury.

Friday’s CMLL Super Viernes event at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured Skadi defeating La Jarochita, Marcela, Sanely, Tabata, and Zeuxis in a CMLL Universal De Amazones 2025 Semi Final Cibernetico match. Skadi will be facing India Sioux in the Finals of this year’s Universal De Amazones tournament at CMLL’s Super Viernes event on October 17th.

CMLL owner Salvador Lutteroth III stated in a recent episode of the CMLL Informa show that the company currently expects to sell their 1,000,000 ticket for this year’s events at the Arena Mexico at some point in early to mid-December. Lutteroth also stated that the will hold a special celebration for the person who purchases this milestone ticket. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that no other wrestling company in history has ever sold as many tickets in one arena for a whole year. TheCubsFan reported that assuming the number of tickets sold is correct, that would mean that CMLL would have averaged around 6,600 fans per event at the Arena Mexico this year.

Warrior Wrestling recently announced that Willow Nightingale will be making an appearance for the company at their Warrior Wrestling Resurrection event on December 5th in Chicago, Illinois.

DDT Pro Wrestling announced that Danshoku Dino was pulled from their October 8th event due to him dealing with a health issue that was later diagnosed to be appendicitis. It was announced that Dino will be out of action for the foreseeable future as a result.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a new event called Purge Night of Torture on November 19th at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

In a recent interview with NJPW’s NJPW1972 website, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. gave his thoughts about the online criticisms over Konosuke Takeshita not traveling to Japan nor being part of the build for their title match at this Monday’s King of Pro Wrestling 2025 event. Sabre Jr. stated “I think it would be a lazy route to criticise him for not being on these events, this comes part and parcel with him being triple contracted. When he comes into a New Japan ring, he really shows up and gives 100 percent and more and that’s what I’m more focused on.“

Pro Wrestling NOAH and indies talent LJ Cleary recently announced on Instagram that he will be out of action for the remainder of 2025 due to an undisclosed injury. Cleary stated “A bit of unfortunate news, recently picked up an injury that will mean I’m out for the remainder of 2025. I’ve been wrestling for 12 years now and have never had to take time off due to an injury, can at least confirm what I’m dealing with could’ve been much worse! If you know me, you know the idea of time off and not being busy will kill me. However I’ve had a fantastic year up till now, a genuinely unforgettable one, and I haven’t had more than one weekend off since mid 2021! Wrestling is full of ups and downs, and this is just a small down in a life I’m extremely grateful for.“

In a recent interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Leon Slater gave his thoughts about his upcoming match against Je’Von Evans for the TNA X-Division Championship at TNA’s Bound For Glory 2025 event this Sunday. Slater stated “We’re almost alternate universe versions of each other, where I’m the English Je’Von Evans, and he’s the American Leon Slater. It’s almost like wrestling a mirror. So that’s an interesting concept and I’m excited to deliver on everyone’s expectations.“