Various: Red Velvet Makes Surprise ROH Return on 10/23 ROH TV Show & Calls Out Mercedes Mone, Matt Hardy on Him Hearing A New TNA Media Rights Deal “Will Be Announced By The End Of 2025, First Of 2026”, Indies/Misc.

Oct 24, 2025

Red Velvet Makes Surprise ROH Return on October 23rd ROH TV Show & Calls Out Mercedes Mone

Thursday’s ROH TV show on HonorClub featured current ROH Women’s World Television Champion Red Velvet making a surprise return appearance.

During the show, Velvet was seen backstage and gave a promo sarcastically congratulating Mercedes Mone for winning the Interim ROH Women’s World TV title at AEW’s WrestleDream 2025 event. Velvet stated that Mone’s history making money doesn’t mean a dam thing when standing face to face with the future. Velvet continued talking about her recovery from injury and that she is fully healed and cleared to return. Velvet then proclaimed that she is the real champion and for Mone to remember her face since the next time she sees it, it will be the last things she will see as her empire crumbles.

It was a back-and-forth battle at #AEWWrestleDream, but @MercedesVarnado came out on top to become the Interim #ROH Women’s World TV Champion.

However, reigning champion @Thee_Red_Velvet has a lot to say about it!

Watch #ROH TV on #HonorClub at https://t.co/8dcdtxqvDf pic.twitter.com/Uf8lWfhkPv
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) October 23, 2025

This was Red Velvet’s first appearance since this past July due to an undisclosed injury.

Matt Hardy Comments on Him Hearing A New TNA Media Rights Deal “Will Be Announced By The End Of 2025, First Of 2026”

As noted before, TNA Wrestling is currently seeking a new media rights deal for around $10 million per year. TNA has been in talks with A&E and The CW for a potential new broadcast home for the company.

A recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast featured co-host Matt Hardy giving his thoughts about TNA’s current talks for a new media rights deal and how he has heard from others that a new deal will be announced by the end of this year to early 2026.

“I think some very exciting things are on the horizon. I think, from what I’m hearing, by the end of this year, first of next year, there is going to be a new media rights deal announced. It’s going to be huge. It’s going to be huge for TNA. Just being somewhere where we get more eyeballs on the product. We do have a very solid product, and I like what we’re doing. The fact that we’ve grown, especially in attendance, ticket sales, and buy rates. I’m proud of everybody. Everybody has busted their ass and worked really hard.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Former AEW talent Marko Stunt recently released a new promotional video on TikTok revealing that he is now working as a car salesman for Homer Skelton Ford. In the video, Stunt is going by a combination of his real name and wrestling nickname of Noah ‘Mr. Fun Size’ Nelms and advertised for people to come to the car lot and buy a car from him.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they had pulled Katsuya Murashima from Thursday’s Super Junior Tag League 2025 Night 1 event in Tokyo, Japan due to him currently suffering from an illness. Zane Jay had replaced Murashima for his scheduled tag team match with Hiroshi Tanahashi against Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji.

Hard Rock Cafe recently announced that boxing legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mike Tyson will be holding a new four-show tour called ” Return of the Mike” from this November to January of 2026 at their Hard Rock Live venues across the United States. These upcoming four shows are November 9th at the Hard Rock Casino Rockford in Rockford, IL, November 23rd at the Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH, December 14th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in Hollywood, FL, and January 23, 2026 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in Atlantic City, NJ.

Beyond Wrestling recently announced that Lady Leigh, former Jin Tala in WWE, will be making her official debut appearance for the company at their Novembercanrana 2025 event on November 14th in Cranston, Rhode Island.

As noted before, former WWE, WCW, and ECW wrestler 2 Cold Scorpio, real name Charles Scaggs, was arrested in June of 2024 over a stabbing incident in Kansas City, Missouri. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that a pre-trial court hearing was held this past Wednesday that involved Scaggs’ attorney filed paperwork stating that he would be claiming self defense at trial. Johnson reported that a trial for Scaggs is currently scheduled to stand trial on November 3rd in Kansas City.

As noted before, TNA’s Bound For Glory 2025 event earlier this month in Lowell, Massachusetts featured Team 3D (Bully Ray & D-Von) retiring from their in-ring career following their loss to The Hardys in a Tables match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. In a recent interview with VideoGamer.com, D-Von Dudley gave his thoughts about how he had been training for the past six months to get ready for his match against The Hardys. D-Von stated “Oh, I feel great. I’m sore, yes. But that’s expected when you haven’t been in the ring in three years. And then prior to the 1000th episode of IMPACT Wrestling, it was seven years. I started the training six months prior to the match last Sunday. And I was happy to do that. I started taking boxing lessons, not to become a boxer, but I did it because it was helping with my footwork. Things like moving side to side, moving forward and back. Trying to get quick in that aspect. We did tangle with the gloves a little bit and I enjoyed it. It was great cardio. I was salivating at the mouth, drool coming out of my mouth, snot coming out of my nose, but doing rounds of boxing was one of the ways I’ve been keeping my cardio up. Flipping tires, doing the ropes, things like that. So it was a grueling six months when I put my body through just to do what we did. But it was all worth it. I hadn’t done it in years and I was happy to have started doing that. I felt like the old D-Von and I’m just glad it’s over. I think talks started in January. I got the phone call from Bubba sometime in February and he asked me if I could still go. And that was the thing. He said, ‘Can you still go?’ ‘Of course I can still go.’ When he said he wanted one last match with the Hardys, I said ‘Oh, here we go.’ Just for the fact that when you wrestle with the Hardys, you’ve got to come prepared, you’ve got to be ready. And I wanted to make sure that that was gonna be the case if I took this on, which is why I started training as soon as I found out. I knew how long it would take me to get back into shape and to do what I had to do, but it worked and I’m happy about it.” Dudley also gave his thoughts about if that was the last time he would ever wrestle. Dudley stated “You don’t take off your boots in the middle of the ring and then decide to come back. That’s disrespectful in my opinion. So there’s your answer.“

During the same interview, D-Von Dudley also gave his thoughts about the racism he’s experienced during his wrestling career and stated that there is a person who currently works for an organization that D-Von had a run-in with in the past involving this person being racist towards him. D-Von stated “No, because it was hidden really. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The Klan wore sheets on their heads. The Ku Klux Klan wore sheets over their heads. And I felt that a lot of those Klan members made their way into wrestling, traded in their sheets for suits. It was definitely a behind-the-scenes thing. I’ve dealt with it with certainly higher ups like MVP said. I dealt with that certain higher up that told me to my face, they don’t like me because of the color of my skin. And they work for other organizations now, and this person knows who he is. I have no respect for that person. I don’t really care for him. Now that he’s not in the position that he once was, I just really don’t care for him.”

CMLL announced one new match for the card of their Super Viernes show on October 25th at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico:

Trios match – Triangle of Madness (Thekla, Skye Blue, & Julia Hart) vs. Zeuxis, La Jarochita, & Reyna Isis

CMLL also recently announced the full card for their Tzompantli de Máscaras event on November 2nd at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City:

Trios match – Kaligua, Último Dragoncito, & Shockercito vs. Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Violencia, & Mercurio
La Catalina & Princesa Sugehit vs. Persephone & Reyna Isis
Copa Rufianes match – Euforia vs. Stuka Jr. vs. Akuma vs. Virus.
CMLL World Tag Team Championship – Guerreros del Infierno (Último Guerrero & Rey Bucanero) vs. Hermanos Chávez (Ángel de Oro & Niebla Roja) (c)
MLW National Openweight Championship – Averno vs. Blue Panther (c)
Three- Way match – Volador Jr. vs. Barbaro Cavernario vs. El Valiente

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Reena Rumble event on October 27th in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: