Various: Nic Nemeth’s TNA Return Set for Sacrifice 2025, Kevin Knight Reportedly in Talks with American Promotions for Potential New Deal, Indies/Misc.

Feb 20, 2025

Nic Nemeth’s TNA Return Announced for TNA Sacrifice 2025

As noted before, Nic Nemeth has been away from TNA Wrestling since the February 13th episode of TNA Impact! due to him currently serving a storyline “suspension” following his accidental attack to TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella.

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show at Full Sail in Orlando, Florida featured Nemeth’s brother Ryan announcing that Nemeth’s suspension expires in three weeks and he will be making his official return to TNA at their Sacrifice 2025 event on March 14th in El Paso, Texas.

Current card for TNA Sacrifice 2025:

TNA Knockouts World Championship – Cora Jade vs. Masha Slamovich (c)
Six-Man Tag Team match – Wes Lee, Tyson Dupont, & Tyriek Igwe vs. Ace Austin & The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz)
Nic Nemeth to appear

Kevin Knight’s Expired NJPW Contract Update – Knight Reportedly in Talks with American Promotions for New Deal

As noted before, Kevin Knight’s contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling expired this past January and he was in talks for a potential new deal.

Fightful Select reported that their sources within AEW stated that Knight had spoke with AEW CEO Tony Khan and AEW/NJPW official Rocky Romero during his recent appearance in Ring of Honor for a potential deal.

Besides AEW, Knight reportedly has also still been in talks with NJPW for a potential new deal with the company.

It was reported that Knight has also recently shown interest in the idea of potentially going to WWE as well as an option for the future of his wrestling career. It was also reported that it is currently not known of WWE officials and Knight have held any talks.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s ROH TV show for Ring of Honor featured The Von Erichs making their in-ring return. The Von Erichs teamed up with Top Flight and The Outrunners in s Six-Man Tag Team match against The Frat House & Premier Athletes. This was the Von Erich’s first match since this past September due to pec injury for Marshall Von Erich.

Former WWE talent Cedric Alexander reportedly recently signed a deal with Paradigm Talent Group to represent him throughout his current free agency period in his wrestling career, according to Fightful.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that Laynie Luck, Alex Zayne, and Stu Grayson will be making an appearance for the company at their Mayhem event on March 14-15 at the St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

WrestleCon recently announced that Basketball Hall of Famer and former WCW wrestler Dennie Rodman will be making an appearance for the company at their WrestleCon Las Vegas convention on April 18-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Brock Anderson is the next official competitor for this year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VII event on April 5th in Los Angeles, California.

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled Mance Warner from their Ashes to Ashes event on March 15th in Atlantic City, New Jersey due to a scheduling conflict.

Josh Barnett recently announced that Timothy Thatcher and “Filthy” Tim Lawlor will be making an appearance for Game Changer Wrestling at theirJosh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that a number of talents in New Japan Pro Wrestling are currently working without contracts. It was reported that a number of NJPW contracts were set to expire this past January as is tradition with how NJPW contracts are structured to expire and many of those have yet to sign a new deal but continue working with the company.

In a recent interview with Monopoly Events, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley gave his thoughts about the infamous unprotected chair shots to the head he took during his I Quit match against The Rock at WWE’s Royal Rumble 1999 event and provided an update on his current health status. Foley stated “That was a bad night, I could have been seriously hurt, so I certainly hope no one ever tries anything remotely like that. I was hurting. I mean, cumulatively, you just can’t take a lot of shots like that. So I have to be really careful in my everyday life. I don’t get jolted. I can’t ride rollercoasters anymore, I have an aversion to bright lights. But all things considered, I think I’m doing pretty well.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, Steph De Lander has been out of action for TNA Wrestling and the indies since this past September due to a neck injury and surgery. In a recent interview with the Battleground Podcast, De Lander provided an update stating that he had been wrestling with a bulging disc in her next for the past three years. De Lander stated “Yeah, I’m definitely very ahead of my recovery timeline which is really cool. I’m very happy about that. I mean, as far as how it’s influenced how I’m gonna wrestle when I come back… what I will say is I initially injured myself like three years ago when I was at WWE. Which no one knew the whole time that I’ve been working with this bulging disc in my neck. I would quietly tell my opponents when they wanted to give me piledrivers, like, ‘Hey, I’m not taking a piledriver. I have a neck injury’ but, for the most part, I just kept it under wraps and I worked through it. So, I’ve had this in my head for years of I need to wrestle as safely as I can because I wanna do this for decades. I don’t wanna do this for a few years and then my body gives up, you know? So, I’ve already taken steps where the last few years — I’ve taken one piledriver in my entire career and I’m never gonna take another one ever again. I stopped taking German suplexes. The only person I would let German me was Jordynne Grace. No else is allowed to give me a high neck bump. There’s certain movements that in my opinion, the risk just isn’t worth the reward and I did run into that a lot more on the indies than you do on TV because TV, you have producers and people saying no to things whereas on the indies, everyone can do whatever they want and they do that. So I had to be the bad guy a lot of the time and just say, ‘I’m not doing that. That’s stupid.’ But then moving forward, there’s a couple of movements that I don’t know if the juice is worth the squeeze anymore and I’m speaking to my surgeon, like I had a conversation with my surgeon… the other day I was like, ‘So these are the moves that I do and are there any of these that you think it’s not really worth it right now?’ And he was like, ‘Ehh, if you wanna wrestle for another 10 to 20 years, maybe you don’t need to do a spear every single match or maybe you don’t need to be catching a full body weight on your shoulders, you know? Maybe there’s another way you can get around it.’ But the cool thing about wrestling is you can modify what you do, right? If you play football, you have to do every movement whereas if you wrestle, I can choose what moves I wanna do, what moves I wanna take out, what I can come up with instead so, yeah, it’ll take a little bit of time of workshopping my moveset of what I want the new rendition of my in-ring to be but, this isn’t a new thing for me. As I said, I’ve had a neck injury for the last few years so I’ve definitely already been thinking safely for a while.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)