Various: Karrion Kross Set for GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII, Josh Alexander on Original Plans for Him at TNA Slammiversary 2024 Did Not Include Heel Turn, Misc./Indies

Mar 22, 2025

Karrion Kross Announced for GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII

Josh Barnett recently announced that WWE talent Karrion Kross will be making an appearance for Game Changer Wrestling at their Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A man from the very beginning of Josh Barnett's: Bloodsport is coming back to hone his killer instinct.

What better place in the world then, than the kill-or-be-killed mat of Bloodsport XIII?

Say hello again to Karrion Kross. pic.twitter.com/9vjN6iZLGh
— 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 (@JoshLBarnett) March 21, 2025

Kross joins Natalya and Pete Dunne as those from WWE currently announced to be competing at GCW’s upcoming event.

Josh Alexander Comments on Original Plans for Him at TNA Slammiversary 2024 Did Not Include Heel Turn

A recent episode of the Johnny I Pro Show podcast featured TNA talent Steve Maclin and former TNA talent Josh Alexander as the guests. One of the topics discussed included Maclin’s thoughts about how he and Alexander had pitched the idea to work together as a tag team in TNA as one of their plans for an eventual singles feud between the two.

“If we could even rewind, we (Maclin & Josh Alexander) pitched so many different ideas for us to feud for over a year. Even to be a tag team, take over the tag division, also go after the World Title. Obviously, that didn’t happen but we got to the point where we finally got the feud that we would joke about. ‘I’ll see you next year’ and then here we are…”

Alexander responded giving his thoughts about TNA’s original plans for him at their Slammiversary 2024 event did not involve him turning heel nor being involved in the Six-way match for the TNA World Championship.

“The original creative plans were I was not supposed to be in the six-way at Slammiversary. Neither were you (Steve Maclin). I was not supposed to turn heel on Joe Hendry and do all this stuff with Joe Hendry and stuff prior to that. The original plan on paper was we were supposed to tag up. I think we were supposed to defeat The System? At Slammiversary for the tag belts. We were gonna be tag champions and we were gonna feud with The Hardys or something and then after we drop to The Hardys — August, Septemberish or something — that’s when we were gonna go into this feud to go to Bound For Glory and obviously, things in wrestling, fluid and they change all the time. No matter how disappointed you might be. But, yeah, so we ended up scrapping all that. I end up turning heel. We kind of just had to run into this feud and built it up really quick for Bound For Glory and then pay it off at Turning Point.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Boxing legend and former two-time Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman passed away on Friday at the age of 76. Foreman’s passing was first announced by his family on social media. In wrestling history, Foreman was known for making several appearances in WWE including WrestleMania X in a backstage segment with The Undertaker.

Friday’s Homenaje A Dos Leyendas 2025 event for CMLL featured Las Chicas Indomables (Lluvia & La Jarochita) defeating Taya Valkyrie & Lady Frost in the Finals of the Vacant CMLL Women’s World Championship tournament to become the new champions.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that due to overwhelming demand for tickets, they have moved their upcoming Batle Riot VIII event on April 5th from its originally scheduled venue The Commerce to a new location the Thunder Studios Arena in Long Beach, California.

MLW recently announced that CMLL talent Virus is the next official competitor for this year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VII event on April 5th in Long Beach.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Eric Biscoff recently finished his current run with MLW and he is done with the company. Meltzer reported that Bischoff’s authority storyline angle in MLW had recently ended and Cesar Duran will be the only authority figure going forward on MLW shows.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that ticket sales for MLW’s Azteca Lucha 2025 event on May 10th is currently on pace to reach sell out status about a month in advance to the event.

As noted before, current TNA World Champion Joe Hendry recently announced that he will be appearing in a video game in the future. Hendry provided an update on Friday on Twitter revealing that he will be appearing in the PUBG Mobile video game.

PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced that Zozaya is the next official competitor for this year’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament on May 4-5 in London, England.

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their High Stakes 2025 event on April 20th in Donecaster, England: