Various: Mercedes Mone vs. Indi Hartwell Set for HOG City of Dreamz Event, Joe Hendry on His Belief He is “Most Improved Wrestler in the World” Over The Last Year, Indies/Misc.

Mar 15, 2025

Mercedes Mone vs. Indi Hartwell Announced for HOG City of Dreamz Event

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of Saturday’s City of Dreamz event in Jamaica, New York.

This new match was a singles match of Mercedes Mone vs. Indi Hartwell.

🔥BREAKING🔥@MercedesVarnado opponent in her first ever HOG match This Saturday at #CityOfDreamz will be @indi_hartwell !!!

Join us LIVE ⬇️https://t.co/lP9MjPc1xM

Watch on #TrillerTV+ https://t.co/3ULdDVNMnE pic.twitter.com/AMCM59JoZ6
— House Of Glory Wrestling (@HOGwrestling) March 14, 2025

Joe Hendry Comments on His Belief He’s “Most Improved Wrestler in the World” Over The Last Year

Z100 New York held a recent interview with current TNA World Champion Joe Hendry. One of the topics discussed included Hendry’s thoughts about his belief that he was the most improved wrestler in the world over the past year.

“So, for me, I changed my approach probably about three or four years ago from, I want to win this title, I wanna work here, to just being like, you know what, I’m committed no matter what happens. Even if it’s just in front of 200 people, I’m going to give it my absolute best and I’m gonna get better with every single show. I just wanted to get better all the time and that’s what I’ve held to this day and you know, I feel like I vastly — genuinely, I feel like I’m the most improved wrestler in the world over the last year. That’s my opinion. If you look at where I was and what I was doing and where I am now, I really feel like I’m the most improved. If you strive to be the most improved, then titles and opportunities are going to come. If you’re working someone the caliber of Nic Nemeth, you can’t help but get better, right? For me, it’s something that happened very organically and I was very cool that it actually did happen. It’s one of those things you hope will happen, but you never know right, there’s a lot of things that are out of your control in the business but here we are. I thought, well 2025 can’t possibly get bigger than 2024, but we ticked that one off by February 1.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Saturday’s New Japan Cup 2025 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Nagoya, Japan featured Shingo Takagi, Shota Umino, David Finlay, and Zack Sabre Jr. advancing to the Semifinal round of this year’s New Japan Cup tournament. Takagi defeated Drilla Moloney, Umino defeated Jeff Cobb, Finlay defeated Yuya Uemura, and Sabre Jr. defeated Taichi.

VICE TV will be airing a marathon of Dark Side of the Ring episode on Tuesday, March 25th on the network ahead of the premiere of the series’ sixth season that night. This marathon will start at 8:00AM EST and ends at 10PM EST.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that “Filthy” Tom Lawlor 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.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that the reason for TNA Wrestling’s recent live events sales success is due to the hard work of TNA PR Head Ross Forman and executive business veteran Rafael Morffi. Johnson reported that Forman has been responsible for TNA’s great public relations effort of late and him mostly recently getting the El Paso city government to name an official “TNA Wrestling Day” in the city this past week. Morffi reportedly has been integral in providing counsel to the company on their live event business strategy and restructuring of their touring and venue selections. Johnson reported that the efforts of Forman and Morffi were praised by TNA officials during talent and staff meeting this past week.

Joe Hendry recently announced on Twitter that he will be appearing in a video game in the future. Hendry also stated that he has been in touch with multiple video game developers and an official announcement would be coming soon.

Matt Hardy recently announced that The Hardys might have some issues in regards to their currently scheduled bookings for TNA and WrestleCon on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hardy stated that him and Jeff Hardy will 100% be working at TNA’s Unbreakable 2025 event that night and they will try to also appear at their scheduled appearance for WrestleCon if possible. Hardy stated “We will 100% be at @ThisIsTNA #TNAUnbreakable on Thursday. TNA is our priority. We were going to appear at WrestleCon if possible, but it might not be.“

Friday’s Super Viernes event for CMLL at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured Las Chicas Indomables (Lluvia & La Jarochita) defeating Pretty Psycho (Zoe Lucas & Amira Blair) in the second Eliminators tournament to advance to the Finals of the Vacant CMLL Women’s Worls Championship tournament. Las Chicas Indomables will be facing off against Taya Valkyria & Lady Frost in the Finals at CMLL’s Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2025 event on March 21st at the Arena Mexico.

In a recent interview with Mas Lucha, CMLL talent Soberano Jr. stated that he will be undergoing surgery this April due to an undisclosed injury and will be out of action for at least seven months. Soberano Jr. stated “I am happy with wishes continue. Sadly, I have an injury that is preventing that. I will be out for seven months but happy to be closing the tail end of March. I will have surgery in April, so I am taking advantage of this final leg of March to enjoy the fans and enjoy every show I’m on. I will return in November with more will to continue to win over the fans and more will to keep hustling here in wrestling.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Freelance Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Freelance: Fight For Chicago on March 20th in Chicago, Illinois: