Various: Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali Set for TNA Rebellion 2025, Josh Barnett Announces Several Changes for GCW Bloodsport XIII Event, Indies/Misc.

Apr 10, 2025

Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali Announced for TNA Rebellion 2025

TNA Wrestling announced one new match for the card of Rebellion 2025, which takes place on April 27th at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, California.

This new match announced was a singles match of Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali.

BREAKING: @Santana_Proud vs. @MustafaAli_X goes down at #TNARebellion LIVE on PPV and TNA+ on April 27 from the Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA!

Get tickets and be there LIVE: https://t.co/ukH3W1kVTj pic.twitter.com/X3GgevGO0K
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 11, 2025

Current card for TNA Rebellion 2025:

TNA World Championship Three-way match – “All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Joe Hendry (c)
TNA Knockouts World Championship – Tessa Blanchard vs. Masha Slamovich (c)
TNA World Tag Team Championship – The Nemeths (Nic & Ryan Nemeth) vs. The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) (c)
TNA X-Division Championship Ultimate X match – Leon Slater vs. Matt Cardona vs. El Hijo del Vikingo vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. Moose (c)
Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali

Josh Barnett Announces Several Changes for GCW Bloodsport XIII Event

As noted before, United Kingdom indie wrestler Lou Nixon was recently pulled from Game Changer Wrestling’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada due to issues regarding too many matches had been booked for the show.

Josh Barnett announced on Twitter that several changes have recently been made for GCW’s upcoming event.

Barnett announced that David Modzmanashvilli will no longer be making an appearance due to he had withdrew from the event. Barrett stated that this created a “gap” and led to talent being moved around.

Barrett also stated that Simon Gotch also will no longer be making an appearance and he was moved to Joey Janela’s Spring Break: Clusterfuck Forever 2025 event on April 19th.

“Filthy” Tom Lawlor’s appearance was also moved around and he will not be joining Jimmy Smith for the official commentary team for the event.

Barnett stated that “these things took place a while back and with the event coming next week wanted to let the public know.”

Bloodsport XIII update:

– David Modzmanashvilli will not be on the show as he withdrew from the event.
– That left a gap and with fully a booked card talent was moved around and Simon Gotch will be on JJSB Night 2
– An excellent color commentator, Tom Lawlor will be joining our…
— 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 (@JoshLBarnett) April 10, 2025

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

ASE Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled ACH from their ASE Wrestling: Vegas event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada due to personal-related reasons. ACH had been originally scheduled to face off against Leon Slater in a singles match at the event.

Chris Jericho’s run with Ring of Honor reportedly is expected to be largely over, according to Fightful Select. It was reported that their sources stated that AEW/ROH officials plan has been for Jericho to finish up with ROH and he is currently expected to mostly move on from the brand. It was also reported that Bandido had been planned to win the ROH World Championship for some time since he returned from his broken wrist injury in late 2024 but he had faced a number of hurdles including him suffering an injury at this past December’s Final Battle 2024 event. ROH officials currently have plans for Bandido to lead the company as ROH World Champion. In regards to Jericho’s current availability for AEW, it was reported that Jericho is set to go on tour with Fozzy soon but only one of his scheduled dates is on a Wednesday and he is still able to work with AEW if needed.

Former WCW wrestler Crowbar recently reflected on Twitter about getting to compete at this past Wednesday’s ROH TV tapings for Ring of Honor in Baltimore, Maryland and thanked ROH owner Tony Khan for the opportunity. Crowbar stated “I’ve been blessed to be able to have [been] able to do so many cool things in this business – more than I ever imagined. At 51 years old – here’s to yet another! Thank you @TonyKhan and thank you to the man upstairs for allowing me to still do this crazy thing I love doing! @AEW @ringofhonor.“

In a recent interview with Midnight Kingdom, David Finlay gave his thoughts about fans comparing him to other past leaders of Bullet Club and how he wanted his War Dogs faction be their own thing compared to Bullet Club. Finlay stated “Yeah, my life has been nothing but comparisons. I get compared to my father, I get compared to the people I came up with in New Japan. Obviously, I’m gonna get compared to the BULLET CLUB leaders, which, you know, you’re in good company. You got Prince Devitt, A.J. Styles, Kenny Omega, Jay White and although, BULLET CLUB, when I took over, it was pretty close to their 10-year anniversary, I just felt like I wanted to do something different. I didn’t want to try and be anybody else. I wanted the War Dogs to be our own thing and I saw Gabe (Kidd) and Clark (Connors) and (Drilla) Moloney and Alex Coughlin at the time and it was just a group of guys that — especially the three L.A. Dojo boys. We had been through COVID. Took a lot of losses in trying to be successful in wrestling. So, we’re really just like-minded individuals of like, alright, this is our chance to finally make ourselves stars so, that was the whole goal. We knew it was gonna take time. We knew the fans were gonna be like, ‘They’re not the other leaders.’ But we never wanted to be like the past BULLET CLUB. We wanted to be our own thing.“

Joey Janela recently announced one new match for the card of GCW’s Joey Janela’s Spring Break 9 event on April 18th in Las Vegas, Nevada:

GCW Tag Tam Championship – Alec Price & mystery partner vs. Violence is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) (c)

TNA Wrestling announced three new matches and two new segments for the card of next week’s Impact! show on April 17th on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360:

Dani Luna vs. Jakara Jackson
Xia Brookside vs. Jazmyn Nyx
Brian Myers vs. Leon Slater
Elijah to speak
Cody Deaner to address his future

Ring of Honor announced two new matches for the card of next week’s ROH TV show on April 17th on HonorClub:

ROH Women’s World Championship #1 Contender match – La Catalina vs. Taya Valkyrie
Six-Man Tag Team match – Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mason Madden & Mansoor) vs. Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs (Ross & Marshall Von Erich)