Various: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonathan Gresham Set for GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII, Eric Bischoff Clarifies Comments About Him Being Done with Wrestling & His Future in Wrestling, Indies/Misc.

Apr 3, 2025

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonathan Gresham Announced for GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII

Josh Barnett recently announced one new match for the card of Game Changer Wrestling’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII event, which takes place on April 17th at the Pearl Theater at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This new match announced was a singles match of Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonathan Gresham.

Grapplers through and through.

Masters of the mats.

A British submission scientist takes on an American grappling master.

Zach Sabre Jr. vs Jonathan Gresham.

Only at Josh Barnett’s: Bloodsport XIII pic.twitter.com/VbYmsNwfhG
— 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 (@JoshLBarnett) April 3, 2025

Current card for GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII:

Natalya vs. Miyu Yamashita
Pete Dunne vs. Timothy Thatcher
Leyla Hirsch vs. Jordan Blade
Charlie Dempsey vs. Shinya Aoki
Karmen Petrovic vs. Maika
Karrion Kross vs. JR Kratos
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonathan Gresham

Eric Bischoff Clarifies Comments About Future of His Wrestling Career

A recent episode of the 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff podcast featured co-host Eric Bischoff stating that he had done all he could do in wrestling and no longer had the desire to focus on the business anymore. This quickly led to online speculation of Bischoff retiring from wrestling.

The Daily Star held a recent interview with Bischoff. One of the topics discussed included Bischoff clarifying his recent comments and denied that he has actually retired from wrestling.

“The wrestling media were sloppy as it were. I was asked a question and made a comment and it was taken out of context. The context was ‘Eric, do you think you’ll ever be involved full time in the wrestling business? Do I ever want to run a wrestling company, or own a wrestling company, or work full time for any wrestling company?’ My answer is absolutely not. That’s never going to happen again. That is in my rear view mirror, as I like to say.
But that doesn’t mean that I won’t make appearances from time to time. I have been doing these things for the last five years – if there’s an opportunity to do what I refer to as a one off or just simple appearances or something like that, of course, I’ll do that. Full time will never happen again. Somehow that got written into a headline that made it seem like I retired from wrestling forever. You could have said that eight years ago. I guess that’s the wrestling media.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Jazmyn Nyx, & Fallon Henley) and Meta-Four (Jakara Jackson & Lash Legend) competing in matches on the show. Janye & Nyx teamed up with Tessa Blanchard in a Six-Women tag team match against Masha Slamovich, Xia Brookside, & Lei Ying Lee. Henley accompanied Jayne & Nyx to the ring and was in their corner for the match. Meta-Four had faced off against Spitfire (Jody Threat & Dani Luna) in a tag team match.

As noted before, TNA Talent Relations and Producing Gail Kim was among several executives fired from TNA and their parent company Anthem last week. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that Kim is currently not under any non-compete clause and can work for any wrestling company and at anytime she chooses.

Former TNA talent Josh Alexander filed a new trademark for “Canadian Strong Style” on March 31st for wrestling and merchandise-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Thursday’s ROH TV show featured Cal Bloom, former WWE NXT talent Von Wagner, making his official in-ring debut appearance for Ring of Honor. Bloom teamed up with Deonn Rusman in a tag team match against Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun).

Northeast Wrestling recently announced that former WWE talent Isla Dawn will be making an appearance for the company at their Wrestling Under The Stars event on July 19th in Niles, Ohio. This is Dawn’s first indies booking since her release from WWE this past February.

David Bixenspan reported that controversial indies wrestler Chasyn Rance was arrested this past Wednesday in Florida for violating the terms of his registration as a sex offender. Rance reportedly was hit with multiple charges of providing false registration, failure to report a change in ehicle ownership, and two charges of failing to report “Internet ID web page or app name.” Rance has been registered with the Florida Sex Offender Registry since 2014 following an incident in 2011 involving him being convicted for or Lewd or Lascivious Battery of a victim between the ages of 12 and 15.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Mr. Thomas, Shane Haste, and CW Anderson are the next official competitors 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 MLW will be officially debuting a new color commentator at their Battle Riot VII event on April 5th in Los Angeles. Johnson reported that MLW had signed a deal with this new mystery commentator this past February.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that Billy Gunn is the next official competitor for the 20-Man Gauntlet match at their Northern Rising event on May 10th in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

WrestleCon recently announced that Aja Kong, McKenzie Mitchell, and Steph De Lander will be making an appearance for the company at their WrestleCon Las Vegas convention on April 18-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

House of Glory recently announced that Miyu Yamashita will be making an appearance for the company at their Waging War event on May 9th in Chicago, Illinois.