Various: Hammerstone Announces He’s Medically Cleared from Knee Injury, Josh Alexander Free Agency & Expected Next Destination for His Wrestling Career Update, Indies/Misc.

Feb 23, 2025

Hammerstone Knee Injury Status Update – Hammerstone Announces He’s Medically Cleared

As noted before, Hammerstone has been out of action for TNA Wrestling since this past November due to a knee injury and surgery.

Hammerstone provided an update earlier today on Twitter announcing that he was recently medically cleared for an in-ring return.

Well.. being out with injury sucked. But I worked hard, did the rehab and am officially cleared and back.

Former world champion
World traveled
Current TNA superstar
As seen on TNA and NXT

Now accepting bookings.
Contact arohde1@hotmail.com pic.twitter.com/WDj5N0APM4
— Hammerstone (@alexhammerstone) February 23, 2025

Hammerstone made his official in-ring return for TNA at this past Friday’s Impact! tapings at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.

Josh Alexander Expired TNA Contract & Wrestling Career Future Update – WWE Reportedly Dropped Plans for Potential Signing

As noted before, Josh Alexander’s contract with TNA Wrestling expired earlier this month and he is currently a free agent. Alexander is currently expected to be heading to AEW for the next destination of his wrestling career.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that it is currently unknown if Alexander had initiated talks with WWE after his contract with TNA had expired.

It was reported that WWE officials had been interested in signing Alexander to a potential contract and even had plans at one point to use him for their NXT brand. Those plans reportedly were recently dropped and Alexander is currently expected to be heading to AEW instead for the future of his wrestling career.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

This past Friday’s Impact! tapings for TNA Wrestling at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida featured United Kingdom-based indie talent Man Like DeReiss making an appearance for the company. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that TNA officials had brought in DeReiss for a tryout match for the company. One source spoken to reportedly described DeReiss as a “must-sign talent” and TNA would be “nuts” to not pick him up. It was reported that one source in the British wrestling scene spoken to had echoed this same sentiment for DeReiss.

Saturday’s Super Slam III event for Qatar Pro Wrestling in Doha, Qatar featured Mustafa Ali defeating Alofa to become the new QPW World Champion and Matt Cardona defeating Nic Nemeth to become the new QPW Middle East Champion.

Saturday’s QPW Super Slam III event in Doha also featured Miro competing against Alberto El Patron in a singles match for his first wrestling appearance since his release from AEW. This was also Miro’s first match since AEW World’s End 2023 event in December of 2023.

Saturday’s Sábado De Coliseo event for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico City, Mexico featured Hijo de Villano III defeating El Cobarde, Blue Panther Jr., Hijo de Stuka Jr., Felino Jr., Oro Jr., Hijo del Pantera, Valiente Jr., Espanto Jr., and Brillante Jr. in a Copa Herederos match to become the winner of this year’s Copa Herederos.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that Sam Leterna, Brett Banks and Taylor Rising 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.

In a recent interview with the Talk Is Jericho podcast, Marina Shafir gave her thoughts about how her tag team match with Ronda Rousey at Pro Wrestling Revolver’s Unreal event in November of 2023 almost didn’t happen due to wrestling political issues. Shafir stated “She calls me up a couple months, maybe a month, beforehand. ‘I got to wrestle with Shayna [Baszler] and I got to wrestle Shayna. I really want to wrestle with you. This needs to happen.’ ‘No shit, Sherlock. Let’s make this happen.’ We made some phone calls. Sami Callihan has a promotion, Wrestling REVOLVER, I got them connected and they figured out they were going to do a charity show. Charity show happens, it was very chaotic. There were some political things going on. I’m not going to talk about it, but it almost was not going to happen. We pulled some strings, made it happen. The very next day is when we ended up wrestling Athena and Billie on Ring of Honor. We got to do two matches together in a row. It just needed to happen. My two favorite parts were, on the charity show, I walk out, I’m in the ring, Ronda’s music hits, and as she’s walking out, she’s looking out me and is like, ‘Marina! We’re about to fuck shit up!’ ‘Oh my God, Yesss.’ Then, we got to do it all again the next night. My favorite part the next night, after the match, going up the ramp, we were two kittens just wrestling up the ramp. You knew, ‘This may actually have some legs.’ It was so fun.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

The National Wrestling Alliance announced that they have recently signed a partnership deal with Duke City Championship Wrestling (DCCW) to become a new official NWA territory, called NWA New Mexico, for the company.

The NWA also recently announced one new match for the card of their Hard Times V event on March 22nd in Dolan, Alabama: