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| Promotion | Major League Wrestling | ||
| Date | January 11, 2025 | ||
| City | North Richland Hills, Texas | ||
| Venue | NYTEX Sports Centre | ||
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Kings of Colosseum (2025) was aprofessional wrestlinglive streamingevent produced byMajor League Wrestling (MLW). It took place on January 11, 2025, at theNYTEX Sports Centre inNorth Richland Hills, Texas. It was the fifth event under theKings of Colosseum chronology. The event streamed live on MLW'sYouTube channel, with additional matches being taped for the "Reloaded" special, which aired on January 25 onBein Sports USA andYouTube.
Kings of Colosseum is a reoccurring professional wrestling supercard event produced by MLW that was first held on July 6, 2019. Thefirst event would air live as a special episode of MLW's weekly television series,Fusion.[1][2][3]
On September 25, 2024, MLW announced that Kings of Colosseum would take place on January 11, 2025, at theNYTEX Sports Centre inNorth Richland Hills, Texas.[4][5]
The card will consist of matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayvillains,heroes, orless distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by MLW's writers. Storylines were played out onMLW Fusion, and the league's social media platforms.[6]
AtLucha Apocalypto,Místico successfully defended theMLW World Middleweight Championship againstTitán andAverno, in athree-way match.[7] However, almost immediately after, he was attacked byBárbaro Cavernario, who pummeled and even unmasked the champion. Cavernario then challenged Místico to an MLW World Middleweight Championship match at Kings of Colosseum, which Místico accepted.[8] On December 18, MLW, via their website, officially announced the match as atwo out of three falls match, the traditional stipulation in lucha libre, set for the taping portion of Kings of Colosseum[9]
Matt Riddle won theBattle Riot match to earn a "golden ticket" he could invoke for anMLW World Heavyweight Championship match at the time and place of his choosing.[10] Since then, Riddle had allied with world championSatoshi Kojima as they and others faced the likes of the World Titan Federation andContra Unit; all the while defending his title opportunity against the likes ofSami Callihan,Tom Lawlor, andDonovan Dijak. AtSlaughterhouse, after Riddle saved Kojima from an attack by Contra Unit, Riddle declared that he would invoke his golden ticket to challenge Kojima at Kings of Colosseum.[11][12]
AtEric Bischoff's One Shot, executive produceEric Bischoff announced a match of his creation for Kings of Colosseum – the "Gravity Gamble match". In thisladder match, five briefcases are suspended above the ring, with one containing a "golden contract" for a futureMLW World Heavyweight Championship match; the other four either being empty or holding weapons.Mads Krule Krügger,Akira, Brett Ryan Gosselin,MLW National Openweight ChampionMatthew Justice, andTrevor Lee were named as the participants.[13] On January 3, MLW announced that Lee would be replaced byNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) starKevin Knight for unspecified reasons.[14]
In the ongoing rivalry between Contra Unit'sJanai Kai and Azteca Lucha'sDelmi Exo over theMLW World Women's Featherweight Championship, the champion Kai attacked the latter after her match atSlaughterhouse, ending with Kai cutting Exo's hair.[15] A few weeks later at Eric Bischoff's One Shot, after Exo was victorious in another match, she put a challenge out to Kai for aTitle vs. Hair match for the MLW World Women's Featherweight Championship. MLW later announced that the match had been officially made for Kings of Colosseum.[16]
At Slaughterhouse,Kenta defeatedPaul London only to be immediately attacked byDonovan Dijak; the assaultkayfabe injuring Kenta and keeping him from competing in MLW for the rest of 2024.[17] As a result, on December 16, MLW announced that Kenta would face off with Dijak at Kings of Colosseum.[18]
Towards the end of Eric Bischoff's One Shot, executive producer Bischoff was seen on the phone while holding what looked to be company documents.[19] With many questions surrounding the incident, MLW would announce that Bischoff would appear via satellite at Kings of Colosseum to address his new plans for the promotion.[20]
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[23] | ||
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| 1 | Mads Krule Krügger defeatedAkira, Brett Ryan Gosselin,Matthew Justice and Mr. Thomas[a] | Gravity Gamble match for anMLW World Heavyweight Championship match contract[14] | 19:24 | ||
| 2 | Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (Atlantis andAtlantis Jr.) defeatedLos Divinos Laguneros (Blue Panther andDark Panther) bypinfall | Tag team match[21] | 9:07 | ||
| 3 | Delmi Exo defeatedJanai Kai (c) bypinfall | Title vs. Hair match for theMLW World Women's Featherweight Championship[16] | 7:10 | ||
| 4 | Donovan Dijak (with Saint Laurent) defeatedKenta bypinfall | Singles match[18] | 9:27 | ||
| 5 | Averno defeatedMáscara Dorada andEsfinge bysubmission | Three-way match[22] | 11:45 | ||
| 6 | Matt Riddle defeatedSatoshi Kojima (c) bypinfall | Singles match for theMLW World Heavyweight Championship[12] | 10:43 | ||
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| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[30] | ||
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| 1 | Neón defeatedVirus bypinfall | Singles match[24] | 7:42 | ||
| 2 | Okumura defeatedDark Panther bypinfall | Singles match[25] | 6:03 | ||
| 3 | Bobby Fish defeated Ariel Dominguez bysubmission | Singles match[26] | 2:34 | ||
| 4 | The Andersons (Brock Anderson andC. W. Anderson) defeatedPaul London andPaul Walter Hauser bypinfall | Texas Tornado match[27] | 7:22 | ||
| 5 | Persephone defeated Alejandra Quintanilla bypinfall | Singles match[28] | 5:17 | ||
| 6 | Tom Lawlor defeatedMinoru Suzuki bypinfall | Singles match[29] | 6:13 | ||
| 7 | Místico (c) defeatedBárbaro Cavernario 2–1 | Two out of three falls match for theMLW World Middleweight Championship[9] | 15:46 | ||
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