The MLW World Heavyweight Championship will be on the line in a stipulation match at Slaughterhouse 2025 next month.
MLW has announced that new World Champion Mads Krule Krugger will defend his title against five other competitors in a Chamber of Horrors match at the Halloween-themed Slaughterhouse event. Matthew Justice, CW Anderson, and Mr. Thomas have been named as three of the challengers, with the other two opponents to be revealed soon.
The Chamber of Horrors is a steel cage match with a variety of weapons.
“Barbed wire. Steel. Weapons hanging like ornaments of destruction. Once you enter… there’s no way out,” MLW wrote. “The Chamber of Horrors has haunted generations of fighters, leaving behind only screams and scars for those foolish enough to step inside. Now the echoes of the past will return — louder, darker, and deadlier than ever before.”
Krugger — the leader of Contra Unit — won the MLW World Heavyweight Championship at Fightland last weekend. The main event of that show was supposed to be Matt Riddle defending the title against Donovan Dijak, but Krule was in possession of a title shot contract that he won at the beginning of the year. Krule cashed in to make it a triple threat, and he went on to pin Riddle and become the new champion.
Slaughterhouse is being held at Thunder Studios Arena in Long Beach, California on October 4. The show will air live on MLW’s YouTube channel for free.
MLW Slaughterhouse 2025 (Saturday, October 4) —
Chamber of Horrors match: MLW World Heavyweight Champion Mads Krule Krugger defends against Matthew Justice, CW Anderson, Mr. Thomas, and two more opponents to be announced
MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion Shoko Nakajima defends against HIMAWARI
Opera Cup 2025 quarterfinal match: Mistico vs. Ultimo Guerrero
When MLW comes to Texas next month, a death match will be part of the lineup.
MLW has announced that Alex Hammerstone vs. Matthew Justice in a Texas Death Match will take place at Fightland 2025. The show is being held at the NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills on September 13 and will air live on MLW’s YouTube channel.
Hammerstone — a former MLW World Heavyweight Champion — returned to the promotion this April following a stint with TNA Wrestling. He’s set his sights on becoming World Champion again but challenged for a different belt this June, facing Ultimo Guerrero for the MLW National Openweight Championship. It was supposed to be a one-on-one match until Justice was added at the last minute.
In the triple threat, Guerrero ended up retaining the National Openweight title after Justice cost Hammerstone the win.
MLW wrote:
Hammerstone came within seconds of reclaiming the title, only for Justice to crash the moment. After the bell, frustration turned physical as the two erupted in a violent post-match confrontation, throwing live rounds until MLW security intervened. The tension hasn’t cooled since.
Hammerstone has since lashed out, labeling Justice ‘Mud Show Matt,’ mocking his no-rules brawling style and questioning his place in MLW. But Justice hasn’t backed down—firing back by calling out Hammerstone for walking away from the league, claiming, ‘I bleed MLW. You left to chase greener pastures.’
Justice is a former National Openweight and Tag Team Champion in MLW.
The live Fightland broadcast will begin at 10 p.m. Eastern time on September 13. Here’s the updated card:
MLW Fightland 2025 (Saturday, September 13) —
MLW World Heavyweight Champion Matt Riddle defends against Donovan Dijak
Templario vs. Ikuro Kwon for the vacant MLW Middleweight Championship
Opera Cup tournament first-round match: Volador Jr. vs. Titan
Texas Death Match: Alex Hammerstone vs. Matthew Justice
TV taping portion (will not air live)–
Opera Cup tournament first-round match: Austin Aries vs. KUSHIDA
Opera Cup tournament first-round match: Ultimo Guerrero vs. Esfinge
This week’s matches were taped in Philadelphia at the famous 2300 Arena earlier this month. Joe Dombrowski and Matt Striker announced the matches.
– We opened with Mance Warner, 1 Called Manders, and their latest ally Jimmy Lloyd. Lloyd called out AKIRA and said he was there to take his Middleweight title.
Ichiban defeated Nolo Kitano
Ichiban continued his undefeated start in MLW with another solid and impressive performance. The commentary team was speculating about a potential Middleweight title shot in the future for Ichiban if he continues his winning ways.
Kitano’s gimmick is a samurai warrior crossed with a more modern street fighter, and his style suits this Middleweight division well. He hit a nice torneo dive to the floor and had Ichiban on the ropes by reversing a top rope crossbody for a close nearfall.
This started with a fast pace and flowed into a striking battle. Towards the end, Kitano walked the top rope before hitting a fantastic moonsault into a DDT.
Ichiban evaded a top rope frogsplash, hit a superkick, ate a Pele kick and a spin kick to the back of his head in response, but was able to shake that off to catch Kitano in mid-air and hit his face first finisher to pick up the hard-fought win.
– We learned of Matt Cardona’s next plans in MLW after he beat Mance Warner in a Kiss My Foot match at Fury Road. This week, Cardona told us all that he is here for gold.
– We saw a recap of the Microman and Sam Adonis feud but the camera cut to live footage of a desperate Sam Adonis. He tells the camera he knows where Cesar Duran is before some masked henchmen, the same masked men who kidnapped Duran, attacked him, and took him away. Could Salina de la Renta be behind this latest kidnapping?
– The number one contender to the Featherweight title, B3CCA, was a guest on Sessions by Saint Laurent, where she revealed some “scandalous” information on Featherweight champion, Delmi Exo. B3CCA said it is unfortunate Exo is “injured” and can’t compete against her.
– Don King, the financial backer of Alex Kane’s Bomaye Fight Club, announced that Kane will defend his MLW World Heavyweight title against Davey Boy Smith Jr. at the upcoming Slaughterhouse show on Fite+ on October 14th.
– Mance Warner has requested a Chamber of Horrors match for Slaughterhouse. He blindsided Court Bauer with blueprints of his drunken imaginative ideas.
– We also learned that Microman missed a scheduled autograph session and is missing. In recent weeks, The Second Gear Crew and The Mane Event have helped Microman avoid attacks by Snitsky and Sam Adonis, could they be behind his disappearance?
Love Doug defeated Little Guido
B3CCA had a quick outfit change to be part of the commentary team and she was greeted by her heartthrob Love Doug who had a heart-shaped cake for her.
On paper, this may look like a comedy match, and they did break out a test of strength that turned into a ballroom dancing routine, but the match got a little more aggressive when Guido took Doug down with a hard clothesline.
Doug’s overarching story at the moment is his obsession with B3CCA, who keeps turning him down or often just ignoring him completely. But our persistent Lothario still tried to show off and impress his love interest and even used a B3CCA-inspired guitar that Guido brought into the ring to help him get the win.
There was a cake brought to ringside, so of course Doug ended up going face-first into it as B3CCA rejected him once again.
– Last week Salina de la Renta sent several warnings out to the MLW locker room, especially Jacob Fatu, but this week she was in her new backstage office with a zipped bag making muffled noises. Salina said she was sending “this sack of sh*t back to Mexico, bye-bye Microman”. So it was Salina, and not Mister Saint Laurent and the Titan Wrestling Federation, who was behind the disappearance of Microman.
MLW Middleweight Champion AKIRA went to a No Contest with Matthew Justice
The Second Gear Crew and The Calling have clashed in various combinations recently and this was the latest in their ongoing faction war. This was quite quick but was a weapons-filled match with some risky bumps onto chairs.
The weapons came out early as Justice used a chair on the outside, rammed AKIRA face-first into it inside the ring then dropped him back first onto a seated chair with a brutal-looking Death Valley driver.
After the break, AKIRA got his revenge with a sunset flip powerbomb from the corner onto another seated chair. The masked Calling men distracted Justice on the outside to let AKIRA come off the top to the floor with a chair. This brought out Jimmy Lloyd, Cannonball, Ricky Shane Page, and finally Mance Warner and 1 Called Manders to save the day. The referee called for the bell as the chaos unraveled.
Ricky Shane Page and 1 Called Manders brawled to the back where Ricky Shane Page leaped off a ladder and put Manders through a table as Fusion went off the air.
The Briscoes are the new Game Changer Wrestling Tag Team Champions.
The Briscoes defeated champions the Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner and Matthew Justice) at tonight’s GCW War Ready event in Los Angeles, California. The finish had both champions being pinned after a Jay Driller from Jay and a froggy elbow by Mark, After the match, the champions got back up to their feet and their music played as they walked to the back. The Second Gear Crew had held the titles for 92 days, defeating G-Raver and Jimmy Lloyd back on July 24.
The Briscoes made a surprise appearance back at GCW Fight Club on October 9 after the Second Gear Crew declared that there weren’t any teams in pro wrestling that could challenge them. The Brisoces, who have been ROH regulars since the company’s inception, then appeared and accepted the challenge, leading to tonight’s match.
After holding Bloodsport and War Ready this weekend, GCW will return with Evil Deeds on November 12.
Following a confrontation this past weekend, The Briscoes will challenge for the GCW Tag Team titles.
Game Changer Wrestling announced tonight that The Briscoes will challenge the Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner and Matthew Justice) for the titles at War Ready, which will take place in Los Angeles on October 23 at the Ukrainian Cultural Center.
Mark and Jay Briscoe appeared at Saturday’s GCW Fight Club event after Mance Warner declared no one from any company could meet their challenge for GCW’s tag titles. The Briscoes arrived and the two teams stared down one another, with announcers speculating when the match would take place. Warner and Justice have held the GCW Tag Team titles since July 24, defeating G-Raver and Jimmy Lloyd.
Matches announced for War Ready include Minoru Suzuki vs. Nick Gage, Jonathan Gresham vs. Alex Zayne, and Jacob Fatu and Juicy Finau vs. Chris Dickinson and Starboy Charlie. Psycho Clown will also make his GCW debut on the show.
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