16 Carat Gold Tournament (2025)
2025 professional wrestling tournament by wXw
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The 2025 16 Carat Gold Tournament was a professional wrestling tournament produced by Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw). It was a three-night event held on March 7â9, 2025 at the Turbinenhalle Oberhausen in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was the nineteenth edition of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament. The event was streamed live on TrillerTV.
March 7, 2025
Night Two:
March 8, 2025
Night Three:
March 9, 2025
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Promotional poster of the event | |||
| Promotion | Westside Xtreme Wrestling | ||
| Date | Night One: March 7, 2025 Night Two: March 8, 2025 Night Three: March 9, 2025 | ||
| City | Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | ||
| Venue | Turbinenhalle Oberhausen | ||
| Attendance | Night 1: 873[1] Night 2: 1023[2] Night 3: 901[3] | ||
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1 Called Manders won the 2025 tournament by defeating Ahura in the final.[4] Apart from the tournament, various championship matches were contested throughout the three-night event. Mike D Vecchio retained the wXw European Championship against Levaniel on night two and Leon Slater on night three. The wXw World Tag Team Championship changed hands as Big Bucks (Alex Duke and Norman Harras) defeated the defending champions Young Blood (Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima), High Performer Ltd. (Anil Marik and Icarus) and Planet Gojirah (Marc Empire and Robert Dreissker) in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match on night two.[5][6][7]
Production
Background
16 Carat Gold Tournament is an annual knockout tournament produced by wXw, first held in 2006. The tournament features a total of sixteen wrestlers (an exception being the 2010 edition where seventeen competitors participated) and a winner receives a title shot at the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship at any place and time of their choosing.
Storylines
The event included matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by wXw's writers, while storylines were produced on wXw's streaming television show We Love Wrestling.[8]
Tournament matches
wXw began announcing participants for the 2025 16 Carat Gold Tournament in late 2024. Some of the participants originally announced were: Masha Slamovich,[9] Michael Oku, Joseph Fenech Jr., Dragon Kid, Ahura, 1 Called Manders, Adam Priest, Psycho Clown, Leon Slater,[10][11] and Daisuke Sekimoto.[12] However, Dragon Kid suffered an injury and was replaced by Masaaki Mochizuki in the tournament.[13]
On the February 8 episode of We Love Wrestling, Bobby Gunns won a Road to 16 Carat Gold Tournament to qualify for the tournament as the final participant.[14]
On March 1, wXw announced that a Four Way Dance would determine an alternate participant to fill in for injured competitors in the 16 Carat Gold Tournament. Competitors announced for the match were Hektor Invictus, Nick Schreier, Ryan Clancy, and Stephanie Maze.[15]
Other matches
Miyu Yamashita from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling was announced for a match on the night three of 16 Carat Gold Tournament.[16] Anita Vaughan was confirmed as Yamashita's opponent on the March 9 episode of We Love Wrestling.[17]
At Dead End, Levaniel attacked Mike D Vecchio after the latter won a match against Ahura.[18] This led to a match between Vecchio and Levaniel for the former's wXw European Championship on the night two of 16 Carat Gold Tournament.[19]
After months of feuding between the four teams, including a backstage brawl at the Dead End pre-show, it was announced that Young Blood (Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima) would defend the wXw World Tag Team Championship against Big Bucks (Alex Duke and Norman Harras), High Performer Ltd. (Anil Marik and Icarus), and Planet Gojirah (Marc Empire and Robert Dreissker) in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match on the night two of 16 Carat Gold Tournament.[20]
Cancelled match
Peter Tihanyi and Elijah Blum feuded with each other over the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship since late 2024 after Tihanyi won the title. Blum failed to win the title on several occasions, but defeated Tihanyi in a non-title Cage Fighting match at Back to the Roots.[21] As a result of the win, Tihanyi was scheduled to defend the title against Blum in the main event of night two of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament.[22] However, Tihanyi suffered a shoulder injury in February, forcing him to vacate the title.[23]
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times | ||
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| 1P | Hektor Invictus defeated Nick Schreier, Ryan Clancy, and Stephanie Maze | Four Way Dance to determine an alternate participant in 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 6:28 | ||
| 2 | Ahura defeated Michael Oku | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 13:30 | ||
| 3 | Bobby Gunns defeated Anita Vaughan | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 11:39 | ||
| 4 | Axel Tischer defeated Masaaki Mochizuki | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 9:14 | ||
| 5 | Laurance Roman defeated Adam Priest | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 13:27 | ||
| 6 | Masha Slamovich defeated Cara Noir | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 11:10 | ||
| 7 | Psycho Clown defeated Joseph Fenech Jr. (with Robin Christopher Fohrwerk) | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 12:45 | ||
| 8 | 1 Called Manders defeated Daisuke Sekimoto | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 9:33 | ||
| 9 | Leon Slater defeated Aigle Blanc | Singles match in the first round of 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 22:04 | ||
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| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times | ||||
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| 1P | Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Adam Priest | Singles match | 9:11 | ||||
| 2 | Elijah Blum defeated Cara Noir | Singles match | 12:46 | ||||
| 3 | Laurance Roman defeated Axel Tischer | Singles match in the quarter-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 17:58 | ||||
| 4 | Masha Slamovich defeated Bobby Gunns | Singles match in the quarter-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 10:19 | ||||
| 5 | Aigle Blanc, Daisuke Sekimoto and Michael Oku defeated Hektor Invictus, Nick Schreier and Thomas Shire | Six-man tag team match | 16:36 | ||||
| 6 | Ahura defeated Psycho Clown | Singles match in the quarter-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 20:13 | ||||
| 7 | 1 Called Manders defeated Leon Slater | Singles match in the quarter-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 14:58 | ||||
| 8 | Mike D Vecchio (c) defeated Levaniel | Singles match for the wXw European Championship | 1:12 | ||||
| 9 | Big Bucks (Alex Duke and Norman Harras) defeated Young Blood (Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima) (c), High Performer Ltd. (Anil Marik and Icarus) (with Robin Christopher Fohrwerk) and Planet Gojirah (Marc Empire and Robert Dreissker) | Four-way Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the wXw World Tag Team Championship | 25:41 | ||||
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| No. | Results[24][25] | Stipulations | Times | ||
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| 1 | 1 Called Manders defeated Masha Slamovich | Singles match in the semi-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 8:46 | ||
| 2 | Ahura defeated Laurance Roman | Singles match in the semi-final round of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament | 11:36 | ||
| 3 | Miyu Yamashita defeated Anita Vaughan | Singles match | 13:32 | ||
| 4 | Aigle Blanc, Michael Oku and Psycho Clown defeated Masaaki Mochizuki, Psycho Mike and Zozaya | Lucha Rules six-man tag team match | 18:57 | ||
| 5 | Mike D Vecchio (c) defeated Leon Slater | Singles match for the wXw European Championship | 15:07 | ||
| 6 | Elijah Blum and Planet Gojirah (Marc Empire and Robert Dreissker) defeated Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) and Daisuke Sekimoto | Six-man tag team match | 17:09 | ||
| 7 | 1 Called Manders defeated Ahura | 16 Carat Gold Tournament final | 13:42 | ||
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Tournament brackets
| Round 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Axel Tischer | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Masaaki Mochizuki | 9:15[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Axel Tischer | 10:00[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Laurance Roman | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Laurance Roman | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Adam Priest | 13:27[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Laurance Roman | 11:36[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Ahura | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Ahura | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Oku | 13:31[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Ahura | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Psycho Clown | 20:15[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Psycho Clown | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Joseph Fenech Jr. | 12:46[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Ahura | 13:42[3] | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Called Manders | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Bobby Gunns | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Anita Vaughan | 11:40[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Bobby Gunns | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Masha Slamovich | 10:00[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Masha Slamovich | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Cara Noir | 11:14[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Masha Slamovich | 8:48[3] | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Called Manders | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Called Manders | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Daisuke Sekimoto | 9:33[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Called Manders | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Leon Slater | 14:58[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Leon Slater | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Aigle Blanc | 22:05[1] | ||||||||||||||