Summer of the Beasts (2025)
2025 Major League Wrestling event
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Summer of the Beasts (2025) was a professional wrestling event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW) that took place on June 26, 2025, at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York. It was the second event in the Summer of the Beasts chronology. The event aired live on BeIN Sports (the first time MLW aired live on television since 2019) and streamed live on MLW's YouTube channel.
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| Promotion | Major League Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 26, 2025 | ||
| City | Queens, New York | ||
| Venue | Melrose Ballroom | ||
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Additional matches were taped for Blood and Thunder, which aired as a TV special on August 9 on BeIN Sports USA and MLW's YouTube channel.
Production
Background
Summer of the Beasts is a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling. The first event was broadcast on August 29, 2024.[1][2]
On February 2, 2025, MLW announced that second edition of the Summer of the Beasts would take place on June 26, 2025, at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York.[3]
Storylines
The card consisted of matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by MLW's writers. Storylines are played out across the league's social media platforms.[4]
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[5] | ||
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| 1 | The Skyscrapers (Donovan Dijak and Bishop Dyer) (with Saint Laurent) defeated Los Depredadores (Magnus and Rugido) (c) by pinfall | Tag team match for the MLW World Tag Team Championship[6] | 9:06 | ||
| 2 | Brock Anderson defeated Anthony Greene by pinfall | Singles match[7] | 7:53 | ||
| 3 | Yuki Kamifuku defeated Wakana Uehara by pinfall | Singles match[8] | 7:11 | ||
| 4 | Kushida defeated Diego "Divebomb" Hill by pinfall | Singles match[9] | 9:03 | ||
| 5 | Último Guerrero (c) defeated Alex Hammerstone and Matthew Justice by pinfall | Three-way match for the MLW National Openweight Championship[10] | 8:34 | ||
| 6 | Matt Riddle (c) defeated Kenta by pinfall | Singles match for the MLW World Heavyweight Championship[11] | 17:18 | ||
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| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[12] |
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| 1 | Mads Krule Krügger defeated Ariel Dominguez, C. W. Anderson, Matthew Justice, Mr. Thomas (with Faye Jackson), and Okumura by pinfall | Six-way scramble match | 5:06 |
| 2 | Neón vs. Paul London ended in a time-limit draw | Lightning match[13] | 10:00 |
| 3 | Bishop Dyer (with Saint Laurent) defeated Anthony Greene by pinfall | 2025 Opera Cup Tournament first round match | 7:43 |
| 4 | Satoshi Kojima defeated Bobby Fish by pinfall | 2025 Opera Cup Tournament first round match[14] | 8:50 |
| 5 | Shotzi Blackheart defeated Ava Everett by submission | Singles match[15] | 8:14 |
| 6 | Místico defeated Ikuro Kwon by pinfall | 2025 Opera Cup Tournament first round match | 7:47 |