Mads Krugger cashes in to win MLW World Heavyweight at Fightland

Major League Wrestling closed its Fightland event on Saturday, September 13, at the NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills, Texas with a string of title matches, the opening rounds of the 2025 Opera Cup and a surprise appearance that upended the advertised main event. The show, which streamed free on MLW's YouTube channel and aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on BeIN Sports, saw Mads Krugger cash in a championship opportunity to capture the MLW World Heavyweight Championship in a threeway finish that also featured Matt Riddle and Donovan Dijak.

The card had been built around what was to be a third straight singles title meeting between Riddle and Dijak, but Krugger intervened before the match began and converted the bout into a triple threat. After a chaotic sequence of chokeslams, a double cutter and a tombstone, Krugger executed a full nelson bomb on Riddle and emerged as the new champion. Dijak attacked Krugger after the finish and the three brawled into the crowd as the broadcast ended.

Elsewhere on the card, Templario defeated Ikuro Kwon to win the vacant MLW World Middleweight Championship. The title had been vacated by Místico following an injury earlier in the year; the...