Battle Riot VII
2024 Major League Wrestling event
Battle Riot VII was a professional wrestling live streaming event event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which took place on April 5, 2025, at Thunder Studios Arena in Long Beach, California. It was the seventh event under the Battle Riot chronology.
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Background
Battle Riot is an annual event produced by Major League Wrestling that was first held in 2018 as a television taping for MLW Fusion. The event is named after the Battle Riot match, a multi-competitor match type in which wrestlers are eliminated until one is left and declared winner. The match begins with a number of participants in the ring, who are then eliminated by either pin, submission, or going over the top rope and having both feet touch the venue floor. The declared winner of the Battle Riot match receives a "golden ticket", which they can redeem for a future MLW World Heavyweight Championship title shot anytime and anywhere, however in this year, World Heavyweight Championship will be on the line in this Battle Riot.
On December 2, 2024, it was announced that Battle Riot VII would take place on April 5, 2025, at the Commerce Casino & Hotel in Commerce, California. On March 21, 2025, MLW decided to move the event to larger Thunder Studios Arena in Long Beach, California.
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The card will consist 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.
At SuperFight 6, after Matt Riddle defended the MLW World Heavyweight Championship against Satoshi Kojima and Alex Kane, he was confronted by the executive producer for the night Eric Bischoff on the video wall.
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