Opera Cup (2025)

Opera Cup is the fifth Opera Cup professional wrestling tournament produced by Major League Wrestling. The first round started on June 26, 2025, at Summer of the Beasts, which aired on tape delay on August 9 as part of Blood and Thunder. The first round would continue on September 13 at Fightland and Fury Road, which aired on September 27. The quarterfinals and semifinals were held at Slaughterhouse and Symphony of Horrors, both of which took place on October 4; the latter show was taped and aired on October 25. The finals were held at MLW x Don Gato Tequila: Lucha de los Muertos on November 20.

Production

Background

The Opera House Cup was annually held as a professional wrestling tournament for nearly fifty years in various cities in the United States until its discontinuation in 1948. Stu Hart won the final tournament and kept possession of the Opera Cup trophy since then. On July 21, 2019, Major League Wrestling announced that it would be holding an event on December 5 at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York City, New York which would be a set of television tapings of MLW's television program Fusion. On July 24, it was reported that Stu Hart's grandson and MLW wrestler Teddy Hart would be donating an inherited "family heirloom" to MLW. On July 30, MLW.com announced that the family heirloom was Stu Hart's Opera Cup trophy and MLW would be bringing back the Opera Cup tournament on the December 5 supercard, naming it Opera Cup.
At Summer of the Beasts, the brackets for the Opera Cup were revealed, featuring sixteen participants, much like the previous year. The first round would be taped that same night and later aired on August 9 as part of Blood and Thunder.