After two packed shows last year, this new show includes a tournament for a brand new championship.

IRVING, Texas — After two successful shows last year, Metroplex Wrestling is hosting its third all-women show this March, and is upping the stakes by introducing a brand new championship belt.

The show, Who Runs the World III, will be anchored by a tournament for the MPX American Joshi Championship. This new title, which takes its namesake from the female wrestlers of Japan known as joshi, will be given to the winner of a two-bracket tournament that kicks off on the show on March 7.

Entrants into the tournament for this new belt include AEW’s Emi Sakura, Anarkid Ash, Vert Vixen, Alejandra Quintanilla, Charity King, Rachel Ley, J-Rod and Ray Lyn.

The belt was first revealed during the first all-women show last August, amid a surprise appearance by AEW’s Mercedes Moné, formerly known as Sasha Banks.

Thank you to @AthenaPalmer_FG and @MercedesVarnado for dominating HERstory and presenting our new MPX American Joshi Championship!!!!
Sorry athena but we do love our #CEO and we hope to see her again soon!!! pic.twitter.com/WFutFn4GOK

— Metroplex Wrestling (@MPXWrestling) August 12, 2025

Other matches announced for the show include a tag team match between AEW’s Hyan and Maya World, a DFW-based wrestler, and Shay Karmichael and Monica Monroe, as well as an MPX Women’s Title match where Priscilla Kelly will challenge the champion, Nikki Blackheart.

These shows are put together by AEW wrestler and DFW resident Athena, who has said she wanted to provide a platform with Metroplex Wrestling, where women can learn how to work TV-style wrestling, how to wrestle with some of the best in the world, and learn from them. It’s an opportunity she’s had for years, wrestling all over the world, but she’s bringing it to local wrestlers here in North Texas, to show who they are and tell their story.

“When I started wrestling in Texas, there were only three girls in the state, and I didn’t really have a lot of guidance,” Athena said last year. “I look at such a young generation now and the gap of experience level, from those of us that have traveled the world and those of us that are just getting started, and there’s not a lot of crossover with that.”

Front row tickets to the show are sold out but second row and general admission tickets are still available here.