GCW Bringing Back Bloodsport

Game Changer Wrestling have announced the return of Bloodsport, with the show built around worked shoot MMA-style professional wrestling matches set to make a comeback with Bloodsport Reborn. No further details about the relaunch of Bloodsport have been revealed.

Josh Barnett's name was not attached to the Bloodsport comeback, with the event simply being billed as "Bloodsport Reborn" as opposed to "Josh Barnett's Bloodsport." Barnett did address the future of Bloodsport just hours before the GCW announcement, however, noting that he was "not going to let it be cannibalised or ruined in some way by those that are not as capable or as invested in it as I am."

Barnett stated on the Ariel Helwani Show:

"We have been shopping it around a bit and trying to find some investing. We've had some good bites. People with a lot of interest in it. We'll see what we can put together. It's not an insanely expensive project to actually put together when you look at putting together produced content for streaming or media, television basically. But still you need somebody to give you that money. If we can find that investor or that group that wants to get with us, we’ll get going full speed and we’ll get to work with putting all the essentials in place."

Barnett then noted he doesn't consider Bloodsport to be dead, adding:

"No I don't. If I can help it, but I would rather it sit buried than do anything less than what I’m trying to do because otherwise it’s just not going to work. It’s not going to be the product it can be and should be. I’m not going to let it be cannibalised or ruined in some way by those that are not as capable or as invested in it as I am." 

Bloodsport was a staple of independent wrestling, particularly over WrestleMania weekend, since Matt Riddle's Bloodsport was held in 2018. Josh Barnett took over Bloodsport in 2019 after Riddle joined WWE but the former King of Pancrase announced over WrestleMania 42 weekend that Bloodsport would be ending for the foreseeable future.