[PWInsider] TNA Talent Updates Post Genesis (lemmy.zip)

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PCO is done with TNA.

PWInsider: Jordynne Grace-TNA

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TNA Genesis was Jordynne Grace's final night with TNA.

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[-] Zero22xx 3 points 13 hours ago

Fine going out on your back but to Tessa Blanchard? Come on now, so they're replacing Grace with Blanchard basically. I don't know but this almost feels the same as certain companies dropping DEI programs and certain social media platforms allowing forms of verbal abuse. The timing of hiring a scorned bigot as their next big star makes it seem like it was an easy decision.

If Jordynne Grace is WWE bound, maybe I'll follow. At the very least I'm more interested in checking out NXT than I have been in a long time. Although watch Tessa Blanchard get regularly used in this crossover that they're doing anyway.

Feeling like jumping ship a little right now. AEW kinda comes across as a little smarky for me and as someone that hasn't watched much, doesn't sound like they give women's wrestling nearly as much focus as TNA does.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

If Jordynne Grace is WWE bound

She def is and is almost guaranteed to be debuting in the Rumble. Alexander is on his way to AEW (as last rumoured, but that could change, is def gone one way or the other). Both wanted out of TNA when Scott was fired but TNA picked up their extra year options so they did the professional thing and kept their mouths shit and rode their terms out.

[-] Zero22xx 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Starting to make sense why Motor City Machine Guns (another good reason to switch) just packed up and left without so much as a mention on TV. Those guys bled TNA.

Edit: and I wonder if any of this has to do with Giselle Shaw disappearing.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Giselle is engaged/married to D'Amore, when he got canned, she had no reason to stay.

[-] Zero22xx 3 points 11 hours ago

Holy shit I had no idea. If these guys hadn't all kept their mouths shut, I might've been considering jumping ship earlier myself. There was brief panic after Scott was relieved of his duties but basically everyone on the inside was like "settle down everyone, nothing to see here", so it seemed all good.

[-] Brain@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Grace

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JORDYNNE GRACE-TNA UPDATE By Mike Johnson on 2025-01-19 21:26:00

PWInsider.com is told TNA Genesis was Jordynne Grace's final night with TNA.

The belief is she will be WWE bound and I would be shocked if she's not in the Women's Royal Rumble match in Indianapolis.

PCO

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PCO is done with TNA. We are told his deal expired at the end of the year.

His rant and destruction of a TNA title (I believe the Digital Media Title) was legitimate, we are told.

We have reached out to PCO for comment and will update if he responds.

Josh Alexander

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After losing his I Quit match to Mike Santana, Josh Alexander announced that he not only quit the match, but he was quitting TNA.

Alexander's TNA deal is coming up and he will be a free agent by mid-February, PWInsider.com can confirm.

Alexander has long wished to see what his worth would be outside of TNA. He'll soon find out.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Haven't watched the show yet, but Grace and Alexander, makes sense. 99% of us knew that was coming.

PCO however is intriguing. Wonder if he'll head to ROH or something perhaps.

[-] cupcakezealot 4 points 12 hours ago

bring back evilhausen and pco

[-] Brain@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

I don't know that I'd take that chance with him, it's one thing to go on a rant about the company you worked for, but it's another thing to take a sledgehammer to their belt and PWInsider is reporting like he did this on his own and TNA had no clue it was coming.

The video I saw is from Instagram, I don't think there's a nitter for that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFB83aRxUwj/

PWInsider's latest take on this:

As we reported earlier, this was a legitimate situation.

PCO is done with the company.

PWInsider.com has reached out to both TNA and PCO with request for comment on record. If/when we hear back from either party, we will update.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

Just pulled up the article, whelp.

idk what PCO's goal is but that kinda shoot is not good for his job prospects.

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