It’s been nearly three years, but “Hardcore Country” Mickie James returned to the TNA Asylum in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of Friday’s No Surrender pay-per-view event.

James’ guest appearance came after The Elegance Brand’s Heather and M successfully defended and retained their Knockout World Tag Team Championships against Indi Hartwell and Xia Brookside. After the match, the former five-time TNA/Impact Knockouts World Champion made her way down to the ring, shifting her focus on Ash by Elegance. Taking her shot, Ash charged toward James as she made her way onto the apron. Not fast enough, James landed a melee of punches on Ash before Heather and M got involved. Seeing as James was outnumbered, Brookside and Hartwell came to James’ aid.

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It’s been close to a year since James’ last in-ring appearance. In July 2025, she defeated Mila Smidt to become the new ABC (Association Biterroise de Catch) Women’s Champion. As of today, she remains its champion at 210 days. As for TNA, her last stint there was an unsuccessful challenge for the Knockouts World Title against former champion Trinity (WWE’s Naomi) at the 2023 Bound for Glory pay-per-view. Since then, James joined the 2025 TNA Hall of Fame Class, then became a coach on the premiere season of “WWE LFG.” 

Before debuting in WWE, AJ Styles first truly established himself as a pro wrestler in TNA, eventually becoming one of the biggest names in the promotion. While he officially retired in WWE after a ten-year run, Jeff Jarrett believes Styles will always be synonymous with TNA.

“Do I consider AJ still a TNA guy? … I didn’t give it any conscious thought, but I think, beyond a shadow of a doubt, [I] do,” Jarrett opined during an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett” podcast. “It is definitely where he’s made his name; it’s where he [became] a performer.”

Jarrett then went off to list all the accolades Styles picked up while he was still signed to TNA: “He is the face of TNA from the very first night. He was on show one, the first X-Division Champion,” he recalled. “I knew from, I’d almost say day one, that’s the face of the company, that there’s going to be a lot of things in time.”

According to Jarrett, he recently had a conversation with a stranger at the gym about pro wrestling, and he was taken aback by the fan’s framing of Styles career. “When you really think about 2026 – the modern style of professional wrestling – in so many ways, you kind of think about, ‘Oh, look at the style now’ and in a lot of the ways, it has its roots in the X-Division,” Jarrett explained. “So, in a lot of ways, AJ – a lot of guys grew up on him that are now wrestling. He is the face of the modern style of wrestling.”

Because of all this, Jarrett maintains that Styles is still a TNA guy. “Man, oh, man. What a career. I don’t think it’s over!”

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Since re-joining WWE in 2023, Chelsea Green has enjoyed great success, both personally and professionally. In the ring, she’s boasted two reigns as WWE Women’s United States Champion and one as AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion. Outside of it, she’s built her dream home in Florida. In between, though, Green admits that there’s something that has her questioning everything.

“This view [from the house], I just imagine when I eventually have kids, I’m going to sit out there looking at the beautiful trees and the lake and it’s just like everything I ever dreamed of,” Green said on “WWE Unreal.” “I never thought that I would have all this from wrestling. How do you do it? How do you have kids? Do you quit your job? Do you come back with your babies on the road? Do you leave your kids with a nanny?”

“I feel like I’m just on this hot streak, and I don’t want to ruin it by getting pregnant. How awful is that, that I say that? But that’s just a reality of being a woman in wrestling. I mean, after ten years, I’m just starting to make money now.”

In a few months, Green will turn 35. Alexa Bliss, born the same year as Green, announced her pregnancy and subsequent child birth in 2023, with the former WWE Raw Women’s Champion returning to in-ring competition in January 2025. Fellow WWE star Naomi is in the midst of her own first pregnancy with husband Jimmy Uso. Whether or not Green will follow suit in the future has yet to be seen, though she has stated that she’d likely take her child or children on the road with her as she wrestles for WWE.

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Friday the 13th is unlucky for most. But for the “WWE NXT” – TNA liaison Arianna Grace, luck was completely on her side, as she scored her first championship win in her career as the new TNA Knockouts World Champion at No Surrender.

This past Friday’s win came thanks to two distractions: her fiancé Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo and her father Santino Marella’s highly admired Cobra puppet. After being hoisted up by former Knockout Champion Léi Yǐng Lee in her Warriors Way finisher, Grace found an opening to escape by pushing her fingers into Lee’s eyes, setting Lorenzo up to distract Lee on the outside. Minutes later, Grace took out The Cobra, and connected a throat punch followed by a facebuster for the win. Many might be wondering how Grace obtained The Cobra. This past Thursday on “TNA iMPACT,” Grace, who was ecstatic her father and on-screen Director of Authority went ahead and made this title match official, didn’t see that when they embraced for a hug, Grace stole the Cobra right out from under him.

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 Although this was a breakthrough moment for Grace, it was also bittersweet, as she was the only one in her family to retrieve gold last night, whereas her fiancé lost his TNA International Championship to Trey Miguel earlier on the card. However, Grace shouldn’t get too comfortable atop the Knockouts division, as Jody Threat won the respective Knockouts Battle Royal that evening, earning a future shot at the title.