One of AEW’s newest arrivals, Lena Kross, made her proper debut at the Grand Slam: Australia show yesterday in Sydney.
Kross, who is from Perth, showed up after the Babes of Wrath retained their AEW Women’s Tag Team titles against Megabad and aligned herself with Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford by flattening Harley Cameron and then joining in the duo in the post-match beat-down.
The 30-year-old appeared on AEW television for the first time in July of last year, losing a quick match to Kris Statlander. She has been wrestling since 2017 and apart from doing the indies, she also had a stint in Japan.
The AEW World title match at the upcoming Revolution pay-per-view was confirmed after the conclusion of last night’s Grand Slam: Australia show.
“Hangman” Adam Page defeated Andrade El Idolo in the final of the mini tournament to determine the #1 contender for the title. Page only had to beat Mark Davis to advance to the final while Andrade had to beat Swerve Strickland and Kenny Omega to advance.
Later in the show, reigning champion MJF defeated Brody King in the main event, also getting his ticket to the top of the card in Los Angeles. MJF had lost to King on Dynamite the prior week in a title eliminator match, a match which got a bunch of publicity from the mainstream media due to the “F*ck ICE” chants started by the Las Vegas crowd.
The Australian fans in Sydney also repeated the chant at the start of last night’s main event.
AEW is in Australia for tonight’s Grand Slam televised event, airing on TNT and HBO Max starting at 8PM ET in place of Collision. The show, taped earlier due to the time difference, was held at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Grand Slam: Australia will run for a total of 2 and a half hours.
Scheduled for tonight’s broadcast are MJF vs Brody King for the AEW World title, Kyle Fletcher vs Mark Briscoe for the TNT title in a ladder match, Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale vs Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford for the AEW Women’s Tag Team titles, Jon Moxley vs Konosuke Takeshita for the AEW Continental title, Toni Storm and Orange Cassidy vs Marina Shafir and Wheeler Yuta in a mixed Tornado tag team match where the loser of the fall has to shave their head, and “Hangman” Adam Page vs Andrade El Idolo in a number one contender’s match for the AEW World title at Revolution.
The company will travel to Brisbane for a rare non-televised live event tomorrow, the same location where last year’s Grand Slam: Australia was held.
Grammy Award winner Jelly Roll was present at the TNA No Surrender event yesterday in his hometown of Nashville.
The WWE celebrity wrestler and frequent collaborator was shown on camera sitting at ringside and acknowledged also with a lower third graphic.
Jelly Roll, who lost a ton of weight over the past few months, also received a challenge from AJ Francis during the show, with Francis telling him that if his “fish fillet body-built ass” ever wants to cross the line, he would be waiting for him.
In a piece on CNN titled ‘The shocking, rule-breaking new move in pro wrestling: getting specific about politics,’ the news network confirmed that its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, owns a stake in All Elite Wrestling.
The piece comes after the “F*ck ICE” chants which started at the beginning of the MJF vs Brody King match last week on Dynamite, and a chant which will continue on tonight’s Grand Slam: Australia.
Just like in every article which talks about a property which is owned by the same parent company, CNN inserted the disclaimer “Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent corporation, owns a minority stake in AEW.”
This is the first time that the statement is confirmed by someone within WBD. AEW President Tony Khan never confirmed nor denied the the topic, but since it’s minority stake which does not surpass a certain percentage, they’re not obligated to confirm or even talk about it publicly.
Once Warner Bros. Discovery splits, the minority stake will remain with Discovery and will not move to Netflix, like the rest of Warner Bros.
The TNA Knockouts title is once again in the hands of an NXT talent as Arianna Grace defeated Lei Ying Lee last night at No Surrender to capture the gold.
The title change happened when Grace took out the Cobra sock, which she took from her father and TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella on last night’s episode of Impact, and struck Lee with it. She then delivered her finisher and covered Lee for the three-count victory.
This ends Lee’s 87-day reign as TNA Knockouts champion, a title which she won from NXT’s Kelani Jordan in November of last year.
For the 28-year-old Grace, this is her first-ever title in her wrestling career. She has been appearing on TNA since late 2024, and lately with her real-life fiancee Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo.
Photo ops at the Elimination Chamber weekend in Chicago were announced last night.
The photos will take place at Morgan MFG at 401 North Morgan Street, presumably where the Superstore will also be located. Appearances will be held from Friday, February 27 to Sunday, March 1.
Appearing on Friday are Joe Hendry, Maxxine Dupri, Penta, Sol Ruca, and WWE Women’s World champion Stephanie Vaquer. On Saturday, there will be Alexa Bliss, Chelsea Green, Damian Priest, Lash Legend, Matt Cardona, Oba Femi, and Rey Fenix. Je’Von Evans and Kiana James are so far the only two scheduled for Sunday morning.
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Dynamite this week drew 604,000 viewers, down 50,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. The show had a 0.12 rating in 18-49, down 0.03 from the prior week but their second best number of the year so far. Dynamite was #9 in the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Mickie James returned to TNA Wrestling yesterday at the No Surrender streaming event in Nashville.
The Hall of Famer came out to attack Ash by Elegance after The Elegance Brand defeated Indi Hartwell and Xia Brookside to retain the TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles. While James was outnumbered when the rest of the Elegance Brand came to help Ash, Hartwell and Brookside evened the odds by coming to James’ rescue.
The former TNA Knockouts champion has not wrestled for TNA since 2023 and was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame last year.
It remains unclear if James is back with TNA for good or if this is just a temporary return.
Her last match was in July 2025 for European indie promotion ABC.
The Elimination Chamber qualifying matches continued on Smackdown last night, with one men and one women’s match taking place.
In the women’s match, Alexa Bliss defeated Zelina and WWE United States Women’s champion Giulia to advance to Chicago while Cody Rhodes defeated Jacob Fatu and Sami Zayn to qualify, even though Drew McIntyre tried his best to keep Rhodes and Fatu away from advancing.
Bliss now joins Tiffany Stratton and Rhea Ripley in the match while Rhodes joins Randy Orton and LA Knight.
The last Smackdown qualifiers continue on next week’s broadcast with Carmelo Hayes vs Trick Williams vs Damian Priest and Nia Jax vs Charlotte Flair vs Kiana James.
Here are the results from last night’s TNA No Surrender 2026 TNA+ event which took place live from The Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee.
PRE-SHOW: Sinner and Saint defeated Brad Attitude and TW3; Frankie Kazarian defeated Alan Angels.
PPV: Jody Threat won the TNA Knockouts battle royal to become the number one contender for the TNA Knockouts title; Trey Miguel defeated Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo to become the new TNA International champion; Mance Warner defeated Mike Jackson; The Elegance Brand defeated Indi Hartwell and Xia Brookside to retain the TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles; Eric Young defeated BDE; Arianna Grace defeated Lei Yiǐng Lee to become the new TNA Knockouts champion; Order 4 defeated The Righteous and The Hardys in an eight-man tag team match; Mike Santana and Leon Slater defeated Nic Nemeth and Eddie Edwards.
Tonight’s Smackdown will air live on SYFY instead of USA Network due to the ongoing coverage of the Winter Olympics. Smackdown will retain its 8PM starting slot on SYFY.
Two Elimination Chamber qualifying matches will take place, with Cody Rhodes vs Jacob Fatu vs Sami Zayn and Alexa Bliss vs Giulia vs Zelina.
Also on the card, Jade Cargill makes her first WWE Women’s title defense against Jordynne Grace, Rey Fenix battles Trick Williams, and Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky defend the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles against Nia Jax and Lash Legend.
WWE is running a 25% discount on WrestleMania tickets for this weekend only, with the sale ending on Monday, February 16 at 11:59PM ET.
The sale, available if you enter the code WINTER, is solely for individual tickets and not for the combo seats, which are almost gone.
With the 25% off, the cheapest WrestleMania ticket for either day is $202.70 which is the 400 level and some in the 300 level as well. Most decent seats in the 100 level are also reasonably priced around $250 per day, plus taxes and fees.
The show has around 37,000 tickets distributed on each night but is way short of last year’s number at the same time.
The 2026 Elimination Chamber premium live event from Chicago’s United Center is currently at 14,500 tickets distributed according to @WrestleTix.
In a week, WWE managed to move over 1,000 tickets for the event, with the arena now expanded to 17,016 seats. The United Center has a total of 19,015 on the seating chart so that could be expanded if required.
The show won’t surpass last year’s attendance as last year it was held in a stadium at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, with over 37,500 in attendance.
This is the first WWE televised event at the United Center in 30 years. The last televised show there was the 1993 SummerSlam.
Four more WWE Superstars were added to the WWE World at WrestleMania 42 line-up.
Raw General Manager Adam Pearce, Smackdown General Manager Nick Aldis, and WWE Hall of Famers Kane and Road Dogg have joined the growing list of stars who will be available to meet fans for photos and autographs during WrestleMania weekend.
Pearce and Aldis will be appearing on Thursday while Kane is there on Saturday and Road Dogg on Monday.
Tickets for individual photo and autographs will go on sale next month. A WWE World entrance ticket is required.
MJF sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss winning the AEW World Title for a second time and how this reign is different from his first, how he defied the odds to make it in professional wrestling, how much interest there really was from WWE, his rivalry with CM Punk, starring in Happy Gilmore 2 with Adam Sandler and beating up Eminem in the movie, why his scene from The Iron Claw was cut, his ultimate dream match, and more!
Do you think you’re the best wrestler to never wrestle in WWE?
“Yeah, it’s not even close. It’s not even close. Before me, the answer would have been Sting. And then he wrestled there.”
Kenny Omega?
“No, stop it. I love Kenny to death. If you put our names into a search engine, I can assure you, more people are looking my name up than his. Now, is he gonna go down as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time? Yes, but that’s not the question you just asked me. The question you just asked me is outside of the wrestling bubble. Kenny Omega has done some awesome voiceover work. He’s been involved in some massive video games, but he’s not MJF, and by the way, that’s no shade. I’m sure people are going to try to clip this and make it seem like I’m talking sh*t about Kenny Omega. Kenny Omega is great. I’ve talked about Kenny Omega’s greatness when we wrestled on Collision a couple of years ago. I can’t say enough nice things about Kenny Omega, but he’s no MJF.”
When the bidding war was happening, when your contract with AEW was coming to an end, how much interest was there from WWE?
“You know the answer, there was a lot. I had some nice calls with some nice folks who are high up on the chain, and they were interested in me. They’re still very much so interested in me, and I understand why. But for all my faults, one thing I am not is unprofessional. If you put a contract in front of me with the right amount of money, I’m going to do this. I’m going to broadcast how important those three letters are [AEW]. Those three [MJF] letters are just as important as these [AEW], because you’re paying me to say that. Now, do I believe it’s true? You’ll never know, and that’s the beauty of it. No matter what promotion I’m working for, I’m going to shamelessly shill what’s going on. Now, can I look in the camera and say I really do believe everything I’ve said prior to this? Yes I can, but they’ll never know.”
Give me your top five MJF matches of all time.
“Bryan Danielson, Iron Man match. CM Punk, dog collar match, I’m gonna throw MJF versus Hangman at Revolution. I believe that was last year. Darby versus me Full Gear, we were the opening match. This is where it gets hard. I will throw in the Mistico match as well. We can do this all day. I can do a top 50, because I’ve had them. But I think those are the ones that, when people think about my career, that’ll come up. The match against Kenny Omega on Collision also. These things can be swapped and switched. The match against Samoa Joe at Grand Slam was insanity. My match with Adam Cole in front of 82,000 people, we pretty much broke the sound barrier that night. It was absurd. It was the loudest I’ve ever [heard], my ears hurt. Both of my matches with Will Ospreay. But the difference between me and somebody you ask this question to, I get frustrated naming these matches because I didn’t win all of them. Sure, they were great and they were entertaining, but I didn’t win all of them, and that p*sses me off. I won a good amount of them that I said, but not all of them.”
How old were you in that now famous photo when you’re a kid meeting CM Punk?
“I believe it was the year after my Bar Mitzvah. I think I was just turning 14.”
So fast forward 10 plus years later, you’re in the ring, toe to toe, cutting promos with him. But it’s like you had met your match.
“Match? No. I mean, watch the tape. You tell me who got the better of who verbally during that entire rivalry. I hope he’s able to enjoy what he’s accomplishing over there. I have no idea, because the things that he said in my company do go against the things that he’s saying now. Some people might say that’s hypocritical. That’s not my place. All I know is since I’ve jumped into pro wrestling, I’ve been saying the same thing since the jump, my tune has not changed. I’m Maxwell Jacob Friedman, and I’m better than you, and you know it. I also won’t sit here and lie to you and tell you that I didn’t learn so much through my hatred of that man. I learned the difference between good and great. That’s what I learned. Now, do I like him? I’ll reiterate, no, I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire to put that fire out. But I’m not going to sit here and pretend I didn’t learn from him.”
With how busy you are. You’ve been in so many movies recently, you’re the AEW Champion. Do you think about how much longer you want to wrestle?
“No, because I’m young, the idea hasn’t even entered my head, like when I was watching that John Cena retirement, or the AJ Styles retirement.”
Cena has got 20 years on you:
“So does Cody, so does CM Punk, so does LA Knight, so does Jey Uso, so does essentially every top guy, Roman, all these dudes are 40s to 50. I’m 29. So yeah, I do think it’s silly to even go there to Oh, when am I going to hang them up? I’m a baby, you know what I mean? I’m a top act, and it’s very rare for somebody my age, if ever, to be in the situation that I’m in. But I’m also very cognizant of the fact that I’m just getting started, I don’t know what my prime is going to be. I don’t think I’m going to have a prime. I think I’m just going to be great for at least the next 20 to 30 years, and it’s crazy to say that out loud, because when you hear 20-30 years, you’re like, Oh, that’s a lot of time. 30s, 40s, 50s, it’s all ahead of me. It’s all ahead of the viewers. I personally feel that year over year I’ve only evolved and gotten better. And I’m very curious to see what I look like as a wrestler when I’m 35, when I’m 45, or when I’m 50.”
The TNA Rebellion 2026 pay-per-view will be taking place on Saturday, April 11 at the Wolstein Center, located on the campus of Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tickets for the show will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 27 at 10AM ET, with a pre-sale starting on Wednesday, February 25 at the same time.
After Rebellion, TNA will also hold two television tapings on Tuesday, April 14 and Wednesday, April 15 at the Upstate Medical Arena at The Oncenter War Memorial in Syracuse, New York.
Tickets for these two Impact tapings go on sale on the same day as Rebellion.
NXT this week drew 637,000 viewers, up 8,000 viewers from last week’s episode and the second best number of 2026 so far. The show had a 0.12 rating in 18-49, a nice jump of 0.04 from the previous week and their best since November 25. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Live tonight from The Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee, TNA Wrestling presents No Surrender streaming exclusively on the TNA+ service. The full card is as follows:
Mike Santana and Leon Slater vs Nic Nemeth and Eddie Edwards; Lei Ying Lee vs Arianna Grace for the TNA Knockouts title; Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo vs Trey Miguel for the TNA International title; The Elegance Brand vs Indi Hartwell and Xia Brookside for the TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles; BDE vs Eric Young; The Righteous and The Hardys vs Order 4 in an eight-man tag team match; and a Knockouts battle royal to determine the new number one contender for the TNA Knockouts title.
How to watch
The Countdown to No Surrender will air on YouTube as well as on TNA+ starting at 7:30PM ET. The No Surrender event will follow at 8PM ET. A subscription to TNA+ is required to watch No Surrender and you can get one for $9.99 with the option to cancel at anytime.
Popular streamer iShowSpeed teased an appearance at WrestleMania 42 while talking to Yahoo! Sports Daily.
Asked if he’s ever getting back in the ring after that viral moment at last year’s Royal Rumble, Speed said, “Man…I don’t know! I mean, we got WrestleMania coming up, so you may be seeing me in there, you may be not. I’m just not trying to get beat up. But, we’ll see, we’ll see. I got beat up too much times. I can’t, my body can’t take that anymore!”
Speed got speared into another postcode by Bron Breakker after entering the Royal Rumble as a surprise entrant. The video of Breakker running the ropes at full speed and smashing Speed got millions of views and will forever live in Royal Rumble history.
The 21-year-old Cincinnati native had previously appeared at WrestleMania, getting RKO’d by Randy Orton. He recently had WWE training at the PC for one of his Speed Goes Pro episodes on YouTube.
🚨| WATCH: Speed hints he could appear at the upcoming WWE WrestleMania.
