Nic Nemeth announced during today’s episode of Busted Open Radio the he signed a new deal with TNA Wrestling.
Nemeth said that everything is official now that the contract has been signed and delivered and called it a “no brainer” decision.
The former World Heavyweight champion has been with TNA since 2024 following his surprise departure from WWE, where he served for a whopping 19 years.
He is a former TNA champion as well as a TNA Tag Team champion and is one of the faces of the company.
All four members of The Rascalz, the group consisting of Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel, Myron Reed, and Dezmond Xavier, have signed with AEW.
Their departure from TNA was announced this week and it did not take long for the foursome to find a new job.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful is reporting that the four have now signed multi-year deals with AEW and their arrival was teased yesterday during Dynamite. AEW will be keeping The Rascalz name for them.
Reed was supposed to be part of tonight’s Impact debut on AMC against Leon Slater but the match was dropped a few days ago.
Powerhouse Hobbs is exiting AEW upon his contract expiration, which is today, and is expected to land in WWE imminently.
Hobbs was offered a new AEW contract according to multiple insiders, a contract which Hobbs turned down because his aim was to test free agency and sign with the WWE.
The 34-year-old wrestled at the Collision tapings yesterday in Phoenix, and his last match will air this Saturday on TNT as he, Samoa Joe, and Katsuyori Shibata defend the AEW Trios titles against “Hangman” Adam Page and JetSpeed.
Hobbs has been in AEW since 2020 and won the TNT title as well as the Trios titles during his stint there.
Dynamite is back on TBS and HBO Max tonight live from Phoenix, Arizona with four matches already announced for the show.
The show is headlined by an AEW World title match with MJF making his first title defense against ROH World champion Bandido. Plus, The Young Bucks, GOA, JetSpeed, and Don Callis Family will battle in a four-way tag team match with the winners becoming the number one contenders for the AEW Tag Team titles.
In addition, Kris Statlander teams with the Babes of Wrath to take on the Triangle of Madness in a trios match, Darby Allin vs Pac, and Kenny Omega returns.
Collision this past Saturday drew 271,000 viewers, up 30,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.03 rating in 18-49, the exact number it drew for the previous episode. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
WWE Women’s champion Jade Cargill attended Netflix’s The Rip premiere at the Alice Tully Hall in New York City yesterday.
Cargill looked stunning, wearing a long red dress which still showed her impressive abs and carried the WWE Women’s title on her shoulder.
Stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, producing under their Artists Equity banner, led the evening alongside cast members Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kyle Chandler, Lina Esco, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Alex Hernandez, and Cliff Chamberlain.
Notable guests along with Cargill included Jason Momoa, Martha Stewart, Adria Arjona, Steve Buscemi, Lily Rabe, James Murray, and more.
The Rip is released on Netflix on January 16.
The recorded Smackdown from Berlin, Germany which saw the crowning of a new WWE champion drew 990,000 viewers, down 185,000 viewers from the prior week. It is the third time that Smackdown fell below 1 million viewers since the new ratings system came out. Smackdown had a 0.26 rating in 18-49, down 0.02 from last week and was #2 on cable behind the college football semi final which drew 17 million viewers and also #2 in all of television. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Fanatics and OBB Media announced the launch of Fanatics Studios, a transformative new joint venture poised to be the premier global studio for sports entertainment.
And with WWE a big part of Fanatics, it comes to no surprise that WWE will be involved in this new project.
Fanatics Studios and WWE have entered into a meaningful overall partnership, with a multi-project commitment across unscripted and digital content, including the creation of a new show titled YEE(A)T with The Usos.
This new unscripted culinary series with WWE Superstars Jimmy and Jey Uso, will take their tag team efforts on the road with a BBQ travel show featuring fellow WWE superstars and celebrity friends distributed across WWE’s social and YouTube channels.
WWE and Fanatics already produce the podcasts What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes, What’s Your Story? with Steph McMahon, Six Feet Under with The Undertaker, and The Raw Recap Show by Megan Morant and Sam Roberts.
Jaida Parker has returned to NXT after an absence of three months, confronting former NXT Women’s North American champion Blake Monroe.
The crowd inside the WWE Performance Center were excited to see Parker back and welcomed her with a huge pop. Parker grabbed the mic and was about to respond to Monroe’s monologue but before she could even start, Monroe took a swing, which was blocked, and Parker then went on the offensive and eventually dumped the former champ with a hip attack.
Parker last wrestled on the October 7 episode of NXT in a number one contender battle royal. She has since wrestled at NXT non-televised live events with her last match coming on December 20 in a win over Tyra Mae Steele.
The January 5 Raw, which was the one year anniversary episode on Netflix, cracked the Netflix Top 10 Global chart by coming in last place, and marks the first time in a month that Raw appeared on the chart.
Netflix reported that this episode, headlined by Punk vs Breakker for the WWE World Heavyweight title, drew 3,200,000 global views, up 700,000 from the last episode which made the chart on December 8. That is based on a total of 5,900,000 global views and it was the most-watched episode since April 21, 2025.
The episode was in the top 10 in nine different countries including Bolivia, Bahamas, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and United States.
The chart was once again dominated by Stranger Things.
A few male stars have been called up to NXT to start filling the void left by those who were called up to the main roster over the past few weeks.
Keanu Carver, who has been with the company since 2023, is now a permanent part of NXT, while Eli Knight, who had a few EVOLVE matches in the last quarter of 2025, has also been signed and joins the brand.
The Vanity Project, the trio of Ricky Smokes, Brad Baylor, and Jackson Drake, have also been called up to NXT. Drake is currently the men’s EVOLVE champion and all have been under WWE ID deals.
Some other NXT stars are also close to being called up to either Raw or Smackdown and more opportunities will be available for WWE ID talent to step up.
A new NXT champion will be crowned on the February 3 episode of NXT on The CW in a six-man ladder match.
The match was announced by NXT General Manager Ava last night as she was surrounded at ringside by the male talent who were waiting to hear what the plan is for the title.
The title was surrendered by Oba Femi last week after he successfully defended it against TNA’s Leon Slater at New Year’s Evil due to his call up to the main roster.
A series of number one contender matches will take place to determine who will be the six to advance in the ladder match.
The first two qualifying matches, Josh Briggs vs Shiloh Hill and Sean Legacy vs Eli Knight, will take place on next week’s episode.
Chelsea Green recently spoke with hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio, to promote WWE: Unreal.
During the interview, Chelsea says that she’s pushing for a spin-off of WWE’s Netflix series, Unreal, inspired by the drama inside the women’s locker room. She also states that she does everything she can to separate herself from her in-ring persona when auditioning for acting roles.
Green on Unreal
Chelsea Green: If we had an unreal that was just the girls’ locker room, which I would absolutely love. Let’s put it into the universe. It would be interesting because I think 99.9% of us really get along. And we don’t just get along. Like we really like to travel together. We like to have our martinis together. We support each other when someone wins a title. You know, we’re excited for each other, but like, it’s still work. It’s still a locker room. There are still so many different personalities. So it would be interesting to see who actually doesn’t like me.
Danny Murphy: And also I think things too were like, if they like you, but they’re so stressed at work ’cause it’s a stress, like a pressure cooker and like either something really good happened for them or something bad happened. What would just inherently come out of their mouth.
Chelsea Green: Well, this past Friday I got my kicked by Julia. She took the title off me and she near, you know, um, took my, my weave right outta my head. She almost snatched me bald. And I am sure I said some things in that moment.
Evan Real: Right. You just don’t remember them.
Chelsea Green: Like, I’m sure my mouth was going faster than my brain, so it’d be interesting if they caught those moments, you know what I mean?
Green on the struggles of auditioning for acting roles as a WWE Superstar
Evan Real: Do you find that you have to work hard to separate yourself from your WWE persona? Do they, do they care about that? Do they consider that? Are you trying to like, be like, “That girl? That’s not me. Like I’m a different girl.”
Chelsea Green: So it’s funny because my name is Chelsea Green. My real name is Chelsea Green. My wrestling name is Chelsea Green.
Evan Real: Oh. And that’s like, not typically the case.
Chelsea Green: That’s not typical at all. So it’s good and it’s bad because I can’t separate myself. If they look me up, which they’re gonna look anyone up who they have like a callback especially. Or if my agent pitches me because they think it’s a good idea. Oh, she has so many followers because that’s a thing now. Hollywood wants people with followers, but then they don’t want wrestlers. So it’s like a very weird vibe where I use it to my advantage, but if I’m feeling like it’s not to my advantage, I will shut it down and that’s why I took off all my nails. I don’t have fake eyelashes. I don’t have fake hair. Like I don’t have all the things when I go to those auditions. I look like Joe Schmo. Like the next girl because I would rather that than what you see on my Instagram, which is glam times a thousand.
Evan Real: And I love to see it.
Chelsea Green: That’s the thing. And now you know I can do that. And when I show up to a red carpet, I will be that way.
Evan Real: She’s got levels.
Danny Murphy: That’s so true. But to show that you, they can picture you in any type of role or situation.
Chelsea Green: Yeah. You know, a lot of wrestlers, they don’t look like normal humans. They look incredible. Like, they look like they belong on a stage.
Evan Real: Like action figures.
Chelsea Green: Yeah. But that’s not what actors look like, right? Actors look real beautiful. Skinny, right, but very real.
SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio, is hosted by Page Six’s Danny Murphy, Evan Real and editor Ian Mohr. Page Six Radio on SiriusXM’s Stars (ch.109) airs daily from 8:00 am to 10:00 am ET and any time on the SiriusXM app.
PWInsider.com is reporting that all members of The Rascalz are no longer under contract at TNA Wrestling.
The four members of the group – Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel, Myron Reed, and Dezmond Xavier – can sign with any other company effective immediately.
Reed’s match against Leon Slater set for this Thursday’s Impact on AMC was removed from the card and he lists himself as a free agent on his social media.
The deals that Wentz and Miguel had expired at the end of 2025 and it was reported that TNA opted not to renew them, leaving them also free agents.
Meanwhile, Xavier, the man formerly known as Wes Lee in NXT, never signed a contract and was working on a per appearance deal.
A bunch of TNA contracts expired at the end of 2025, some of which were renewed but others were let to expire.
Netflix today announced that former WWE World Heavyweight champion Seth Rollins will be part of the hosts and commentators team who will anchor the show Skyscraper Live on Netflix.
On Skyscraper Live, climber Alex Honnold will try and climb the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan, live with no ropes, no safety net, and “no second takes.” It will air Friday, January 23 at 8PM ET and streams live on Netflix globally.
Rollins will join host Elle Duncan, professional climber Emily Harrington, engineer Mark Rober, and climbing commentator Pete Woods.
The WWE Superstar was also a contributor to the Christmas Day NFL coverage on Netflix.
The Miz sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Washington, DC to discuss his unlikely journey from reality TV to WWE by entering Tough Enough, getting kicked out of the locker room and how he was let back in, winning the WWE Championship and defending it against John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania 27, finally getting his flowers, whether he feels respected from the fans, that iconic Talking Smack segment with Daniel Bryan, how he met his wife Maryse in WWE, a possible babyface run, and much more!
I’ve mainly seen The Miz as a heel, but there have been moments of you being a babyface:
“My character doesn’t really work as a baby face, if I’m being honest. It’s a person that can lose, and then the next day, you’ll forget about that loss, because I’ll just cut a promo and just make you believe. But with the babyface, babyfaces can’t really lose a lot. If a babyface loses too much, you lose [appeal]. Everyone always says winning doesn’t matter, winning doesn’t matter. It matters. It really does matter. Especially if you’re a babyface, because in my opinion, if you’re a babyface and I’m a kid out there, my kids always ask me, ‘Did you win? Did you win? Did you win?’ I always have to go, ‘Ah, daddy didn’t win this week. But you know, I’ll get him next week.’ You can only say that so many times to a kid where they’re just like, ‘I want a winner. I want a winner.’ I want to cheer a winner. People like winners, people like first place; they don’t like second place, they don’t like third place. They want the guy, their guy, and they want their guy to win, so if he doesn’t win… So that’s why I feel like my character, I’m so good at losing and then making you forget about that loss, and then making you believe the next day that I can beat the biggest superstar in the world. I could lose to whoever. Guy comes up from NXT, Je’Von Evans, and beats me. The next day, I can be in the main event. I can go up against John Cena, not anymore, but I go up against your biggest superstar, and I can make you believe I can beat that person, and you will believe that I will beat that person. But as a babyface, it’s a little tougher. It’s been weird these past couple of years, though. I would say this past year has been weird.”
In what way?
“So the things I do that I know in my rolodex of being a heel and being a bad guy, I’ll do and it doesn’t get the boos anymore.”
Because people want to cheer you:
“If you’re gonna cheer me, cheer me. If you’re just gonna go ‘Ah! He’s so good.’ I don’t want that. I don’t want that. That’s the death, because that’s just, I don’t know what to really do.”
But do you feel the respect?
“Yes, I feel the respect. I feel it in the locker room. I feel it in the crowd, but I’ll hear you say it. ‘Oh, Miz has gotten his flowers.’ You know what kind of flowers I get? I get the ones that are half dead, that you give to me and they’re gonna die the next day. You don’t give me a full bouquet of flowers that are like, here are your flowers. John Cena gets the flowers. I don’t get the flowers. I get the half-dead flowers that are like, Here you go, here’s your flowers. We’re giving you your flowers. It’s the half assed flowers.”
Why do you think that is?
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I don’t want them.”
So you remember winning the WWE Championship so vividly. What do you remember from WrestleMania 27?
“So I remember my entrance. I remember not seeing that vignette. That Hate Me Now vignette is so good. I still think it’s the best. People say Rock and Austin, My Way, they say that one’s the best. I beg to differ, and the reason is what that vignette did in that moment. I wonder if that vignette was put on SmackDown, there would have been a different feeling energy going in. Because going in, I remember I was swallowed up. You’re the WWE Champion, I’m going up against titans, The Rock and John Cena, titans. Then there’s me with the WWE Championship. Back then, it still is very, very competitive. But man, everyone was fighting for it. Everyone’s fighting for that spot, that main event spot. I’m like, Man, I want this main event. I have to get this main event. This main event is everything; we have to get it. I mean, I have The Rock, I have Cena, this has got to be it. But there were so many great matches and great superstars on that card. It could have went either way. So I remember that leading up to it, the promos, everything, oh my God. I remember the promo I cut, where I walked out as The Rock. I didn’t think it was gonna work at all. I went out, did the whole Rock thing, and then I cut a promo, and I remember The Rock calling me, leaving a message, being like, ‘Dude, that was it. That was amazing. That’s how you step up to the plate. Blah, blah, blah.’ I’m like, Oh man, I’m ready. So then for the match portion of this, I remember seeing Hate Me Now vignette for the first time, right before I’m about to go out. I remember hearing the audience go, oh! As I walked out, I had bubbles. In my head I was like bubbles?! Awesome bubbles?! I’m the main event. I’m WWE Champion. People get pyro, huge displays of pyro. I got bubbles?! I actually ended up loving the bubbles busting out. No one’s ever done that. And then when I remember them saying, ‘You have Pyro for 30 seconds, so make sure you keep it there.’ I’m like, oh, man, this is gonna be great. They’re sparklers. I’m going, I thought these were gonna be big, huge. This is freaking sparklers. It’s like, all right. There we go. Then I remember looking over to my friends and telling them, literally, ‘We did it.’ I remember being in Parma, Ohio, in Sandpiper at my condominium, and we would watch every pay-per-view, ECW, WCW, WWE all the time. I just remember all of us watching, and they were all there in front row watching me with the WWE Championship that we watched Rock and Austin fight for all the time. So I was like, We did it. I remember Cena’s choir. I was like, Oh, this guy gets a choir. Then he comes out, does his thing. I remember that the heat spot, if you will, because it wasn’t a heat spot. It was just me beating him up in the corner. I remember that. I remember the pop of the crowd when I kicked out of the AA. I remember Cena saying, ‘Just grab onto the ropes kid, grab onto the ropes. We got you. We got you.’ Boom. Rock. Boom. I remember Chioda going, ‘Cover him kid, cover him.’ I’m just like, Huh, what’s going on? 1, 2, 3, winning. And I remember Chioda telling me, ‘Throw your title at The Rock. Throw your title at The Rock.’ I’m like, Yeah, okay, threw the title at The Rock. Remember The Rock coming in. ‘I got you kid. Don’t you worry. Don’t you worry. We got this.’ I have no idea. Boom, boom. And then it was over. I remember, I see stuff on the internet. I was like, I don’t remember that. I don’t remember that. I don’t remember that. I don’t remember being backstage and me just being like, ‘Was it good?’ I don’t like seeing myself like that. But some people are like, ‘Oh, what would you have done if they stopped the match?’ That would have been the worst possible scenario, the worst possible scenario, if someone would have stopped that match. I was in good hands, and I trusted the two people in there, and I will always trust them and always be thankful for them, all three of them. It’s not just The Rock and Cena, Chioda as well. They all protected me. They all looked at me, and they all allowed me to do what I needed to do to make that whole situation a success.”
You’ve been there so long that you’ve seen so many of your friends, so many of your colleagues get released. Did you ever think that maybe that call was coming for you?
“Yeah, honestly, every time there’s a release, I’m like, Oh no, is it me?”
Especially when it’s people like Dolph Ziggler get released:
“That was a tough one for me to see him go, because it was kind of like the last of my really core group of friends. I have friends, obviously, in the locker room, but that was my core group of friends. I was like man, I’ve had such great matches with Dolph too. Him putting his career up and me the IC Title. That whole IC title reign, he was a big part of elevating that title as well. During that time for me, and so to see him go is tough, but that’s the name of this business, it happens, those type of things happen. For me, this is going to sound very cocky and arrogant. I know how valuable I am. I know how good I am, and whether the audience sees it or not, I know people know. If you’ve wrestled me, you know. So yes, there’s always in the back of your mind, ‘Oh, is it me? Is it me? Is it me?’ But then there’s also that other part that goes, ‘I’ve done a lot in this business, and I still got more.’”
TNA Wrestling announced that Hall of Famer Bully Ray will be appearing this Thursday on the Impact debut on AMC.
Ray, who is a coach on the WWE LFG reality series, will be the guest commentator for the main event match for the TNA title between Frankie Kazarian and challenger Mike Santana.
“For the first time since the emotional final showdown between The Hardys and Team 3D at Bound For Glory, Bully Ray is back in TNA Wrestling,” TNA wrote. “The two-time TNA World Champion, 23-time World Tag Team Champion, TNA Hall of Famer and host of Busted Open will be the Special Guest Commentator for the main event of the Thursday Night iMPACT! on AMC premiere.”
Ray has not appeared on TNA television since the Bound For Glory match against The Hardys, which he and D-Von lost. After the match, the two left their boots in the ring, signifying that they have retired.
Two title matches have been announced for next week’s episode of Raw live from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
After getting heckled by Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez backstage, Finn Balor decided to show his fellow Judgment Day members what he’s all about when he interrupted CM Punk’s in-ring promo and challenged the WWE World Heavyweight champion for the title.
Balor’s only major singles title on the main roster came in 2016 when he defeated Seth Rollins for the inaugural WWE Universal title, but was injured during the match and had to surrender the title a few days later.
This will also be the first time that Punk and Balor will go one-on-one in the ring.
Also announced is a rematch for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental title as Maxxine Dupri gets a shot to get back her title against champion Becky Lynch.
Lynch used the leverage of the ropes to pin Dupri and complained about the match, saying it took her two months to get a rematch for the title yet Dupri is getting one after just two weeks.
Raw will start at 3PM ET in the United States next week and 9PM CET in Europe, with a local kick off of 8PM.
The first match for the upcoming Saturday Night’s Main Event from Montreal was announced on Raw.
WWE Women’s Tag Team champions Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky will put their belts up for grabs against The Judgment Day’s Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez.
Morgan and Perez won a triple threat tag team match on Raw, defeating Bayley and Lyra Valkyria and The Kabuki Warriors to become the number one contenders for the titles.
While The Judgment Day held the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles before, it was Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez and then Perez subbed in for the injured Morgan. It’s the first time that Morgan and Perez are gunning for the titles together.
The next SNME will take place on January 24 from Bell Centre, a week before the Royal Rumble.
Bron Breakker was indefinitely suspended by Raw General Manager Adam Pearce last night.
The storyline-driven suspension came after Breakker broke Dragon Lee in half with a spear and then went face-to-face with Pearce. That distraction led Bronson Reed to deliver a Tsunami on Penta and when Pearce went in the ring to try and calm things down, Breakker hit the ropes and wiped Penta with another spear.
Things went south from there, with Breakker pushing Pearce in the corner but the rest of The Vision, including Paul Heyman, tried to get Breakker off of Pearce.
In a backstage segment later, Heyman told Pearce that it was him who put his hands first on Breakker.
