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.
Former WWE Women’s champion Jazz announced that she is officially part of the WWE Performance Center coaching team.
The 53-year-old spent several years with the company and also worked for ECW and TNA throughout her career.
“Giving God all the Glory! I can officially say as of 2026 I’m now a part of the coaching staff at the @wwenxt Performance Center!,” Jazz wrote in a post on social media. “Professional wrestling has been my life for 30 yrs. Now I get to work with the next generation of Superstars! I’m a true testament of never giving up. No matter how long the process may seem!”
Jazz had a guest coaching stint at the PC last May and got high praise from her students.
Chelsea Green posted a “breaking news” – literally – on her social media showing a newspaper mock-up with the headline, “Ankle breaks; Spirit prevails.”
Green, who was sporting a walking boot after her Smackdown match last week, was said to have a bruised ankle but she is now saying that it’s indeed broken. Green also posted an X-ray image of a broken ankle.
The former WWE United States Women’s champion was taken out of her AAA Mixed Tag Team title defense match on last week’s episode of AAA on FOX, with her tag team partner Ethan Page having to team up with La Hiedra in the match. They eventually lost the titles to Mr. Iguana and NXT’s Lola Vice.
If it is indeed a broken ankle, it continues her bad luck in WWE, having already suffered three broken arms.
After a report from Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer surfaced saying that Warner Bros. Discovery officials prevented AEW from having Brody King on last night’s episode of Dynamite, WBD denied the accusation, releasing a statement which was published by Fightful Wrestling.
In the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer noted that WBD did not want fans chanting “F*ck ICE” again if Brody came out and him not being on Dynamite last night was “not a Tony call” but from someone “from above.”
Meltzer said that “nobody wants to get on Trump’s bad side” and with WBD going through regulatory approval for a sale which needs to be signed off by the Trump administration, “it’s just how it is.”
But officials from WBD denied Meltzer’s report, which was widely spread on social media, saying that they did not get involved in any way to prevent King from showing up.
“Warner Bros. Discovery did not have any involvement in Brody King’s upcoming AEW schedule. Any speculation to the contrary is categorically false. Brody is scheduled to appear during the next AEW event, which will air this Saturday on TNT and HBO Max,” the statement said.
Fans in Las Vegas last week chanted “F*ck ICE” just before his main event match against MJF started, with the network not censoring the chants and the AEW commentary team pausing from their work to make sure the chants are heard on TV.
WWE Hall of Famer Stacy Keibler paid a heartfelt tribute to close friend James Van Der Beek, the former Dawson’s Creek star who passed away yesterday from colon cancer.
Keibler posted a photo of herself sitting next to Van Der Beek in a wheelchair, watching a beautiful sunset.
“Spending these final days with you has been a true gift from God. I have never been so present in my life. When you know time is sacred, you don’t waste a single breath. You don’t rush. You don’t scroll. You don’t worry about tomorrow. You sit. You listen. You hold hands. You watch the sky change colors and you let it change you too,” she wrote.
Keibler added that in the past few days, he taught her more about being present than any book ever could, showing her what it looks like to trust in God’s plan, even when the result was going to break her heart.
“The other night we watched the sunset together as you shared your wisdom, your hopes, and the promises we made to each other,” she continued. “We talked about how this world can feel upside down…and how maybe heaven needs your spirit now to help steady us down here. And just as the sun slipped away, a shooting star crossed the sky…as if to remind us that none of this is random.”
Private Party, the tag team of Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy, returned to AEW last night on Dynamite and were the third team of a three-way tag team title eliminator match.
The duo wrestled The Young Bucks and The Rascalz where the winners were designated as the number one contenders for the AEW Tag Team titles. In the end, it was The Young Bucks who got the win and will now go on to face FTR at a later date.
Private Party last appeared on AEW television on the January 22, 2025 episode of Dynamite, losing the AEW Tag Team titles to The Hurt Syndicate in a nine-minute match.
They last wrestled on March 15 for independent promotion House of Glory and then disappeared from wrestling.
