WWE and TNA announce multi-year partnership
The partnership between WWE and TNA will continue.
“We look forward to growing and evolving our partnership with TNA Wrestling and its outstanding group of athletes by creating new opportunities to further the development of our talent and to elevate the viewer experience at home,” WWE senior vice president of talent development creative Shawn Michaels said in a statement.
The agreement will be something wrestling fans have gotten accustomed to over the past year. WWE’s NXT stars will be available to appear on TNA programming and TNA stars will be available to appear on NXT. Talent from both sides will also be able to appear on WWE premium live events and TNA pay-per-views.
Things really got going just a year ago when former TNA Knockouts World Champion Jordynne Grace took part in the 2024 Royal Rumble. After that, it was almost a weekly occurrence for stars from each company to appear on the other brand’s shows.
Notable moves include when Grace competed against Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s Championship at NXT Battleground and viral sensation Joe Hendry went for the NXT Championship against Ethan Page at NXT No Mercy. Other instances include The Rascalz going on WWE programming and NXT’s Arianna Grace, Tatum Paxley, Izzi Dame, Wendy Choo, among others, appearing on TNA shows.
When WWE chief content officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque was asked after SummerSlam 2024 why this crossover started, he said he wanted to find something that would benefit WWE and whatever promotion it was working with. The trade-off would be the other company could be on WWE’s elevated platform, while its talent could get time against other stars and learn different styles of wrestling. The moves have been met with praise from both sides.
“This partnership between TNA wrestling and WWE has been the perfect example of business done right,” Hendry previously told USA TODAY Sports. “Business done right is where every single party wins.”
It doesn’t appear it will take long for the official partnership to commence. TNA’s Genesis 2025 pay-per-view on Sunday in Dallas is being advertised as NXT as well, hinting there could be some WWE roster appearance on the show.
