TNA: Ash by Elegance on Her TNA Debut, More Matches Announced for This Weekend’s TV Tapings in Orlando, More News

Jan 17, 2024

Ash by Elegance Comments on Her Official Debut for TNA

As noted before, this past Saturday’s TNA Hard To Kill 2024 event in Las Vegas, Nevada featured Ash by Elegance, former Dana Brooke in WWE, making her official TNA debut.

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured Ash as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Ash’s thoughts about making her official debut for TNA.

“It was such an amazing feeling. Being in Vegas, being at TNA Wrestling, Hard to Kill. Walking into an amazing arena and watching the Knockouts Division title match with Jordynne and Trinity, it was such a great feeling to make my presence be known as such an amazing event.”

Ash also gave her thoughts about the meaning of her new ring name in TNA.

“Ash By Elegance is a different side of me, but I’m trying with my life every single day as being super elegant. Elegant is a word that I feel has a variety and multiple meanings. It’s classiness, it’s elegant, it’s beautiful. It just means so much and I’m definitely going to bring that element into the ring and show everyone what class and elegance really means.”

Ash also gave her thoughts about her current plans for her career in TNA and her belief that WWE did not believe in her during her time in the company.

“You’re going to see drive and determination and a side of me that people haven’t seen. I had mentioned to people before in the locker room, when I was at TNA, ‘I was never given the opportunity to show my true potential.’ The one match I did where I really felt like I opened up was one of my last matches, the kendo stick match, and a match after that with the champion where I was able to bring out a different side of aggression and passion and things I felt like I was held back from because I was working 90-second matches. What can you do in that 90 seconds beside tell the story you’re given to tell the story with? I feel as though TNA is going to let me explore this side of me of who I truly am. I want to go the limit. I was the girl, when we were putting matches together in WWE, ‘I want to do this. I want to go high flying, I want to dive onto a table and be hit in the back with a chair.’ They’re like, ‘No, we’ll get there; we’ll build to it.’ I was the one, ‘Put me in coach, I’ll do this and do that.’ TNA is the place where I’ll be able to do it. It’s hardcore and I’m ready for it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Five New Matches Announced for TNA’s TV Taping This Weekend in Orlando

TNA Wrestling recently announced five new matches for the cards of their TNA Impact! television tapings on January 19-20 in Orlando, Florida.

The new matches announced were:

Trinity vs. Gisele Shaw
Nic Nemeth vs. Trey Miguel
Josh Alexander vs. Alan Angels
Chris Sabin vs. Jason Hotch
Eddie Edwards vs. Alex Shelley

These new matches join the singles match of Moose vs. KUSHIDA that have announced so far for the upcoming tapings.

TNA News & Notes

TNA Wrestling announced that they have recently signed a partnership deal with cable and satellite television provider StarTimes to air their programming in more than 30 countries in Africa starting this month.

TNA’s video of Nic Nemeth’s official debut for the company at this past Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 event in Las Vegas, Nevada recently surpassed 1 million views on YouTube channel as of Tuesday.

AJ Francis, former Top Dolla in WWE, made his official debut for TNA at this past Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 event in Las Vegas. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Francis is currently not under a contract with TNA. It was reported that Francis is currently expected to continue working for the company for the time being.

Eric Young reportedly is currently not under an actual contract with TNA and instead is only under a handshake agreement with the company, according to Fightful Select.

The Grizzle Young Veterans’ James Drake recently reflected on Twitter about getting to make his official debut for TNA at this past Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 event. Drake stated “You only live once. I can’t put into words how much this meant to me. Life is good. Life will continue to be good. If you’ve got dreams, chase them. You owe it to yourself. @IMPACTWRESTLING roster… Grit. Your. Teeth.“

Will Ospreay recently reflected on Twitter about him getting to wrestle in a TNA ring at this past Sunday’s Snake Eyes Impact! television tapings. Ospreay stated “I will continue to publicly show my support & appreciation to @IMPACTWRESTLING roster, staff & crew. Thank you for allowing me to be part of the return & getting to finally call myself a TNA kid. All the best to that talented group & hopefully we can cross over again.“