Various: TNA Announces Part One Winners of Their 2024 Year End Awards, Athena Surpasses Two Year Milestone as ROH Women’s World Champion, Indies

Dec 20, 2024

TNA Announces Part One Winners of Their 2024 Year End Awards

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured TNA Wrestling officially announcing the first half of their winners for this year’s Year End Awards.

It was announced that next week’s show on December 26th will feature the second half of their winners list, which are X-Division Star of the Year, Male Wrestler of the Year, Knockouts Tag Team of the Year, and Match of the Year.

First half of 2024 TNA Year End Awards winners list:

TNA Knockout of the Year – Jordynne Grace
TNA Moment of the Year – Joe Hendry concert mocking AJ Francis from the May 2nd episode of TNA Impact!
One to Watch in 2025 – Leon Slater
TNA Tag Team of the Year – ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)

Congratulations to the 2024 Knockout of the Year, @JordynneGrace!

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) December 20, 2024

.@joehendry went VIRAL in 2024 securing Moment of the year!

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) December 20, 2024

Congratulations to @LEONSLATER_ on being voted the One to Watch in 2025!

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) December 20, 2024

ABC is the 2024 Tag Team of the Year! Congratulations to @The_Ace_Austin & @DashingChrisBey!

WATCH #TNAiMPACT on TNA+: https://t.co/vRSRFNOfH6 pic.twitter.com/ixXKF0IYCM
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) December 20, 2024

Athena Surpasses Two Year Milestone as ROH Women’s World Champion

Athena recently surpassed the milestone of two years as current ROH Women’s World Champion.

Athena reached the milestone on December 10th and is currently at 740 days and counting for her reign.

Besides being the current longest ever reigning ROH Women’s World Champion, Athena is also the current longest ever reigning ROH Champion in ROH history.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced a Sumie Sakai Retirement Six-Person Tag Team match of Sumie Sakai & mystery partners vs. Hiromu Takahashi & mystery partners for the card of their Battle in the Valley 2025 event next month in San Jose, California. Takahashi recently announced that Stardom talent and current IWGP Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani will be one of his partners for this upcoming match.

The debut trailer for upcoming film titled Queen of the Ring was recently released. This upcoming film is based on the life and wrestling career of wrestling legend Mildred Burke.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that TNA Wrestling officials are currently in talks with several talents for potential new contracts in the company.

Frankie Kazarian reportedly recently joined the cast for a new upcoming television series titled Tomb: The Metamorphosis of Kitra on ACCTV streaming service, according to PWInsider.

Moose announced on Twitter that he recently secured the trademark for his ring name. Moose stated “MOOSE HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN Trademarked thanks to @gimmickattorney“

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Sorry, Pal event on January 10, 2025 in Rochester, New York:

GCW World Championship – Super Crazy vs. Mance Warner (c)
GCW Tag Team Championship – To Infinity and Beyond (Colin Delaney & Cheech Hernandez) vs. Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) (c)

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Till Infinity event on December 31st in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey:

Joey Janela vs. Dr. Redacted

GCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their Live In London event on January 26, 2025 in London, England:

EFFY vs. Cara Noir

Major League Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their MLW Fusion taping on January 11, 2025 in North Richland Hills, Texas:

MLW World Middleweight Championship Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match – Bárbaro Cavernario vs. Mistico (c)
Texas Tornado match – The Andersons (Brock & CW Anderson) vs. Paul London & Paul Walter Hausen

Future Stars of Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Seasons Beatings event on December 21st in Las Vegas, Nevada: