It's Over For Tessa Blanchard In TNA (TNA News)
Tessa Blanchard is the latest name to quit TNA.
Following the recent releases of Myla Grace and former TNA World Champion Steve Maclin, Tessa Blanchard has become the latest name to depart TNA.
Per Fightful Select, Blanchard, much like Grace and Maclin, requested and was granted her TNA release. While there is no confirmed reason for Tessa wanting out of TNA, one source suggested that it might be due to the Diamond's ongoing work with CMLL, and that the Mexican promotion may have wanted her to choose between the two companies.
For Tessa Blanchard, this brings an end to her second run with TNA; a run that began when she controversially returned to the Anthem outfit back in December 2024. Most recently, Tessa had been heading up her own Diamond Collective faction in TNA with Victoria Crawford, Mila Moore, and Robert Stone. However, she has been extremely busy in CMLL - a company she's worked for since 2023 - where she's already wrestled 39 times so far this year, compared to just nine TNA matches in 2026.
Still only 30 years of age, not just is Tessa Blanchard a former TNA Knockouts Champion, but she's the only woman in company history to hold the TNA World Championship, defeating Sami Callihan for that title at Hard to Kill back in 2020. She was stripped of that title and fired during the COVID-19 pandemic after refusing to defend the belt at that year's Slammiversary event. That also came on the back of racist allegations against Blanchard dating back to a 2017 incident involving La Rosa Negra.
TNA has yet to comment on Tessa's release, which is a little different to how quickly the company was to issue a short press release to announce Myla Grace and Steve Maclin's releases earlier this month.