Jordynne Grace Set For Short NXT Run After Signing "Main Roster Level" Contract (WWE News)
Ex-TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace to start WWE life in NXT after Royal Rumble 2025 spot.
Jordynne Grace's full-time WWE run is expected to begin with the former TNA star making NXT her home brand—at least for now.
Fightful Select reports that Grace has signed a five-year WWE contract tying her to the market-leading wrestling promotion until 2019. TNA, her previous home, was interested in re-signing its former Knockouts Champion, though this wasn't likely to happen.
Sources indicate that Grace will be assigned to WWE's developmental brand, NXT, upon starting with WWE full-time. She will be around the Performance Center "at least temporarily", and most people within WWE don't expect Jordynne to be on NXT long.
Fightful adds that Grace's WWE contract is a "main-roster level deal."
Grace, 28, appeared for WWE sporadically in 2024, first as TNA Knockouts World Champion in the 2024 Royal Rumble, then several more times on NXT throughout the summer and fall. She re-emerged during 1 February 2025's women's Royal Rumble match, with WWE's announcers stating that although Jordynne was a special guest in 2024, in 2025, she had joined WWE permanently.
Before the Rumble, Grace had protected her surprise Rumble appearance by claiming she wouldn't be attending the event due to her mother's birthday.
An independent wrestling standout before signing with TNA in 2018, Grace is considered amongst the most talented wrestlers in her field and will join an increasingly stacked NXT women's roster featuring the likes of Stephanie Vaquer and Giulia. With divisional mainstay Roxanne Perez expected to join WWE's main roster imminently, there will be at least one major spot to fill in NXT soon.