Top Free Agent Signs With AEW After WWE, TNA Runs (AEW News)
Mara Sadé is reportedly the latest AEW signee.
It appears that AEW's women's division is getting a new addition, with reports that former WWE and TNA star Mara Sadé has now become #AllElite.
As initially reported by Fightful, Mara's website - www.marasade.com - had her listed as "making her mark in WWE, TNA, and now AEW (All Elite Wrestling." The mention of AEW has since been removed.
Mara Sadé revealed on her website (marasade . com) she is now with AEW pic.twitter.com/twLRqQXdrG— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) September 21, 2026
Additionally, Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp notes that a deal between AEW and Mara Sadé has been in the works for "quite a while," and that a full-time, salaried contract was in effect as of last week. Having become a free agent earlier this year following the expiration of her TNA deal, this report also says that Mara had conversations with WWE about a potential return, plus had an offer to re-sign with TNA, but she opted to sign with AEW.
A college athlete, the real-life Jamara Garrett entered the wrestling business in 2021, signing with WWE after impressing in a tryout. She'd make her formal debut the following year under the Jakara Jackson name, becoming a part of the Meta-Four stable with Lash Legend, Noam Dar, and Oro Mensah.
The team of Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend would work a couple of main roster matches in late 2024, including challenging for the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles at that year's Crown Jewel event, all as there were regular rumblings that Jackson and Legend were set to be called up from NXT. However, while Lash would get moved to SmackDown in November 2025, that call-up never came for Jakara, as she - and Oro Mensah, for that matter - would be released in May 2025, just three days after Meta-Four split up on NXT TV.
After that WWE release, Jakara Jackson would resurface in TNA - where she'd previously worked several dates as part of the NXT and TNA working relationship - as Mara Sadé in July of last year, and she was most recently active for the Antham promotion at this July's TV tapings, where she got to the quarter-finals of the Knockouts Television Title tournament. Per Fightful, Mara actually finished up her run with TNA without being under contract.