Ranking Every TNA/Impact Wrestling Heavyweight Champion From Worst To Best

9. Tessa Blanchard

Tessa Blanchard
Impact Wrestling

Tessa Blanchard deserves an awful lot of credit for working herself into the position that saw Impact take a giant leap forward for a nationally recognised promotion in booking a woman to win their top prize.

A gifted professional wrestler, the weekend of her greatest triumph will forever be tainted with the ugly stories about her behind-the-scenes personality. As too will the reign itself - she vacated the title and left the company under a cloud of mutual disdain and miscommunication, having barely been able to prove herself in the role due to the global b*stard.

Her win will last forever, if not without significant and unavoidable baggage.

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