Top TNA Act Jumps Ship To AEW (AEW News)

The Rascalz are #AllElite

by Andrew Pollard
The Rascalz Trey Miguel Dezmond Xavier Myron Reed Zachary Wentz
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Following a report earlier in the week that the Rascalz had finished up with TNA and were free agents, the quartet of Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel, Myron Reed, and Dezmond Xavier has wasted no time in signing with AEW.

Fightful Select was first to break this news, reporting that the Rascalz had formally become #AllElite, which was then followed on last night's AEW Dynamite by a graphic teasing the group's arrival as "coming soon."

This Fightful report notes that Wentz, Miguel, Reed, and Xavier were backstage as last night's live Dynamite and Collision taping, with the Rascalz believed to have signed multi-year deals with AEW in the first week of January, at the latest. TNA did try to re-sign the faction, but AEW simply came along with a better offer.

The Rascalz's Myron Reed was previously advertised to face TNA X Division Champion Leon Slater on tonight's big AMC debut for TNA iMPACT, though that match was quietly pulled from the latest press release for that premiere episode. And while Slater is still being advertised for tonight's show, that press release makes no mention of Reed or the Rascalz whatsoever.

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After Reed, Zachary Wentz, and Trey Miguel asked TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella for a shot at Slater and the X Division Title on the 1 January episode of iMPACT, that resulted in a triple-threat match between the three Rascalz that was won by Myron. For what it's worth, that particular episode of iMPACT was taped on 7 December, meaning things clearly changed between then and now. Fightful adds that Myron Reed was still happy to wrestle against Leon Slater on the AMC debut, though another part of the reason why the match was scrapped was due to WWE potentially wanting Leon for its ongoing European tour.

All of this comes hot on the heels of reports that Zachary Wentz and Trey Miguel's TNA deals were coming up at the end of 2025, and neither Myron Reed nor Dezmond Xavier was officially under a TNA contract. While Fightful notes that at least one member of the group was "determined" to leave TNA, it's understood that the Rascalz all left the Anthem promotion on good terms.

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