Tessa Blanchard believed to be returning to TNA Wrestling

Update —

Tessa Blanchard’s departure from CMLL has now been confirmed, along with her vacating the promotion’s Women’s Tag Team titles.

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Tessa Blanchard looks to be on her way back to TNA Wrestling.

In the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reports that Blanchard has signed back with TNA and could be returning to the promotion imminently. TNA is holding its Final Resolution event in Atlanta tonight with a television taping to follow on Saturday.

“The belief is Tessa Blanchard has signed here which explains her not being in CMLL the last few weeks,” Meltzer wrote. “The belief is that she’ll debut in Atlanta, do a quick program with Jordynne Grace, with Grace then leaving for WWE when her current contract expires. At least that’s the talking point going around. But I was told Blanchard having signed is confirmed.”

Grace is facing Rosemary at Final Resolution tonight and is booked for an eight-woman tag match on Saturday, teaming with Masha Slamovich, Dani Luna & Jody Threat against Rosemary, Ash By Elegance & Heather By Elegance (Heather Reckless).

From 2018-2020, Blanchard spent a controversial stint in TNA (then named Impact Wrestling) that included her becoming the first female to hold the company’s main World Championship. During the weekend where she won the title in January 2020, Blanchard sent out a tweet telling women to “try supporting one another” because cool things happen when they do. In response, allegations emerged that Blanchard had been a locker room bully toward other women’s wrestlers and had spat in La Rosa Negra’s face and called her the n-word while they were in Japan in 2017.

La Rosa Negra has said that she forgives Blanchard for the incident.

Earlier this year, Blanchard opened up about struggling with her mental health after the January 2020 controversy and denied that she was the type of person she was accused of being. WWE star and former TNA wrestler Chelsea Green responded to Blanchard by saying that, while she doesn’t wish self-harm or thoughts of suicide on anyone, she would like to see Blanchard publicly apologize and take accountability for her actions.

Blanchard’s first stint with TNA ended in June 2020 when the promotion terminated its relationship with her, stripping her of the TNA World Championship in the process. She was living in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic and there had been attempts made to get her to return to the United States and drop the title, but the two sides were not able to come to terms.

The 29-year-old Blanchard is also a former Knockouts Champion for TNA.