Tessa Blanchard returns, attacks Jordynne Grace at TNA Final Resolution
As reported earlier on Friday, Tessa Blanchard has returned to TNA Wrestling and didn’t waste time in making her impact felt.
The former TNA World Champion and Knockouts Champion appeared during Jordynne Grace’s match with Rosemary on Friday’s Final Resolution streaming special. The masked Blanchard attacked Grace to give her the DQ win, eventually revealing herself to the crowd.
Later, she briefly chatted with Gia Miller about her return and then piefaced the backstage interviewer before leaving.
Our Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that “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.”
The 28-year-old has been in Mexico since the fall of 2023, working nearly solely with CMLL who confirmed her leave on Friday and that the Women’s Tag Team titles she held were vacated.
She worked in TNA (then Impact) from three years from 2018 through 2020, holding the company’s top title for 165 days and the Knockouts title for 147 days.
However, the World title reign started in January 2020 prior to the pandemic and she only had one title defense, that being in February of the same year. TNA fired her in June 2020 and stripped her for not coming back to the U.S. from Mexico to drop the title.
Blanchard’s previous TNA run was marred with controversy due to allegations of being a locker room bully, and both spitting in La Rosa Negra’s face and calling her a racial slur while they were in Japan together in 2017. Those allegations emerged after a social media post following her World title win where she told her fellow women to “try supporting one another” as cool things happen when they do.