Tessa Blanchard expects to return to TNA Wrestling

Update –

Tessa Blanchard’s departure from CMLL has now been confirmed, as has her relinquishment of the promotion’s Women’s Tag Team titles.

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

In the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reports that Blanchard has re-signed with TNA and could soon return to the promotion. TNA holds its Final Resolution event tonight in Atlanta, with a televised taping to follow on Saturday.

“It is believed that Tessa Blanchard has signed here, which explains her absence from CMLL in recent weeks,” Meltzer wrote. “We expect her to debut in Atlanta, do a short program with Jordynne Grace, and then Grace move to WWE when her current contract expires. At least that’s the topic of conversation. But I was told that Blanchard’s signature was verified.”

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

From 2018 to 2020, Blanchard spent a controversial stint in TNA (then called Impact Wrestling), where she became the first woman to win the company’s main world championship. The weekend she won the title in January 2020, Blanchard sent out a tweet urging women to “try to support each other” because when they do, cool things happen. In response, allegations surfaced that Blanchard was a bully toward other female wrestlers in the locker room and spit in La Rosa Negra’s face and called her the N-word while they were in Japan in 2017.

La Rosa Negra said she forgives Blanchard for the incident.

Earlier this year, Blanchard spoke about struggling with her mental health following 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 suicidal thoughts on anyone, she would like to see Blanchard publicly apologize and take responsibility for her actions.

Blanchard’s first stint with TNA ended in June 2020 when the promotion ended its relationship with her, stripping her of the TNA World Championship. She was living in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic and there were attempts to get her to return to the United States and give up the title, but both sides could not come to an agreement.

Blanchard, 29, is also a former Knockouts Champion for TNA.