As the tip of 2025 is rapidly approaching, it also implies that TNA are nearing the time of yr where plenty of their performers are at the tip of their respective contracts. In 2024, TNA bid farewell to the likes of Josh Alexander, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Rhino, KUSHIDA, and Jade Chung, with Jordynne Grace wrapping up her time with TNA in the beginning of 2025, and in the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer assessed the direction of some current TNA stars who’re nearing the tip of their deals.
It was already established that the likes of The Hardys and The IInspiration are nearing the tip of their deals and that TNA would really like to retain their services provided that they’re each in possession of the TNA Tag Team and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championships. With that said, one other group who’re nearing the tip of their deals are The Rascalz, Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz, who now have the possibility to reunite with former stablemate Wes Lee as he was recently released by WWE.
One man who Meltzer believes might be on the option to WWE is Laredo Kid, who recently announced that he had left TNA after working for the corporate on and off since 2017. Meltzer believes that Kid is signing a cope with WWE as a part of AAA, an organization Kid has been a component of long before WWE purchased them earlier this yr, and even before TNA announced a working partnership with them within the 2010s. Meltzer claims that Kid will most probably be reuniting with Octagon Jr., who can be under a contract with WWE through working for AAA.
There may be one performer who Meltzer can see moving away from TNA and any company related to them and that is Cedric Alexander. Given his history with the team now referred to as The Hurt Syndicate in AEW, combined with how highly MVP has spoken about him in recent months, that AEW could be the logical destination for Alexander. Meltzer sees the up side on this move because it allows The Hurt Syndicate to work trios matches without forcing MVP to wrestle, and Alexander could work a powerful match with lots of the AEW roster due to his history with plenty of them in PWG and ROH. Nevertheless, Meltzer doesn’t think AEW must sign anyone without delay unless they’re a needle mover, which Alexander is not, meaning that he would wander away within the shuffle if a Hurt Syndicate reunion didn’t work out.