TNA Hard To Kill 2024 Notes: Decay Returns, New Champions, TNA & AAA Sign Official Partnership, Xia Brookside Signing, Dana Brooke & Nic Nemeth Surprise Debuts

Decay Makes Surprise Return at TNA Hard To Kill 2024

Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 event for TNA Wrestling in Las Vegas, Nevada featured Decay’s Rosemary and Havok making their surprise returns to the company.

Following an unadvertised TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship match being added during the show, MK Ultra came out first with their title belts. After a brief pause, Decay’s entrance music played and Rosemary and Havok made their official return as a team.

This was Decay’s first match as a team since April of 2022. Prior to the return of their old personas, Rosemary had been working under her old ring name of Courtney Rush since August of 2023 and Havok under the name of Jessicka since August of 2022.


New Champions Crowned & Gisele Shaw Wins Knockouts Ultimate X at TNA Hard To Kill 2024

Saturday’s TNA Hard To Kill 2024 show also featured four new champions crowned.

The first championship to change hands was Crazzy Steve defeating Tommy Dreamer to become the Impact Digital Media Championship during the Countdown to Hard To Kill pre-show.

The second championship to change hands was Decay defeating MK Ultra to become the new TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions.

The third championship to change hands was Jordynne Grace defeating Trinity to become the new TNA Knockouts World Champion.

The fourth championship to change hands was Moose defeating Alex Shelley to become the new TNA World Champion.

Saturday’s show also featured Gisele Shaw defeating Xia Brookside, Jody Threat, Tasha Steelz, Jody Threat, and Tasha Steelz in a Knockouts Ultimate X match to receive a guaranteed future shot at the TNA Knockouts World Championship.


TNA & AAA Announce Continuation of Their Partnership with New Official Deal

Saturday’s TNA Hard To Kill 2024 show also featured the official announcement of TNA Wrestling and Lucha Libre AAA continuing their working partnership in a new official capacity.

This announcement was made by TNA President Scott D’Amore and AAA Director Dorian Roldan. During their segment, a video aired featuring highlights from Impact/TNA and AAA. Roldan stated that AAA wants to bring more Lucha Libre to America with TNA and claimed that it was going to change the landscape of wrestling.

After D’Amore and Roldan spoke, both signed a contract making their existing partnership into a new official partnership for the foreseeable future.


Xia Brookside Signs Contract with TNA

Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 show also featured the announcement of Xia Brookside signing an official contract with TNA Wrestling.

Following Brookside competing in a Knockouts Ultimate X match on the show, TNA announced on Twitter that Brookside recently signed an official contract with the company.


Ashley Sebera & Nic Nemeth Make Surprise Debuts at TNA Hard To Kill 2024

Saturday’s Hard To Kill 2024 show also featured Ashley Sebera and Nic Nemeth, former Dana Brooke and Dolph Ziggler, making their surprise appearances and debut for TNA.

Sebera made her debut following a video segment featuring a mysterious woman exiting a car that drove up to the venue. While only the backside of the woman was shown, it was revealed that she had blonde hair. Prior to the start of the TNA Knockouts World Championship match between Jordynne Grace and Trinity, this same mysterious woman came out to ringside revealing herself to be Sebera. It was revealed that Sebera will be going under the new ring name of Ash by Elegance.

Nemeth made his debut following the TNA World Championship match between Moose and Alex Shelley in the main event. Following Moose defeating Shelley to become the new champion, the rest of The System came out to celebrate with Moose. Before they were able to walk down to the ring, the video on the big screen changed from The System’s entrance video to Nic Nemeth’s name being shown. This led to Nemeth making his surprise appearance and attacked Moose laying him out and running out of the ring before the rest of The System could get their hands on him. Nemeth then went into the crowd and ripped off his shirt revealing a TNA Wrestling shirt underneath it as the crowd went wild.