Various: The Inspiration (Former The IIconics) Making In-Ring Return at Prestige Wrestling Event This April, Mustafa Ali on His Decision to Sign with TNA, Indies/Misc.

Jan 30, 2025

The Inspiration (Former The IIconics) Making In-Ring Return at Prestige Wrestling Event This April

Prestige Wrestling recently announced that The Inspiration (Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee), former The IIconics in WWE, will be making an appearance for the company at their Nothing To Lose event on April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

It was also announced that The Inspiration will be competing in a tag team match at their upcoming event.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The IInspiration (@JessicaMcKay & @CassieLee) make their in ring return at #NothingToLose!

Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Las Vegas, Nevada
@ Meet Las Vegas
All Ages

Tickets on sale TOMORROW (1/31) at 10:00 AM pacific time!

🎟️ https://t.co/923RtPRI1t pic.twitter.com/00pZjxSARZ
— Prestige Wrestling (@WrestlePrestige) January 30, 2025

This will be will be McKay & Lee’s first tag match together since April of 2022.

Mustafa Ali Comments on His Decision to Sign with TNA

As noted before, former WWE talent Mustafa Ali recently signed an official contract with TNA Wrestling.

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI recently held an interview with Ali. One of the topics discussed included Ali’s thoughts about his reason for his decision to sign a contract with TNA.

“TNA was the right fit for, me, and I was the right fit for TNA. As you know, in wrestling in general and the industry of entertainment, sometimes it’s right place, right time, but it’s got to be for both parties,” the former X Division Champion said. “I absolutely love what the industry is today. I love that one roster has several options, several big time options to go make big time money, and not just the wrestlers. I’m talking about medical staff, producers, people behind the scenes, even people that cover the the industry. There’s so much to do that, if you’re not successful somewhere, it’s it’s really on you.
I felt like TNA was going to provide me with a platform to creatively really expand, some of these other organizations, I don’t want to say ‘bottleneck,’ but there’s a certain process there. The one thing that I really enjoyed about my previous stint at TNA is that if I wanted an answer, if I wanted to do something, if I needed a ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ I knew who to talk to and I would get that answer within minutes.”

Ali also gave his thoughts about his belief that he could be the face and World Champion of a company.

“I fully believe that Mustafa Ali could be the face of a company, could be the World Champion of a company. You could sit me down with any sponsor, with any publication, with any TV show. And I dress like a star. I’m in the best shape of my life. I’m mentally, physically healthy. You’re not going to hear anything bad about me in the news. I’m not getting arrested. I’m not failing a drug test. I’m the epitome of a professional.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Game Changer Wrestling announced that Dragon Gate USA will be holding a revival event called Dragon Gate USA: The Rebirth as part of their The Collective 2025 on April 16th in Las Vegas, Nevada. This will be the first time that Dragon Gate USA will be holding an event since April of 2014.

As noted before, Tegan Nox was released from WWE this past November. Nixon Newell, former Tegan Nox, provided an update on Twitter on Thursday stating that her non-compete clause with WWE expired and she is currently a free agent.

Westside Xtrene Wrestling recently announced that Daisuke Sekimoto is the next official competitor for this year’s 16 Carat Gold tournament on March 7-9 in Obserhausen, Germany.

Thursday’s Road To The New Beginning 2025 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Sendai, Japan featured House of Torture (Ren Narita, SHO, & Yujiro Takahashi) defeating Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, & Oleg Boltin to become the new NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Eric Young turning heel on Josh Alexander during their tag team match against The Northern Armory and joining The Northern Armory as its new leader.

TNA announced four new matches and one new segment for the card of next week’s Impact! show on February 6th on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360:

WWE NXT Tag Team Championship – The Nemeth Brothers (Ryan & Nic Nemeth) vs. Fraxiom (Nathan Frazer & Axiom) (c)
TNA Knockouts World Championship #1 Contender Battle Royal match – Ash by Elegance vs. Heather By Elegance vs. Dani Luna vs. Jody Threat vs. TBAs
Six-Man Tag Team match – The System (Moose, JDC, & Eddie Edwards) vs. Leon Slater & The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy)
Mike Santana vs. Matt Cardona
Joe Hendry in concert

Thursday’s ROH TV show featured Lee Johnson and Komander going to a 10-minute time limit draw result for their ROH World Television Championship Proving Ground match. As a result, Johnson earned a title shot for a future ROH show due to him going the distance in the Proving Ground match.

ROH announced one new segment for the card of next week’s ROH TV show on February 6th on HonorClub: