AJ Styles Surprise Appearance, Real1 & Fourth Rope to Appear, and The System & Matt Cardona vs. DarkState Eight-Man Tag Match Set for TNA Slammiversary 2025

TNA Wrestling announced one new match and two appearances for the card of Slammiversary 2025, which takes place on July 20th at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.

In regards to the new match, this was announced to be an Eight-Man Tag Team match of The System (JDC, Eddie Edwards, & Brian Myers) & Matt Cardona vs. DarkState (Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Cutler James, & Saquon Shugars).

It was also announced that the previously announced TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship match of The IInspiration (Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee) vs. The Elegance Brand (Heather & Ash By Elegance) (c) will be taking place on Slammiversary’s Countdown pre-show.

.@DramaKingMatt and @TomHannifan rundown the STACKED #TNASlammiversary card for THIS SUNDAY!#TNAiMPACT

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) July 18, 2025

In regards to the appearances, the first new appearance was announced to be Real1 and Zilla Fatu to make an appearance representing the Fourth Rope promotion at the show.

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WATCH on TNA+: https://t.co/xjupi4YKdN
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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) July 18, 2025

The second new appearance announced was AJ Styles to make a surprise TNA return appearance at the event.

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) July 18, 2025

Current card for TNA Slammiversary 2025:

• TNA World Championship – Joe Hendry vs. Mike Santana vs. Trick Williams (c)
• TNA Knockouts World Championship and WWE NXT Women’s Championship, Title vs. Title match – Masha Slamovich (TNA) vs. Jacy Jayne (NXT)
• TNA X-Division Championship – Leon Slater vs. Moose (c)
• TNA World Tag Team Championship Four-way Ladder match – The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) vs. FIR$T CLA$$ (KC Navarro & AJ Francis) vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) vs. The Nemeths (Ryan & Nic Nemeth) (c)
• Eight-Man Tag Team match – The System (JDC, Eddie Edwards, & Brian Myers) & Matt Cardona vs. DarkState (Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Cutler James, & Saquon Shugars)
• Tessa Blanchard vs. Indi Hartwell
• Cedric Alexander vs. Mustafa Ali
• Pre-show: TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship – The IInspiration (Jessie McKay & Cassie Lee) vs. The Elegance Brand (Heather & Ash By Elegance) (c)