Various: AAA Rey De Reyes 2026 Date & Location Reportedly Revealed, Arianna Grace Turns Heel & Attacks Her Father Santino Marella at 12/18 TNA Impact! Show, Indies/Misc.

AAA Rey De Reyes 2026 Date & Location Reportedly Revealed

WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE and Lucha Libre AAA officials have currently scheduled for next year’s Rey De Reyes event to take place on March 14th, 2026 at the Auditorio GNP Seguros in Puebla, Mexico.

This will be the first Rey De Reyes event AAA will be holding under WWE’s ownership. This year’s event took place on March 22nd, the month prior to WWE’s official announcement of their aquisition of AAA this past April.

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Arianna Grace Turns Heel & Attacks Her Father Santino Marella at Dec. 18th TNA Impact! Show

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Team TNA (Mike Santana, The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy), Steve Maclin, Santino Marella) defeating Team NXT (Lexis King, Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, Brooks Jensen, & The High Ryze (Tyson Dupont & Tyriek Igwe)) in a 10-Man Steel Cage match that was held under WarGames style rules.

This match was notable for a post-match angle involving everyone except Marella and Stacks leaving the cage and Marella waiting for his soon to be son-in-law Stacks to get up on his feet. This led to NXT liason and Marella’s daughter Arianna Grace entering the cage and locked the cage door behind her. Grace then went up to her father and the two gave a hug. This turned out to just be a ruse and Grace gave a low blow kick to her father laying him out.

This then led to Steve Maclin climbing the cage to get to Stacks as Stacks climbed out of it and confronted Grace over what she did. Grace got into a shouting argument with Maclin and berated Santana at ringside calling him a deadbeat just like her father. Grace then left the cage and went up to the ramp to reunite with Stacks and the two kissed as the show went to a close.

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In an interesting note, while Grace had been acting face-like on TNA shows, she had recently been acting more heelish and being together with Stacks in recent weeks on WWE NXT shows.

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Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show featured Bear Bronson becoming the winner a 20-Man Battle Royal #1 Contender’s match for the TNA World Championship. It was announced that Bronson will be facing off against Frankie Kazarian for the title at the January 1, 2026 Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360.

Limitless Wrestling recently announced that MJF will be making an appearance for the company at their Limitless Rumble 2026 event on January 16, 2026 in Lewiston, Maine. This will be MJF’s first appearance for Limitless Wrestling since 2019.

Limitless Wrestling also recently announced that Ortiz and Eddie Kingston will be making an appearance for the company at their Limitless Rumble 2026 event on January 16, 2026 in Lewiston.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Adam Brooks and Paul London are the next official competitors for next year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VIII event on January 29, 2026 in Kissimmee, Florida.

Kerry Morton announced on Twitter that he recently signed a new two-year contract extension with the National Wrestling Alliance. Morton has been working for NWA since December of 2021.

As noted before, former MMA fighter and WWE wrestler Cain Velasquez was sentenced this past March to five years in prison with time served following his conviction of the charges against him over an attempted murder shooting incident in February of 2022 in San Jose, California. Post Wrestling’s Jack Wannan reported that Velasquez’s parole was pushed up from its originally scheduled date of March of 2026 date to now a new date of February of 2026 based on recent updated records from the California Incarcerated Records and Information Search (CIRIS).

Jersey Championship Wrestling recently announced that Billie Starkz, Terry Yaki, Ryan Clancy, Darian Bengston, Manny Lo, and Griffin McCoy are the next set of official competitors for next year’s Jersey J-Cup tournament at their Jersey J-Cup 2026 event on February 6, 2026 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

JCW also recently announced one new match for the card of their SuperPower Slam event on February 1, 2026 in New York City, New York:

• Janelasus (Joey Janela & Megan Bayne) vs. JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey)

As noted before, Joanna Tenta, daughter of late WWE Hall of Famer Earthquake (John Tenta), revealed this past May that she was training for a pro wrestling career. In a recent interview with WKYC, Tenta provided an update on the status of her training to become a pro wrestler. Tenta stated “There are some times that I do… if I’m stepping into the ring… running the ropes… sometimes there are flickers of that… I’m trying to learn some of my dad’s moves. I feel like since I’ve started training, it has rounded me out. I feel like I’m healing parts of that 17-year-old after my dad died. It’s still the same Joanna. When I’m at the hospital, my whole role is caring for others and so there’s a level of sensitivity and care and attention that I have to provide. Here, I kind of let loose here. I get to be myself.” Tenta’s trainer and wrestler Dominic Garrini also provided an update on the progress of her training. Garrini stated “It is absolutely insane how far she’s come. She came here very timid, very scared and now she’s invited into the intermediate class.“

CMLL talent Rugido recently announced on Facebook that he will be taking a break from wrestling after undergoing successful knee surgery. Rugido stated “Hello friends, I want to share with you that it is time to take a necessary break from my career as an athlete to work on my recovery and rehabilitation, since the human being behind the mask needs his body, especially his knee, to recover after so many years of effort and dedication to making this dream called wrestling come true, and not just anywhere, but, thank God, joining the company I always dreamed of since I was a child, my home, CMLL. Thanks to these wonderful years, I have had the opportunity to fulfill amazing dreams such as wrestling in Japan and the USA, as well as participating in important events in Mexico and around the world, achieving significant accomplishments such as becoming world champion and national tag team champion. I am infinitely grateful to my company #CMLL, to the people involved for supporting and backing me from the very first second of what happened, to my boss Mr. Salvador Lutteroth Lomelí, and of course to the great doctors in charge at CEVAFIN Sports Medicine, who, thanks to their immediate attention and great professionalism, ensured my integrity. My heartfelt and lifelong gratitude goes to Dr. Marco Acuña, Dr. Pao, and the medical team that performed this successful surgery. To my doctor friends who have been looking after me with their care and attention. And from the bottom of my heart, thank you to my family, all my friends, and fans, who took the time to write to me during my absence from the Arena Mexico and Arena Puebla shows. Your messages and kindness have given me the wonderful blessing of feeling accompanied. Now, friends, I will work to feel happy, fulfilled, and confident, as well as to deliver an improved version of myself in the ring. Greetings to all the press who have followed and reported on the growth of my career over the years. Hugs from your friend RUGIDO. PS: #ruazaaaaaaa” (English translation via Fightful.com)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Crime Wave event on January 18, 2026 in Wichita, Kansas:

• GCW World Championship – Priscilla Kelly vs. Atticus Cogar (c)