TNA Impact! Notes: Ash By Elegance Gets Physical, Trey Miguel Returns & Signed New Contract, Miguel, Eric Young, Steve Maclin, & Eddie Edwards Wins Feast or Fired Briefcases, Bear Bronson & Cedric Alexander Revealed as Newest Members of The System, The System Turns on JDC & Moose, 1/29 Show Card

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Jan 22, 2026

Ash By Elegance Gets Physical & Revealed She’s Cleared To Return

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show at the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico featured Ash By Elegance getting physical in the ring for the first time since her stepping away from wrestling at this past September’s Victory Road 2025 event.

Following Indi Hartwell’s victory over M By Elegance in a singles match, The Elegance Brand’s M & Heather By Elegance attacked Hartwell. This led to Ash shoving the two away and yelled at them to stop teasing friction in the group and her splitting away. This led to TNA Knockouts World Champion Lei Ying Lee and Xia Brookside running out to save Hartwell and join forces with Ash. This turned out to just be a ruse by Ash who attacked Lee and Brookside as the rest of The Elegance Brand joined in. Ash and The Elegance Brand then gloated over their dastardly actions in the ring.

In a follow-up segment, The Elegance Brand were seen backstage and Ash announced that she has been medically cleared to resume her wrestling career.

Trey Miguel Makes Surprise Return & Signed New Contract

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show also featured Trey Miguel making his surprise return to TNA Wrestling.

Prior to the start of the Feast or Fired match, all of the competitors came out to the ring. This led to the lights going out and Miguel’s music and entrance video playing revealing his return to TNA. As Miguel came out to the ring, Tom Hannifan announced that Miguel has officially signed a new contract with TNA.

This was Miguel’s first appearance in TNA since this past December. Miguel was released from AEW earlier this week due to issues believed to be related to past controversial tweets he made in 2020 and Warner Bros Discovery being the one who made the decision.

Trey Miguel, Eric Young, Steve Maclin, & Eddie Edwards Wins Feast or Fired Briefcases

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show also featured Trey Miguel, Eric Young, Steve Maclin, and Eddie Edwards winning the four briefcases in the Feast of Fired match.

As a result of their victories, one of the four will have won the briefcase that contained a shot at the TNA World Championship and one will have gotten the misfortune of their briefcase containign a pink slip for their firing from TNA. It was announced that the contents of the briefcases will be revealed during next week’s show on January 29th.

Bear Bronson & Cedric Alexander Revealed as Newest Member of The System, The System Turns Heel on JDC & Moose

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show also featured Bear Bronson and Cedric Alexander being revealed as the newest members of The System.

During the show, The System’s JDC, Moose, Brian Myers, and Alisha & Eddie Edwards came out to the ring. JDC talked about his retirement from wrestling and how he had hand picked his replacement for the group. This led to Bronson’s music playing and him coming out to the ring. After some handshakes by Bronson to the rest of The System, Eddie Edwards gave a low blow attack to JDC that was followed by the rest of the group attacking Moose. This led to Alexander coming out with a chair and chased out everyone but Alisha Edwards from the ring. Alexander then struck Moose with the chair and the rest of the System got back into the ring. Eddie grabebd a microphone and stated that they were not replacing one but two members of the group, Moose and JDC. A confused Alisha pleaded for Eddie and the rest of the System to stop their attack and tried to protect JDC and Moose’s fallen bodies.

Next Week’s TNA Impact! Show Card

Thursday’s live TNA Impact! show also featured four new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on January 29th on AMC.

Current card for January 29th TNA Impact! show:

  • No Holds Barred match – AJ Francis vs. Rich Swann
  • Elijah vs. Jason Hodge
  • Nic Nemeth vs. BDE
  • Open Challenge match – Elayna Black vs. mystery opponent
  • The Feast or Fired briefcases contents to be revealed
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