Major League Wrestling has landed a former TNA World Champion and Women’s Wrestling Hall of Famer.
On Monday, MLW announced that it has signed Tessa Blanchard, who will debut at the FIGHTLAND event in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sept. 12. The 31-year-old issued the following statement on her MLW arrival:
“Heavy is the crown, but legacy isn’t handed to you…it’s forged under pressure. I’ve earned my place as one of the best in the world at what I do, but I’m not coming to MLW to rest on the Blanchard name. MLW is bringing some of the purest, hardest-hitting action in the sport today, and the Undeniable Diamond belongs right at the top of it.”
Blanchard had a brief one-year stint in WWE (2016 to 2017) before landing with Impact Wrestling (now TNA) in 2018. At the 2020 Hard to Kill pay-per-view, she defeated Sami Callihan to become the Impact World Champion (now the TNA World Championship).
To date, Blanchard is the only woman in TNA/Impact Wrestling history to hold the promotion’s world championship belt. She also held the Impact Knockouts Championship for 147 days.
MLW Makes Another Big Move

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Blanchard is the latest household name to join MLW.
Following his WWE departure, former NXT Champion Killer Kross returned to MLW last year. Things couldn’t be going much better for Kross, who’s held the MLW World Heavyweight Championship since Jan. 29.
Austin Aries, the current National Openweight Champion, also returned to MLW last year as a commentator, but he soon made his way back into the ring.
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