TNA Impact 2/26/2026

TNA Impact 2/26/2026

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/tna-impact-2192026.html

We are in Nashville, TN. Matt Rehwoldt and Tom Hannifan are on commentary.

Mike Santana and Leon Slater vs Nic and Ryan Nemeth

Frankie Kazarian comes down to do commentary for this. Nic and Leon lock up. Nic takes him down and they stare down. Nic wristlocks him. Leon headflips out and takes him down by the arm. Ryan yanks on Leon's arm then Nic boots Leon. Leon rewind kicks Nic. Leon handspring back elbows him then pulls Ryan over the top. Mike STO's Ryan on the apron then Leon slingshot plancha's the heels outside. We go to break and return.

Ryan chinlocks Mike. Mike hits him in the gut and chops him down. Mike backrolls into a cutter on Ryan. Leon comes in and hits forearms on Nic. Leon rebounds off the ropes and spinning heel kicks Nic. Leon running facekicks Nic in the corner. Leon top rope crossbodies him for 2.

Leon is back body dropped over the top and lands face first on the apron. Mike backrolls and is caught with a reverse 3D for 2. 

Mike enzugiri's Ryan then pump kicks Nick. Mike dropkicks Ryan through the ropes. Nic ducks Leon's rewind kick and famesassers him for 2. Nic and Leon fight on the buckles. Nic is headbutted down. Eric Young runs down the ramp and distracts Leon. Mike backs up Eric on the ramp. Leon top rope 450's and Nic gets his knees up. Nic pins him.

Thoughts: The break cut up a lot of this one. Eric Young coming down was a bit a random. This was average for the most part. The highlight was Kaz saying that "Mike Santana failed art class because he couldn't draw a dime".

Gia interviews The Righteous. Vincent says they believe in brotherhood with The Hardy's but they don't want it. Dutch says he apologized and will do anything to get The Hardy's trust. Vincent says they always stood behind The Hardy's, even when they didn't stand beside them. Vince says to trust them and everything will be groovy.

Dani Luna vs Yei Ling Lee

Lee pushes her off the lock-up. Lee hits mounted shots. Dani takes her down and does the same. Lee kicks her from the apron. Lee sweeps her then running knees her. Lee dropkicks her into the corner.

Lee hits mounted corner punches. Dani lays her on the 2nd rope and catapults her throat first into the top rope. Dani exploders her. Dani cranks Lee's head. Dani backdrops her for 2.

Lee cradles and rolls up Dani for 2. Lee guillotines her and Dani suplexes her to escape it for 2. Dani bangs Lee's head off the buckles. Dani wraps a chain around the top buckle. Lee hits strikes and then kicks on her. Lee superkicks her.

Lee hits mounted shots in the corner. Lee exploders her for 2. Lee is facekicks on the apron. Lee misses a corner charge and Dani slingshot blue thunders her for 2. They trade forearms. 

Lee forearms her on the ropes. Dani grounded sleepers her. Lee backrolls her for 2. Lee is supposed to be pushed into the chained buckle but she misses it. Dani then hits a luna landing and pins her.

Thoughts: Dani threw her around and Lee did her usual offense here. They messed up the finish as Lee did not got into the chains like they were supposed to. It got a bit more time than needed and was just average. 

Alisha Edwards talks to Tommy Dreamer and Carlos Silva in the back. She has a contract with her and says she feels like she doesn't belong here. She says too much is going on with The System and she wants to step away from TNA. Moose comes in and tells her to think about this. Moose says she's the first lady of TNA and says TNA is bigger than The System. Moose says he'll take care of The System. Moose says she should sign it as TNA and he needs her. Moose says he wants her to be her manager. Alisha then signs the contract and says she will stay.

AJ Francis vs Mance Warner

AJ boots MW as he enters. They fight and MW lariats him over the top. MW flying knees him off the apron. AJ is pushed into the steps. AJ throws MW off the steps to the floor. AJ kneels on MW's throat on the 2nd rope. 

MW hits shots on AJ and AJ corner splashes him. AJ running knees him in the corner and argues with Steph de Lander. MW jawbreakers him and facekicks him down. MW hits punches then bionic elbow's him. MW eye pokes him then headlock drivers him for 2.

AJ hits a big spear for 2. Steph and AJ fight over a chair. MW get the chair and hits AJ with it for the DQ.

Thoughts: It was a weird one as it was heel vs heel and MW had  to play face for this. It was acceptable but not much more. The finish didn't help things and this is not over.

MW chairs him more after and throws a  chair at him. AJ celebrates the DQ win on the ramp.

TNA Injury Report

Mustafa Ali is out and is not cleared. Jody Threat has an injured rib after Tessa kicked her in it. She'll be back next week. Leon Slater is under evaluation.

Mickie James comes out to talk. She says it's good to be here in Nashville. She said she heard what Ash by Elegance had to say. She said she talked big and Mickie said she drove 20 minutes to come talk to her. Mickie says she has a lot to say and tells her to come out to talk. George Iceman comes out and Mickie says nobody came to talk to him. She tells him bye.

Ash by Elegance then comes out. She says the people paid to see her and her entrance. She says the people didn't come to see the irrelevant, washed up legend. Mickie says she wanted to talk to her 1 to 1 as a friend. Ash says they "were" friends. 

Mickie said Ash called her when she was released and asked her what to do. Mickie said she called Tommy Dreamer to get her to TNA. Ash says she was already being scouted and was the hottest free agent. She says it wasn't because of Mickie. Mickie calls her a mark and says she's Mark by Elegance as she was arguing with people on Twitter. She says people come after her on Twitter because she is trending every week.

Mickie says without the people, she couldn't stand in this ring. She said the people believed in her and had faith in her. Ash says she doesn't care about the people, just her and the title she never lost. Mickie asks her where the title is and said she had to leave the title in the ring. She says she has thought about the title everyday since. She says Ash made a mockery of the title and it's disgusting.

Ash says it's none of her business. She says she's better than everyone including her. She then pokes Mickie and laughs. Mickie says Tennessee is the birthplace of Hardcore Country. She says if she doesn't want to talk about it like a lady, they can do it like broads. They slap each other. The Elegance Brand appears on the tron with Mickie's son. Mickie runs to the back and The Elegance Brand jump her as she runs. Mickie is beaten up on the stage. Ash ddt's her on the stage.

Thoughts: It wasn't that good of a segment here. The acting was definitely rough and I'll never be a big fan of them calling each other mark and stuff.

 We go to the back and Jody Threat is down from The Elegance Brand. Santino comes in then Daria Rae comes in. Daria says it's chaos everywhere and it's Santino. She asks him what's going on. She says something's going wrong and it has Santino's name on it. Daria then brings up Arianna Grace and says she told him not to give her a shot. Daria says she's talented but Santino's delusion needs to get it together.

Thoughts: Daria Rae's angle isn't working at all. All she does is embarrass everyone and make them look weak with no end or goal in sight.

Tasha Steelz vs Jada Stone

TS lariats her before it starts then hits a short arm lariat. TS stomps her in the corner and foot chokes her. TS hits chops and forearms in the corner. Jada hits forearms then kicks her off the ropes. Jada dropkicks her out. TS is with The Great Hands outside. Jada dives on them and The Hand catch her and put her down gently. TS then topes and nails her partners. Jada apron moonsaults all 3 of them.

TS pump kicks Jada on the floor. TS suplexes her on the floor. TS corner lariats her and rolls her into a PK for 2. Jada slaps her, bridges out of a lariat and they trade pin attempts. Jada superkicks her then hits lariats. Jada slingblades her for 2. 

Jada handsprings and takes a hard german. Jada handstands out of a cutter and pins her.

Thoughts: Jada still needs time to get over but this was fine. Jada got to do some of her flying as usual here. 

Jada runs into The Hands. They throw her back in. TS then pounds on Jada in the ring.

Tom Hannifan is in the ring. He says Steve Maclin lost Feast or Fired and no longer works here. He says Steve has asked to be able to tell his side of the story about what happened with Mike and Tom says he will talk to him here. Steve Maclin is brought out with security.

Tom says him and Steve have been best friends for a decade. He said he stuck his neck out for him and asks how he can explain his actions against Mike Santana. Steve says this isn't about Mike, it's about him. He says it's about his last day where everyone was coming up to him after he got fired. He said as he was leaving the building that day, the most selfish person Mike Santana thanked him for his selflessness. 

Steve says he was raised to be selfless and volunteered for the Marine Corps. He says Mike and him had a brotherhood but he broke it long before he attacked him. Tom asks if that justifies what he did. Steve says Mike Santana didn't show up for their tag match after Turning Point as he had a meeting. Steve says that's selfish. Steve says he could talk about his problems everyday but he doesn't, he puts a smile on his face and moves forward.

Steve yells at Tom and and says he sounds like the fans. Steve says they are supposed to be friends. Steve says he got Tom his job. Tom says he doesn't want to do this in front of everyone. Tom says he has tried everything to help him. He said he used his position to help him. He says people like Mike Santana have gone to bat for him and said people in management tried to help him. He asks how many times Steve has been fined? He says Steve never takes accountability and it's always someone else's fault. Tom asks why shouldn't Steve hold himself accountable? Steve grabs him and hits him in the gut. Security and Mike Santana come out and Steve runs. Steve then pushes Matt Rehwoldt over after.

Thoughts: This whole angle is really dumb and this didn't help things. Steve didn't get fired because of his behavior, he got fired because he entered a stupid match where you could get fired if you had the wrong briefcase. I have no idea what Tom or Mike really have to do with it and they did a poor job of explaining that.

Next week has Nic Nemeth vs Leon Slater for the X-Division TItle.

Gia Miller is now on commentary in place of Tom. 

The Hardys (Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy) & The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) vs. The System (Bear Bronson, Brian Myers, Cedric Alexander & Eddie Edwards)

Eddie boots and punches Jeff. Jeff lariats him then atomic drops him. Jeff legdrops him between the legs and basement dropkicks him. Jeff bends Eddie backwards with a submission. All 8 men fight. Brian's head is banged off the buckles. 

We go to break and return. Dutch and Bear bodyblock each other then trade punches. Bear boots him in the gut. Dutch exploders him. Vince jumps off Dutch's back with a flying hip attack on Bear. Vince takes a sitout chokebomb from Bear for 2.

Bear totally misses a punch on Vince. Vince's head is banged off the buckles. Brian snapmares Vince. Brian flying knees Vince. Bear stomps Vince. Bear slams Vince, does Jeff's taunt on the ropes and 2nd rope elbow drops Vince for 2. 

Ced comes in and hits shots on Vince. He kicks him in the back. Ced germans him. Vince headscissors him into a russian legsweep. Matt and Eddie get in. Matt hits punches and lariats Eddie. Matt hiptosses Brian then hits a neckbreaker + ddt combo on the heels. Matt hits a side effect on Eddie for 2. Vince ddt's Brian. Bear lariats Vince. 

Jeff hits a twist of fate on Bear and Dutch black hole slams Ced. Bear is sent out by Eddie. Matt reverse ddt's Eddie. Eddie blue thunders Matt. Eddie shining wizards Vince when he pushes Matt out of the way. Eddie pins Vince.

Thoughts: We've seen this tag or variations of it a lot of time. It's acceptable but nothing too memorable. The Hardy's didn't fly at all here and it was far from anyone's best effort. Vince taking the bullet for Matt continues their storyline of The Righteous trying to show loyalty to them.  I still feel like The System need to be pushed much harder because they just heel like a midcard group right now.

The System beat up the faces after. Moose comes out and clears off the heels. The System group up on Moose and get the advantage. Alisha Edwards comes out and tries to stop Moose's beating. The System back off and Eddie is definitely frustrated.

Overall thoughts: It felt like an AXS TV episode of TNA. It's good that they are getting back to normal but the show wasn't that great. Steve Maclin's and Daria Rae's angles aren't working and while the show ends up being average to acceptable, it's nothing you really need to go see. I don't think this show had a standout match I would say it was slightly okay and would give it a high 5 out of 10. I do think the next PLE/PPV they do should be good though.