Last night, on WWE NXT, NXT Champion Oba Femi was facing TNA World Champion Trick Williams in a Winner Takes All Match. After the match announcement last week, many TNA wrestlers expressed displeasure on social media over how NXT is treating them. So, what was meant to happen happened last night: TNA invaded NXT, preventing the match from having a real result.
Because he is the #1 contender for the NXT Championship, Ricky Saints also joined the melee. So, as of today, not only does Ricky Saints not know who he will face for the NXT Championship at WWE No Mercy this weekend, but Mike Santana also does not know who he will face for the TNA World Championship at TNA Bound For Glory on October 12.
“Total Non-Stop Anarchy”
Several TNA stars, including Mike Santana, Moose, TNA International Champion Steve Maclin, Matt Cardona, The IInspiration, Léi Ying Lee, Xia Brookside, Eric Young, Frankie Kazarian, Zachary Wentz, Cedric Alexander, and Mance Warner, were spotted at the WWE Performance Center, making their way into the arena for this monumental showdown.
During the late stages of the match, Trick Williams confronted Mike Santana, who had joined Vic Joseph and Booker T on commentary. This led to a physical altercation between the two rivals, which quickly escalated into a massive brawl between the TNA and NXT locker rooms. Amidst the chaos, one thing became clear: the battle lines have been drawn between TNA and NXT.
The problem now remains more or less the same as last week. Because the match didn’t have a proper end, we don’t officially have a double Champion, even if the bout took place, with a result as unclear as London fog, the main event of WWE No Mercy could be changed.
Femi, Williams, and Saints could all be competing for the two titles. Which could mean Mike Santana ends up facing one of the three at TNA Bound For Glory. Anything can happen in wrestling; we all know that by heart.
This is interesting…
Mike Santana just joined @VicJosephWWE and @BookerT5x on commentary for the main event! 😳 pic.twitter.com/wiIZnooe59
— WWE (@WWE) September 24, 2025
The Aftermaths
As Vic Joseph stated, “September 23, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day TNA Wrestling turned into Total Non-Stop Anarchy.” TNA Wrestling is not a bunch of anarchists. It’s a family of line blurrers and boundary breakers. As Frances McDormand told Martin McDonagh when she won an Oscar in 2018, “We’re a bunch of hooligans and anarchists, but we do clean up nice.”
Since the beginning of the NXT/TNA partnership, earlier this year, it may have been the first time the TNA roster, as a whole, has angrily expressed its feelings against WWE NXT. The TNA fans have had doubts for quite a long time. Last night, the TNA roster didn’t cross the line; they literally exploded it. And when I say TNA roster, Knockouts, TNA Originals, and Champions were in the ring (but not Joe Hendry).
For someone who has never really been keen on this partnership, Nygma will tell you, I’ve never been happier to see what happened last night. For the first time in the history of this partnership, the spotlight is on TNA, and not on NXT. Since the beginning of the year, NXT has taken the spotlight more than it has given it to TNA. It was time for TNA Wrestling to show what it is about.
The End of the Partnership?
The TNA invasion could mean the end of the partnership. And the answer is no. First, the TNA/WWE partnership is a 3-year one. Second, this angle came exactly when NXT and TNA needed to have a spotlight on their upcoming PLEs: WWE No Mercy and TNA Bound for Glory.
It is getting crowded around the ring for our main event! 😱@ThisIsTNA pic.twitter.com/aIKObRdtYI
— WWE (@WWE) September 24, 2025
We also have to remember that wrestling is storyline-based. It’s not as if it were in “West Side Story,” with the Jets and the Sharks fighting. TNA President Carlos Silva and NXT’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative Shawn Michaels have been working together closely as part of this partnership (think Joe Hendry).
Finally, the invasion angle may explain why TNA Wrestling has no taping scheduled after Bound For Glory. According to the company, nothing happens between Bound For Glory (October 12) and November 13. TNA iMPACT is a weekly but taped show, except when it’s live.
Nygma says: I imagine this invasion angle could fuel the four iMPACT episodes between these two dates. The question is, how and where. Like William Regal said last week to Triple H and Shawn Michaels, “WarGames.” That would perfectly fit a territory war like the one we have between NXT and TNA, with even a little “West Side Story” twist. So, Jets or Sharks?
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