{"id":131586,"date":"2025-02-28T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=131586"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:11:10","slug":"tna-wrestling-signs-elijah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/28\/tna-wrestling-signs-elijah\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA Wrestling Signs Elijah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TNA Wrestling today confirmed that it has signed top free agent Elijah, who made a shocking appearance <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/02\/21\/impact-after-the-bell-elijah-the-colons-oba-femi\/\" target=\"_self\">February 20th on the live episode of iMPACT!<\/a>, saving TNA World Champion Joe Hendry from a two-on-one attack by The Colons.<\/p>\n<h2>Walk with Elijah in the Impact Zone<\/h2>\n<p>A Pittsburgh native, Elijah made his pro wrestling debut in 2008 and spent about 10 years with WWE, where he was a 4-time \u00a024\/7 Champion and the WWE Breakout Superstar of the Year in 2018. WWE released Elias in a round of cuts in September 2023. After a pause, he reappeared on Sami Callihan&#8217;s REVOLVER. He then wrestled around the world before becoming the IWC Super Indy Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah and the stars of TNA Wrestling will be in El Paso for two live events, March 14-15, including <em>Sacrifice<\/em> on March 14, airing live on the TNA+ app. Elijah will be teaming up with the Hardys, Joe Hendry, and mystery partners to take on The System and the Colons. All matches on March 15 will be taped for the company\u2019s flagship weekly TV show, iMPACT! on AXS TV in the U.S., on Sportsnet+ in Canada and TNA+ around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso shows will feature TNA World Champion Joe Hendry, TNA Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich and TNA X-Division Champion Moose. Also confirmed to appear in El Paso: Jeff &amp; Matt Hardy, Nic Nemeth, Mustafa Ali, Steve Maclin, Eric Young, Mike Santana, Brian Myers, A.J. Francis, Frankie Kazarian, Ace Austin, Sami Callihan, Tessa Blanchard, Rosemary and Xia Brookside, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Header image credit \u2013 TNA Wrestling \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on Elijah in TNA and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Catch all TNA events and shows on <a href=\"https:\/\/tnawrestling.com\/welcome\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TNA Plus<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNA Wrestling today confirmed that it has signed top free agent Elijah, who made a shocking appearance February 20th on the live episode of iMPACT!, saving TNA World Champion Joe Hendry from a two-on-one attack by The Colons. Walk with Elijah in the Impact Zone A Pittsburgh native, Elijah made his pro wrestling debut in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":131596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,8959],"tags":[9190,9198],"class_list":["post-131586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-tna-wrestling","tag-elijah","tag-tna-sacrifice-2025"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131597,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131586\/revisions\/131597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}