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Former Tegan Nox reaffirms 2026 retirement plans

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Nixon Newell, formerly known as Tegan Nox in WWE, is still planning for 2026 to be her last year in wrestling.

Following the controversy where she and girlfriend Miranda Alize walked out of an AEW Collision episode last year, Newell stated that she just wanted to have fun with 2025 and 2026 being her final years competing in the ring. She has now reiterated that retirement timeline in a Q&A with fans on Instagram.

“More than likely in December,” Newell responded when asked when her final match will be.

Newell has not announced any other details regarding her final match or retirement plans.

The 31-year-old Newell had two separate WWE stints during her career, being released in 2021 and 2024. Injuries had a significant impact on her WWE run, but she was fully healthy when her time with the company came to an end. Despite that, she initially experienced a “severe lack of bookings” after being released.

Newell did debut for AEW on Collision last October, teaming with Alize in a loss to Marina Shafir & Megan Bayne. Newell & Alize were then brought back to face Tay Melo & Anna Jay, but Newell & Alize walked out before the match could take place because they wanted more time than was scheduled. Maya World & Hyan — who have since been signed to AEW contracts — ended up replacing Newell & Alize in the match.

Despite walking out, Newell has said that there is no bad blood between her and AEW.

Nixon Newell thinks door isn’t closed on AEW return

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Nixon Newell doesn’t think a return to AEW is out of the question.

In a lengthy interview with The Wrestling Classic, Newell was asked if she felt the door was closed after she and Miranda Alize opted out of a planned AEW Collision match last November.

“When we left, it wasn’t like we stormed out. It was an understanding on both sides of ‘Yeah, okay, cool. No worries. We get it’ and then we were like, ‘Okay, cool. Thank you for the opportunity.’ It was never anything negative until the dirt sheets made it negative,” she said.

“It wasn’t even a disagreement. We were given what we were given. We did it the week before and we were promised something else. They said ‘Okay.’ It didn’t come to fruition and we just said, ‘Okay, cool’ and they went ‘Okay, we totally understand. Thanks for coming. We totally appreciate it.’ It was very civilized on both sides.”

Newell said “there were no negative feelings on either side” and that “it wasn’t meant to be.”

She also clarified there is no negativity or ill will toward Hyan and Maya World who filled in for them that night and were later signed to AEW contracts.

JNPO: November 2025 wrestling year in review | AEW, WWE, Ridge & The Walkout

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It’s a special weekend edition of Josh Nason’s Punch-Out as Josh’s pro wrestling year in review series is nearly complete.

Josh and returning guest Paul Fontaine of this website and Fight Game Media talk all about the month of November and over 600 topics like:

  • Samoa Joe winning the AEW World title at Full Gear and all the happenings from the PPV
  • John Cena’s final PPV/PLE match as part of WWE Survivor Series
  • A month where both WWE and AEW held double cage matches
  • The announcement of Hiroshi Tanahashi’s final ever opponent
  • Ridge Holland speaking out about his WWE release and financial situation
  • Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize walking out of AEW Collision and the fallout
  • The best of WWE, AEW, CMLL, TNA, AAA and more

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Report: Bryan Danielson got involved in Nixon Newell AEW controversy

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Bryan Danielson’s involvement in the latest Nixon Newell-Miranda Alize AEW controversy has now been revealed.

Miranda Alize and her partner, Nixon Newell, recently walked out of AEW Collision on November 1st, Saturday, upset over the limited time allotted for their scheduled match against Tay Melo and Anna Jay. Soon, multiple reports started doing rounds about it, addressing the ongoing situation and controversy. Now, a latest update has emerged from Fightful Select, informing fans about the involvement of former AEW World Champion and respected pro-wrestling figure, Bryan Danielson.

Fightful Select reported that an AEW source informed them Danielson personally spoke with both women and “wasn’t thrilled about the way the match went,” as it did not align with All Elite Wrestling’s creative direction. It further noted that multiple women in the AEW/ROH locker-room also contacted Fightful and voiced their frustration over the situation, claiming “that they would have loved for even three minutes on Collision.”

Fightful Select further shared that people in AEW believed that the situation would have remained quite if Alize had not posted a cryptic tweet before the show began. The common believe is that even if the situation had concluded smoothly, it was not smooth anymore.

Update: Soon after the original report, an updated story was shared as Newell reached out to Fightful Select and claimed that neither her nor Alize ever met Bryan Danielson. She said, “All false information. We have never met Bryan in person.” Newell was adamant that she always remained respectful about AEW and never spoke a bad word about the Jacksonville-based promotion.

Further update on Nixon Newell’s booking status

The same report from Fightful Select also delved deeper into Nixon Newell’s lack of match bookings. It was noted that the Welsh wrestler had been in a conversation with another promotion, which unfortunately did not end well following certain ‘asks’ from her. However, the specifics of which were not revealed. There was another case earlier this year in which an independent company had booked Nixon Newell to interfere in a match to set up a future tag team bout; however, Nixon left during the show while the talent remained uninformed about it.

In the same update, she also denied the story above mentioned story about her and the independent promotion.

WOL: Cena title match tonight, Alize and Newell, more!

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Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about as we recap all the news of the week, John Cena in likely a title match on RAW, the road to his final match, Hiroshi Tanahashi’s last opponent, Miranda Alize and Nixon Newell, Smackdown and Collision highlights and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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Miranda Alize shares comments regarding AEW Collision controversy

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Miranda Alize has shared some comments regarding her situation with AEW.

Alize and her partner Nixon Newell walked out of AEW Collision on Saturday, upset at the amount of time their scheduled match against Taya Melo and Anna Jay was given. Alize posted the following quote to her Instagram stories on Monday:

“The moment you start standing up for yourself, everything shifts. Suddenly you’re the problem – not because you’ve changed, but because you’re no longer letting them take advantage of you. They’ll paint you as the villain, but that’s okay because you’re finally choosing yourself. This is where your freedom begins.”

The quote frequently appears in motivational social media posts and does not have a clearly attributed author.

Alize and Newell addressed their situation with AEW in a Twitch stream last night, stating that there is no bad blood between them and the company. Newell also mentioned that she believes her in-ring career likely only has a year left, and she’s only interested in doing fun things before it ends.

The situation was addressed on last night’s Wrestling Observer Radio, with Bryan Alvarez noting that Alize and Newell’s actions on Saturday were confusing to many backstage.

Alvarez said:

“There were so many people that were like, ‘What a stupid thing to do.’ That’s the one thing I heard over and over, what a stupid thing to do.”

Meltzer added, “They’re not under contract. If you want to do something there, first get over. There’s people who do stuff because they have leverage and can get away with doing it. They had no leverage.”

Alize’s post is below:

Some others have posted comments that could be taken as references to the situation with Alize and Newell as well:

Nixon Newell says there’s ‘no bad blood on either side’ following AEW Collision walkout

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Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize have given their side of the story of what went down at the AEW Collision tapings.

Streaming on Twitch, the former WWE star and Alize addressed the situation, saying they cut their promo on last week’s Collision, then did their match with Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir. Newell denied that there was any disagreement with Bayne. Following this, they were given the idea they might be used on Wednesday for the Ring of Honor tapings. However, they were never used.

Newell said when they went to Collision, they were told after the doors opened that they would be wrestling TayJay, but would only be given three minutes. Newell felt that considering the promo they cut on last week’s show where they presented themselves as a credible tag team, no one was going to benefit from the match.

“We decided collectively as a partnership, a couple, as wrestlers independently, that three minutes isn’t going to benefit no one in this match,” Newell said.

They were then told that there were no problems and they were free to go home, with Newell specifically saying they were given the okay to go home. Newell said repeatedly throughout the stream that there was “no bad blood on either side.” Additionally, Newell was negative on “dirt sheet” coverage of the situation and said she “legit woke up to death threats” on Sunday morning.

“This is my last two years in wrestling, we’re already a year gone. So I want to have fun this last year,” she said. “It is what it is.”

It emerged late Saturday that the two walked out after refusing to lose to TayJay (Tay Melo & Anna Jay). Fightful, however, said it wasn’t a matter of losing but rather they were opposed to the amount of time they were given.

New tag team walk out prior to AEW Collision

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According to a new report, potential new AEW tag team Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize walked out prior to a planned tag team match at AEW Collision.

PWInsider first reported that Newell and Alize were in Houston and scheduled to lose to Tay Melo and Anna Jay. According to the report, the two “balked” after being scheduled to lose for a second week in a row and left an hour before bell time, replaced by Hyan and Maya World on the show.

According to the report, AEW was appreciative of Hyan and World stepping in as last minute replacements who “gained points internally.” It was also said that Alize and Newell were not believed to be under AEW contract.

Bryan Alvarez has additionally confirmed PWInsider’s report, citing that there were issues last week as well and people were surprised that they were brought back this week.

Fightful reported that while they didn’t expect to win the match, they wanted more time than was scheduled, which was three minutes. They were told that the times had been set and couldn’t be changed.

Alize wrote on social media on Saturday that both she and Newell had a lot to say. Both have re-tweeted messages of support from fans in the hours since Collision took place.

The team, who are also a couple in real life, made their debut on the October 29 edition of Collision losing to Marina Shafir and Megan Bayne. Newell previously competed in WWE and NXT under the name Tegan Nox before being released last year. Alize competed in Ring of Honor before it was purchased by Tony Khan.

Former Tegan Nox appears on AEW Collision, issues challenge

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Nixon Newell, the former Tegan Nox in WWE, made her on-screen debut as part of Saturday’s AEW Collision.

Newell, flanked by ROH regular and past AEW Dark competitor Miranda Alize, interrupted a backstage interview with Tay Melo & Anna Jay.

Melo and Jay were hyping up their appearance in the inaugural AEW Women’s Tag Team title tournament when Newell and Alize walked in. Newell said hi to Melo who she wrestled in 2019 during their NXT days. They said they came to AEW as it’s where the best wrestle to which Melo replied that they love a challenge.

No date or show for the match was announced with this Wednesday’s dual taping for Dynamite & Collision as the likely landing spot. The date for Melo and Jay’s quarterfinal match against Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne also has yet to be announced.

Nox was cut by WWE in November 2024 and made her return to the indies in March 2025. She and Alize have wrestled against each other twice, but have never teamed up in the ring. Alize has wrestled six times in AEW with the last coming in June 2021.

Former Tegan Nox says post-WWE bookings are ‘starting to pick up’

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After a slow start to her post-WWE career, things are starting to pick up for Nixon Newell.

The former Tegan Nox recently admitted to Wrestling in the Middle that she’s had a “severe lack of bookings” since her release from WWE in November 2024. While things are still going slower than she’d like, Newell feels like she’s beginning to turn a corner. She told Busted Open Radio today that a social media promo she posted on June 7 has already led to an increase in bookings.

“It’s been slow, but it’s picking up a lot now, which I’m happy to say that, you know, I’m getting a bit more busier. I like to be busy,” Newell said.

Newell believes she wasn’t being proactive enough in promoting herself after her release. She also thinks WWE playing up her past knee injury issues has made people see her as injury-prone and has perhaps made some promoters scared to take a chance on her.

Along with that, Newell had to deal with real-life issues like getting into a “massive” car wreck shortly after her release.

“I went through quite a lot in the last couple of months, which, unfortunately, I put out a post saying wrestling unfortunately did take a back step for me. Like within days of being released, I was in a massive car wreck,” she said. “So I’ve been sorting that out.

“And then when the 90 days came up, I had to go straight back home and do some shows there. But life has just been so crazy that unfortunately, wrestling did take a back step. But when I released a promo the other day on Instagram, the feedback and the attraction that it got made me understand and prove to myself that I was right. Where, yeah, ‘You have definitely been lax and you shouldn’t have put wrestling so far back in your life.’ So now I’m taking the initiative of doing promos, doing pictures, doing a bunch of stuff just to get myself back out there, get myself, you know, the name Nixon Newell back in people’s minds.”

Newell is originally from Wales but is based in Orlando, Florida right now and will soon be moving to Texas. Her current goal is to wrestle anywhere and everywhere and make it so promoters feel like they need her on their show.

“I want to be wrestling-related for as long as I physically can, whether it’s an active wrestler, producer, trainer, coach, anything to do with wrestling,” Newell said. “This is my life and has been my life since I was 16. This is going to be my 14th year in wrestling this year.

“So I do truly believe that, you know, after posting that promo and seeing the reactions that it got, I do believe I put wrestling a bit too far back than I should have done, even though life is rough, life’s rough for everyone. So it is on my part where I definitely should have been a bit more proactive. But now that I’ve seen that, my foot’s on the gas pedal. I’m going. So in the last week and a half since I posted it, my bookings have picked up. I’m, you know, I’m wrestling quite frequently now, still not as busy as I’d like to be, but it’s starting to pick up now. So I’ve realized my mistakes. I’m rectifying that mistake.”

Newell has had two separate stints with WWE, initially joining the company in 2017 before being released in 2021. She made her return in 2022 but was let go again last November. In her post-WWE career, she’s being represented by Paragon Talent Group, an agency owned by Dean Muhtadi (former WWE wrestler Mojo Rawley).

Former Tegan Nox has had ‘severe lack of bookings’ since WWE release

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It’s been a difficult start to free agency for Nixon Newell since her release from WWE.

The former Tegan Nox was released from her WWE contract in November 2024 and officially became a free agent earlier this year. She’s had some matches since then — including returning to her home country of Wales for Attack Pro Wrestling — but Newell says it’s been tough to get bookings.

“Not great, if I’m being honest,” she told Wrestling in the Middle when asked how free agency is going. “Severe lack of bookings. Not sure where that’s from, but the bookings that I have done, like I’ve been home to Attack [Pro Wrestling], which has been phenomenal. Got to wrestle Dani Luna, who’s been on my list, God, for years since she first started training I could tell she was going to be something special. So she’s been on my list for a very, very long time, so I’m glad that one was in the books at least. But, yeah, it’s been slow. Hopefully it picks up soon, because it’s a nightmare [laughs]. But hopefully soon it gets better.”

This was Newell’s second stint with WWE after she was initially with the company from 2017-2021. She returned in 2022 and spent two more years with WWE before her second release.

Newell told Wrestling in the Middle that she wasn’t shocked by the release because of how infrequently she was being used. She is determined to prove herself in the ring and wants to wrestle anywhere she can. Newell wants to dispel the narrative of her being injury prone because of her past knee issues.

“Did I want it to happen? Yes and no,” Newell said about her release. “In a sense of, no, that was my dream job. I’ve wanted that since I was a kid. All my friends worked there at the time. But, yes, I wanted to wrestle, which, you know, still hasn’t panned out great. But at least now I can do what I want to do and have fun with wrestling again. Instead of just being stuck in the same story with the knees, which was the most disheartening thing to constantly keep doing when my knees — I haven’t been injured with my knees since 2019, whenever the last knee surgery was. That was the last time I was hurt with my knees. So it wasn’t like they were injured at all, you know?”

Newell is based in the United States and says she would love to join AEW. There are a lot of people in AEW that she wants to wrestle. However, Newell does not believe AEW is interested in her.

“I’m interested, I’d love to go there,” she said. “But as far as I know, I don’t think there’s an interest from them, which is a shame. But I would love to go there.”

Newell also mentioned that she would be interested in returning to Japanese promotion Stardom. She last wrestled there in 2017 before starting her WWE career.

Wrestling in the Middle’s full conversation with Newell can be watched below:

Former Tegan Nox reflects on working with Becky Lynch: ‘She’s such a nice person’

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Nixon Newell (the former Tegan Nox) will always be grateful that she and Becky Lynch got to work together in WWE.

The two had their only one-on-one match in 2023 during Lynch’s run as NXT Women’s Champion. In a new interview with The Metro, Newell reflected on that experience and said it’s something that she’ll always treasure. Though Newell thinks her own performance could have been “so much better” in their match, she learned so much from sharing the ring with Lynch.

Newell confirmed to The Metro that Lynch asked to work with her, noting that both Lynch and Bayley are people who pitch their opponents. Newell said Lynch fought “tooth and nail” to give her this opportunity.

“She’s such a nice person,” Newell said about Lynch. “She asked for all the people that she wanted to work with, which is wild, for her to even go, ‘I want to work with Nixon.'”

Lynch was NXT Women’s Champion for just over a month from September-October 2023, facing off against Tiffany Stratton, Natalya, Newell, Indi Hartwell, and Lyra Valkyria in title matches.

Newell got her title shot on the October 9, 2023 episode of Raw. She told The Metro that nerves got the better of her against Lynch and it led to a subpar performance, even though the match made some fans realize that she can wrestle and is capable of more.

“I think it could have gone a lot better on my end. That wasn’t my best performance, and I know it wasn’t. I was so incredibly nervous,” Newell said. “I think that’s one of the few times that my nerves got the better than me in a match. So, I would have loved to have been able to run that back.

“I think even though it wasn’t my best performance, it made people go, ‘Oh, she can actually wrestle.’ I’m like, ‘Yes, and I can do better than that, if you give me the chance.’ Unfortunately, I never got the chance to show that. But that entire situation with Becky was just mind blowing, and something that I will hold very dear to me, not just the rest of my career, but for the rest of my life.”

Newell was released from her WWE contract in November 2024 and is now a free agent. She will compete for Attack Pro Wrestling in her home country of Wales on May 18 against Dani Luna.

As for Lynch, she’s been away from WWE programming since May 2024 while focusing on acting projects but is expected to return at some point.

Tegan Nox says being ‘very sick’ contributed to her absence from WWE TV

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During a recent interview with Metro UK, Nixon Newell (FKA Tegan Nox) revealed she was “very sick” last year before her release from WWE.

Nox was among the WWE roster cuts in November, which also included Baron Corbin and Indi Hartwell. Aside from briefly forming a tag team with Natalya, she was rarely used on WWE programming after returning in 2022. She says a mystery illness last year contributed to her absence.

“I did get incredibly sick for a little while,” Nox said. “We didn’t really get a legit answer. I went through tests, I was in hospital, a bunch of different stuff.”

“I think it was down to a lot of stress mixed with other things. But I was really sick, which contributed to my time off. I think that started it all, even though I said, ‘I’m good to go, it’s just I get sick now and again.’ But it wasn’t, like, deathly or anything.”

“I think it was a mix of them wanting to be safe, miscommunication with a lot of different people, because it was going from their doctors to outside doctors to hospitals,” she explained.

“I think it just got lost in communication. But I think unnecessary time off started with a necessary time off, if that makes sense.”

Nox will wrestle for the Wales-based Attack! promotion in May against TNA’s Dani Luna. She says the past year has been difficult, and she has lost some of her love for wrestling. She is giving herself two years to rekindle it—or she’ll call it a career.

“I’m giving myself two years to either find the love, find myself, or just call it a day,” she said. “Mid-2027, just before my 33rd birthday.”

“That’s a decent amount of time to be able to find myself and be like, ‘Okay, is it time to retire? Or do I have a little while left?’ I think that’s what’s driving me right now—the thought of finding myself and trying to find this happiness again.”

Nox hasn’t wrestled since last July, when she lost a WWE SmackDown dark match to Blair Davenport. Her last televised match was on the April 1, 2024, episode of Raw, where she teamed with Zoey Stark and Shayna Baszler in a loss to Damage CTRL.

The full interview is available here.

Former Tegan Nox enters free agency, set for indie match

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Now that she’s a free agent, Nixon Newell (the former Tegan Nox) is booking her first post-WWE appearances.

Newell entered into free agency yesterday with 90 days having passed since she was released from her WWE contract. Indie promotion Attack! Pro Wrestling has announced that Newell will compete for them on Sunday, May 18 in a match against Dani Luna. It’s a homecoming for Newell with Attack! being based in her home country of Wales.

The show is named C’est La Vie and is being held in Penarth, South Wales.

Newell regularly appeared for Attack! when she was on the indies in the past. She was originally supposed to return to the promotion for two shows in December 2024 but ended up being pulled from those dates. Though they were announced after her release, it appears that they were actually booked while she was still with WWE.

When Newell has her first post-WWE match, it will be her first time wrestling since July 2024. She had two separate WWE stints from 2017-2021 and 2022-2024. She was snakebitten by injuries for much of her time in WWE, but Newell posted the following when she was released last November: “Let’s clear one thing up though. I’m ready. Ive been ready. Just have to show people what they’ve missed.”

Former Tegan Nox no longer set for December indie dates

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Nixon Newell (former WWE wrestler Tegan Nox) is no longer scheduled for a pair of indie dates this December.

Following her release from WWE, it was announced that Newell would return to Attack! Pro Wrestling for their Under the Mistletour events in Cardiff, Wales on December 14-15. However, the promotion has now announced that she will no longer be appearing. They hope to bring Newell back in 2025.

Newell was released by WWE on November 1. She had been announced for these shows despite indicating on social media that she has a 90-day non-compete clause. In their statement, Attack! Pro Wrestling thanked WWE for its support “over the past several weeks” in trying to make Newell’s appearances a possibility:

  • We’re sorry to announce that unfortunately Tegan Nox (AKA Nixon Newell) will no longer be appearing at our Under The Mistletour events in December.
  • We know this news will be disappointing to the ATTACK! community, especially those who have made travel plans for the show. Our fans are the heart of ATTACK! and we’re sorry to let you down.
  • We’re already looking into suitable replacements for the shows, and hope to bring Nixon back to ATTACK! In 2025. However, refunds are of course available on request.
  • We’d like to thank WWE for its support over the past several weeks in trying to make these appearances a possibility.

Newell is from Wales and regularly appeared for Attack! Pro Wrestling in the past. She made a post on her Instagram stories reacting to these appearances not happening: “Pissed is an understatement! I’ll be back home soon, don’t you worry!”

Indi Hartwell and Baron Corbin also departed WWE on November 1. Newell and Hartwell were both released by the company, while Corbin’s contract was not renewed.

“Some things are just out of your control and you can only do as much as you can,” Newell tweeted after her release. “Let’s clear one thing up though. I’m ready. Ive been ready. Just have to show people what they’ve missed.”

It’s not clear if Newell was originally booked for these dates before her WWE release or not.