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Former Tegan Nox reaffirms 2026 retirement plans

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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.

Former Tegan Nox appears on AEW Collision, issues challenge

Posted on by Josh Nason

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’

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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

Posted on by Ian Carey

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

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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.

Former Tegan Nox announced for first post-WWE indie dates

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The former Tegan Nox has booked her first indie dates since being released by WWE.

Attack Pro Wrestling announced today that Nixon Newell will return to the promotion at their Under the Mistletour events in Cardiff on Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15. The promotion, owned by wrestler Mark Andrews, is based in Newell’s home country of Wales. She’s regularly appeared there in the past.

Newell, Indi Hartwell, and Baron Corbin departed WWE last Friday with Newell and Hartwell being released and Corbin’s contract not being renewed. At the time she was released, Newell indicated it would be 90 days before she would be able to return to the indies.

This was Newell’s second time being let go by WWE. She was originally signed to the promotion from 2017-2021 and then returned from 2022-2024, teaming with Natalya during that second stint. Though multiple serious knee injuries hampered her early career, the 29-year-old Newell is healthy and ready to compete.

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

Wrestling Observer Radio: WWE talent releases, AEW vs. NXT

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Dave Meltzer and I are back with our Friday episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter as well as news that happened after the issue was published.

Here were some of the things we covered:

Click here to listen (sub needed) or watch on YouTube (video sub needed)

Baron Corbin, Indi Hartwell, Tegan Nox departing WWE

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Three WWE wrestlers are leaving the company.

Fightful reported on Friday that Baron Corbin has been informed that his contract with WWE will not be renewed. They also reported that Indi Hartwell and Tegan Nox have been released, and will be free agents in 90 days. Bryan Alvarez has confirmed that all three are leaving the company.

Corbin posted on social media regarding his departure, writing: “That’s all she wrote folks. It’s been real and I appreciate everyone who supported me.”

Signed in 2012, Corbin spent time in NXT before being called up in 2016. During his time in WWE he was given several gimmicks, including King Corbin and at one time becoming the constable of the Raw brand. After a period where he was down on his luck, he was rebranded as Happy Corbin after becoming rich in Las Vegas. 

After Triple H took over creative, he was put with JBL for a while before returning to NXT, where he was most successful in a tag team with Bron Breakker. In the 2024 WWE Draft, he was put back on SmackDown but wasn’t used much on television, most recently teaming with Apollo Crews.

Hartwell was signed in 2019 and is best known for her run in NXT with a romance storyline involving herself and Dexter Lumis. In 2023, she was called up and mainly teamed with Candice LeRae. She also reacted to the news on social media:

Following her release in 2021, Nox returned to WWE the following year, first on SmackDown and later on Raw, where she was best known for teaming with Natalya briefly. Nox only made a few appearances on television in 2024 and never appeared on SmackDown after being traded to the brand in the 2024 WWE Draft.

WWE Main Event results: Dante Chen vs. Akira Tozawa

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This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky before Monday’s episode of Raw.

An average show this week that had its moments, but Akira Tozawa is always entertaining.

Chelsea Green defeated Tegan Nox (5:01)

This was fine. Nox is certainly getting better but some of her ring work needs tightening up.

There was no Piper Niven or Natalya this week after their tag match on the show last week and so it lost something in its impact, but Green is clearly enjoying being a heel these days.

The early going was full of little comedy bits from Green until Nox came off the apron with a cannonball and went up top. Green kicked her off the turnbuckle and then stomped her before slapping on a chin lock.

Nox worked her way out and, after exchanging some quick pin attempts, she came back with clotheslines and a running splash to the corner, before again going up top.

In the end, Green took the opportunity to turn a high cross into an opportunity, rolling through and grabbing a handful of tights to get the win. The finish made sense, playing into Green’s heelish character.

Akira Tozawa (w/ Maxxine Dupri) defeated Dante Chen (6:30)

This was a good match, only to be spoiled a little by some chin locks midway through that felt a little unnecessary for a match designed to hype up the crowd before Raw.

Before the match, Dupri and Tozawa did a little jig together in the ring and Chen looked on and couldn’t help smirking at it.

I always find Tozawa pretty damn entertaining. On and off over the last few years he’s been a Main Event regular and always gives a good performance, more often than not taking the fall to put someone else over.

The latest iteration of Tozawa’s character has seen him Hulk up as he heads to the finish. He tears his shirt – sometimes not managing to do it all the way in half – and then runs wild.

Chen is a big dude, especially when put next to Tozawa, and he took the early going with Tozawa flipping all over for him.

After a series of chin locks from Chen, Tozawa used a headscissors and a suicide dive to the outside to get a near fall.

After a brief comeback, Tozawa finished Chen with his top rope senton back splash and celebrated with Dupri, because he doesn’t notch up too many wins. This was his second of 2024.

WWE Main Event results: Apollo Crews vs. Bronson Reed

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This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Enterprise Center in St Louis, Missouri before Monday’s episode of Raw.

A good-to-fair episode this week with a fun tag bout to open and a battle of two giants to top off the show.

Tegan Nox & Natalya defeated Chelsea Green & Piper Niven (5:32)

This was an entertaining enough tag match to open the show and the crowd thought so too, but the ending felt a little confusing.

Niven and Green cut the ring in half, bullying Natalya in the corner. She gave as good as she got, but quick tags thwarted her attempts to tag in Nox.

Eventually, Nox got the hot tag and ran wild, knocking Niven off the apron and nailing Green with running European uppercuts, a cannon ball and a top rope cross body for two.

Natalya and Nox teamed up on Green, but Niven broke up the pin. Natalya then locked in the sharpshooter on Green but Niven grabbed her hand. When the referee broke the hold, Niven entered the ring and Natalya tried to put her in the submission hold too.

The finish was a bit messy here, but essentially Niven was sent packing and after a few moments, Green finally tapped to the sharpshooter.

It looked like they were expecting another distraction from Niven, but it didn’t happen so they just went home.

Bronson Reed defeated Apollo Crews (6:35)

This was a good hard-hitting match that gave Bronson Reed his third consecutive Main Event win of 2024.

The early going saw Crews take the advantage, leading to a standing moonsault off the apron to the outside. This meant that they took an early break for the ads.

After the commercials, Reed defaulted to some chin locks before using the ropes to nail Reed with a flapjack. He then got greedy and went for a senton but Crews rolled out of the way and they both stayed down.

Crews was up first and used two running clotheslines, an enzuigiri and a top rope high cross to finally get Reed off his feet. After battling, Crews then finally managed to hoist Reed up onto his shoulders, but Reed fought his way out.

Reed then seized the opportunity and knocked Crews down to leave him prone to receive the Tsunami.

The win for Reed made sense as the way they are booking him now makes him look like an absolute giant.

Two matches added to WWE Raw lineup

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Two matches have been added to the lineup for this week’s WWE Raw. 

Katana Chance & Kayden Carter vs. Tegan Nox & Natalya, and The Creed Brothers vs. Judgment Day’s Dominik Mysterio & JD McDonagh are now scheduled for the show. 

WWE Raw General Manager Adam Pearce announced the news via Instagram on Saturday. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/p:C0XpPQiJ3R7

One-half of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, Chelsea Green, offered her thoughts in the comments section of Pearce’s post. 

“OHHH BLAH BLAH BLAAAAAAAH about these womens tag teams. The people care about US and only US,” Green wrote. 

Monday’s edition of Raw takes place from the MVP Arena in Albany, New York. Six matches and one segment have been announced for the show. 

WWE Raw December 4, 2023, announced lineup:

  • WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins defends against Jey Uso
  • Drew McIntyre vs. Sami Zayn
  • Two-out-of-three falls: DIY vs. Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci)
  • Shayna Baszler vs. Nia Jax
  • Katana Chance & Kayden Carter vs. Tegan Nox & Natalya
  • The Creed Brothers (Brutus & Julius Creed) vs. Judgment Day’s Dominik Mysterio & JD McDonagh
  • Cody Rhodes to address Shinsuke Nakamura

Tegan Nox & Natalya earn WWE Women’s Tag Team title shot

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Tegan Nox and Natalya have earned a WWE Women’s Tag Team title match.

Nox & Natalya won a four-way match on Monday’s Raw, defeating the teams of Kayden Carter & Katana Chance, Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell, and Maxxine Dupri & Ivy Nile. Nox scored the win after reversing a flying crossbody attempt by Dupri. With the win, Nox & Natalya have earned a future tag team title match against current champions Chelsea Green & Piper Niven, who were at ringside during the match.

The four teams were seen arguing with Adam Pearce earlier in the night, making their case to be the new number one contenders. Raw GM Adam Pearce then made the four-way on Raw, with Green and Niven not being happy about the outcome.

Since October, Nox and Natalya have formed a partnership, feuding with Green and Nox. After Nox suffered an injury and was briefly sidelined, Natalya and tag partner Nikki Cross lost to Green and Niven. On the October 30 edition of Raw, Green defeated Natalya in a Trick or Street fight thanks to interference from Niven. Nox went on to defeat Niven on last week’s Raw.