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TNA Wrestling reveals 2025 year-end award winners

Posted on by Joseph Currier

On the Christmas night edition of Impact, TNA unveiled its year-end award winners for 2025.

Fan voting on social media determined the winners after TNA announced the slate of nominees earlier this month. Along with the fan-voted honors, TNA gave a special nod to Chris Bey, naming him the promotion’s Inspirational Wrestler of the Year. Bey broke his neck in a scary in-ring accident in late 2024 but has made incredible progress in his recovery, reaching the point where he’s now able to walk and live an independent life again.

Here is the full list of award winners:

  • Male Wrestler of the Year: Mike Santana
  • Knockout of the Year: Ash By Elegance
  • X-Division Star of the Year: Leon Slater
  • Tag Team of the Year: The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy)
  • Knockouts Tag Team of the Year: The Elegance Brand (Ash By Elegance, Heather By Elegance, M By Elegance)
  • Match of the Year: Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali falls count anywhere match from Rebellion
  • Moment of the Year: AJ Styles returns at Slammiversary
  • Crossover Moment of the Year: Joe Hendry faces Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41
  • Finishing Move of the Year: Leon Slater’s Swanton 450
  • Faction of the Year: The System (Moose, Eddie Edwards, Alisha Edwards, Brian Myers, JDC)
  • Inspirational Wrestler of the Year: Chris Bey

2026 will be an important year for TNA as the company debuts on a new television home. Impact premieres on AMC on January 15 and will air from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time every Thursday.

TNA Impact results: Christmas Surprise match, year-end awards

Posted on by Josh Nason

For the second straight month, TNA Wrestling had a holiday edition of Impact with Thursday’s show that featured the first-ever Christmas Surprise match and their year-end awards.

The match was a ten-person intergender bout where the teams were drawn at random through team captains Ryan Nemeth and Mara Sade opening up different presents to reveal who was on their respective squad.

In the end, Sade, Dezmond Xavier, BDE, Eric Young & Peyton Royce defeated Ryan Nemeth, Mance Warner, Rosemary, Jake Something & Jessie McKay when Sade pinned Rosemary after a superkick. The winning team earned a holiday bonus while the losers got coal.

TNA Year-End Awards

They announced various winners throughout the show which were paired up with backstage promos and parts of notable matches.

  • Tag Team of the Year: The Hardys (partial replay of Slammiversary four-way ladder match). There was a glitch where Tom Hannifan was talking about how the Hardys were transcendent in wrestling when a WWE WrestleMania 41 graphic appeared with no acknowledgement. A few seconds later, it appeared again for the next award but was never edited.
  • Crossover Moment of the Year: Joe Hendry vs. Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41 (no footage was shown)
  • Knockouts Tag Team of the Year: The Elegance Brand
  • Knockouts of the Year: Ash by Elegance (footage was shown from The Elegance Brand vs. Spitfire from Sacrifice)
  • X-Division Star & Finishing Move of the Year: Leon Slater with Slater’s X-Division title win over Moose at Slammiversary and the subsequent AJ Styles promo afterward shown.
  • Match of the Year: Mustafa Ali vs. Mike Santana falls count anywhere from Rebellion
  • Male Wrestler of the Year: Mike Santana
  • Inspirational Wrestler of the Year: Chris Bey
  • Faction of the Year: The System

The full lineup for next Thursday’s New Year’s Day edition of Impact were also revealed.