TNA Slammiversary After The Bell (7/20/25) – The Roxanne Effect

TNA Slammiversary Results (7/20/2025)

• Countdown To Slammiversary – TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Title Match: The Elegance Brand (Ash By Elegance & Heather By Elegance) (w/M By Elegance & The Personal Concierge) (c) defeated The IInspiration (Cassie Lee & Jessie McKay)
• Countdown To Slammiversary – The Home Town Man defeated Eric Young (w/Judas Icarus & Travis Williams)
• Countdown To Slammiversary – Josh Bishop, Real 1 & Zilla Fatu defeated Jake Something, Mance Warner & Steve Maclin (w/Steph De Lander)
• Mustafa Ali (w/Jason Hotch, John Skyler & Tasha Steelz) defeated Cedric Alexander
• Matt Cardona & The System (Brian Myers, Eddie Edwards & JDC) (w/ Alisha Edwards) defeated DarkState (Cutler James, Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin & Saquon Shugars)
• Indi Hartwell defeated Tessa Blanchard (w/Victoria Crawford)
• TNA Knockouts World Title / WWE NXT Women’s Title Winner Takes All Match: NXT’s Jacy Jayne (w/Fallon Henley & Jazmyn Nyx) (c) defeated Masha Slamovich (c)
• TNA X-Division Title Match: Leon Slater defeated Moose (c)
• TNA World Tag Team Title Four Way Ladder Match: The Hardys (Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy) defeated The Nemeths (Nic Nemeth & Ryan Nemeth) (c), First Class (AJ Francis & KC Navarro), and The Rascalz (Myron Reed & Zachary Wentz)
• TNA World Title Three Way Match: NXT’s Trick Williams (c) defeated Joe Hendry and Mike Santana

The Nygma’s View

100% Countdown

The Elegance Brand was meant to lose the TNA Knockouts World Tag Team titles. The IInspiration is two people; the Elegance Brand is four. Jessie McKay and Cassie Lee couldn’t do anything with M and The Personal Concierge involved.

M created the necessary distraction, and Ash and Heather retained. Nygma says: One day, the title will change hands. But when?

I thought about Eric Young vs The Home Town Man in my iMPACT reviews. It wasn’t on the card, but it happened. The Northern Armory made a surprise appearance.

Eric Young disrespected New York and its fans when he was interrupted by The Home Town Man. Judas Icarus and Travis Williams got involved, but were later caught by the fans. The Home Town Man won, and Eric Young is furious.

Nygma says: No, it’s not Cody Deaner.

I expected TNA International Champion Steve Maclin, Mance Warner, and Jake Something to be unable to team up. I was wrong, even if Warner inadvertently collided with Something at the end of the match. Real 1 pinned Something, but the real one in this match is Zilla Fatu.

At only 25, he is already a monster in the ring. Nygma says: Apples don’t fall far away from the tree in the Anoa’i Family.

100% TNA

Mustafa Ali had a vendetta against Cedric Alexander, so he brought not only Order 4 but his Secret Service. In an 8-on-1 situation, Cedric Alexander had zero chances to win. The match was good despite being biased right off the bat.

The storyline was not good, and the match was badly promoted. I still ask myself what Cedric Alexander was doing here. Nygma says: In Ali We Trust, and why not “may Ali be with you?”

Indi Hartwell logically defeated Tessa Blanchard, even with Victoria Crawford at ringside. What happened after the match is more interesting. As Hartwell was interviewed by Gia Miller, VixTess brutally attacked the two of them.

Then, backstage, Santino Marella exploded, threw her out of the building, and suspended Blanchard indefinitely. Nygma says: Everybody needs to blow a fuse, sometimes.

Leon Slater did it. Not only did he defeat Moose, but he became the youngest X-Division Champion at 20 years and 296 days. Amazing Red was in attendance, I’m sure he appreciated seeing his 2003 record beaten.

The match of the night, without any doubt. A lesson in wrestling, respect, and sportsmanship. Even more when Slater’s idol, AJ Styles, came to acknowledge his talent.

Nygma says: Moose is a hero. Leon Slater is the future. Period.

The Hardys were contemplating retirement if they didn’t win. Leon Slater was right; they both became Champions the same night. Kudos to every team because the Hardys, the Nemeths, First Class, and the Rascalz all nailed this Ladder match.

I love hardcore things, so I loved the match, but not enough to make it my match of the night. Bully Ray’s Bound For Glory request blurred everything. Nygma says: We can love something as much as you can hate it.

100% NXTNA

Matt Cardona joined forces with Brian Myers, Eddie Edwards, and JDC of The System to battle NXT’s DarkState. It started off with a huge brawl, but it turned out into a great match. JDC’s tribute to Sabu was fabulous.

I’m usually not a 4-plus people matches fan. Cardona and the System quite simply gave a lesson to Darkstate. Nygma says: Cardona in the System?

Once again, a biased match. Jacy Jayne became the TNA Knockouts Champion because she was not alone. Masha Slamovich is one of the best female wrestlers ever, but what could she do against four ladies?

Slamovich wanted to do it alone, something I respect, but nothing was in her favor. Xia Brookside and Lei Ying Lee came and tried to even the odds, but it was not enough.

Nygma says: I called it the “worst-case scenario.” I was wrong; it was a nightmare.

No, you won’t know why Trick-NA makes me laugh because he won. As he said, Frankie Kazarian made his presence felt (Kazarian joined Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt on commentary). The 3-Way situation was against a possible title change.

Kazarian was ejected from ringside when he tried to pull out the referee. Williams feigned an injury to win. Nygma says: Suddenly, “Trick-NA” doesn’t make me laugh anymore.

The Nygma’s Last Word(s)

The Roxanne Effect… Remember the Police’s song, “You don’t have to sell your body to the night.” I have nothing to say about the matches; we had excellent wrestling. Storyline-wise, I understand the social media backlash, because I get out of this PLE with a bunch of question marks in mind.

That’s a thing to please the fans, with AJ Styles’ return or Bully Ray making a grand request. It’s another thing to use that to make the fans look away, as the company gave its titles to WWE and forgot to promote their talents the way they deserve. Never has the “NXTNA” moniker been more real and true.

Cedric Alexander deserved better. Santana’s promos were meant to blur our eyes away from reality. Joe Hendry seems to be already WWE-bound.

I love TNA, not the marionette WWE has been trying to make of it. And the partnership is a three-year one…

I may hurt you with my words. Remember that the truth hurts, but it hurts me first. Till TNA iMPACT on Thursday, may the Nygma be with you.