So as most of the IWC knows, last week’s show did the best rating in 8 years, with 241,000 average viewers. This is great news since the debut show was such garbage, I’m glad it didn’t hurt the potential resurgence of TNA as a solid alternative brand.

A few window dressing matches and segments for No Surrender tomorrow. But the highlight will most likely be the Street Fight with Mara Sade and Ryan Nemeth. Ryan is such a great character worker, Mara looks like a million bucks in this situation and she’s getting TV time, so this is good for everyone. It’s nice to see an undercard storyline that is genuinely entertaining.

Let’s see what the Go Home does…do we make it 5 good shows in a row?

Could we see NEW TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions at #TNANoSurrender!?@XiaBrookside @indi_hartwell

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) February 13, 2026

Ratings:

• Rich Swann vs Nic Nemeth: Nic wins via Danger Zone – ***
• Albuquerque Street Fight: Ryan Nemeth vs Mara Sade: Mara wins via Super Kick – ***
• The System vs Santana, The Hardyz & Moose w/Lish: Bear wins via Fire Thunder Driver – ***

Results:

Moose comes out, makes a funny remark about his big ass head, says he’s not gonna cry about getting the Bobby Brown treatment by being kicked out of the group he founded. Moose calls out Santana since Santana has the blueprint on taking out The System one by one. So it looks like a tentative alliance is brewing.

Santana is good to go, calls them The Creator and The Blueprint. It’s clever, but we all know Matt Morgan is the Blueprint. They get hype, call for The Hardyz to solidify this Dangerous Alliance…but sexy Suited Daria Rae shows up to ruin the fun. She’s doing really well as the heel boss who’s easy to hate. 

.@ryrynemnem and @itsmarasade will clash in an Albuquerque Street Fight TONIGHT on #TNAiMPACT!

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— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) February 13, 2026

Gotta love Ryan’s character work. Between him and Kit Wilson, I don’t know who I like more this year. 

Rich Swann vs Nic Nemeth

Nic controls things with a little early mat wrestling, a few cheap 80s heel moves like stepping on the hand, knees across the chin. More mat wrestling, World of Sport Headscissor escape from Rich, Rope Run, Leap Frog, Duck, Eat the Dropkick and Nic powders after eating boot leather. The commercial kicks in, which I’m a little annoyed with since its the first match, but we’ll see if the commercials are egregious this week.

We get back, Rich is connecting punches to the abdomen, Nic flops to the corner, Rich aims for the Splash, misses, but counters Nic’s offense into a Neckbreaker. Rich connects with a Rolling Splash for only two. Both are struggling, Rich misses a swing, FAMEasser, only two again. Nic tunes up the band…Rich catches, flips, standing switch, Rich brushes off Nic twice, Rich backflips away from Danger Zone, Running Back Kick into the Five Star Frog Splash and only a near fall.

Nic tries to grab a hold of a Rear Naked Choke and wear down Swann but Rich stands up, turns it into a Spicolli Driver and breaks the submission. Strike Exchange back to their feet, Nic with a Headbutt, then he chides Rich and Rich combo slaps, Sole Butt, Letha Injection countered into Danger Zone! Nic wins!

Eric Young comes out, cuts a psychological promo on BDE and patience. BDE comes out and EY says he doesn’t understand the whole Influencer thing, but he offers him a spot into The Cleanse. It’s very Cultish and infomercial, so its the correct energy. BDE says no and calls The Cleanse imaginary…so hopefully that means we’ll see it finally turn into something. EY clocks him mid-rejection, Piledriver is attempted to be prevented by the pack of zebras, but it never works. BDE is left laying. EY runs back into the ring to do it again, security finally comes out, EY Piledrives an official, pie faces a referee…and finally leaves? Nope, he threatens the fans, security tries to stop him again, so Piledriver on a different security guard. EY takes off his shirt and stalks around but finally makes his exit. 

Albuquerque Street Fight: Ryan Nemeth vs Mara Sade

Ryan tries to attack before the bell, but Mara ducks it and catches him with a few strikes and they head into the crowd. Mara slams Ryan into a trash can and dog walks him a little back to ringside. She finds a few baking sheets and cracks him across the back, he tries to punch her but hits the sheet for a comedy moment. Missile Dropkick from Mara and Ryan powders. Mara goes for a Baseball Slide but Ryan catches her in the ring skirt and hits her with a baking sheet. He starts talking to the crowd, so Mara hits him with a chair. Ryan grabs her hair and slams her head into the flooring before pinning her under the chair legs and kicking her.

Mara finally counters his whip, posts Ryan, sets up the chair, Flying Lariat off the chair has Ryan leveled. Mara looks under the ring, finds a little black bag. OH! Lollipops! Mara’s ringside treat and a twist on the Legos and tacks. Suplex blocks from both, Mara gets the best of it and Suplexes Ryan into the lollipops. She opens one and places it in her mouth, grabs a keno stick and lights up Ryan. Swinging away, White Russian Legsweep for two! Mara with the Kendo Stick choke, Ryan turns it into a cradle, kickout, Ryan kicks Mara and grabs the kendo stick and starts using the stick on Mara.

Ryan showboats, climbs the buckles, Mara cuts him off, he crumples, Super Kick and Mara wins!

The System vs Santana, The Hardyz & Moose w/Lish

The first commercial happens before the match starts, so that’s smart at least. When we come back, the System is talking it over on the outside to decide who starts with Santana. Myers is chosen and Santana unloads on him, a quick Leap Frog, Duck, Dropkick spot rocks Myers, Super Kick, Side Slam and a Senton. Santana is really running through Myers to start.

Santana tags in Jeff, and the crowd pops. Jeff grabs the arm, wrestles Myers down, wrenches, drags him back up, tag to Matt, Polish Hammer to the arm, Delete Arm Breakers, tag back to Jeff, Launcher into the bottom rope and a Leg Drop from Jeff. Quick tag to Santana, and there’s a lot of good work. But Myers gets desperate and just charges Santana forward to his corner and The System starts with quick tags.

Eddie with a few cheap shots, Bear runs over Santana and pancakes him in the corner. Cedric comes in and works on Santana’s neck and shoulders. Cedric wanted a back breaker or something, but Santana flips away, tags in Moose and Moose hot tag destroys everyone. Cedric thinks he stops Moose with foot up, but when he perches he eats a Go To Hell for two. Myers interferes with Moose so Cedric hits the Enzuigiri, tags out to Eddie. Eddie looks for something but eats a Dropkick from Moose. Moose tags in Matt and he gives everyone the Delete Buckle Headbutts.

Matt finally gets cut off with tactics, Myers has a Sleeper locked in, but Matt fires, Jawbreaker and it looks like he’s about to get out, but Eddie gets the tag and the faces are getting annoyed so giving more chances for cheating. Commercials are the devil, but expected when the match is going 20+ minutes.

We’re back to watch Matt Hardy eat a Back Suplex from Myers. System is still fully in control. Cedric tags in to dismantle Matt but the crowd gets behind Matt. He fires up, but then gets trapped in the heel corner. Myers is tagged in, he’s usually the momentum switch bitch, so we should get the comeback. Myers hits a Knee Lift, tries to wipe out the faces from the apron but eats a Side Effect. Simultaneous tags and Eddie & Santana sprint at each other.

Chop trade, Santana catches Eddie’s Kick, Eddie stops Santana and whips him to the corner, but Santana reverses it into the Rolling Buck Fifty. Two count, everyone in, System tossed, Babyface signature spam but Myers barely stops the count. Heels get faces out, signature spam from the heels, but Santana kicks out. Then we get the everyone hits a signature spam.

Santana misses the Spin the Block, donnybrook, Jeff and Bear are legal members. Jeff has Bear in the new submission, Myers tries to use the belt, Lish stops him, Moose Pump Kick on Myers, Eddie Suicida on Moose, Bear wants the Choke Bomb, but Jeff and Matt hit the Plot Twist! Cedric stops the Swanton then takes out Matt. Bear with a Shuji Ishikawa style Fire Thunder Driver. System wins.

Overall Score: 6/10

While not as strong as previous weeks, not bad. Mara and Ryan was amusing if not a little too tame, Ariana pickpocketing the Cobra away from Santino, Daria being a party pooper and overruling Santino’s suspension of Eric Young, as well Indi cutting the best promo of her TNA run with Xia, are some of the bright spots. None of the matches were bad, even though there were only three. Nic and Rich was a solid match with absolutely no reason to exist aside from being decent. So yeah, an above average Go Home for TNA, and nothing upsetting.

So starting at Genesis, we’re on a 3 show streak of being pretty good and entertaining. Now, next week is No Surrender and we haven’t heard any matches, so that ball should get rolling tonight. This is definitely a coin flip of a show with a lot of lower card angle matches, open “in action” segments and general question marks about where things will go.

I’m still a little salty my Jersey Jarhead got fired and Trey is once again the Leftover Rascal who has a title shot now. Since there’s so many questions it’s hard to really judge where things are going, since no one knows yet.

Let’s see if things move along logically or if we get LOLTNA moments.

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Ratings:

• Adam Brooks vs Trey Miguel: Trey wins via Lightning Spiral – *** 1/4
• TW3 & Tommy Two Scoops vs The Righteous: The Righteous win via Orange Sunshine – Squash
• Elijah & Jada Stone vs Tasha Steelz & Mustafa Ali: Tasha wins via Cheating for Days – ** 3/4
• Tessa Blanchard w/Victoria Crawford and Mila Moore vs Rachel Ley: Tessa wins via Buzzsaw – Squash
• Lei Ying Lee, Xia Brookside & Indi Hartwell vs Elegance Brand w/Concierge & Mr. E: Xia wins via Prawn Hold – ***

Results:

Adam Brooks vs Trey Miguel

Top wristlock start, Trey tries to twist out of it, but Brooks won’t play the World of Sport dumbo game. He drives down Trey, Trey has to do some extra flippy useless stuff to break it just to grab the arm back and kick it. So imagine a Zack Sabre Jr counter, just with extra useless steps. Trey hits the Golden Triangle Moonsault after Brooks powders and Trey is in control. Trey flirts with Arianna who’s on commentary, Brooks counters a Whip to the corner in a unique sliding way, Enzuigiri out of it, a little rope run trading as Trey goes to the air and eats a Forearm. Adam Brooks looks like Hammerstone if he shrunk in the dryer.

Back Elbow and Low Dropkick from Brooks for two. Trey up and over in the corner, Brooks with a Double Leg take down into a Sliding Forearm, and then choke against the middle rope. Brooks…looks really good. But as soon as I say that, Trey Rebound Turn Around Suplex, into a Missile Dropkick. Little bit of jockeying, Brooks catches the foot, Trey swings around for an Enzuigiri, Brooks and Trey wrestle to the top, Superplex from Brooks and Trey powders. Suicida from Brooks, Running Gamengiri, Pump Kick into Sitout Powerbomb for two. Trey tries to turn it around, John Woo Kick from Brooks. Brooks wants to end it, but Trey slips it, Poison Rana into Lightning Spiral.

Trey is trash, Brooks looked great, Trey is worthless. There’s a reason why he’s the Rascal always left behind. Stacks attacks Trey and this is the only time I’m gonna root for a dweeb named Stacks. 

TW3 & Tommy Two Scoops vs The Righteous

Tommy 2 Scoops looks more like a Temu Colt Cabana with a worse physique and a dumber name. This is an obvious squash match with two imbeciles with moron names. Dutch’s tongue action is more entertaining than these losers. Dutch and Vincent do Lickitongue grab and slam, tandem creeping on nonsense named idiots and Orange Sunshine wins a match that was never in question.

Frankie walks out to run down Albuquerque after having a meeting with Daria Rae. He says even with one arm he can kick anyone’s ass from Albercrappy…and Elijah’s music cuts off Kaz since the Intergender Match is supposed to happen now. 

Elijah & Jada Stone vs Tasha Steelz & Mustafa Ali

Jada and Tasha start, Tasha Chops and Whips Jada, but an Up and Over and shove sets the pace. Jada Matrix Dodges under a Lariat, Tasha gets bounced around, powders and Jada wants to fly but Mustafa blocks. Order 4 group up and to talk and Elijah just chucks Jada at the pile of people. At least it was a slightly clever usage of the morons in a pile waiting for a dive spot. Cut to commercial.

Back from commercial…Tasha is in control prolly…let’s see. Ahh Ali and Elijah are both in, in mid rope run and a Pop-Up Powerbomb connects for Elijah. So a little unexpected. Women tag in, Jada rocks Tasha, Slingblade, Split Legged Moonsault with a Drop Down for two. Order 4 garbage, Agent Zero drives Elijah into the apron, Jada checks on Elijah but she’s alone. Ali tags in and his former cop instincts are kicking in. He shoves Jada a few times, she Forearms him, rope run, Body Scissors from Jada into a DDT and she plants Mustafa. Back Elbow from Jada, Monnsault into Reverse DDT Skull End with more style. Big Moonsault from the top takes out Ali and Tasha, Hotch tries to cheat, Jada blocks and kicks Hotch.

The numbers catch up with her though, Baseball Slide from Ali sideswipes Jada. Elijah tries to get back up but gets dismissed. Jada is thrown in, Jada with a Double Backflip Stunner on a cocky Ali. Tasha makes the save and pulls over Ali, tags herself in, Codebreaker from Jada though! Jada goes to the top, Ali grabs her, Tombstone Piledriver, Ali puts Tasha over her after the ref was distracted again, and Order 4 win with soooo much interference. Jada looked great though.

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OH, she’s feigning turning over a new leaf to emotionally manipulate Santino into a title match. If there’s cheating and she beats Lei Ying Lee, I’m gonna be closer to that “stop watching” side of being angry than want someone to take the title back. TNA needs to stop losing belts to NXT, it looks pathetic, especially when only the Hardyz have taken a title from NXT, and that barely counts as “TNA talent”. 

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Tessa Blanchard w/Victoria Crawford and Mila Moore vs Rachel Ley

Well at least this jobber isn’t name like Rubber Ducky Ice Cream Bar and has a real name. Tessa’s gonna kill her, but decent name. Tessa ragdolls her, Dropkick between the shoulder blades, Forearm across the face, just bullying tactics, stomping a mud hole in the girl in the corner. Rachel tries to fight back, but Tessa takes her head off, wipes her boots on the girl, Irish Whip but Rachel blocks, Back Elbow, Kick, Moonsault…and Tessa pulls a Samoa Joe and nopes it. Buzzsaw DDT. Big Booty Blanchard is the winner.

Ryan and Mara have a great segment of Battle of the Sexes sports things. Mara does the Mr. Perfect Football throw, pegs Ryan with a dart, Superkicks him in the face for a trick shot on basketball. It’s solid comedy. Ryan is wonderful as a comedy guy and Mara looks too good to keep off TV because the division is crappy. So I love this.

Lei Ying Lee, Xia Brookside & Indi Hartwell vs Elegance Brand w/Concierge & Mr. E

ASH feigns starting, tags out to M, M does some pretend Karate but Lei catches her foot, M begs off, Lei hyper extends the knee, tags in Xia, and a little tandem quick hits. M counters a Headlock with a Headscissors, Xia does the World of Sport Handstand escape, her little wiggle and grabs a headlock again. M grabs the rope, they square off…and Xia goes back to the Headlock again! M finally gets out of it with a Knee Lift. Tags out and everyone is in, 6 woman donnybrook!

Faces hold the ring as we go to commercial. Okay that was a long commercial, but the match is still going on. Lei and ASH are in, Sweep, Round Kick, Corner Down Strikes from our Mandarin Martial Mamacita. M distracts the ref, Mr. E trips up Lei, ASH takes advantage and an Overhand Chop into a Snapmare, ASH locks in a Sleeper on Lei. Lei fires out, Double Lariat spot, and simultaneous tags for Indi and M. Indi goes back to the toe stomp from a few weeks ago, into a Spinebuster but M manages to use her length to her advantage to tag out to Heather. Xia blind tags herself in during a rope run, Xia with the dive on the pile of Elegance, but Mr. E is there…Concierge has Glitter, and Xia ducks, Glitterbomb on Mr. E. Xia wrestles Heather to the ground, keeps wrist control and executes a beautiful Prawn Hold for the win. Wow…good job Xia.

Elegance Brand post-match beat down.

Santana comes out to make it known that he’s okay with Maclin turning on him, but to stab him in the front next time. The System comes out of the crowd to attack Santana, Hardyz try to make the save, but it’s 4 on 3. Moose’s music hits after a short beat down, he’s behind them and on the apron. Moose cleans house to a nice crowd reaction. Santana, Moose and Hardyz are united against The System. 

Overall Score: 8/10

Ryan and Mara are probably my favorite non-wrestling angle in wrestling. They play off each other so well, and Ryan is such a great character. He’s like a self aware Disco Inferno. Steve Maclin doing the “You Can’t Fire Me, I Quit” and then beating Santana’s ass leaves an “Unsanctioned Match” possible. Arianna Grace manipulating Santino into giving her a title shot is clever, but I don’t want to see her win. Moose getting a little payback is cool, and Jada Stone looked awesome for being someone they’ve given no real opportunities to until tonight. I wish TNA would learn how to book heel factions in different ways than a bunch of panzies who can only win with 87 flavors of interference. It just makes everyone involved look pathetic and doesn’t always make the babyface “look strong” when you book it the same color by numbers way.

Adam Brooks looked great, yeah I called him Shrunken Hammerstone, but dude can work. Trey I’ve never been a fan of because he can’t talk and his moveset is flippy indie dork and has been for 10 years, it’s not clever. He’s in his 30s now…Ospreay grew up and learned there’s more to this game than flips, Trey should try that too. Elegance Brand while infuriatingly stupid at times, do strike right chords. Coming out in Breaking Bad outfits in New Mexico is clever.

Oh and yes, I’m an unabashed fan of Tessa, so I like it when she looks like badass killer that she is. So sue me. The show flew by, it was fun, and even though there wasn’t much previewed, it worked fairly well. 4 in a row.