Heath Slater Recalls Edge Comparisons Before NXT Debut, Updated TNA iMPACT! Card

04/01/2025 04:45 PM

TNA Wrestling has announced that Jazmyn Nyx will be teaming up with Jacy Jayne and Tessa Blanchard in a six-woman tag team match on this week's episode of TNA iMPACT!.

The trio will take on Rosemary, Xia Brookside, and Lei Ying Lee on Thursday's show.

You can check out the updated lineup for the April 3rd show below:

* Tessa Blanchard, Jacy Jayne, and Jazmyn Nyx vs. Masha Slamovich, Xia Brookside, and Lei Ying Lee

* Frankie Kazarian vs. Elijah

* Steve Maclin vs. TBA

* Santino Marella makes a "groundbreaking" announcement.

* We'll hear from The Hardys

BREAKING: THURSDAY at 8/7c on @AXSTV in the US, @Sportsnet 360 in Canada and TNA+ worldwide.

TNA Knockouts Champion @mashaslamovich, @XiaBrookside & @TheLeiYingLee
battle Tessa Blanchard and #WWENXT's @jacyjaynewwe & @Jazmyn_nyx_wwe w/ @FallonHenleyWWE#TNAiMPACTpic.twitter.com/7IFjjeg6t7

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 1, 2025

During a recent interview with “Inside the Ropes,” former WWE Superstar Heath Slater revealed that he was asked to alter his look when called up to NXT due to his resemblance to Edge.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On being told to change his appearance for the launch of NXT: "Dr. Tom (Prichard) pulled eight of us in the room, and he had an email saying "we need your eight best down there that are ready for TV." I was one of the eight. Next thing I know, they thought that I looked too much like Edge. My hair was long, I had the long coat, I had long tights with emblems on the side that resembled, but didn't look like [Edge's]. But they told me before I got called up to go to NXT that I need to cut my hair off, gotta go to trunks and all this stuff to where I'm like, are you just changing everything about me? I was a bad guy in developmental. They wanted me to be a good guy on television to the point that they were stripping from us everything that we'd done, and now we were going on this game show and being people that we don't know how to be."

On NXT changing their points system in the first season: "But the way that it was explained to us was that it was going to be like a points bracket system. If you win, you get five points. If you lose, you get zero. If it's a draw, you get one, stuff like that. But then again, it was nothing like that. It became each week us going to TV not knowing what the hell we're doing. Not knowing if it's a match or a keg carry contest, or we're having a tag match or an obstacle course. It became a running joke, to where each week I'd be like, "Gosh, you hear what we're doing? We're having a hot dog eating contest!" I feel like we were guinea pigs on television with a game show that they were trying to make good."

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