TNA Wrestling announced Monday that it has signed Shotzi Blackheart to its Knockouts division.
Blackheart, a California native, made her pro wrestling debut in 2014. She is a former NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion, having held the titles with Ember Moon in 2021. She left WWE in May 2025 when her contract expired.
She has spent the time since on the independent scene and in MLW, where she held the MLW Women’s World Featherweight Championship for more than 200 days.
This is not Blackheart’s first time working for the company. She wrestled for TNA, then known as IMPACT Wrestling, in 2018 and 2019.
TNA included 10 facts about Blackheart in its announcement:
- She has been riding motorcycles since she was 18.
- She is a paranormal investigator and has hunted ghosts across America for her YouTube series, Chamber of Horrors.
- She majored in musical theatre at AMDA in Hollywood.
- She is a horror movie fan, and one of her dreams is to direct her own horror film.
- She was named Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s 2025 Independent Wrestler of the Year and appeared on the magazine’s cover.
- She is obsessed with Elvis Presley.
- She has her own chicken farm.
- She rode every ride across all four Walt Disney World theme parks in one day.
- “I’m proudly Filipino.”
- “I got married and wrestled in my wedding dress all on the same day.”
TNA iMPACT! airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on AMC.
