Nixon Newell (Tegan Nox) talks struggles in free agency

[Chris]

On free agency so far:

“Not great, if I’m being honest. Severe lack of bookings. Not sure where that’s from, but the bookings that I have done, like I’ve been home to Attack, which has been phenomenal. Got to wrestle Dani Luna, who’s been on my list, God, for years since she first started training I could tell she was going to be something special. So she’s been on my list for a very, very long time, so I’m glad that one was in the books at least. But, yeah, it’s been slow. Hopefully it picks up soon, because it’s a nightmare [laughs]. But hopefully soon it gets better.”

On getting released:

“Did I want it to happen? Yes and no. In a sense of, no, that was my dream job. I’ve wanted that since I was a kid. All my friends worked there at the time. But, yes, I wanted to wrestle, which, you know, still hasn’t panned out great. But at least now I can do what I want to do and have fun with wrestling again. Instead of just being stuck in the same story with the knees, which was the most disheartening thing to constantly keep doing when my knees — I haven’t been injured with my knees since 2019, whenever the last knee surgery was. That was the last time I was hurt with my knees. So it wasn’t like they were injured at all, you know?”

On AEW:

“I’m interested, I’d love to go there. But as far as I know, I don’t think there’s an interest from them, which is a shame. But I would love to go there.”

 

[Chris]

“It’s been slow, but it’s picking up a lot now, which I’m happy to say that, you know, I’m getting a bit more busier. I like to be busy."

“I went through quite a lot in the last couple of months, which, unfortunately, I put out a post saying wrestling unfortunately did take a back step for me. Like within days of being released, I was in a massive car wreck. So I’ve been sorting that out."

“And then when the 90 days came up, I had to go straight back home and do some shows there. But life has just been so crazy that unfortunately, wrestling did take a back step. But when I released a promo the other day on Instagram, the feedback and the attraction that it got made me understand and prove to myself that I was right. Where, yeah, ‘You have definitely been lax and you shouldn’t have put wrestling so far back in your life.’ So now I’m taking the initiative of doing promos, doing pictures, doing a bunch of stuff just to get myself back out there, get myself, you know, the name Nixon Newell back in people’s minds.”

“I want to be wrestling-related for as long as I physically can, whether it’s an active wrestler, producer, trainer, coach, anything to do with wrestling. This is my life and has been my life since I was 16. This is going to be my 14th year in wrestling this year.

“So I do truly believe that, you know, after posting that promo and seeing the reactions that it got, I do believe I put wrestling a bit too far back than I should have done, even though life is rough, life’s rough for everyone. So it is on my part where I definitely should have been a bit more proactive. But now that I’ve seen that, my foot’s on the gas pedal. I’m going. So in the last week and a half since I posted it, my bookings have picked up. I’m, you know, I’m wrestling quite frequently now, still not as busy as I’d like to be, but it’s starting to pick up now. So I’ve realized my mistakes. I’m rectifying that mistake.”

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Man She's had no luck . Two serious knee injuries and then a car crash. She's been through the mill. Hopefully she gets some booking as it well help her confidence. Wish her the best