During a livestream on her Twitch channel, Nixon Newell addressed the situation that developed over the weekend regarding her “walking out” of a Collision taping alongside Miranda Alize.
Newell, who stated several times that there was no bad blood on either side, detailed the pair going to the last four tapings and the experience they shared during each visit.
We turned up at the first taping and were told as Collision was was halfway through or close to the end that we would need to film a promo for a match next week. We filmed the promo. ‘Cool, we’re going to have a match.’ We were excited to wrestle TayJay. We drive to the next show the next week. Get there, and we understand things happen, so we’re not mad at things happening.
Our match has changed from TayJay to Marina and Megan, which is fine. We were told pretty late in the day. Probably the last match of Dynamite that we were having this match, not long before Collision was filming. That’s fine. They told us it was probably not going to be a long match, which is fine, we don’t care. We’re just happy to have a match. We do that match, no problem.
Alize added that they were informed they might possibly do stuff on Ring of Honor the following week, and were thanked by the company for competing.
Newell recalled the issue that came up the day of the Collision taping in question:
We turn up Saturday, hanging around, not told anything until just after doors open. We’re told, ‘You’re wrestling TayJay.’ Cool. We come up with a bunch of ideas and we’re ready. They walk away, come back, ‘By the way, it’s three minutes.’ Nobody is going to be happy with three minutes. We weren’t there going, ‘What the f–k? Three minutes? What the f–k?’ It was never that. It was, ‘Oh, we were told we were going to have a match of substance because the match didn’t happen. We just asked, ‘Is it three minutes?’ ‘Yup.’ Okay, after the promo we cut, we were told to make ourselves a credible tag team, so that’s what we did. We decided collectively as a partnership, a couple, a tag, as wrestlers independently, that three minutes is going to benefit no one in this match. It won’t make anyone look good.
What we want to do as wrestlers is make us all look good. We said, ‘We really appreciate it.’ We were polite, we were respectful, we called our producer over and said, ‘I don’t think three minutes is going to benefit either of us. Not just us, but anyone in the tag team. We want what’s best for everyone. Respectfully, we deserve this to go to someone it can benefit.’ It went to the other two females, fair to them. There was never bad blood. We spoke to everyone involved. It wasn’t a, ‘F–k you, we’re leaving.’ We spoke to a lot of people about this and they were all in agreement that three minutes wasn’t going to do good for anyone. A lot of people were in agreement with us. The producer said, ‘No worries.’
The pair then recounted the information being relayed, before they were told they were free to go home.
Newell, who competed as Tegan Nox in WWE before her release in November 2024, wrapped up the discussion by referring to her intention to finish wrestling by next year:
I told everyone at the beginning of the year, this is my last two years in wrestling. We’re already a year gone. I want to have fun this last year. It was never a bad thing on anyone’s part.
We spoke to all parties involved and all agreed on everything. It was never an ego thing.
Source: Fightful