M By Elegance Explains Why She Used Maggie Moore As Her TNA Ring Name Before Getting Signed
Before officially signing with the company in May 2025, M By Elegance wrestled for TNA under the Maggie Moore ring name.
Aside from one bout on iMPACT, all of these matches were featured on Xplosion. Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, M said that TNA wanted to her name to differ from Lei Ying Lee.
“So I was coming in not signed, and working the Xplosion matches and I had to choose a different name
because Maggie Lee was too similar to Lei Ying Lee and they’re like, ‘There’s so many Lees in wrestling,
we gotta change it.’ So Maggie Moore was born one night at the hotel and then that’s what we were
rocking with that. Elegance Brand., they were taking a look at me and then when I think we were in South
Carolina, North Carolina—I forget which one—but they offered me and then after the fact, I was still
coming in and doing some tapings and I was still under Maggie Moore, but I was really hoping that when
I got announced that I signed that it would say Maggie Lee because that’s what everybody on the
independent scene knows me as, all the fans. So I got lucky, they announced me as Maggie Lee signed to
TNA. That was awesome. Then I was asked how I felt about joining the group and I was like, ‘Join Ash?
Duh. Why would I not?’ So yeah, that’s how that came about. But it wasn’t the plan from the get-go.”
Elsewhere in the interview, M By Elegance recalled wrestling Willow Nightingale in AEW. Check out her full comments by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful’s full interview with the former Maggie Lee in the video linked at the top of this article.
