Jacy Jayne: “I Feel Like TNA Helped Put Me On The Map As A Singles Wrestler”

Jayne compares her TNA and NXT experiences.

From July 2025 until August 2025, Jacy Jayne reigned as TNA Knockouts World and NXT Women’s Champion. Jayne looked back at her experience with TNA while on the Battleground Podcast.

She spoke about the freedom she had in TNA. As for NXT, Jayne stated that things are mapped out, whereas in TNA, it is more last-minute. Jayne added that TNA helped put her on the map as a singles wrestler.

“I mean, I’m from the indies originally. So, I’ve experienced, obviously, wrestling for TV, not for TV, two completely different things. I feel like in NXT… there’s a structure of how you do everything, and you have to hit specifics and your times are very strict and everything is very strict and you have to play by the book. TNA, it’s a little more relaxed. You have kind of more freedom to try things, do things that you might not do on NXT TV. So I feel like I learned from that. Also, everything is put together more last-minute. So I feel like your brain just has to be go, go, go. You don’t really have time to think about it, whereas in NXT, I feel like I have more time to think about things. So that’s challenging. But it was a great experience and I feel like TNA helped put me on the map as a singles wrestler. I was always a tag wrestler in NXT so, when I jumped over to TNA, I had a singles with Masha (Slamovich) and I feel like people were like, oh! Wait, Jacy can wrestle as a singles? I never really seen that side of her. So I feel like that just opened a lot of doors and it got people talking and it started getting me different types of opportunities.”

Jayne is still in possession of the NXT Women’s Title. Her next defense is taking place at Halloween Havoc, where she’ll be facing Tatum Paxley.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit the Battleground Podcast with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.