The former Jakara Jackson chats AEW and TNA.
For the first time in her wrestling career, Mara Sadè f.k.a. Jakara Jackson is a free agent. She was let go by WWE in May 2025. She partook in a tryout for the company in 2021 and was signed out of that.
Sadè has been making the media rounds discussing her exit from the company and future plans. She sat down with K & S WrestleFest for a virtual signing and the idea of venturing into AEW was brought up.
Sadè believes she has to show everyone what she can do before getting an opportunity like that. She also spoke about TNA and her experiences there. She spoke highly of former TNA producer Gail Kim and recounted meeting Jazz while working with the promotion.
“It’s not (sitting in catering is something I don’t want to do). I have very big aspirations. I want to hold gold, I want to tell stories, I want to entertain, I wanna be in front of the camera. I want to be showing the world who Mara Sadè is like you said and the beauty of right now for me to be honest is the fact there are so many promotions too and options, you know what I’m saying? Versus before when there weren’t, which would make the grind even more tedious. But, I feel like there’s so many great options. AEW, if I were to have a story. But I do believe I gotta build to that. I need to show people what I’m about… TNA is awesome too because so many greats have come from there. Naomi, Chelsea (Green), Michin, all of them.
And I love that and I respect that so much (TNA keys in on their women’s division), and I had a good experience, pretty good experience at TNA, for the most part. When Gail Kim was there, she made me feel so welcomed. Jazz, so great. Jazz, oh my God, meeting her was also a blessing because she’s one of those greats... There’s so many great promotions that I -- shoot, you know, whichever I fall into, I’m about to kill it.”
On July 6th, Sadè is going to be in action for Jersey Championship Wrestling. She'll be facing Masha Slamovich for the JCW World Title if Slamovich is still the champion by then.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit K & S WrestleFest with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
