Tessa Blanchard's Impact World Championship Reign

In this post we look Tessa Blanchard's Impact World Championship reign.

Tessa Blanchard, is a 3rd generation wrestling star, the daughter of Tully Blanchard and granddaughter of wrestler and promoter Joe Blanchard and whose step-father is Magnum TA, needless to stay she has professional wrestling in her blood.

Tessa began her wrestling career in 2013 after turning 18, training with veteran George South in Charlotte, North Carolina.  For next several years she wrestled around the world including competing in NXT in 2016 and was in the 2017 Mae Young Classic.  She also competed for Stardom in Japan in 2016 and 2017.

In 2018 she debuted with Impact Wrestling where she captured the Knockouts Championship for 147 days from August 12, 2018 to January 6, 2019.  In July 2019 she main evented Slammiversary XVII in an intergender match with Sami Callihan coming out on the losing end.

On November 19, 2019 episode of Impact she won a gauntlet match to become the number 1 contender for the Impact World Championship.  On January 12, 2020 she would defeat Impact World Champion Sami Callihan in 24 minutes to win the title at the Hard To Kill PPV in Dallas, Texas.  To date she is the only women to hold a major Men's World Championship.

After winning the championship Tessa would appear on Impact tapings in Mexico City, Las Vegas, and Georgia, however she only had one title defense before the Covid-19 Pandemic caused the wrestling world to shut down.

Her one title defense was very historic in itself.  Taking place on February 8, 2020 at Sam's Town in Las Vegas, Nevada Tess Blanchard defended the title against Taya Valkyrie.  It is the only time a men's World Championship was defended in a match featuring only women.  The match aired on AXS TV on March 3, 2020 and Blanchard retained in 11:40 with her buzzsaw DDT.

Tessa was stripped of the the Impact World Championship in June 25, 2020 officially holding the championship for 165 days. 

Tessa would only wrestle a handful of matches until May 2023 when she did a tour with Canadian Wrestling Elite. Then in October 2023 she signed with CMLL wrestling a full time schedule in Mexico until signing with TNA Wrestling in January 2025.  She seems to have her sights set on the TNA Knockouts Championship, time will tell is goes for the World Championship once again.  

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