NXT Invasion

This article is about the 2001 pay-per-view event. For the storyline, see The Invasion (professional wrestling). For the 2025 WWE NXT special, see WWF Invasion.

NXT Invasion
Promotion(s)	WWE TNA
Brand	NXT
Date	October 7, 2025
City	Orlando, Florida
Venue	WWE Performance Center
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NXT Invasion is an upcoming professional wrestling television special co-produced by WWE for its NXT brand division and partner promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). ^[1] It is the second Invasion event and the first Invasion in 24 years and to be held between two promotions. The event will take place on October 7, 2025, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and will air live as a special episode of NXT on The CW.

Production

Background

Invasion is a professional wrestling event established by WWE in 2001. The then-World Wrestling Federation had planned to hold a fourth Fully Loaded pay-per-view (PPV) in July 2001, but the PPV event was then renamed Invasion as part of the ongoing The Invasion storyline between the WWF, and The Alliance, consisting of former World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) talent; but following the conclusion of the storyline, the event's name was discontinued in 2002 when Vengeance took over the slot.

On September 27, 2025. during the NXT No Mercy event, NXT General Manager Ava announced NXT Invasion, a special episode of NXT reviving the Invasion name after more than 24 years, for October 7. ^[2]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by the writers of the participating promotions, ^{[3] [4]} while storylines are produced on WWE’s weekly television program, NXT and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) weekly television program, Impact! , following WWE and TNA signing a multi-year partnership in January 2025. ^{[5] [6]}

At NXT Homecoming on September 16, Raw's Grayson Waller hosted a special edition of his talk show The Grayson Waller Effect featuring NXT Champion Oba Femi and his No Mercy challenger Ricky Saints. However, they were all interrupted by TNA World Champion Trick Williams, who lost the NXT Championship to Femi at New Year's Evil, who demanded another title match. Waller then proposed a Winner Takes All match between Femi and Williams with both titles on the line, which both men agreed to, and the match was made official. During the event, several TNA wrestlers voiced their displeasure over the match taking place on X. The following week, the match ended in a disqualification victory for Williams after Mike Santana, who was slated to challenge Williams for his title at TNA's flagship show Bound for Glory, attacked him. Following this, a brawl ensued between NXT and TNA wrestlers as the show went off the air. At No Mercy, NXT General Manager Ava announced NXT Invasion would take place on October 7, with two Survivor Series matches pitting NXT and TNA wrestlers against each other. Ava and TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella will announce the teams on the September 30 episode of NXT.

After the events of the September 23 episode of NXT, General Manager Ava announced a Winner Takes All match between TNA World Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) and NXT Tag Team Champions DarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) with both titles on the line would take place at Invasion.

At No Mercy on September 27, NXT General Manager Ava announced that a redo of the Winner Takes All match for both the NXT Championship and TNA World Championship would take place at Invasion. Later that night, however, Ricky Saints defeated Oba Femi to win the NXT Championship. It’s not confirmed if Femi will face Williams as a non-title rematch or Saints will face Williams in the Winner Takes All match.

Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulations
1	Team NXT (TBA) vs. Team TNA (TBA)	5-on-5 men's Invasion elimination match
2	Team NXT (TBA) vs. Team TNA (TBA)	5-on-5 women's Invasion elimination match
3	The Hardys (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) (c-TNA) vs. DarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) (c-NXT)	Winner Takes All match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship Everyone is banned from ringside.
*Card subject to change

References

1. Andrew Thompson (September 27, 2025). "NXT-TNA Invasion Special Set For October 7th; Men's & Women's Survivor Series-Style Matches, Hardys vs. DarkState In Double Title Match, Oba Femi vs. Trick Williams Made Official". Fightful . Retrieved September 28, 2025.
2. Thompson, Andrew (September 27, 2025). "NXT-TNA Invasion Special Set For October 7th; Men's & Women's Survivor Series-Style Matches, Hardys vs. DarkState In Double Title Match, Oba Femi vs. Trick Williams Made Official". Fightful. Retrieved September 27, 2025.
3. Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
4. "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE . Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
5. "WWE & TNA Wrestling announce multi-year partnership". WWE . January 16, 2025. Archived from the original on January 16, 2025.
6. "WWE & TNA Wrestling announce multi-year partnership". TNA. January 16, 2025.