| Genesis | |||
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | January 17, 2026 | ||
| City | Garland, Texas | ||
| Venue | Curtis Culwell Center | ||
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The 2026 edition of Genesis is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It will take place on January 17, 2026, at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. It will be the fourteenth event under the Genesis chronology.
The event will feature JDC's final match in his 25-year wrestling career.
In 2013, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling discontinued monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the pre-recorded One Night Only events. Genesis was produced as a PPV from 2005 to 2013, but in 2014, Genesis was televised as an Impact Wrestling television special until 2018. It returned in 2020 as a monthly special for Impact Plus, with the event taking place on January 9, 2021 at Skyway Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] [2] On October 26, 2024, at Bound for Glory, Santino Marella announced that Genesis would return on January 19, 2025, at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. [3]
On October 12, 2025, it was announced that Genesis will be the first TNA PPV in 2026. It will take place in Garland, Texas. [4]
The event will feature professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]
At Bound for Glory, Frankie Kazarian and Nic Nemeth co-won the Call Your Shot Gauntlet due to a double pin, where they both earned a Call Your Shot Trophy for a title opportunity whenever and wherever they want. Later on that night, Mike Santana would win the TNA World Championship from NXT wrestler Trick Williams. [6] A month later on the November 13 live episode of TNA Impact!, Santana defended the title against Nic's brother Ryan Nemeth when, almost immediately, Nic attempted to utilize his championship opportunity. However, backstage, Nemeth would be attacked by a hooded figure before he could make his entrance. Santana and Ryan would then be attacked by a contingent of NXT wrestlers (Robert Stone, Charlie Dempsey, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Brooks Jensen, Lexis King, Tyson Dupont, and Tyriek Igwe); this allowed Kazarian to invoke his championship privilege and defeat Santana to win the championship. [7] [8] Another month later on December 12, Kazarian held his talk show segment, "The King's Speech," when Santana interrupted and announced he was invoking his rematch clause against Kazarian at Genesis and the match was made official later that night. [9] [10]
On the November 13 TNA Impact!, The System (Moose, Brian Myers, JDC, Eddie Edwards, and Alisha Edwards) had an in-ring promo, where JDC, in light of his recent marriage, announced that he would retire from professional wrestling after Genesis. [7] [8] As he helped his fellow stablemates find a suitable replacement, he declared on the December 11 episode that he would face Edwards, who he trained with under Killer Kowalski, in his retirement match at Genesis. [11]
| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | ||||
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| 1 | JDC vs. Eddie Edwards | Singles match [11] This will be JDC's retirement match. | ||||
| 2 | Frankie Kazarian (c) vs. Mike Santana | Singles match for the TNA World Championship [10] | ||||
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