Background
Turning Point was a pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling between 2004 and 2012. In 2013, TNA discontinued most of its monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the pre-recorded One Night Only events. [1] The event would be held as a special episode of Impact! in 2013, 2015, 2016, and has been a monthly special for Impact Plus in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024. [2] [3] [4] [5]
On October 1, 2025, it was announced that Turning Point will take place on November 14 at the Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. [6]
Storylines
The event featured several professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Storylines are produced on TNA's weekly program Impact!. [7]
On the August 21 episode of TNA Impact!, Indi Hartwell and Dani Luna competed in a gauntlet match to determine the number one contender to the TNA Knockouts World Championship at Bound for Glory. Luna entered third and eliminated two opponents before facing Hartwell, the fifth entrant. Hartwell would eliminate Luna, but when trying to show her respect, Luna attacked her in frustration. She was briefly calmed down by officials and her former tag team partner Jody Threat, who was the final entrant, but later returned with a steel chair. When Threat tried to talk her down again, Luna struck her, causing a disqualification. [8] [9] Due to this outcome, TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella overturned the result, and a three-way match between Luna, Hartwell, and Threat was set for the September 4 episode which would decide a proper contender; Hartwell would win by pinning Threat. [10] [11] Hartwell and Luna would continue to face each other before and after Bound for Glory, first on the September 18 TNA Impact!, which Hartwell won via disqualification after Luna used a chair. [12] They would meet again on November 13, where Luna again tried to use a chair, but Hartwell would wrestle it away and hit her with it, leading to another disqualification. [13] Once backstage, Hartwell would challenge Luna to a No Disqualification match at Turning Point, which TNA officially announced later that night. [14]
A. J. Francis had been feuding with his former friend, YouTube personality-turned-pro-wrestler BDE, for over a year, stemming from a confrontation between the two at Wrestling Revolver's "Bad Trip" event the previous October. [15] Their rivalry would continue over the next year across the independent circuit, mostly in Wrestling Revolver, including at Tales from The Ring 8, where BDE defeated Francis to win the Revolver Remix Championship. [16] Nine days later, the two would meet at Bound for Glory in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet, where BDE would eliminate Francis. [17] [18] During the November 13 TNA Impact! tapings, BDE confronted Francis, who was hosting his interview segment "Fir$t Cla$$ Penthouse," challenging him to a match at Turning Point. The challenge was accepted, but BDE would unfortunately be put through a table in the process. TNA made the match official later that night. [14]
