Indi Hartwell on Who Approached Her For TNA Stint & Experience Working With Current Roster

Australian professional wrestler Indi Hartwell recently revealed how her stint with TNA Wrestling came about. Hartwell’s five-year stint with WWE, which started in 2019, ended in November 2024 when she was released from her contract. She made her debut for TNA Wrestling in April 2025, at Rebellion, and has since been a staple of the Knockouts division.

In a recent conversation with Jimmy V3, Indi Hartwell revealed how she ended up in TNA. She also opened up about her experience working with the current roster. Below are the highlights:

Indi Hartwell on Gail Kim Reaching Out to Her To Join TNA

“Yeah, so I had Gail Kim reach out to me. She’s no longer with the company, but she’d done so much for TNA, and she’s someone that I grew up watching on TNA. She reached out to me and asked if it’s something that I’d want to do, and I was so glad she did because I was such a huge fan of TNA growing up. I’m still a huge fan of it, and I don’t know if I ever saw myself going there, but I guess everything happens for a reason. That’s how it all came about. Now it’s been almost a year. Next month will be one year since I debuted in TNA.”

Hartwell on Her Experience Working With the TNA Roster

“Yeah, so working with the roster, it’s funny because I feel like I’m sharing a locker room now with girls that I used to wrestle with in NXT, but… That’s another topic of the NXT girls having our Knockouts Title. We won’t get into that, maybe, just yet, but it’s cool because I got to come to a locker room with girls that I knew from the past but also a lot of girls that I hadn’t stepped in the ring with before, you know, people like Dani Luna, who I had some really tough matches with at the end of last year.

“She’s amazing. Like, she’s an amazing talent. She’s hard-hitting. I think she’s… A lot of people need to pay attention to Dani Luna, and there’s a bunch more like Jody Threat. I was able to also kind of reignite some work with Tessa, who I tagged with and worked with years ago before WWE. So it’s cool getting some, getting in the ring with some new people.”

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