Overview
- TNA confirmed the signing on Jan. 6 following an initial report from The Sportster.
- Brandon Collymore, known as BDE, runs a wrestling-focused YouTube channel with about 1.46 million subscribers.
- He began training in 2019, paused during the pandemic, resumed in 2024, and said the deal came during the week of his one-year wrestling anniversary.
- He entered TNA in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet at Bound for Glory 2025 and subsequently faced AJ Francis at Turning Point.
- TNA has Dallas shows on Jan. 15 and 17, where reports expect him to feature prominently, a move framed as part of a broader creator-to-wrestler trend alongside ongoing WWE–TNA collaboration.