McKenzie Mitchell has a new place to call home.
The former WWE personality worked for her ex-employer for four years. Mitchell was mainly a player on NXT, though it wouldn’t be out of the norm to see her on RAW or Smackdown every now and then. However, in December 2023, Mitchell was part of WWE’s infamous roster cuts.
As you can imagine, it wasn’t easy for Mitchell as she made a ton of friends during her time there. Plus, she genuinely enjoyed her work as an interviewer.
"My release came at a very unexpected time," Mitchell told The Takedown on SI. "It was very, we didn't know it was happening. It was a surprise to everybody. My family, my friends, I think peers. But it helps you grow. It helps you learn and to kind of go, 'what's next?'""My release came at a very unexpected time," Mitchell told The Takedown on SI. "It was very, we didn't know it was happening. It was a surprise to everybody. My family, my friends, I think peers. But it helps you grow. It helps you learn and to kind of go, 'what's next?'"
In fact, before WWE hired Mitchell in 2019, she worked at Impact Wrestling. She was an important figure for the promotion for three years before jumping ship to WWE.
Following her release, Mitchell took some time away from professional wrestling; however, she returned to the promotion at Genesis and will remain with the company moving forward. McKenzie confirmed the news herself during an interview with Jon Alba for The Takedown on SI:
"It's another skill, as I've mentioned, that I'm tapping into from backstage correspondent to now really just embracing this new role as a ring announcer. I'm so excited to get to try my hand with some things and again, make it my own. We all have these different sounds, these different perceptions of what these ring announcers should look like and should feel like. So I'm really excited to be the full-time ring announcer for TNA and just make it my own, and grow within this role. With this new partnership with WWE and TNA, the sky is the limit.
I think that there's so much that's to unfold that we're really excited for that. To see where Joe Hendry can take the TNA World Championship, and to see the Knockouts Division continue to grow, it's just so amazing, and for me, really special to be back in TNA for the second time. It's for sure a homecoming".
TNA confirmed the official signing of McKenzie Mitchell. Congrats to the new TNA announcer!