Steve Maclin has been through it all since he joined TNA Wrestling (TNA) in 2021.

He’s feuded with major stars in pro wrestling like Nic Nemeth, Josh Alexander, Moose, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Mike Santana just to name a few. He’s a two-time TNA international champion and an Impact world champion.

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Amid a recent wave of stars joining the free-agent market over the last two weeks, Maclin shared why anyone should consider TNA as a potential landing spot for the future.

“TNA has always been under the radar. It’s kinda been that land of misfit toys where you can go and reinvent yourself or invent yourself as a new character in general and kinda show the world who you are,” he told Fox News Digital. “TNA has always been giving me that opportunity, especially the day that I hit the ground running in TNA Wrestling, I haven’t stopped – becoming the world champion, becoming the first TNA international champion, and now, hopefully coming back and going back after the world title as well.

“It’s a place where you can grow and it’s a place that’s kinda that locker room that everyone has always been looking for and it’s that family orientation. And it’s said a lot in the world of pro wrestling but it’s very family oriented where we all take care of each other no matter how good or bad the creative is or how the upper echelon is, the locker room always takes care of the locker room. They’re the ones that make bad creative look like its good creative on television.”

Maclin has also been afforded the opportunity to run a benefit event with his wife, fellow pro wrestling champion Deonna Purrazzo, to help give back to veteran and first-responders.

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Maclin and Purrazzo will host the Battle for the Brave on June 6 in support of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Maclin served with the U.S. Marines.

“It’s a great cause just because that entire New York/New Jersey area, the Tri-State area, has really been affected by 9/11. It affected both of our lives,” Maclin told Fox News Digital in a story published earlier this week. “I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2005. It just affected everyone. So, especially a lot of the talent that’s on the card as well, everybody has some type of story or link toward 9/11.

“And with Tunnel to Towers, a lot of people in that area love the cause and love what Tunnel to Towers does for the community by giving back to first responders’ families, paying off mortgages, smart homes for veterans who have been wounded and now paying off college tuitions for first responders’ and veterans’ families who have lost some loved ones.”

TNA airs weekly programming Thursday nights at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

Move over, Naomi Osaka … there’s a new face of the media blackout.

Megan Rapinoe, the retired soccer star who never saw a camera she didn’t want to lecture, is now playing fairy godmother to WNBA star Angel Reese.

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Her advice? Angel, just don’t show up for work.

Rapinoe took to her podcast to gush over Reese for suggesting she’s willing to skip media obligations and eat the fines that come with it rather than deal with questions she doesn’t like.

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Most athletes view the media as the bridge to fans and those endorsement checks, but Rapinoe thinks the press is just a nuisance that needs to be “adjusted.”

“I think Angel is a really great example of her taking her power back,” Rapinoe chirped.

“Angel was set up as a villain before she was even in the WNBA, and now she’s making it clear that she’s gonna protect her peace.”

Protecting your peace is the new code for ducking the heat.

On a recent podcast with Michelle Obama, Reese made her stance on skipping media sessions clear.

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“I’ll take a fine before I have to go media and feel like my back is against the wall,” Reese said.

Reese argued the media has twisted her words and pushed narratives she doesn’t agree with.

But that doesn’t exempt her.

Postgame interviews aren’t optional add-ons but part of the job. They’re how players connect with fans and build their brands.

For a league still trying to grow its footprint, treating media availability like a nuisance is a curious growth strategy.

After all, Reese’s “Bayou Barbie” brand runs through media exposure in one way or another.

Rapinoe, of course, sees this defiance as something of a movement.

“I think this is a great example for all athletes and all female athletes of, ‘I don’t really have to do this.’ It might mean I get a fine, but at some point, we have to adjust the expectations that journalists can just go up there and throw any kind of narrative …”

“There needs to be a quality of journalism that is at the level of these athletes,” Rapinoe sniffed. “The media landscape is changing rapidly in women’s sports, and of course, the W, as always, is out front.”

Bold strategy, Cotton. Demand the spotlight, then act surprised when it comes with questions.

Rapinoe spent years demanding more respect and attention for women’s sports. Now she’s encouraging one of its biggest stars to sidestep a basic professional obligation.

If this is what being “out front” looks like, the next WNBA news conference might just be an empty chair and a receipt for the fine and that’s progress, apparently.

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