TNA Wrestling star AJ Francis makes bold prediction for upcoming street fight: 'It’s going to be crazy'

The feud betwixt Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) prima A.J. Francis and KC Navarro volition travel to a caput connected Thursday nighttime arsenic the 2 volition vie successful a SacTown Street Fight successful Sacramento, California, astatine the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.

Navarro returned from an wounded to assistance Nic Nemeth decision Francis astatine Rebellion. And since then, the 2 had been astatine each other’s throats. Navarro pinned Francis 3 weeks agone successful his archetypal lucifer since July 2025. Ahead of the two-day "Thursday nighttime Impact" peculiar connected AMC, Francis spoke to Fox News Digital astir his combat with Navarro and made a blunt prediction.

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AJ Francs opened up to Fox News Digital astir his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) lucifer against KC Navarro. (Getty Images)

"If it wasn’t for me, KC wouldn’t beryllium successful these opportunities," Francis said. "I saw him connected his small interviews, KC came retired and said that helium took the hard bumps from maine and helium did each these things for maine … The lone happening KC did for maine was beryllium a shadow. KC learned a batch from me. KC is successful this presumption due to the fact that of me. KC was conscionable different feline successful the backmost they had thing for until I needed idiosyncratic to basal adjacent to me.

"I’m blessed KC is yet getting an accidental to amusement what helium tin bring to the table. But unluckily for him, he’s doing it against me. And I’m going to bushed him wrong an inch of his life. Anytime you springiness maine an accidental to beryllium that I’m precisely who I accidental I americium successful a large lucifer I ever amusement up. I ever deliver. It’s going to beryllium crazy. I’m going to enactment KC retired of his misery. When I’m done with him, helium mightiness effort to dye his hairsbreadth greenish oregon orangish oregon thing other conscionable to lavation the stench of that pinkish disconnected of him."

Navarro chopped an impassioned promo past week connected "Impact," saying Francis took vantage of him. He besides said that helium vowed to his "sick" uncle that helium would instrumentality to the ringing sooner than aboriginal aft helium suffered a torn ACL.

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AJ Francis and KC Navarro marque their mode to the ringing during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center successful Orlando, Florida, connected June 17, 2025. (Matt Pendleton/WWE)

But Francis was having nary of that.

"You cognize what’s crazy? All these wrestlers travel up with each these excuses for wherefore radical should consciousness atrocious for them," Francis told Fox News Digital. "KC sits determination and cries astir his sick uncle and Mike Santana talks astir his dada passing away. My ma passed distant and cipher gave a s---. My grandma passed distant and cipher gave a s---. My gramps passed distant cipher gave a s---. My pop-pop passed away, cipher gave a s---. So, wherefore bash I attraction astir the household troubles of each these losers?

"Nobody cares erstwhile it’s maine going done thing but I’m expected to attraction due to the fact that KC’s got a sick uncle. I anticipation his sick uncle has AMC successful his infirmary truthful helium could ticker maine bushed his nephew wrong an inch of his life."

Francis added determination was nary accidental of making up with Navarro.

"Not astatine all. I privation KC thing but the worst. I anticipation that going guardant helium learns a acquisition aft this a---whooping I enactment down connected him connected Thursday and that helium realizes to ne'er transverse maine again," helium said. "He outgo maine an accidental astatine 1 of the biggest wins of my vocation astatine Rebellion. He outgo maine an accidental astatine 1 of the biggest wins of my vocation astatine Slammiversary past twelvemonth erstwhile helium got wounded and outgo america the tag squad titles. He outgo america an accidental astatine the NXT tag squad titles due to the fact that helium got wounded erstwhile we were doing our crossover matches with them.

AJ Francis visits SiriusXM connected Radio Row astatine Super Bowl LX successful San Francisco, California, connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

"He’s been thing but a disappointment. He mislaid our lone singles tag squad rubric lucifer successful his debut lucifer with First Class. He was the 1 who got pinned and mislaid it for us. He’s been thing but a disappointment since the time that I met him and I’m precise overmuch gladsome to beryllium done with him aft Thursday."

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Francis and Navarro’s lucifer volition instrumentality spot connected Thursday night. "Impact" airs each week astatine 9 p.m. ET connected AMC.