As things presently stand, Jordynne Grace is 1-0 in the WWE Universe as a singles star, having defeated Stevie Turner for her first win in the Performance Center.

And yet, in a few days' time, Grace will try to make it 2-0 in one of the most important matches of her professional wrestling as she wrestles another TNA alumni, Roxanne Perez, with the NXT Women's Championship on the line.

Discussing the prospects of representing TNA in Las Vegas this weekend at Battleground in a special interview with Fightful, Grace revealed the pressure she feels heading into the event and how her performance could play a big role in the future of two different wrestling promotions.

“I've been going back and forth about this with myself. I have to tell myself, ‘Don't do anything new.' What you do is obviously what you know the best. Don't go out there and try to do a Shooting Star Press and break your neck. You don't have to do anything new. What you do currently got you here, and that's what you do and know best. I have to train my brain. ‘You don't have to go out here and do anything insane that you've never done before.' A lot of these people have not seen me wrestle before, so you can wrestle the exact same way. Hopefully, there are more people that will appreciate it,” Jordynne Grace told Fightful.

“The biggest thing for me is that I know that WWE and TNA are putting a lot of stock into me to do well. I feel like, if I do badly, this could be cataclysmic. It could potentially end the partnership if I do so badly. ‘Welp, we're never doing that again. We're never taking a chance doing that again.' It's a lot of pressure. I'm not going into it getting away from any other match. What I learned at the Rumble is, no matter where it is or who it is in front of, it's still a wrestling ring and that's what I've been doing my whole life. It's 100% pressure. My biggest fear is falling short of expectations. I don't want to disappoint anyone across the board. It's a lot of pressure. I'm lucky that I work out my shoulders because it's a lot of pressure on my shoulders.”

Right now, excitement is at an all-time high for Grace's match against Perez at Battleground, with fans eager to see how the two champions clash in the ring for their first-ever singles match. If the match somehow doesn't live up to expectations or there just isn't enough chemistry to get the match talked about all over social media, who knows? Maybe WWE won't continue its work with TNA, which would be a killer for a promotion that is very much in flux at the moment. Fortunately, Grace is one of the best wrestlers in the business today, so it's safe to say she'll give it her best shot.

TNA is reportedly in a bad spot amid Jordynne Grace collab with NXT.

Speaking of TNA's uncertain future ahead of its upcoming collaboration with NXT, Dave Meltzer explained on Wrestling Observer Radio the current state of the promotion ahead of Jordynne Grace's appearance at Battleground, which is a whole lot rougher than some fans might expect.

“They have no marketing team, they have no live events team, they have nothing booked after… the first weekend of April – they have a taping booked in Tampa, but there's nothing after that. What that means? Don't know. In theory WWE is sending them talent for the next pay-per-view in exchange for Jordynne Grace working three dates for them, for WWE. I mean, everyone's kind of waiting, they know something's up, but they don't know exactly what,” Dave Meltzer explained on WOR via WrestleTalk. 

“Scott D'Amore was let go, and when that happened, it raised a lot of eyebrows. And D'Amore knew it was coming, tried to buy it, and got turned down. From there, everything we had heard is that Anthem was trying to spend less. So I think the situation was… whatever the losses were, they were more than Anthem was happy with to keep the number one rated show that they have. In recent weeks they haven't even made the Top 150 on Thursday nights, so I don't even know what their ratings are other than number 150 is 0.01 so that tells you that they're either 0.01 or 0.00. It means as far as 18-49 it means 19,000 or less in 18-49 in the whole country. Clearly, very clearly, Anthem is looking to cut back on expenses for this project, for this company, and what that means long-term remains to be seen.”

Gosh, while TNA isn't exactly crushing it at the moment in terms of popularity, who knew things were that bad, with its parent company trying to pull back on financing such an expensive product? If this collab with NXT doesn't get a few more – hundred thousand – fans to watch the product each week, WWE might be looking to buy the TNA tape library much like Tony Khan did with Ring of Honor a few years back.