Mike Aldren wrote (On March 4, 2010): The original TNA Knockout, Traci Brooks (Tracy Brookshaw), 34, was released earlier today in a cut that not many people saw coming. It's to do with the trimming of the Knockout roster and her last match with Hamada was not well received. She had been with the company since April 2003. She managed more than she wrestled and was involved in a number of angles managing Shane Douglas, Michael Shane, and Robert Roode during the past few years. Brookshaw grew up in St. Mary's, Ontario on her dad's pig farm. She appeared in the Toronto Sun several times as a Sunshine Girl, in which she mentioned it was her goal to become WWE Women's champion. She started training as a wrestler with Ron Hutchison and later with Rob Etcheverria of the Squared Circle Gym in Toronto. Scott D'Amore was instrumental in bringing her into TNA, along with other Ontario wrestlers such as Eric Young. Most recently she had been wrestling while the announcers played off her Erb's palsy (a paralysis of the arm) that she suffered as an infant. Last year she posed nude for Playboy but the pictorial was bumped from the magazine to the Playboy website. She married Frank Gerdelman, better known as Frankie Kazarian, on January 7, but personal problems ensued soon after when naked photos of Kazarian surfaced on the Internet. She had claimed to friends that her computer was hacked and that the photos were intended just for her pleasure.

Mike Aldren wrote (On March 8, 2010): Tracy Brookshaw sent out an email that was also posted on her MySpace saying that the writing team had nothing for her and thanked her fans and everyone at TNA for supporting her over the years. "Looking forward to what life has in store for me," she wrote. "God bless... and please watch TNA Monday nights as I will still be cheering on my family including my husband,"