TNA 2025 - A Division of TKO Media

[Doragon]

TNA signed Myla Grace. I only know abit about her when she was in Marigold.

[hammerva]

I am curious if the WWE will force for lack of a better term TNA to make decisions about the recently fired people.  With all the women that were released, you can take the worse three in your opinion and it would still significantly improve the division.  But would they be allowed to

[twiztor]

4 hours ago, hammerva said:

I am curious if the WWE will force for lack of a better term TNA to make decisions about the recently fired people.  With all the women that were released, you can take the worse three in your opinion and it would still significantly improve the division.  But would they be allowed to

unless i missed something, TNA is still independently owned. But i also don't know the specifics of their working agreement.

WWE/TKO couldn't force TNA to hire/not hire somebody. WWE certainly could decide not to showcase/feature any of [WWE's] recently released wrestlers. Or decree that they didn't want any of [WWE's]  wrestlers "independent contractors" associating with said talent. TNA could decide that the easiest way to comply would be simply to not hire these people. But i doubt that will become their policy. More likely a case-by-case scenario. And besides, i don't know that WWE would try to force that play. TNA is paying peanuts. If a talent gets over big, it's not like WWE wouldn't be able to swoop in and start to feature them again/buy out their contract. WWE treating TNA as an unofficial developmental is pretty much perfect case scenario for WWE.

[SirFozzie]

Dear god.. that dog collar match broke the muta scale

[worldcupfever]

4 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

Dear god.. that dog collar match broke the muta scale

It was so bad that TNA had to outlaw blood going forward!

[SirFozzie]

That match will definitely be in a future edition of way of the blade..

[Curt McGirt]

Ehhh, not quite sure if it was good enough...

[Doragon]

It was only reportedly excessive blood being banned. Not some. Bleeding from the nose or mouth is ok. hardway is allowed. Just don't have a big red face.

We will have to see if true.

Edited May 10 by DragonZombie

[Curt McGirt]

Well, it's TNA. If they want to Bret Hart some main event they'll do it. They aren't gonna have Snickers threaten to cancel an advertisement schedule because the cameras didn't cut away in time from a ref patching up someone on the outside or what other ridiculous example might have happened in WWE. 

[Doragon]

7 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

Well, it's TNA. If they want to Bret Hart some main event they'll do it. They aren't gonna have Snickers threaten to cancel an advertisement schedule because the cameras didn't cut away in time from a ref patching up someone on the outside or what other ridiculous example might have happened in WWE. 

The advertisers don't want the excessive bleeding. And there other ways to prevent it from being on tv if it does happen. WWE isn't the only promotion with blood restrictions, but WWE has relaxed theirs somewhat with Triple H in charge.

The change was reportedly made for the wrestlers health and "keeping current and potential advertisers and partners in mind.” says the newz. Blading is also apparently banned.

TNA is TV14, so they may be able to break the new rules with permissible exceptions in the future. Hardway and other ways and some blood is ok.

 

Some Puroresu feds downplayed blood as much as they can. NJPW had a blood ban decades after the 90s.

Not every promotion or eras were the same with blood. Some may had allowed blading but frowned on hardway. Some worry about blood-borne illnesses and other blood related problems.

 

[Curt McGirt]

Ha, I read the fucking thing myself and I guess it went through one eye and out the other about the advertisers. But anyway, point being, if they need blood for something special they'll use it. 

[Doragon]

The current TNA World belt is pretty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_1qTloaxI

[hammerva]

So the guest commentator for the TNA shows in Pittsburgh this weekend is going to be Mark Madden.    As if the Pittsburgh area has suffered enough from the Aaron Rodgers signing this month.  

[RazorbladeKiss87]

If TNA keeps surviving maybe we can get Eric Gargiulo and John House for a run of Philly shows someday. 

Edited July 21 by RazorbladeKiss87

[Nice Guy Eddie]

2 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

If TNA keeps surviving maybe we can get Eric Gargiulo and John House for a run of Philly shows someday. 

How about Gabe Sapolsky for Philly shows?

[DreamBroken]

SRS/Fightful reports there are a "ton of unconfirmed rumors in the wrestling industry" that former UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta could be buying TNA.

Jon Alba reported earlier that TNA were exploring possibly moving to a "WWE-associated network" (the CW or A&E) and potentially moving to Wednesdays against AEW in upcoming media rights discussions.

[Phantom Lord]

2 minutes ago, DreamBroken said:

SRS/Fightful reports there are a "ton of unconfirmed rumors in the wrestling industry" that former UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta could be buying TNA.

Jon Alba reported earlier that TNA were exploring possibly moving to a "WWE-associated network" (the CW or A&E) and potentially moving to Wednesdays against AEW in upcoming media rights discussions.

I cant see them moving to the CW on a Wednesday night. I mean CW does have other programming. But A&E would be interesting if that happened.

[Technico Support]

Meltzer telling a story about Fertitta being upset in retrospect over selling UFC for four billion, because now it's worth 15 billion, is insane to me and pissed me off when I heard about it listening to the show over the weekend.  Like.....how the fuck can you even spend one billion dollars, much less be upset over not getting an extra 11 billion?  Considering US life expectancy, Fertita would need to spend something like 29 million per year to have spent a billion between the time he sold UFC and whenever he is buried in his gold casket.

Crying over money you could never spend while already having more than you could ever spend.  What the fuck.  These fucking billionaires are ghouls.

Edited August 18 by Technico Support

[Craig H]

Dude. Think about it. $1 billion only goes so far towards housing and feeding the homeless, taking care of debts for the sick and poor, and so on. In order to really stretch your charitable efforts, you need more money. $1 billion and $4 billion isn't going to cut it. But $14 billion....?

[Casey]

On 8/14/2025 at 9:05 PM, Phantom Lord said:

I cant see them moving to the CW on a Wednesday night. I mean CW does have other programming. But A&E would be interesting if that happened.

I'm pretty sure wrestling gets better ratings than any original programming on the CW (quick: tell me what airs on Wednesday nights! answer: you can't without looking). Move one of those shows to Monday nights where it's wide open and the problem is solved.

[Curt McGirt]

I'm gonna take a flying guess at Two and a Half Men reruns.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

The last thing I was interested in on The CW was Riverdale.  Maybe a Nancy Drew show that was supposed to be ridiculous.  

[WebConn89]

20 years ago today IMPACT! debuted on Spike TV

 

[SirFozzie]

If they don't give Santana the title after this video, they're dumber then a box of rocks.

 

 

[DreamBroken]

Tonight's iMPACT was advertised as the return of Open Fight Night, though it was just unaired matches from the last tapings mixed in with old matches.

Matches aired: The System vs The Great Hands vs The Rascalz vs Sinner and Saint,  Dani Luna vs. Jody Threat,   Hardys vs Colons in an El Paso Street Fight from March, AJ Styles vs. Bobby Roode from May 2012, and Mike Santana vs. Cedric Alexander.

Impact returns live next week for the first time since BFG.