Last week, Sports Illustrated’s Jon Alba reported that TNA has been “heavily” shopping around for new and better distribution.
On a recent episode of “Something To Wrestle With” podcast featuring Conrad Thompson, JBL was a guest and talked about the state of TNA Wrestling.
On TNA’s roster: “TNA has got some really good workers. The Nemeth brothers — you know, Dolph is fantastic. And the Hardys are as over now as they’ve been for the last 30 years. Kazarian, incredible worker, great talker. They have got some incredible workers. Masha, their champion, Tessa. I mean, literally they are deep in talent.”
On TNA needing a bigger TV deal: “I don’t know if it’s the old baggage from TNA of 10, 15 years ago… it’s still a secondary promotion behind WWE, because WWE is so big. But it’s doing great. I think what gets them out of being considered an independent… is a TV contract. And I think they’ll get one. I don’t have any inside information on this, but WWE has left a huge void by going to streaming. And terrestrial TV needs live television… I think they’ll get a TV contract. I hope they do, and when they do I think that’s when you start considering them different than ‘just TNA.’”
H/T 411mania.com for transcription.
WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield has been showing up randomly at TNA events to dish out clotheslines and words of advice to certain talent – starting at Emergence last August.
Many TNA talents and figure heads have been talking about finding bigger distribution for the product, most recently Frankie Kazarian back in March when he said that “getting on a better network is the focus of management.”
Speaking of a better TV deal, TNA star Matt Hardy has repeatedly stated that Anthem/TNA is “actively working on that.”
Back in December of 2024, Anthem hired Carlos Silva to oversee Anthem Sports Group – which includes TNA Wrestling, Invicta FC, and Fight Network – who stated that his near-team focus is to find the best distribution available and sponsorships.
Back in January, Tommy Dreamer spoke about the ambitious goals of TNA in 2025, which mincludes “a larger television platform.”
Whether a new television deal happens in 2025 remains to be seen, but TNA has also been licensing out their replay rights to regional networks in multiple areas.
Within the last week or so of 2024, TNA confirmed the Bodyslam report that they would be partnering with Sportsnet in Canada for an exclusive, multi-year deal to air their weekly TNA iMPACT programming on their Sportsnet 360 channel.
It was also announced last week that TNA will be airing on Claro Sports for the Latin America countries.
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