Over the last two days, TNA President Carlos Silva made himself available for media around the New York area promoting the upcoming Slammiversary PPV. One of those was a zoom appearance on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, which also features Sports Illustrated contributor Jon Alba.
While on the call, media rights and sponsorships came up in the topic of conversation, and Matt Hardy hyped up their current sponsors – BIOFLEX and Zonify. Carlos then roke the news that TNA has two new sponsors – one of them is the former World Series champion Johnny Damon-owned A-Game Endurance drink, and the other is called Markovic Sangria.
Both will be officially displayed and rolled out at the Slammiversary PPV on July 20th.
On the subject of media rights, one of the things Silva mentioned is that they’re looking at the possibility of splitting up the broadcasting, digital, and PPVs.
Finally, Carlos hyped up the Slammiversary PPV card, but also mentioned that there will be some great surprises outside of the matches themselves.
Full podcast (Carlos Silva comes on right around the 27 minute mark):
On Tuesday, a written piece was published by John Wallstreet about what TNA was looking for in the media rights space, sponsorships, and the general price tag for those media rights. It was here that Silva originally disclosed expecting to have a new deal ready to announce within about 60 days.
On Wednesday, TNA President Carlos Silva was on the Ariel Helwani show talking more in-depth about media rights and also revealed the subscriber count for the TNA + app. Silva reiterated a 60-90 day expectation for a new media rights deal.
This also reportedly comes on the heels of Sports Illustrated’s Jon Alba revealing that TNA is shopping around for new and better distribution.
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.
Bodyslam broke the exclusive news that TNA was moving their Canadian distribution to Sportsnet 360 with WWE vacating the channel in favor of Netflix.
Back in January, Tommy Dreamer spoke about the ambitious goals of TNA in 2025, which mincludes “a larger television platform.”
Be sure to check out what is shaping up to be TNA’s biggest PPV of the year, Slammiversary, on July 20th.
Tune in on the TNA + app or be there LIVE for Slammiversary.
Matches announced for Slammiversary:
TNA World Title
-Trick Williams (c) vs. Mike Santana vs. Joe Hendry
TNA X Division Title
-Moose (c) vs Leon Slater
TNA Knockouts World Title & NXT Women’s Title
-Masha Slamovich (c) vs Jacy Jayne/Jordynne Grace (c)
-Tessa Blanchard vs Indi Hartwell
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Titles
-Ash & Heather By Elegance (c) vs The IInspiration (Cassie Lee & Jessica McKay)
-Cedric Alexander vs Mustafa Ali
TNA Tag Team Titles – Ladder Match
-Nic & Ryan Nemeth (c) vs. Matt & Jeff Hardy vs. The Rascalz (Myron Reed & Zachary Wentz) vs. FIR$T CLA$$ (AJ Francis & KC Navarro)
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