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Impact Wrestling

October 28, 2023

Not to be confused with Impact Pro Wrestling.
For the company's flagship television program of the same name, see Impact! (TV series).
"TNA Wrestling" redirects here. For the mobile video game, see TNA Wrestling (video game).

Impact Wrestling (stylized as IMPACT! Wrestling) is an American[10] professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Canada's Anthem Sports & Entertainment.[11]

Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions, LLC
- NWA: Total Nonstop Action (2002–2004)
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2017, January 2024–)
- Impact Wrestling (March 2017–June 2017, September 2017–January 2024)
- Global Force Wrestling (June 2017–September 2017)[1]
FormerlyJ Sports & Entertainment, LLC (2002)[2]
TNA Entertainment, LLC (2002–2016)[3]
Impact Ventures, LLC (2015–2016)[4]
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryProfessional wrestling
Streaming media
FoundedMay 10, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-05-10) in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
FoundersJeff Jarrett
Jerry Jarrett
Bob Ryder
Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide[5]
Key people
ProductsTelevision, pay-per-view, publishing, merchandise, music home video, video-on-demand, Streaming network service
ParentPanda Energy International
(2002–2012)
Anthem Sports & Entertainment (2017–present)[9]
DivisionsImpact Plus
Impact Wrestling Home Video
Websitewww.impactwrestling.com

Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002,[12] the promotion was initially known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) and was associated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), though not an official member.[13] In 2004, the promotion became known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), but it continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships as part of its agreement with the NWA. After the agreement ended in 2007, the company created its own TNA World Heavyweight and TNA World Tag Team championships. The promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017 and, in March of that year, was fully rebranded to Impact Wrestling after its flagship, weekly television series. The promotion will rebrand under the revived TNA name starting in January 2024.[14][15]

From its inception, the promotion had been considered the second-largest in the United States behind WWE.[16][17] In 2017 Impact was viewed by some to have fallen behind longtime rival Ring of Honor,[18][19][20] with the loss of their U.S. television contract with Spike in 2014, as well as monetary and personnel issues, being noted as factors to their decline.[21] By 2019, Impact was thought by many to have recovered through its sustained international television distribution,[22] and the purchase by its parent company of AXS TV, which subsequently began carrying Impact programming.[23][24] With the establishment of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) that year, and that promotion's high-profile U.S. television deal with TNT (which is seen in more households than AXS), Impact has since been viewed as being the third largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind both WWE and AEW.[25][26]

History edit

Formation and early history (2002–2004) edit

 
Jeff Jarrett, one of the founders of Impact Wrestling (then TNA), Hall of Famer and six-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion

The concept of TNA originated shortly after World Championship Wrestling (WCW) ended in 2001, with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) gaining a monopoly on the industry. While on a fishing trip, Bob Ryder, Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett contemplated their futures in the professional wrestling business.[13] Ryder suggested a company not reliant on television, but rather one going straight to pay-per-view.[13] In July 2002, Vince Russo joined Jeff and Jerry Jarrett's NWA-TNA promotion as a creative writer and would assist in the writing and production of the shows. Russo states that he coined the name "Total Nonstop Action", the initials of the company "TNA" being a play on "T&A". The original intention, as they were exclusive to pay-per-view, was to be viewed as an edgier product than WWE.[27]

Initially, TNA's weekly pay-per-view show operated as the company's main source of revenue, in place of monthly pay-per-view events used by other promotions. These shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville, nicknamed the "TNA Asylum". In October 2002, Panda Energy purchased a controlling interest (72%) of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. TNA (which originally traded as "J Sports and Entertainment") was renamed "TNA Entertainment".[28] Dixie Carter was appointed president of TNA Entertainment in spring 2003.[29] Xplosion launched on November 27, 2002, as TNA's first regular cable show and featured exclusive matches taped at the TNA Asylum as well as exclusive interviews with TNA wrestlers. The last weekly pay-per-view took place on September 8, 2004.

Growth and surging popularity (2004–2009) edit

 
AJ Styles was considered "the cornerstone of the company" during the late 2000s, as well as being TNA's first Grand Slam Champion.

In May 2004, TNA introduced its second weekly television program, Impact! (stylized as iMPACT!), produced at Soundstage 21, nicknamed the "Impact Zone", at Universal Studios Florida and broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN).[30] With the show's première, TNA introduced a six-sided wrestling ring,[31][32] the implementation of the "Fox Box" displaying competitors and timekeeping for the match[33] and a generally more sports-like style than the sports entertainment style exemplified by WWE.[33]

TNA would subsequently discontinue producing weekly pay-per-views in favor of a traditional monthly pay-per-view schedule, beginning with Victory Road in November 2004. TNA's television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005.[34] Without television exposure, Impact! would continue to air through webcasts – originally made available via BitTorrent and eventually via RealPlayer – and replace Xplosion's timeslot on Urban America Television.[35][36]

In August 2005, Marvel Toys launched the first line of TNA action figures,[37] which included a six-sided ring and Ultimate X playset.[38]

On September 11, 2005, TNA held its Unbreakable pay-per-view. Unbreakable is remembered for the three-way match main event for the TNA X Division Championship, between AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe, which received a rare 5 Star match rating from wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, the first and currently the only one the company had received.[39]

Later that year, TNA would later secure a television deal with Spike TV; Impact! debuted on the network on October 1, 2005. The episode saw Team 3D make their TNA debut.[40] TNA would gain attention for the many high-profile wrestlers that would join the promotion during Impacts run on Spike. From 2005 to 2009, these include Kevin Nash, Rhino, Christian Cage, Sting (who made appearances at previous "Asylum" shows), Scott Steiner, Kurt Angle, Booker T, and Mick Foley.[41]

In April 2006, TNA launched a YouTube channel, featuring clips from Impact and exclusive content. Beginning with Bound for Glory in October 2006, TNA began holding select pay-per-view events outside of Orlando, Florida. In January 2007, TNA announced a deal with New Motion, Inc. which led to the introduction of TNA Mobile service.[42] TNA has also launched "TNA U TV"; podcasts aired through YouTube to help promote the company.[43]

In March 2008, Tristar Productions acquired an exclusive license deal to produce and distribute TNA trading cards and memorabilia.[44] On September 9, 2008, Midway Games released the TNA Impact! video game.[45] On October 23, 2008, TNA began producing its programming in HD.[46] In addition, a new HD set for Impact was introduced, including new lighting, and large high-resolution screens.[47]

On June 21, 2009, TNA launched an online video-vault subscription-service where subscribers could watch past pay-per-views by choosing one of three payment options.[48]

Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and Dixie Carter leadership (2010–2013) edit

 
 
Hulk Hogan (left) and Eric Bischoff (right) were part of creative from 2010 to 2013.
 
Under Hogan and Bischoff's tenure, TNA re-branded its flagship program to Impact Wrestling and reintroduced the four-sided ring.

In October 2009, TNA President Dixie Carter hired Hulk Hogan and former WCW President Eric Bischoff. Both obtained a position behind the scenes; with Bischoff part of creative and Hogan as a consultant. Under their tenure, TNA would see several revamps in 2010. Beginning with Genesis in January, TNA returned to using a four-sided ring. That month, Jakks Pacific announced a five-year agreement to produce TNA action figures.[49][50] Impact! would also begin airing on Monday nights directly opposite of WWE Raw, marking the first time that two major professional wrestling promotions would go head to head since the launch of WCW Monday Nitro in 1995.[51] The show would permanently move to Mondays on March 8, 2010, Spike would keep the Thursday night slot open for repeats of the Monday night shows. During this time, Ric Flair, Rob Van Dam, Mr. Anderson would make their debuts, while Jeff Hardy would make his return.[52] Impact! would later return to Thursday nights on May 3.[53][54][55]

 
Dixie Carter (TNA President from 2002 to 2017) under Hogan and Bischoff's tenure, Carter would become an on-screen character.

During the May 3, 2011 Impact! television tapings, the show would change its name to Impact Wrestling.[56][57][58] On November 7, 2011, TNA revealed that Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) would become TNA's official developmental territory.[59] In December 2011, TNA debuted their new India-based subsidiary promotion Ring Ka King.[60] On May 31, 2012, Impact Wrestling began airing live at a new start time of 8 p.m. EST on Thursday nights.[61] The live schedule would continue throughout 2012.[62] In March 2013, TNA began taping Impact from different venues around the United States and terminated its lease with Universal Studios.[63] On March 14, TNA introduced a new universal HD stage which would be used for all weekly programming.[64] On November 2, TNA ended its relationship with OVW.[65]

TNA formed a relationship with Japanese promotion Wrestle-1 beginning in July 2013 with a meeting between TNA founder Jeff Jarrett and Wrestle-1 head Keiji Mutoh.[66] It was arranged for Jarrett to wrestle for W-1 in October 2013.[67] In November, A.J. Styles successfully defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at a Wrestle-1 show in Japan.[68]

Hulk Hogan's contract with TNA expired in October 2013, ending his time as creative consultant with the company.[69][70]

Departures and financial troubles (2013–2016) edit

From the period of 2013 to 2014, many well-known names or veterans of the company left TNA. In December 2013, AJ Styles left TNA after his contract expired.[71] Styles later said that he could not accept TNA's new contract offer, which would see him take a 60% cut in pay.[72] TNA founder Jeff Jarrett would resign from the company in December 2013,[73] but remained an "investor". The following year Jarrett revealed plans to start a new professional wrestling promotion, Global Force Wrestling.[74] Further departures in 2014 included TNA veterans Sting,[75] Chris Sabin,[76] Hernandez,[77] Christopher Daniels and Kazarian all leaving the company in that year,[78] and the contracts of TNA Hall of Famers Bully Ray and Devon reportedly expired in October 2014, with TNA moving them to the alumni section of their roster in January 2015.[79]

In late July, the TMZ website reported that Spike TV was not renewing Impact Wrestling beyond October.[80] TNA would refute the report, stating that negotiations were still ongoing.[81] On August 14, Impact Wrestling moved to Wednesday nights.[82] On August 20, TNA signed an extension with Spike TV until the end of 2014.[83]

In November 2014, TNA announced a new agreement with Discovery Communications to distribute its programming in the United States on Destination America and to selected international markets.[84] Spike's outreach at the time was estimated to be more than 97 million homes while Destination America was estimated to reach 59 million households.[85] Impact Wrestling ceased airing new televised events on Spike after the November 19 episode. The final episodes of 2014 were Best of TNA clip shows. On January 7, 2015, Impact Wrestling moved to Destination America, with a live debut from The Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom in New York City.[86][87][88]

 
Billy Corgan joined TNA in 2015 and became the promotion's president in late 2016.

In addition to Impact Wrestling, which was now airing on Friday nights,[89] two new shows produced were Impact Wrestling: Unlocked, hosted by Mike Tenay,[90] and TNA Wrestling's Greatest Matches, a series presenting the best matches in the company's history.[91] From December 2014 to March 2015, several employees re-signed with TNA, including Kurt Angle,[92] Jeff Hardy, Gail Kim, Mr. Anderson, Abyss and Matt Hardy.[93][94] Awesome Kong also re-joined the company following several years of absence.[94] During this period, veteran Samoa Joe and commentator Tazz left the company by mutual consent.[95][96]

On April 27, 2015, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan joined TNA as senior producer of creative and talent development.[97]

Destination America gained over 41.94 million viewers over the course of 2015's first quarter, making this the channel's best first quarter ever,[98] followed by their best May ever in prime time. In both cases, Discovery Communications touted Impact Wrestling as one of the reasons for the increase in viewers.[99] Despite this success, Discovery Communications dropped Unlocked and Greatest Matches from their programming in May 2015.[100][101]

On November 19, TNA signed a deal with Pop TV to air Impact Wrestling,[102] where it premiered on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, in a live special held at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. With this move to Pop, Impact Wrestling introduced a new HD set, graphics and theme music. This show saw the semi-finals and finals of the TNA World Title Series, which was won by Ethan Carter III. Husband and wife team Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis would debut soon after. Subsequent shows would include episodes taped during a tour of England, which would be the last TNA appearances for Kurt Angle. TNA returned to taping Impact Wrestling at the Impact Zone at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, beginning with a live Impact Wrestling on March 15. On March 19, longtime TNA wrestlers Eric Young and Bobby Roode left the promotion after 12 years.[103] On April 22, Velvet Sky, another longtime TNA wrestler, left the company.[104]

On August 12, Billy Corgan became the promotion's new president, while Dixie Carter became chairwoman and chief strategy officer.[105]

On October 13, Corgan sued TNA due to an unpaid debt which Corgan claimed TNA has defaulted on. The State of Tennessee has also put a lien on TNA for unpaid taxes.[106] Anthem Sports & Entertainment, parent company of Impact Wrestling's Canadian broadcaster, Fight Network, offered to help TNA and repay Corgan for the loans, while also offering additional financial assistance to TNA to help keep them from filing for bankruptcy.[107] On October 31, Corgan lost his injunction that kept TNA from selling the company, but TNA was required to pay Corgan back by November 1. It was possible that one of the other minority owners could pay Corgan, effectively making them the majority owner of TNA.[108][unreliable source]

On November 3, the company revealed that Anthem Sports & Entertainment provided a credit facility to fund operations for TNA and that Corgan was no longer with the company as president.[109] However, Corgan himself stated that neither TNA nor Anthem Sports & Entertainment had yet repaid the $2.7 million debt that was owed to him by TNA[110] and, as such, he was considering suing, as well as converting the debt into a 36 percent stake.[111] As the result of a settlement between Corgan and TNA, Anthem Sports & Entertainment had acquired the loans Corgan made to Carter.[112]

Acquisition by Anthem and re-branding (2017–present) edit

 
As of March 2023, Scott D'Amore is President of Impact Wrestling. He was previously Co-Executive Vice President alongside Don Callis from January 2018 until Callis' departure in May 2021, and sole EVP until March 2023.

Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a company owned by former Canwest CEO Leonard Asper, purchased a majority stake of TNA, re-organizing TNA's parent company. Dixie Carter retained a five percent minority stake in the company, but resigned as chairwoman after fourteen years with the company and joined Fight Media Group's advisory board. The promotion's parent company, TNA Entertainment, was changed firstly to Impact Ventures and then to Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions, LLC., with Anthem's Executive Vice President Ed Nordholm becoming President of the new parent company.[7] On January 5, Jeff Jarrett was brought back by Anthem to serve as a consultant.[113] Anthem re-branded the promotion as Impact Wrestling, after its primary television series two months later.[114] Wrestlers Drew Galloway, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Jade, Crazzy Steve, Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis left the company during this period.[citation needed]

On April 20, Impact announced a merger with Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling (GFW).[115] The company subsequently announced that they were re-branding again and taking the GFW name in June;[1] the re-branding was short-lived as they severed ties with Jarrett that October.[116] During that time, Anthem launched the Global Wrestling Network, a new streaming service which featured content from to their tape library and other sources.[117] Jarrett subsequently filed a lawsuit against Anthem in the District Court of Tennessee for copyright infringement over the GFW rights;[118][119] the lawsuit was ultimately settled out of court.[120]

Don Callis and Scott D'Amore became executive vice presidents in January 2018, taking charge of Impact Wrestling's day-to-day operations.[121] At the first tapings under their tenure, the company reverted to a traditional four-sided ring, and the show also saw the return of former World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries, as well the debuts of new wrestlers such as Kiera Hogan, Su Yung, Pentagón Jr., Fénix and Brian Cage.[122] The company also announced a partnership with live streaming service Twitch to produce content for their platform, starting with Brace for Impact, which was co-promoted with New Jersey-based promotion WrestlePro. Their first live show was Impact vs. Lucha Underground, a co-promoted show with Lucha Underground.[123]

Impact! subsequently moved to Pursuit Channel beginning January 11, 2019.[124] Two months later, the promotion announced that Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) would serve as its developmental territory once again.[125] In May, Impact Plus replaced the Global Wrestling Network as the official streaming app for the promotion.[126] Impact! began airing on Anthem-owned AXS TV after Bound for Glory in October.[127]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Impact would hold events behind closed doors at Skyway Studios in Nashville.[128] During the pandemic, the promotion cancelled its planned TNA: There's No Place Like Home event,[128] and Tessa Blanchard, who became the first woman to win the promotion's World Championship earlier that year at Hard to Kill, was fired and stripped of the championship after a long absence.[129] Slammiversary saw the returns of The Motor City Machine Guns, Eric Young, Doc Gallows and EC3, as well as the debuts of Karl Anderson and Heath Slater.[130]

After the events of AEW Winter Is Coming on December 2, 2020, Impact began a partnership with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), which lasted until Bound for Glory 2021. AEW-contracted wrestlers Kenny Omega and Christian Cage held the Impact World Championship during this time; this marked Cage's first in-ring return to the promotion since 2008.[131] In February 2021, Impact launched Before the Impact (abbreviated as BTI), and Xplosion was canceled after 19 years the following month.[132][133][134] During No Surrender Impact announced a new partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).[135] Don Callis' time as Impact executive vice president and on-air talent ended in May.[136]

Slammiversary 2021 marked the return of in-person spectators for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.[137] That month, BTI and Impact! would crossover for the first time, when Josh Alexander faced T. J. Perkins for the X Division Championship in Impact's first-ever 60-minute Iron man match, which began on BTI and concluded in the opening minutes of Impact!.[138] Impact subsequently announced the end of their partnership with Twitch that August and launched a new YouTube membership program called "Impact Wrestling Insiders".[139]

In November 2022, Impact and DAZN signed a partnership where the streaming service will distribute select non-live shows in most countries except the United States, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.[140] On May 8, 2023, Impact announced their first ever Australian shows named Down Under Tour, a four-day tour with two marquee wrestling shows that took part on June 30 and July 1 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[141]

At the conclusion of Bound for Glory on October 21, 2023, Impact announced that it would rebrand as the revived Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling on January 13, 2024, at Hard To Kill.[142]

Ownership edit

The promotion was originally formed by the Jarretts under a parent company known as J Sports & Entertainment, LLC.[2]

Panda Energy International purchased a controlling interest (71%) in the company in 2002 from Jerry Jarrett,[143] re-incorporating it as TNA Entertainment, LLC, in the process. In 2012, Panda Energy divested itself of its stake in TNA. Dixie Carter, the daughter of Panda Energy founder Robert Carter, who had been serving as TNA's president, acquired that stake, making her TNA's majority shareholder. Jeff Jarrett departed the company on December 22, 2013, but remained as minority shareholder until his temporary return on June 24, 2015, with the deal for his return including the transfer of his minority stake to Dixie Carter, making her sole shareholder.[144][145][146][147]

According to a report on August 7, 2015, TNA filed a new business name of Impact Ventures, LLC.[3] It was reported near the beginning of 2016 that Aroluxe Marketing, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based marketing agency, had taken a stake in TNA at the start of 2016 in return for providing partial funding, as well as taking over TNA's production operations.[148] It was reported in June 2016 that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan acquired a minority stake in TNA from Dixie Carter, but he had instead provided a loan to Carter.[149][150] Then on August 12, TNA appointed Corgan as the company's new president and the transition of Carter from president to the company's new chairman and chief strategy officer.[4] It was reported on September 16 by the New York Post that Canada's Fight Network, through its parent company, Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corporation, had taken a stake in TNA.[148] On November 4, Corgan was removed as president,[151] then on November 30 it also reported that Corgan had settled his lawsuit against TNA, with Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp acquiring the loans Corgan made to Dixie in the process.[112]

In early 2017, TNA would go through a restructuring period that would see an ownership change, with Anthem taking 85 percent, Aroluxe 10 percent and Dixie Carter 5 percent.[9][152] On January 4, 2017, Anthem Sports & Entertainment purchased an 85 percent majority stake of the company, re-organizing TNA's parent company to Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions, LLC, and Carter resigned as chairwoman after 14 years in charge, while joining the advisory board of Fight Media Group. Ed Nordholm, Anthem's executive vice president, then took over Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions as president.[7]

Shortly after Anthem's acquisition of TNA, it was re-branded to Impact Wrestling. On January 5, Jeff Jarrett was brought back to the company by Anthem as an executive consultant, and later promoted to executive producer and chief creative officer. In April 2017, it was announced on Impact! that the promotion would "merge" with Jarrett's newer Global Force Wrestling promotion. In the lead-up to the Slammiversary XV PPV, Anthem officially announced its intent to acquire GFW to formalize the merger.[113][153] However, after he took an indefinite leave of absence, the promotion later cut ties with Jarrett and had reverted to the Impact Wrestling brand on October 23. The deal for Anthem to acquire GFW was never completed.[154]

Television and touring schedule edit

Weekly pay-per-views (2002–2004) edit

From June 2002 until September 2004, the promotion's original weekly pay-per-view shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, nicknamed the "TNA Asylum". There were a total of 111 weekly pay-per-views.

Impact! and Xplosion (2004–2013) edit

Main articles: Impact Zone, Impact! (TV series), Impact Xplosion, and Before the Impact

From June 2004 to March 2013, TNA programming was taped at Universal Studios Florida's Soundstage 21. The Soundstages at Universal were dubbed the "Impact Zone" by the company. Pay-per-views were also broadcast from that location until October 2006, when Bound for Glory emanated from the Compuware Arena in Detroit.

Initially, TNA worked with Hermie Sadler's United Wrestling Federation in 2005 to create house shows. TNA permitted the usage of the ring and for championships to be defended at these events. TNA started running independent house shows on March 17, 2006.[155] They would continue to work with United Wrestling Federation and promote independent shows at the same time, until 2007. In 2007, TNA first toured Europe, hosting two shows at Porto and Lisbon in Portugal with APW Wrestling. In 2008, TNA wrestlers appeared at Wrestle Kingdom II in Japan. Later on in 2008, TNA conducted its first tour of England, with most shows selling out. The promotion first toured Germany, Scotland and Ireland in 2009, France, Wales and the United Arab Emirates in 2010 and Belgium in 2012.

In August 2007, live-events coordinator Craig Jenkins stated that TNA intended to stage eight pay-per-views and 96 house shows outside Orlando, Florida, in 2008.[156]

In 2009, during their United Kingdom tour, a house show at Wembley Arena in London broke TNA's attendance records. On July 2, 2010, MCU Park hosted a live TNA house show, which also broke the TNA domestic attendance record at the time and is currently the most attended live TNA house show in the United States, with a capacity crowd of 5,550.[157]

Outside the Impact Zone (2013–2017) edit

On January 31, 2013, TNA announced that they would tape their programming in different venues around the United States, with the first live show being held on March 14, in the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (a Chicago suburb).[158] Unable to cover the rising costs of taping on the road, TNA would return to Universal Studios on November 21, 2013.[159] The promotion would continue to occasionally tape programming from other venues; such as the Sands Casino Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;[160] the Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom in New York City;[161][162] The SSE Hydro in Glasgow; Manchester Arena in Manchester; Wembley Arena in London, as part of a January 2015 tour.

In June 2017, the promotion - having been rebranded Impact Wrestling - held a show in India, becoming the first major U.S. promotion to hold events in that country.[163] After Bound for Glory 2017 in November 2017, Impact would do a set of tapings in Ottawa.[164]

Post-Universal Studios (2018–present) edit

Following the 2018 Redemption pay-per-view, Impact Wrestling would return to touring, taping in various smaller venues. The year's taping locations included Windsor, Ontario,[165] Toronto,[166] Mexico City,[167] New York City,[168] and Las Vegas.[169]

In 2019, Impact Wrestling held tapings in Philadelphia, Dallas, New York City, Houston, Windsor, Mexico City, Nashville, Toronto, Rahway, Fort Campbell, Owensboro, and other venues in Ontario.[170]

 
Impact 20th anniversary logo, used in 2022

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Impact Wrestling programming was taped and held behind closed doors at Skyway Studios in the promotion's home base of Nashville, Tennessee from April 2020 through June 2021.[171][172][173] Beginning with Slammiversary in July 2021, fans were allowed in attendance at Skyway. On October 23, 2021, Impact held their first event outside of Nashville in a year and a half with Bound for Glory, which took place just outside of Las Vegas in Sunrise Manor, Nevada.

After a brief Las Vegas area residency to end 2021, Impact resumed a full schedule of live touring in January 2022.[174]

 
The 2020–present Impact Wrestling set showing the walkway between the stage and ring

In March 2023, Impact held events in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This would mark their first shows outside of the U.S. in three years. Numerous other shows were held throughout Canada all through the year.[175]

Impact held its first ever shows in Australia on June 30 and July 1, 2023.[176] From October 26 to 28, 2023, Impact will hold events in Scotland and England, marking their first United Kingdom tour since 2015.[177]

Partnerships edit

International edit

Impact Wrestling has worked with several international wrestling promotions, with championships from those promotions sometimes having been defended at Impact Wrestling events. Among the organizations Impact has had working relationships with are Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) from 2007 to 2009 and The Crash, Japan's Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Wrestle-1 (W-1) and Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah).

The initial relationship with NJPW lasted from 2008 to 2011. Then-known as TNA Wrestling, the promotion would send wrestlers to participate in NJPW's annual Wrestle Kingdom events, as well as NJPW sending future IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada on a training excursion to TNA. The relationship would be strained, when IWGP Tag Team Champions Team 3D were held off of a New Japan tour in favor of appearing on Impact Wrestling tapings and Okada was given the gimmick of "Okato", where he dressed similar to The Green Hornet's sidekick Kato.[178] a decision Executive Vice President Scott D'Amore has since apologized for on behalf of the previous regime.[179]

On March 2, 2014, TNA collaborated with Wrestle-1 in producing the Kaisen: Outbreak supershow in Tokyo, Japan, where three TNA championships were defended.[180][181] In May 2015, it was reported that the relationship between TNA and Wrestle-1 had ended.[182]

Since 2015, the promotion has had a working agreement with Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA)[183] and in 2018, announced a partnership with the AAA-affiliated Lucha Underground, allowing their wrestlers from the show to appear for Impact on a regular basis. In April 2018, the two promotions held Impact vs Lucha Underground from WrestleCon in New Orleans to a sell out crowd.[184]

National edit

In early 2006, the promotion began a collaboration with Hermie Sadler's United Wrestling Federation. The agreement permitted UWF to use the TNA logo on posters and signage, as well as to use the six-sided ring with TNA branding. These shows were mainly promoted as 'UWF/TNA' events. The TNA name agreement ended at the end of 2006, as TNA began to promote their own house show events, though UWF still used a six-sided ring.[185] These events were recorded and released on DVD by Highsports.[186]

Impact Wrestling has worked with North American independent promotions in various collaborative efforts, such as the original Global Force Wrestling (another promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett), OMEGA Championship Wrestling (owned by Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy and Gregory Helms) and Evolve Wrestling.[187] Since 2018, Impact has established working relationships with a number of promotions to co-promote house shows, Twitch specials, the final Impact One Night Only events, and Impact Plus Monthly Specials. These promotions include, Future Stars of Wrestling, Smash Wrestling, AML Wrestling, Superkick'd, Border City Wrestling, WrestleCade, Rocky Mountain Pro, Rockstar Pro Wrestling, Wrestlepro, Wrestling Revolver, RISE, Destiny Wrestling, Big Time Wrestling (California), DEFY Wrestling and House of Hardcore.[188][189]

Impact Wrestling would begin a partnership with All Elite Wrestling in December 2020, and also furthered its re-established relationship with NJPW in February 2021.[190] In October 2021, the working relationship between Impact and AEW quietly ended following Bound for Glory.[191]

On the January 7, 2022 episode of SmackDown, it was announced that Knockouts Champion Mickie James would enter the 2022 Royal Rumble match. Both WWE's official Twitter account and Impact's website confirmed this soon after, with the former recognizing James as an Impact champion.[192][193][194]

Features edit

X Division edit

Main article: X Division
 
High-flying, high risk moves are a centerpiece of the X Division.

The X Division is known for its high-flying, high-risk style matches. While most wrestlers who perform are under 220 lb (100 kg), thus being cruiserweights, Impact would emphasize the high-risk nature of the moves that these wrestlers perform by removing all restraints from competing in the X Division and allowing wrestlers to perform almost stunt-like moves. Because of this, wrestlers such as Samoa Joe, billed at 280 lb (130 kg), Kurt Angle, billed at 230 lb (100 kg), and Abyss, billed at 350 lb (160 kg), have also competed in the division.[citation needed] The slogan "It's not about weight limits, it's about no limits" has been used throughout the years to describe the division.[195]

In August 2011, a 225 lb (102 kg) weight limit was introduced,[196] though it was quietly repealed in March 2012. Further changes introduced in March 2013, including a weight limit of 230 lbs, and all matches being contested as triple threat matches,[197] were also repealed in August.[198][199]

Six-sided ring edit

 
For much of its history, Impact Wrestling used a hexagonal ring.

From the promotion's first show in June 2002, a standard four-sided wrestling ring was used. In June 2004, with the premiere of Impact!, TNA switched to a six-sided ring, as occasionally used in AAA.[200] The six-sided ring would be retired in January 2010,[201] only making a brief return for the 2011 Destination X event. In 2014, after a fan-voted poll to determine what type of ring the company would use from June 2014,[202] the six-sided ring would return.[203] The promotion would continue to use the six-sided ring until January 2018, when it went back to a traditional four-sided ring.[204]

Knockouts edit

Main article: Impact Knockouts
 
The inaugural and 7-time Impact Knockouts World Championship holder and Impact Hall of Famer Gail Kim in 2007

Knockout is a term used by the company to refer to its female talent. The term is applied universally to wrestlers, backstage interviewers, and managers/valets. The division was established in 2002 mostly consisting of female valets and managers who were not competing often during the company's inception in 2002 until 2006; it became a permanent women's division in 2007 known as the TNA Knockouts Division (now known as the Impact Knockouts Division) that consisted of women such as Gail Kim, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Awesome Kong and consisted (and consist) of titles such as and known as the Impact Knockouts World Championship and the Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championships. The Impact Knockouts were formerly known as the TNA Knockouts, Women of TNA, and Ladies of TNA.[205][206] Since 2017 it has been considered by many as Impact Wrestling's centerpiece.

Contracts edit

Main article: List of Impact Wrestling personnel

Impact wrestlers are forbidden by contract from working for other companies with televised wrestling shows, but are free to perform non-televised work for any other independent wrestling promotions, domestic or international, as well as televised events held by foreign promotions that Impact Wrestling is linked to or has a working relationship with (such as AAA and NOAH).[207] Many Impact wrestlers perform regularly for various promotions on the independent circuit in addition to Impact Wrestling weekly shows. In 2012, the company changed its policy, preventing its talent from appearing at any independent events that are later released on DVD.[208] Top wrestlers have guaranteed contracts, but the majority of the roster are paid on a per appearance basis.[207] Impact wrestlers are classified as independent contractors and are not offered health coverage through the promotion.[207] As of November 2017, Impact Wrestling contracts give the performers complete ownership over all intellectual property associated with their characters.[209]

Hall of Fame edit

Main article: Impact Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame was introduced on May 31, 2012. As part of a yearly process, selected inductees are chosen based on their overall contributions to Impact's history.[210][211] On June 10, at Slammiversary 10, Sting was revealed as the first inductee into the Hall of Fame and his formal induction took place at Bound for Glory in October 2012.[212]

Video games edit

Championships and accomplishments edit

As of October 28, 2023

Current champions edit

Main article: List of current champions in Impact Wrestling
Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days held[213] Location Notes Ref.
Impact World Championship   Alex Shelley 1 June 9, 2023 141 Columbus, Ohio Defeated Steve Maclin at Against All Odds. [214]
Impact X Division Championship   Chris Sabin 10 September 9, 2023 49 White Plains, New York Defeated Lio Rush at the Impact 1000 tapings.
Aired September 14
Impact Digital Media Championship   Tommy Dreamer 1 September 8, 2023 50 White Plains, New York Defeated Kenny King in a Title vs. Career match at Victory Road. [215]
Impact World Tag Team Championship  
  		ABC
(Ace Austin and Chris Bey) 		2 October 21, 2023 7 Cicero, Illinois Defeated The Rascalz (Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz) at Bound for Glory.
This was Bey's Feast or Fired Tag Team Championship match
Impact Knockouts World Championship   Trinity 1 July 15, 2023 105 Windsor, Ontario, Canada Defeated Deonna Purrazzo at Slammiversary. [216]
Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship  
  		MK Ultra
(Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich) 		1 July 15, 2023 105 Windsor, Ontario, Canada Defeated The Coven (Taylor Wilde and KiLynn King) at Slammiversary. [216]

Defunct championships edit

Main article: List of former championships in Impact Wrestling

See also edit

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impact, wrestling, confused, with, impact, wrestling, company, flagship, television, program, same, name, impact, series, wrestling, redirects, here, mobile, video, game, wrestling, video, game, request, that, this, article, title, changed, total, nonstop, act. Not to be confused with Impact Pro Wrestling For the company s flagship television program of the same name see Impact TV series TNA Wrestling redirects here For the mobile video game see TNA Wrestling video game A request that this article title be changed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is under discussion Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed Impact Wrestling stylized as IMPACT Wrestling is an American 10 professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville Tennessee It is a subsidiary of Canada s Anthem Sports amp Entertainment 11 Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLCTrade name NWA Total Nonstop Action 2002 2004 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 2004 2017 January 2024 Impact Wrestling March 2017 June 2017 September 2017 January 2024 Global Force Wrestling June 2017 September 2017 1 FormerlyJ Sports amp Entertainment LLC 2002 2 TNA Entertainment LLC 2002 2016 3 Impact Ventures LLC 2015 2016 4 TypeSubsidiaryIndustryProfessional wrestlingStreaming mediaFoundedMay 10 2002 21 years ago 2002 05 10 in Nashville Tennessee U S FoundersJeff JarrettJerry JarrettBob RyderHeadquartersNashville Tennessee U S Area servedWorldwide 5 Key peopleLeonard Asper Founder President CEO Anthem Sports amp Entertainment Inc 6 Ed Nordholm Chief Corporate Officer Anthem Sports amp Entertainment Inc 7 Richard Schaefer President Anthem Sports Group Inc Scott D Amore President Impact Wrestling Head of Creative 8 ProductsTelevision pay per view publishing merchandise music home video video on demand Streaming network serviceParentPanda Energy International 2002 2012 Anthem Sports amp Entertainment 2017 present 9 DivisionsImpact PlusImpact Wrestling Home VideoWebsitewww impactwrestling comFounded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002 12 the promotion was initially known as NWA Total Nonstop Action NWA TNA and was associated with the National Wrestling Alliance NWA though not an official member 13 In 2004 the promotion became known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA but it continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships as part of its agreement with the NWA After the agreement ended in 2007 the company created its own TNA World Heavyweight and TNA World Tag Team championships The promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017 and in March of that year was fully rebranded to Impact Wrestling after its flagship weekly television series The promotion will rebrand under the revived TNA name starting in January 2024 14 15 From its inception the promotion had been considered the second largest in the United States behind WWE 16 17 In 2017 Impact was viewed by some to have fallen behind longtime rival Ring of Honor 18 19 20 with the loss of their U S television contract with Spike in 2014 as well as monetary and personnel issues being noted as factors to their decline 21 By 2019 Impact was thought by many to have recovered through its sustained international television distribution 22 and the purchase by its parent company of AXS TV which subsequently began carrying Impact programming 23 24 With the establishment of All Elite Wrestling AEW that year and that promotion s high profile U S television deal with TNT which is seen in more households than AXS Impact has since been viewed as being the third largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind both WWE and AEW 25 26 Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation and early history 2002 2004 1 2 Growth and surging popularity 2004 2009 1 3 Hulk Hogan Eric Bischoff and Dixie Carter leadership 2010 2013 1 4 Departures and financial troubles 2013 2016 1 5 Acquisition by Anthem and re branding 2017 present 2 Ownership 3 Television and touring schedule 3 1 Weekly pay per views 2002 2004 3 2 Impact and Xplosion 2004 2013 3 3 Outside the Impact Zone 2013 2017 3 4 Post Universal Studios 2018 present 4 Partnerships 4 1 International 4 2 National 5 Features 5 1 X Division 5 2 Six sided ring 5 3 Knockouts 5 4 Contracts 5 5 Hall of Fame 6 Video games 7 Championships and accomplishments 7 1 Current champions 7 2 Defunct championships 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory editFormation and early history 2002 2004 edit nbsp Jeff Jarrett one of the founders of Impact Wrestling then TNA Hall of Famer and six time NWA World Heavyweight ChampionThe concept of TNA originated shortly after World Championship Wrestling WCW ended in 2001 with the World Wrestling Federation WWF later WWE gaining a monopoly on the industry While on a fishing trip Bob Ryder Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett contemplated their futures in the professional wrestling business 13 Ryder suggested a company not reliant on television but rather one going straight to pay per view 13 In July 2002 Vince Russo joined Jeff and Jerry Jarrett s NWA TNA promotion as a creative writer and would assist in the writing and production of the shows Russo states that he coined the name Total Nonstop Action the initials of the company TNA being a play on T amp A The original intention as they were exclusive to pay per view was to be viewed as an edgier product than WWE 27 Initially TNA s weekly pay per view show operated as the company s main source of revenue in place of monthly pay per view events used by other promotions These shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville nicknamed the TNA Asylum In October 2002 Panda Energy purchased a controlling interest 72 of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA which originally traded as J Sports and Entertainment was renamed TNA Entertainment 28 Dixie Carter was appointed president of TNA Entertainment in spring 2003 29 Xplosion launched on November 27 2002 as TNA s first regular cable show and featured exclusive matches taped at the TNA Asylum as well as exclusive interviews with TNA wrestlers The last weekly pay per view took place on September 8 2004 Growth and surging popularity 2004 2009 edit nbsp AJ Styles was considered the cornerstone of the company during the late 2000s as well as being TNA s first Grand Slam Champion In May 2004 TNA introduced its second weekly television program Impact stylized as iMPACT produced at Soundstage 21 nicknamed the Impact Zone at Universal Studios Florida and broadcast on Fox Sports Net FSN 30 With the show s premiere TNA introduced a six sided wrestling ring 31 32 the implementation of the Fox Box displaying competitors and timekeeping for the match 33 and a generally more sports like style than the sports entertainment style exemplified by WWE 33 TNA would subsequently discontinue producing weekly pay per views in favor of a traditional monthly pay per view schedule beginning with Victory Road in November 2004 TNA s television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005 34 Without television exposure Impact would continue to air through webcasts originally made available via BitTorrent and eventually via RealPlayer and replace Xplosion s timeslot on Urban America Television 35 36 In August 2005 Marvel Toys launched the first line of TNA action figures 37 which included a six sided ring and Ultimate X playset 38 On September 11 2005 TNA held its Unbreakable pay per view Unbreakable is remembered for the three way match main event for the TNA X Division Championship between AJ Styles Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe which received a rare 5 Star match rating from wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer the first and currently the only one the company had received 39 Later that year TNA would later secure a television deal with Spike TV Impact debuted on the network on October 1 2005 The episode saw Team 3D make their TNA debut 40 TNA would gain attention for the many high profile wrestlers that would join the promotion during Impacts run on Spike From 2005 to 2009 these include Kevin Nash Rhino Christian Cage Sting who made appearances at previous Asylum shows Scott Steiner Kurt Angle Booker T and Mick Foley 41 In April 2006 TNA launched a YouTube channel featuring clips from Impact and exclusive content Beginning with Bound for Glory in October 2006 TNA began holding select pay per view events outside of Orlando Florida In January 2007 TNA announced a deal with New Motion Inc which led to the introduction of TNA Mobile service 42 TNA has also launched TNA U TV podcasts aired through YouTube to help promote the company 43 In March 2008 Tristar Productions acquired an exclusive license deal to produce and distribute TNA trading cards and memorabilia 44 On September 9 2008 Midway Games released the TNA Impact video game 45 On October 23 2008 TNA began producing its programming in HD 46 In addition a new HD set for Impact was introduced including new lighting and large high resolution screens 47 On June 21 2009 TNA launched an online video vault subscription service where subscribers could watch past pay per views by choosing one of three payment options 48 Hulk Hogan Eric Bischoff and Dixie Carter leadership 2010 2013 edit nbsp nbsp Hulk Hogan left and Eric Bischoff right were part of creative from 2010 to 2013 nbsp Under Hogan and Bischoff s tenure TNA re branded its flagship program to Impact Wrestling and reintroduced the four sided ring In October 2009 TNA President Dixie Carter hired Hulk Hogan and former WCW President Eric Bischoff Both obtained a position behind the scenes with Bischoff part of creative and Hogan as a consultant Under their tenure TNA would see several revamps in 2010 Beginning with Genesis in January TNA returned to using a four sided ring That month Jakks Pacific announced a five year agreement to produce TNA action figures 49 50 Impact would also begin airing on Monday nights directly opposite of WWE Raw marking the first time that two major professional wrestling promotions would go head to head since the launch of WCW Monday Nitro in 1995 51 The show would permanently move to Mondays on March 8 2010 Spike would keep the Thursday night slot open for repeats of the Monday night shows During this time Ric Flair Rob Van Dam Mr Anderson would make their debuts while Jeff Hardy would make his return 52 Impact would later return to Thursday nights on May 3 53 54 55 nbsp Dixie Carter TNA President from 2002 to 2017 under Hogan and Bischoff s tenure Carter would become an on screen character During the May 3 2011 Impact television tapings the show would change its name to Impact Wrestling 56 57 58 On November 7 2011 TNA revealed that Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW would become TNA s official developmental territory 59 In December 2011 TNA debuted their new India based subsidiary promotion Ring Ka King 60 On May 31 2012 Impact Wrestling began airing live at a new start time of 8 p m EST on Thursday nights 61 The live schedule would continue throughout 2012 62 In March 2013 TNA began taping Impact from different venues around the United States and terminated its lease with Universal Studios 63 On March 14 TNA introduced a new universal HD stage which would be used for all weekly programming 64 On November 2 TNA ended its relationship with OVW 65 TNA formed a relationship with Japanese promotion Wrestle 1 beginning in July 2013 with a meeting between TNA founder Jeff Jarrett and Wrestle 1 head Keiji Mutoh 66 It was arranged for Jarrett to wrestle for W 1 in October 2013 67 In November A J Styles successfully defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at a Wrestle 1 show in Japan 68 Hulk Hogan s contract with TNA expired in October 2013 ending his time as creative consultant with the company 69 70 Departures and financial troubles 2013 2016 edit From the period of 2013 to 2014 many well known names or veterans of the company left TNA In December 2013 AJ Styles left TNA after his contract expired 71 Styles later said that he could not accept TNA s new contract offer which would see him take a 60 cut in pay 72 TNA founder Jeff Jarrett would resign from the company in December 2013 73 but remained an investor The following year Jarrett revealed plans to start a new professional wrestling promotion Global Force Wrestling 74 Further departures in 2014 included TNA veterans Sting 75 Chris Sabin 76 Hernandez 77 Christopher Daniels and Kazarian all leaving the company in that year 78 and the contracts of TNA Hall of Famers Bully Ray and Devon reportedly expired in October 2014 with TNA moving them to the alumni section of their roster in January 2015 79 In late July the TMZ website reported that Spike TV was not renewing Impact Wrestling beyond October 80 TNA would refute the report stating that negotiations were still ongoing 81 On August 14 Impact Wrestling moved to Wednesday nights 82 On August 20 TNA signed an extension with Spike TV until the end of 2014 83 In November 2014 TNA announced a new agreement with Discovery Communications to distribute its programming in the United States on Destination America and to selected international markets 84 Spike s outreach at the time was estimated to be more than 97 million homes while Destination America was estimated to reach 59 million households 85 Impact Wrestling ceased airing new televised events on Spike after the November 19 episode The final episodes of 2014 were Best of TNA clip shows On January 7 2015 Impact Wrestling moved to Destination America with a live debut from The Manhattan Center s Grand Ballroom in New York City 86 87 88 nbsp Billy Corgan joined TNA in 2015 and became the promotion s president in late 2016 In addition to Impact Wrestling which was now airing on Friday nights 89 two new shows produced were Impact Wrestling Unlocked hosted by Mike Tenay 90 and TNA Wrestling s Greatest Matches a series presenting the best matches in the company s history 91 From December 2014 to March 2015 several employees re signed with TNA including Kurt Angle 92 Jeff Hardy Gail Kim Mr Anderson Abyss and Matt Hardy 93 94 Awesome Kong also re joined the company following several years of absence 94 During this period veteran Samoa Joe and commentator Tazz left the company by mutual consent 95 96 On April 27 2015 Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan joined TNA as senior producer of creative and talent development 97 Destination America gained over 41 94 million viewers over the course of 2015 s first quarter making this the channel s best first quarter ever 98 followed by their best May ever in prime time In both cases Discovery Communications touted Impact Wrestling as one of the reasons for the increase in viewers 99 Despite this success Discovery Communications dropped Unlocked and Greatest Matches from their programming in May 2015 100 101 On November 19 TNA signed a deal with Pop TV to air Impact Wrestling 102 where it premiered on Tuesday January 5 2016 in a live special held at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Bethlehem Pennsylvania With this move to Pop Impact Wrestling introduced a new HD set graphics and theme music This show saw the semi finals and finals of the TNA World Title Series which was won by Ethan Carter III Husband and wife team Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis would debut soon after Subsequent shows would include episodes taped during a tour of England which would be the last TNA appearances for Kurt Angle TNA returned to taping Impact Wrestling at the Impact Zone at Universal Studios in Orlando Florida beginning with a live Impact Wrestling on March 15 On March 19 longtime TNA wrestlers Eric Young and Bobby Roode left the promotion after 12 years 103 On April 22 Velvet Sky another longtime TNA wrestler left the company 104 On August 12 Billy Corgan became the promotion s new president while Dixie Carter became chairwoman and chief strategy officer 105 On October 13 Corgan sued TNA due to an unpaid debt which Corgan claimed TNA has defaulted on The State of Tennessee has also put a lien on TNA for unpaid taxes 106 Anthem Sports amp Entertainment parent company of Impact Wrestling s Canadian broadcaster Fight Network offered to help TNA and repay Corgan for the loans while also offering additional financial assistance to TNA to help keep them from filing for bankruptcy 107 On October 31 Corgan lost his injunction that kept TNA from selling the company but TNA was required to pay Corgan back by November 1 It was possible that one of the other minority owners could pay Corgan effectively making them the majority owner of TNA 108 unreliable source On November 3 the company revealed that Anthem Sports amp Entertainment provided a credit facility to fund operations for TNA and that Corgan was no longer with the company as president 109 However Corgan himself stated that neither TNA nor Anthem Sports amp Entertainment had yet repaid the 2 7 million debt that was owed to him by TNA 110 and as such he was considering suing as well as converting the debt into a 36 percent stake 111 As the result of a settlement between Corgan and TNA Anthem Sports amp Entertainment had acquired the loans Corgan made to Carter 112 Acquisition by Anthem and re branding 2017 present edit nbsp As of March 2023 Scott D Amore is President of Impact Wrestling He was previously Co Executive Vice President alongside Don Callis from January 2018 until Callis departure in May 2021 and sole EVP until March 2023 Anthem Sports amp Entertainment a company owned by former Canwest CEO Leonard Asper purchased a majority stake of TNA re organizing TNA s parent company Dixie Carter retained a five percent minority stake in the company but resigned as chairwoman after fourteen years with the company and joined Fight Media Group s advisory board The promotion s parent company TNA Entertainment was changed firstly to Impact Ventures and then to Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLC with Anthem s Executive Vice President Ed Nordholm becoming President of the new parent company 7 On January 5 Jeff Jarrett was brought back by Anthem to serve as a consultant 113 Anthem re branded the promotion as Impact Wrestling after its primary television series two months later 114 Wrestlers Drew Galloway Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy Jade Crazzy Steve Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis left the company during this period citation needed On April 20 Impact announced a merger with Jarrett s Global Force Wrestling GFW 115 The company subsequently announced that they were re branding again and taking the GFW name in June 1 the re branding was short lived as they severed ties with Jarrett that October 116 During that time Anthem launched the Global Wrestling Network a new streaming service which featured content from to their tape library and other sources 117 Jarrett subsequently filed a lawsuit against Anthem in the District Court of Tennessee for copyright infringement over the GFW rights 118 119 the lawsuit was ultimately settled out of court 120 Don Callis and Scott D Amore became executive vice presidents in January 2018 taking charge of Impact Wrestling s day to day operations 121 At the first tapings under their tenure the company reverted to a traditional four sided ring and the show also saw the return of former World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries as well the debuts of new wrestlers such as Kiera Hogan Su Yung Pentagon Jr Fenix and Brian Cage 122 The company also announced a partnership with live streaming service Twitch to produce content for their platform starting with Brace for Impact which was co promoted with New Jersey based promotion WrestlePro Their first live show was Impact vs Lucha Underground a co promoted show with Lucha Underground 123 Impact subsequently moved to Pursuit Channel beginning January 11 2019 124 Two months later the promotion announced that Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW would serve as its developmental territory once again 125 In May Impact Plus replaced the Global Wrestling Network as the official streaming app for the promotion 126 Impact began airing on Anthem owned AXS TV after Bound for Glory in October 127 Due to the COVID 19 pandemic Impact would hold events behind closed doors at Skyway Studios in Nashville 128 During the pandemic the promotion cancelled its planned TNA There s No Place Like Home event 128 and Tessa Blanchard who became the first woman to win the promotion s World Championship earlier that year at Hard to Kill was fired and stripped of the championship after a long absence 129 Slammiversary saw the returns of The Motor City Machine Guns Eric Young Doc Gallows and EC3 as well as the debuts of Karl Anderson and Heath Slater 130 After the events of AEW Winter Is Coming on December 2 2020 Impact began a partnership with All Elite Wrestling AEW which lasted until Bound for Glory 2021 AEW contracted wrestlers Kenny Omega and Christian Cage held the Impact World Championship during this time this marked Cage s first in ring return to the promotion since 2008 131 In February 2021 Impact launched Before the Impact abbreviated as BTI and Xplosion was canceled after 19 years the following month 132 133 134 During No Surrender Impact announced a new partnership with New Japan Pro Wrestling NJPW 135 Don Callis time as Impact executive vice president and on air talent ended in May 136 Slammiversary 2021 marked the return of in person spectators for the first time since the start of the COVID 19 pandemic 137 That month BTI and Impact would crossover for the first time when Josh Alexander faced T J Perkins for the X Division Championship in Impact s first ever 60 minute Iron man match which began on BTI and concluded in the opening minutes of Impact 138 Impact subsequently announced the end of their partnership with Twitch that August and launched a new YouTube membership program called Impact Wrestling Insiders 139 In November 2022 Impact and DAZN signed a partnership where the streaming service will distribute select non live shows in most countries except the United States South Asia and sub Saharan Africa 140 On May 8 2023 Impact announced their first ever Australian shows named Down Under Tour a four day tour with two marquee wrestling shows that took part on June 30 and July 1 in Wagga Wagga New South Wales 141 At the conclusion of Bound for Glory on October 21 2023 Impact announced that it would rebrand as the revived Total Nonstop Action TNA Wrestling on January 13 2024 at Hard To Kill 142 Ownership editThe promotion was originally formed by the Jarretts under a parent company known as J Sports amp Entertainment LLC 2 Panda Energy International purchased a controlling interest 71 in the company in 2002 from Jerry Jarrett 143 re incorporating it as TNA Entertainment LLC in the process In 2012 Panda Energy divested itself of its stake in TNA Dixie Carter the daughter of Panda Energy founder Robert Carter who had been serving as TNA s president acquired that stake making her TNA s majority shareholder Jeff Jarrett departed the company on December 22 2013 but remained as minority shareholder until his temporary return on June 24 2015 with the deal for his return including the transfer of his minority stake to Dixie Carter making her sole shareholder 144 145 146 147 According to a report on August 7 2015 TNA filed a new business name of Impact Ventures LLC 3 It was reported near the beginning of 2016 that Aroluxe Marketing a Brentwood Tennessee based marketing agency had taken a stake in TNA at the start of 2016 in return for providing partial funding as well as taking over TNA s production operations 148 It was reported in June 2016 that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan acquired a minority stake in TNA from Dixie Carter but he had instead provided a loan to Carter 149 150 Then on August 12 TNA appointed Corgan as the company s new president and the transition of Carter from president to the company s new chairman and chief strategy officer 4 It was reported on September 16 by the New York Post that Canada s Fight Network through its parent company Anthem Sports amp Entertainment Corporation had taken a stake in TNA 148 On November 4 Corgan was removed as president 151 then on November 30 it also reported that Corgan had settled his lawsuit against TNA with Anthem Sports amp Entertainment Corp acquiring the loans Corgan made to Dixie in the process 112 In early 2017 TNA would go through a restructuring period that would see an ownership change with Anthem taking 85 percent Aroluxe 10 percent and Dixie Carter 5 percent 9 152 On January 4 2017 Anthem Sports amp Entertainment purchased an 85 percent majority stake of the company re organizing TNA s parent company to Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLC and Carter resigned as chairwoman after 14 years in charge while joining the advisory board of Fight Media Group Ed Nordholm Anthem s executive vice president then took over Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions as president 7 Shortly after Anthem s acquisition of TNA it was re branded to Impact Wrestling On January 5 Jeff Jarrett was brought back to the company by Anthem as an executive consultant and later promoted to executive producer and chief creative officer In April 2017 it was announced on Impact that the promotion would merge with Jarrett s newer Global Force Wrestling promotion In the lead up to the Slammiversary XV PPV Anthem officially announced its intent to acquire GFW to formalize the merger 113 153 However after he took an indefinite leave of absence the promotion later cut ties with Jarrett and had reverted to the Impact Wrestling brand on October 23 The deal for Anthem to acquire GFW was never completed 154 Television and touring schedule editWeekly pay per views 2002 2004 edit From June 2002 until September 2004 the promotion s original weekly pay per view shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville Tennessee nicknamed the TNA Asylum There were a total of 111 weekly pay per views Impact and Xplosion 2004 2013 edit Main articles Impact Zone Impact TV series Impact Xplosion and Before the Impact From June 2004 to March 2013 TNA programming was taped at Universal Studios Florida s Soundstage 21 The Soundstages at Universal were dubbed the Impact Zone by the company Pay per views were also broadcast from that location until October 2006 when Bound for Glory emanated from the Compuware Arena in Detroit Initially TNA worked with Hermie Sadler s United Wrestling Federation in 2005 to create house shows TNA permitted the usage of the ring and for championships to be defended at these events TNA started running independent house shows on March 17 2006 155 They would continue to work with United Wrestling Federation and promote independent shows at the same time until 2007 In 2007 TNA first toured Europe hosting two shows at Porto and Lisbon in Portugal with APW Wrestling In 2008 TNA wrestlers appeared at Wrestle Kingdom II in Japan Later on in 2008 TNA conducted its first tour of England with most shows selling out The promotion first toured Germany Scotland and Ireland in 2009 France Wales and the United Arab Emirates in 2010 and Belgium in 2012 In August 2007 live events coordinator Craig Jenkins stated that TNA intended to stage eight pay per views and 96 house shows outside Orlando Florida in 2008 156 In 2009 during their United Kingdom tour a house show at Wembley Arena in London broke TNA s attendance records On July 2 2010 MCU Park hosted a live TNA house show which also broke the TNA domestic attendance record at the time and is currently the most attended live TNA house show in the United States with a capacity crowd of 5 550 157 Outside the Impact Zone 2013 2017 edit On January 31 2013 TNA announced that they would tape their programming in different venues around the United States with the first live show being held on March 14 in the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates Illinois a Chicago suburb 158 Unable to cover the rising costs of taping on the road TNA would return to Universal Studios on November 21 2013 159 The promotion would continue to occasionally tape programming from other venues such as the Sands Casino Event Center in Bethlehem Pennsylvania 160 the Manhattan Center s Grand Ballroom in New York City 161 162 The SSE Hydro in Glasgow Manchester Arena in Manchester Wembley Arena in London as part of a January 2015 tour In June 2017 the promotion having been rebranded Impact Wrestling held a show in India becoming the first major U S promotion to hold events in that country 163 After Bound for Glory 2017 in November 2017 Impact would do a set of tapings in Ottawa 164 Post Universal Studios 2018 present edit Following the 2018 Redemption pay per view Impact Wrestling would return to touring taping in various smaller venues The year s taping locations included Windsor Ontario 165 Toronto 166 Mexico City 167 New York City 168 and Las Vegas 169 In 2019 Impact Wrestling held tapings in Philadelphia Dallas New York City Houston Windsor Mexico City Nashville Toronto Rahway Fort Campbell Owensboro and other venues in Ontario 170 nbsp Impact 20th anniversary logo used in 2022During the height of the COVID 19 pandemic Impact Wrestling programming was taped and held behind closed doors at Skyway Studios in the promotion s home base of Nashville Tennessee from April 2020 through June 2021 171 172 173 Beginning with Slammiversary in July 2021 fans were allowed in attendance at Skyway On October 23 2021 Impact held their first event outside of Nashville in a year and a half with Bound for Glory which took place just outside of Las Vegas in Sunrise Manor Nevada After a brief Las Vegas area residency to end 2021 Impact resumed a full schedule of live touring in January 2022 174 nbsp The 2020 present Impact Wrestling set showing the walkway between the stage and ringIn March 2023 Impact held events in Windsor Ontario Canada This would mark their first shows outside of the U S in three years Numerous other shows were held throughout Canada all through the year 175 Impact held its first ever shows in Australia on June 30 and July 1 2023 176 From October 26 to 28 2023 Impact will hold events in Scotland and England marking their first United Kingdom tour since 2015 177 Partnerships editInternational edit Impact Wrestling has worked with several international wrestling promotions with championships from those promotions sometimes having been defended at Impact Wrestling events Among the organizations Impact has had working relationships with are Mexico s Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre CMLL from 2007 to 2009 and The Crash Japan s Inoki Genome Federation IGF New Japan Pro Wrestling NJPW Wrestle 1 W 1 and Pro Wrestling Noah Noah The initial relationship with NJPW lasted from 2008 to 2011 Then known as TNA Wrestling the promotion would send wrestlers to participate in NJPW s annual Wrestle Kingdom events as well as NJPW sending future IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada on a training excursion to TNA The relationship would be strained when IWGP Tag Team Champions Team 3D were held off of a New Japan tour in favor of appearing on Impact Wrestling tapings and Okada was given the gimmick of Okato where he dressed similar to The Green Hornet s sidekick Kato 178 a decision Executive Vice President Scott D Amore has since apologized for on behalf of the previous regime 179 On March 2 2014 TNA collaborated with Wrestle 1 in producing the Kaisen Outbreak supershow in Tokyo Japan where three TNA championships were defended 180 181 In May 2015 it was reported that the relationship between TNA and Wrestle 1 had ended 182 Since 2015 the promotion has had a working agreement with Mexico s Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide AAA 183 and in 2018 announced a partnership with the AAA affiliated Lucha Underground allowing their wrestlers from the show to appear for Impact on a regular basis In April 2018 the two promotions held Impact vs Lucha Underground from WrestleCon in New Orleans to a sell out crowd 184 National edit In early 2006 the promotion began a collaboration with Hermie Sadler s United Wrestling Federation The agreement permitted UWF to use the TNA logo on posters and signage as well as to use the six sided ring with TNA branding These shows were mainly promoted as UWF TNA events The TNA name agreement ended at the end of 2006 as TNA began to promote their own house show events though UWF still used a six sided ring 185 These events were recorded and released on DVD by Highsports 186 Impact Wrestling has worked with North American independent promotions in various collaborative efforts such as the original Global Force Wrestling another promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett OMEGA Championship Wrestling owned by Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy and Gregory Helms and Evolve Wrestling 187 Since 2018 Impact has established working relationships with a number of promotions to co promote house shows Twitch specials the final Impact One Night Only events and Impact Plus Monthly Specials These promotions include Future Stars of Wrestling Smash Wrestling AML Wrestling Superkick d Border City Wrestling WrestleCade Rocky Mountain Pro Rockstar Pro Wrestling Wrestlepro Wrestling Revolver RISE Destiny Wrestling Big Time Wrestling California DEFY Wrestling and House of Hardcore 188 189 Impact Wrestling would begin a partnership with All Elite Wrestling in December 2020 and also furthered its re established relationship with NJPW in February 2021 190 In October 2021 the working relationship between Impact and AEW quietly ended following Bound for Glory 191 On the January 7 2022 episode of SmackDown it was announced that Knockouts Champion Mickie James would enter the 2022 Royal Rumble match Both WWE s official Twitter account and Impact s website confirmed this soon after with the former recognizing James as an Impact champion 192 193 194 Features editX Division edit Main article X Division nbsp High flying high risk moves are a centerpiece of the X Division The X Division is known for its high flying high risk style matches While most wrestlers who perform are under 220 lb 100 kg thus being cruiserweights Impact would emphasize the high risk nature of the moves that these wrestlers perform by removing all restraints from competing in the X Division and allowing wrestlers to perform almost stunt like moves Because of this wrestlers such as Samoa Joe billed at 280 lb 130 kg Kurt Angle billed at 230 lb 100 kg and Abyss billed at 350 lb 160 kg have also competed in the division citation needed The slogan It s not about weight limits it s about no limits has been used throughout the years to describe the division 195 In August 2011 a 225 lb 102 kg weight limit was introduced 196 though it was quietly repealed in March 2012 Further changes introduced in March 2013 including a weight limit of 230 lbs and all matches being contested as triple threat matches 197 were also repealed in August 198 199 Six sided ring edit nbsp For much of its history Impact Wrestling used a hexagonal ring From the promotion s first show in June 2002 a standard four sided wrestling ring was used In June 2004 with the premiere of Impact TNA switched to a six sided ring as occasionally used in AAA 200 The six sided ring would be retired in January 2010 201 only making a brief return for the 2011 Destination X event In 2014 after a fan voted poll to determine what type of ring the company would use from June 2014 202 the six sided ring would return 203 The promotion would continue to use the six sided ring until January 2018 when it went back to a traditional four sided ring 204 Knockouts edit Main article Impact Knockouts nbsp The inaugural and 7 time Impact Knockouts World Championship holder and Impact Hall of Famer Gail Kim in 2007Knockout is a term used by the company to refer to its female talent The term is applied universally to wrestlers backstage interviewers and managers valets The division was established in 2002 mostly consisting of female valets and managers who were not competing often during the company s inception in 2002 until 2006 it became a permanent women s division in 2007 known as the TNA Knockouts Division now known as the Impact Knockouts Division that consisted of women such as Gail Kim Angelina Love Velvet Sky and Awesome Kong and consisted and consist of titles such as and known as the Impact Knockouts World Championship and the Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championships The Impact Knockouts were formerly known as the TNA Knockouts Women of TNA and Ladies of TNA 205 206 Since 2017 it has been considered by many as Impact Wrestling s centerpiece Contracts edit Main article List of Impact Wrestling personnel Impact wrestlers are forbidden by contract from working for other companies with televised wrestling shows but are free to perform non televised work for any other independent wrestling promotions domestic or international as well as televised events held by foreign promotions that Impact Wrestling is linked to or has a working relationship with such as AAA and NOAH 207 Many Impact wrestlers perform regularly for various promotions on the independent circuit in addition to Impact Wrestling weekly shows In 2012 the company changed its policy preventing its talent from appearing at any independent events that are later released on DVD 208 Top wrestlers have guaranteed contracts but the majority of the roster are paid on a per appearance basis 207 Impact wrestlers are classified as independent contractors and are not offered health coverage through the promotion 207 As of November 2017 Impact Wrestling contracts give the performers complete ownership over all intellectual property associated with their characters 209 Hall of Fame edit Main article Impact Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame was introduced on May 31 2012 As part of a yearly process selected inductees are chosen based on their overall contributions to Impact s history 210 211 On June 10 at Slammiversary 10 Sting was revealed as the first inductee into the Hall of Fame and his formal induction took place at Bound for Glory in October 2012 212 Video games editList of video games based on the company Year Title Developer ConsoleMain series2008 TNA Wrestling Longtail Studios Mobile phone iOS2008 TNA Impact Midway Studios Los Angeles PS3 Xbox 360 Wii PS22010 TNA Impact Cross The Line SouthPeak Games PSP Nintendo DS2011 TNA Wrestling Impact Namco Networks Mobile phone iOSChampionships and accomplishments editAs of October 28 2023 Current champions edit Main article List of current champions in Impact Wrestling Championship Current champion s Reign Date won Days held 213 Location Notes Ref Impact World Championship nbsp Alex Shelley 1 June 9 2023 141 Columbus Ohio Defeated Steve Maclin at Against All Odds 214 Impact X Division Championship nbsp Chris Sabin 10 September 9 2023 49 White Plains New York Defeated Lio Rush at the Impact 1000 tapings Aired September 14Impact Digital Media Championship nbsp Tommy Dreamer 1 September 8 2023 50 White Plains New York Defeated Kenny King in a Title vs Career match at Victory Road 215 Impact World Tag Team Championship nbsp nbsp ABC Ace Austin and Chris Bey 2 October 21 2023 7 Cicero Illinois Defeated The Rascalz Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz at Bound for Glory This was Bey s Feast or Fired Tag Team Championship matchImpact Knockouts World 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