TNA Talent Unaware of Destination America and Ring of Honor's Partnership; Told to Not Talk to Press

TNA Talent Unaware of Destination America and Ring of Honor’s Partnership; Told to Not Talk to Press

According to PWInsider.com, TNA talent have been told that the company will be having a mandatory conference call at 3 p.m. ET on May 27. It is believed that the call is for TNA President Dixie Carter to address the situation between TNA Wrestling and Destination America, the Cable network that airs their flagship show, “IMPACT WRESTLING,” with her locker room.

As previously reported, rumors have run rampant about whether or not Discovery, parent to Destination America, would be canceling all TNA Wrestling programming in September. Carter, amongst other TNA executives claimed the story as merely a rumor, and that TNA was going no where. Carter also reportedly told TNA talent to not look at the viewership numbers for “IMPACT,” but to just have fun.

This came after talent reportedly had been getting paid late by TNA, sometimes an entire month late. Not only did the talent suffer through late payments, but the crew as well. Amidst all of this, Carter tried to keep TNA’s boat a float and not see the ship sink.

Carter then reportedly trashed Destination America in an e-mail that got sent to the wrong people, most notably the President of the network. Apparently, Carter accidentally CC’d the Destination America executive, causing even more friction between the two parties.

According to a source close to both TNA and WrestlingRumors.net, the two parties have been at odds with each other for a while. He states that Destination America does not like Carter, claiming that she and other TNA executives lack the ability to communicate well within their business. According to this source, Destination America also sent TNA a list of stars that they wanted pushed on their programming, but the only one the company pushed was Kurt Angle. The others haven’t been used the way Destination America wanted them to be. This furthered the rift between the two companies.

Along with all of this, Destination America and Ring of Honor announced on May 27 that RoH would be airing their weekly television program on Wednesday nights on Destination America, just before “IMPACT WRESTLING.” This means that “Lucha Underground,” “ROH TV,” WWE’s “NXT,” and “IMPACT WRESTLING” will all be airing on the same night, at the same time. With this news shocking the wrestling world, it is believed that Carter wants to address this situation on the May 27 conference call as well.

TNA talent MVP took to Twitter while the Ring of Honor announcement was going on to complain about the TNA locker room having no knowledge about RoH TV being added to Destination America’s line-up. He also insinuated that this may be the end of TNA, by telling “promoters” to contact him for booking purposes. He writes,

“Ummmm…[Ring of Honor debuting on Destination America] at no time was TNA talent (that I’m aware of) notified of ROH airing on @DestAmerica . I’ll refrain from commenting until after “the call.” Classy. Yeah so ummm…PROMOTERS! [email protected]. 2 maybe 3 more years. Then I’m retiring. Ya gotta love the wrasslin’ biz!”

TNA star Rockstar Spud was scheduled to do press on May 27, but was told by TNA not to talk to anyone until after the conference call at 3 p.m. ET. WrestlingRumors.net will have more on what this conference call is all about around 3 p.m. ET, as the call is going on.

Editor’s Note:

Holy crap this is insane. #WednesdayNightWars are upon us, and Carter is getting trampled on already…BY HER OWN TALENT!