Impact Is Being Forced Into Some Strange Censorship Tonight

Normally when you hear “censorship,” you think violence or sexual content. Maybe some profanity, or a if we’re in a dystopia, a restraint against political opinions. You don’t generally expect an entire person to be censored.

But that’s exactly what’s happening, according to today’s Wrestling Observer Radio. It seems TNA has run afoul by filming a match with a referee from another company and now they’ve got to excise the official from the match.

After what I understand are “magical shenanigans,” the Hardys are teleported to an arena in Tijuana where they challenge Psicosis and Super Crazy for a tag team championship.

That match was officiated by a referee who is evidently under contract to Lucha Underground. They sent a cease and desist to TNA, but the latter company still plans to run the match–they’re just going to digitize out the referee, apparently like some sort of anonymous inside source on a weekday evening documentary.

It seems that there’s some beef between AAA–the massive Mexican promotion that owns Lucha Underground–and TNA, and the two sides are willing to fight a war largely through petty annoyance.

But hey, LU is supposed to be on Netflix soon, and that’s cool–or it would be, if we had any idea when. Early reports pegged it as happening this month, but we’re starting to hear rumblings of a vague “spring” release.

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