Category: TNA

Impact Wrestling Sends Cease And Desist Letters To ROH PPV Providers Over Broken Universe

Impact Wrestling sent cease and desist letters to PPV providers in regards to Broken Matt and Jeff Hardy ahead of ROH‘s event Friday night … but we’re told the company doesn’t want to permanently stop the brothers from using the characters.

Sources with direct knowledge says the call to send legal letters came from the top brass at Anthem and wasn’t a decision that Jeff Jarrett had anything to do with.

Pro Wrestling Sheet was told the cease and desists included direct verbiage from the contracts both brothers signed. According to reports that was enough to scare Dish Network, who pulled the show.

Impact Wrestling sources say Anthem isn’t trying to recreate the characters without the brothers and they don’t want to force Matt and Jeff to no longer use them either — they want to work out an agreement for the Broken Universe IP. One that gives Anthem a cut of future proceeds.

Nordholm also tweeted saying Jeremy Borash, Dave Lagana and Billy Corgan created the characters, which should give further insight into why he’s standing firm.

Matt’s wife Reby Hardy went public with their feelings on this over the past 24 hours.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Broken Matt And Jeff Hardy Teleport Out Of Impact Wrestling … FOR GOOD! (VIDEO)

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The vessels formerly known as The Hardy Boyz were deleted from Impact Wrestling on tonight’s show … and it seems like a faulty Vanguard 1 teleport is to blame.

Broken Matt and Jeff Hardy made an appearance on Impact to battle with “Smoking Joe” and prepare for the Expedition of Gold, but their attempt at teleportation didn’t go as planned.

Instead of showing up at the intended destination, The Decay suddenly appeared with their tag belts — and their promo made it sound like they somehow intercepted the transport.

Fear not though! The Broken Hardys are NOT lost in time and space. Matt tweeted during the show:

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Impact Wrestling Preview 3/9/17 Launch Of The New Era

The official Impact Wrestling relaunch will headline tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling tonight on Pop TV starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern (7:00 CT).

* The debut of Alberto El Patron (former WWE star Alberto Del Rio)

* Lashley will defend the Impact Wrestling World Championship

* Braxton Sutter vs. DJ Z vs. Caleb Konley vs. Marshe Rockett

* Sienna vs. Rachael Ellering

* DCC vs. Reno Scum

Broken Matt Hardy Files Trademark For His Name

Broken Matt Hardy has taken his first legal step to own the name. Pro Wrestling Sheet has confirmed that he filed a trademark to officially lock it down.

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the wrestler filed for a trademark last week on “Broken Matt Hardy” for “Entertainment services, namely, wrestling exhibits and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer.”

As we previously reported, sources close to Matt says his Impact deal gave them the ability to profit off of anything already filmed having to do with ANY gimmick he used throughout the course of his contract … but, once that’s over, he retains ownership of his name and characters.

Impact Wrestling sources, however, say that’s not the case. They claim the current deal specifically states that their company owns all IP creations.

If that’s the case, Impact’s legal team still has time to oppose.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Spike TV Reportedly Not Bringing Back Impact Wrestling

Brian Fritz of The Sporting News reports that Spike TV, which is being rebranded as The Paramount Network in early 2018, is not bringing Impact Wrestling back to the Network despite Impact Wrestling recently securing a U.K. television deal with Spike U.K. This follows a report from Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet that stated that Spike Senior Vice President and Executive Producer Scott Fishman met with Jeff Jarrett before Sunday’s Impact Wrestling taping “about various topics, including a U.S. return.”

Fritz (@BrianFritz) tweeted this statement from Spike:

Spike statement: Spike TV officials confirm that Scott Fishman was there for personal reasons — and is not negotiating any deals. That statement from @Spike was issued by David Schwarz, Vice President of CommunicationsJason Powell of @prowrestlingnet has reported for months that Fishman has been backstage at various @IMPACTWRESTLING tapings. However, each time he was there visiting friends and not working on any business deals. Fishman lives in the Central Florida area. Of course, @IMPACTWRESTLING tapes their shows at Universal Studios, also in central FL so it’s not far from where Fishman lives. Fishman has plenty of friends with @IMPACTWRESTLING considering that the promotion aired on @spike for over nine years.

So, despite making a deal with Spike in the UK, they are not negotiating a return in the US. Impact’s current television deal with @PopTV expires late in 2017.

Satin replied to Fritz on Twitter and noted that his report never stated that there were negotiations, and that a return to Spike for Impact Wrestling was discussed.

Source: WrestlingINC

Incident With Konnan At Impact Tapings

WrestlingINC reports that there were a couple of issues with Konnan at this past Friday’s Impact Wrestling taping. He had showed up for the show late and had an altercation with a fan. Konnan later went off on officials. It was considered to be one of those “in the heat of the moments” by many, but Impact Wrestling officials emphasized he “can’t treat talent like he does in Mexico.”

Who Is Under The Suicide Mask At Recent Impact TV Taping?

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Pro Wrestling Sheet reports that the identity of the wrestler donning the Suicide costume at Impact Wrestling’s recent TV taping was Caleb Konley.

Konley signed with Impact Wrestling back in April of 2016.

Wrestlers who’ve previously worn the costume include TJ Perkins, Christopher Daniels and Kazarian.

Jeff Jarrett Meets With Spike Executive About Network Return In America

Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned a high ranking executive from Spike met with Jeff Jarrett today … and their new deal in the UK wasn’t the only thing they discussed.

Sources say Scott Fishman — Senior Vice President and Executive Producer at the network — was present before Impact’s taping today and met with JJ about various topics, including a U.S. return.

According to a press release from when he was promoted to SVP in 2012, Fishman was “instrumental in developing” Impact Wrestling in the early days of the show.

As we previously reported, the company’s weekly TV show will return to Spike in the UK starting in April. We’re told lots of promos for that were shot over the weekend.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Alberto El Patron Inks Deal With Impact Wrestling

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Ex-WWE star Alberto El Patron is officially locked down to a deal with Impact Wrestling … and he made a big splash during his debut at Thursday night’s TV taping.

Sources tell us the two sides recently finalized a deal and, although the terms are still unknown, we imagine it’s similar to what Broken Matt and Jeff Hardy recently turned down.

Alberto made his first Impact appearance by coming face-to-face with Impact Wrestling World Champion Bobby Lashley during an in-ring segment. Plus, his WWE Superstar fiancee Paige was backstage as well.

Hiring the man formerly known as Alberto Del Rio is interesting, since the past few months have been tumultuous for him. He’s been involved in incidents like getting stabbed outside of a restaurant, being arrested in Austria over a bar fight and beating up a guy dressed as a Ninja Turtle.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Bruce Prichard Appears At Impact Wrestling Taping … Says The Name TNA Is Dead

Something to Wrestle host Bruce Prichard made his anticipated return to Impact Wrestling at their TV tapings on Thursday … and he informed the crowd that the name TNA is dead.

Prichard had inked a deal with Impact for both an on-air and backstage role, which began with last night’s appearance.

According to those in attendance … Bruce said Impact had hope a few years ago, but TNA as a name is now dead, so the company will only be known as Impact Wrestling going forward.

For everyone asking, his podcast isn’t going anywhere — he’s already let that be known.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet