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TNA Impact Wrestling Announces Partnership With Japan’s Pro Wrestling NOAH

TNA Impact Wrestling issued the following today:

As announced earlier today in Tokyo, Japan, IMPACT Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH have come to terms on a working relationship. This is an exciting time for both companies with a more formal announcement coming soon.

In a Press Conference held earlier today, NOAH President Masayuki Uchida made the official announcement.

We look forward to making a formal announcement soon in Tokyo and seeing IMPACT Stars compete at NOAH’s Yokohama event on March 12. We are thrilled to build this relationship even further with more details to come.

Stay close to impactWrestling.Com and all of our social media channels for more on this exciting partnership.

Scott D’Amore Returning To Behind The Scenes Position At Impact Wrestling

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Scott D’Amore is returning to Impact Wrestling … and we’re told the former head of creative will once again fill many roles behind the scenes.

Sources say D’Amore’s main duties within the company will be international relations and creative, but he’ll still be wearing many hats backstage.

Supposedly Scott recently began his new gig by assisting Jeff Jarrett and Anthem with the Pro Wrestling NOAH partnership that was made official yesterday.

NOAH announced the business alliance during a press conference, but so far the details are unclear.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Impact Wrestling ‘Open Fight Night’ Preview 2/2/17

The following is set for tonight’s 2/2 IMPACT Wrestling on POP TV:

Special “Open Fight Night” episode of the show featuring Jeff Hardy, The DCC, Trevor Lee and Eli Drake getting to pick their matches and stipulations.

Jeff Hardy will kick off the show with his case.

Sienna vs. Brooke Tessmacher

TNA Impact Wrestling Phasing Out ‘TNA’

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As you may have noticed recently, Anthem Sports & Entertainment have been phasing out the initials “TNA” and just going with Impact Wrestling. “TNA” hasn’t been used on Impact Wrestling for the last several weeks, and mentions of those initials have been removed from their social media accounts and from their website, with the exception of links to ShopTNA.com and Total Access TNA Wrestling (which don’t work in many browsers). While the TNA logo still appears on their title belts, they are simply referred to as the “World Heavyweight Championship”, “X Division Championship” and “World Tag Team Championship” on their website.

Source: WrestlingINC

TNA Genesis 1/26/17

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The following is set for tonight’s 1/26 special “Genesis” episode of IMPACT Wrestling on POP TV:

The Broken Hardy’s will kickoff the show.

TNA World Championship – 30-Minute Iron Man Match: (C) Eddie Edwards vs Lashley

TNA Knockouts Championship – Monsters Ball Match: (C) Rosemary vs Jade

X-Division Championship – Fatal 5 Way: (C) DJZ vs Trevor Lee vs Andrew Everett vs Marshe Rockett vs Caleb Konley

Drew Galloway will defend his Impact Grand Championship

TNA Impact Wrestling ‘Race For The Case’ Preview 1/19/17

Race To The Case Match: 12 competitors will battle in the ring for 4 briefcases that will grant them title matches in the future – More more info on the match visit impactwrestling.com

Impact Grand Championship: (C) Moose vs Drew Galloway

Brooke makes her in-ring return

Marti Belle Gone From TNA

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PWInsider is reporting that Marti Belle is no longer with TNA as her contract expired. While her deal just expired, she hasn’t been used since last August’s TNA television tapings.

Source: WrestlingINC

TNA Impact Wrestling Preview 1/12/17

The following is set for tonight’s 1/12 TNA Impact Wrestling on Pop TV:

Lashley vs. EC3 in a Last Man Standing Match

The Broken Hardys defend the TNA Tag Team Titles against The Wolves

TNA Knockouts Champion Rosemary has an invitation for Jade

Mike Bennett vs. Braxton Sutter

Jeff Jarrett Returning To TNA As Executive Consultant, Dutch Mantel Returns As Creative Consultant

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Pro Wrestling Sheet has confirmed that Jeff Jarrett will be returning to the company at tonight’s television taping … and we’re told his new role is Executive Consultant.

Jarret’s return was first reported by PWInsider and we’re told he’s already at the Impact Zone working on the show. Same for Dutch Mantel, aka former WWE manager Zeb Colter, who is also returning to TNA as a creative consultant.

Jeff was an original TNA founder, but left the company in 2013. He returned a year later to get inducted in their Hall of Fame and behind the scenes Dixie Carter bought his shares in the company.

Jarrett launched Global Force Wrestling during his time away, and we’re told GFW wasn’t included in his deal to return due to previous contractual obligations for the wrestling fed.

Pro Wrestling Sheet reached out to Jeff for comment and he told them, “This is a great opportunity for myself and GFW. And, I feel it’s great for the wrestling business.”

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Anthem Sports Acquires Control Of IMPACT Wrestling, Dixie Carter No Longer Chairman

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Last year was kind of rough for TNA and the future of the company was largely left unresolved … but now Anthem Sports has announced that they’ve acquired control of Impact Wrestling.

Anthem shared the news in a press release which stated they have, “entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in TNA IMPACT Wrestling.”

Anthem Executive Vice President Ed Nordholm commented on the acquisition saying, “We are thrilled to have acquired TNA IMPACT Wrestling . . . IMPACT has been a dominant wrestling brand around the world for more than a decade and we are confident that Anthem can leverage its assets and strategic partnerships to take IMPACT Wrestling to even greater heights.”

Nordholm will serve as President of Anthem’s newly formed Anthem Exhibition Wrestling, LLCwhich will presumably preside over IMPACT, though its exact role was not made clear.

As for Dixie Carter, she will resign from her role as Chairman of Impact Ventures and join the Advisory Board of Fight Media Group — which holds Anthem’s combat sports-related assets.

She’ll also remain a minority equity stakeholder.

We can only hope that this new development will provide the stability that IMPACT needs and that the talents can rest a bit easier knowing TNA is under new management.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet