On Vince Russo’s podcast, TNA’s new President Billy Corgan talked about creative processes in TNA. He said that he wanted TNA to be different, so he came up with outside the box ideas. He was the mastermind behind the Final Deletion angle, though he had to fight with Dixie Carter among others who were skeptical about it being on Impact.
Here is what he said on Russo’s podcast:
“The biggest thing I had to do was push our creative,the office, Dixie, to take a chance, to go outside of the box, which I know you were a big fan of. The reaction to that first angle, with Jeff going through the table, was pretty 50-50. A lot of people were howling, saying this may be the best-worst thing they’ve ever seen in wrestling. The day that came out I was inside the company, on my e-mail saying, “we’ve got to do a bigger version than we just did; we have lightning in a bottle”. And, there were people inside the company that were afraid to move in that direction. I pushed, and pushed and pushed for what was the Final Deletion. And now you have fans on other products chanting, “Delete, Delete, Delete.”
