Jeff Jarrett is excited to see what Scott D’Amore has in store for TNA Wrestling when Impact relaunches next year.
In the closing moments of Impact Wrestling’s Bound for Glory 2023 pay-per-view event, it was announced that the company will go by the TNA name, starting with TNA Hard to Kill in January 2024.
On a recent edition of his “My World” podcast, Jarrett, the founder of TNA Wrestling in 2002, shared his surprise about the change and his enthusiasm for what’s to come. He said,
“I’m surprised in a few different ways in that the conversations that I had with Anthem, I’ll just leave it at that, all the way at the highest levels, I was pretty clear with them, ‘Hey guys, in my opinion, IMPACT Wrestling, naming that the company, was almost dead on arrival in 2011.’ I said, ‘I just think IMPACT Wrestling is dead.’ I had those conversations in depth.
“I gave them the history, but they were well aware of it. They bought the show ‘Impact!’ from day one, Anthem did. They knew that it was ‘TNA Wrestling presents Impact!’
“At the end of the day, it’s all execution. What is Scott’s vision? That’s what I’m most excited about. Scott, what’s your vision of TNA? I know what mine was. I’m well aware, and we can talk about different things. The four different divisions, how’s that going to be presented or promoted? The six-sided ring, to me, there’s a lot of nuances. At the end of the day, it’s the story. I was blessed with fantastic talent, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, but I’m excited because it’s good for the industry. Change is good, that there is without question.”
