anthem wrestling exhibitions, llc is the owner of tna impact wrestling.
anthem wrestling exhibitions, llc is the owner of tna impact wrestling.
who is the owner of tna impact wrestling?
anthem wrestling exhibitions , llc
in january 2017, cbs corporation, which owns the pop cable channel, joined hulu's new live stream service to broadcast tna. anthem sports & entertainment purchased a majority stake of tna, re-organizing tna's parent company. dixie carter retained a 5% minority stake in the company, but resigned as chairwoman after fourteen years with the company and joined fight media group's advisory board. the promotion's parent company, tna entertainment, was changed firstly to impact ventures and then to anthem wrestling exhibitions, llc., with anthem's executive vice president ed nordholm becoming president of the new parent company. on january 5, jeff jarrett was brought back by anthem to serve as a consultant. on march 2, all appearances of the name tna were dropped at the tv tapings. at the same tapings, bruce prichard stated that the name was "dead", with anthem re-branding the promotion as impact wrestling, the name of its primary television platform. wrestlers drew galloway, matt hardy, jeff hardy, jade, crazzy steve, mike bennett and maria kanellis left the company during this period. on april 20, impact announced a merger with the original global force wrestling. the company then announced they were rebranding again, taking the gfw name. the following september, anthem's press releases once again started referring to the company as impact wrestling. on october 10, anthem released the global wrestling network as an alternative to the wwe network. the global wrestling network primarily features impact/gfw's tape library but also includes content from other sources. on october 23, impact wrestling announced the termination of its relationship with jeff jarrett and his company global force entertainment inc., officially ending the attempted rebranding into gfw.
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at the edition of may 9 of "impact wrestling", bobby roode showed signs of a possible face turn when he showed mutual respect for tna world champion eric young, and the two shook hands on one more championship match for that same night. the match, however, did not happen because tna director of operations mvp declined to make the match. at the end of the episode, mvp ended up attacking young and declared himself the number-one contender for the tna world heavyweight championship at slammiversary. at the edition of may 15 of "impact wrestling", roode was suspended indefinitely for his confrontation with mvp. a campaign began on impactwrestling.com to lift roode's suspension. on the edition of june 19 of "impact wrestling", roode returned and attacked kenny king and saving his long-time best friend eric young from further injury after losing the tna world heavyweight championship to lashley, and turning face in the process for the first time since 2011. on the july 3 episode of "impact wrestling", he defeated kenny king in a street fight and mvp on the july 24 episode of "impact wrestling" in a falls count anywhere match. on the september 3 episode of "impact wrestling", he defeated eric young to be the number one contender to the tna world heavyweight championship. however, he was defeated by lashley at no surrender and failed to win the title. on the october 15 episode of "impact wrestling", he defeated austin aries, eric young and jeff hardy once again to be the number one contender to the tna world heavyweight championship. on september 18, 2014, in the main event of the "impact wrestling" episode taped to air on october 28, roode defeated lashley to win the tna world heavyweight championship for the second time. he successfully retained his title against mvp on the november 5 episode of "impact wrestling". on november 15, 2014, roode successfully defended the tna world heavyweight championship against tommy dreamer at house of hardcore vii. on january 7, 2015 on "impact wrestling" roode lost the tna world heavyweight championship to lashley, after interference from mvp, kenny king, and two masked men who seconds later revealed themselves as samoa joe and low ki. roode's best friend eric young came out with a steel chair to scare them away but ultimately hit roode with the chair, costing him the match. on the january 16, 2015, episode of "impact wrestling", roode was defeated by young in a no disqualification match. on the january 23 episode of "impact wrestling", roode teamed with kurt angle, but lost once again against eric young and low ki. however, bobby roode defeated eric young in a six sides of steel match at lockdown and once again in a last man standing match on the march 13 episode of "impact wrestling". the feud ended in a submission match on the april 3 episode of "impact wrestling", which eric young won.
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