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DAVE LAGANA, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE WRITING, LEAVES TNA

By Mike Johnson on 2016-11-04 16:03:00

Dave Lagana, who has been on the TNA Creative team for the last five years, issued the following, announcing he resigned from the company today.  Lagana wrote:

“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”

— Mark Batterson

Five years ago I made the decision to join the TNA Impact Wrestling family. Over this time, I’ve experienced a lot in my life personally and professionally. Being a fan of professional wrestling for thirty years, I look back amazed at moments I’ve been a part of. Over my fifteen years of writing, producing and directing, I’ve been very lucky to work with every major talent in the history of the sport and learn from its brightest minds; Vince McMahon, Paul Heyman, Dusty Rhodes, Pat Patterson, Gerry Brisco, Shawn Michaels, Paul Levesque, Michael Hayes, Brian Gewirtz, Adam Pearce, Hunter Johnson, Matt Conway, Billy Corgan, Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Bruce Prichard, Jeff Jarrett, and Dutch Mantel. This group of professionals taught me many lessons and and helped shape my career. Lessons like passion can carry us through pain, disappointment and regret. Hard work, dedication and commitment to a craft can define a person’s journey and decisions.

Today I made the decision to leave TNA Impact Wrestling. A decision I do not make lightly but one I made to create a future that I control. In 2017, you need to look forward to 2020 and beyond. My focus now is on personal branding, technology and the wild west of storytelling available to all content creators today.

I want to thank everyone at TNA Impact Wrestling for giving me the opportunity to be the Senior Director of Creative Writing. Also I’d like to thank the talented and underappreciated television production crew and locker room. Getting to be collaborative with this group of men and women at every taping was an honor and a privilege. This is a creative business where stars are made one decision at a time. Believe and trust the process; success will follow.

I look forward to the future that we all create and that all starts right now.

See you down the road…

David Lagana

Business inquires?—?DavidJLagana@me.com

Twitter.com/Lagana

Prior to his time with TNA, Lagana was a member of the WWE Creative Team, at one point being the lead writer for the Smackdown brand as well as the WWE version of ECW.  He also worked as a producer and writer for Ring of Honor during the ROH on HD Net era and at one point, hosted the popular "I Want Wrestling" podcast.    Lagana joined TNA in 2011, originally as a writer on the "Ring Ka King" series that was produced in and for India before shifting over to Impact Wrestling itself.  He and Matt Conway had been stalwarts for the creative team since that time.

The belief among TNA sources was that with Anthem Media taking control of the company, new names were going to be added to the company's creative team.  Whether that had any bearing on Lagana's decision to leave the company remains to be seen.  PWInsider.com has reached out to TNA PR for comment.

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