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TNA PRESIDENT CARLOS SILVA ON WHY HE PULLED TNA TALENTS FROM WORKING WITH AEW STARS

Carlos Silva appeared on SiriusXM's Busted Open today and when asked why TNA talents were pulled from working with AEW wrestlers on independents, commented, "All of these business decisions are tough.  I don’t like being called a little b***h on social anymore than anyone does, but it’s okay, you do take the goods with the bads and you’ve got to make some hard decisions.  My job sometimes is to make hard decisions.  For the fans and all of you and Mike [Wrestlecon] and our locker room, we’re going to make decisions that are good for TNA.  We’ve got to protect TNA.  You know, Kevin Plank and Under Armour used to say, you’ve got to protect this house.  It’s a real slogan.  We’ve had some other folks come at us and they’ve moved into our nights [Mike: We are told this is a reference to AEW Collision airing on a Thursday several weeks ago.], they’ve made some decisions, they’ve tried to block us in arenas and venues. That stuff is real and it’s out there and it’s okay because everyone’s got to make decisions for their business, but we’re also not just going to lie down and not make decisions that are good for our business. Unfortunately, sometimes those decisions are tough.  We’re very thoughtful about them and we try to do the best to make good when we have to make those decisions.  In the case of Nic [Nemeth] and Leon [Slater] and a few of the matches that had to get shut down, we tried to make good and make calls and take care of the business as best as we could....It was...it was my decision and I take full ownership. Look, we’ve got a great team and we talk about these things together but sometimes, I’m the guy that has to make that decision and then you move on. You sort of, go to work the next day and you work hard again and get stuff done.”

 

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