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125-493: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) has held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments competed for by wrestlers that are a part of their roster . The NWA World Tag Team Championships tournament was held to crown new NWA World Tag Team Champions after Jeff and Jerry Jarrett formed NWA:Total Nonstop Action ( NWA:TNA ) to control/feature the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship and

250-472: A Full Metal Mayhem match , a Coalminer's Glove match , a Tables match , a Dixieland match , a Tuxedo match , and Last Man Standing match . The Storm/Roode match was originally a Bull Rope match but Storm asked Carter to change it to a Florida Death match , which was not on the "Wheel of Dixie", which Carter agreed to. On the Destination X edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine

375-431: A 3-way dance with Eddie Edwards and Bryan Danielson , who ended up winning the match. On August 31 Dutt made his Ring of Honor Wrestling debut in a losing effort against Delirious , with whom he would feud for the rest of the year. After an eleven-month break from Ring of Honor, Dutt returned to the promotion on December 17, 2010, replacing an injured Kenny Omega and facing ROH World Champion Roderick Strong in

500-542: A 60% cut in pay and TNA founder Jeff Jarrett would resign from the company, but remained as minority shareholder until his temporary return on June 24, 2015, with the deal for his return including the transfer of his minority stake to Dixie Carter, making her sole shareholder. The following year Jarrett revealed plans to start a new professional wrestling promotion, Global Force Wrestling . Further departures in 2014 included TNA veterans Sting , Chris Sabin , Hernandez , Christopher Daniels and Kazarian all leaving

625-555: A Combat Zone Wrestling show, where he was defeated by Pinkie Sanchez. He appeared on the July 12, 2008 show to team with Chuck Taylor in a losing effort against Pinkie Sanchez and Ruckus . On September 19, 2008, he teamed up with Shelley and Sabin to challenge Último Guerrero , Atlantis , and Negro Casas for the CMLL World Trios Championship at the company's 75th Anniversary Show , but were unable to defeat

750-587: A GFW Grand Slam Tour event in Jackson, Tennessee , which was the promotions inaugural event. The following night, Dutt teamed with Chase Owens defeating the team of Jason Kincaid and Jamin Olivencia. On July 10, 2015, during a GFW Grand Slam Tour event in Erie, Pennsylvania , Dutt teamed with Moose defeating Olivencia and Jon Bolen . On July 24, 2015, during the first ever TV Tapings for GFW Amped , Dutt

875-512: A creative writer and would assist in the writing and production of the shows. Russo states that he coined the name "Total Nonstop Action", the initials of the company "TNA" being a play on " T&A ". The original intention, as they were exclusive to pay-per-view, was to be viewed as an edgier product than WWE. Initially, TNA's weekly pay-per-view show operated as the company's main source of revenue, in place of monthly pay-per-view events used by other promotions. These shows took place mostly at

1000-709: A deal with Pop TV to air Impact Wrestling , where it premiered on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, in a live special held at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania . With this move to Pop, Impact Wrestling introduced a new HD set, graphics and theme music. This show saw the semi-finals and finals of the TNA World Title Series , which was won by Ethan Carter III . Husband and wife team Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis would debut soon after. Subsequent shows would include episodes taped during

1125-633: A deal with New Motion, Inc. which led to the introduction of TNA Mobile service. TNA has also launched "TNA U TV"; podcasts aired through YouTube to help promote the company. In August 2007, live-events coordinator Craig Jenkins stated that TNA intended to stage eight pay-per-views and 96 house shows outside Orlando, Florida, in 2008. From 2007 to 2008, TNA first toured Europe, hosting two shows at Porto and Lisbon in Portugal , with TNA later conducting its first tour of England , with most shows selling out which later broke TNA's attendance records with

1250-514: A double countout, after Jeremy and Max Buck failed to make it to the event due to travel issues. On the May 24, 2011, edition of TNA Xplosion , Desmond Wolfe was announced as the new Xplosion Commissioner. His first act as commissioner was setting up a tournament exclusive to Xplosion where the winner would receive a title shot against any active champion in TNA. The finals of the tournament took place at

1375-601: A four-way X Division match at No Surrender on July 17, 2005, to qualify for the 2005 Super X Cup . He lost to Samoa Joe , however, in the first round of the tournament. In September 2005, Dutt, Shark Boy , and Simon Diamond spent two weeks in India, where they visited several cities, promoting the debut of Impact! on ESPN Star Sports . On September 28 in Bhopal , a riot broke out when 1000 fans were excluded from an event after attendance exceeded expectations. None of

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1500-423: A guest judge at Final Resolution 2007 during the finals of the competition. Shelley defeated Starr in the finals to win a bowling trophy presented by Nash at Final Resolution 2007. The other three participants in the tournament were Sonjay Dutt , Jay Lethal and Senshi . Nash viciously needled the other three (especially Dutt) throughout the challenge, but kept the actual competition fair and even, always inviting

1625-401: A lien on TNA for unpaid taxes. Anthem Sports & Entertainment , parent company of Impact Wrestling ' s Canadian broadcaster, Fight Network , offered to help TNA and repay Corgan for the loans, while also offering additional financial assistance to TNA to help keep them from filing for bankruptcy. On October 31, Corgan lost his injunction that kept TNA from selling the company, but TNA

1750-649: A live house show at MCU Park , which also broke the TNA domestic attendance record at the time and being the most attended live TNA house show in the United States, with a capacity crowd of 5,550. During the May 3, 2011, Impact! television tapings, the show would change its name to Impact Wrestling . On November 7, 2011, TNA revealed that Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) would become TNA's official developmental territory . In December 2011, TNA debuted their new India-based subsidiary promotion Ring Ka King . On May 31, 2012, Impact Wrestling began airing live at

1875-570: A loan to Carter. Then on August 12, Billy Corgan became the promotion's new president, while Carter transitioned from president to the company's new chairwoman and chief strategy officer. It was reported on September 16 by the New York Post that Canada's Fight Network, through its parent company, Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corporation, had taken a stake in TNA. On October 13, Corgan sued TNA due to unpaid debt which Corgan claimed TNA had defaulted on. The State of Tennessee also put

2000-484: A losing effort in a non–title match. At the following day's Final Battle 2010 pay-per-view Dutt again replaced Omega and faced Eddie Edwards in another losing effort. In 2011, it was revealed that Dutt would take part in a new hiphop/pro wrestling collaboration, the Urban Wrestling Federation, with taping of the first event "First Blood" taking place on June 3. On June 19 Dutt, working under

2125-485: A majority stake of TNA, re-organizing TNA's parent company with Aroluxe having 10 percent while Carter retaining a five percent minority stake in the company, but resigned as chairwoman after 14 years with the company, while joining the advisory board of Fight Media Group. 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

2250-751: A master toy license agreement with Toy Biz , with various action figures and playsets releasing between 2005 and 2007. TNA would subsequently discontinue producing weekly pay-per-views in favor of a traditional monthly pay-per-view schedule, beginning with Victory Road in November 2004. TNA's television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005. Without television exposure, Impact! would continue to air through webcasts – originally made available via BitTorrent and eventually via RealPlayer  – and replace Xplosion' s timeslot on Urban America Television . On September 11, 2005, TNA held its Unbreakable pay-per-view. Unbreakable

2375-630: A member of the stable Takada Monster Army under the ring name "Monster J". On July 28, 2006, Dutt lost to Último Dragón in UWA. In November 2006, Sonjay returned to UWA and won the 2006 Grand Prix Tournament Championship. On May 9, 2008, Dutt was announced as the eighth and final participant in the Chikara 2008 Rey de Voladores tournament, having previously competed in the 2007 King of Trios alongside The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ) as Team TNA. On June 21, 2008, he appeared at

2500-583: A new TNA X Division Champion , since the title was vacated after Austin Aries traded it in for a shot at the World Championship . The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the July 31 edition of Impact! , with the finals, another three–way match, taking place on August 7, 2014. On September 17, 2014 TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle announced a "Gold Rush" tournament. Which took place on September 24, 2014. Where

2625-529: A new character as well. All of these attempts were Kevin Nash's past gimmicks , including Oz, Vinnie Vegas, and Diesel, all of which Dutt despised. On the April 26 episode of Impact! , Dutt and Lethal won a shot at the X Division Championship held by Chris Sabin at Sacrifice . Dutt was unhappy at Lethal getting the pinfall, however, Dutt and Lethal started fighting with each other. Kevin Nash came out and separated

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2750-496: A new start time of 8 p.m. EST on Thursday nights. The live schedule would continue throughout 2012. In 2012, Panda Energy divested itself of its stake in TNA. Dixie Carter , the daughter of Panda Energy founder Robert Carter, who had been serving as TNA's president, acquired that stake, making her TNA's majority shareholder. In March 2013, TNA began taping Impact from different venues around the United States and terminated its lease with Universal Studios . On March 14, TNA introduced

2875-463: A new universal HD stage which would be used for all weekly programming. On November 2, TNA ended its relationship with OVW. TNA formed a relationship with Japanese promotion Wrestle-1 beginning in July 2013 with a meeting between TNA founder Jeff Jarrett and Wrestle-1 head Keiji Mutoh . It was arranged for Jarrett to wrestle for W-1 in October 2013. In November, A.J. Styles successfully defended

3000-543: A partnership where the streaming service will distribute select non-live shows in most countries except the United States, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa . On May 8, 2023, Impact announced their first ever Australian shows named Down Under Tour , a four-day tour with two marquee wrestling shows that took part on June 30 and July 1 in Wagga Wagga , New South Wales . At the conclusion of Bound for Glory on October 21, 2023, Impact announced that it would revive

3125-547: A report on August 7, TNA filed a new business name of Impact Ventures, LLC. Destination America gained over 41.94 million viewers over the course of 2015's first quarter, making this the channel's best first quarter ever, followed by their best May ever in prime time. In both cases, Discovery Communications touted Impact Wrestling as one of the reasons for the increase in viewers. Despite this success, Discovery Communications dropped Unlocked and Greatest Matches from their programming in May 2015. On November 19, TNA signed

3250-551: A series presenting the best matches in the company's history. From December 2014 to March 2015, several employees re-signed with TNA, including Kurt Angle , Jeff Hardy, Gail Kim , Mr. Anderson, Abyss and Matt Hardy . Awesome Kong also re-joined the company following several years of absence. During this period, veteran Samoa Joe and commentator Tazz left the company by mutual consent. On April 27, 2015, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan joined TNA as senior producer of creative and talent development. According to

3375-690: A shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during TNA's tour of the United Kingdom in January 2012. The finals of the tournament took place on December 13 at the tapings of the January 4, 2012, edition of Xplosion . The winner, Samoa Joe , received his title shot on January 27 in Manchester , in a match taped for Xplosion , but was defeated by the defending TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Roode . On

3500-488: A table, with 10 points needed to win. The only tournament was held in 2003, which was won by The Sandman . The TNA Anarchy Alliance Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held in 2003 to determine the number one contenders for the NWA World Tag Team Championship , which was won by America's Most Wanted ( Chris Harris and James Storm ). The NWA World Tag Team Championship Tournament

3625-481: A tag team match, where they were defeated by Christopher Daniels and Kazarian . Dutt returned to Impact Wrestling on March 21, unsuccessfully challenging Kenny King for the X Division Championship in a three-way match, also involving Zema Ion. On July 18, Dutt won a 3-way match against Homicide and Petey Williams to get a shot at the X-Division Title on July 25. On July 25, Dutt was defeated by Manik in

3750-506: A torn right Achilles. On the February 8, 2018, episode of Impact Wrestling , Dutt returned as he and Josh Mathews became the new commentary team and remained on commentary until April 19, 2018. On January 23, 2019, it was reported that Dutt had been granted his release from Impact Wrestling. On January 23, 2019, Dutt signed with WWE as a producer . On June 29, 2021, it was reported that Dutt had departed from WWE. On June 30, 2021, it

3875-515: A tour of England, which would be the last TNA appearances for Kurt Angle . TNA returned to taping Impact Wrestling at the Impact Zone at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, beginning with a live Impact Wrestling on March 15. On March 19, longtime TNA wrestlers Eric Young and Bobby Roode left the promotion after 12 years. On April 22, Velvet Sky , another longtime TNA wrestler, left

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4000-520: A tournament was held to crown new TNA World Tag Team Champions . On the Destination X 2015 edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new TNA X Division Champion , since the title was vacated after Rockstar Spud traded it in for a shot at the World Championship . The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the June 10th edition of Impact! , with

4125-563: A variety of matches where points are awarded for victories. These matches included limbo , Texas hold 'em , musical chairs , and a push-up contest, among others. The tournament was created to give the wrestlers airtime while also continuing the Paparazzi Productions storyline surrounding Austin Starr , Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash . Throughout the competitions, Nash kept bringing up Bob Backlund , which led up to Backlund being

4250-695: A villainous turn , which led to Dutt and Lethal facing off in matches at Victory Road and Hard Justice , splitting the victories. At No Surrender , Val turned on Lethal and assisted Dutt in winning a "Ladder of Love" ladder match . On February 20, 2009, Dutt left TNA after his contract expired due to he and TNA management being unable to come to terms on a new deal. Since making his TNA debut, he has worked for independent promotions such as Ring of Honor , UWA, Combat Zone Wrestling , MXW Pro Wrestling, VCW and NWA Virginia and has toured Japan with Pro Wrestling Zero1 . He also has wrestled for HUSTLE in Japan as

4375-544: Is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment . Founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, following the end of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2001, the promotion was initially known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action ( NWA-TNA ) and was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body. The promotion dropped the "NWA" brand from its name in 2004, becoming Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . TNA continued to use

4500-651: Is known for his several stints in Jeff Jarrett 's promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), later renamed Impact Wrestling, where he started in 2003. Dutt competed in the X-Division for several years, winning the Impact X Division Championship in 2017. He also competed for Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling , where he was a former GFW NEX*GEN Champion . Dutt also wrestled for the independent promotion Combat Zone Wrestling during his early years, where he captured

4625-526: Is remembered for the three-way match main event for the TNA X Division Championship , between AJ Styles , Christopher Daniels , and Samoa Joe , which received a rare 5   Star match rating from wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer , the first one the company received. Later that year, TNA would secure a television deal with Spike TV ; Impact! debuted on the network on October 1, 2005. The episode saw Team 3D make their TNA debut. TNA would gain attention for

4750-624: The TNA Impact ! video game . On October 23, 2008, TNA began producing its programming in HD . In addition, a new HD set for Impact was introduced, including new lighting, and large high-resolution screens. On June 21, 2009, TNA launched an online video-vault subscription-service where subscribers could watch past pay-per-views by choosing one of three payment options. In October 2009, TNA President Dixie Carter hired Hulk Hogan and former WCW President Eric Bischoff . Hulk Hogan first appeared on

4875-544: The Bound for Glory Series . On the Destination X edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new TNA X Division Champion , since the title was vacated after Chris Sabin traded it in for a shot at the World Championship . The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the July 18 edition of Impact! , with the finals, another three–way match, taking place on July 25, 2013. On October 29, 2013, TNA President Dixie Carter vacated

5000-674: The Impact Knockouts Championship that it would be a 6-Women tournament to determine who would be the new Knockouts Champion where two triple threat matches will happen and one finals . The Impact Mashup Tournament was held in 2019 to determine the #1 contender for the Impact World Championship at Bound for Glory . Four qualification matches for the tournament were held on the July 19, 2019 episode of Impact Wrestling , where wrestlers were randomly paired as partners in tag team matches and

5125-410: The NWA World Tag Team Championship as their championships. AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn won the tournament to become the first NWA World Tag Team Championships in TNA. AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn were a last minute replacement for James Storm and Chris Harris who were attacked backstage. An 8-man tournament was held to crown a #1 contender for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship which was held at

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5250-534: The ROH World Television Championship against Marty Scurll . On June 28, 2012, Dutt returned to TNA, defeating Rubix to qualify for a tournament for the TNA X Division Championship . On July 8 at Destination X , Dutt defeated Rashad Cameron to qualify for the finals of the tournament. Later that same event, Dutt was defeated by Zema Ion in the final Ultimate X match, which also included Kenny King and Mason Andrews . During

5375-526: The TNA World Heavyweight Championship after the previous champion A.J. Styles left the company with the championship title. On the October 31 edition of Impact Wrestling , Carter announced an eight-man tournament to determine a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, that would begin on November 7. Seven of the eight men were former TNA World Heavyweight Champions including Jeff Hardy , Chris Sabin , Bobby Roode , James Storm , Kurt Angle , Austin Aries , and Samoa Joe . The eighth would be determined later in

5500-622: The TNA World Heavyweight Championship at No Surrender . Sting won the first bracket, and AJ Styles won the second bracket. The TNA Championship Series took place on the Thanksgiving Day edition of Impact! on November 26, 2009. The winner of the tournament would earn himself a shot at the Championship of his own division. However, the winner of the tournament, Bobby Lashley , did not receive his title match. Participants: The New Year's Knockout Eve Tournament took place on

5625-440: The TNA World Heavyweight Championship at a Wrestle-1 show in Japan. From the period of 2013 to 2014, many well-known names or veterans of the company left TNA. In October 2013, Hulk Hogan 's contract with TNA expired, ending his time as creative consultant with the company. In December, AJ Styles left TNA after his contract expired. Styles later said that he could not accept TNA's new contract offer, which would see him take

5750-710: The Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville , nicknamed the "TNA Asylum". In October 2002, Panda Energy International purchased a controlling interest (72%) of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from Jerry Jarrett. TNA (which originally traded as "J   Sports and Entertainment") was re-organized as "TNA Entertainment", LLC, in the process. Dixie Carter was appointed president of TNA Entertainment in spring 2003. Xplosion launched on November 27, 2002, as TNA's first regular cable show and featured exclusive matches taped at

5875-607: The Ultimate X for the TNA X Division Championship , which also included Greg Marasciulo . On August 21, Dutt returned to Impact Wrestling where he wrestled against TNA X Division Champion Manik in a losing effort. On December 30, 2013, Dutt was part of TNA #Old School wrestled against Chris Sabin and Austin Aries in a three-way dance, where Aries emerged victorious. On May 13, 2015, Global Force Wrestling (GFW) announced Dutt as part of their roster. On June 12, 2015, Dutt made his GFW debut defeating Jamin Olivencia during

6000-677: The World . So far, there have been two Super X Cup Tournaments, one America's X Cup Tournament, and three World X Cup Tournaments. The Fight for the Right Tournament was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and later for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship . The Paparazzi Championship Series was a tournament that began at Turning Point 2006 and involved five X Division competitors competing in

6125-415: The "Impact Zone", at Universal Studios Florida and broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN). With the show's première, TNA introduced a six-sided wrestling ring, the implementation of the "Fox Box" displaying competitors and timekeeping for the match and a generally more sports-like style than the sports entertainment style exemplified by WWE. In June 2004, TNA issued a press release stating it had signed

6250-424: The "TNA Asylum". There were a total of 111 weekly pay-per-views. Sonjay Dutt Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982) is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a producer and manager . He is best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action / Impact Wrestling under the ring name Sonjay Dutt . He also worked for WWE as a producer from 2019 to 2021. Dutt

6375-406: The $ 2.7   million debt that was owed to him by TNA and, as such, he was considering suing, as well as converting the debt into a 36 percent stake. As the result of a settlement between Corgan and TNA, Anthem Sports & Entertainment acquired the loans Corgan made to Carter in the process. Anthem Sports & Entertainment , a company owned by former Canwest CEO Leonard Asper , purchased

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6500-694: The 10 man Ultimate X match in an attempt to become the number one contender for the X Division Championship, but was eliminated in the Gauntlet portion of the match. Dutt and Lethal began to have some problems when Dutt began showing interest in Lethal's on-screen girlfriend SoCal Val . Dutt participated in the Xscape match at Lockdown where he was the first participant eliminated. At Slammiversary , Dutt ruined Lethal and SoCal Val's wedding, when he begged Val to marry him instead. Dutt attacked Lethal, and began

6625-664: The August 31 and September 1 house shows , working against Zema Ion. On September 5, Dutt was named the number one contender to Ion's X Division Championship at No Surrender . Four days later, Dutt was defeated in his pay-per-view title match. On the September 13 episode of Impact Wrestling , Dutt again unsuccessfully challenged Ion for the X Division Championship. On January 12, 2013, Dutt returned to TNA to take part in TNA X-Travaganza , teaming with Petey Williams in

6750-552: The August 9 tapings of the August 24 edition of Xplosion . On the June 16, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling , TNA started a twelve-man tournament for a contract in the promotion's X Division. The finals of the tournament would take place on July 10 at Destination X . First round Finals On November 23, 2011, TNA announced the start of the Maximum Impact Tournament, an eight-man tournament, which would take place on Xplosion . The winner would receive

6875-551: The CWF United States Championship. Dutt defeated Eita Kobayashi In a Wrestling City Asia event. On October 12, 2016, Dutt competed in a four-way match against Fenix el Rey, Jonathan Gresham , and Jeff Cobb at a Lucha Ilimitado card in Yakima, Washington with Fenix winning (to be crowned the first Corazon de Oro champion). On March 4, 2017, at ROH Manhattan Mayhem 2017 Dutt was unsuccessful at winning

7000-695: The CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship and won the Best of the Best tournament in 2004. Due to his contributions, he was inducted into the CZW Hall of Fame in 2019. His ring name is modeled after that of famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt . Dutt's parents moved from India to the United States before he was born, though most of his extended family still lives in New Delhi . He later worked for KYDA Pro wrestling for

7125-628: The December 15, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling , TNA started a tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders for the TNA World Tag Team Championship , held by the team Crimson and Matt Morgan , at Genesis . The pairings were, in storyline, decided by a random draw. On the June 28, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling , TNA announced a tournament for the TNA X Division Championship , which would take place at Destination X , where Austin Aries would vacate

7250-652: The December 31, 2009, edition of Impact! . The winner of the tournament would earn a shot at the TNA Women's Knockout Championship on the live three-hour Monday night edition of Impact! on January 4, 2010. The 8 Card Stud Tournament took place on February 14, 2010, at the Against All Odds pay-per-view and its winner would get to challenge the TNA World Heavyweight Champion in the main event of April's Lockdown pay-per-view. On

7375-508: The December 9, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship , after one half of the previous champions, Hamada , had been released by the promotion, and set up a four–team tournament to determine new champions. The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition of Impact! . * Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita. On

7500-519: The GFW NEX*GEN Championship. On November 25, 2016, Dutt lost the GFW NEX*GEN Championship to Cody Rhodes . In April 2017, it was announced that Dutt would be working as a producer for TNA, now Impact Wrestling . On the April 20 episode of Impact , Dutt surprised everyone by making his in-ring return in a six-way X Division title match. However, during the match he sustained a serious eye injury which effectively ruled him out of

7625-451: The GFW rights; the lawsuit was ultimately settled out of court. Don Callis and Scott D'Amore became executive vice presidents in January 2018, taking charge of Impact Wrestling's day-to-day operations. At the first tapings under their tenure, the company reverted to a traditional four-sided ring, and the show also saw the return of former World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries , as well

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7750-575: The Impact (abbreviated as BTI ), and Xplosion was canceled after 19 years the following month. During No Surrender Impact announced a new partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Don Callis' time as Impact executive vice president and on-air talent ended in May. Slammiversary 2021 marked the return of in-person spectators for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That month, BTI and Impact! would crossover for

7875-459: The Impact X Division Championship which was won by Trevor Lee. on the November 9 episode of Impact, Dutt lost to Matt Sydal. On the November 16 episode of Impact, Dutt, Dezmond Xavier and Garza Jr. defeated Andrew Everett, Taiji Ishimori and Trevor Lee. On the January 11, 2018 episode of Impact, Dutt, Dezmond Xavier and Garza Jr. defeated Caleb Konley , Hakim Zane and Trevor Lee. On January 6, 2018, Dutt announced he would undergo surgery to fix

8000-427: The January 27, 2011, edition of Impact!, TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for the TNA X Division Championship , held by Kazarian . The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the January 27, February 3 and February 10 editions of Impact! , with the finals, another three–way match, taking place at Against All Odds on February 13. The finals ended with

8125-424: The January 3 and January 10 editions of Impact! , with the finals taking place at Genesis on January 13. The TNA Gut Check Tournament was a 4-man tournament held from May 9 thru June 2, 2013 in order to determine which TNA Gut Check competitor would compete in the Bound for Glory Series the finals of the tournament took place at Slammiversary XI . Sam Shaw advanced to the finals of the tournament after Silva

8250-470: The January 4, 2010, episode of Impact! . Both obtained a position behind the scenes; with Bischoff part of creative and Hogan as a consultant. Under their tenure, TNA would see several revamps in 2010. Beginning with Genesis in January, TNA returned to using a four-sided ring. That month, Jakks Pacific announced a five-year agreement to produce TNA action figures. Impact! would also begin airing on Monday nights directly opposite of WWE Raw , marking

8375-433: The June 17, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated the TNA World Tag Team Championship and announced a two-week-long tournament, with the winners facing The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ), who were the number one contenders prior to the titles being vacated, for the titles at Victory Road . On the August 4, 2010, edition of TNA Xplosion , TNA announced a two-week-long tournament to determine

8500-538: The NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships until this agreement ended in 2007; after which, the company would create its own World Heavyweight and World Tag Team championships. The promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017. In March of that year, it was rebranded to Impact Wrestling after its weekly flagship television show , but returned to the TNA branding in January 2024. From its inception, TNA had been considered

8625-500: The November 19 episode. The final episodes of 2014 were Best of TNA clip shows. On January 7, 2015, Impact Wrestling moved to Destination America , with a live debut from The Manhattan Center 's Grand Ballroom in New York City. In addition to Impact Wrestling , which was now airing on Friday nights, two new shows produced were Impact Wrestling: Unlocked , hosted by Mike Tenay , and TNA Wrestling's Greatest Matches ,

8750-518: The PCS Challenge that Dutt was taking steroids, as a running joke, which would usually lead to the hotheaded Dutt comically losing his temper. Although he did not win the series, it put him over with the fans. After PCS ended, Nash took Dutt and his newfound tag team partner Jay Lethal under his wing and promised to give them an extreme makeover. After Lethal got a new character mimicking the "Macho Man" Randy Savage , Nash attempted to get Dutt

8875-525: The TNA Asylum as well as exclusive interviews with TNA wrestlers and the promotion's original weekly pay-per-view shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville, Tennessee . The last weekly pay-per-view took place on September 8, 2004, with a total of 111 weekly pay-per-views. In May 2004, TNA introduced its second weekly television program, Impact! (stylized as iMPACT! ), produced at Soundstage 21 , nicknamed

9000-539: The Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) name. From October 26 to 28, Impact held events in Scotland and England , marking their first United Kingdom tour since 2015. In December 2023, the promotion announced it had signed a new toy license with PowerTown, to release its first line of product in August 2024. The name change to TNA took effect in January 2024, with the first event under

9125-474: The UFC in which each match will be three timed rounds, with a team of judges to award the win based on points, if there is no winner via pin or submission within the time limit. The final match was at 2016's Bound for Glory , where, due to injury Eddie Edwards subbed for Drew Galloway against Aron Rex to determine the inaugural champion. On November 23, 2017 it was announced after Gail Kim retired and vacated

9250-564: The World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE ) gaining a monopoly on the industry. While on a fishing trip, Bob Ryder , Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett contemplated their futures in the professional wrestling business under a parent company known as J   Sports & Entertainment, LLC. Ryder suggested a company not reliant on television, but rather one going straight to pay-per-view . In July 2002, Vince Russo joined Jeff and Jerry Jarrett's NWA-TNA promotion as

9375-477: The company during this period. In April 2017, it was announced on Impact! that the promotion would "merge" with Jarrett's newer Global Force Wrestling (GFW) promotion. In the lead-up to the Slammiversary ;XV PPV, Anthem officially announced its intent to acquire GFW to formalize the merger. The company subsequently announced that they were re-branding again and taking the GFW name in June;

9500-561: The company in that year, and the contracts of TNA Hall of Famers Bully Ray and Devon reportedly expired in October 2014, with TNA moving them to the alumni section of their roster in January 2015. In late July, the TMZ website reported that Spike TV was not renewing Impact Wrestling beyond October. TNA would refute the report, stating that negotiations were still ongoing. On August 14, Impact Wrestling moved to Wednesday nights. On August 20, TNA signed an extension with Spike TV until

9625-427: The company. It was reported near the beginning of 2016 that Aroluxe Marketing, a Brentwood, Tennessee–based marketing agency, had taken a stake in TNA at the start of 2016 in return for providing partial funding, as well as taking over TNA's production operations. It was reported in June 2016 that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan acquired a minority stake in TNA from Dixie Carter, but he had instead provided

9750-654: The contest. After its conclusion Dutt was treated backstage by the Impact Wrestling medical team. At the Impact Wrestling taping in Mumbai, India, on May 30, 2017, Dutt challenged and defeated then X Division Champion Low-Ki to win his first ever Impact Wrestling championship. After his victory he was emotional and celebrated with fellow wrestlers including Mahabali Shera , Eddie Edwards , Swoggle , Braxton Sutter and Matt Sydal , and also celebrated with

9875-525: The debuts of Karl Anderson and Heath Slater . After the events of AEW Winter Is Coming on December 2, 2020, Impact began a partnership with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), which lasted until Bound for Glory 2021 . AEW-contracted wrestlers Kenny Omega and Christian Cage held the Impact World Championship during this time; this marked Cage's first in-ring return to the promotion since 2008. In February 2021, Impact launched Before

10000-529: The debuts of new wrestlers such as Kiera Hogan , Su Yung , Pentagón Jr. , Fénix and Brian Cage . The company also announced a partnership with live streaming service Twitch to produce content for their platform, starting with Brace for Impact , which was co-promoted with New Jersey–based promotion WrestlePro. Their first live show was Impact vs. Lucha Underground , a co-promoted show with Lucha Underground . Impact! subsequently moved to Pursuit Channel beginning January 11, 2019. Two months later,

10125-433: The end of 2014. In November 2014, TNA announced a new agreement with Discovery Communications to distribute its programming in the United States on Destination America and to selected international markets. Spike's outreach at the time was estimated to be more than 97 million homes while Destination America was estimated to reach 59 million households. Impact Wrestling ceased airing new televised events on Spike after

10250-468: The fans in the audience including Mohin Khan. At Slammiversary XV he retained his X Division Championship against Low Ki in a two out of three falls match. At Destination X , he defeated Trevor Lee in a Ladder Match to retain X Division Championship. On the September 14 episode of Impact , Dutt lost the title to Lee, ending his reign at 81 days. At Bound for Glory , Dutt competed in a Six-way match for

10375-508: The finals would be held at the Sacrifice pay-per-view. TNA announced a Knockouts tag team tournament for the new TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship on the August 20, 2009 episode of TNA Impact! . Round one matches started on the August 27, 2009 episode of TNA Impact! . On the September 3, 2009 episode of Impact! , a two-bracket one-night tournament was held to determine two competitors that would face Matt Morgan and Kurt Angle for

10500-425: The finals, another three–way match, taking place on June 27, 2015. On October 7, 2015, it was announced that a tournament would take place, after TNA World Heavyweight Champion Matt Hardy vacated the title a day prior due to a legal injunction filed by former champion Ethan Carter III . The World Title Series places 32 wrestlers into 8 groups of 4, with the first round being under a round-robin format . Also, for

10625-444: The first round for the vacant ROH World Championship . On November 9, 2013, Dutt defeated Ben Ortiz at House of Hardcore 3. Sonjay, along with Zema Ion appeared on Singapore Pro Wrestling's Collision on January 11, 2014. He faced Russian wrestler Serg White. On March 12, 2014, Sonjay dutt was defeated by El Ligero In a Revolution Pro event. On May 5, 2014, At Continental Wrestling Federation Dutt defeated John Morrison to Capture

10750-553: The first time ever, the Knockouts were given an opportunity to compete for the World Heavyweight Title. Each winner in the round-robin matches is awarded 3 points, and a draw is worth 1 point for each, with each match having a 15-minute time limit. The two members of each group with the most points will advance to the final 16, where at that point the tournament switches to a single elimination format. The title

10875-611: The first time that two major professional wrestling promotions would go head to head since the launch of WCW Monday Nitro in 1995. The show would permanently move to Mondays on March 8, 2010, Spike would keep the Thursday night slot open for repeats of the Monday night shows. During this time, Ric Flair , Rob Van Dam , Mr. Anderson would make their debuts, while Jeff Hardy would make his return. Impact! would later return to Thursday nights on May 3. On July 2, 2010, TNA hosted

11000-435: The first time, when Josh Alexander faced T. J. Perkins for the X Division Championship in Impact's first-ever 60-minute Iron man match , which began on BTI and concluded in the opening minutes of Impact! . Impact subsequently announced the end of their partnership with Twitch that August and launched a new YouTube membership program called "Impact Wrestling Insiders". In November 2022, Impact and DAZN signed

11125-664: The first two years of his professional career. Dutt got his first break wrestling in Major League Wrestling (MLW) in 2003 where he debuted the Dragon Rana on Jimmy Yang at the promotion's August 3 event, Summer Apocalypse . Dutt would go on to win an international tournament, hosted by MLW in September 2003 to win the company's Junior Heavyweight Championship , defeating Tony Mamaluke , Eddie Colón , and Christopher Daniels . In an early 2004 MLW Junior Heavyweight Title match Dutt pinned Jack Evans to retain

11250-405: The losers of each contest to "feel free to kiss the winner". The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament was held during April and May 2008 for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship . It took place on TNA Impact! and at Sacrifice on May 11, 2008. It was announced on the April 24, 2008 episode of Impact! by Management Director Jim Cornette . It involved twelve teams overall. The tournament

11375-454: The losers of the qualifying matches. At Destination X the eight wrestlers will face each other in four singles matches, with the winners advancing to an Ultimate X match for the X Division Championship. On the January 3, 2013, edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for the TNA X Division Championship , held by Rob Van Dam . The tournament consisted of two singles semifinal matches, taking place on

11500-549: The many high-profile talent that would join the promotion during the show's run on Spike. From 2005 to 2009, these include Kevin Nash , Rhino , Christian Cage , Sting (who made appearances at previous "Asylum" shows), Scott Steiner , Kurt Angle , Booker T , and Mick Foley . In April 2006, TNA launched a YouTube channel, featuring clips from Impact and exclusive content. Beginning with Bound for Glory in October 2006, TNA began holding select pay-per-view events outside of Orlando, Florida. In January 2007, TNA announced

11625-449: The match, Dutt legitimately separated his shoulder and had to leave the match momentarily to get it popped back into place. Dutt returned on the July 26 episode of Impact Wrestling as one of four men vying for a shot at the X Division Championship, however, TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries opted not to grant him the shot due to his injured shoulder, instead naming Kenny King the number one contender. Dutt returned to TNA during

11750-494: The new parent company. Shortly after Anthem's acquisition of TNA, it was re-branded to Impact Wrestling. On January 5, 2017 Jeff Jarrett was brought back by Anthem to serve as a consultant and later promoted to executive producer and chief creative officer. Anthem re-branded the promotion as Impact Wrestling, after its primary television series two months later. Wrestlers Drew Galloway , Matt Hardy , Jeff Hardy , Jade , Crazzy Steve , Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis left

11875-409: The night in a gauntlet match, which was eventually won by Magnus last eliminating Kazarian and Sting . Also later that night, Carter announced the "Wheel of Dixie" in which she would spin a wheel full of different stipulation that the competitors would compete in. The stipulations on the "Wheel of Dixie" were a Falls Count Anywhere match , a Bull Rope match , a Submission match , a Ladder match ,

12000-549: The night, aligning with Lethal, and would afterwards begin a feud with Samoa Joe after Joe won the ROH Television Championship . Dutt was featured in the 2004 video game Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood and the 2008 video game TNA Impact! . He also did some of the motion capturing for Saints Row: The Third and WWE 2K18 . During Dutt's Reign as champion the title

12125-530: The number one contenders to the TNA World Tag Team Championship . Teams: On the August 19, 2010, edition of TNA Impact! , the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was vacated, after champion Rob Van Dam suffered a storyline injury. The title was put up in a tournament featuring the top eight ranked wrestlers in the TNA Championship Committee rankings . The finals of the tournament would take place at Bound for Glory on October 10. On

12250-404: The pandemic, the promotion cancelled its planned TNA: There's No Place Like Home event, and Tessa Blanchard , who became the first woman to win the promotion's World Championship earlier that year at Hard to Kill , was fired and stripped of the championship after a long absence. Slammiversary saw the returns of The Motor City Machine Guns , Eric Young , Doc Gallows and EC3 , as well as

12375-624: The promotion announced that Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) would serve as its developmental territory once again. In May, Impact Plus replaced the Global Wrestling Network as the official streaming app for the promotion. Impact! began airing on Anthem-owned AXS TV after Bound for Glory in October. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Impact would hold events behind closed doors at Skyway Studios in Nashville. During

12500-613: The promotion later touring in Germany , Scotland and Ireland in 2009, France , Wales and the United Arab Emirates in 2010 and Belgium in 2012. In February 2008, Jakks Pacific announced it had signed a multi-year master toy license agreement with TNA, to release products starting in 2010. In March 2008, Tristar Productions acquired an exclusive license deal to produce and distribute TNA trading cards and memorabilia. On September 9, 2008, Midway Games released

12625-432: The promotion such as AJ Styles and Samoa Joe . (Some of whom would later be signed by WWE during the mid to late 2010s as TNA suffered financial issues). From 2015 to 2017, the promotion was viewed by some to have fallen behind longtime rival Ring of Honor ; with the loss of their U.S. television contract with Spike in 2014, as well as monetary and personnel issues, being noted as factors to their decline. By 2019,

12750-712: The promotion was viewed to have recovered through its sustained international distribution, and the purchase by its parent company of AXS TV ; which subsequently began carrying the promotion's programming. TNA is currently viewed as being the third-largest wrestling promotion in the United States; following the establishment of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in 2019, and its current television deals with Warner Bros. Discovery 's TNT and TBS (both of which are seen in more households than AXS). Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s The concept of TNA originated shortly after World Championship Wrestling (WCW) ended in 2001, with

12875-562: The re-branding was short-lived as they severed ties with Jarrett that October and the deal for Anthem to acquire GFW was never completed. During that time, Anthem launched the Global Wrestling Network , a new streaming service which featured content from to their tape library and other sources. Jarrett subsequently filed a lawsuit against Anthem in the District Court of Tennessee for copyright infringement over

13000-572: The reigning champions. After leaving TNA, Dutt returned to Japan to compete for Pro Wrestling Zero1, after a four-year hiatus, and on March 15, 2009, defeated Ikuto Hidaka to win the Zero1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship . Dutt vacated the title on November 29, 2009, for the Tenka-Ichi 2009 tournament. He attempted to regain the title, but was eliminated from the tournament in

13125-467: The reinstated TNA banner being Hard To Kill . On February 7, Anthem Sports & Entertainment announced that Scott D'Amore's contract with TNA was terminated , with D'Amore being removed from his position as President of TNA, later being replaced by Anthony Cicione. From June 2002 until September 2004, the promotion's original weekly pay-per-view shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville, Tennessee , nicknamed

13250-414: The ring name Schwagg Dutt, was announced as being a part of the roster of All Wheels Wrestling. At the pilot tapings on June 29, Dutt was first defeated in a five-minute Iron Man match by Aaron Aguilera , before defeating him, Dubai and RPM (Jay Lethal) in an Ultimate X match. In December 2011, Dutt took part in TNA's India project, Ring Ka King . On July 27, 2013, Dutt was defeated by Jay Lethal in

13375-574: The second-largest in the United States behind WWE a position it would hold for most of the 2000s and early 2010s. The promotion was known for featuring former top talent from WCW, WWE, and ECW , such as Raven , Jeff Jarrett , and Sting , free agents that were released from the WWE such as Kurt Angle , Jeff Hardy , and Mr. Kennedy (who wrestled as Mr. Anderson in TNA), as well as more homegrown wrestlers who had not appeared in WWE yet and mainly performed for

13500-494: The semifinals by Prince Devitt . Dutt made his Pro Wrestling Guerrilla debut on April 11, 2009, at Ninety-Nine , where he defeated Roderick Strong in a singles match. The following day at One Hundred , the promotion's 100th show, he was defeated by El Generico . Since leaving TNA, Dutt has also begun making appearances for Ring of Honor. He made his return to the company on May 8, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts, wrestling in

13625-490: The summer of 2004 Dutt participated in the America's X-Cup as a part of Team USA along with Jerry Lynn , Chris Sabin, and Elix Skipper against Team AAA ( Héctor Garza , Mr. Águila , Juventud Guerrera , and Abismo Negro ). After several months, Dutt became the onscreen protégé of Sabu , with Raven using him to vicariously assault Sabu. In addition, Dutt acted as a mouthpiece for the perpetually mute Sabu. This angle

13750-420: The tag team division, Team 3D ( Brother Ray and Brother Devon ) announced on the April 23, 2009 episode of Impact! that they would be hosting a tag team tournament. The winning team would receive a trophy, a check for $ 100,000 and a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship (held by Team 3D). The tournament started that same night and matches would be held over the next few weeks and TNA announced that

13875-485: The three TNA wrestlers were injured. At Bound for Glory on October 23, Dutt defeated Austin Aries , Roderick Strong , and Alex Shelley in a four way X Division match on the pre-show. In 2006, Dutt earned a spot on Team USA in the 2006 World X Cup . Throughout late 2006 and early 2007, Dutt was involved in the Paparazzi Championship Series , led by Kevin Nash , who insinuated throughout

14000-464: The time by Ron Killings . Jeff Jarrett won the tournament and would later win the championship. The TNA Hard 10 Tournament was a hardcore tournament for a trophy that would proclaim the winner the most hardcore wrestler in TNA. It featured eight wrestlers competing in matches where a point-scoring system was used to determine the winner. The system was that 1 point was awarded for a direct hit with an object and 5 points for putting your opponent through

14125-437: The title at MLW Reloaded . Dutt made his debut for NWA Total Nonstop Action (TNA) on October 15, 2003, when he teamed with Eric Young to defeat Jerrelle Clark and El Fuego in a tag team match. He began working regularly for the promotion the following year. In May 2004, Dutt began a Best of Three Series with Amazing Red to determine the number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship , which Red won. Throughout

14250-404: The title for a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship . The tournament was preceded by four qualifying matches featuring wrestlers from the independent circuit . TNA contracted wrestlers Douglas Williams , Kid Kash and Zema Ion were given automatic spots in the first round of the tournament. The eighth and final spot in the tournament would be filled by the winner of a four-way between

14375-477: The two, but Dutt kicked him and left the ring. On a later episode of Impact! , Dutt apologized to Nash and claimed "it was the heat of the moment". Nash forgave Dutt but warned him not to do it again. On June 7, Dutt introduced a new gimmick reminiscent of a New Age guru in which he called himself "The Guru" Sonjay Dutt. As part of the gimmick, he began dressing all in white, and apologized to Nash and Lethal for his behavior. At Victory Road , Dutt competed in

14500-496: The winners of 5 qualifying matches would advance to the main event later that night. The winner of the main event would earn a championship match against any TNA champion, at any time. On the October 15, 2014, edition of Impact Wrestling , TNA started an eight tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders for the TNA World Tag Team Championship , held by The Wolves ( Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards ). Between March 14 and March 16, 2015 episodes of Impact Wrestling

14625-426: The winners of the four tag team matches qualified for a fatal four-way elimination match in the main event of that episode and the participants of the winning team qualified for the #1 contender's match at Unbreakable . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (abbreviated as TNA Wrestling or TNA ) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee . It

14750-519: Was a tag team tournament held in 2004 in order to crown new NWA World Tag Team Champions , which was won by Kid Kash and Dallas . The NWA World Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender Tournament was a 4-man tournament held in October 2004 in order to crown new number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at TNA's first-ever monthly pay-per-view event Victory Road . The TNA X Cup Tournaments are X Division tournaments that feature various wrestlers and/or Teams from around

14875-463: Was defeated by Jigsaw in the first round of the GFW NEX*GEN Championship tournament. On November 27, 2015, Dutt defeated P. J. Black for the GFW NEX*GEN Championship. Dutt retained in his first international title defense on March 2, 2016, retaining over Marty Scurll in Exeter, UK . On May 13, 2016, Dutt defeated DJ Z and Lio Rush in a triple threat match at a GFW/ MCW joint event to retain

15000-631: Was introduced at the August 13, 2016 tapings of TNA's television program Impact Wrestling ' after TNA President Billy Corgan announced that the TNA King of the Mountain Championship would be deactivated and retired in favor for the Impact Grand Championship . Corgan also announced an 8-man single elimination tournament that would feature new rules that would apply to the title. The new rules would be similar like

15125-426: Was no longer able to compete. On the July 11, 2013 edition of Impact a tournament was held where the twelve Bound for Glory Series participants were randomly paired up into six tag teams. There were then three tag matches with the winning teams advancing to a six-man Gauntlet Battle Royal . Once there were two competitors left in the match, the match became a regular singles match with the winner earning 25 points in

15250-416: Was postponed and then dropped after Sabu was sidelined with various health problems, and in the interim Dutt made appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment , provoking rumors of an imminent contract offer. Dutt's presence in TNA was reduced in late-2004 and early-2005 during the tenure of Dusty Rhodes as booker , but his role within the promotion was once again expanded after Rhodes resigned. Dutt won

15375-648: Was reported that Dutt had signed with AEW as a producer. However, he later would also become a wrestling manager. On April 6, 2022, episode of AEW Dynamite , which took place five days after Dutt reunited with Jay Lethal at Ring of Honor's Supercard of Honor XV , Dutt would make his debut on AEW television, where he and Lethal appeared on-screen and promised Samoa Joe a present. The next week, Satnam Singh would attack Joe and align with Dutt and Lethal. On April 1, 2022, Dutt appeared at Ring of Honor 's Supercard of Honor XV , where he restrained Jay Lethal after Lethal attacked Matt Sydal. Dutt would turn heel later in

15500-463: Was required to pay Corgan back by November 1. It was possible that one of the other minority owners could pay Corgan, effectively making them the majority owner of TNA. On November 3, the company revealed that Anthem Sports & Entertainment provided a credit facility to fund operations for TNA and that Corgan was removed as the promotion's president. However, Corgan himself stated that neither TNA nor Anthem Sports & Entertainment had yet repaid

15625-414: Was the result of a match for the TNA X Division Championship at Final Resolution between Eric Young and Sheik Abdul Bashir ending in a controversial fashion, with Young winning the championship thanks to the referee's help. Management Director Jim Cornette stripped Young of the belt and announced the tournament to crown the new champion. The tournament final took place at Genesis . To reinvigorate

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