Posted on 4/30/126 by Colin Vassallo
Appearing on Busted Open Radio, TNA President Carlos Silva
defended his decision to pull TNA talent from scheduled
matches against AEW stars during WrestleMania weekend.
Two big matches pulled were Nic Nemeth vs MJF and Leon
Slater vs Ricochet, and Silva was asked what went behind the
decision and how hard was it to cancel all the booked plans.
“It was super tough. And look, all these business decisions
are tough and I don’t like being called a little bitch on
social any more than anyone does,” Silva said, referring to
MJF calling him that on X after the matches were canceled.
“You do take the goods with the bads and you got to make
some hard decisions. My job sometimes is to make hard
decisions. And for the fans and for all of you and for Mike
and our locker room, we’re going to make decisions that are
good for TNA,” Silva continued, quoting an Under Armour ad
which used to say, “You got to protect the house.”
Silva said that he had some “folks” “move into our nights,”
talking about Collision moving to Thursdays sometimes and
alluded that they’ve been blocked from certain arenas and
venues.
“It’s okay because everyone’s got to make the decisions for
their business. But we’re also just not going to lie down
and not make decisions that are good for our business. And
unfortunately, sometimes those decisions are tough and we’re
very thoughtful about them and we try to do the best to make
good when we have to make those decisions,” he continued.
Silva took full responsibility for the decisions, saying it
was him who pulled the plug.
It was also reported that TNA compensated all the talent
that were pulled from advertised matches.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The fact is that any time Collision runs
on Thursdays, it's because of Warner Brothers Discovery, and
AEW has zero control. In the case in question, it was
because WBD didn't want AEW to run head-to-head with
Wrestlemania. Other times have included WBD running NHL
Stanley Cup Playoffs, or in the past NBA playoffs