Earlier this 12 months, TNA Wrestling underwent a significant shakeup when mother or father firm Anthem fired TNA President Scott D’Amore. Within the aftermath, many TNA stars expressed their assist for D’Amore, and a few studies acknowledged that there was expertise that wished out. Nevertheless, issues appear to have settled down over time. Throughout a latest dialog with Fightful, TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace shared her expertise with the corporate’s new administration, which incorporates former WWE and ECW star Tommy Dreamer.
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“Actually, it is just about the identical,” Grace mentioned. “It is going superior, I suppose, clearly. Now we have this sort of nearly a full blown partnership now with WWE and hopefully it continues on. There’s actually not a lot of a change. As a substitute of asking Scott about one thing, I simply ask Tommy [Dreamer].”
Following Grace’s interview with Fightful, some extra backstage shake-ups have taken place inside TNA. Behind the scenes figures David Sahadi, RD Evans, Lou D’Angeli, and probably others have both been let go or resigned in latest weeks, with indications pointing towards mother or father firm Anthem desirous to take TNA’s reside occasions technique in one other path.
In the meantime, as acknowledged by Grace, TNA now has a burgeoning partnership with WWE. The Knockouts Champion first appeared for the corporate in January on the WWE Royal Rumble earlier than reappearing final week on “WWE NXT.” Grace is now set to problem Roxanne Perez for the WWE NXT Girls’s Championship this Sunday at NXT Battleground. To date, Grace is the one TNA star who has crossed over, however there have been teases at different TNA stars showing inside WWE quickly, and probably vice versa.
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