TNA Update 2/3: Jarrett, Gaburick, Carter, GFW, and etc...

[Welfare Willis]

From Mike Johnson @ pwinsider: (Warning: Lots of pop-ups and reports of malware at the pwinsider site)

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Since we have gotten some emails about a few TNA related topics, here is the latest:

*As of this writing, the company has not locked in Matt and Jeff Hardy to new deals.

*Drew Galloway has also yet to sign a new deal.

*Dixie Carter has moved out of the TNA offices in Nashville, TN and is not involved in any TNA decision-making. Her husband, Serg Salinas, is also no longer with the company. He lists on his LinkedIn Profile that in January, he left the company to work as General Manager of Trifecta Entertainment and Tex-Ville Tunes Music Publishing in Nashville, TN. Trifecta Entertainment was the company Dixie Carter owned and ran before TNA.

*Jeff Jarrett is believed to be coming on board as the new Executive Producer, replacing John "Big" Gaburick, but we have heard differing accounts of whether Jarrett's deal is done. Jarrett is still moving forward with GFW so it's possible he will try and bridge the two entities together going forward. I wouldn't be shocked to see the GFW TV that was filmed in Las Vegas eventually end up on Fight Network, but that's only my gut feeling.

*The latest word is John Gaburick is not leaving the company as we have heard he has restructured his deal to remain.

*There have been no major office departures and thus far, no real talk of moving the company to Toronto (yet).

*Dutch Mantel is officially on Creative, joining Matt Conway, Gaburick and Madison Rayne.

*Don West is, thus far, only back to help liquidate the TNA warehouse. We are told there was a ton of merchandise that needed to be sold off so the company is working towards that end. Bringing back West was a Jarrett idea.

Drew Galloway, Impact Grand Champion, is working without a contract? That doesn't seem like a great idea.


Also I see a lot more gold in TNA's future.

[BrodietheSlayer]

Feb 4, 2017 4:05:23 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

From Mike Johnson @ pwinsider: (Warning: Lots of pop-ups and reports of malware at the pwinsider site)

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*Dixie Carter has moved out of the TNA offices in Nashville, TN and is not involved in any TNA decision-making. Her husband, Serg Salinas, is also no longer with the company. He lists on his LinkedIn Profile that in January, he left the company to work as General Manager of Trifecta Entertainment and Tex-Ville Tunes Music Publishing in Nashville, TN. Trifecta Entertainment was the company Dixie Carter owned and ran before TNA.

[jimmyjames]

Feb 4, 2017 4:05:23 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

Drew Galloway, Impact Grand Champion, is working without a contract? That doesn't seem like a great idea.

But it does sound exactly like something TNA would do.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

I think it's pretty concering that Grand Champion Drew Galloway is not signed to a written deal, and Tag Team Champions the Hardys' deals are about to expire.

We know this company's track record with this sort of thing throughout the years.

[thetower52]

The hardys and drew are going to drop that Shit on Vince's desk

[________ has left the building]

Going by what Matt wrote on his Twitter yesterday, the TNA relationship is about to end or as Matt said "Delete". I just don't see WWE letting them doing the BROKEN shit there. More money IMO with classic Hardy Boys. But I see them taking the Hardys taking the BROKEN act on the road for a while before signing some Legend deals.

Stop trying to make GFW happen, Double J. You're about to lose Sonjay Dutt to WWE. It's going to be just you, Karen and the 10x12s, and Cody Rhodes. Let it f***ing go.

TNA needs to rid of Mathews and Pope & make Don West the color commentator again. The man is selling TNA leftover crap in droves. Let him sell the tv product.

Dixie Carter is now free to pursue her dream of being a feature actress on Blacked.com.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Feb 4, 2017 6:35:45 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Going by what Matt wrote on his Twitter yesterday, the TNA relationship is about to end or as Matt said "Delete". I just don't see WWE letting them doing the BROKEN shit there. More money IMO with classic Hardy Boys. But I see them taking the Hardys taking the BROKEN act on the road for a while before signing some Legend deals.

I could see WWE doing some mangled hybrid of the Broken gimmick while essentially being the Classic Hardys. Matt would retain the catchphrases and the voice, but the Brother Nero name would be deleted, and Jeff would mostly be the same as he was in 2009, and they come out Jeff's 2009 theme.

[Deleted]

I think WWE would let Matt keep doing the Broken gimmick, albeit probably simplified down to the key points of it without as much creative freedom or room to grow with it, while Jeff would be plugged into the upper midcard / main event scene. Think there's probably more money in Jeff as a solo act than them together as a team at this juncture, and Matt's a lot better off doing this than just going back to the, "Matt Hardy will not die!" plucky veteran face thing he was doing before he left.

[jagilki]

Dixie Carter has moved out of the TNA offices in Nashville, TN

This makes me picture Dixie living in the Offices, packing up all her clothes and stuff and heading to a van.

Down by the river.

[cabbageboy]

I don't really get why WWE hasn't signed Galloway. They are gathering up every UK talent they can find, but not the free agent that at least has some main event size and decent enough talent? But then I'm still waiting for them to also sign Magnus as well.

This entire TNA buyout by Anthem has been so quizzical. It's sort of like what happens when someone buys a company and makes basically no changes to the actual onscreen product. At least not yet. I do think the Hardys doing this wacky stuff is at odds with the more traditional minded regime coming in (Jarrett, Mantel). The issue with them doing this Broken stuff in WWE however is that it has zero context for those who haven't watched TNA.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Madison Rayne in the booking comitee sounds weird. She got to be an improvement over Christy Hemme.

They lose the Hardy Boyz and its back to public access ratings for tna. They are dead without them.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Feb 4, 2017 8:56:04 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I think WWE would let Matt keep doing the Broken gimmick, albeit probably simplified down to the key points of it without as much creative freedom or room to grow with it, while Jeff would be plugged into the upper midcard / main event scene. Think there's probably more money in Jeff as a solo act than them together as a team at this juncture, and Matt's a lot better off doing this than just going back to the, "Matt Hardy will not die!" plucky veteran face thing he was doing before he left.

Matt already gave Jeff Hardy his name back on Impact.

[chazraps]

I'd guess Jeff returns first doing classic Hardy Boyz, and then Matt gets some new incarnation of the Broken character.

Let's not forget, this isn't a Bully Ray vs. Bubba Ray situation where he was only known as a Hardy Boy on WWE TV. We got him as Version 1 as well, so he has both kayfabe precedent and trust historically to be his own (sometimes bizarre) entity outside of Jeff.

[bob]

everyone to Dixie on her way out

[A Platypus Rave]

Feb 4, 2017 14:04:57 GMT -5 bob said:

everyone to Dixie on her way out

also possible.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

If they are to go back to the WWE, Matt's gimmick would flourish in NXT moreso than on the main roster, so seeing him there would be better than a possible mangled version on Raw or Smackdown.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

If you guys really think WWE will do the Broken Hardy gimmick.......you obviously didn't remember what they did with the Dudley Boys

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Feb 4, 2017 10:35:52 GMT -5 jagilki said:

Dixie Carter has moved out of the TNA offices in Nashville, TN

This makes me picture Dixie living in the Offices, packing up all her clothes and stuff and heading to a van.

Down by the river.

Or the junkyard

[DASH 243✅]

Feb 4, 2017 10:35:52 GMT -5 jagilki said:

Dixie Carter has moved out of the TNA offices in Nashville, TN

This makes me picture Dixie living in the Offices, packing up all her clothes and stuff and heading to a van.

Down by the river.

i just picture her climbing out of a dumpster with one of those hobo stick backpack thing.

[lionheart21]

With the way that NXT is in need of talent right now, I can easily see Galloway getting signed again.

Also, with Dixie and her husband gone, ad with guys like Mantel joining back up, its a step in the right direction. Maybe its not too late for the company to turn around, although its gonna take some time.