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🟧 TNA WRESTLING — WEEKLY COMPREHENSIVE RUNDOWN

Presented by Ed & Gordon

🎙️ DESK INTRO

Ed: “Fans, TNA Wrestling has been hotter than a depot stove this week! New signings, shifting title pictures, and iMPACT! delivering the kind of action that keeps this promotion firmly in the conversation!”

Gordon: “Indeed. A most eventful stretch, with several developments that could shape the company’s direction heading into the summer months.”

🟧 TNA iMPACT! — Last Night’s Episode

Ed: “Let’s take you back to last night’s iMPACT!, fans — a show packed with intensity, surprises, and plenty of talking points.”

🥇 FULL MATCH RESULTS

Here are the results from TNA Impact on April 9, 2026:

  • Tables Match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship: The Hardys (c) retained over The Righteous. Gordon: “Quite so. A most competitive contest with implications for the division.” Ed: “A fast start and a statement win to open the broadcast.”
  • Jada Stone vs. Dani Luna: Jada Stone won by pinfall. Ed: “A fast start and a statement win.” Gordon: “Quite so. A most competitive contest with implications for the division.”
  • Frankie Kazarian vs. BDE: Frankie Kazarian won.
  • Elijah vs. Kazarian: Elijah defeated Kazarian.
  • Indi Hartwell and Santino Marella vs. Arianna Grace and Stacks: Indi Hartwell and Santino Marella won.
  • Taryn Terrell vs. Mickie James and ODB: Taryn Terrell won.
  • Mustafa Ali vs. Trey Miguel: Mustafa Ali won.
  • Ricky Sosa vs. Eric Young: Ricky Sosa won.
  • Contract Signing: Mike Santana and Eddie Edwards signed a contract for the TNA Rebellion World Title match.

📰 TNA NEWS & RUMORS (REAL, VERIFIED)

⭐ Viewership Momentum Continues

TNA’s move to AMC Networks continues to pay off.

  • Ratings remain strong compared to pre‑AMC numbers.
  • The trend has them between 200,000 to 256,000 viewers.

Ed: “Fans, that’s the kind of stability TNA hasn’t enjoyed in years.”

⭐ Former Champ Returning at Rebellion?

iMPACT! posted a video that appears to hint at the return of EC3 at Saturday’s Rebellion. EC3 owns Exodus Pro which was the first territory of Billy Corgan’s NWA but no longer is a territory. This could lead to talent from Exodus Pro getting shots at being on iMPACT!

Gordon: “Quite so. A most strategic approach — blending veterans with rising prospects.”

⭐ Cross‑Promotional Possibilities

Pat Buck, the Create-A-Pro founder and owner released a statement regarding TNA President Carlos Silva pulling TNA talent from multiple shows that featured his wrestlers in matches against AEW wrestlers.

The statement reads as follows:

I don’t usually speak on things like this, but this one’s too ridiculous to ignore.

TNA, specifically Carlos Silva, forced a change to the main event of our Create A Pro show three weeks out after it was already approved and promoted.

Not sure who that helps.

Create A Pro is a training school with a promotion focused on developing talent while running consistent live events. We’re a school, dojo, and a mom and pop business… just with two dads.

Live events are a necessary training tool, and they’re disappearing, even at the highest levels, because they’re not as cost effective and the money is in television. In a direct way, we are providing a service for your talent to make $ and keep their skills sharp. Do you not see that ?

We train wrestlers for wrestling companies. And now a wrestling company has stepped in and hurt another wrestling company that helps wrestlers get to wrestling companies. Makes perfect sense. Maybe I’m the one missing something.

I’m annoyed, as it’s hard to ignore how unnecessary, and honestly how cringe, this situation is.

And to be fair, talent wasn’t pulled, but altering a main event match like that on our limited stage has the same impact. Anyone who has actually promoted shows understands that.

When something changes that affects another promoter’s show, you make it right. Whether that means sending talent, strengthening the card, or finding a way to return value, you don’t just create the problem and walk away from it.

That didn’t happen here. And if any attempt is made now to make it right, it’s a bit too late. You meet people with grace, not chaos.

Create A Pro isn’t a competing media company. It’s a training ground that built its own platform to develop talent. No TV deal, no streaming, and we’re not attached to any bigger company, yet.

Between CAP/WrestlePro, we run around 25 events a year and reinvest back into us, our leases, rings, and the equipment needed to put on shows.

Equipment that, at one point, your company needed to rent to operate in this market. And at another point, when your company needed content and additional matches, talent was placed on Create A Pro and WrestlePro shows because there wasn’t enough content to support it. Did anyone let you know about a past positive relationship?

Years ago your company used our students for extra work in a meaningful way. Now it looks more like carrot dangling, ring crew, and helping with catering but that’s an entirely different conversation.

Create A Pro has been a pipeline and a support system to just about every major company in wrestling. Most people know that. (Unless you ask the WWE ID program, then we apparently don’t exist. )

I’m willing to believe Carlos may not know who I am, and that’s fine. But if you’re in an executive position, you should probably understand the room you’re operating in and the etiquette that comes with it. Maybe Tony Khan can give a quick crash course on how to protect your brand while still helping the overall scene. It’s times like this I’m glad to work for someone who actually champions the entire sport, not tries to shrink it.

And yeah, I’m on the payroll but these words are from experience not influence.

At the end of the day, we’ll adjust like we always do. But if the goal is to grow this industry, or even your own company, this isn’t the way to do it.

Keep it up!

Pat Buck

CAP Founder/Trainer,

AEW VP Talent Development

One of the Adults in the Wrestling Room

⭐ Suspensions

Indi Hartwell and Santino Marella were suspended by Daria Rae after a confrontation with Marella’s daughter, Ariana Grace and her fiance’, Stacks.

Ed: “Fans, that’s the kind of layered storytelling that keeps viewers coming back.”

🎙️ DESK OUTRO

Ed: “Fans, TNA Wrestling continues to fire on all cylinders — strong TV, rising stars, and a roster hungry to prove itself every week!”

Gordon: “Indeed. A most compelling time to follow TNA. And with that… so long from the wrestling world.”

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