TNA is in a much more difficult position. We already saw the WWE try to go all in on selling their programming to a company and ended up with a less than desirable deal going back to NBC Universal. Television might be desperate for programming like Impact but that doesn’t mean it’s willing to pay what SpikeTV paid. But of course, that’s a double edged sword. Specialty stations are starting to die out and are desperate for weekly programming they can rely on. While pro wrestling fans scoff at Impact’s ratings of a consistent one million viewers, the truth is that it was one of the highest rated shows on Spike TV, especially in the 18-49 male demographic. Otherwise? For shame.įor one, television is on a downward spiral. If Meltzer’s belief that Russo was a major factor isn’t true, I apologize. A lot of people might end up unemployed because Vince Russo couldn’t stay home. I’m sure we will hear excuses and say how it’s them who wanted him and he has to make a living (since it’s clear his poor imitation of the Heyman Hustle is desperate and shoddy) and then spout some Biblical lines about forgiveness but it’s pretty clear Jim Cornette had the right intention to stay bitter and cynical. For all of the pyro and ballyhoo, it’s clear Russo doesn’t recognize when it’s time to leave. It’s quite clear now that the reason was because SpikeTV couldn’t stand him and wanted no part in a Vince Russo production. Russo was secretly working for TNA and exposed by Mike Johnson of PWInsider in a situation where too many discussed whether it was fair to reveal it or not instead of the fact that Russo had to secretly work for TNA.

I could write 10,000 words on why I’m sickened to hear that Vince Russo might have a part in this. It’s even worse that TNA went ahead and tried to slip him under their noses.

It’s incredible that SpikeTV, the company that had a problem with Christopher Daniels wearing Marvel t-shirts, would actually have better insight on how to run a wrestling company than TNA and enforce a rule of having no Vince Russo. There is also speculation that the outing of Vince Russo as a member of TNA upset SpikeTV, who once told TNA he couldn’t be involved in the company in any way. According to, Dixie Carter was telling employees that the decision was on TNA’s side and not SpikeTV.

In a decision feared by TNA fans for the past couple of months due to the lack of guarantee on a contract renewal, reports from TMZ state that SpikeTV has decided to not renew the flagship program of TNA.

Forgiven by Vince Russo