Carlos Silva responds to Will Ospreay’s criticism: ‘Business is business’

Will Ospreay is not a fan of TNA’s decision to pull its talent out of scheduled matches during WrestleMania week. Carlos Silva, however, is standing by his decision. 

Silva, the president of TNA Wrestling, discussed the issue in an interview with Josh Martinez of Z100 New York. 

Silva began by saying he didn’t need to respond to Ospreay’s comments. “Business is business,” he said. “Every pro wrestling business is going to protect themselves, and we’re going to continue to do that. What I would say to the fans is, I got a lot of heat, and it’s okay. The fans can bring the heat, but there is only one reason that I did it, and that was to protect TNA and have our house protected.”

With TNA World Champion Mike Santana by his side, Silva implied that he was still bothered after Warner Brothers Discovery moved an episode of AEW Collision to Thursday night, head to head against TNA Impact on AMC.  

“If people are going to come at us, we’re going to do thing to protect TNA,” he said. “We were asked when we were looking at our TV deal, ‘What would be the best night?’ We started looking at all the nights and we said, ‘Everyone has their nights. We’re on Thursday night. We should be on Thursday night.’ So, if someone is going to come onto Thursday night against us, we’re going to take that seriously.” 

Silva then suggested that an unnamed rival organization was maneuvering TNA from running in certain buildings. 

“If someone is going to block us from going into a venue because they are not allowed to talk to us because another organization is there, we’re going to take that seriously,” he said. “That’s the kind of stuff that happens. When I hear all of the chatter, I smile. It’s okay. Will Ospreay and everyone can come at me, but we’re going to do what’s best for TNA, our champions, and the fans.

Ospreay spoke out on the subject while talking with Martinez a few weeks ago. 

“TNA, of all people, who the f*ck do you think you guys are?” he asked. “I’m sorry. All the f*cking talk they were giving about being number two and you want to get permission for these guys to do that match and then pull them? I think that’s cowardly sh*t. I think that says everything about what you view your talent as. You view them as less than AEW talent, and that they don’t want to grow and they don’t want to develop and they don’t want to give back to fans.”