Matt Hardy addresses Carlos Silva, WWE buying TNA rumors and more
TNA star Matt Hardy recently discussed the ongoing news regarding Total Nonstop Action and their streamlining of staff. Hardy, speaking on The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, went over a few topics shortly after it was confirmed that Tommy Dreamer had left the company:
“We’re actually going in the opposite direction. They’re actually saving money” Hardy claimed, referencing some of the claims online that TNA are in trouble financially. “The reason a lot of these people want to leave is because they’re being offered per-night deals, and it is what it is.”
Hardy would also directly address the role of TNA President Carlos Silva, saying that love him or hate him, he needs to streamline to try and optimise profitability to then move the company forward: “Carlos, his job, love him or hate him, is to streamline money and make the company profitable and maximize profit as much as you can.
“He [Silva] doesn’t have a wrestling mindset at all… If someone goes like, ‘hey, if I can’t get a full-time deal, I want to go, he doesn’t have a wrestling mindset at all…he [Silva] goes, ‘okay, if this isn’t working for you and you don’t want to be here, I’m not going to hold you up. I’m going to let you go.’ Which is definitely not the wrestling mentality, not something that Vince would do, not something that TKO would do.”
Is WWE buying TNA?
Hardy would also address the rumors that WWE would be trying to buy TNA in the near future, saying that isn’t the case at all (from his perspective of course):
“So financially, TNA is okay. We’re not about to be bought by WWE right now. I know that’s the rumor. I think down the road in a few years that [could] happen, whatever. But right now that is not happening.”
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