TNA Wrestling President Breaks Silence On WWE Sale Rumours

TNA President Carlos Silva has finally broken his silence amid strengthening rumours that the company could be sold to WWE.

TNA and WWE have been working together in an official partnership in recent months that has seen talent from NXT and TNA compete against each other. At WrestleMania 41, it became clearer what WWE’s plans in the wider wrestling world might be as they announced they were acquiring Mexican promotion AAA. That raised more questions of whether or not Anthem Sports might have plans to sell TNA to WWE in the future.

Speaking on the Getting Over podcast, TNA President Carlos Silva made clear that no discussions have taken place about the promotion being sold to WWE, as he explained he believes they need to keep producing a product that fans really want to see:

No. I mean for us, it’s—I’ve been, you know, I’ve been doing this a long time around creating properties, building properties, creating the kind of, um, groundswell of, um, the fans really loving what we’re doing. I think that’s the most important thing at the end of the day.

If you have a great product and you deliver on the product, and you’re being professional around how you build that product as a business, I think opportunities will come up. And it’s my job to create opportunities for our investors.

WWE Partnership Going Great Says TNA President

Silva continued by noting that the priority is on partnering on major shows such as Slammiversary and Bound For Glory, and if they can get those right, then other opportunities might open up down the line:

Look, our partnership with WWE and NXT is going great and we’re going to keep it going great. And that, you know, that could appear as an opportunity down the road. But we’re just sort of making sure that things like Slammiversary and Bound for Glory are—what we’re doing on TV, how we’re creating content, how we’re working with our partners, how we’re bringing in new sponsors, how we’re filling up arenas.

If we do all those things well, the business will sort itself out and there’ll be opportunities that then we’ll explore, you know, internally as well as with our partners.

At Slammiversary, Trick Williams retained the TNA World Title against Mike Santana and Joe Hendry. Another WWE talent grabbed Silva’s promotion’s gold as NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne won the TNA Knockouts Title to become a double champion.