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NWA: Total Nonstop Action (2002–2004) Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2017, 2024–present) Impact Wrestling (March 2017–June 2017, September 2017–January 2024) Global Force Wrestling (June 2017–September 2017)[1] | |
Formerly | J Sports & Entertainment, LLC (2002)[2] TNA Entertainment, LLC (2002–2016)[3] Impact Ventures, LLC (2015–2016)[4] |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Professional wrestling Streaming media |
Founded | May 10, 2002Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | in
Founders | Jeff Jarrett Jerry Jarrett Bob Ryder |
Headquarters | Nashville, Tennessee , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide[5] |
Key people | |
Products | |
Parent | Anthem Sports & Entertainment[9] |
Divisions | TNA+ TNA Wrestling Home Video |
Website | tnawrestling |
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA Wrestling or simply TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee.[10] It is a subsidiary of Canada's Anthem Sports & Entertainment.[11]
Founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, following the end of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2001,[12] the promotion was initially known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) and was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body.[13] The promotion dropped the "NWA" brand from its name in 2004, becoming Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. TNA continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships until this agreement ended in 2007; after which, the company would create its own World Heavyweight and World Tag Team championships. The promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017 and, in March of that year, was rebranded to Impact Wrestling after its flagship weekly television series. The promotion would officially return to the TNA branding in January 2024.[14][15]
From its inception, TNA had been considered the second-largest in the United States behind WWE a position it would hold for the most of the 2000s and early 2010s.[16][17] The promotion was known for featuring former top talent from WCW, WWE, and ECW, such as Raven, Jeff Jarrett, and Sting, free agents that were released from the WWE such as Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, and Mr. Kennedy (who wrestled as Mr. Anderson in TNA), as well as more homegrown wrestlers who had appeared in WWE and mainly performed for the promotion such as AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. (Some of whom would later be signed by WWE and AEW).[18] From 2015–2017, the promotion was viewed by some to have fallen behind longtime rival Ring of Honor;[19][20][21] with the loss of their U.S. television contract with Spike in 2014, as well as monetary and personnel issues, being noted as factors to their decline.[22] By 2019, the promotion was viewed to have recovered through its sustained international distribution,[23] and the purchase by its parent company of AXS TV; which subsequently began carrying the promotion's programming.[24][25] TNA is currently viewed as being the third-largest wrestling promotion in the United States; following the establishment of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in 2019, and its current television deals with Warner Bros. Discovery's TNT and TBS (both of which are seen in more households than AXS).[26][27]
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