TNA President Carlos Silva Comments On His Desire for TNA Impact to Air Live Weekly If They Can Secure a New TV Deal to Make It Financially Feasible
Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with TNA President Carlos Silva. One of the topics discussed included Silva’s thoughts about his desire for TNA to air Impact! live weekly if they can secure a new television deal that would make it financially feasible for them.
“I think the first thing, I mean, I’m a live guy. I’ve been a live guy my whole career. The team that we’ve built believes in live, I would love TNA to be live every week. Live, every week, is a different animal, logistically and operationally. I know the team that we’ve got can handle it.
The partnerships that we’ve got would support it. But there’s a different cost structure around going live 52 weeks a year, whether you’re in a location like a performance center-type of place, some of the year you’re traveling, part of the year, it just changes the dynamic around operationally allocating your costs. And I think that would be the first thing that would change.”
Silva also gave his thoughts about Impact! going live weekly is something that the fans have wanted as well.
“I know the fans want us to be live every week. I want to be live every week. It’s why we’ve started to open up some more live windows, because I think the wrestlers perform differently live as well, and they’ll tell you when we have our meetings together, they love the energy of live. And so really, that’s the linchpin of what it would do for us as we sort of go to the next level.”
Alberto El Patron To Leave AAA If He Loses to El Mesías at July 25th AAA Alianzas Event
This past Wednesday’s Alianzas show for Lucha Libra AAA in San Luis Potosi, Mexico featured Alberto El Patron being attacked kicked out of the El Ojo faction and El Patron turning face.
AAA Director Dorian Roldan announced one new match for the card of next week’s Alianzas event in Mexico City, Mexico. This new match was Alberto El Patron vs. El Mesías with the stipulation of if El Patron loses, then he will be forced to leave AAA.
EL OJO TRAICIONA AL PATRÓN ALBERTO… Y DORIAN TIENE UNA SORPRESA MÁS. 😱#AlianzasAAA 💫 desde San Luis Potosí. pic.twitter.com/eiXmtEkdWP
— Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (@luchalibreaaa) July 17, 2025
Misc. Wrestling News & Notes
TNA Wrestling reportedly has sold and distributed around 5,493 for their Slammiversary 2025 event on Sunday, July 20th at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York as of Friday morning, according to WrestleTix. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that TNA’s all-time attendance record for an event in the United States is around 6,500 for their Lockdown 2013 event in March of 2013.
Despite the recent changes and shakeups in TNA, Fightful Select reported that TNA President Carlos Silva confirmed that this year’s Hall of Fame ceremony is still planned to be taking place and at their Bound For Glory 2025 event this October. Silva reportedly also stated that this year’s ceremony will have an “added focus” thanks to a fresh vision from Anthem Executive Producer George Veras.
Ring of Honor reportedly drew an attendance of 1,300 for their July 11th Supercard of Honor 2025 event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Former WWE wrestler Rockin’ Robin will be releasing a new book titled Worthless – The Robin Smith Story next month, according to PWInsider. Mike Johnson reported that WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin wrote the foreword for this upcoming new book.
West Coast Pro Wrestling recently announced that they have pulled Takumi Iroha from their co-promoted Cruel Summer event on July 26th in San Francisco, California due to issues beyond their control. It was announced that Masha Slamovich will be replacing Iroha at the event.
DDT Pro-Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Dream East-West Pro Wrestling Battle 2025 event on August 17th in Osaka, Japan:
- Jun Akiyama vs. Miyu Yamashita
Reality of Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Glory 5 event on July 26th in Texas City, Texas:
- Hollywood Hayley J vs. Arianna Grace
Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Live In Sheffield event on July 27th in Sheffield, England:
- Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. CPF (Joe Lando & Danny Black)
PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Chapter 182: Stay Humble event on July 27th in Camden, England:
- Man Like Dereiss vs. Luke Jacobs
The National Wrestling Alliance recently announced one new match for the card of their NWA 77 event on August 16th in Huntington, New York:
- NWA World Women’s Championship – Natalia Marakov vs. Kenzie Paige (c)
Josh Barnett recently announced one new match for the card of Game Changer Wrestling’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIV event on August 2nd in Rutherford, New Jersey:
- Janai Kai vs. Jordan Blade
Lucha Libre AAA recently announced one new match for the card of their AAA Alianzas taping on July 25th in Mexico City, Mexico:
- Octagon Jr. vs. El Grande Americano

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