Appearing on Busted Open Radio, TNA President Carlos Silva defended his decision to pull TNA talent from scheduled matches against AEW stars during WrestleMania weekend.
Two big matches pulled were Nic Nemeth vs MJF and Leon Slater vs Ricochet, and Silva was asked what went behind the decision and how hard was it to cancel all the booked plans.
“It was super tough. And look, all these business decisions are tough and I don’t like being called a little bitch on social any more than anyone does,” Silva said, referring to MJF calling him that on X after the matches were canceled.
“You do take the goods with the bads and you got to make some hard decisions. My job sometimes is to make hard decisions. And for the fans and for all of you and for Mike and our locker room, we’re going to make decisions that are good for TNA,” Silva continued, quoting an Under Armour ad which used to say, “You got to protect the house.”
Silva said that he had some “folks” “move into our nights,” talking about Collision moving to Thursdays sometimes and alluded that they’ve been blocked from certain arenas and venues.
“It’s okay because everyone’s got to make the decisions for their business. But we’re also just not going to lie down and not make decisions that are good for our business. And unfortunately, sometimes those decisions are tough and we’re very thoughtful about them and we try to do the best to make good when we have to make those decisions,” he continued.
Silva took full responsibility for the decisions, saying it was him who pulled the plug.
It was also reported that TNA compensated all the talent that were pulled from advertised matches.
