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TNA Entertainment, LLC
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Company type	Limited liability company
Industry	Sports entertainment Professional wrestling
Founded	May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)
Founder	Jeff Jarrett Jerry Jarrett
Headquarters	Nashville, Tennessee 37203, Ste 302, 209 10th Ave. South, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dixie Carter President Andy Barton _{Executive Vice President of Licensing and International television distribution} Chris Sobol _{Vice President of Operations} Mike Weber _{Vice President of Marketing} Dean Broadhead _{Chief Financial Officer}
Owner	Robert W. Carter
Parent	Panda Energy International
Website	www.impactwrestling.com

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact Wrestling on Spike. TNA also gains revenue from live events, product licensing, and direct product sales. In 2002 Panda Energy International purchased a controlling share in TNA. Dixie Carter is President of the company.

TNA headquarters is located Nashville, Tennessee; its trading company TNA Entertainment, LLC. operates out of Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida. The company previously bore the name "NWA Total Nonstop Action" as, at the time of its formation, it was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). TNA was granted exclusive rights to both the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Tag Team Championship. TNA abdicated from the NWA in 2004, but was permitted to continue to use the championships until the NWA abrogated their contract agreement with TNA in May of 2007, after which TNA created its own championship titles.

In 2004 TNA became the first American wrestling company to make exclusive use of a hexagonal wrestling ring (as opposed to the more conventional square ring). In 2010 the company reverted back to the original square ring which the company used in the Asylum years. The organization also employed the unconventional rule that a championship can change hands as the result of a disqualification or countout, but has since phased out this rule. TNA is broadcast in more than 120 countries all over the world reaching a global audience.

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House shows and touring

Main article: Impact Wrestling Zone

Apart from their weekly shows in Universal Studios, TNA started running house shows on March 17, 2006. In August 2007, live-events coordinator Craig Jenkins stated that TNA intended to stage eight pay-per-views and 96 house shows outside Orlando, Florida in 2008. In 2008 TNA conducted its first tour of the UK, with most shows selling out. 2009 saw the promotion first touring Germany. On July 2, 2010, MCU Park hosted a live Total Nonstop Action Wrestling house show, which also has broke TNA attendance record and is currently the most attended live TNA house show in the USA with an almost capacity crowd of 5,550 TNA fans.

Features

From 2004-2010, TNA used a hexagonal ring

Ring shape and locations

TNA originally used a traditional four-sided square ring. In 2004, in an effort to make themselves different from other United States professional wrestling promotions, TNA switched to a hexagonal ring. In 2010, they returned to using a four-sided ring. The six sided ring returned for one night on July 10, 2011, at Destination X. Also, although TNA runs some house shows and a few PPV events in arenas, TNA holds most of its events at a set location (Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida) as opposed to an arena, presenting more of a rustic regional feel to the events.

X Division

Main article: X Division

Since its origin, TNA has featured a high-flying, high risk style of wrestling called its X Division. Rather than emphasizing the fact that most wrestlers who perform this style are under 220 lb (100 kg) by calling it a cruiserweight division, TNA decided to emphasize the high risk nature of the moves that these wrestlers perform, removing all restraints on its wrestlers, allowing them to perform almost stunt like wrestling moves. Originally, there was no upper weight limit on the X Division or its title, though in practice, most of the wrestlers in this division have been cruiserweights, with Samoa Joe, billed at 280 lb (130 kg), Kurt Angle, billed at 230 lb (100 kg), and Abyss, billed at 350 lb (160 kg), being notable exceptions. To further emphasize this point, the slogan "It's not about weight limits, it's about no limits" was used to describe the division. Although it was de-emphasized throughout 2007, the X Division is generally regarded as one of the key attractions of TNA and was replicated in several other promotions. In August 2011, the division was given a 225 lb (102 kg) weight limit.

Ranking system

On April 26, 2010, Eric Bischoff appeared on Impact! to unveil the TNA Championship ranking system. According to Bischoff, the system combines several factors to determine the #1 contender for the TNA Heavyweight Championship. These factors include the overall performance and achievements throughout a wrestler's career, the TNA win/loss record of the wrestler, and online voting by the fans, which takes place on the promotion's website. It was also announced that a "TNA Championship Committee" had been set up to make the final decision based on these factors. The committee consisted of TNA President Dixie Carter, Hulk Hogan, and Bischoff himself.

The ten wrestlers chosen to appear on the first ballot were Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson, D'Angelo Dinero, Sting, Jeff Jarrett, Abyss, Rob Terry, Desmond Wolfe, and A.J. Styles. The first round of voting ended on May 3 and was won by Desmond Wolfe, who received his title shot that night on Impact! against Rob Van Dam. The second round started that same night. New names included in the new poll were Matt Morgan, Brother Ray, Brother Devon, Rhino and Hernandez. The first Top 10 ranking was revealed on May 20, with Sting claiming the number one spot. On the second Top 10 ranking Abyss, Jeff Hardy, and Mr. Anderson were tied for the top three spots. A month later Abyss claimed the top spot. The ranking system was abandoned shortly thereafter.

Personnel

Creative team

As of 2011, Bruce Prichard operates as the head booker of TNA, with the collaboration of Vince Russo and Matt Conway. Former bookers, whether temporary or semi-permanent, include Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Jarrett, Jeremy Borash, Mike Tenay, Abyss, and Dutch Mantel. At times, the position of booker has been coterminous with the on-screen position of Director of Authority.

Authority figures

When TNA first launched, it billed the on-air authority figure as a representative appointed by the National Wrestling Alliance. It did this for storyline purposes only, however, and the actual "representatives" already worked in some capacity for TNA. From February 19, 2003, TNA had no active authority figure until July 23, 2003 when Erik Watts made his return to TNA as the Director of Authority. Watts started feuding with Don Callis (TNA Management Consultant), ending with Watts forced to quit. On February 18, 2004, TNA named Vince Russo the new Director of Authority, a position he held until November 7, 2004 when Dusty Rhodes defeated and replaced him.

The NWA Championship Committee, established in 2004, comprised a group of wrestling veterans who acted as arbitrators, determining a winner in the event of a time-limit draw. The committee consisted of Harley Race, Larry Zbyszko and Terry Funk, with Funk later replaced by Roddy Piper without ever having appeared on TNA television. After Race and Piper left TNA, the Committee essentially ceased to exist as a physical on-screen body, although Zbyszko continued to be referred to as a member of the committee while simultaneously acting as on-screen authority figure, booking matches and giving title shots. TNA president Dixie Carter is the current on-air authority figure.

TNA contracts

TNA wrestlers are forbidden by contract from working for WWE, but are free to perform non-televised work for any other independent wrestling promotion, domestic or international. Many TNA wrestlers perform regularly for various promotions on the independent circuit in addition to TNA's weekly shows. The majority of TNA wrestlers are paid on a per appearance basis. Like any other wrestling company, TNA wrestlers are classified as independent contractors and are not entitled to form workers' unions or employer health coverage.

Video games

TNA has also expanded into other areas with the development of a video game with Midway Games, titled TNA Impact!, released in 2008. In May 2011, Namco Bandai released a TNA game for mobile phones, iPhone and the iPad.

Championships

Current champions

Main article: List of current champions in TNA Wrestling

Former championships

Sanctioned

Former Title	Last TNA holder	Date won	Event	Previous champion
NWA World Heavyweight Championship	Christian Cage	January 14, 2007	Final Resolution	Abyss
NWA World Tag Team Championship	Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)	April 15, 2007	Lockdown	The Latin American Xchange (Homicide, and Hernandez)
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship	Kurt Angle	June 29, 2007	Fighting Now Bom-Ba-Ye	Brock Lesnar
IWGP World Tag Team Championship	Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray)	October 18, 2009	Bound for Glory	The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams)
IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship	The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)	January 4, 2009	Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome	No Limit (Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro)

Unsanctioned

Championship	Last TNA holder	Date won	Date aired	Event	Previous champion
World Beer Drinking Championship	James Storm	February 25, 2008	February 28, 2008	TNA Impact!	Eric Young

Other accomplishments

Accomplishments	Latest Winner	Date won	Event	Previous Champion
Queen of the Cage	ODB	April 19, 2009	Lockdown (2009)	Roxxi Laveaux (Lockdown (2008))
King of the Mountain	Kurt Angle	June 21, 2009	Slammiversary (2009)	Samoa Joe (Slammiversary (2008))
X Division King of the Mountain	Suicide	June 21, 2009	Slammiversary (2009)	Kaz (June 5, 2008 edition of Impact!)

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Championships

Men's Division	World reigns X Division reigns Digital Media World Tag Team reigns Canadian International
Women's (Knockouts) Division	Knockouts World reigns Knockouts World Tag Team reigns
Former	List of former championships in TNA Wrestling

Accomplishments

Specialty matches

Talent

Roster
X Division
Knockouts
Former personnel
- A–C
- D–H
- I–M
- N–R
- S–Z

Programming

Television	Impact! special episodes move to Monday nights Before the Impact Xplosion Global Impact! Reaction Epics Today British Boot Camp
Pay-per-view and supercards	Pay-per-view events One Night Only events (2013–2019) Twitch specials (2018–2019) TNA+ Monthly Specials (2019–present)

Subsidiaries

Parent company

Current	Anthem Sports & Entertainment
Former	Panda Energy International

Sister company

Invicta Fighting Championships

Partnerships

Current

Former

Video games

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