During a recent appearance on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Nic Nemeth discussed his TNA World Title reign and the company’s first live episode of TNA Impact in eight years.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his TNA World Championship run: “I was happy and above all I was proud to be the TNA Champion … no matter champion or not, if I’m not even booked on the show, if I’m just a longtime ambassador, the relationship doesn’t even work, I would love to be waving that flag for TNA just because I know about the guys and gals, and all the hard work they put into it … huge year for TNA and we kicked it off at Genesis.”
On the live TNA Impact: “We went for it, TNA put it all on the line and absolutely delivered … I got to watch so many of the matches, stories make sense and get paid off and watch everyone come on and be involved and just the hard work paid off … that’s the best part, live TV, I’m used to it, I did 20 years in a row of it, but so many people aren’t and there’s an extra buzz.”
During a recent appearance on the “AEW Unrestricted” podcast, Rocky Romero discussed the origin of the Wrestle Dynasty pay-per-view event.
The crossover show was held on January 5 and featured AEW, NJPW, ROH, STARDOM, and CMLL talent.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the origins of the show: “Yeah, very similar to Forbidden Door like you said. This time, it started — there was always the conversation between AEW and New Japan of like, how can we bring Forbidden Door to Japan, is that an option? Because obviously this year, it’ll be in London and we saw it in Toronto, Canada just a couple years ago. I feel like it’s such a great event that’s able to move around from country to country and maybe we will see Forbidden Door in Japan at some point, but I think New Japan wanted to kind of bring their version to Japan and they also kind of felt like, ‘Okay, it’s our turn to host now. We’ll host the party, you’ve been hosting the party for a couple of years, we’ll host the party, and why not make it a weekend?’
“Wrestle Kingdom, the traditional event, it’s always on January 4. So, when you get it on a weekend, it makes sense to do a back to back event. When the ideas are going around, it’s like, what should we do? Do we do two nights of Wrestle Kingdom? Maybe this is a good opportunity to bring AEW. Then it was like, instead of just Forbidden Door, an AEW and New Japan co-branded show, why don’t we bring the rest of the partners in? Let’s bring Stardom, Ring Of Honor. Let’s bring CMLL. All the big partners, we had representation from the Rev Pro Women’s Champion at the time, Mina Shirakawa. So, it was a cool way to kind of bring them all together like Forbidden Door but slightly different with everyone being involved.”
On the Wrestle Dynasty name: “The actual name Wrestle Dynasty was pre-pandemic. New Japan had plans to come back to Madison Square Garden and it was going to be called Wrestle Dynasty. We’d been sitting on the IP for the whole time and we had these logos made and everything and I was like, I feel like this could be a Wrestle Dynasty moment, a great way to introduce that IP. It kind of just all worked out and came together smoothly there. The hard stuff starts when you’re negotiating who’s gonna be on it and everything like that, but we got there.”
