This Week in Wrestling: Week 49 of 2025

December 6, 2025

Brian Damage

After weeks and months of talk and speculation, TNA finally has secured a brand new home on television. TNA signed a deal worth an estimated 30 million dollars to air on AMC. The very first episode of TNA on AMC will air on January 15 in 2026. This was a long, overdue moment in TNA’s history and well deserved. From their early days of being a weekly pay per view show, to airing on late nights for FS1 to getting deals with Spike TV and Destination America to landing on AXS TV…TNA has certainly bounced around.

For years, many fans and critics including myself have written off TNA for death, but like a cockroach, survived so many situations where they faced doom and gloom. From the Jarrett family starting the company to making a deal with Panda Energy and having the Dixie Carter years. To the days when Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff took over creative control, to Billy Corgan coming in to run the day to day operations only to be ousted by Dixie in a messy battle for backstage control. Anthem Sports taking over and placing TNA/Impact wrestling on the very obscure channel AXS TV.

Enter Scott D’Amore and Don Callis getting creative control and rebuilding the brand to where the company no longer wanted or needed them. Their partnership with WWE and in particular NXT helped TNA become something of a hot promotion once again. Now with the AMC announcement, TNA has the opportunity to really compete as a legitimate number 2 promotion in the United States. Whether that happens or not, I have doubts, but can be accomplished if they focus on evolving their product.

The reports are that the TNA/NXT partnership will end once they arrive on AMC. I think that’s a good idea. Granted, the working relationship really helped TNA get to where they are now, but at some point, they will need to stand on their own and do their own thing. TNA president Carlos Silva has stated that the NXT partnership will not end with this new TV deal, so who really knows? I’m happy to see TNA get this and wish them nothing but the very best moving forward.

So Netflix won the bid to acquire Warner Bros studios and the big question from a wrestling fan’s standpoint is what happens to AEW if anything? Granted, Netflix is only interested in WB’s film studios, HBO Max and film assets and not TBS, TNT and other cable channels. AEW Dynamite which streams on HBO Max will probably no longer be able to…I’m guessing. Discovery which will now oversee TBS and TNT may want to restructure their TV deals with Tony Khan’s promotion.

In time, will AEW need to find a TV home? Perhaps. My best guess is they will and one has to wonder if they will have difficulties finding a solid TV home more stable than TBS and TNT? Seeing how long it took TNA to get AMC on board with them, AEW may have an uphill battle on their hands moving forward. Pro wrestling isn’t exactly the hot commodity it was a couple of years ago and if you’re not named WWE unfortunately it makes your chances getting a big TV deal that much harder. That is something to look at for the future, right now all is seemingly safe with All Elite Wrestling.

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