Impact Zone
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| Location | Universal Studios Florida |
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| Owner | Universal Parks & Resorts |
| Operator | Universal Parks & Resorts |
| Capacity | 1,100 |
| Opened | 1990 |
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| Location | Universal Studios Florida |
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| Owner | Universal Parks & Resorts |
| Operator | Universal Parks & Resorts |
| Capacity | 1,400 |
| Surface | Concrete 80% and polystyrene 20% |
| Opened | 1990 |
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The Impact Zone, also known as the Impact Wrestling Zone is the professional wrestling nickname for a sound stage in Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida. Its nickname was derived from Impact! (now known as Impact Wrestling), a weekly television series produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now also known as Impact Wrestling) which broadcast from this venue. Between 2004 and March 2013, TNA taped their broadcasts from Soundstage 21 before terminating their lease and began to tour nationally. TNA returned to Universal Studios on November 21, 2013 in Soundstage 19, which is smaller and holds fewer people than their original soundstage. Since then, the company has been taping most of its programming at the Universal Studios (with occasional tapings at other venues), but there is no permanent venue for the tapings. The company switches between Soundstages 19, 20 and 21.
As part of the agreement with Universal Studios, Impact Wrestling (previously TNA) are not allowed to charge general admission to events held at the Impact Zone, with the exception of VIP packages. This means the company sometimes look for alternative venues to host their large pay-per-view events.
Soundstage 21 was originally known as the Extreme Arena and was used for the game shows Nickelodeon Guts and Global Guts from 1992-1995. In 1996 World Championship Wrestling began taping their syndicated wrestling shows WCW Pro and WCW Worldwide from Soundstage 21, now dubbed the WCW Arena. (Before then they had been taped at Disney-MGM Studios.) WCW continued to tape the shows and a few episodes of WCW Saturday Night until 1998 when Pro was canceled and Worldwide was taped before WCW Thunder. In 1999 the Roller Derby show RollerJam was filmed from the building now called the RolllerJam Arena. They left after their show was cancelled in 2001 and another wrestling company called the XWF began taping their shows there.
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