Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling
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| NWA: Total Nonstop Action (2002–2004) Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–March 2017) Impact Wrestling (March 2017–June 2017, September 2017–present) Global Force Wrestling (June 2017–present) |
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Formerly called
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J Sports & Entertainment, LLC (2002) TNA Entertainment LLC (2002–2016) Impact Ventures LLC (2015–2016) |
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| Industry | Professional wrestling |
| Founders |
Jeff Jarrett Jerry Jarrett |
| Headquarters | 3201 Dickerson Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Owners |
Anthem Sports & Entertainment (majority owner) Jeff Jarrett (minority owner) Aroluxe Marketing (minority owner) Dixie Carter (minority owner) |
| Website | www |
Impact Wrestling, also known as Global Force Wrestling (GFW), is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee which operates as a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment. Alongside rival Ring of Honor (ROH), GFW is viewed as the second-largest professional wrestling promotion in the United States after WWE.
Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promotion was initially known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) and was associated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). It withdrew from the NWA in 2004 and became known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), but it continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and the NWA World Tag Team championships as part of an agreement. After the agreement ended in 2007, the company created its own TNA World Heavyweight and TNA World Tag Team championships. After the promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017, it became known simply as Impact Wrestling, after its main television series, until later that year when it acquired the original Global Force Wrestling, also founded by Jeff Jarrett, and assumed the GFW name. The promotion has since reverted back to the "Impact Wrestling" name, with reports stating that the acquisition of the "GFW" name had not been finalized.
The concept of TNA originated shortly after World Championship Wrestling (WCW) ended in 2001. Bob Ryder, Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett went on a fishing trip and contemplated their futures in the professional wrestling business. Only one wrestling product remained on United States national television: the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE). Ryder felt that this situation led many television stations to regard professional wrestling as bad for business, so he suggested a company not reliant on television, but rather one going straight to pay-per-view. In July 2002, Vince Russo joined Jeff and Jerry Jarrett's NWA-TNA promotion as a creative writer and would assist in the writing and production of the shows. Russo states that he coined the name "Total Nonstop Action", the initials of the company "TNA" being a play on "T&A", short for "Tits and Ass". The original intention, as they were exclusive to pay-per-view, was to be viewed as an edgier product than WWE.
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