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A piece on Grantland.com, which is a subsidiary of ESPN by Thomas Golianopoulos features a lot of new insight into the state of TNA, what led them to their current position and more with quotes from a lot of major players including President Dixie Carter, founder Jeff Jarrett and a number of talents, including the departed AJ Styles.
The article covers a lot, from the early origins of the company, the Carter family stepping in and the current concerns about it's well being. It can be read at this link, but here are just a few highlights:

In her first public comments about Jeff Jarrett since he departed the company, Dixie Carter said, " “I will always give props to Jeff. Out of the thousands of wrestlers out there he’s the only one who decided to create something with his own money. I have mad respect for that, always have and always will. I love Jeff as a person. I wish him and his precious family nothing but success."

*The ownership of Jeff Jarrett's fledgling Global Force Wrestling is described as a number of investors, including country-singer Toby Keith, although at the end of an interview with Jarrett, Golianopoulos notes, "After our lunch, I can’t decide if Jarrett is the friendliest man in the South or a source working a reporter; there’s a reason why old-school wrestlers, especially promoters, have been compared to carnival barkers."

Dixie Carter's claim that TMZ.com ran with their story that Impact was "canceled" before she even saw their request for comment. She later responded to the website that the two sides were still in negotiations - and that comment was never published.

AJ Styles departed the company after being offered what was described as a "40%" pay cut." On that departure, Carter said, "I hate that we lost AJ. Are you listening?”, with the author noting that she was speaking right into his recorder. "I hate it. I felt like we gave him a great offer. I really did. I felt like we gave him a great offer and I think he made a mistake." [in leaving]

AJ Styles on the Bischoff/Hogan regime: "I don’t think Eric and Hogan knew the roster at all. In fact, I don’t even know if they watched the show before they came in, and if they did it had to be very little. No one knew who I was. No one knew who [Samoa] Joe was. We added Rob Van Dam because everyone knows him."

TNA's John Gaburick on the creative change he's instituted since coming into the company and sending the previous creative regime home: "I think the audience was challenging us to give them something a little more straightforward — good old-fashioned wrestling instead of laborious talk or long, drawn-out stories. The long-form story lines that take forever to play out were not that effective."

Carter on wrestling fans who hope TNA does go out of business: "All these people say, ‘I hope you go out of business’ — why would you ever want that? You don’t think we make wrestling better just by exposing more people and giving people more options? It’s the most ludicrous, shortsighted thing — the sheer absurdity and stupidity of it blows my mind. I feel sorry for the wrestling business if we’re not around."

Among those also interviewed for the piece are Bobby Roode, Jim Cornette, Vince Russo, EC3, Joey Ryan and more. Eric Bischoff was contacted but declined to comment, saying he cannot comment on TNA "at all."

Overall, a piece that is certainly worth seeking out and reading.

I reported earlier that TNA Executive Vice President John Gaburick was in New York City supposedly finalizing a television deal for TNA. I heard this from a reliable source, however TNA executive Bob Ryder - who was one of my very first wrestling interviews from back in 1997 during his Prodigy days - strongly rebuked my report on Twitter, writing:
More sloppy reporting. If you label something "exclusive" it should be accurate. Wrestling "journalism" isn't what it used to be.

Dave Scherer later reported on PWInsider that Gaburick is at TNA offices in Nashville, TN.

I reached out again to my source, who said that the report was accurate except for the fact that Gaburick was not currently in New York City, but was there this past weekend and on Monday. They were also looking to set up more TV tapings in New York City, since the TV announcement is imminent and they wanted to be able to lock in a date with a venue as quickly as possible. The company apparently wants to shoot new TV as soon as possible once the deal is announced.

I reached out to another source, who confirmed my report and said that Dixie Carter will be making an announcement this Friday.

Dave Meltzer commented on my earlier report on the F4WOnline Board, writing:

"Gaburick is in Nashville today. That said, most of the story is not inaccurate. But it's not a story yet.

"PWInsider should be careful about being used for denials on these things. If the deal falls through, they are right. If it doesn't, it'll look bad in a week or two."

Update 11/5 6:35 pm ET: F4WOnline reports that a Spike TV official said that Impact is being pre-empted that night because it is a weak night for television given that it's the Thanksgiving holiday. Impact will reportedly return to its normal timeslot the following week.