At the conclusion of Saturday night’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view, it was announced that Impact Wrestling was reverting back to its former name, Total Nonstop Action, next year. This obviously came as a massive surprise to everyone watching, and now PWInsider.com has reported the reasons for the change. One of these was that the company wanted to unite its history, and the others were that both international partners and fans of the product that they surveyed preferred the original name.
“PWInsider.com is told by Impact/TNA sources that the decision was made for several reasons. One, it would “unite” the fragmented history of the promotion, which at different times was known as TNA, then Global Force Wrestling, then finally Impact Wrestling. A secondary factor in making the decision was that a number of the company’s international partners preferred the TNA name and at times, were still using the name internally. We are also told that the company also quietly polled long-term fans of the promotion earlier this year and learned that many of them stated they preferred the TNA name.”
PWInsider.comTNA was founded by Jeff Jarrett and his late father, Jerry, in 2002 under the name NWA: Total Nonstop Action, who took it from slightly above an independent promotion to a globally recognized brand. Yet, after several years of being seen as a small-scale competitor to WWE, financial difficulties saw the promotion struggling to survive. However, they were saved when Anthem Sports & Entertainment purchased them in 2017 and renamed the company Impact Wrestling. Shortly afterward, they rebranded again to Global Force Wrestling following a merger, although this was short-lived, and subsequently, they reverted back to Impact Wrestling.
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