You might have heard that TNA talent is not allowed to work Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling shows. According to an Anthem Entertainment executive, some of what you might have heard is not true.
Earlier this week, TNA star Moose said that he wants to work some dates for D’Amore. However, he implied that he couldn’t due to AEW’s relationship with the Canadian promotion.
“I talk to him (Scott D’Amore) at least once every other week, maybe once a month. He’s doing great. He has his new fed, Maple Leaf Pro. They’re doing awesome. I wish I could work for them but you know how business is with the whole TNA,” Moose said on Signed by Superstars (via Fightful). “They have a relationship with AEW. We’re in competition with AEW so you know how all that whole nonsense goes.”
F4WOnline.com’s Dave Meltzer shared a follow-up report in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. There, he claimed that TNA considers AEW as its “enemy” and speculated that the decision was influenced by TNA’s partnership with WWE.
“TNA talent is not allowed to work on Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Wrestling shows even though most of them like D’Amore. The reason is that TNA management considers AEW as the enemy and D’Amore is allowed to book AEW talent,” Meltzer wrote in the Observer. “This is no way that decision would be made by anyone in TNA who cared about the talent and basically shows at the top level, TNA is controlled by WWE.
Anthem Senior Vice President David B. Clevinger has now spoken out about this claim, stating that it is untrue. “None of this is true, BTW,” Clevinger wrote on Twitter/X. Clevinger did not expand on his initial post. He also did not clarify if he was only responding to Meltzer’s report or Moose’s initial claim too.
Update: TNA President Carlos Silva also denied the claim that TNA talent was prohibited from working Maple Leaf Pro events. He told Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp that TNA talent “can and have” worked MLP shows.
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