Carlos Silva says TNA taking a few weeks off was just a smart business decision. It’s also one he still stands behind.
TNA President Carlos Silva spoke with WrestleZone about the promotion’s new media rights deal with AMC. During the conversation, Silva was asked about the decision to take four weeks off after TNA’s huge Bound For Glory pay-per-view, which saw Mike Santana finally win the TNA World Championship.
Instead of continuing the storylines and keeping its momentum, TNA didn’t air a new episode for several weeks. Two of those weeks featured a look back at Bound For Glory, and the company also brought Open Fight Night back. However, the lack of completely new shows didn’t sit well with many fans.
Silva explained the decision behind going on hiatus, sharing that it came down to making the right business decision for TNA.
Carlos Silva says TNA made a business decision, and it was the right one
“I don’t know that there was any grand master plan behind it. I mean, as you work through schedules every year and you work through the difficulties in arenas and finding venues, getting everyone to the right cities, it just didn’t fall into the right cadence to make a great business decision for all of us at TNA to go to a place that didn’t make sense,” Carlos Silva explained.
“We’re having a lot of success; we had content that had actually been put in the can around some of these tapings. So, we made a business decision—and it was the right decision—to not go and do a ‘bad’ deal in maybe an arena that didn’t work out for us,” Silva continued. “So, these are the things that happen when you’re in the live business. You’ve got to make these decisions, sometimes on the fly, and I think it ended up being a fine decision.”
He credited the production team in Nashville for putting the shows that did air together, reiterating that it was the best decision for TNA to make.
“I know the fans were definitely grousing and jumping on us. But then, I think the [production] team down in Nashville with Eric Thompkins did a great job of putting some great shows together that got us through that break and got us back to the live events. So, these things happen sometimes. I think it was still the right decision.”
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