Dixie Carter Addresses Rumors During Talent Meeting At TNA Tapings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn13PwaRQ6s

Both F4WOnline and PWInsider (NSFW ads) are reporting that the promised TNA talent meeting with Dixie Carter to address the rumors of the insolvency and potential sale of the company ended up taking place at Monday’s Impact tapings, a day later than originally expected. Dave Meltzer’s F4WOnline report classified the meeting as having little new information past Dixie Carter confirming that WWE had expressed interest in buying TNA for the tape library, only to add that she wouldn’t let that happen. She also made sure to say that WWE had not purchased the tape library (as in leaving TNA alive but without its archival content), either.

PWInsider’s report had a bit more information, with these being the key notes:

• With regards to Bound For Glory, while the report cites Carter as saying that the show “was never not going to happen,” it does use quotes to denote that she used the word “scrambled” to describe what TNA management had to do to make sure the show happened. Those sound self-contradictory barring something like Carter opting to pay for this week’s shows personally, like having to “scramble” when nobody else came through and the company itself couldn’t.
• Carter was apparently surprised that there was so much concern about the company’s future, to the point that she apologized to the locker room.
• She said that any late payments were a result of money that TNA was waiting on was also late in coming in. If true, this shows that the company that the company is operating hand to mouth without cash on hand to make payroll unless money owed comes in.
• Carter is still the majority owner, but she said that the minority owners have been fighting for power, which meshes with what Billy Corgan has been saying.
• Billy Corgan chose not to attend the meeting.