TNA is aiming for the silver crown, according to Santino Marella.
With TNA Wrestling expected to secure a TV deal in the near future, optimism is growing over the product’s accessibility, particularly from TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella.
In an interview with Lucha Libre Online, Marella touched on TNA’s recent success and noted that he believes landing a television deal will be the key to beating AEW to becoming the number two wrestling promotion in the United States.
“The people from TNA in the past are happy for us. Obviously, the current locker room is ecstatic about the growth. When I came here, it was not like this, I know sometimes we were in Nashville or even Toronto, we had 350 or 500 people. But we believed in ourselves. Now we have the audience size that feels right and we deliver every time. Every time we’ve had a sold out crowd, we’ve never not had a good show. We’ve never wasted an opportunity. Bound For Glory is going to be another one, we’re going to capitalize on that audience, we’re going to send the message out to the wrestling world, we’re here. We’re knocking on the door. You better look out because once we get that TV deal, we’re number two man. I know Tony Khan has lots of money, I get it, but the fans speak. The fans dictate who’s number one, number two, number three, not your bank account. Of course WWE is number one, they’re so far ahead that we’ll never catch it in my lifetime. Number two is attainable, number two is something we can really do. If we accomplish that, that’s humongous.”
-Santino Marella
This past Tuesday’s episode of NXT ended with the TNA roster interrupting the Winner Takes All match between NXT Champion Oba Femi and TNA World Champion Trick Williams, with WWE recently filing to trademark ‘Invasion’.
Reports have since emerged that TNA and NXT have discussed holding a PLE or TV special as a throwback to 2001’s ‘Invasion’. You can read more about that here.
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
