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Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), is a privately-controlled
integrated-media (focusing on television, internet,
and live events) and sports entertainment company,
dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with
major revenue sources also coming from product licensing,
and direct product sales. Dixie Carter Salinas is
the president and chairwoman of the company and co-founder
Jeff Jarrett is the vice president. As of 2005 Panda
Energy International owns the majority of its shares.
The company has its headquarters in Orlando, Florida;
its trading company TNA Entertainment, LLC operates
out of Nashville, Tennessee. The company previously
bore the name "NWA Total Nonstop Action"
— at the time of its formation it belonged to
the National Wrestling Alliance. TNA was granted exclusive
rights to both the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
and the NWA World Tag Team Championship. TNA withdrew
from the NWA in 2004, but was permitted to continue
to use the championships until the NWA abrogated the
agreement in May 2007.
TNA became the first American promotion to make exclusive
use of a hexagonal wrestling ring (as opposed to the
more conventional four-sided ring). The organization
also employed the unconventional rule that a championship
can change hands as the result of a disqualification
or countout, but has slowly phased out this rule.
TNA's business focus is on professional wrestling,
a simulated sport that consists of wrestling combined
with acting and theatre. It is currently the second
largest professional wrestling promotion in the world,
behind World Wrestling Entertainment.
Creative
team
Jeff and Jerry Jarrett were initially responsible
for booking, followed by Dusty Rhodes, while Vince
Russo focused more on writing. At times, the position
of booker has been coterminous with the on-screen
position of Director of Authority.
Authority figures
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling authority figures
When TNA first launched, it billed the on-air authority
figure as a representative appointed by the National
Wrestling Alliance. It did this for storyline purposes
only, however, and the actual "representatives"
already worked in some capacity for TNA. From February
19, 2003, TNA had no active authority figure until
July 23, 2003 when Erik Watts made his return to TNA
as the Director of Authority. Watts started feuding
with Don Callis (billed as TNA Management Consultant),
ending with Watts forced to quit. On February 18,
2004, TNA named Vince Russo the new Director of Authority,
a position he held until November 7, 2004 when Dusty
Rhodes defeated and replaced him.
The NWA Championship Committee, established in 2004,
comprised a group of wrestling veterans who acted
as arbitrators, determining a winner in the event
of a time-limit draw. The committee consisted of Harley
Race, Larry Zbyszko and Terry Funk, with Funk later
replaced by Roddy Piper without ever having appeared
on TNA television. After Race and Piper left TNA,
the Committee essentially ceased to exist as a physical
on-screen body, although Zbyszko continued to be referred
to as a member of the committee while simultaneously
acting as on-screen authority figure, booking matches
and giving title shots.
In October 2005, Larry Zbyszko began to repeatedly
reference an ambiguous authority within TNA known
only as "TNA Management". "TNA Management"
has, in the past, appeared in the form of "special
referee" Earl Hebner, "consultant"
Dave Hebner and "messenger" Christy Hemme.
The current face of "TNA Management" emerged
at Slammiversary 2006 in the form of Jim Cornette,
who has been called the "Management Director"
in press releases following that pay-per-view. On
October 23, 2008, on the first high-definition episode
of Impact!, TNA announced that Mick Foley had become
TNA's (kayfabe) Executive Shareholder. (Credit:
Wikipedia)
Profiles
Jeff
Jarrett, wrestling promoter and multi time pro wrestling
champion
Jeff
Leonard Jarrett (born July 14th, 1967) is an American
professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop
Action Wrestling. He is well known for his time in
World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling
Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment).
Jarrett
has held twelve world heavyweight championships in
various promotions throughout his career. He is a
six-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, four-time
WCW World Heavyweight Champion and two-time WWA World
Heavyweight Champion. He is also a three-time USWA
Unified World Heavyweight Champion, which brings his
tally of world championships to fifteen, however this
title was never defended on an international forum.
While he never captured the WWF Championship, he challenged
for the title and achieved notable championship success
in the promotion, becoming a six-time Intercontinental
Champion (a record from 1999-2004), and one of only
three men to hold both the Intercontinental and European
championships simultaneously.
Professional
wrestling career
Born
in Nashville, Tennessee, Jarrett became involved with
basketball when he was in high school, but, he worked
for his father Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling
Association (CWA) as a referee in March 1986 and trained
as a wrestler under his father and Tojo Yamamoto.
Jeff Jarrett made his in-ring debut at the age of
18 in April 1986 when jobber Tony Falk attempted to
end his lengthy losing streak by challenging Jarrett,
then a referee, to a match. Jarrett accepted the challenge,
wrestling Falk to a ten-minute draw. Jarrett is a
third-generation wrestler; his father wrestled, as
did his maternal grandfather, Eddie Marlin, while
his paternal grandmother, Christine, was employed
by a wrestling promotion.
In 1989, Jerry Jarrett purchased the Texas-based World
Class Championship Wrestling promotion and merged
it with the CWA to create the United States Wrestling
Association (USWA). Over the following years, Jarrett
won the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship on
10 occasions and the USWA World Tag Team Championship
on 15 occasions. Jarrett also wrestled on the independent
circuit for seven years, appearing in Japan and Puerto
Rico. In 1993, he was hired by the World Wrestling
Federation.
2007
- 2009
On
the following episode of Impact!, Jarrett announced
in a pre-taped interview that he was leaving TNA indefinitely.
For the following six months, Jarrett did not appear
on TNA television, instead focusing on his role as
Vice President of TNA Entertainment. Jarrett, however,
temporarily returned to TNA television on the April
12, 2007 episode of Impact!, and aligned himself with
Samoa Joe, by helping him defeat A.J. Styles. On April
15, 2007 at Lockdown, Jarrett and the rest of Team
Angle defeated Team Cage in a Lethal Lockdown match.
He then entered into a feud with Robert Roode, losing
a match to him at Sacrifice. Jarrett was then scheduled
to take on Styles with the winner to earn a spot in
the King of the Mountain match but could not compete
due to "personal issues". In June 2008,
Jarrett was featured in the promotion of TNA's January
2009 "Maximum Impact!" tour of the United
Kingdom.
At
TNA Hard Justice 2008, Samoa Joe defeated Booker T
using the Acoustic Equalizer (smashing a guitar over
the opponents head), the trademark move of Jarrett,
setting up for his return to in-ring action, as quoted
by the website, "Obviously, we all know who used
a guitar in the past!" referring indirectly to
Jarrett. After numerous weeks of Jarrett's theme song
playing and his guitar appearing on TNA programming,
Jarrett returned to Impact! on September 11, 2008.
At No Surrender, he would help Joe defeat Kurt Angle
and Cage and assist Joe in retaining the TNA World
Heavyweight Championship by hitting Angle with a guitar
keeping him a face. The following Thursday, on Impact!,
Jarrett cut his first promo since Slammiversary, claiming
that the current respect angle that Sting was involved
in was actually a matter of the veterans refusing
to pass the torch to the young guys. Angle came out
and challenged Jarrett to a match at Bound for Glory
IV, but Jarrett refused, saying he had nothing left
to prove, and instead pointed to the screen to reveal
the debuting Mick Foley. On the next edition of Impact,
Jarrett relented to verbal cheap shots taken by Angle
regarding Jarrett's children and accepted the match
at Bound for Glory. The feud got more personal due
to Angle mentioning Jarrett's wife, which lead to
Foley being named the Special Enforcer for their match.
At Bound for Glory Jarrett returned to the ring after
nearly a two year absence, and defeated Angle using
his Acoustic Equalizer.
On the November 20, 2008 edition of Impact!, Kurt
Angle threatened Mick Foley and wanted another match
against Jarrett at Final Resolution after Foley announced
that it was Angle vs. Rhino at the event. Angle continued
to demand a match with Jarrett and he said if he couldn't
get him at Final Resolution, he would wrestle Foley.
Angle then slapped Foley causing Jarrett to come out
and talk about what Angle wanted (the match) and then
what Jarrett wanted (Angle to be fired). Because of
Angle's contract clause, Jarrett could not fire him,
so he made this stipulation: if Angle lost to Rhino,
he would be fired from TNA; if Angle beat Rhino, he
would get Jarrett at Genesis. Angle won, allowing
him to face Jarrett at Genesis. The feud got even
more personal when it started involving Jarrett's
three daughters during the December 11, 2008 episode
of Impact!. Angle said that they would become orphans
after Genesis and that "Uncle Kurt" may
find it in his heart to adopt them and make them his.
Jarrett came out to confront him but was held back
by his long time friend, BG James, TNA Personnel Terry
Taylor, referee Earl Hebner, and Scott D'Amore. On
January 11 at Genesis, Jarrett lost to Angle. Jeff
suffered some injuries, but able to compete on the
TNA Maxium Impact Tour, by facing against Kurt Angle
in two singles and a few tag team matches with AJ
Styles against Kurt Angle and Scott Steiner. Then
on February 12, 2009, Jeff Jarrett returned to Impact
to stop Angle from forcing Sting to lay down and gain
an easy championship victory. The next week, Jarrett
allowed Angle to have another match against Sting,
and on February 26, 2009 Jarrett announced Angle vs.
Sting at Destination X for the TNA World Heavyweight
Championship. He also fought in the main event of
Sacrifice, in which every competitor had to sacrifice
something, he sacrificed his voting shares, but was
not pinned, therefore kept the voting shares, and
recently qualified for the main event of Slammiversarry
by defeating Eric Young, but afterwards Young snapped
and attacked Jarrett. The following week Jarrett called
out Young and offered to turn the other cheek but
instead Young provoked him by saying that he pays
more attention to wrestling than his own daughters—just
like his father, Jerry Jarrett—which resulted
in Jeff slapping Young and assaulting him. Jarrett
also would accidentally punch referee Earl Hebner
while Hebner was trying to separate the two. On the
June 11th edition of Impact!, Mick Foley kayfabe fined
and suspended Jarrett and threw him out of the arena
as a punishment. The following week Foley threw a
party for Jarrett and welcomed him back to TNA in
order to have him on his side at Slammiversary, however
at Slammiversary Jarrett refused to give Foley the
belt in the King of the mountain match which was won
by Kurt Angle after assistance from Samoa Joe. Shortly
after Slammiversary, Jarrett once again disappeared
from TNA programming.
Media
TNA
announced that on April 14, 2009 the first-ever Jeff
Jarrett DVD release would be a four-disc set, including
his best TNA matches and moments, a lengthy and candid
interview on his life, career and TNA Wrestling, rare
photos, and guest commentary, among others. (Credit:
Wikipedia)
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