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TNA Impact is the flagship television program of Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling (TNA Wrestling), a promotion headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, which holds the majority of its events at Universal Studios Florida theme park in Orlando, Florida. TNA tends to have a different booking style than World Wrestling Entertainment, as it tries to promote in-ring action over soap opera story lines whenever possible.

Although TNA ceased being officially affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (a group of allied promotions in existence since 1948) in 2004, TNA continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships as their main titles through a licensing agreement with the NWA until the NWA withdrew recognition of TNA's titleholders as NWA World Champions on May 13, 2007, from which point TNA began recognizing its own champions. The TNA X-Division Title, until recently the lone "in-house" title, is usually (but not exclusively) reserved for cruiserweight wrestlers.

Contents 1 Current champions 2 Current Roster 3 Knockouts / Female Managers 4 Active tag teams and stables 5 Announcers and on-air talent 6 Backstage Workers of Note 7 Alumni of Note 8 Upcoming PPV's(3 Hours) & Televised Shows(2 Hours) 9 Fun Facts

[edit] Current champions

TNA World Heavyweight Championship: Joe Seanoa aka Samoa Joe

TNA World Tag Team Championship: The Latin American Xchange

TNA X-Division Championship: Peter Williams aka Petey Williams

TNA Women's Championship: Shantelle Malawski aka Taylor Wilde

[edit] Current Roster

• Abyss (Chris Parks)
• Kurt Angle
• Abdul Bashir (Shawn Daivari)
• Booker T (Booker Huffman)
• Brother Devon (Devon Hughes)
• Brother Ray (Mark LoMonaco)
• Christian Cage (Jason Reso)
• Consequences Creed (Austin Watson)
• Curry Man (Daniel Covell)
• Johnny Devine (John Parsonage)
• Sonjay Dutt (Retesh Bhalla)
• Hernandez (Shawn Hernandez)
• Homicide (Nelson Erazo)
• B.G. James (Brian Gerard James)
• Kip James (Monty Sopp)
• Matt Morgan
• Kevin Nash
• Jimmy Rave (James Guffey)
• Rhino (Terry Gerin)
• Lance Rock (Lance Hoyt)
• Robert Roode
• Chris Sabin (Josh Harter)
• Samoa Joe (Joe Seanoa)
• Shark Boy (Dean Roll)
• Alex Shelley (Patrick Martin)
• Sting (Steve Borden)
• James Storm (James Black)
• A.J. Styles (Allen Jones)
• Petey Williams (Peter Williams)
• Eric Young/Super Eric (Jeremy Fritz)

[edit] Knockouts / Female Managers

• Awesome Kong (Kia Stevens)
• Traci Brooks (Tracy Brookshaw)
• Christy Hemme - Also valet of The Rock 'n Rave Infection
• Jacqueline (Jacqueline Moore) - Also the valet of Beer Money
• Rhaka Khan (Trenesha Biggers) - Also the valet of Petey Williams and Scott Steiner
• Gail Kim
• Angelina Love (Lauren Williams)
• O.D.B. (Jessica Kresa)
• Roxxi (Nicole Raczynski)
• Salinas (Shelly Martinez) - Also valet of The Latin American X-Change
• Velvet Sky (Jamie Szantyr)
• Taylor Wilde (Shantelle Malawski)

[edit] Active tag teams and stables

• The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky)
• Beer Money Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) with Jacqueline
• The Latin American X-Change (Hernandez and Homicide) with Salinas and Hector Guerrero
• The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley)
• Prince Justice Brotherhood (Curry Man, Super Eric and Shark Boy)
• The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Rock and Jimmy Rave) with Christy Hemme
• Kurt Angle, Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), Johnny Devine & Frank Trigg
• Christian Cage, Rhino and A.J. Styles

[edit] Announcers and on-air talent

• Karen Angle - Host of "Karen's Angle"
• Jeremy Borash - Backstage interviewer, creative writer, and occasional ring announcer
• Jim Cornette - TNA Management Director
• Hector Guerrero - Manager of the Latin American Xchange and Spanish commentator
• David Penzer - Ring announcer
• Hermie Sadler - Occasional color commentator
• Sharmell (Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman) - Valet and wife of Booker T
• SoCal Val (Valerie Wyndham) - Ring girl
• Mike Tenay - Play-by-play commentator and writer
• Lauren Thompson (Lauren Brooke) - Backstage interviewer
• Frank Trigg - Occasional color commentator, associate of Kurt Angle
• Willie Urbina - Spanish commentator
• Don West - Color commentator
• Rudy Charles (Daniel Engler) - Senior referee
• Earl Hebner - Referee
• Mark "Slick" Johnson (Mark Johnson) - Referee
• Andrew Thomas - Referee

[edit] Backstage Workers of Note

• Steve Allison - Chief Marketing Officer
• Dixie Carter - President
• Jeff Jarrett - Vice President and Director of Creative Writing
• Bob Ryder - Director of Administration
• Dave Sahadi - Director of Production
• Chris Sobol - Vice President of Operations
• Terry Taylor (Paul Taylor) - Director of Talent Relations
• Dutch Mantel (Wayne Cowan) - Writer
• Vince Russo - Writer
• Glenn Gilberti - Road agent
• Pat Kenney - Road agent
• Savio Vega (Juan Rivera) - Road agent

[edit] Alumni of Note

• Chris Candido - Former NWA World Champion and former WWE and ECW Tag Team Champion; died in April 2005 from a blod clot in his leg
• Chris Harris - Former NWA World Tag Team Champion; left TNA Wrestling on January 11th, 2008
• Curt Henning - Former AWA World Chrampion and WWE Intercontinental Champion; passed away in 2003
• Jeff Hardy - Multiple time WWE Tag Team Champion, former WWE Intercontinental Champion; currently appears on Monday Night Raw
• New Jack (Jerome Young) - Controversial wrestling personality; Former ECW Tag Team Champion
• Hacksaw Duggan (Jim Duggan) - Currently appears on Monday Night Raw
• The Sandman (Jim Fullington) - Hardcore wrestling legend; former ECW World Champion, recently released from World Wrestling Entertainment
• Ken Shamrock - UFC Legend; Former NWA World Champion and WWE Intercontinental Champion
• Lex Luger (Larry Pfohl) - Former WCW World Champion; still appears in TNA from time to time, usually as Sting's friend
• Larry Zbyszko (Larry Whistler) - Former AWA World Champion
• Monty Brown - Former NFL star; recently released from the WWE
• Paul London - Currently appears on WWE Monday Night Raw
• CM Punk (Phil Brooks) - Indy wrestling star; Former Ring of Honor (ROH) World and Tag Team Champion and current World Heavyweight Champion (WWE); currently works for WWE Monday Night Raw
• Randy Savage (Randy Poffo) - Wrestling legend and Slim Jim spokesman; multiple time WWE and WCW World Champion; currently pursuing an acting and music career
• "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (Roderick Toombs) - Wrestling legend; appeared in several feature films including "They Live" and "Hell Comes to Frogtown"; works for WWE sporadically
• Steve Corino - Former ECW, NWA, and AWA World Champion
• Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) - Wrestling legend; Multiple-time AWA, WCW, and WWE World Champion; star of the VH1 reality series Hogan Knows Best
• Sabu (Terry Brunk) - Hardcore wrestling legend; former NWA and ECW World Champion; recently released from World Wrestling Entertainment
• Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Runnels) - Wrestling legend, multiple time NWA World Champion; former TNA creative head
• The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) - Former NWA World Tag Team Champions
• Scott D'Amore - Former TNA talent scouter and manager
• Jerry Lynn - Former TNA X-Division Champion

[edit] Upcoming PPV's(3 Hours) & Televised Shows(2 Hours)

[edit] Fun Facts

- TNA began its life as a "pay-per-view" promotion - a live, two hour program was shown on PPV - in lieu of the traditional "television/monthly PPV" structure. TNA adopted the traditional progamming structure in November 2004, over two years after the promotion debuted.

- According to the book "The Development of NWA-TNA" by Jerry Jarrett, "TNA" originally stood for "Tuesday Night Attitude," which was the night the weekly pay-per-views were supposed to air. The PPVs were instead shown on Wednesdays nights.

- This is the second network and fifth time slot for Impact since its debut in June 2004. It was previously on Fox Sports Net from June 2004 to June 2005. It made its Spike TV debut in October 2005.

- In the summer of 2004, footage of Jeff Jarrett attacking wrestling legend Hulk Hogan was filmed in Japan. This angle was meant to set up "Bound For Glory," a three-hour PPV that was to air with the weekly shows. The show was postponed after negotiations with Hogan (and later, his arch-rival Randy Savage) fell through. The Hogan footage, which is now referred to "The night Jarrett took TNA to Hogan," is still shown on TNA broadcasts to this day.