News PWI officially drops TNA title from list of world titles

[Stopspot]

In a week which seems to be bringing an endless stream of bad news for TNA, the latest is that wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated has announced that it will no longer be recognising the TNA Title as a World Championship.

In layman’s terms, Pro Wrestling Illustrated is one of the biggest pro wrestling magazines in the world. It’s highly respected within the industry, and its annual “PWI500″ is an official indication of the best wrestlers in the world. By announcing its intention to drop TNA’s top title as an official WorldHeavyweight Championship, this is perhaps a much bigger indication of how the promotion is perceived within the industry than anything else so far.

It’s been a terrible week for TNA, PRwise. Several of their big stars are no longer contracted to the company including Low-Ki, Magnus, Austin Aries and James Storm, with other wrestling news sources speculating additional names too (although as of this time they remain unconfirmed). TNA Slammiversary was marred by audio production issues, the company informed production staff that they are 2 months behind on pay and former TNA Champion Eric Young let out a fouled mouthed outburst to fans on Twitter after the show, which was quickly deleted.

Further to that, the biggest talking point on TNA TV this week doesn’t even concern them, but instead the focus has been of Jeff Jarrett and his new Global Force Wrestling promotion.

With this latest news of TNA no longer having a recognised World Heavyweight Championship, and talent no longer having guaranteed contracts and being allowed to work wherever they want, it effectively makes them an Indy promotion.

We’ll be monitoring the situation further, as potentially we could be embarking on a massive couple of weeks for TNA.

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PWI dropped the title from its list of titles about a month ago but it seems like it is only making the rounds right now.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Sucks for TNA. What sucks is even more is talent not being paid on time.

 

[I'll See Ya Kia]

Backpay isn't uncommon wrestling. I truly believe Vince is the only guy who will pay his talent on time.

 

[Stopspot]

Backpay isn't uncommon wrestling. I truly believe Vince is the only guy who will pay his talent on time.

ROH doesn't seem to have this issue since being bought by Sinclair. Granted Sinclair could buy the WWE three times over with what they consider pocket money.

But yeah, on the independents it is most likely not uncommon at all to get money late or not at all. Unless you're insane like Sabu who apparently walks around with a rail spike in his boot in case he needs to strong arm pay from a promoter if the rumors are true.

 

[I'll See Ya Kia]

ROH doesn't seem to have this issue since being bought by Sinclair. Granted Sinclair could buy the WWE three times over with what they consider pocket money.

But yeah, on the independents it is most likely not uncommon at all to get money late or not at all. Unless you're insane like Sabu who apparently walks around with a rail spike in his boot in case he needs to strong arm pay from a promoter if the rumors are true.

I wish I'd known this before. Many many people I knew personally would willingly work for free or for food and even less than that to receive work from RoH. I guess not all of that work was in the ring, tho.

 

[The GOAT]

They do have a fine-ass looking world title, though:

Just a shame the thing has no value or meaning to it.

 

[CM Punk]

lol

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

"Must. Shit. On. TNA." - Stopspot.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

BTW, is ROH recognized yet? If not, I wonder how long it will take.

 

[Leo C]

BTW, is ROH recognized yet? If not, I wonder how long it will take.

They're not.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

They're not.

So what is recognized right now? Just WWE? Or maybe NJPW

 

[Leo C]

So what is recognized right now? Just WWE? Or maybe NJPW

Yeah, the only active title recognized is the WWE WHC. The IWGP title is not recognized, although if they're going to "promote" some title anytime soon that should be the one (imo).

 

[Stopspot]

So what is recognized right now? Just WWE? Or maybe NJPW

PWI only recognizes the WWE title. Granted it's an Apter magazine (Apter being an old as fuck wrestling journalist) who is in the WWE club so to speak.

In the general consensus of what is a world title both ROH, TNA and New Japan are all recognized, as in a belt that is defended internationally and is kept at a high standard.

 

[Wacokid27]

The NWA-WHC is not considered a world title? Interesting.

Some people (like those who place their trust in PWI) just take some of this stuff too seriously. It used to be that, if you wanted a world title, you got crowned a world champion by the NWA and then split away...at least in the States. Now, you get to claim a "world title" by having a belt made and calling it a "world title".

wk

 

[Stopspot]

Some people (like those who place their trust in PWI) just take some of this stuff too seriously. It used to be that, if you wanted a world title, you got crowned a world champion by the NWA and then split away...at least in the States. Now, you get to claim a "world title" by having a belt made and calling it a "world title".

wk

Nah, to have a belt classed as a world title it needs to be defended on multiple continents. ROH's world title wasn't classed as a world title or called one until Samoa Joe defended it in England.

Or for a more recent example: Scotland's ICW promotion didn't get a world title until Drew Galloway defended the belt in America. Before that it was just the ICW-title.