Report: Spike TV Dropping TNA Wrestling

After each side has said for months that negotiations have been ongoing, Spike TV reportedly is dropping TNA wrestling after this week’s show.

TNA and Spike TV have been negotiating for months—or at least they’ve issued statements for months claiming they are negotiating—but a report says Spike is done with professional wrestling.

Jeremy Botter of Bleacher Report tweeted an update from Spike’s Bellator MMA show Saturday night.

Brad Davis of SEScoops.com said Sunday that it’s been privately known for some time that Spike didn’t want to keep TNA, but the network was trying to partner up the wrestling promotion with another network.

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According to Davis, the taped episode of Impact Wrestling on Spike will be the final first-run episode on the network.

There had been reports earlier this month that Impact was going to be bumped from the network on the night before Thanksgiving, as well as on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

Now it appears that bumping will get a lot more severe.

While there were discussions about Spike TV airing some “Best Of” episodes in Impact’s time slot, now it appears that those shows will not be airing and Wednesday night will likely be the end of professional wrestling on Spike.

TNA management, however, is reportedly telling its people that a new TV deal will be announced within the next week and has reserved the Manhattan Center in New York for January taping sessions for programming to air on the promotion’s new cable home early next year.

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