On Wednesday, TNA Wrestling announced that Scott D’Amore is out as the TNA President as Anthony Cicione replaced him, leaving talent upset with management.
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While some have privately expressed their unhappiness over his firing, others took to social media to let their feelings known. Moose told our own Steve Fall in a previous interview that he re-signed with TNA because of D’Amore. You can see Moose talking about D’Amore in the video listed below.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about how he believes D’Amore was pushing to increase the budget for the show with them having momentum as of late once bringing back the TNA brand.
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“I think that he thought that it’s time to spend some more money, try to go after more talent to try to build this thing up. We have a little bit of momentum. And the Anthem, people were kind of like, ‘we don’t want to increase the budget’ and maybe even wanted to cut back on the budget, but definitely didn’t want to increase the budget, and had a standoff. And that’s kind of what happened. And I mean, he’d always been trying to get a bigger budget. And he’d always been rebuffed.”
Meltzer continued by noting that D’Amore had a dispute with management before he was released.
“It was coming back, it was getting more popular, but their whole thing was to just provide, have a product, tape television, fulfill your pay-per-views, your streaming stuff, and to do this cheaply, essentially, as cheaply as possible. Whether that is the reason for the split, that was it, or there was some other thing that we don’t know. I mean, I’m sure it’ll be out in the next couple of days. But that’s the only thing that I’ve been kind of been told by, people is that was a dispute that he had had with management.”
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