Uploaded June 2013 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
TNA Wrestling star Eric Young did an interview with Busted Open on Sirius XM. In the interview, he mentioned that TNA just signed a five year deal with Spike TV. The full answer to the question is below:
On what TNA has to do to become more mainstream:
"To me, they are doing the right steps. I mean, you guys have been around wrestling a long time. You've been wrestling fans a long time. So have I. How many times have you heard it? Nope, TNA's not going to make it. Nope, they're not going to make it. Thousands of times. It's been around for ten years. They just signed a big deal with Spike television for another five years. It's usually the highest rated show on Spike television every week. It's seen in over a 120 countries around the world. They didn't grow to this point because they don't know what they are doing. There is going to be people that watch wrestling that don't like it. There are going to be people that watch Impact that don't like it. But then—there's no pleasing everyone. It just doesn't exist. I remember being a die-hard wrestling fan during the Monday Night Wars. And I wouldn't watch WCW because I thought it was terrible. I thought it was terrible. And I would still flip over and check it out. I think it's a branded thing now, and I think that stems from the Monday Night Wars. Because before that, pro wrestling to an average fan was just pro wrestling. They didn't know if it was WWF or WWE or WCW or NWA. It was just pro wrestling. And they just watched it. If you were a pro wrestling fan, you just watched it when you saw it on television. And then it became 'well actually we're competing against each other, and it's two separate brands.' And it became this whole thing. You're not going to please everyone, but they are making the right decisions with they just went to live—all the television shows are being shot on the road now. The crowds have been great. The numbers have been decent. The numbers in the arena have been very good. You guys were in Boston, it was an amazing crowd. An amazing Pay Per View. I think; I feel that in the next couple of years, pro wrestling is on the upswing."
Hulk Hogan was asked on Twitter about RVD. Hogan replied, "I have no idea what's going on with RVD, that's a Dixie and Bruce Prichard deal brother HH"
TNA Wrestling star Eric Young did an interview with Busted Open on Sirius XM. In the interview, he mentioned that TNA just signed a five year deal with Spike TV. The full answer to the question is below:
On what TNA has to do to become more mainstream:
"To me, they are doing the right steps. I mean, you guys have been around wrestling a long time. You've been wrestling fans a long time. So have I. How many times have you heard it? Nope, TNA's not going to make it. Nope, they're not going to make it. Thousands of times. It's been around for ten years. They just signed a big deal with Spike television for another five years. It's usually the highest rated show on Spike television every week. It's seen in over a 120 countries around the world. They didn't grow to this point because they don't know what they are doing. There is going to be people that watch wrestling that don't like it. There are going to be people that watch Impact that don't like it. But then—there's no pleasing everyone. It just doesn't exist. I remember being a die-hard wrestling fan during the Monday Night Wars. And I wouldn't watch WCW because I thought it was terrible. I thought it was terrible. And I would still flip over and check it out. I think it's a branded thing now, and I think that stems from the Monday Night Wars. Because before that, pro wrestling to an average fan was just pro wrestling. They didn't know if it was WWF or WWE or WCW or NWA. It was just pro wrestling. And they just watched it. If you were a pro wrestling fan, you just watched it when you saw it on television. And then it became 'well actually we're competing against each other, and it's two separate brands.' And it became this whole thing. You're not going to please everyone, but they are making the right decisions with they just went to live—all the television shows are being shot on the road now. The crowds have been great. The numbers have been decent. The numbers in the arena have been very good. You guys were in Boston, it was an amazing crowd. An amazing Pay Per View. I think; I feel that in the next couple of years, pro wrestling is on the upswing."
Hulk Hogan was asked on Twitter about RVD. Hogan replied, "I have no idea what's going on with RVD, that's a Dixie and Bruce Prichard deal brother HH"
