Ahead of TNA's Impact Wrestling debut on Destination America on Wednesday, president Dixie Carter recently discussed a variety of different topics including Sting leaving the organization and more.
Carter spoke with Busted Open Radio and discussed choosing Discovery's Destination America as the new network home for Impact Wrestling after Spike TV dropped it from its schedule last month.
"I've never had that in previous years' negotiations," Carter told the program per Wrestlingheadlines.com. "This year, we had more interest from more different networks and the negotiation was really good, but I took my time, honestly .I wanted to make sure we talked with everybody who was interested and really get a sense of where their head was at. I'm not interested in not just having Impact on your network...Status quo was not gonna cut it for us. We needed some changes...We needed to have more shows. We needed to have support. We wanted to be at a place that has cross promotional opportunities and it doesn't get any bigger than Discovery...It is a show that they are going to promote all over 10 networks...They're making a serious statement and we're really excited about it. I'd rather not move forward than not have what we deserve."
Carter also spoke about Sting leaving the company and discussed looking for younger talent. Sting made his WWE debut in November at the Survivor Series.
"As much as I would have loved to have Sting, our focus on the show is trying to bring this younger talent in and making these changes to the show," Carter said. "So I'm very happy for him, and I hope it's everything he hopes it could be."
Carter also discussed Jeff Hardy and Kurt Angle -- who just re-signed with the organization after having talks with the WWE -- being main event stars and the future.
"For Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy, for those guys to be the cornerstone of your show, it doesn't get any better than that," she said. "Now we have somebody that can work all the time and bring so much exposure to the company. Then you have James Storm, Bobby Roode, Abyss, Austin Aries, all these guys who have been there since the beginning, they're our main event guys, and then we brought in new talent. In the past 18 months, we've had more talent...real meaty storylines that have established themselves as important in our company. We absolutely have the ability, it's just a matter of signing the right talent at the right time. The future is really bright."
Lastly, Carter, who also said the door isn't closed on a Bully Ray return and that there are plans for a few pay-per-views in 2015, discussed the plans for the organization going forward.
"I don't think we're gonna get too far ahead, but the changes we want to make, if we don't tape the way we want to, we're not going to pull it off from a timing perspective," she said. "Some of the things we wanted to try, technology was not there. Now we can do that, but with the help of post-production...We're going to be filming stuff that people don't know what it is. So there will be surprises...To make it a true television show and to put the kind of time and do these new things we want to be doing, it's going to take post-production. The shows will be different."
TNA Impact Wrestling will make its Destination America debut with a live episode tonight at 9 p.m. ET.
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