D’Amore was hoping to see it through with TNA.
It was in February 2024 that Scott D’Amore was relieved of his duties as President of TNA Wrestling. His exit from the promotion came four weeks after the official rebrand from IMPACT Wrestling to TNA.
That summer, TNA Hall of Famer Rhino was asked about D’Amore during a signing and stated that D’Amore was at home being paid until the following year.
In a new interview on Wrestling Observer Radio, D’Amore confirmed that TNA paid him for a year after firing him. He wanted to stick around with the promotion, but said now, he has time to focus on personal interests and the Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling promotion.
I wanted to stay there, I wanted to see it through. I felt we could get TNA where it needed to be and ultimately, Len Asper decided that that wasn’t the path he wanted to take so, I took a year’s pay and took the shot on the chin at getting fired. Really more so the shot in the gut because I mean, I put so much energy into it. It hurt but, looking back now, a year-plus later… I still would have liked to stayed there and seen it through but there’s so many blessings that I look at. I took my mother to Italy to show her all over the country from top to bottom and it’s so many things that I’m able to do and working on M.L.P. and getting ready to relaunch the Can-Am Wrestling dojo in a bigger way. All these things, these are things that I didn’t have time to do when I was running TNA so, you know, my emotions at the time, first, I was pissed and two, I was mind-blown. So, but, the end of the day, business is business and it’s not my company. I didn’t own it so any time that you don’t own it, then you don’t have the final say.
The next Maple Leaf Pro events are happening on March 14th and 15th. In May, the promotion is going to be running a show at the Mattamy Athletic Centre f.k.a. Maple Leaf Gardens.
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