RESOURCE LIST: TNA Wrestling Management

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TNA WRESTLING (formerly NWA-TNA a.k.a. NWA Total Nonstop Action) MANAGEMENT RESOURCE LIST

 

 

 

NOTE: This list was constructed by [email protected], and may not be reprinted without the expressed permission of that individual. This list is intended for resource purposes ONLY. If you have any additions and/or corrections, please e-mail [email protected]. Thank you.

 

 

 

This list was last updated on Friday, February 18, 2005.

 

MISC. TNA EMPLOYEES WHOSE JOBS AREN'T YET KNOWN: Jeff Price, Jody Davis, Phillip McConnell

 

 

 

By Name:

 

AARON ROYAL (NWA-FL booker): Timekeeper (on debut Impact! show)

 

ANDREW THOMAS: Correspondent Referee (from NWA Wildside), TNAWrestling.com Online Interviewer, Video Editor

 

ARMANDO QUINTERO: TV Commentator

 

ARTURO RIVERA: Spanish Announce Team Commentator

 

BILL BANKS (officially began working for TNA on Monday, 7/14/03): Backstage Agent, Media Relations

 

BILL BEHRENS: Creative Team (Xplosion), Gorilla Position

 

BOB CARTER: Panda Energy Head CEO

 

BOB RYDER: Backstage Agent, Business Relations, Director of Administrations and Talent Relations, Gorilla Position, Media Relations

 

BERT PRENTRICE: Xplosion Commentator

 

BRAD BERNSTEIN: Director/Manager of Public Relations, Trifecta Entertainment Representative

 

CHRIS SHULTZ: TNAWrestling.com writer

 

CHRIS SOBOL (Panda Energy employee): Day-to-Day Operations Overseer

 

DAVE SAHADI: TV Production/Editor, Video Editor

 

DIXIE CARTER (a female): President of Panda Energy and TNA Entertainment, LLC

 

DON HARRIS: Security Team

 

DON WEST: PPV Commentator

 

DUSTY RHODES: Booker, Director of Authority (in storyline), Part-Time On-Air Character

 

DUTCH MANTEL: Backstage Agent, Booker

 

ED FERRERA: Booker

 

FRANK ROMANO: Business Opportunities

 

GLENN GILBERTI Booker, Occasional On-Screen Character/Wrestler

 

JAY HASSMAN: PPV Consultant (fired)

 

JEFF HAMMOND (of NASCAR): Spanish Language Commentator

 

JEFF JARRETT: Booker, Co-Owner, Frequent On-Screen Character/Wrestler

 

JENNIFER SWITZER: Marketing Opportunities (hired in January or February 2005 to replace Walt Whitman, a few weeks before he was fired)

 

JEREMY BORASH: Media Relations, Ring Announcer, TNAWrestling.com Online Columnist, Xplosion Commentator, Video Editor

 

JERRY JARRETT: Booker (former), Co-Owner

 

JERRY LYNN: Backstage Agent (starting with the debut Impact! taping), On-Screen Character/Wrestler (full-time)

 

JIMMY HART: Booker, Consultant

 

KONNAN: On-Screen Character/Wrestler (full-time), Spanish Announce Team Commentator (part-time) (former)

 

LEE SOUTH: TNAWrestling.com Webmaster

 

LEN SABEL: PPV Consultant (fired)

 

MATTHEW ODY (former-NBC Employee): International Distribution

 

MIKE JACKSON: Cameraman

 

MIKE POSEY: Referee

 

MIKE TENAY: TNAWrestling.com Online Columnist, PPV Commentator

 

MOODY JACK MELENDEZ: Commentator (Spanish Announce Team only, not English), Video Editor

 

RICK SANTEL: Security Team

 

RON NIEMI: Gorilla Position (for Impact! shows)

 

RUDY CHARLES: Referee

 

SAVIO VEGA: Commentator (called 9/17/04 Impact! in Spanish)

 

SCOTT D'AMORE: Backstage Agent, Booker, Occasional On-Screen Character/Manager/Wrestler

 

SCOTT HUDSON: PPV Commentator:

 

SHANE DOUGLAS: Backstage Agent (starting with the debut Impact! taping), Backstage Interviewer, Occasional On-Screen Character/Wrestler, Talent Relations (promoted to this duty around the time of Against All Odds)

 

TERRY TAYLOR: Backstage Agent

 

TIM WELCH: Talent Relations Department, Video Editor

 

VINCE RUSSO: Booker, On-Screen Character/Manager

 

WALT WILSON: Marketing Opportunities, Vice President of Marketing (hired in April 2004; left around the time of Against All Odds) (has background in the music industry)

 

 

 

By Job:

 

BACKSTAGE AGENTS: Bill Banks (officially began working for TNA on Monday, 7/14/03), Bob Ryder, Dutch Mantel, Jerry Lynn (starting with the debut Impact! taping), Scott D'Amore, Shane Douglas (starting with the debut Impact! taping), Terry Taylor

 

BACKSTAGE INTERVIEWERS: Goldylocks, Shane Douglas

 

BOOKERS: Bill Behrens (mainly books the Xplosion shows; he's also the NWA President), Dusty Rhodes (current head), Dutch Mantel, Ed Ferrera, Glenn Gilberti (formerly WCW's Disco Inferno), Jeff Jarrett (former), Jerry Jarrett, Jimmy Hart (somewhat), Scott D'Amore (somewhat), Vince Russo (former)

 

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES/RELATIONS: Frank Romano, Bob Ryder

 

CAMERAMEN: Mike Jackson

 

COMMENTATORS: Armando Quintero (Spanish language), Arturo Rivera (PPV Spanish Announce Team member only, not English), Bert Prentice (Xplosion), Don West (PPV), Jeremy Borash (Xplosion), Jeff Hammond (of NASCAR), Konnan (PPV Spanish Announce Team member only, not English), Mike Tenay (PPV), Moody Jack Melendez (Spanish Announce Team only, not English), Savio Vega (called 9/17/04 Impact! in Spanish), Scott Hudson (PPV)

 

DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OVERSEERS: Chris Sobol (Panda Energy employee)

 

DIRECTOR OF AUTHORITY (in storyline): Dusty Rhodes

 

GORILLA POSITION: Bill Behrens, Bob Ryder, Ron Niemi (former IPW Hardcore Wrestling promoter) (on debut Impact! show)

 

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION: Matthew Ody (former-NBC employee)

 

MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES: Jennifer Switzer, Walt Wilson

 

MEDIA RELATIONS: Bill Banks (officially began working for TNA on Monday, 7/14/03), Bob Ryder, Jeremy Borash

 

OWNERS: Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Jarrett

 

PANDA ENERGY HEAD CEO: Bob Carter

 

PPV CONSULTANTS: Jay Hassman (fired), Len Sabel (fired)

 

PRESIDENT: Dixie Carter (a female; Panda Energy employee)

 

PUBLIC RELATIONS: Brad Bernstein

 

REFEREES: Andrew Thomas (from NWA Wildside), Mike Posey, Rudy Charles

 

RING ANNOUNCER: Jeremy Borash

 

SECURITY TEAM: Don Harris, Rick Santel

 

TALENT RELATIONS: Bob Ryder, Shane Douglas (promoted to this position around the week of Against All Odds), Tim Welch

 

TIMEKEEPER: Aaron Royal (NWA-FL booker) (on debut Impact! show)

 

TNAWrestling.com INTERVIEWER: Andrew Thomas (from NWA Wildside)

 

TNAWrestling.com ONLINE COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Chris Shultz, Jeremy Borash, Mike Tenay

 

TNAWrestling.com WEBMASTER: Lee South

 

TRIFECTA ENTERTAINMENT REPRESENTATIVE: Brad Bernstein

 

TV PRODUCTION: Dave Sahadi

 

VIDEO EDITORS: Andrew Thomas, Dave Sahadi, Jeremy Borash, Moody Jack, Tim Welch

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Ed Ferrera is still around, or is this the history of such and such positions? Because I thought the guy was gone after like Week 7 or 8.

[LucharesuFan619 0]

It's past and present. I'll work out all that stuff and specify whether they're still with the company in a few days.

[Guest The Last Free Voice]

That looks good. I can't think of anyone to add.

[Guest JacK]

Jerry Lynn is a backstage agent now? Weren't they trying to get rid of him a few months back? Wow, how times have changed. For the better it seems.

[Placebo Effect 0]

Brad also acts as a publicist for TNA.

 

Tim has the title "Office Representative" in the correspondence I've had with him.

[TheBigSwigg 0]

ONE CAMERAMAN??? Is that for real?

[Guest sean pyro]

Scott D'amore is the director of TNA's Wrestling Academy with Jerry Lynn, Glenn Gilberti and Bill Banks as trainers.

[LucharesuFan619 0]

ONE CAMERAMAN???  Is that for real?

No way. That's just the only one I know of. They have TONS more, obviously. Tenay just mentioned that guy's name during the AMW-XXX Cage Match.

 

Scott D'amore is the director of TNA's Wrestling Academy with Jerry Lynn, Glenn Gilberti and Bill Banks as trainers.

 

Brad also acts as a publicist for TNA.

 

Tim has the title "Office Representative" in the correspondence I've had with him.

 

Thanks to both of those additions. I'll be sure to add them in the next update. Are you sure Bill Banks is a trainer? Does he even know how to wrestle? I thought he was just strictly a backstage guy?

 

Jerry Lynn is a backstage agent now? Weren't they trying to get rid of him a few months back? Wow, how times have changed. For the better it seems.

 

Ya, really recently he became one. Like within the last month, I remember one of the big sites reporting it.

 

Please - any more additions let me know of. I want to make this as comprehensive a list as possible. Any names I've forgotten - past or present? Any other jobs that a particular guy has that I didn't list?

 

Also, I guess I'll plug it here - in the next week and a half, expect an indepth article on the Raven-Sabu feud. I'm talking really comprehensive. Why haven't they wrestled before yet? Were they ever scheduled to wrestle each other and the match was cancelled? Did they ever tag team together? What does TNA have to do to make this feud work? More importantly, what does each wrestler have to do to make sure it works? Why is it such an intriguing feud? And perhaps most importantly - does each guy still have it in them to deliver, when they're on the verge of turning 40? All that and more. Coming soon.

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Updated.

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DIXIE CARTER (a female): President of Panda Energy and TNA Entertainment, LLC

Well, it's certainly good to know that Dixie Carter is a female. I know it's been heavily debated for years now.

[razazteca 0]

So who is to blame for getting a toy deal instead of national DVD distribution?

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

PRESIDENT: Dixie Carter (a female; Panda Energy employee)

 

This made me laugh for some reason.

[Styles 0]

Yeah, really, this is why TNA isn't on top, letting those darn females in charge!

[2GOLD 0]

I think he is laughing at the fact someone needed to list "A FEMALE", like it's an absolute shock or something.

 

How many people here have meant a MAN named Dixie?

[Guest MikeSC]

Well, SMW had Dixie Dynamite and he was a dude.

-=Mike

...Any bets on Dixie being more bland than Linda McMahon?

[Styles 0]

JEFF HAMMOND (of NASCAR): Spanish Language Commentator

 

OK, that's got to be a typo...

[Guest MikeSC]

JEFF HAMMOND (of NASCAR): Spanish Language Commentator

 

OK, that's got to be a typo...

Well, he doesn't seem to speak English a lot.

-=Mike

[2GOLD 0]

Well, SMW had Dixie Dynamite and he was a dude.

-=Mike

...Any bets on Dixie being more bland than Linda McMahon?

 

I refuse to believe anyone on the planet is more bland than Linda McMahon.

Makes Al Gore seem like a frat boy.

 

I seriously think the WWE should invest in dubbing Linda when she is supposed to be on the show.

[LucharesuFan619 0]

I think he is laughing at the fact someone needed to list "A FEMALE"

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me for clarifying...