Brian Myers isn’t only a TNA wrestler. He also runs the Create-A-Pro Wrestling Academy in New York with former WWE producer and current AEW coach and executive Pat Buck. It was on Create-A-Pro’s May 1 Monumental Moment show, the biggest in the company’s history, that AEW World champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman was going to wrestle TNA’s Nic Nemeth.
When reports started coming out yesterday (April 8) that TNA was going to start restricting their roster from working independent dates against “talents
contracted to other companies”, one of the first matches people mentioned as being at risk was MJF vs. Nemeth. And sure enough, CAP announced the match was off.
Myers made the announcement, which considering his two jobs might have been awkward. He was able to offer fans the consolation that both men will still be in action at Monumental Moment (Max in an open challenge, and Nemeth vs. TNA’s Bear Bronson), and will offer full refunds to anyone who was only coming for The Devil vs. The Show-Off.
It’ll be interesting to hear what other matches and potential matches TNA’s new “partner conflict”-driven policy rules out, and how wrestlers and fans will react when they learn about them.
Share your reactions to TNA’s rule, and how Myers and CAP handled it, in the comments below.
