The departure of TNA Wrestling became even more dramatic, since new details reveal exactly how their contractual situation fell down before his now infamous performance in The People vs. GCW.
Dave Meltzer broken down the situation in Wrestling Observer Radio, explaining how PCO originally offered a new contract and verbally accepted it, but never signed it.
“They offered him a new contract and accepted it verbally, but did not sign it,” said Meltzer. “They returned and told him that they were sending the offer, sending the offer. Then they offered him another contract.”
However, when the agreement would be supposed to be completed, TNA had already begun to make cost reduction decisions at the end of 2024. “Many people offered less money and several ended up leaving,” said Meltzer. PCO was one of those affected by the cuts. “They offered him less money and he accepted. Well, he didn't even accept, I think the idea was that he, as a fighter or worker, felt he had a verbal agreement. Now they returned and offered less.”
The situation took another turn when TNA finally decided not to renew the PCO contract.
“So he accepted, and then they returned and said: 'We are not going to renew your contract.' Well, then they said: 'We want you to leave the title when leaving,' he was going to leave the title in the recording in San Antonio, I think that was the agreement. Then he never heard from them again.”
That silence may have played a role in the controversial moment of PCO in The People vs. GCW, where he took the TNA digital media championship and tried to destroy him with a deck. Previous reports indicate that GCW officials had no idea that PCO planned to do this and made an improvised promotion before the ring announcer Emil Jay intervened and the program abruptly changed a video.
In TNA, the reaction was pure outrage. As reported, the company was surprised by PCO's shares, since it still planned to finish its career in the San Antonio recordings. To add another turn to the situation, the sources of TNA affirm that PCO actually destroyed a replica of the belt, not the royal championship, which they still have in their possession.
TNA now considers that PCO has ended with the company and has no expectations of returning. His frustration for the contractual situation seems to have fed all the experience, but regardless of what has caused it, the consequences of this maneuver will probably follow it wherever he goes.
