TNA Impact 1/15/26 Review | AMC Debut FALLS FLAT And Not Even A NEW CHAMPION Can Save It
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Solomonster reviews the TNA iMPACT premiere on AMC and, as network debuts go, this one was a disaster. Cannot imagine they made a single new fan with this show. Mike Santana is champion again, so that's something, but it was not enough to salvage an otherwise dreadful show that felt more like a DIET version of WWE than a promotion trying to carve out its own identity. Hopefully, they can find their footing in the weeks ahead, but as a first effort, this was a swing and a miss.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, man, you know, 11 years ago, it was actually over 11 years ago, TNA left Spike TV. |
| 0:07.6 | That was the best television that they ever had, it was the biggest audience they ever had. |
| 0:12.9 | And the company really has not been the same since, ever since they left Spike. |
| 0:18.7 | So getting television on really any network other than Access TV was imperative to TNA if they |
| 0:26.4 | were going to try to grow their audience and just grow the brand. |
| 0:30.1 | So when they made the announcement a few months ago about the AMC deal, it was great news. |
| 0:36.5 | And it is great news for the company. No matter what we talk about |
| 0:40.4 | here today about this debut installment of TNA impact on AMC, it is a good thing that TNA is on |
| 0:47.7 | AMC now. And you would think that, you know, especially for their big debut here on this |
| 0:53.5 | network, that they would put their best foot forward and try to really hit a home run. |
| 0:59.1 | Because I think that, you know, when you debut on a new network like this and you're trying to reel in new fans, you really want to just grab them by the throat and just pull them in. |
| 1:10.0 | Right. You want to find some way to just pull those |
| 1:12.1 | fans in and make them go, oh my God, I got to tune into this show next week and the week |
| 1:16.6 | after that and the week after that, right? That should have been the mission. And of course, |
| 1:20.8 | they have a pay-per-view to promote on Saturday as well because we have Genesis coming up. |
| 1:25.1 | So tonight was the big debut on AMC Network, which if you forgot, they certainly |
| 1:31.0 | reminded you many, many, many, many times here tonight, which is understandable, but it is |
| 1:37.6 | impossible not to know where the show now is being broadcast. One thing I don't understand, |
| 1:43.2 | before anything else, I don't understand how it is possible |
| 1:47.3 | that this show has worse production values than it did 11 years ago. |
| 1:53.6 | Like when we're thinking back to TNA in 2012, 2014, how is it that they had better |
| 1:59.4 | production values then than they do in |
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