5 most important American wrestling promotions apart from WWE

#2 Impact! Wrestling

Impact was founded with the name Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) by former WWE Superstar Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett, in 2002. TNA was originally headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. In 2017, now named Impact Wrestling, the company moved its headquarters to Toronto and has since carried out its activities in Canada.

Impact has had many ups and downs throughout its history. It was thought by many as WWE's new competition in the new millennium, just as WCW was in the nineties. However, the company never managed to create an identity with the talent it had and became WWE's B team where all of WWE's rejects landed.

Despite the instability suffered by Impact in 2017 in economic matters that resulted in the departure of several talents, its average number of spectators per episode was 311,000. That number it is not close to the ratings of RAW or Smackdown, but is positive after all the problems that the company went through.

Impact is now chaired by Ed Norholm and has Scott D'Amore and Don Callis as executive vice presidents. With them at the helm, a new era in the history of Impact has opened. The company now has an agreement with Twitch where exclusive content is transmitted, as well as past shows and events.