Sami Callihan Opens Up On Phone Call Informing Him Of TNA Departure: ‘In My Mind I Think I’m Getting Added To Creative, I Kind Of Went Off’

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Sami Callihan has opened up on the phone call informing him of his TNA departure, and him thinking he was being added to creative.

Recent major backstage changes have taken place in TNA, with names such as Tommy Dreamer and Sami Callihan being let go from the company.

Nic Nemeth recently spoke about the backstage morale in TNA ahead of and following the departures, and now Callihan has opened up on the phone call he got informing him of his departure.

Sami Callihan Thought He Was Being Added To TNA Creative

Speaking to Busted Open Radio, Callihan recalled thinking he was going to be added to TNA’s creative after he found out about Dreamer’s departure, and that he ‘went off’ when he was told he was being let go.

He said:

“I woke up at I think like, 10:30, 11, and my phone was blowing up ‘hey, Tommy’s done at TNA’ and the amount of people on the roster that messaged me like ‘it’s finally your time, you’re getting added to creative’.

“Within 5 minutes of me waking up and getting those text messages, I get a notification in my email ‘hey, we need to have a conference call at 1’. In my mind I’m like ‘oh shit, I’m getting added to the creative’. This is what I’ve been lobbying for for years, this is what a lot of major people on the roster at TNA has been lobbying for for years, it’s what I’ve had dangled in my face from another administration before this current administration, I was like ‘it’s finally happening’.

“So I get on the Zoom call, they start talking. In my mind I’m still like ‘maybe this is still, maybe I’m getting added’, then it came to ‘we’re sorry we’re going to have to part ways’. I kind of went off.

“I’m not one of the people that usually goes off like this, I try not to be very profanity laced, and I don’t think it was a thing of screaming or yelling, but I stated my case. I knew that company I feel like almost better than anybody, from the wrestling, the production, to everyone there, I had good relationships with everyone.

“I stated my case, I was like hey, this is why I think you’re making a terrible mistake, this is why I think this isn’t happening now. I was told it was part of a workplace reduction act, and I went ‘that should not be me’. I thought I was gonna be a lifer in TNA.

“I was talking with friends at the company yesterday and I said I think my loyalness to the company I’m working for is good and bad. I think I’m loyal to companies to a fault at this point, when I could have left years ago and gone on to do other things.”

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What Is Next For TNA Wrestling Following Recent Changes?

TNA’s Slammiversary pay-per-view event is set to taka place next weekend, which will likely mark the first show of the future of TNA.

It has been reported that Road Dogg is being considered as a potential replacement for Tommy Dreamer in TNA creative, as well as a potential agreement with OVW for the company to serve as a pseudo developmental promotion for TNA.

With some top stars leaving the company, and the contract of others set to come up soon, including reigning TNA World Champion Mike Santana, TNA should look to bring in some established faces to steady the ship, as well as rising young independent stars to build the future of the company around.

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