Nic Nemeth became TNA World Champion at TNA Slammiversary 2026 on Sunday after he cashed in his Call Your Shot Gauntlet trophy on Mike Santana, and defeated him within the major event. Following his big victory, his second time capturing TNA’s top title, and before the corporate heads to Albany, Recent York for tapings, Nemeth appeared on “Busted Open Radio” to tout Slammiversary’s success, and gave credit to now-former head of creative Tommy Dreamer.
“What a terrific friggen’ night for TNA,” Nemeth said. “We got to [run] Tommy’s vision of the lead-up to this, we paid it off. He said 1,000,000 times, he’s the coach and we gotta go run the plays on the sector. Start to complete, TNA absolutely delivered [Sunday] night and I got to observe and listen to all of it.”
Dreamer was let go from TNA on June 17, not even two weeks before Slammiversary. Other stars were granted their releases, like Tessa Blanchard, during what the corporate called “workforce reduction.”
Nemeth said he knew he and Santana were going to have a blast of their match, but he knew they weren’t going on the market to point out off technique. He said he was happy with the match, even in the event that they didn’t got down to do “anything pretty.”
“It was to go fight and beat the hell out of one another and the last guy standing in that ring goes, ‘Now I even have the duty of getting that big goal on my back as I take over carrying the reins,'” he said. “It was my turn to do this now. I have been very viable and able to go in that position for a very long time.”
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