Magnum TA Comments On Tessa Blanchard’s Conflict With Impact
Magnum TA was recently interviewed by The Hannibal TV on YouTube and spoke about what happened between his step-daughter, Tessa Blanchard, and Impact Wrestling.
Blanchard and Impact Wrestling parted ways this summer while Blanchard still held the promotion’s world title. Impact stripped her of the belt.
“I knew from the moment they came up with the idea of making her this inter-gender, now the world’s heavyweight champion, that they were going down a dangerous path,” Magnum said to Hannibal. “They came to our home here in Charlotte and filmed a special with her mom and I about it.”
“I support Tessa, I mean cause she’s my step-daughter but I’m not a big fan of that portrayal of men and women in the ring. Not because women aren’t capable or anything else, it’s just I don’t ever like anything that depicts a man being physically violent with a woman. I mean, I’ve still got a young daughter that’s 13-years-old and whether today they know it’s all a work or not, it’s still not a portrayal that I’m real comfortable with.”
“So I told her that I knew that she had reached the pinnacle of what she could do with that organization. Of course, we didn’t know the virus was going to come along.”
“They had wanted her to extend her contract and do different things. The opportunity that experience with Impact afforded her was a step in her growth in what she was doing. But she needed to move on from that. Because she hadn’t extended that contract, they were paying her peanuts for one thing but on top of that, she had met all the contractual dates that she needed to meet.”
“So, all I told her was ‘hey, they want you to work one more shot,’ I offered her up the psychology, I said ‘take whatever their top paid guy is and figure out what that would equate to in one month’s salary, and say ‘hey, if you want me to come in and do this since I’ve met my contractual obligations, this is what it would take for me to come do it.’ And it was not a ridiculous amount of money as was rumored on the internet.”
The full clip of Magnum TA talking about Tessa Blanchard is below:
