Pollock informs that Anthem Media is the parent company of The Fight Network. This made his job as a wrestling reporter there very interesting after Anthem acquired Impact, but he made it clear right away that this acquisition wouldn’t affect the way he covered their product. His bosses urged him to be as critical about the Impact product as he saw fit, and that’s exactly what he did.
He points out that Impact has their work cut out for them in 2018, but he has faith in Don Callis and Scott D’Amore. He hopes that Anthem and the fans have patience, and hopefully these guys can turn it around. He assumes that Callis and D’Amore have been given complete creative control, because it wouldn’t make sense for Ed Nordholm and Anthem to handcuff these guys right after hiring them.
Pollock mentions that he would rather see Ronda Rousey sitting ringside than competing in a match at the Royal Rumble. He feels having her sit ringside would create a lot of speculation, and he’d prefer that Rousey had her debut match at WrestleMania anyways.
Ross welcomes Ron Harris to the show.
Harris informs that he has started a new wrestling promotion entitled, “Aro Lucha”. This is something that he and his brother have been thinking about for a long time and he’s thrilled that they were finally able to pull the trigger. He thought there was a market in the United States for a traditional Lucha promotion featuring Lucha performers and utilizing Spanish as the primary language.
