Trey Miguel isn’t just staying with TNA for another paycheck — he wants to be there now that the company finally looks like it has real momentum. After nearly eight years of bad TV deals, empty pandemic shows, and rebuild after rebuild, Miguel says walking away now was not an option.
Speaking to KO’s and 3 Counts, Trey Miguel said TNA has changed a lot lately, but he still sees himself as one of the people tied to the company’s foundation.
“Well, man, I haven’t been there very recently at all. There’s been a lot of changes inside of TNA, you know, with some of the people that have been released or asked for the release and such, but there’s a lot of people that are very important to the fabric that makes TNA, right? And I’d like to believe that I’m included in that list of people.”
Then Miguel got real about how rough the company’s TV situation used to be. He said AMC gives TNA a much bigger stage now, especially compared to the Pursuit Channel days, which he made sound about as bad as it gets for a wrestling company.
“With AMC being a new umbrella for us to perform under and to step up to, it gives everyone a bigger platform to show what they can do. I’ve been a part of TNA through some of the worst TV deals they’ve ever had, man. And I’ll tell you, my least favorite was when we were on the Pursuit Channel. It was a hunting channel. Destination America still wasn’t as bad as Pursuit. Pursuit was strictly a hunting channel. There were no other shows on there unless you wanted to watch someone duck hunt or fish. You’re not reaching your demographic with a station like that.”
That’s why AMC feels like such a different game to him. Miguel said everyone knows the network from shows like The Walking Dead, and he believes that kind of exposure, along with TNA’s WWE relationship, has opened doors the company didn’t have before.
“But everyone knows AMC. If you ever watched The Walking Dead on TV, you were watching AMC, you know what I mean? And it’s opened up a lot of doors, especially, you know, with the relationship with WWE that we still have. It’s awesome, man.”
Miguel also reminded fans that he didn’t just show up when things started looking better. He was there during COVID with no one in the crowd, he was there when TNA was running in front of small Twitch-era audiences, and he watched the company claw its way back after people kept calling it dead.
“And I’ve gotten to be a part of TNA through some of the lowest points during COVID when there was no one in the crowd, when we were on Twitch with 200 people in the crowd. And I’ve watched us rebuild this thing from the ground up when people said that we were dead.”
That history is exactly why he wanted to re-sign. Miguel said TNA has been his home for eight years, and with the company finally moving in a direction he believes in, he wants to be part of the next chapter instead of watching it from the outside.
“So, it was very important to me to re-sign because I’m not done watching TNA grow. I love TNA. That’s been my home for the past eight years and I’m so confident in the trajectory in which we are moving now and I want to be a part of it.”
Miguel had already confirmed on the Battleground podcast that he officially re-signed with TNA, even joking that his dad briefly thought he had “resigned” because he forgot the dash. Now, his latest comments make the whole thing feel a lot bigger — he survived the bad years, and he wants a front-row seat for the comeback.
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