Josh Matthews Talks A Potential Impact & ROH Partnership, Don Callis and Scott D’Amore Joining Impact Creative

During a recent interview with Wrestling Epicenter, Josh Matthews talked about a potential partnership between Ring Of Honor and Impact Wrestling. Below are some highlights of the interview.

Free agents leading to a potential ROH/Impact partnership:

“I think the opportunity for that to happen certainly exists. As for the talent, my wife [Madison Rayne] is a free agent. She gets to go wrestle for Ring of Honor or go down and wrestle for [WWE] NXT. Or, come back to Impact! She got called to do the Windsor show in BCW. It was fun for her. She got to go up there, see some friends, see some faces, say hello. She had a great match with a future Knockout named, Gisele Shaw. That match was on the Pay-Per-View. It is fun for her. She likes that. But, on the other side of it, she would also like a place that she could call home. A place that she could compete regularly and build her legacy or continue to build upon her legacy that she has built in Impact. As a talent, you’re building your brand, but you’re also trying to build the company that you work for. I think that is the mentality of all wrestlers.

Don Callis and Scott D’Amore joining creative:

 “I think the impact it is having is tremendous. It has given Impact the forward momentum it has needed for quite some time. There has been so many false starts over the past few years. January of last year sort of came in with a rush and by the middle of the year, things were changing, heading downward. That isn’t what anybody wanted. Everyone wanted Impact to succeed. When Scott D’Amore came back to Impact early last year, I was excited. I like Scott. I’ve had lots of talks with Scott about what Impact could be doing and where it could be going. I think when you look at it now that Scott and Don are in place and the creative is what it is – and, Sonjay Dutt deserves so much credit for what he does on the creative side of things. The way it has all come together and everyone has been working so hard to make sure that you’re seeing exactly what you should be seeing and things are happening exactly as they should be.”

Sonjay Dutt on color commentary:

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“I’ve had the opportunity to work with more broadcast partners than anyone from 13 years in WWE to here at Impact and the people that I have worked with here. I’ve really enjoyed working with Pope. But, with Sonjay, it is different because Sonjay is completely dialed into what we’re doing everyday. That is different than anyone, anyone I’ve worked with in Impact Wrestling, because Sonjay knows exactly what is going on maybe more than I know what is going on and I’m dialed into this product 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So it is great to have someone there that also knows what we’re trying to accomplish. It is about the talent in the ring first and foremost for me. Hopefully this “One True Spirit Guide” of Matt Sydal [Laughs], we give that a chance and hopefully get an opportunity to talk about the guys that are in the ring. These are the people that we’re going to have to rely on in the future. They need to be front and center in front of everyone and described to our viewers so they can understand who our characters are going forward. I think Sonjay’s done an incredible job. It was thrust upon us. I think everyone knows the situation we were put in. Something happened and we had to adjust and I think we made the right call, the right play was called. If it is a long play that was called then I think Sonjay and I can be a great broadcast team.”