Sami Callihan: The Build To TNA Slammiversary Hasn’t Been Great

TNA is set to hold its Slammiversary event on June 28 in Boston, MA. Slammiversary celebrates the anniversary of the company and is one of the four major pay-per-view events.

Sami Callihan, who worked behind the scenes and on-screen at TNA for years until this past week, hasn’t been a fan of the build.

“I thought it was weird,” Callihan said on Busted Open Radio of his release and the timing being just before Slammiversary, “but at the same time, I don’t think the build for Slammiversary this year has been great. I brought it up before, ‘Slammiversary the last two years, we’ve had ginormous fillings.’ Last year, we ran a major arena for the first time in years, and is Mike Santana finally going to win the world title in his hometown? The year before, we had Joe Hendry, who had been launched into the stratosphere, is he finally going to get the trigger pulled on him and win the World Championship? I’m not privy to a lot of stuff that may go on, but I don’t think our big events this year have had the greatest builds. Whether that be people being burnt out or having to deal with a 1000 different voices in their head, I don’t think Rebellion had the greatest build. We didn’t have matches until two weeks before. Same thing with Slammiversary this year. You can’t book television wrestling like the independents, but big events have to be booked like that. ‘This is why you should buy tickets.’ I don’t think it’s been the greatest build.”

Slammiversary will be headlined by Nic Nemeth challenging Mike Santana for the TNA World Title.

Fans can find Callihan’s comments on his TNA release by clicking here.

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