X-Pac Reveals He & Scott Hall Helped Persuade The Carters To Buy TNA/IMPACT

On the latest episode of his podcast, WWE Hall of Famer X-Pac discussed his time in TNA/IMPACT. Fightful was sent the following highlights. 

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Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman Tells the Story of How He and Scott Hall Helped Persuade The Carters To Purchase TNA Wrestling

Jerry Jarret came up to me and Scott and he’s like ‘Hey can you please talk to these people, you know we’re trying to get them to invest.’ And Scott and I we talked to the Carters and Dixie’s brother actually told me that we were the reason, Scott and I, we’re the ones that talked them into buying TNA… we just talked about our love for wrestling and the need for competition. 

Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman Talks About Wanting To Be In The NWA Title Picture 

They were calling it the X Division so it wasn’t called light heavyweight or cruiserweight but I was still kinda not wanting to be pigeon-holed into the smaller guy category. That I had worked so hard to break out of. And so I was more wanting to be in the NWA title picture. 

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