PWI No Longer Recognizing TNA World Title, Dixie Carter Thanks Fans

Publisher Stu Saks noted in the August 2015 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated that the magazine will no longer recognize the TNA World Championship as a World Title. You can read an excerpt below:

“There’s only one world, so there can only be one world champion.” Though I can’t recall the origin of that quote, I was always impressed with its simple profundity. And I always agreed with its sentiment: Under ideal circumstances, there would be just one world champion in professional wrestling. For the half-century or so that this company has been publishing wrestling magzazines, those ideal circumstances never existed. Until now. Effective immediately, PWI will recognize only one world title- the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

This is not necessarily an indictment of TNA, the only other company whose title has received world title status from PWI over the past eight years. The decision is all about WWE and its continued dominance of the industry.”

Dixie Carter thanked the fans on Twitter for the recent increase in ratings for Impact on Wednesday nights.