Top 10 Impact Wrestling Stories That Will Surprise You

Intro: Today wrestling fans seems to enjoy the stories that go on behind-the-scenes just as much as the wrestling matches they see inside the ring.

Many interesting road and backstage stories have been mentioned about various companies like WCW, ECW and of course the WWF/E but, you rarely hear any TNA/Impact Wrestling stories that don't usually paint the company in a negative night.

Well considering that this company has been around for almost 20 years it's unsurprising that there are bound be dozens of TNA/Impact stories flying around but, many of them haven't been told until now or some have been forgotten by wrestling fans the world over.

This list contains some of those wild and unbelievable stories that will intrigue you but there are also stories that make you laugh at how funny the tale is or shocked at how something like this as able to happen...

10. Don't Drink My Beer!

Cowboy James Storm is best known in TNA/Impact for his work with tag teams like America's Most Wanted and Beer Money Incorporated, but what a lot of fans may not know about Storm is that he's an amazing prankster and this moment here is prime example of that.

During a match on Xplosion, James Storm and Bobby Roode were set to take on the team of Eric Young and Orlando Jordan when during a point in the match, EY reportedly drank some of James Storm's beer.

Now some context, during an sit-down interview with fellow NWA star, Nick Aldis aka Magnus, Storm talks about how he and Bobby would wrestle Young and Jordan in a series of matches on house shows where Eric would do a spot where he would grab Storm's beer, be told by both members of Beer Money to not drink the beer but he would drink it anyway and Storm would chase him all around the ring...well this time was different.

Before coming out for their match on Xplosion, Storm took it upon himself to empty his beer out the bottle and replace with Jagermeister. For those who don't know Jagermeister is a beverage that has 56 herbs and spices in it, not to mention that it's also a digestif meaning it's suppose to help you digest food after eating a meal.

So went it came time for the matchup, EY decided to grab Storm's beer as per usual; Storm and Roode desperately tell EY not to drink the beer but Eric Young, who was smiling and completely unaware of Storm's trick decides to drink from the bottle and reportedly made a face that looked as if EY was going to puke with Jager dripping off of his beard.

When it comes to Eric Young's predicament at that moment, the cowboy says it best: "Sorry About Your Damn Luck!"

9. Getting Busted

The name Garza is probably best known to modern wrestling fans today thanks to the work of former Impact Wrestling and current WWE star, Angel Garza aka Garza Jr. however, before Angel was out wrestling in matches and ripping his pants off to the delight of all the female fans in attendance his father Hector was out making a name for himself.

Hector Garza wrestled in TNA in 2004 where he was seen wrestling in a number of matches including that year's X-Cup tournament and the very first official pay per view in company history, Victory Road 2004. But like a lot wrestlers before and after him, Garza had to rely on the usage of drugs during his career and it was due these drugs that ended up costing Hector in a big way.

In 2005, Hector was scheduled to face off against Scott Hall at the Final Resolution pay per view until he was arrested at a Houston Airport for being in possession of drugs like Primobolan and Deca-Durabolin which was legal in Mexico but were illegal in the United States.

This led to Jeff Hardy facing Hall as Garza's replacement in this match meanwhile Hector would be forced to spend 15 days in jail after pleading guilty of possession and was deported back to Mexico with him being unable to work in the U.S. for 5 years following they incident.

8. Getting Too Much Heat

During a show in Zurich Germany a six man tag team match between Kurt Angle, Booker T and Scott Steiner vs. Hernandez and Beer Money was set to take place, however before the match could even happen Big Poppa Pump decided to get himself some heat with the fans by cutting promo on them and even going so far as to wipe his ass with their flag.

According to Nick Aldis who was backstage with Shawn Davari when this all happened, he mentions that Steiner had asked him earlier if he did something to their flag do you think the crowd would get heat? Aldis responded by saying "If someone did something to the American flag, would that get heat?"...I should also mention that Magnus or Nick Aldis was British and they were in Zurich Germany where their flag is the Swish flag, so why Steiner decided to ask Aldis this question is completely unknown.

Anyhow, Steiner does the act as previously mentioned and the fans we not pleased with Scott's actions towards their flag but what makes this even worse is that apparently a good portion of fans had glass bottles with them and the heat Steiner got seemed so bad that it looked like the fans were going to hurl their bottles both into the ring and at Steiner himself.

Booker T along with his wife Sharmell were making there way to the ring when they see that something is going wrong following the whole flag incident and they decide to rush back into the backstage area and Booker refused to wrestle in the match and allegedly left.

Realizing that they needed a new person to take Booker's spot in the match, referee Earl Hebner went to the back to look for someone to take part in the match.

The two people Earl saw were Aldis who was wearing sweating pants and no shoes and Davari who was wearing slacks and dress shoes; Hebner in his haste decide to pick Davari to take Booker's spot and allegedly the match when on without a hitch. Not sure who won that bout but I can only hope the babyfaces did because if Steiner had won the crowd could of possibly gone into full on riot mode.

7. Bloody Run-In

Anthony Mayweather better known under his ring name of 'Crimson' wrestled in TNA from 2011-13 and again in 2015 and 2017. During which went on a 470 day undefeated streak and even won the TNA tag team titles with Matt Morgan in late 2011.

In 2016, Crimson was arrested after a security guard at a nearby restaurant reportedly saw the pro wrestler head-butting his wife at the Mid Town Inn in Clarksville Tennessee which caused bleeding in her nose and lips.

The police arrived and charged Crimson with domestic abuse however, he was difficult to deal with reportedly due to the fact that the officers were questioning his wife.He was arrested but he was able to make bail after his $2,500 bond was paid off.

His wife on the other hand claimed her injuries were caused from a nasty fall she took but in the end she was also arrested the same time as her husband under charges of public intoxication she also freed after her bond was paid off as well.

6. Backstage Affair

There have been a lot backstage interviewers that have been employed to TNA/Impact Wrestling over the years that have come and gone with a few them leaving the company in some pretty interesting ways like that time a blonde haired interviewer got into a physical alternation with Lacey Von Erich which led to her termination.

Crystal Louthan is another blond haired lady who was a backstage interviewer in TNA but unlike her successor, she had a pretty uninteresting run with the company until you realize that she was in a relationship with one of the TNA Originals which allegedly started out as an affair.

During Crystal's brief time in the company, she started a relationship with none other than 'The Cowboy' James Storm. What makes this story interesting is that Storm was already in a relationship with another women and had a child with her.

Storm decided to break up with his girlfriend in order to date Crystal but the relationship didn't last and Crystal would be gone from the company about a year after she arrived.

5. Dirty Investment

From one sexual story regarding a backstage interviewer to another. Goldy Locks was the original backstage interviewer for TNA as she was served as the interviewer, valet, manager and musician to many during her time in the early 2000's.

One moment that Goldy once told following her departure from TNA was a time when a potential investor for the company apparently made some sexual advances towards her and she was not down for any of this.

Goldy tried to tell management about this incident but those in charge told her to keep quiet about this for a number reasons not the least of which was due to the fact that if Goldy went public with this story, then the company would most likely not get the financial backing that the company needed at the time.

As a result the story was never released during her time in the company but it looks as if this didn't make much of a difference as the deal apparently didn't go through as the previous deal with HealthSouth Corporation ended, which led to Dixie Carter and her family's company, Panda Energy International purchasing the company and financing the promotion up until 2016.

4. The Pizza Incident

In the mid 2010's TNA create segment known as 'Gut Check' which was the company's attempt at finding young wrestlers and giving them a chance to wrestle and prove themselves to the fans and management, if the judges all agreed then that wrestler would get a contract and be signed to the TNA roster...similar to WWE's Tough Enough.

According to Nick Aldis and James Storm who were retelling this story, there was a time when one of the contestants for Gut Check apparently saw that the catering department had just brought out boxes of hot and delicious pizzas and this wrestler decided to take one of these boxes which he would presumably eat for a later time.

When word of this was made public to some in the TNA locker room, many saw this as a sign of disrespect as the guy wasn't even on the Impact roster yet and he just taking something without permission.

In order to get back at this person, Austin Aries being the slick S.O.B that he is decided to take the box out and gave everyone in the locker room a slice of the pizza; Aries then wrote a letter that said something about having respect for the locker room, put the letter in the box and then put the box back.

When this wrestler came back to the locker room, he was furious because he didn't get the contract during his Gut Check segment and then went to his stuff to eat the pizza, but instead of piping hot pizza what he got was an empty box and letter on why you shouldn't disrespect the locker room curiosity of the Greatest Man To Ever Live, at which point the wrestler left both in frustration and on an empty stomach.

It's unclear who this wrestler was but considering that Magnus/Aldis said that this person was male, had a bodybuilder physic and he was refused a contract during his time at Gut Check, it probably easy to figure out who the NWA superstar was referring to.

3. The Nature Boy Goes Off

While the former 16 time world champion has gone on record to say that he regretted his time in TNA and only signed with the company for a nice payday...there are some fans who enjoyed his work in the promotion whether it's his time as a manager for AJ Styles, creating the TNA equivalent of the Four Horseman in "Fortune" to his feud with Jay Lethal which led to their legendary 'Woo Off' in 2010.

One other person who probably didn't enjoy Flair's time in the company would have to be the former WWE United States Champion, Orlando Jordan.

Back in 2010, a group of TNA wrestlers went to a nearby bar to party and one of those was Jordan and his boyfriend, who also made few appearances on Impact television as well; Jordan apparently was making out with his boyfriend in a manner that made many uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Ric Flair decided to go and tell the both of them that they needed to tone down their affection for one another in public to which the two them agreed.

Fast forward a hour or so later at that same bar, Jordan's boyfriend was apparently seen dancing in a very sexual and provocative manner which caused the Nature Boy to lose his shit and cut a vicious promo on the both of them with Flair going as far as to say that Jordan's boyfriend was an embarrassment and that Jordan needed to "sit that f### down".

Some criticized Flair for using that kind of homophobic language to handle the situation while others praised him for protecting the business but condemned him for the language; Jordan's boyfriend would never appear on TNA in any capacity following this incident and this also got Orlando into a lot of heat with those in the back.

2. Hit and Run

Once again 'The Cowboy' James Storm appears on this list and let's just say that this next story here is a real doozy because apparently when he wasn't pranking people with Jager or sleeping with female interviewers, Storm found time to prank a former ECW and TNA world champion.

According to Storm, he, Billy Gunn and Rhino were traveling to Tennessee in order to take part in a number of TNA shows that were running in the area, that is until they got pulled over by a policeman who had asked for license and registration.

Rhino, who was driving car didn't know where the registration was because this was Storm's car and Storm was allegedly acting as if he was under the influence because he was throwing French Fries inside the car.

The officer then began to ask a few questions with one of them being if Storm had been drinking, to which Rhino said no but Storm replied seconds later saying that he was actually on steroids.

Startled by this news, the officer pulls Rhino from the vehicle and tells 'The War Machine' to take a drinking test; Storm, not content with the fact that he "admitted to taking steroids" decided to pull out a bullet casing from his vehicle and put it in front of the window where he then told the officer that he (Rhino) has got a gun on him, which as can you imagine, made the situation go from bad to worse.

Rhino was then taken to the police car to get handcuffed and his told that he'd be going to jail, however unbeknownst to the officer the cowboy came from behind and attacked him.

At this point, Rhino had one of his hands handcuffed and asked Storm what did he just do, only for the former tag team champion to say that "Dude let's get out of here. We'll rip the camera out of his car and they never know it was us". Rhino responded with a simple "FU, I'm leaving" and proceeded to run into the woods as fast as possible.

Storm manage to catch up to Rhino and tell him that this whole thing was a prank and that the officer that he had hit was actually his brother, who looked nothing like him. Both Gunn and Rhino went on to admit that they thought that Storm had gone completely crazy and Rhino was going to the nearest house to phone the police.

1. We Got The Belt!

In May of this year, Impact Wrestling and former NFL star, Moose came out at the Rebellion event with the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and as of the time I'm writing this article no one knows where Moose got the belt from although many have speculated that he must of stolen the belt from the TNA/Impact vault; In any case this wouldn't be the first time the TNA world championship was unexpectedly taken.

In 2012 at a house show in Ottumwa Iowa, it was reported that the actual TNA World Title and a replica version of the belt were stolen while the stagehands were too busy unloading the trucks; News of this unexpected title theft was both shocking and hilarious in equal measure forcing the company to investigate in order to find those responsible for the robbery.

After taking time to review the surveillance footage, the local Iowa police discovered that two men: 33 year old Joel Ryan Luke and 39 year old, Forrest Courtney Jamison were the perpetrators behind the title theft and they were arrested with, Joel being charged with theft in the second degree and Forrest being arrested as an accessory after the fact.

Both men were freed after their combined $8,000 bond was paid off with both of the titles located and returned to the company...You have to wonder if Moose hired these guys in 2020 to commit the same act again in order to get the TNA belt? Who knows.

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