Summary

Bear Bronson says the difference between his previous stop and his current one has been clear from the start.

While speaking on Busted Open After Dark, the reigning TNA World Tag Team Champion compared his five-year run in AEW to the role he has found in TNA. Bronson said he now feels like a meaningful part of a company that is trying to grow, especially as TNA builds momentum around its AMC move, the return of Lockdown, and Slammiversary.

Bronson and Brian Myers are also scheduled to defend the TNA World Tag Team Championship against Nic Nemeth and K.C. Navarro on the May 7 edition of TNA iMPACT.

Quote from Bear Bronson

"So I could explain the difference between the two (TNA & AEW) and I’m not throwing any shade here but when I was with AEW, in all of five years, from start to finish, I felt like a signed extra, if that makes sense. Where you’re just kind of there… Whether you’re there or not, it doesn’t really make a big difference, and on the complete other end of the spectrum is with TNA, I actually feel like an important part of the piece moving forward, and it’s funny because I came to the company at the same time as The Righteous who I’m very close with, and we both have very similar journeys, where we feel like we found a new home, where we are like, ‘We can really sink our teeth, and give all of our talents and give everything we have to push a company forward…’ I feel like even in my first weekend with TNA, I felt welcomed immediately by the entire roster, all these people I don’t know. The team, the entire team I just met, I felt welcomed immediately, and I feel like now, even looking at just when we were in Syracuse, I had this feeling that the entire roster’s firing on all cylinders, because we all want this to succeed. It’s not every day wrestling companies land on major networks, right? So with us landing on AMC, and now the announcement of Slammiversary and the announcement of Lockdown returning, I feel like everybody’s just hungry. People talk about top one, top two, top three companies, it’s like, we wanna be the top and you feel it from everybody on the roster and it feels really, really good to be a big part of that."

What Bronson's AEW comments mean for TNA

Bronson tying his AEW experience directly to his current TNA role puts extra weight on next week's title defense. If he and Myers keep the belts, TNA can lean even harder into Bronson as part of The System's core group instead of simply another body on the roster.

His comments also fit a larger pitch TNA is making right now about opportunity and momentum. That same sense of presentation has come up in other recent wrestler interviews, including when Trick Williams described the feel of his WrestleMania 42 entrance gear, but Bronson's version is more about day-to-day importance inside a promotion than one big-night spectacle.

Sources

Bear Bronson on Busted Open After Dark