SHOOTING DOWN A STUPID RUMOR STARTED ON A NEWZ SITE

This afternoon, I received calls from several TNA personalities asking me why I said the company was going out of business.

As you might imagine, this was news to me, since nothing of the sort has been written in an article on PWInsider or stated in PWInsider Elite audio for our subscribers.

It turned out that a less than reputable wrestling "Newz" site, looking to create content for themselves without actually putting in any real work or cultivating any real sources, wrote the following: "For what it's worth, Mike Johnson of PWInsider recently stated that he believes TNA really is going out of business."

I can assure everyone no such thing was actually stated.

This is a prime example of things that those who work in the wrestling industry have to deal with on a daily basis - people who take something with no bearing in reality and then publish it as if it's factual - or take something that is actually true and then add new elements that have no bearing in reality to change the slant of the actual story. They don't just cut and paste, they cut and lie. That's not fair to anyone they lie about - not me, not TNA, not Vince McMahon, not anyone.

Anytime I have anything to say, whether it is a story we are publishing or an opinion I am providing, it will be here on PWInsider.com. I have not made any statements that I believe TNA is going out of business, anywhere, at all, at any time.

Any website publishing that "story" are only proving that they are creating false news in an attempt to feed you worthless content, instead of giving you the work ethic and legitimate news stories you deserve.

We make our living with PWInsider.com and in my case, I have done so for over ten years, full-time. Dave has been doing that even longer. We thank ALL of you who support us, either reading the free version or by subscribing to the Elite section, where you can actually hear anything I really do have to say.

So, in closing, I ask a favor of you: that you only support outlets that provide you with what you deserve. Websites that lie to you don't deserve your support. So, don't give it to them. Every click and impression you give them tells them it's OK to make up stories as blatantly false as the one written about me today. It's not OK for anyone to waste your time and lie to you. Don't let them. If you do, you are just giving them license to lie to you, again and again, just as easily as they lied about me today.

Thank you.

Mike Johnson

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