MJF - Nic Nemeth Indie Match Officially Cancelled; MJF Lashes Out At Carlos Silva, Nemeth Comments

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Yesterday, news broke that TNA was blocking its wrestlers from upcoming indie events in which they were scheduled to compete against AEW wrestlers after originally approving the matches. While various reasons were offered up on why TNA changed their mind, the prevailing belief was that TNA President Carlos Silva was unhappy with AEW for running Collision against Impact last Thursday even though that was a network decision, not one made by AEW or Tony Khan.

As expected, the response to TNA's decision has been overwhelming negative and notably one of AEW's top stars, MJF, took to X to slam Silva for his decision. MJF's match against Nic Nemeth on May 1 for indie promotion Create-A-Pro in New York has been cancelled.

"It’s called being preempted due to March madness. This guy is actively a dumb motherfucker. Congrats. You pay your talents shit. Than (sic) force them off shows where they can make money. #lolTna"

MJF's opponent Nic Nemeth spoke about the cancelation on Busted Open Radio:

"You know, I was really looking forward to this. I was really, really excited. But, yes, as of yesterday, as I was flying in, I found out, because of certain partnerships and brands, TNA President Carlos Silva had to make a difficult decision and protect a couple of brands down the line and things that are actually contractually obligated to happen — can’t just kind of do whatever we want. Even though I think some things were approved at a different time, when it became the situation that it is now with a couple of different things happening at once, I feel like — I’m crushed. Because I was very much looking forward to doing this, but it’s unable to happen at the moment."

"Still doing the Create-A-Pro show, and refunds will be available. MJF is going to do an open challenge there and he’s still going to be signing and doing all of the things at Create-A-Pro for that big show. All of those things will happen. I’m going to wrestle Bear Bronson for the first time ever. I hate that it had to come out this way. I hate that this wasn’t all taken care of in the past. But that’s something we can all work on, I gotta start reading some fine print and we have to protect people that we actually work with and we have partnerships with. Usually I’m pretty great about that, so I’ll stay on that for everything that we do."