8 Innovations TNA/Impact Brought To American Wrestling

From June 2004 to March 2013, the home of Impact Wrestling television was the Impact Zone, otherwise known as Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios. That's where all company events occurred, aside from the occasional pay-per-view venture elsewhere, and untelevised house shows.

There are numerous advantages to having a home base for all televised operations, the main one being that it allows you to tape numerous weeks, sometimes even months, in advance, reducing your costs in terms of location hire, talent and crew expenses.

Holding a mass capacity of 1,400 fans, the venue typically saw the ringside fans packed to the brim up to the guardrail. Again, this helped Impact gain their unique following. Having the fans positioned in such a way, popping at the big spots, gave off the feeling that they were so heavily invested in the product because they couldn't possibly contain themselves.

Now taping content at Skyway Studios in Nashville due to the ongoing global pandemic, Impact set the precedent in a way for some of today's wrestling shows, namely NXT. They were previously based at Full Sail University, and now have the Capitol Wrestling Center. Like with the Impact Zone, these home arenas allow you to immerse yourself in their product, simply because you've become suited to the same visuals week in and week out.