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50 free TNA Wrestling trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
TNA Wrestling started in 2002 as a pay-per-view experiment and grew into the main alternative to WWE for more than a decade. Along the way it gave wrestling a new kind of ring, a division with no weight limits, a women's division that often stole the show, and a run of boardroom dramas as wild as anything on screen. This quiz covers the whole story: the founders and owners, the X Division and the Knockouts, signature match types, the big annual events, famous stables and the television deals that shaped the company. There are questions on the 2013 roster, when a biker gang ran riot, and on the 2016 roster, when a feud between two brothers became an internet sensation. It is written for fans who watched Impact every week and for newer viewers who know today's stars and want to find out where they came from. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01What unusual ring shape did TNA adopt when its Impact television show premiered in June 2004?
Six-sided
The six-sided ring, a design occasionally used by Mexico's AAA, was retired in 2010 and then voted back by fans in 2014.
Q 02Which 1980s WWF megastar joined TNA as a consultant and first appeared on Impact in January 2010?
Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan arrived with former WCW president Eric Bischoff, who joined the creative team, and stayed until his contract expired in October 2013.
Q 03Which rock band's frontman became president of TNA in August 2016 after making loans to the company?
Smashing Pumpkins
Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan sued over his unpaid loans that October and was removed as president weeks later, before a new owner settled the debt.
Q 04Which Tennessee city is home to the state fairgrounds arena where TNA staged most of its early weekly shows?
Nashville
Nashville hosted the early weekly pay-per-views at a fairgrounds arena nicknamed the TNA Asylum, though most television tapings later moved out of state.
Q 05Which former WCW world champion became the first inductee into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2012?
Sting
Sting was named the first inductee in June 2012 and formally enshrined that October, the year after winning the world title there at the age of 52.
Q 06In 2010 TNA moved Impact to a new night to go head-to-head with which rival show?
WWE Raw
TNA's challenge to WWE Raw echoed the WCW Monday Nitro era but was brief: Impact went back to Thursday nights within two months.
Q 07TNA's long-time TV home, nicknamed the Impact Zone, was inside which Orlando theme park?
Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida leased Soundstage 21 to the promotion from 2004, the same stage WCW had used for its syndicated tapings in the 1990s.
Q 08Which wrestler left WWE in 2006 and became the first TNA World Heavyweight Champion?
Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle won his 1996 Olympic gold with a broken neck, and in TNA he went on to hold the world title six times.
Q 09Which wrestler was TNA's first X Division Champion and left in 2013 rather than take a 60% pay cut?
AJ Styles
AJ Styles won the new title in a four-way match at the promotion's second weekly show and stayed eleven years, later winning the world title too.
Q 10Which 2016 TNA match saw 'Broken' Matt Hardy fight his brother Jeff at their North Carolina home?
The Final Deletion
The Final Deletion put the Hardy brand itself on the line, and the losing brother had to give up the surname and answer to 'Brother Nero'.
Q 11Which cable network was home to TNA Impact from October 2005 until the end of 2014?
Spike TV
Spike TV reached more than 97 million homes when the deal ended, well above the 59 million of the smaller channel Impact moved to in 2015.
Q 12TNA created a spin-off promotion called Ring Ka King for television viewers in which country?
India
India's Ring Ka King ran for 26 episodes in 2012, and the parent promotion returned in 2017 to tape episodes of Impact there.
Q 13Which four-time WCW champion co-founded TNA in 2002 with his father after a fishing-trip brainstorm?
Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett hatched the idea with his father Jerry and Bob Ryder on a fishing trip, planning a promotion that skipped television for weekly pay-per-view.
Q 21Which TNA tag team of James Storm and Bobby Roode won the World Tag Team Championship five times?
Beer Money, Inc.
Beer Money, Inc. grew out of two broken-up groups, Storm's America's Most Wanted and Roode's Team Canada, and became a regular pairing in 2008.
Q 22Which TNA pay-per-view was created in 2005 as its flagship event, an answer to WrestleMania?
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory left the studio in 2006, when a Michigan arena hosted the first monthly TNA pay-per-view staged away from its usual soundstage.
Q 23Which TNA event debuted in 2005 with every match on the card inside a steel cage?
Lockdown
Q 14Which third-generation wrestler became the first woman to win TNA's top world title in January 2020?
Tessa Blanchard
Tessa Blanchard, daughter of 1980s star Tully Blanchard, beat Sami Callihan for the title but was stripped of it that June after a long absence.
Q 15Which wrestler won a ten-woman gauntlet match in 2007 to become the first TNA Knockouts Champion?
Gail Kim
Gail Kim went on to hold the title seven times, including one reign that lasted just 18 hours before she vacated it to retire.
Q 16Which signature TNA X Division match hangs the prize from two cables crossed high above the ring?
Ultimate X
Ultimate X debuted in 2003 with ladders banned, and the first match used bare steel wires that bounced so much the belt tore off twice.
Q 17Which TNA match has a penalty box and is won by hanging the title belt above the ring?
King of the Mountain
King of the Mountain is effectively a ladder match in reverse, and a wrestler must first score a pin or submission just to become eligible to win.
Q 18Which wrestler won the TNA world title in March 2013 and revealed himself as leader of a biker gang?
Bully Ray
Bully Ray had posed as the gang's enemy for months, then beat Jeff Hardy with help from Aces & Eights and unveiled himself as their president.
Q 19Which TNA Knockouts Champion later played Tammé 'The Welfare Queen' Dawson in Netflix's GLOW?
Awesome Kong
Awesome Kong, real name Kia Stevens, ran a $25,000 open challenge for her title that planted audience members kept losing, until Taylor Wilde beat her.
Q 20Which executive became TNA president in 2003 after her parents' energy firm bought control?
Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter was handling the promotion's publicity when a key backer pulled out, so she pitched her parents, the owners of Dallas-based Panda Energy.
Lockdown was originally meant to feature only two cage matches, but grew into a fully caged card with a team finale modelled on WCW's WarGames.
Q 24Which wrestler cashed in a Feast or Fired briefcase to win the TNA world title in 2016?
Drew Galloway
Drew Galloway, better known in WWE as Drew McIntyre, took the belt from Matt Hardy and became the first Scottish-born holder of the title.
Q 25Which Bellator MMA fighter returned to TNA in 2014 and went on to win its world title four times?
Bobby Lashley
Bobby Lashley fought five times for Bellator while wrestling for TNA and won them all, before heading back to WWE in 2018.
Q 26Which TNA stable of veteran former world champions formed in 2008 to battle the younger 'Frontline'?
Main Event Mafia
The Main Event Mafia united Kevin Nash, Booker T and Scott Steiner with two fellow former world champions, and between them won the world, tag team and Legends titles.
Q 27Which masked TNA wrestler began appearing unmasked in 2012 as his own 'brother', Joseph Park?
Abyss
Abyss played both roles, with Park 'searching' for his missing brother, until Eric Young tore off the mask mid-match and exposed the secret.
Q 28Which legend joined TNA in January 2010 and led Fortune, a stable modelled on his Four Horsemen?
Ric Flair
Ric Flair's group was first spelled 'Fourtune', and the name was tweaked once its membership expanded later in 2010.
Q 29Which former WWE star was TNA's last NWA World Heavyweight Champion before the two split in 2007?
Christian Cage
Christian Cage was stripped by the NWA on the day of a title defence, ostensibly for refusing to face challengers from its other territories.
Q 30Which UFC pioneer won the main event of TNA's very first show to claim the NWA world title?
Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock beat Malice at the end of a twenty-man Gauntlet for the Gold, with Ricky Steamboat as the guest referee.