Austin Aries (Patreon)

Austin Aries was made available ahead of his Impact Heavyweight Championship match at Slammiversary. I asked him about differences in regime, as he's been around for three pretty key ones during his times with Impact. He said that admittedly politics have caused him to not see eye-to-eye with Impact/TNA in the past, but this regime is handling things much differently and has positive, forward thinkers in charge. According to Aries the locker room is way different.

Austin also jokingly suggested that Jay Lethal stole his Paparazzi Championship Series bowling trophy that he was awarded by Kevin Nash. He doesn't still have it, but said if he did, he'd proudly display it. If you've never watched the Paparazzi Productions stuff from TNA over a decade ago, it's worth going out of your way to see.