With then-President Scott D'Amore shockingly fired back in February , TNA Wrestling has now had another major loss in the form of Lou D'Angeli. As first reported by PWInsider , D'Angeli - who ECW fans may remember as Sign Guy Dudley or Lou E. Dangerously - was part of a round of releases that took place on Thursday.
What makes this exit a particularly surprising one, is that D'Angeli served as the Vice President of Marketing for all of Anthem - TNA's parent company - and was one of the highest-ranking officials in TNA. A meeting took place last week between D'Angeli and Anthem executives, where it was decided by both parties that they would go their separate ways. D'Angeli's assistant, Lily Arenallo, was another who also exited the company, which comes on the heels of RD Evans resigning from his role on the creative team and also the departure of David Sahadi, who was the long-time head of production.
On all of this, Dave Meltzer noted on the latest Wrestling Observer Radio how TNA now "have no marketing team, they have no live events" and don't have any shows booked past the first weekend of August. Meltzer put these departures down to Anthem simply wanting to "spend less" and that the organisation wasn't happy with "whatever the losses were". Where Lou D'Angeli is concerned, he played a huge part in the growth of IMPACT/TNA across the past year or more, being involved in the creative and production side of things in addition to his main role of marketing and driving live ev.