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Steve Maclin has been through it all since joining TNA Wrestling (TNA) in 2021.
He has had feuds with major pro wrestling stars such as Nic Nemeth, Josh Alexander, Moose, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Mike Santana, just to name a few. He is a two-time TNA International Champion and Impact World Champion.
PRO WRESTLING STARS LEAD SHOW TO BENEFIT TUNNEL TO TOWERS, SHARE WHAT BEING AMERICAN MEANS TO THEM
Steve Maclin, left, and Deonna Purrazzo are conducting a shoot to benefit veterans and first responders. (Provided to Pak Gazette Digital)
Amid a recent wave of stars joining the free agent market over the past two weeks, Maclin shared why someone should consider TNA as a potential landing spot for the future.
“TNA has always been under the radar. It’s been kind of a land of misfit toys where you can go and reinvent yourself or invent yourself as a new character in general and show the world who you are,” he told Pak Gazette Digital. “TNA has always given me that opportunity, especially the day I started working at TNA Wrestling, I haven’t stopped: becoming world champion, becoming the first TNA international champion and now hopefully coming back and coming back after the world title as well.
“It’s a place where you can grow and it’s a place that’s like that locker room that everyone has always been looking for and it’s that family orientation. And it’s said a lot in the professional wrestling world, but it’s very family oriented where we all take care of each other no matter how good or bad the creative is or what the upper echelon is like, the locker room always takes care of the locker room. They’re the ones that make bad creative look like good creative on television.”
Maclin also had the opportunity to host a charity event with his wife, fellow professional wrestling champion Deonna Purrazzo, to help give back to veterans and first responders.
Professional wrestling stars Steve Maclin and Deonna Purrazzo were champions in TNA. (Provided to Pak Gazette Digital)
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Maclin and Purrazzo will host Battle for the Brave on June 6 in support of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Maclin served with the US Marines.
“It’s a great cause just because the entire New York/New Jersey area, the tri-state area, was really affected by 9/11. It affected both of our lives,” Maclin told Pak Gazette Digital in an article published earlier this week. “I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2005. It just affected everyone. So, especially a lot of the talent that’s on the card, they all have some kind of story or connection to 9/11.
“And with Tunnel to Towers, a lot of people in that area love the cause and love what Tunnel to Towers does for the community by giving back to the families of first responders, paying mortgages, smart homes for veterans who have been injured and now paying college tuition for families of first responders and veterans who have lost loved ones.”
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TNA airs weekly programming Thursday nights at 9 pm ET on AMC.
