1. History
    Initial usage  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Impact Wrestling  Home venue of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2013)  TNA's return to Orlando (2013–2018) 

2. Statistics
    List of stages  List of live pay-per-view events held in the Impact Zone  Pay-per-view statistics 

3. Notes

4. References

5. External links

}}The Impact Zone,^[1] also known as the Impact Wrestling Zone,^[1] is the professional wrestling nickname for a sound stage in Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida. Its nickname was derived from Impact Wrestling, a weekly television series produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now known as Impact Wrestling) which broadcast from this venue. Between 2004 and March 2013, TNA taped their broadcasts from Soundstage 21 before terminating their lease^[2] and began to tour nationally. TNA returned to Universal Studios on November 21, 2013 in Soundstage 19, which is smaller and holds fewer people than their original soundstage.^[3] Since then, the company has been taping most of its programming at the Universal Studios (with occasional tapings at other venues), but there is no permanent venue for the tapings. The company switches between Soundstages 19, 20 and 21.

As part of the agreement with Universal Studios, Impact Wrestling are not allowed to charge general admission to events held at the Impact Zone, with the exception of VIP packages. This means the company sometimes look for alternative venues to host their large pay-per-view events.

History

Initial usage

Soundstage 21 was originally known as the Extreme Arena{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} and was used for the game shows Nickelodeon Guts and Global Guts from 1992-1995. In 1996 World Championship Wrestling began taping their syndicated wrestling shows WCW Pro and WCW Worldwide from Soundstage 21, now dubbed the WCW Arena. (Before then they had been taped at Disney-MGM Studios.) WCW continued to tape the shows and a few episodes of WCW Saturday Night until 1998 when Pro was canceled and Worldwide was taped before WCW Thunder.^[4] In 1999 the Roller Derby show RollerJam was filmed from the building now called the RolllerJam Arena. They left after their show was cancelled in 2001 and another wrestling company called the XWF began taping their shows there.^[5]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Impact Wrestling

Home venue of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2013)

In May 2004, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that they would be starting their first nationally airing television show, TNA Impact on Fox SportsNet. They also announced that they would be airing this show from Universal Studios as part of an agreement reached with the theme park. Accordingly, TNA leased Soundstage 21 for the purposes of putting on wrestling events for an indefinite{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} period of time. TNA also moved several of its main offices down to Orlando from their original home in Nashville.

From June 2004 to March 2013, TNA taped its flagship show, Impact Wrestling as well as its secondary show Xplosion from the Impact! Zone. They also aired every monthly pay-per-view in company history from that location until October 2006 when Bound for Glory was broadcast from the Compuware Arena in Detroit. They also hosted a special viewing of The Best Damn Sports Show Period that was entitled the Best Damn Wrestling Event Period.

In August 2006 at Hard Justice, a fire sparked in the rafters of the Impact Zone. The fire was the result of pyrotechnics igniting a burlap sandbag. The sound stage was evacuated for approximately 20 minutes while the Orlando Fire Department inspected the resultant damage and the building in general. Afterwards, the audience was allowed back in and the show resumed with only one match cancelled.

On January 31, 2013, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that they would be taping their weekly show, Impact Wrestling from different venues around the United States with the first live show on March 14, 2013 from the Sears Centre Arena near Chicago. The final two episodes of Impact Wrestling filmed at this location were on February 28, 2013 and March 7, 2013.^[6] After this, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling cleared out the venue and ended the Universal Studios contract after these shows.

TNA's return to Orlando (2013–2018)

TNA returned to Universal Studios in Soundstage 19 with its first show back on November 21, 2013. A smaller version of the road set debuted that night along with new lighting structures and new seats in the smaller venue that is 16,500 square feet.^[7] From 2014 to 2016, the company has been taping its programming in Soundstage 20, which is the same capacity as Soundstage 19. However, in January 2017, the company taped TV from Soundstage 19 again. In March 2017, the company returned to Soundstage 21, the original TNA Impact Zone, for the first time in four years. For the April tapings, the company once again used Soundstage 20, so the move to Soundstage 21 wasn't permanent. Soundstage 19 was used for the July and August tapings. The company was originally scheduled to hold their flagship Bound for Glory pay-per-view along with multi-day tapings there in November, but they instead moved the event with the following tapings to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Impact Wrestling returned to Orlando in January as the company held their first tapings of 2018 at Soundstage 19. The Impact Zone also hosted the first live Impact PPV of 2018, Redemption. After the April tapings, Impact began touring other venues and countries, leaving the return to the Impact Zone uncertain. Bleachers used in the Impact Zone went onto sale on eBay in August.^[8]

Statistics

List of stages

List of live pay-per-view events held in the Impact Zone

Until 2017, Impact Zone used to host the majority of taped One Night Only events as well, since these shows were usually being taped along with Impact Wrestling episodes. One Night Only shows are currently held separately from the TV tapings.

Pay-per-view statistics

Notes

1.{{note|a}}The numbers represent the approximate maximum capacities and do not reflect the actual attendance at the events.

2.{{note|b}}The first number shows the percentage out of the shows held in the Impact Zone while the second number shows the percentage out of all shows.

3.{{note|c}}This number shows the combined percentage of shows held in the Impact Zone

4.{{note|d}}The number includes shows that were already taped but have not been aired yet (One Night Only: GFW Amped Anthology shows are excluded, since they are not considered original Impact content)

References

External links

• Impactwrestling.com - the official website of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
• Internet Wrestling Database - iMPACT! Zone - Results from professional wrestling cards promoted at the iMPACT! Zone from 2004–present

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