Bruce Prichard Returning to Impact Wrestling

[It's Damn Real!]

According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, Bruce Prichard will be making his return to Impact Wrestling this week, in both an on-air and backstage role.

Prichard will be be flying to Orlando for this week’s TV tapings to appear in an on-air role, as well as work in an advisory position behind the scenes.

As of this writing, it remains unclear what Bruce’s on-air role will be at this point, but the huge numbers his podcast has been receiving lately is a big reason why TNA has decided to bring him back.

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/810...backstage-news-on-his-new-role-in-the-company

Update: @JRsBBQ: I can confirm @bruceprichard is joining @RealJeffJarrett at @IMPACTWRESTLING
doing some on camera work & behind the
camera. Debuts 3/9.

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Any guesses here? The fact it's on-air has me baffled. His last on-air role was Gut Check, so unless they plan on bringing that back, I'm not sure what he's going to be doing.

 

[Lowdown]

Maybe all this is due to the Twitter fiasco with Josh Matthews. Or maybe its to replace Pope on color commentary. I can't speculate either way, but this makes me think that there will be a shake up of that magnitude.

 

[MWRedskins]

my question is this, was he ever in an on air role (besides tna gut check)?? Bruce (from what i seen) doesnt come off as a great on air character, but again, i havent really seen him enough to get an opinion on him as an on air character so that's why i'm questioning this. i hope (for Impact's sake) that Bruce is great as an on air character, but i'll wait and see here.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

my question is this, was he ever in an on air role (besides tna gut check)?? Bruce (from what i seen) doesnt come off as a great on air character, but again, i havent really seen him enough to get an opinion on him as an on air character so that's why i'm questioning this. i hope (for Impact's sake) that Bruce is great as an on air character, but i'll wait and see here.

Of course. He's Brother Love!

He doesn't have a ton of on-air experience, but he does have a wealth of industry experience, and honestly, he wasn't bad in Gut Check the last time around.

If he's on-air, that's fine. I just hope TNA knows not to go with the tired old "GM" model where whomever the on-air personality is ends up dominating half the show. Think Hogan, Bischoff, Carter, etc.

Less is more here.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

I think Prichard can help. In reality, as long as it's not Dixie coming back in, it's a win.

Prichard knows wrestling and can provide experience. I suppose he could help get some bigger names to TNA, but I don't know how realistic that is right now. There's only one free agent out there who could possibly move the needle, and that's CM Punk. I'm 98% sure that won't happen, even if he and Prichard are friendly, so all in all, I don't know what Prichard can do to help out besides providing credible advice.