Carlos Silva Says TNA Planned Albuquerque Visit With Hopes Of Doing Things With Talent Centered Around ‘Breaking Bad’

Carlos Silva discusses corporate synergy with AMC.

On Tuesday, December 2, AMC and TNA Wrestling announced a multi-year media rights partnership that will see episodes of TNA iMPACT! air on the network every Thursday night.

The partnership will kick off on Thursday, January 15. Just a week later, the promotion will visit Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Speaking with The Sportster for a new interview, TNA President Carlos Silva spoke about visiting the city, which was the setting for ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’, two of the network’s most popular shows.

“It was a little bit of an opportunity to go to a market that we know is a good wrestling market,” he says. “All of us that are also Breaking Bad fans saying, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. If the AMC deal happens, how cool would that be that we’re going to go to Albuquerque and there might be some things that we could do with the talent being in Albuquerque around Breaking Bad?’ So it was just part of the last three months as we were starting to lay out the 2026 season and the deal was getting close enough that it made sense. If, for some odd reason, the AMC deal didn’t happen, it would still be great to be going to Albuquerque. But now that we’re together, it just is like icing on the cake. So it’ll be fun and exciting, I think, to be in Albuquerque.”

In a separate interview, Silva recently confirmed that Joe Hendry has signed with WWE. Check out his full comments on Hendry by clicking here.

Special thanks to The Sportster for the quote(s) in this interview.