For years, Impact Wrestling's financual status has been well documented. Within the last year, numerous talents such as James Storm, EC3, Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntrye, and many, many more have left the company due to financial reasons.
These talents are unnamed at the moment, but they alleged that they were not paid for the November 2017 Bound For Glory pay-per-view or the TV tapings that were held that same week in Ottawa until after the Christmas holiday, right before the January TV tapings were held. There is now concern among talents that the same payment pattern will continue and that they won't be paid until the next set of TV tapings, which are currently scheduled for late April.
Impact Wrestling president Ed Nordholm has responded to these to claims:
"Talent is not behind on their pay. We generally provide for talent to be paid as independent contractors in the month following a month in which services are rendered. This was an improvement over previous management, where talent cheques were issued only as the actual episodes aired (could be as much as 12 weeks after tapings before final instalments were delivered).
We realize that one unexpected impact of moving our corporate offices to Canada has been a further delay with mail services going cross-border. We are working to streamline our talent payroll processing so future events will be paid closer to the beginning of each month after services are rendered."
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