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Steve Maclin has been through it all since joining TNA Wrestling (TNA) in 2021.
He feuded with major professional wrestling stars like Nic Nemeth, Josh Alexander, Moose, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Mike Santana, to name a few. He is a two-time TNA International Champion and Impact World Champion.
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Steve Maclin, left, and Deonna Purrazzo try to help veterans and first responders. (Provided to PK Press Club Digital)
Amid a recent wave of stars joining the free agent market over the past couple of weeks, Maclin explained why everyone should consider TNA as a potential landing spot for the future.
“TNA has always been under the radar. It’s sort of this land of misfit toys where you can reinvent yourself or invent yourself as a new character in general and show the world who you are,” he told PK Press Club Digital. “TNA has always given me this opportunity, especially the day I started doing TNA Wrestling, I kept on becoming world champion, becoming TNA’s first international champion, and now I hope to come back and come back after the world title as well.
“It’s a place where you can grow and it’s kind of that locker room that everyone’s always looked for and it’s that family orientation. And it’s said a lot in the pro wrestling world, but it’s very family oriented where we all take care of each other, no matter how good the creative is or how high up the creative is, the locker room always takes care of the locker room. They’re the ones who make bad creative look good on television.”
Maclin also had the opportunity to host a benefit event with his wife, 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 PK Press Club Digital)
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Maclin and Purrazzo will host the Battle for the Brave on June 6 in support of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Maclin served in the U.S. Marines.
“It’s a great cause just because the whole New York/New Jersey area, the tri-state area, was really impacted by 9/11. It affected both of our lives,” Maclin told PK Press Club Digital in an article published earlier this week. “I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2005. It affected everyone. So, especially among the talent that is on the map, everyone has a story or connection to 9/11.
“And with Tunnel to Towers, a lot of people in this area love the cause and love what Tunnel to Towers is doing for the community by giving back to first responder families, paying off mortgages, smart homes for veterans who have been injured and now paying college tuition for first responders and veteran families who have lost loved ones.”
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TNA airs weekly programming on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
