{"id":117602,"date":"2023-01-13T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T02:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=117602"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:53:00","slug":"santino-marella-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/01\/13\/santino-marella-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Santino Marella Announced as IMPACT Director of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling has a new Director of Authority. <strong>Santino Marella<\/strong> made his way to the IMPACT Zone at Center Stage in Atlanta during the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/01\/11\/hard-to-kill-2023-preview\/\" target=\"_self\">Hard to Kill<\/a> pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<h2>Santino Marella Announced as IMPACT Director of Authority<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milanmiracle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@milanmiracle<\/a> is HERE and is the BRAND NEW Director of Authority! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMooseNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheMooseNation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joehendry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@joehendry<\/a> CONTINUES! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HardToKill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HardToKill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CY68Ndy8hF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CY68Ndy8hF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1614084936624967681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Marella did not take long to use his newly appointed power. His appearance in the IMPACT Zone came after Moose won the Digital Media Championship from Joe Hendry with a low blow. Marella refused to let the title change under such controversial circumstances. He re-started the match immediately and Joe Hendry was able to retain the Digital Media Championship.<\/p>\n<p>A new authority figure was needed in IMPACT Wrestling following IMPACT on AXS TV from a couple of weeks ago. <strong>Scott D&#8217;amore<\/strong> who has served as an on-screen authority figure in addition to his backstage roles was taken out by Bully Ray. Gail Kim announced on this week&#8217;s episode of IMPACT on AXS TV that a new authority figure would be revealed at Hard to Kill.<\/p>\n<p>Santino Marella&#8217;s last appearance in IMPACT was under his real name Anthony Carelli as a commentator at Sacrifice in March of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong> <strong>More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/01\/13\/frankie-kazarian-impact-wrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Frankie Kazarian Signs Long-Term IMPACT Contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Last Word on Sports for more Hard to Kill updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013 WWE Wrestling. Last Word on Sports will have the latest results and predictions from IMPACT Wrestling Hard to Kill live during the show. Stay tuned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. IMPACT Wrestling Hard to Kill will air live on pay-per-view and via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/watch\/impact-wrestling-hard-to-kill-2021\/2p8k6\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FITE.tv<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling has a new Director of Authority. Santino Marella made his way to the IMPACT Zone at Center Stage in Atlanta during the Hard to Kill pay-per-view. Santino Marella Announced as IMPACT Director of Authority .@milanmiracle is HERE and is the BRAND NEW Director of Authority! @TheMooseNation and @joehendry CONTINUES! #HardToKill pic.twitter.com\/CY68Ndy8hF &mdash; TNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":6015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,8959],"tags":[246,184,1079],"class_list":["post-117602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-tna-wrestling","tag-joe-hendry","tag-moose","tag-santino-marella"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135286,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117602\/revisions\/135286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}