Mr. Cohen. Within a week or so, we'll have the transcript and we'll invite you in to review it. You can't take it with you or make copies, but you can review it and make any changes.

Mr. Cacheris. We will probably do it after, the holidays if you don't mind, Brian.

Mr. Cohen. I think that will work okay.

Mr. Cacheris. That will work, won't it?

Mr. Cohen. I'm almost certain it will. I will be asking questions about several Do you have any questions specific documents during today's interview. I'll ask that as we ask those questions, we also put those documents into the official transcript record. before we begin?

Ms. Carter. No, sir.

Mr. Cacheris. What is the confidentiality of this transcript, Brian? It is obviously shared with all of you and your members, I guess.

Mr Cohen. We as a committee, we always have the the committee always has the right to make these kind of interviews public. In this case, that is decided pursuant to committee rules. In this case, we have not made any decision. Mr. Cacheris. No decision?

Mr Cohen. That's correct.

Mr. Cacheris. Okay. All right.

EXAMINATION BY MR. COHEN:

Q All right. We'll begin by asking some background questions about TNA wrestling and your role at TNA. First, 6 please state your current position for the record.

A I'm currently President of TNA wrestling.

Q And what are your responsibilities in that position?

A I'm ultimately responsible for everything that happens within the company.

Q How long have you been TNA president?

A I've been president since the spring of 2003.

Q And can you briefly describe your professional experience prior to your current job with TNA?

A Prior to TNA wrestling, I owned my own company in Nashville and moved there at 26 years old and started my own company in the music business and entertainment business and represented a variety of different music acts and worked in the motion picture industry some and represented a few athletes as well mostly in the marketing, PR and promotions side of the industry. But right before this, I was doing management, artist management as well.

Q Okay. If you could just give us a little slightly description of your roles and your day-to-day responsibilities within TNA.

A I was first brought in I was offered the opportunity to take a meeting with TNA wrestling, and quite honestly, I was not a fan of current wrestling products, but I knew it was a big business and so I took the meeting anyway, and was very impressed with the people that were there and it seemed completely out of character from what my perception of the business was. And I took on TNA wrestling as a client and I handled their marketing, PR and promotions when I first started the company. It was a very, very small served, funded company and they lost its funding weeks after its first show quite honestly, and people only gave them weeks to survive anyway. So it was right on time. And then I helped them find an investor which happened to be my family's company out of Dallas. It is an energy company and it was a completely nonstrategic investment for them but they felt like, you know, there was only one competitor in the industry and that there was an opportunity there. And so I continued on in that same role until the spring of 2003 when I was -- I moved into the presidency.