TNA Wrestling
A TNA Wrestling star has officially retired as of tonight’s August 15 Emergence event taking place in Baltimore, Maryland.
Among the matches on the card for the show was one between Mike Santana and Sami Callihan.
The match had the added stipulation that if Callihan was to lose, he would retire.
Santana did end up scoring the win, meaning the official retirement of Sami Callihan.
Callihan, 37, kicked off his career in 2006, largely making his name in hardcore matches for Combat Zone Wrestling.
In 2013, he signed with WWE NXT, where he spent nearly three years working under the name Solomon Crowe.
Released by WWE in late 2015, he returned to the indies as well as becoming a prominent name in bigger promotions such as Lucha Underground and MLW.
In late 2017, he joined TNA, then known as Impact Wrestling, going on to become the promotion’s World Champion in October 2019, winning the title from Brian Cage in a steel cage match.
He held the title for 79 days, dropping it to Tessa Blanchard, the first ever – and so far only – female winner of the title at Hard To Kill 2020.
Callihan has remained prominent in TNA since then, but that was his only title run with the promotion. He’s also been working in backstage roles for the promotion for a while, in addition to being an active wrestler.
He founded and runs The Wrestling Revolver, one of the top indies in the US.
After his retirement match tonight, he tweeted:
Everything good in my life is because of wrestling. It was a pleasure. On to the next chapter.
We wish Callihan all the best following his retirement from in-ring action.
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