Trent Seven was 'incredibly close' to signing with AEW at one point

Over the weekend, Trent Seven was revealed as the newest member of the TNA Wrestling roster.

The 42-year-old Seven made his Impact Wrestling debut at Final Resolution 2023, teaming with "Speedball" Mike Bailey in a victory over The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz). Seven was Bailey's mystery partner for the match.

It was revealed after the match that Seven has signed a TNA contract. While speaking with Cultaholic, Seven explained how the deal came to be:

We've been speaking for a few weeks now. Kind of just piecing things together and making sure everything kind of worked out. Like I say, a lot of times in this industry and the entertainment industry, it's about saying the right thing, being in the right place at the right time, doing the right stuff, looking the right way. There's a lot of things that have to link up for these kind of things to happen, and that's what it was. It was just the right place, right time, right decision. A million and 10 things lit up, evolving on the day and just kind of continuously evolving and luckily we got to deliver the fans with a real professional wrestling exciting secret. I just love it when wrestling happens like that.

Seven confirmed that we'll still be seeing him appear in other promotions around the world despite signing with TNA.

Before signing with TNA, Seven wrestled for AEW twice in 2022 and for ROH once this year. Seven told Cultaholic that his experience in AEW/ROH was great. There was one point where he was "incredibly close" to signing a deal, but it didn't happen:

There was one point where it was incredibly close to inking something, but sometimes things just don't work out do they? Sometimes people are doing whatever they're doing backstage. You know, you're trying to plan a show [and] selling out Wembley. Sometimes some peoples' names fall to the bottom of the thinking pile. But so be it, man. I couldn't look back on the last 15 months and be prouder, I think. The way it's worked out, the peaks and the troughs, the ups and the downs, the constant testing, the amount of people I've seen, the amount of countries I've been to. But now it feels like I've found a home.

Seven was previously a mainstay of the NXT UK roster in WWE. He was released by the company in August 2022. During his time in WWE, Seven had NXT UK and NXT Tag Team title reigns with Tyler Bate.

Impact Wrestling's name change back to TNA officially goes into effect starting with the promotion's Hard to Kill pay-per-view on Saturday, January 13.