TNA's Steve Maclin pitches promotion as reinvention spot amid wrestler free agency

Steve Maclin has faced off against top pro wrestlers since joining TNA Wrestling in 2021.

He has feuded with stars including Nic Nemeth, Josh Alexander, Moose, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Mike Santana. Maclin holds two TNA international championships and one Impact world championship.

With several wrestlers hitting the free-agent market in recent weeks, Maclin explained to Fox News Digital why talent should consider TNA.

"TNA has always been under the radar. It’s kinda been that land of misfit toys where you can go and reinvent yourself or invent yourself as a new character in general and kinda show the world who you are," he said. "TNA has always been giving me that opportunity, especially the day that I hit the ground running in TNA Wrestling, I haven’t stopped – becoming the world champion, becoming the first TNA international champion, and now, hopefully coming back and going back after the world title as well."

"It’s a place where you can grow and it’s a place that’s kinda that locker room that everyone has always been looking for and it’s that family orientation," Maclin added. "And it’s said a lot in the world of pro wrestling but it’s very family oriented where we all take care of each other no matter how good or bad the creative is or how the upper echelon is, the locker room always takes care of the locker room. They’re the ones that make bad creative look like its good creative on television."

Maclin and his wife, fellow pro wrestler and champion Deonna Purrazzo, are organizing a benefit event for veterans and first responders.

The couple will host Battle for the Brave on June 6 to support the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. A U.S. Marine veteran, Maclin enlisted in 2005.

"It’s a great cause just because that entire New York/New Jersey area, the Tri-State area, has really been affected by 9/11. It affected both of our lives," he told Fox News Digital. "I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2005. It just affected everyone. So, especially a lot of the talent that’s on the card as well, everybody has some type of story or link toward 9/11."

"And with Tunnel to Towers, a lot of people in that area love the cause and love what Tunnel to Towers does for the community by giving back to first responders’ families, paying off mortgages, smart homes for veterans who have been wounded and now paying off college tuitions for first responders’ and veterans’ families who have lost some loved ones," Maclin said.

TNA airs weekly shows Thursday nights at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.