Just yesterday, reports started making the rounds that James Storm would be returning to TNA and therefore finished up with NXT (for the time being, at least). He caught wind of said reports and vehemently denied them, saying he only had a meeting scheduled for today and that's all.
Naturally, he made his return to television on tonight's episode of Impact, the first show on POP TV.
He did so in defense of his old partner, Bobby Roode, who was being attacked by Bram, whom he had just defeated in an open challenge match for the King of the Mountain title, and Eric Young. Then he grabbed a microphone and said this:
"You know, about five or six months ago I kept getting asked the same question: 'Why did you leave Impact Wrestling?' And I answered it with this: Because I didn't like where I was going, who I was portraying, because that wasn't me. ... Plain and simply, I just wasn't having fun anymore. So when I was traveling the world wrestling everywhere trying to figure out what I was going to do next, I was sitting at home and I was flipping through the channels and I came across Impact Wrestling and I seen that yours truly got the 'Biggest Disappointment' award. And I take exception to that because I, for the last 13 years, put everything I freaking have into this damn company. Because this company didn't make James Storm, guys like James Storm made this damn company. And then there's you (Bobby Roode). We drank a lot of beer together. And we've made a lot of money. So I say it's time to get back to having fun. You guys want us to have a little fun?"
Then he offered Roode a beer and the two officially reunited.