– Here’s a look at several TNA’s upcoming live events:
* November 30 in Bemidji, MN
* December 1 in Fargo, ND
* December 2 in Grand Forks, ND
– Scott Steiner and TNA will be back in court on November 30th in Nashville, Tennessee. TNA is attempting to get Steiner’s breach of contract lawsuit thrown out.
– Former TNA Knockouts Angelina Love and Velvet Sky will be appearing together on the cover of the latest edition of “Models Mania Magazine” – which you can see below:
Solomonster rants on Black Friday, praises Austin Aries and a fun edition of Impact, talks about the debuts of Ambrose/Rollins/Reigns and why they are the future, other NXT names possibly being promoted, a disturbing trend in WWE and the reason why Raw often feels like Groundhog Day, potential choices for Royal Rumble winner, the WrestleMania “bus” controversy, Vince McMahon’s old Playboy interview, and who do you think is the better role model – Rock or Cena? Someone get Heyman his balloons!
– The Nov. 12 Impact Wrestling taping in Orlando, Florida, featured the television return of Mickie James following a three-and-a-half-month absence. Her hiatus was due to multiple reasons, including a major medical one.
With TNA creative’s shift in recent months to solely focusing on talent with etched storylines, James’ screen time was drastically curtailed in the spring and summer, leading to her being removed altogether in August. In September, she aggravated a rib injury during a live event tour and decided to take away from the ring. During her hiatus, she underwent surgery to remove a large benign mass, according to the Wrestling Observer. In October, James tweeted a photo of herself at the hospital after having undergone surgery, but did not mention the nature of the procedure.
James was said to be in great spirits on the night of her return.
– Speaking to Pipedream Comics, Christopher Daniels explained why there are a lot of similarities between wrestling and comics.
“I think that both offer the type of escapism that people are looking for in their entertainment, the type where good eventually triumphs over evil, where everything turns out good in the end. And while, the journey to that climax is happening, mood twists and turns keep an audience wanting more,” said Daniels.
In response to a question asking which wrestlers in TNA, WWE and even Ring of Honor would make the best comic characters, he said, “Well we’re all just comic book characters come to life anyway but for the sake of this particular question I’ll go with the most colorful and charismatic of characters: Rey Mysterio, Brodus Clay, Sin Cara, Kane, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Curry Man and El Generico. And yours truly, of course!”
Daniels also talks about wanting to develop a comic based on his wrestling persona, reading comics on digital devices and more. The full interview is available here.
This Thursday on Impact Wrestling, Rob Van Dam will defend the X Division Championship against an opponent to be selected by Hulk Hogan during the show. Plus, AJ Styles and James Storm will face Daniels and Kazarian in a tag team match.
ImpactWrestling.com has released the following preview for the show:
Preview Thursday’s IMPACT WRESTLING broadcast at 8/7c on SpikeTV! If you can’t watch IMPACT on Thursday night, make sure to set your DVR to record all the action.
– The countdown continues to December’s “Final Resolution” event, featuring Jeff Hardy vs. Bobby Roode for the World Heavyweight Championship! Both Hardy and Roode will be on the huge broadcast – what will happen when champion and challenger go face-to-face?
– Thursday’s IMPACT also showcases the return of CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY! X Division Champion Rob Van Dam will defend his title on the broadcast – who will IMPACT General Manager Hulk Hogan select to face RVD? Tune in and find out!
– Last week, Austin Aries dropped a bombshell on Hulk Hogan with his accusation about his daughter, Brooke Hogan. How will Hulk, Brooke and Bully Ray react this Thursday night on SpikeTV? Is Aries ready for the potential war he just started with Hulk and Bully Ray?
– Did second-generation star Wes Brisco pass his TNA GUT CHECK? After his tryout match, Brisco will face the judges on Thursday’s IMPACT! Will Brisco realize his dream of earning a spot on the roster – or is it back to the proving grounds for the young star?
– Plus, it’s a huge tag team war on IMPACT as “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles teams up with “Cowboy” James Storm to take on Christopher Daniels and Kazarian!
All this and much more on the special Thanksgiving broadcast on IMPACT WRESTLING – Thursday 8/7c on SpikeTV!
Emmy winning entertainment reporter Chris Van Vliet from WOIO recently spoke with Dolph Ziggler in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. He talks about breaking away from Vickie Guerrero, how he would have been pushed sooner if he was bigger and his thoughts on John Cena and CM Punk.
He talked about how if he was bigger he would have been pushed earlier, saying if he was 4 inches taller and 40 pounds heavier he would be “a multiple time world champion”. However he admits that he’s he glad he has had to work for all of his success because he feels it has made him better.
He also discussed CM Punk’s claim to being the best the world saying “He has to put it on a shirt. It’s almost like ‘Guys, I’m the best in the world, right? Just ask me!’ It comes off like he’s begging for it and if you keep saying it I guess you think it’s true.”
On being great at selling moves, “I do everything, especially when I’m getting beat up, If I’m going to run into something, I’m running into it full force and it hurts. But instead of hearing ‘oh, is that guy ok?’ you hear ‘OOOOH!!’. My body’s on the line because I love this and I do it for a living”
On the topic of John Cena, Ziggler says, “The eight-year old kids, they still think that John Cena’s really good at stuff, other than being strong. And they buy the t-shirts and that’s great. Everybody else goes ‘well, I graduated high school. I get that [Ziggler’s] better than everybody else’”
On being compared to Shawn Michaels and Mr. Perfect: “Mr. Perfect, I was a big fan of his because we kind of had similar deals like wow, we’re almost too good at this that it looks easy sometimes. Huge fan of his, huge fan of Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair. Those guys who always wanted the spotlight even if they weren’t supposed to be in it. They were the guys, if they weren’t the main event, they showed up the main event to let everyone know that next time you put me in there”
On whether he or any of the [WWE] guys in the back follow what’s going on in TNA: “Me, personally as a wrestling fan, it’s something I’ve said before where I study movies, I study comedians, why they are getting these reactions; I watch all wrestling. And lots of us, because of the ever-changing roster for both sides, we’re friends with half of those guys anyway because we were wrestling with them a few months ago. So that community, we all kind of follow each other. A lot of us watch it just because we love wrestling. We’ll watch TNA. We’ll watch Ring of Honor. I watch everything just to see what’s going on and know where I need to be.
“Even a good friend of mine, Mike Mondo, who was with me in the Spirit Squad, he’s in Ring of Honor tearing it up. Everyone’s always saying how great he’s doing.”
In a follow-up question, Ziggler is then asked, “There seems to be some storylines between TNA and WWE that are kind of overlapping right now. Isn’t that weird? He responds, “I’m a little behind on [TNA] storylines, but yes. I heard that from several different people. So, maybe…”
Other topics covered were: getting more mic time, breaking away from Vickie Guerrero and his Twitter feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The following matches were taped for tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling:
* Chavo Guerrero vs. Joey Ryan
* Alex Silva vs. Sam Shaw
* Non-Title Match: Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Christian York
* Taeler Hendrix vs. Tara
* Turkey Suit Match: Eric Young vs. Robbie E vs. Jessie Godderz
* Kazarian vs. AJ Styles
Here is the official preview for tonight’s Impact Wrestling:
– It’s the special Thanksgiving Edition of IMPACT WRESTLING! After you give thanks and enjoy holiday dinner with the family, sit back and enjoy two hours of wrestling action! TNA and SpikeTV continue the tradition of wrestling on Thanksgiving night!
– The special Thanksgiving IMPACT also features the return of OPEN FIGHT NIGHT! Who will get called out and challenged? What grudges will be settled? In addition, TNA GUT CHECK winners Alex Silva, Taeler Hendrix, Sam Shaw and Christian York make their return!
– As part of OPEN FIGHT NIGHT, Austin Aries says he has a call-out that will shake things up in TNA! Who could Aries have him mind? He isn’t telling anyone until Thursday night!
– The broadcast will also include the latest GUT CHECK as one newcomer attempts to earn a spot on the TNA Roster! This week, Wes Brisco will step up and try to pass the GUT CHECK on IMPACT! Can Brisco impress the judges with his match and realize his dream?
– PLUS, the annual holiday Turkey Suit challenge continues! Eric Young is bringing back the turkey costume as he prepares for battle! Who will EY face on the broadcast – and who will end up as this year’s TNA Turkey?! Don’t miss it!
All this and much more on the special Thanksgiving broadcast on IMPACT WRESTLING – Thursday 8/7c on SpikeTV!
Christian York appeared on the Shining Wizards podcast (available at ShiningWizards.com). Highlights from the interview are as follows:
On how he got involved on Gut Check: “I was working in MCW (Maryland Championship Wrestling) and TNA was doing a house show in Bowie, Maryland, and the agents asked for a list of 10 guys, and I was one of the 10. I was eating breakfast with my wife,and they gave me call saying, we want to use you on some house shows and get a look at you. So I did that, and they called me back about doing this Gut Check.”
On the Gut Check Experience: “They told me it’s all a shoot, it’s all real. It’s not scripted stuff or anything like that, and we did that. We went from there, they did the profile thing with me, and then the match with Zema (Ion), which was pretty wild. All day long you don’t know anything, its just like a rehearsal type thing. Just stand in the ring and we will go from there. Its all a shoot, they want raw emotion.”
The Boy Band Gimmick: “We started that in ’99. We weren’t really on board with the boy band thing. We were like, man, that’s gay. We were trying to be edgy, like every indy wrestler, trying to be cool as hell. We wanted to be called Fourplay, but we ended up being the Badstreet Boys. It worked, we had tons of girls as fans. Kanyon had seen the gimmick and had the idea of getting Shane Helms and Shannon Moore a tryout. Myself and Joey didn’t have any idea about this. Then Shane called and said, hey, man, we just got signed, and I was like, did we get signed? And he was like, no, they are gonna give you a tryout, we are gonna do the boy band gimmick with Evan (Karagias). ”
On WCW not being around: “I miss the hell out of it, man. I wish it was still around so guys would have a place to work.”
First Run with WWF/ECW: “After we got released from WCW we had a no compete clause, 120 days. We waited and we just said, let’s go there and try to get on. And we got on, it was pretty cool. They let us do dives and like all kinds of stuff, stuff that unheard of. They were like, just go out there in tear it up. So we did that, and they liked us and stuff, but we looked like kids compared to the cast of characters in WWF at the time. So they said why don’t you go to ECW and go there and get over, get seasoned, and then come back here. We got in touch with Tommy Dreamer, and they were already interested in us, so we went there and off we went.”
– To correct a report from last week on WWE opening Raw broadcasts with a man narrating video packages after Vince McMahon was shown a tape of TNA Wrestling’s Impact Wrestling show, he was actually informed of the concept by an employee and upon being intrigued, immediately concluded that his company could do it better. It was noted that if he had actually watched an Impact Wrestling opening, he probably would have been embarrassed with WWE blatantly copying an idea from TNA.
Multiple members of WWE’s creative staff—more their assistants—are assigned to watch tapes of TNA, Ring of Honor and WWE’s NXT, and file a report on its contents. There are other employees who work in the same capacity as consultants for the company.
Though some creative writers joined WWE with no knowledge of professional wrestling whatsoever, there are some who were prior fans.
– The official WWE website is now promoting CM Punk’s scheduled appearance on Talking Dead this Sunday night at at 11 p.m. on AMC, a live talk show that discusses episodes of the popular The Walking Dead drama series.
Yesterday on Twitter, Punk vented on WWE not promoting his talk show appearance nor his return home to Chicago tomorrow as Official Grand Marshal of the McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade. He wrote, “Yes, I will be on @AMCTalkingDead on Sunday. Shocking how WWE didn’t promote it or get AMC the proper materials in time to announce it. I will also be the Grand Marshall in the Chicago turkey day parade. Also not announced or promoted by “my” company. Shocking. This is what happens when you go over everyone’s head to hustle and acquire your own outside appearances. #disrespect.”
ImpactWrestling.com has released the official preview for Thursday’s Thanksgiving edition of Impact Wrestling.
Preview Thursday’s Thanksgiving IMPACT – Open Fight Night, Gut Check and more!
Preview Thursday’s IMPACT WRESTLING broadcast at 8/7c on SpikeTV! If you can’t watch IMPACT on Thursday night, make sure to set your DVR to record all the action.
– It’s the special Thanksgiving Edition of IMPACT WRESTLING! After you give thanks and enjoy holiday dinner with the family, sit back and enjoy two hours of wrestling action! TNA and SpikeTV continue the tradition of wrestling on Thanksgiving night!
– The special Thanksgiving IMPACT also features the return of OPEN FIGHT NIGHT! Who will get called out and challenged? What grudges will be settled? In addition, TNA GUT CHECK winners Alex Silva, Taeler Hendrix, Sam Shaw and Christian York make their return!
– As part of OPEN FIGHT NIGHT, Austin Aries says he has a call-out that will shake things up in TNA! Who could Aries have him mind? He isn’t telling anyone until Thursday night!
– The broadcast will also include the latest GUT CHECK as one newcomer attempts to earn a spot on the TNA Roster! This week, Wes Brisco will step up and try to pass the GUT CHECK on IMPACT! Can Brisco impress the judges with his match and realize his dream?
– PLUS, the annual holiday Turkey Suit challenge continues! Eric Young is bringing back the turkey costume as he prepares for battle! Who will EY face on the broadcast – and who will end up as this year’s TNA Turkey?! Don’t miss it!
All this and much more on the special Thanksgiving broadcast on IMPACT WRESTLING – Thursday 8/7c on SpikeTV!
– As seen Sunday night at Survivor Series, Eve Torres added a new layer to her heel character by disingenuously waving to the audience during her ring entrance for her WWE Divas Championship defense against Kaitlyn. TNA Knockout Madison Rayne, who is known to perform that entrance style as part of her conceited beauty queen gimmick, was immediately besieged with messages on Twitter notifying her of the WWE Diva’s imitation and responded, “Hahaha, I love you guys!!! Imitation flatters me, it doesn’t upset me. I’m pretty sure NONE of the KO’s can be duplicated!”
– Zema Ion appeared on Extreme Pro Wrestling Radio on 100.3 FM KFAN in Minneapolis and was asked to give his thoughts on the X Division Championship being used as a pass to a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship at TNA Wrestling’s annual Destination X pay-per-view event.
“(Austin) Aries is blazing the trails for X Division wrestlers such as myself and he’s showing we don’t have to be confined to our own division,” said Ion. “We are talented enough to take on the heavyweight wrestlers and go after the heavyweight titles. What he did at Destination X and the stipulation that every year the X Division Champion can cash in an opportunity for the world title at that pay-per-view, it’s a great thing. It gives us a chance to stand on that stage, pay-per-view, main event, World Title.”
Ion was also asked whether being labeled an “X-Division guy” bothers him. He states, “It doesn’t really bother me. I will say there have been several times that I was thinking it would be great to get in the ring with guys like RVD or AJ Styles and test myself see how I can fair against those type of wrestlers. Its frustrating in some ways because I wanted those type of opportunities too and now it seems like things are changing and I may get those opportunities now.”
– Jeff Hardy will defend the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Bobby Roode next month at Final Resolution.
TNA Wrestling released a Before The Bell video promoting the pay-per-view event, with the match officially announced as the main event. Final Resolution takes place Dec. 9.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIvct53ODs
– Rain, who appeared in TNA Wrestling as Bobby Roode’s valet Ms. Payton Banks, broke her wrist in three different places at Friday’s “SHINE 5” internet pay-per-view after being subject to a powerbomb from Awesome Kong. Despite the injury, she continued the bout as planned, which concluded with her receiving an Implant Buster from Kong. She was admitted to a emergency room following the contest.
– Madison Rayne participated in a Q&A session Friday on Twitter and when asked to remark on her dream opponent, she replied Lita. The four-time TNA Women’s Knockout was also adamant that she will never go back to being blonde again.
Rayne competed at the evening’s TNA live event in Johnson City, Tennessee, losing to Miss Tessmacher.
– Bobby Roode and Madison Rayne appear at Direct Auto Insurance 111 East Blackstock Rd. Spartanburg, South Carolina, today from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Call 864-587-9206 for more information.
– TNA Wrestling has uploaded a special edition of “TNA Today” with Gail Kim being presented an award by Pro Wrestling Illustrated for being chosen as the #1 Women’s Wrestler of 2012 after having a 212 day reign as TNA Women’s Knockout Champion and gaining numerous wins over the toughest opponents.
Speaking to Wrestling101.com, Chavo Guerrero commented on whether people in WWE took notice of TNA Wrestling during his tenure with the sports-entertainment organization.
“At first it wasn’t, TNA was seen as just coming up in the business but then little by little they started to pick up more momentum and at this point in time I think TNA has the most momentum we have ever had,” said Guerrero. “If you look at our roster compared to anybodies, WWE’s, New Japan, Ring of Honor, I think we have the best roster in the world right now.”
Having worked for Eric Bischoff, Vince McMahon and Dixie Carter, Guerrero compared the three bosses in terms of their similarities and differences.
“First of all they are all great businessmen and women, they are at the head of companies because being a business person you have to be able to make those hard decisions and make good decisions, so that’s the similarities,” Guerrero said. “Differences, to me you have Vince McMahon who rules with fear, you better watch out or he’s going to cut your head off. Dixie Carter she rules with love and she is happy to have you on her roster and when you do well she lets you know about it. Eric Bischoff, he was kind of in the middle, sometimes he was very mean and wanted to bite your head off and other times you would go out for a beer with the guy.”
After only competing for two years, Chavo Guerrero received his first break with World Championship Wrestling in 1996. He recalls his time with the company.
“Wrestling in WCW was awesome because I was so young and it was a great mix of wrestlers. We had older wrestlers that had been around since my dads time like Arn Anderson and Paul Orndorff then we had the younger generation wrestlers which included guys like William Regal and Fit Finlay, then there were the likes of Eddie, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit, and even younger guys like Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho,” said Guerrero.
“There was such a big mix of people that we really learned all different styles from all different eras. Every era of wrestling changes, it is always evolving, so we learnt so many different things and that’s what I took away with me the most from my time in WCW, it was just like going to school, I was at the Harvard for wrestling.”
Guerrero also recalls being part of the Cruiserweight division in WCW, the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro, joining WWE, winning the WWE Tag Team Championship with Eddie Guerrero, working alongside Vickie Guerrero, comparisons of WCW to TNA Wrestling, and more. The full interview is available here.
– Promoting TNA Wrestling’s upcoming tour of the United Kingdom and British Boot Camp in an interview with The Sun, Kurt Angle feels the company has underutilized Doug Williams and Magnus.
“I think that TNA as a whole might have dropped the ball a little bit with Doug Williams and Magnus, when you look at the talent they have,” said Angle. “They are starting to use Magnus and I believe they have big plans for him. But the reason I thought they might have dropped the ball is because he was so young when he started. They might have thought ‘he’s just a baby, we can wait,’ but four years later he’s still only 25.”
– TNA Wrestling has posted its latest IMPACT Post Show. Here is the synopsis:
“Jeremy Borash is standing by as IMPACT WRESTLING goes off the air along with Todd Kenely. We hear from Bobby Roode right after his match with James Storm. Christopher Daniels is also on hand to give more insight into what happened between him and AJ Styles. We also get a word with Knockouts Referee Taryn Terrell about the Knockouts Royal and the new #1 Contender to the Knockouts Title.”
– Thursday on Impact Wrestling, Mickie James became the #1 Contender to the TNA Women’s Knockout Championship currently held by Tara with her victory in the Knockout Battle Royal. The other participants were Gail Kim, Madison Rayne, Miss Tessmacher and ODB, with James last eliminating Kim for the victory.
– On next Thursday’s episode of Impact Wrestling, the past winners of “Gut Check”—Alex Silva, Taeler Hendrix, Sam Shaw and Christian York—return for “Open Fight Night.” TNA Wrestling has released the following video previewing the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbGCvQgbFY
– AJ Styles and James Storm appear at Direct Auto Insurance 4883 North Broadway St. Knoxville, Tennessee, today from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Call 865-688-4800 for more information.
The following is TNA’s official preview for tonight’s Impact Wrestling show, taped Monday night from Orlando, Florida:
– Tonight’s broadcast will feature the aftermath of the “Turning Point” Pay-Per-View event! Tune in for results and coverage from the huge event.
– After a high-flying, high-risk Ladder Match, “The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy is STILL the World Heavyweight Champion after beating Austin Aries in the main event! Hardy will be at IMPACT this Thursday night with his World Title! How will Aries react to losing his chance at reclaiming the gold? Is Hardy ready to face the NEW number-one contender?
– After winning the #1 Contender’s Match at the Pay-Per-View, “Cowboy” James Storm is next in line to get a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship! What will Storm have to say about becoming the new top contender this Thursday on IMPACT? Plus, how will AJ Styles react to not only losing the match, but any shot at the World Heavyweight Title in the future? AJ Styles will talk about what happened at the PPV – and what he plans to do next.
– The lovely but lethal TNA Knockouts will be in action in a BATTLE ROYAL on Thursday’s IMPACT, as a new #1 Contender to the Knockouts Championship will be decided! Competing in the bout are Miss Tessmacher, Gail Kim, ODB, Mickie James and Madison Rayne.
– Rob Van Dam will be in action as he defends the X Divison Championship on Thursday’s broadcast.
– After last week’s chaos involving The Aces & Eights vs. Sting and Kurt Angle, and D.O.C battling Joseph Parks at Turning Point, what does the gang have planned for this Thursday’s IMPACT on SpikeTV? Will more members of Aces & Eights be revealed? Will D.O.C. make good on his threats against Kurt Angle?
– Eric Young returns to action on IMPACT as he will face Tara’s boyfriend from Hollywood – “Mr. Pectacular” Jesse
All this and much more on Thursday’s IMPACT WRESTLING broadcast at 8/7c on SpikeTV as the road begins to the December “Final Resolution” event!.
– WWE having a man narrating video packages on Raw was, in fact, copied from TNA Wrestling. According to F4WOnline.com, a WWE employee showed Vince McMahon a tape of Impact Wrestling featuring the concept and the company chief reportedly said, “WWE could do it better.”
Eric Bischoff, who produces Impact Wrestling, acknowledged the production rip-off last week on Twitter by posting the following fan message: “Saw #WWE using your backstage camera angles along with the voiceover in the opening video. #EricWins.”
– Following the rousing success of WWE’s first CM Punk DVD and Blu-ray release, CM Punk – Best in the World, the company has plans to release a second title in 2014.
– WWE has released the latest edition of WWE en Espanol on YouTube, with Jerry Soto and Marcelo Rodríguez.
– TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter announced on Twitter that all “Gut Check” winners will appear on next week’s Thanksgiving edition of Impact Wrestling for “Open Fight Night.”
“Interested to see who seizes the spotlight,” wrote Carter.
Winners of the contest include Alex Silva, Taeler Hendrix, Sam Shaw and Christian York.
– Kenny King, who has not appeared for TNA Wrestling since losing an X Division Championship Match to Zema Ion at Hardcore Justice in August, resurfaced at Wednesday’s TNA Xplosion taping in Orlando, Florida. He faced Ion and Kid Kash in a three-way match.
A Knockouts contest was taped for TNA Xplosion Wednesday as Miss Tessmacher faced Madison Rayne.
– This week’s featured match on TNA Xplosion on Challenge pits James Storm against Joey Ryan.
TNA taped next week’s Thanksgiving Night episode of Impact Wrestling on Tuesday from Orlando Florida. Here are detailed spoilere results, courtesy of Billy Billy Krotchsen of PWInsider.com:
* Wes Briscoe comes out and is doing Gutcheck this week. He faces Garrett Bischoff. Kurt Angle comes to ringside to watch. Briscoe wins with a leg hook rollup. Angle celebrates with him.
* Joey Ryan comes out. Says Hogan is trying to separate him and Matt Morgan. He challenges Chavo Guerrero and says Hogan can’t separate the Tag Team Champions.
* Chavo Guerrero vs Joey Ryan: Chavo wins by DQ when Matt Morgan interferes and chokeslams him. Hernandez makes the save.
* Sam Shaw challenges the first Gutcheck winner, Alex Silva.
* Sam Shaw vs Alex Silva: Shaw with a Modified Alabama Jam.
* Eric Young & ODB go to Hogan’s Office & want to issue the Turkey Suit challenge since its tradition. Hogan says he wants to be EY when he grows up.
*C hristian York comes out to issue his Gutcheck Challenge. He says he’s feeling lucky & challenges Jeff Hardy.
* TNA champion Jeff Hardy vs Christian York (Non Title). Hardy wins after Swanton Bomb. After the match, Hardy claps for York. Bobby Roode comes out and hits York with a Spinebuster. He then Spears Hardy and raises the belt.
* EY & ODB are backstage. They come upon the Robbie’s. E says T’s life has been miserable since he had to wear the suit last year. E wants to be challenged. Tara and Jessie walk in. EY says he should issue the ultimate challenge and fight them both.
* Taeler Hendrix comes out to issue her challenge. She challenges Tara.
* Taeler Hendrix vs. Tara. Tara wins with the Widow’s Peak
* Eric Young vs. Robbie E vs. Jessie Godderz. EY wins with a rollup on Jessie. Jessie wears the Turkey suit. Aces and Eights come out and take out EY with a bat and hammer. EY gets stretchered out, so that may have been his storyline exit from the company.
* TNA Tag Team champions Christopher Daniels & Kazarian come out. Daniels says why would he call out AJ? He says its his lowest point and that’s what friends are for. Kazarian calls out AJ Styles.
* AJ Styles vs. TNA Tag Team champion Kazarian. Styles wins with the Pele Kick.
* Austin Aries comes out for a promo. He says he hasn’t been treated right here. One man is responsible for that: Hulk Hogan. He calls out Brooke Hogan. He’s sick of the Hogans. He said that being a Hogan, it’s hard to keep your private life and says Brooke probably hoped she’d become Brooke Trump or Brooke McMahon not Brooke Bully Ray. He has footage of them backstage (basically the Cena and AJ Lee angle in a way)and says she didn’t have to settle for the turkey when Aries would have given her the stuffing. Hulk comes out as does Bully Ray does and Aries exits.
– TNA star AJ Styles has signed a deal with VIP Ink Publishing to write his autobiography. A press release was sent out on Tuesday and includes this summary:
“Styles’ autobiography will cover his life from both in and outside the ring. His autobiography will highlight being brought up in a military family that struggled with poverty and alcoholism.”
“Styles is a devoted Christian and has stated on many occasions that “Its God first and family second.” This autobiography will have his fans gasping for more, as they will be able to appreciate Styles’ life from his severe beginnings to his TNA World Heavyweight Championship.”
– The main event of December’s TNA Final Resolution pay-per-view will be TNA World Champion defending against Bobby Roode. The match was determined at Monday night’s Impact tapings, which will air Thursday night on SpikeTV.
On location at Resurrection Fighting Alliance 4 in Las Vegas, ProMMAnow.com reporter Anton Skoro talks with TNA Impact Wrestling pro wrestler Rob Van Dam about his love for MMA, his thoughts on crossover athletes like Brock Lesnar, Bobby Lashley and Dave Bautista, and whether or not he would have gone into MMA.
RVD, who is now 41 years old, commented on whether he would have gotten into mixed martial arts if it was around when he was 18 years old:
“Actually it is the only sport I watch. It really is. I can’t hold a conversation with anything else. If someone wants to talk basketball, football, soccer, golf – even wrestling – I actually don’t even watch wrestling. It’s my job, you know; unless I’m there at the arena watching,” Van Dam said. “But, MMA, I can’t name all the fighters, I’m not like one of those hardcore guys, but I really enjoy the whole competitive spirit that I see when I watch it. I’m a big fan.”
RVD also said he has no plans to slow down as a wrestler and wishes he could use a more hardcore in-style. Here’s video of the full interview:
TNA taped this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling on Monday night from Orlando, Florida. Here are spoiler results, courtesy of Billy Krotchsen and PWInsider.com:
* Impact opens with a James Storm promo. He talks about the PPV win, thanks his supporters and haters. Bobby Roode interrupts with two bottles of beer. He offers some cheers on pinning Styles not Roode and using his hard rock. Roode cheers him, drinks beer and Storm nails him. Roode offers to fight him and put his title shot on the line. Storm says no at first but then changes his mind when Roode insults Storm’s daughter.
* Kid Kash is introduced, but is interrupted by an Aces & 8’s promo. They take Gallows’ vest. Devon throws the dart to destroy someone else.
* X-Division champion RVD defeated Kash with 5 Star Frog Splash.
* Eric Young & ODB promo. ODB says she’s gonna become TNA Knockouts Champ again. They kiss.
* Backstage Garrett Bischoff and Wes Brisco offer to be Kurt Angle’s tag partner tonight. Kurt picks Garrett.
Jesse Godderz defeats Eric Young with a modified stunner, after a distraction from Tara/ODB.
* Dixie Carter promo, talking about AJ Styles not being able to compete for the title until Bound for Glory.
* Magnus comes out to face Joe. Aces and Eights come out and take out his knees with a hammer. Agents and Bully Ray stop Devon from hitting him with a bat. Stretcher job.
* Kurt Angle & Garrett Bischoff vs Devon and masked man (pretty sure it’s Mike Knox).Pre match, Angle says he doesn’t need a dart to know whose ass he wants to kick. Angle with schoolboy on larger member. Luke Gallows tries to interfere with hammer, Briscoe makes save.
* Tara & Godderz go to Brooke Hogan’s office. She is with Bully Ray and it was sort of intimated something was going on with them.
* They held a Knockout Battle Royal with Mickie James winning.
* AJ Styles cut a promo. He wasn’t thankful for anything this year or the people that doubted him. Out came Daniels and Kazarian, who ripped him. Daniels challenged Styles to face him one more time next week.
* Bobby Roode vs. James Storm for World title shot. Roode wins after throwing Storm into an exposed turnbuckle and uses a school boy with tights.
Jeff Hardy appeared on Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Doug Mortman on Monday. The program airs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on Sirius 92 and XM 208 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., visit www.facebook.com/bustedopen for more information. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
On what he thought of the ladder match with Austin Aries at Turning Point: “Before last night, I went back to watch some of the TLC matches and myself and the Undertaker and there is a lot for me to live up to in those matches. But I haven’t seen it back because I got knocked silly numerous times. So once I see it back, I’ll have a better idea of my opinion.”
What is on the horizon with his contract expiring soon?: “In January when that rolls around, I’ll make a decision. I’ve pretty much made that decision. The music is going to be a huge part of it as far as keeping me around. We haven’t signed anything yet, but we are getting close.”
Talks about James Storm as the number one contender: “I forget where it was, but we wrestled at a live event and it wasn’t too long ago, I think it was before Bound For Glory and we had a crazy good match. It’s babyface vs babyface, but we have different styles, but its going to be great for sure. A lot more technical, probably throw some extreme touch in there, but you never know with James what’s going to happen.”
Is he excited to still be wrestling?: “Of course!! It is my evolution. I will ease out of wrestling and into my next step which is going to be music and maybe eventually balance both. But yeah it’s just fun to have them support me like they are, even with my paintings and we’re talking about this website. There is a lot of exciting things that are in the works. It’s probably going to keep me around, and I’m just taking it slow. Right now I am the world champion, so I’ve got a lot to focus on and we keep recording new songs. It’s just getting more exciting. The future has a lot to offer.”
Will he change his wrestling style: “I’m going to change it big time when I leave and I come back as Willow the Wisp one of these days. My vision of this character is just an extension of myself. It will be basically from the imagination of Jeff Hardy. Willow the Wisp instead of painting my face, he’ll just be wearing a mask. In a world that makes no sense, back in the Omega days it was so fun to be him and I never worried about making sense. I was in my own little world under that mask. At 36 years old, if I can do something like that it’s going to be a blast. It’s going to be a huge change of style for me.”
Wafiullah Wahidi, the man who Kurt Angle has been ranting about on Twitter for allegedly scamming him out of thousands of dollars, issued the following statement over the weekend regarding Angle’s accusations:
“I was approached by Kurt Angle to be part of a MMO RPG game that was being developed and completed according to original scope of work with the producers of a movie he was part of.
During that time, I approached Kurt Angle with an idea of a fitness application that would help people reach their fitness and lifestyle goals. At the idea Mr. Angle was very excited and agreed to move forward with the project.
However after the first couple of payments, I was instructed by Mr. Angle to use that money toward the MMO RPG Game being developed and I did as he had requested. At the time I made clear to Mr. Angle that allocation of those funds would take away from the fitness apps. After constant changes to the MMO RPG and no further monetary or resource support from the team involved provided, I decided to terminate that project and count my losses.
Mr. Angle was really sympathetic and agreed with me numerous times that I was put in an unfair situation. Still Mr. Angle and myself agreed to continue with the Fitness Application with no further resources provided. We tried our best but we needed fitness advice, nutrition advice, and other resources that would make the application a success. We were given that information August of 2012 and still it was not sufficient enough.
Please bear in mind that during this time while we were designing and developing this application virtually for free, Mr. Angle and his wife were consistently accusing me of scamming them and each time, I gave Mr. Angle the option to back out of the project as I was starting to feel the pressure and trust was no longer there.
After many calls from a Hysterical Mrs. Angle and barrage of verbal threats one of Mr. Angle’s associates got involved. With his involvement we had the ball rolling.
I advised his associate that after a year, this project was starting to cost me a lot of money and my resources were tied. He agreed that he would send another 1200.00 to cover final development costs, but Mr. Angle did not send those funds for four weeks, at which point the damage was too high to my staff and our business.
Even then we were able to complete the application with minor work needed to be completed, when the day before I was supposed to present the app, I got dozens of twitter messages, emails, calls, and voicemails from a hysterical Mr. and Mrs. Angle. I was called a terrorist, a thief, and a scam artist.
At that point I made a business decision, that I would no longer work with Mr. Angle. I advised that I would pay money owed (if any) after deducting all work done and time spent on the application to Mr. Angle.
After about five days I got another series of hysterical tweets and threats and the twitter attacks began. For anyone who wants to know the truth and see how I have dealt with other (PAYING) customers feel free to contact me at wwahidi@wabasocial.com and you can talk to the clients directly.
I have had a lot of respect for Mr. Angle and I remember as a kid watching him on WWE. It took me by surprise that an American Hero like himself would stoop so low to defame and slander someone publicly. As for Mr. Angle so called lawsuit, the WaBa Social legal team has reviewed everything and we are ready to protect our good name and values against all. Secondly our legal team is in the process of filing suit against Mr. Angle for Defamation of Character and Slander.
Regards,
Wafiullah Wahidi WaBa Social Inc. 1830 Blake Street Denver, Colorado 8020″
