— Tonight on Impact Wrestling, Sting battles Kurt Angle for the World Heavyweight Championship with Hulk Hogan serving as special enforcer.

Matches slated to air include:

* AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels

* Mickie James vs. Winter for the Women’s Knockout Championship

* Gunner vs. Rob Van Dam in a Bound For Glory Series Match

* Austin Aries vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Jesse Sorensen

— Asistencia Asesoría y Administración officials have confirmed that Sting will be appearing on their Heroes Immortales show on Oct. 9 in Monterrey, Mexico. He will be participating in the promotion’s TNA invasion angle.

— Mickie James turned 32 years old Wednesday while Jeff Hardy turned 34.

— Orlando Jordan was released Monday by TNA Wrestling, F4WOnline.com has confirmed.

It was reported earlier today that Generation Me were granted their release from TNA Wrestling. Their profile, as well as Jordan’s, have been removed from the company website.

— Christopher Daniels was “shaken up” following his match with AJ Styles last night at Destination X pay-per-view. No word yet on the extent of his injuries.

— Christopher Daniels thanked Hulk Hogan for praising his performance at the pay-per-view event, writing: “Wow. I must say I am honestly stunned and pleasantly surprised by that last tweet. Thank you, @HulkHogan4real, for real!”

Hogan wrote Monday morning: “Excited about the IMPACT TAPINGS today, the pay-per-view was crazy hot, just hope everyone survived physically, Daniels is the man.”

source: F4WOnline.com

Four matches have been announced for next week’s episode of Impact Wrestling.

* A Four Corners Match will take place featuring AJ Styles vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Jerry Lynn.

* Crimson will face Bobby Roode in a Bound For Glory Series Match.

* Matt Morgan and James Storm will face “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero and Devon in a Bound For Glory Series Match.

* Velvet Sky will face ODB and Jackie. If Velvet Sky wins the Handicap Match, ODB and Jacqueline have agreed to never show up in the Impact Zone again.

IMMORTAL has also issued World Heavyweight Champion Mr. Anderson an ultimatum.

— Velvet Sky said on her newly launched Twitter account that Chris Sabin, who she is dating, underwent surgery on his knee this weekend.

“Please keep Chris Sabin in your prayers as he makes a speedy recovery from his knee injury,” she wrote.

Sabin suffered the injury during a match at the April 20 iMPACT! taping. He went for a springboard clothesline and tweaked his knee when Anarquia was out-of-position to take the move. The referee was instructed to end the match when it appeared Sabin was injured.

After the match, an angle took place where the Mexican America faction beat down Sabin before Alex Shelley made his return to television to make the save.

— Click here to view a video previewing this Thursday’s episode of TNA iMPACT!, which is being advertised as “A Night Of Big Reveals.”

The narrator teases, “Immortal finally comes face-to-face with The Network.. and Kurt introduces Karen to her worst nightmare.”

— Daniels has launched an official website, www.FallenAngelChristopherDaniels.com.

— With WWE and TNA both taping their respective television shows on Tuesday night in Orlando, it’s worth noting that TNA stars AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels wrote on Twitter that they bumped into WWE star Daniel Bryan at the airport. Daniels joked that he, Styles and Bryan wrestled an impromptu 3-way match at the airport.

— WWE diva Alicia Fox appeared to have suffered a shoulder injury at Tuesday’s SmackDown tapings from Orlando. According to live reports from several fans who were at the show, Fox took a stiff clothesline from Kharma and appeared to landed directly on her shoulder. We hope to have more on this soon.

– CM Punk has started tweeting again after taking a brief hiatus. In an apparent reference to online reports that he’s unhappy in WWE and considering leaving the company later this year, Punk wrote:

“Anybody hear any good rumors lately?”

— WWE star the Big Show is filming an episode for the USA Network show Burn Notice today. Show tweeted on Wednesday:

“On the set of USA’s Burn Notice I am playing the role of a thief! Cool fun stuff!”

Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan also tweeted, “Working with WWE The BIG SHOW!!! he’s REALLY big.”

— Christopher Daniels was originally scheduled to return to TNA Wrestling as the Suicide character, but plans were ultimately changed. He reached out to WWE during his hiatus from the Nashville based organization, but failed to secure a contract. The feeling within WWE was that he is too small, not to mention old as he is 40. He has continued to appear for Ring of Honor while also working for TNA Wrestling.

— TNA Wrestling posted an image on their shop website today of an Rob Van Dam T-shirt with “RDV” written at the bottom of the shirt as opposed to “RVD”.

The image was quickly deleted and replaced by the intended one.

— Inc Ink. vs. Douglas Williams and Magnus is the featured match on this week’s episode of TNA Xplosion.

source: Pro Wrestling Torch

— Scott Steiner and Beer Money, Inc. vs Rob Terry, Gunner and Murphy was announced tonight on TNA iMPACT! for Sunday’s Against All Odds pay-per-view event.

— Former WWE Champion Chris Jericho issued the following critique to TNA Wrestling while viewing tonight’s episode of iMPACT!.

“After 10 yrs TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If u don’t think that u work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will!”

“As a performer u hav to act and project that where u work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.”

— Suicide made his return to television tonight on TNA iMPACT!, competing in a Triple Threat Match against Robbie E and Brian Kendrick. The bout concluded with E pinning Kendrick.

The recently re-signed Christopher Daniels is once again portraying the video game based character. Suicide had been dormant since October.

– The following matches are advertised TNA Against All Odds next Sunday 2/13:

• Last Knockout Standing Match for the TNA Knockouts Title: Mickie James vs. Madison Ryane vs. Mickie James
• Street Fight: Bully Ray vs. Brother Devon
• Samoa Joe vs. D’Angelo Dinero.

– Former WWE star Ken Doane (Kenny Dykstra) took a few shots at TNA on Twitter this week for the company’s “They” storyline:

“how did TNA know “THEY” were coming? think tna thought “THEY” would be in the WWE Rumble? LOL! Dont know why tna promos always have to remind us of wwe. wwe never reminds us of tna. Maybe tna’s version of “they” was the SQUAD! oh wait we pitched that to them and they didnt like it.”

– Christopher Daniels is back in TNA working at the masked wrestler Suicide. Daniels is still under contract to Ring of Honor, but both sides worked out a deal that Daniels can work for TNA as long as he wears a mask. Daniels will be working for both companies for the foreseeable future.

TNA is planning on beefing up the X Division over the next few months and they know a veteran performer and former division champion like Daniels will help with that.

• KEEP READING: TNA’s X-Division To Get A “Reboot” & Big Push Soon

— In addition to Homicide, it would appear that both Tomko and Rosie Lottalove have parted ways with TNA Wrestling as their respective profiles were removed from the company website’s roster page Thursday. All three were sparingly used in recent months.

In Homicide’s case, he noted on his social networking accounts earlier in the day that he had parted ways with the organization. Meanwhile, Lottalove’s photo gallery was removed from the Knockouts media section.

Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Daniels and ODB were also removed from the page, though their respective TNA departures were noted months ago.

— It was announced during this week’s episode of TNA ReACTION that Samoa Joe would be returning to iMPACT! on next week’s show. The program’s narrator teased: “Where will Samoa Joe stand when he makes his return to iMPACT! next week?”

The former TNA World Heavyweight Champion was reportedly suspended last month due to breach of etiquette.

Former three-time TNA X-Division Champion, former six-time NWA World Tag Team Champion, & former two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion, “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, was one of the special guests on this week’s live edition (06/07/09) of the award-winning Monday Night Mayhem. You can feel The Mayhem live every Monday night (at 7PM ET/6PM CT), exclusively at MondayNightMayhem.com.

You can listen to an audio clip of the Christopher Daniels interview here (MP3). Interview highlights below courtesy of The Mayhem’s official correspondent, Paterson From New Jersey:

The transition from TNA to Ring of Honor over the past several months & if he ever felt he would see himself in ROH full-time once again: “I always thought Ring of Honor was a great place to wrestle, especially if you enjoy wrestling like I do. It’s usually the place where the top talent in the world goes to wrestle, so I’m thrilled to be back there again with guys like Jim Cornette & Adam Pearce heading the ship. You look at the roster they have, and just to be included in that roster, it’s really for a lack of better term an honor. The guys that are going to be on this Pay-Per-View (Death Before Dishonor VIII) are some of the best wrestlers in the world. I always hoped that I would be wrestling and holding my own with the best in the world, so yeah I’m happy to be there.”

The lowdown behind his TNA departure & if he anything publicly to say to those within the TNA organization: “I don’t really want to discuss what happened between me & TNA; that’s in the past, and I’m just gonna go wrestle where I can wrestle. I’m happy to work for a company that appreciates me being there, and right now that’s Ring of Honor, Triple A, & other companies around the world. I’m just concentrating on staying busy and trying to stay at that competitive level.”

What he feels TNA could have done differently with him creatively & how the company could have utilized his persona & character more effectively: It’s easy to look back in hindsight and say ‘They should have done this,’ or ‘I wish they could’ve done that.’ Every wrestler in the world has probably looked at whatever company they’ve been in and said ‘I could’ve been pushed better,’ but the truth of the matter is, creative teams, whether TNA, ROH, or even WWE, there’s a bigger picture that they deal with. The decisions that are made, while they may not be as beneficial to me as a single, in the end they are trying to make the whole roster move forward and be better. What could they have done different? They could have put the World Title on me, but they didn’t. They decided to do what they did, and that’s something we all have to deal with.”

What the fans can expect in his “Pick 6” Contenders Series Match vs. Kenny Omega at Death Before Dishonor VIII in Toronto: I lot of people are happy that I’m back in Ring of Honor in the sense that get a chance to see me live. Coming back after three years of being in Ring of Honor, I get the opportunity to have matches that I haven’t had before, and one for example is Kenny Omega. Kenny has done a lot of good stuff on the independents, both in Ring of Honor & PWG, as well as going overseas. There is a lot of buzz around Kenny Omega, and so, there’s a lot of anticipation for the first time ever that he & I will ever wrestle each other.

How different the ROH product is from TNA right now: “The similarities are of course that the rosters are made up with guys that are hungry for bigger & better opportunities. Being with ROH from the beginning, along with mostly being TNA from the beginning and watching both companies grow from where they were in 2002 to now. Both companies have always been that ‘little engine that could,’ and the differences are in the opportunities that come to both companies. TNA has had better opportunities & breaks in terms of their television situation, but at the same, ROH has had a little more freedom internationally and dealing with talents around the world & with other companies. TNA has tried to be its own entity. It all goes back to the talent and the talent that is hungry for trying to become bigger & better and try to make whatever company we’re talking about more successful.”

More is contained in this worldwide exclusive with “The Fallen Angel”, including his candid thoughts on who he looks forward to competing with in his return to the Ring of Honor roster, how he’s still learning (both in & out of the ring) after many years in the business, how he prides himself in being in the best shape of his life right now, his current relationship with Low Ki/his comments on the highly anticipated debut of “Kaval” in Season II of WWE NXT, plus Daniels’ thoughts on CM Punk taking the opportunities given to him by the WWE (along with his most recent run with The Straight Edge Society). Say your prayers Mayhem Nation, as Christopher Daniels breaks his silence in his first post-TNA interview…found only on “Your Home of Wrestling Radio.” Log on to http://www.ROHWrestling.com & http://www.Tickets.com to purchase your tickets to Ring of Honor’s return to the Buffalo, NY area (at the Erie County Fairgrounds Agri-Center) next Friday night, June 18th, along with ROH’s “Death Before Dishonor VIII” iPPV in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (at The Ted Reeve Arena) next Saturday evening, June 19th. Unable to be a part of DBD VIII in person? Purchase the event right now on http://www.GoFightLive.tv for only $14.95!

— World Wrestling Council announced that former WWE Women’s Champion Mickie James will compete at Aniversario 2010 — the promotion’s biggest event of the year. Previously announced names for Aniversario 2010 include Scott Steiner, AAA’s El Mesias, Shelton Benjamin, Tommy Dreamer, Katie Lea Burchill, Carlito, Primo and Tony Atlas.

Anniversary 2010, dedicated to Don Pedro ‘Huracan’ Castillo, will take place on Friday, July 9 at the Luis T. Diaz Coliseum in Aguadilla, on Saturday July 10 at the Coliseum Salvador Dijols of La Playa de Ponce, and on Sunday July 11 at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon. Visit <strongwww.superestrellaswwc.com for more information.

— Former WWE performers Charlie and Jackie Haas welcomed a baby boy this past week, Thomas Russell Haas II. Nicknamed after Charlie’s late brother Russ, Thomas was born Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., weighing 8 lbs, 14 oz.

— Former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia and former TNA wrestler Christopher Daniels have been announced to appear at the San Diego Comic Con taking place July 22-24 at the San Diego Convention Center. More wrestling stars are expected to be added to the event in the coming weeks.

— There is much internal concern regarding the state of Jeff Hardy. Many feel his work since coming to TNA has been lackluster not to mention that his promos are rambling and sometimes virtually incoherent. Several people are comparing his current state to his previous run in the company, which occurred as a result of his termination from World Wrestling Entertainment for erratic behavior, drug use, refusal to enter rehab and deteriorating ring performance.

Kevin Nash received a concussion as a result of Hardy during their cage match two weeks ago on iMPACT! as he landed on his head while performing The Swanton.

— Last Thursday’s replay of iMPACT!, which began 10 minutes late since a movie ran over, drew a 0.6 cable rating with 758,000 viewers.

— The recently released Christopher Daniels will be working television tapings for Ring of Honor next month.

source: www.f4wonline.com

– Christopher Daniels’ departure from TNA was a hot topic of conversation at Monday’s iMPACT! tapings.

– Speaking of Daniels, he is accepting independent bookings via Bill Behrens at showbis@aol.com. He would be flown out of Los Angeles and is also available to appear as Curry Man.

– After receiving recent tryouts as backstage agents, neither Al Snow nor Dave Taylor were at iMPACT! this week.

– There was a rumor going around over the weekend that TNA would be moving its television tapings to the Paramount Theater in New York City. This rumor is false, especially considering that the former WWE venue houses the Hard Rock Cafe.

(Partial source: pwinsider.com)

– Several readers wrote in over the weekend saying that commercials for TNA iMPACT! aired during Friday’s WWE SmackDown broadcast.

– The official TNA website has removed Consequences Creed and The Nasty Boys from its roster page. Daniels still remains on the site as of this post, though he has in fact parted ways with the organization.

Meanwhile, TNA has added Chelsea to its page. She is being dubbed as “the young and beautiful assistant for TNA Wrestling Superstar Desmond Wolfe.”

– DailyBulletin.com has an article on local wrestlers Jeremy and Max Buck of Generation Me.

TNA star Christopher Daniels made a surprise appearance at Ring of Honor’s live “Big Bang” online pay-per-view event this weekend. from Charlotte, North Carolina. Daniels parted ways with TNA last week and made the call to Ring of Honor  to return to the company.

Daniels cut a promo saying he has been held back for seven years and now returned to ROH to prove he’s the best.

Daniels has reportedly signed on with ROH for a number of dates, including  upcoming events in New York City and Virginia.

– Another round of drug testing took place prior to Monday’s TNA iMPACT! tapings in Orlando. From what we’re hearing, several top stars were included in the testing.

– Tomko, who will be revealed as AJ Styles’ mystery attacker, is expected to wrestle Styles at the January or February pay-per-views, so that storyline has not been dropped.

– Christopher Daniels appeared on the “Busted Open” radio show on Sirius XM satlite radio this week and commented on Hulk Hogan partnering with TNA. “Honestly, right now it’s just sort of a wait and see situation for me personally,” he said. “I know that the name Hulk Hogan has been synonymous with wrestling for forever. So many of us have grown up watching him and knowing what he brought to the wrestling business. Now for him to be here at TNA, you have to wait and see what’s going to happen.” He added, “I’m not really sure what his status is going to be and what his position is going to be here, but you can just look at all the talk that has happened since he signed. It’s become almost a monster in the sense that that’s all everyone is talking about. ‘What’s Hogan going to do with TNA? What’s going to happen to TNA now that Hogan is there?’ So it’s bringing attention to our product. It’s bringing attention to TNA.”