Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 31, 2011,
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Report: TNA Uses Excuse For Terry Taylor's Firing
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
TNA Wrestling's announcement on May 23 that Terry Taylor, Director of Talent Relations, made the decision to leave the organization, is reportedly a cover excuse.
According to a source, Taylor was fired by the organization on May 20. It is believed that he was let go due to allegations made against him in a lawsuit filed by a former performer.
The source notes that it may not necessarily be Shan...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 31, 2011,
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Name Not Backstage At The iMPACT! Tapings
Source: Pwinsider.com
Tommy Dreamer's name is on the run sheets at the iMPACT! tapings – listed as a producer for segments – but he is not at this week's TNA tapings.
This is causing a lot of chatter backstage since Dreamer had just turned heel and was in the middle of a program with Fortune. There's no word yet as to why he isn't there but we know his contract was expected to expire shortly.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 31, 2011,
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John Benoit, who has been a semi-regular correspondent for TNA events as well as other events in the Orlando area, was ejected from tonight's Impact Wrestling tapings.
Benoit was ejected from the event by a TNA Producer and then walked off Universal property by an Orlando police officer. Benoit was shown PWInsider.com's website on a mobile device owned by a member of TNA security and then informed he was being thrown out.
PWInsider.com has left word for TNA's VP of Public Relations, Steven ...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Friday, May 20, 2011,
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On Sale Now: The New TNA Mobile Video Game From Namco Bandai
Available now at App Stores is the new TNA Wrestling Mobile Video Game from NAMCO BANDAI, available for the iPhone, iPad, Android and more! Watch an exclusive preview video, along with information about the game!
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Rule the ring with 24 TNA Superstars, including AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, and even the legendary Hulk Hogan! Master each wrestler’s playbook of back-breaking strikes...
The Rock: RIP Randy "Macho Man" Savage - you were one of my childhood inspirations and heros. Strength, love and prayers to the Savage/Poffo family.
Jim Ross: Just heard Macho Man died this morning of a heart attack while driving his vehicle in Tampa. Condolences to all Randy Savage fans/family.
Kevin Nash: I lost a close friend today. If anybody in heaven is wondering who the cat in the ugly cowboy hat is it's Randy. Love you Bro. Never another
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Friday, May 20, 2011,
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TNA joins the entire wrestling world in mourning the passing of the legendary "Macho Man" Randy Savage
Savage was one of the most talented athletes to ever compete inside a wrestling ring. He truly transcended professional wrestling, becoming one of the true "icons" of our sport. Millions of wrestling fans grew up watching Savage battle other legends such as Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat and many more.
Savage appeared with TNA during our 2004 "Victory Road" and "Turning Point" even...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Friday, May 20, 2011,
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Hulk Hogan -- We Had Finally Started to Talk Again ...
Hulk Hogan says he's "completely devastated" by the death of Randy "Macho Man" Savage -- saying they just rekindled their friendship after not talking to each other for nearly ten years.
Hulk just went to his Twitter page and wrote, "I'm completely devastated, after over 10 years of not talking with Randy, we've finally started to talk and communicate."
He added, "He had so much life in his eyes & in his spirit, I just pray that he's...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Friday, May 20, 2011,
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Macho Man Randy Savage -- one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time -- died today in a car accident in Seminole, Florida ... TMZ has learned.
TMZ spoke with Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 9:25 AM ... and lost control of his vehicle.
Earlier this month, Savage celebrated his 1-year anniversary with his new wife Lynn.
Savage was 58.
Macho Man began wrestling in the WWF in 1985 and became a superstar wi...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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Tara Spends A Day At The Ballpark With Nashville Area Students
On Tuesday, IMPACT WRESTLING Knockout Tara was invited as a special guest to Nashville Minor League Baseball Team, the Nashville Sounds. Before the game, Tara spoke to over 2,000 elementary and middle school kids in the Nashville and Kentucky area about the importance of reading and education. Tara also discussed “Eliminate the Hate”, our anti-bullying campaign aimed at ending bullying of all kinds. After throwing out the fi...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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'The Pope': I'm Not Leaving TNA Wrestling
"The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero appeared on 540 ESPN Radio's Pro Wrestling Report Monday night and said he's not leaving TNA.
It was speculated that he would leave the organization due to cryptic comments he made last week on Twitter about "moving on."
The tweet that started the rumors read: My time has come, It's time to move on. I've served well. Hope none has been disappointed; hope my hard work has been Applauded & Appreciated.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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Talents Headed To AAA - Details Inside
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) announced last Thursday that Mickie James, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Sexy Star will face Faby Apache, Mari Apache, Lolita and Cinthia Moreno at the organization's biggest show of the year, TripleManía XIX, which takes place on Saturday, June 18 at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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desmond Wolfe Returns To TNA - New Role Revealed
Desmond Wolfe returned to TNA Wrestling at last night's television taping in Orlando, Florida as the commissioner of Xplosion. His official role is "Commissioner of TNA Xplosion."
TNA Xplosion is a secondary TV show that airs in international markets. Wolfe still has not been cleared to wrestle. There are some major issues that TNA and Wolfe have been very secretive about. More as we get it.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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IMPACT Spoliers
Credit: John Benoit/Pwinsider
Impact 5/26:
*Ken Anderson, dressed like Sting came out and cut a promo. He brought out, no kidding, Disco Inferno as his guest on the "Scorpion Sitdown", so he did an entire talk show mocking Sting before laying out Inferno. Sting made the save.
*AJ Styles and Chris Daniels defeated Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer in a Street Fight.
*Velvet Sky cuts a promo saying she is tied of the accusations against her. ODB comes out and says that a year ago, she was fir...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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IMPACT Spoliers
Credit: Pwinsider.com
*Immortal minus Hulk Hogan come out to begin the show with an in-ring promo. Brian Kendrick interrupts and all the X Division comes out as well. A huge brawl ensues as Fortune hits the ring.
* TNA X Division Champion Kazarian vs. Abyss is announced for later tonight as well as Amazing Red vs. Samoa Joe and Generation Me vs. Eric Bischoff & Matt Hardy.
* Rosita, Sarita & Madison Rayne vs. TNA Knockout Women’s Champion Mickie James, Tara and Miss Tessmacher with Me...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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TNA sent out the following today…
TNAOnDemand.com's IMPACT WrestlingChat will be bringing fans a once in a lifetime opportunity starting on May 17th. To celebrate the rich history of the X-Division, each week, TNAOnDemand.com will be picking three historic matches from one of our Stars of IMPACT WRESTLING'S past and allow fans to vote on which one they think was the best. Each week, voting will start on Monday and end at 12:00pm ET Friday. Votes will be tallied and on Sunday night at 8pmET...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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Source: Press Release
Spike TV and Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling Relaunch Flagship Program as ‘IMPACT WRESTLING’
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling and Spike TV announced today that TNA’s flagship program would be rebranded as IMPACT WRESTLING, beginning Thursday, May 19 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on SPIKE.
With the debut of “TNA iMPACT!” in 2005, TNA and SPIKE have partnered to bring U.S. television audiences the most exciting prof...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 19, 2011,
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Source: Facebook
Those of you looking to check out your favorite TNA Wrestling news and information on Facebook will have to go to a new URL. As of a few hours ago, TNA Wrestling changed its official Facebook URL from http://www.facebook.com/tnawrestling to http://www.facebook.com/impactwrestling
If you go to http://www.facebook.com/tnawrestling you’ll wind up on Bill Banks’ (a backstage employee for TNA Wrestling) Facebook page. So remember, from here on out you want to go to http://ww...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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News: Karen Jarrett Claims Injury After Fall, Status For Sunday's PPV Uncertain
On Friday afternoon, Karen Jarrett claimed via her Twitter account that she had suffered a "bad fall" and was having trouble walking. Then, on Saturday, Karen posted that "Due to my fall, not sure I will be up to having a match on Sunday at the PPV".
On Sunday night at the Sacrifice Pay-Per-View event, The Jarretts are scheduled to compete in a mixed-tag team match against Kurt Angle and Chyna, who makes her in-...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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D'ANGELO DINERO UPDATE On theelijahexpress.com, it was announced that D'Angelo Dinero/Elijah Burke graduated and received his degree with high honors in Criminal Justice. recently. It could be that is what he was referring to with his 5-13-11 tweets and the one he posted last night, "My time has come, It's time to move on. I've served well. Hope none has been disappointed; hope my hard work has been Applauded&Appreciated."
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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– Treasure Coast, Florida news website TCPalm.com published a wedding announcement concerning TNA Wrestling talent James Cox (a/k/a James Storm) and Dani McEntee, who got married on March 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.
– TNA Women’s Knockouts Champion Mickie James is hosting a wrestling event at the May 27 Springfest Festival in Carrier Mills, Illinois. More information on the event is available here.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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Rumors
Source: The Pro Wrestling Torch
The role of Kurt Angle's on-air "mistress" went to former WWE Diva Chyna instead of independent wrestler Isis the Amazon due to concern over her wrestling ability and behind-the-scenes reputation.
With the role calling for a wrestling match this Sunday at Sacrifice, TNA Wrestling officials opted for "The Ninth Wonder of The World" over the 6'9" grappler.
"Isis is way too green still," said one company source. She worked a dark match prior to the February ...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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Source: ShopTNA.com
The gang over at ShopTNA.com have created and are selling a brand new iMPACT Wrestling t-shirt. An image of the new t-shirt is included below:
The new iMPACT Wrestling t-shirt is retailing for $19.99 and is available at this link. Personally, I wonder if the organization’s new slogan (“Wrestling Matters Here”) is on the backside of the t-shirt. I’m a bit of a fan of the new slogan.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Saturday, May 14, 2011,
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Source: Facebook & TNAStars.com
If you’re any bit of an internet wrestling fan, then you’ve probably read the new reports out today suggesting that the stories from a few weeks ago regarding Dixie Carter being forced into a reduced role in the company might have been overblown. What I found funny about those “stories” is that there was never a single bit of evidence to support them. Rather (like always), the major rumor mongers created a story that they ultimately destroyed a few wee...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Monday, May 9, 2011,
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Join us from June 12th through June 14th in Orlando, FL for TNA's annual Slammiversary Pay-Per-View in VIP style. There are only a limited number of these packages available so get yours now before it is too late! You can purchase your package at ShopTNA.com.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Monday, May 9, 2011,
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Velvet Sky Charity Donations Project for Shane Helms!
Velvet Sky is putting together a charity project for former WWE Superstar Hurricane Helms/Shane Helms after his serious motorcycle accident.
Helms is currently in the hospital with many serious injuries and during this time he will be unable to wrestle which is his only income at the time. He isnt in the best of shape, but he is in good spirits.
Velvet is accepting any kind of donation via Paypal so that she can give to him for all his medic... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Thursday, May 5, 2011,
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TNA iMPACT Preview
Jeff and Karen Jarrett plan to call out Velvet Sky. Is she the new "Ms. Angle" that Kurt Angle has been talking about? Is a war brewing between Karen and Velvet?
Plus, more news on the upcoming "Sacrifice" Pay-Per-View event on Sunday, May 15
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Wednesday, May 4, 2011,
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IMPACT Spoliers
TNA iMPACT (Airing May 12th On Spike TV):
* The show opens with Jeff and Karen Jarrett in the ring. Jeff says he wants a truce with Kurt Angle and so does Karen. Karen goes on about how she’s sorry and calls out Kurt so she can apologize for her actions. Kurt comes out and tells Karen she’s crazy and he will not accept an apology. He says he wants a mixed tag match at Sacrifice with he and his business partner vs. Jeff and Karen. Kurt says he would bring her out now but the network ...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 3, 2011,
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Rumors
Report: Former WWE Intercontinental Champion To Be Revealed As Kurt Angle’s Mistress?
With Total Nonstop Action Wrestling star, Kurt Angle currently embroiled in a feud with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling star, Jeff Jarrett and Angle’s ex-wife, Karen Jarrett, the main talking point of this current storyline is who will portraying the role of Kurt Angle’s mistress, as he has been noting to over the past couple of weeks.
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 3, 2011,
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IMPACT Spoliers
*Douglas Williams pinned "Sterling" James Keenan in a dark match.
*Jesse Neal, wearing his Navy uniform, comes to the ring and leads the entire Arena and the roster in the national anthem.
TNA iMPACT!:
*Immortal come down to the ring. Sting and Rob Van Dam come to the ring and there's a huge brawl. Its broken up. Fortune hits the ring and says things are going to change next week.
*Mexican America have a Cinco Del Mayo celebration. They invite the Spanish announce team to celebrate wi...
Posted by Nicole Rivera on Tuesday, May 3, 2011,
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News
USS Cole Veteran and TNA Wrestler Jesse Neal Reacts To The News On Osama Bin Laden
On Sunday night, we learned that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by United States military forces. As the entire world reacted to the news, USS Cole veteran and TNA Wrestler Jesse Neal expressed his feelings via his Twitter account @jessenealtna
Jesse Neal served on the USS Cole. On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole was refueling at the Yemeni port of Aden when the ship became a target of a terrorist attack u...
