Month: February 2021

Credit: WWE.com When Raw rolls into North Charleston, S.C. next Monday, don’t expect Randy Orton to shower his fellow Superstars with Southern hospitality. The WWE Champion was humiliated last Monday when he lost to Ric Flair, thanks to a well-timed distraction by Chris Jericho. Good thing for the Nature Boy, too, since Mr. McMahon has…

Source: PWTorch.com As reported yesterday, there was an all-talent meeting held before Monday’s iMPACT! tapings where anybody who was unhappy and wanted to leave TNA would be granted an unconditional release. Senshi was the only person to take them up on the offer. He worked this week’s tapings and is expected to be done with…

– WWE has added both Rob Van Dam and Eric Bischoff’s profiles to the Alumni section of WWE.com. – Advanced advertisements are promoting WWE World Champion Batista vs. Edge in a Last Man Standing match for the SmackDown/ECW house show on December 27 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Whether or not this is any indication…

We have more details on TNA’s talent meeting that was held before the iMPACT tapings on December 3rd, one day after the Turning Point pay-per-view. Dixie Carter expressed how TNA management was tired of the undercard talent in the company complaining and offered anyone that was unhappy with their position in the company their release….

Partial source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter As most know by now, Carlito has rescinded his request to be released from WWE and will remain with the company. After a series of events which included TNA acquiring Booker T, the last thing Vince McMahon wanted was another one of his “big name” superstars to end up with…

partial source: www.f4wonline.com — Shelly Martinez is now hosting a Rock music show called ‘RockNation TV’ at this link. You can see her host the show on episode 7. — For the first time since August 2006, there won’t be a monthly TNA pay-per-view hype special on Spike. Tonight’s Impact replay is sandwiched between episodes…

— This week UFC television cameras visited Brock Lesnar’s training facility in Minneapolis, Minnisota. The footage will be used for a “UFC All Access” special that will air on Spike TV later this month. Lesnar makes his UFC debut on February 2nd against former heavyweight champ Frank Mir. — Recently UFC filmed a video package…

— Nikita Koloff appeared on the wrestling-radio.com online show on Wednesday night and gave an update on Lex Luger. He said he’s traveled twice recently to see Luger. He said Luger is still in a wheelchair after the San Francisco wrestling convention fiasco, and that for a long time, he was paralyzed from the neck…

source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter — Christy Hemme didn’t appear at ringside for two straight weeks on Impact (1/10 & 1/17) when her men had matches on both shows. Although, she appeared on the PPV that was held during the week of the tapings. There is a reason for her missing the shows. Hemme had a…

Source: Wrestling Observer – Dave Meltzer is reporting that TNA iMPACT! may start going live every other week as soon as March. If this does happen, their tapings will be moved to Thursday and Friday. – Meltzer also reports that Spike TV is interested in airing a secondary TNA show. The focus of this new…