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Tons Of TNA & ROH News: iMPACT!, New Japan Stars, Angle, More
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-- The ECW website was advertising another Matt Striker "Classroom" segment with Mick Foley as the guest for last night's show, but the segment was nixed come show time, perhaps due to time constraints.
-- In case you missed it on Monday, Candice Michelle was inserted in place of Torrie Wilson in "The World Is Watching" promo that airs before Raw & SmackDown broadcasts. When Trish Stratus left the company in the fall of 2006, WWE replaced Stratus with Torrie in the promo.
-- Speaking of Torrie, while her profile has been removed from the SmackDown section on WWE.com, the profile itself has yet to be deleted.
-- TNA officials first approached Roxxi Laveaux and likely other women to see who was willing to have their head shaved bald for the makeover battle royal at TNA Sacrifice. Had everyone objected, they would not have ordered anyone to go through with it. Although, one source is saying that Laveaux was cool with the idea and agreed to go through with the head shaving without much hesitation.
-- Considering that the TNA Knockouts frequently draw the highest-rated segments on iMPACT! (Velvet Sky & Angelina Love in particular), TNA plans on featuring the women in multiple segments on the show over the next two weeks. The next two editions of iMPACT! will feature two matches involving girls on both shows.
-- Despite Kurt Angle's neck injury, TNA still has plans for Angle to wrestle AJ Styles at Slammiversary next month. Although, there are some people within the company who are concerned with this. They believe that Angle will try to gut his way through the match even if he's not healthy enough. They are hoping that management will look out in his best interests, even if he is not willing to.
- Rey Mysterio was scheduled to return to the ring from bicep surgery next month. However, the company has pulled him from all house shows in June. No return date for Mysterio has been set either. WWE had plans for Mysterio to return at One Night Stand on 6/1 because its in his hometown of San Diego, but that's obviously off the cards. Additionally, prowrestling.NET is reporting that there is plenty of second guessing going on amongst officials on the decision to allow Rey to opt for a new surgical procedure that was supposed to reduce his recovery time from six months to six weeks. Mysterio acquired an infection during the initial surgery that led to even more procedures. Mysterio opted for a local surgeon that has been sued multiple times for malpractice instead of renown surgeon Dr. James Andrews.
-- According to Jeremy, a spokesman for Jakks Pacific, they have plans to release a Giant Gonzalez action figure with fur in the future. Production will be limited to 500, so it will be pretty rare. During his time in WWE in 1993, Gonzalez wore a bizarre full-body suit that featured airbrushed muscles with bushy hair attached. Jakks has released a Classics action figure on Gonzalez in the past, but it didn't have fur.
-- You can read a preview for WWE 24/7 programming in June at WWE.com. The theme of the month is "Gold Rush," which will feature several huge championship matches and historic title changes. During the month they plan on airing WCW Great American Bash '92, the entire MSG show from January 23, 1984 in which Hulk Hogan pinned the Iron Sheik, the last Saturday Night's Main Event for nearly 14 years from October 1992 featuring Shawn Michaels vs. The British Bulldog, and for the first time ever, an episode of WCW Thunder (from August 1998 featuring a Bret Hart vs. Lex Luger U.S. Championship match). Also, WWE 24/7 plans on profiling the "Worst Characters" in wrestling history in the Legends of Wrestling discussion show. The preview for this reads: "Dusty Rhodes, Michael Hayes, Mick Foley and Pat Patterson join host Gene Okerlund for a no-holds-barred roundtable discussion of the worst characters in wrestling history. See classic footage and hear the stories behind notorious Superstars like the Gobbledy Gooker, Red Rooster, the Shockmaster, Mantaur and others."
# The 5/10 iMPACT! replay did a 0.4 rating.
# ShopTNA.com is now featuring two variations of men's TNA logo polo shirts.
# Mike Johnson is reporting that New Japan wrestlers Milano Collection AT and Taichi Ishikari will be working the upcoming World X Cup.
# The Emmure music CD "The Respect Issue" which features Kurt Angle on the cover is now in stores.
# Tom sent this in: According to a commercial that aired locally last night during ECW the following talents are scheduled for the 6/22 house show in Cincinnati, Ohio: Kurt Angle, Booker T, "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles, Scott Steiner, X Division Champion "Maple Leaf Muscle" Petey Williams, The Rock N' Rave Infection, Curry Man, Kaz, "Cowboy" James Storm, Eric Young, Consequences Creed, Black Reign, Shark Boy, Angelina Love, "The Guru" Sonjay Dutt, Roxxi Laveaux, Velvet Sky and Abyss.
# ROH will officially debut on 6/25 in Toronto, Canada at the Ted Reeve Arena. Tickets go on sale 5/20.
# The teams for the upcoming Tag Team Title tournament will be ROH champion Nigel McGuinness & Go Shiozaki, FIP champion Roderick Strong & Davey Richards, Kevin Steen & El Generico, Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black, Austin Aries & Bryan Danielson, The Vulture Squad's Ruckus & Jigsaw, Chris Hero & Adam Pearce and Delirious & Pelle Primeau.
# ROH announced that the following stars were all at last Saturday's Hammerstein debut: James, Jason, Erik, Mike B, Alexis and Joel Anderson from Survivor Micronesia, Boo, Michelle and Stacy from Survivor Fuji, Thunder D from Survivor Pearl Islands, Sonia from the first Survivor, Sam Roberts from Opie & Anthony and Michelle Deighton from America's Top Model.
Nice to see ROH getting some popularity with celebrities, Would be quite cool to see this months 24/7 .
Re: Tons Of TNA & ROH News: iMPACT!, New Japan Stars, Angle, More
I dont really understand the Knockouts thing. It seems any Knockouts will draw viewers. Jarrett had the same theroy & booked two unknown to general fans in a match & they still draw a high rating. Daizee Haze vs Melissa if your wondering.
So yeah, i dont really understand how a random match can draw so many viewers.
05-14-2008, 05:26 PM
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