05-14-2015, 08:11 PM
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Former TPWW Royalty
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The confusion over the three-hour episode of TNA Impact Wrestling scheduled for next Friday seems to be because there will be no new episode of the show airing. Instead, Destination America will be airing the 2014 Slammiversary PPV from 8-11 p.m. It's worth noting next weekend is Memorial Day Weekend in the U.S., likely the reason for the change.
Slammiversary '14 was taped June 15, 2014, in Arlington, TX, headlined by Eric Young vs. Austin Aries vs. Bobby Lashley for the TNA title. It also featured Kevin Von Erich's return to wrestling in Texas as the cornerman for sons Marshall & Ross Von Erich.
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Reason is due to Destination America not wanting a new Impact episode to be shown during Memorial Day and potential hurt ratings even more than they are now. Observer also confirmed Destination America lost all interest they had with TNA in the past few months.
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Originally Posted by Observer
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jeff Jarrett has been talking to WGN, Spike, Fox Sports 2 and CMT about a possible television deal for Global Force Wrestling.
There is no deal between GFW and Jim Ross, but the two sides are in negotiations. Jarrett is hoping to get more financial backing as well.
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Originally Posted by Observer
We noted before that TNA was seriously making a play for top TNA tag team The Young Bucks. Word is that The Bucks have turned down the offer as their priority is New Japan Pro Wrestling.
TNA finally paid all of their production workers this past week. They were said to be shorted on money from January and February, and hadn't been paid for March yet. If the workers weren't paid, they were refusing to work, which would have caused a problem for the scheduled May 8th Impact Wrestling.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The TNA creative team is now led by David Lagana with Matt Conway and Christy Hemme, who is more of a liaison between Gaburick and the TNA Knockouts. Billy Corgan is now on the creative team as well, working under Gaburick and Dixie Carter.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Mike Tenay will return to TNA Impact Wrestling commentary on Friday's episode but apparently it's not a permanent change. No word yet on why Al Snow wasn't brought back to work with Josh Mathews this past week but as noted, "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero does some commentary on the May 22nd episode. It's still not clear who the TNA announce team will be.
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Sanada's release came due to a "political crossfire" between TNA and Wrestle-1, who had a talent exchange going. Wrestle-1 fell on hard financial times in Japan so they had to cut back on events and weren't able to book TNA talents following the November event at Sumo Hall that didn't do so well. When Wrestle-1 stopped booking TNA talents, TNA decided to stop using Sanada.
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On Dropped Muppet Gimmick
“I thought I was a rich man. I’ll tell you how rich I thought I was. When Vince approved the gimmick, when he told me that he loved it, I took my wife out to Mr. Chow when I got home because I just saw money,” JTG said.
“It was my idea, the Idea stemmed from this character I used to do in promo class. WWE Superstars, before Raw, some Superstars were called in early to the show—like maybe an hour early—and we would have hands-on classes with Vince McMahon and we did promo classes where it was kind of like improv and working on promos.”
“He would give us an exercise where he would say ‘say anything and you have to cut a promo on it.’”
“i can’t remember what word he gave me, but there was a few times where I started talking to myself and it was highly entertaining, and I created a new character with a double personality. His name was Self.”
“The idea was for the muppet to look exactly like me,” JTG said. “The premise behind the whole Self-Muppet idea was for it to be seen and heard by the WWE Universe, but not seen by anybody backstage. For example, if me and you were talking backstage, Self would be insulting you but you couldn’t hear him. Only me and the WWE Universe, he was kind of like my conscience.”
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Segment from JTG's recently released book.
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