As Michael posted earlier here at Rajah.com, Konnan has served TNA Wrestling with lawsuit papers for racism and discrimination amongst other things. Konnan is alleging that while the company said that they would help pay for his hip replacement surgery, they did not. To add leverage to the suit, Konnan claims that TNA helped pay […]
A reader that chose to remain anonymous sent the following live report from Orlando, Florida: I went to the Jericho signing, and he turned up 50 minutes late, the lines were huge. I was up the front somewhere, but from what I heard he stayed late too. He was really nice, but they were rushing […]
sources: Wrestling Observer, Wrestling Observer Newsletter — There were Internet reports of TNA planning to fly a plane with a banner over the Citrus Bowl at WrestleMania. A TNA plane never flew over WrestleMania. Officials were said to be upset with the story on the TNA plane getting out, although WWE officials were aware of […]
— During WrestleMania weekend, WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson was asked about steroid use in pro wrestling, reports the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He said, “When I wrestled, I took stuff they didn’t even have names for. You think Barry Bonds was the first one to take steroids?” — WWE developmental wrestler Afa Jr., who […]
Source: TNAwrestling.com TOTAL NONSTOP ACTION (TNA) WRESTLING’S “SLAMMIVERSARY” SPECTACULAR HITS THE MEMPHIS AREA ON JUNE 8! TNA Wrestling is proud to announce that its worldwide Pay-Per-View spectacular “Slammiversary 2008” will be held live in the Memphis area at the DeSoto County Civic Center in Southaven, Mississippi at 7 p.m., Sunday, June 8, airing exclusively on […]
Source: PWInsider.com This morning, World Wrestling Entertainment announced that veteran wrestler Dave Taylor, last seen teaming with Drew McIntyre on Smackdown, has been released from the company. Aside from his limited in-ring work for the company, Taylor had also worked in WWE’s developmental system. The company traditionally does “spring cleaning” after Wrestlemania, so don’t be […]
– John Cena vs. JBL was added to the Judgment Day card on tonight’s edition of Raw from Toronto. – Jim Ross announced that the attendance for tonight’s edition of Raw from the Air Canada Centre was 16,664. – WWE will tape this week’s edition of SmackDown as well as the 100th episode of ECW […]
source: Wrestling Observer — Awesome Kong challenging fans out of the audience is set to be a full-fledged angle. TNA plans on continuing the challenges at this week’s Impact tapings. — Raisha Saaed a.k.a. Cheerleader Melissa’s account on Twitter.com can be found at this link. It’s like a mini-blog concerning her daily life occurrences and […]
TNA issued the following press release this morning: TNA WRESTLING SIGNS MAJOR TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL TNA Wrestling, the world’s fastest growing producer of televised wrestling programming, today announced agreements with one of Spain’s leading terrestrial broadcasters, Antena 3, and Portugal’s leading sports broadcaster, Sport TV, to exclusively licence its programming in […]
source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter — The Million Dollar concept came up a few weeks ago when Vince McMahon was looking to come up with some out of the box ideas for a publicity stunt on Raw to help improve sagging ratings. According to sources, it is believed that WWE’s marketing team came up with the […]