Author: Pastor Ed Boston

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This Week’s Q&A With Dixie Carter

Thanks for your questions this week. I chose a few, at random, to answer. More to come every week!

AUGUST 8 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

Tweet from @1masterjr
@TNADixie will we ever see the Great Muta in TNA?

A. It was wonderful to have Muta visit last week at our TNA offices in Nashville. There are a lot of exciting business opportunities in Japan, and some incredible talent as well that I’d love to showcase on Impact. We have a great home on Nippon Television G+ Sports every Saturday night and hope to bring IMPACT to Japan in the future.

Tweet from @sahilstylin
@TNADixie . I m sure u have been asked before, but is there any chances for a UK PPV? I would be the first one to pay to see it!

A. Would love this, but I always say I want more people to be able to see the great UK audiences worldwide on Impact vs how many would see it on a PPV platform. But we will definitely have a PPV there one day.

Tweet from @CYGY
@TNADixie Any chance we can see “The Alpha Male” Monty Brown back in TNA? He had so much potential to be a main event draw in 2004/05!

A. Monty Brown is still one of my favorite TNA stars from our early days. He was able to transition from the NFL to the ring and showed good charisma. Monty is now retired and currently lives in Michigan.

Tweet from @Carstenrechnage
@TNADixie hey dixie is the 10 reunion going to be available on youtube?

A. It already is available. Watch it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwf2LWrM6LQ

Tweet from @jctjak
@TNADixie is there a chance of TNA going to the Philippines? You do have fans here.. I would love to watch TNA live.. 🙂

A. We are always entertaining offers to tour overseas but have a tremendous television taping and domestic live event schedule to contend with that can make it challenging. Like yourself, many of our fans outside of America subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up on things, and we really have upped our level of exclusive content over the last month at http://www.youtube.com/impactwrestling

Tweet from @ireallyamadork
@TNADixie i’m on the west coast, is there a way to watch #tnaimpact live instead of 3 hours behind?

A. Most TV networks run a “West Coast Feed” to compensate for the time zone changes with their prime time programming. Although there is no way to change that, we watch the #IMPACTLive twitter responses from both feeds.

Tweet from @RealJMontgomery
@TNADixie #askdixie Will there be any special signings with Hogan or Sting for VIP weekend pass holders at BFG fan interaction???

A. We will be announcing a complete VIP Weekend schedule closer to the Bound for Glory event.

Tweet from @JustinPierce07
@TNADixie any public signings by any talent around the Norfolk show?

A. Absolutely! You can meet meet Magnus, Mickie James and Jeremy Borash on Wednesday, August 14th from 4-6pm at Direct Auto Insurance 875 East Little Creek Road in Norfolk

Anyone Remember Stacy Keibler The Wrestler?

Stacy Keibler has been in the media quite a bit due to her dating and now splitting with actor George Clooney. This is a fantastic interview with Stacy talking about a wide variety of topics mostly from her days in professional wrestling. The picture above is on her page that is still on WWE.com.

RAW Segment of the Week: Layla vs Kaitlyn With Jason Ayers As Referee

The ongoing saga of AJ and Kaitlyn added a new chapter during this match between Kaitlyn and Layla. With AJ distracting her old friend and current enemy, the beauty from England nails Kaitlyn with the “bombshell” to get the pin.

On a side note, the referee of this match was Jason Ayers, recently moved to the WWE from the NXT roster. Ayers got his start as a referee in HPW an Indy promotion that DTRT Wrestling covers regularly.

RAW Five Point Preview

  1.  Daniel Bryan gets a corporate makeover.
  2. What will happen now that Layla has stabbed Kaitlyn in the back and is now skipping with AJ?
  3. What’s up with with Christian now that he will be facing Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship?
  4. Does the feud between Kane and the Wyatt family continue to heat up?
  5. Will Ryback continue being a bully?

 

Total Divas Recap: Eva Marie Blows An Opportunity

Episode two of Total Divas had plenty of “drama” and much less back stage action than last week, and the back stage things were almost all drama related too. The main focus tonight was Eva Marie’s failed scheme to dance with Fandango and the relationships of John Cena and Daniel Bryan and their Bella Twins girlfriends.

Eve Marie and FandangoThere were actually two major story lines with Eva Marie. The situation where she lies and says she has been a trained ballroom dancer in order to try to get into a major story, and also her boyfriend showing up, proposing to her, and giving her an engagement ring. Then there’s also how those two combine, and finally Stephanie McMahon’s reaction when Eva Marie is caught in her lie.

Let’s break each of these down and then move on to the other parts of the show.

Eva Marie sees an opportunity when it comes to Fandango using someone as his dance partner. She goes as far as telling Talent Relations that she was a trained ballroom dancer in order to get a shot at the position. She obviously didn’t think it through very well, as when they rehearsed for RAW, she was horrible. One person from Talent Relations stormed away pissed off that she had been played, and the other one told Eva Marie that he had no dance training and even he knew she was terrible.

The timing of her boyfriend coming to town, asking her to marry him, giving her an engagement ring, and then having to leave town was all very, well let’s just say awkward. Reason being, Eva Marie was also trying to work Fandango to win his “support” for her to be his dance partner. This included her going out on the town with him for which she removed her new engagement ring.

Putting those two issues together, the lying and scheming plus her willingness to place her engagement ring in it’s box makes one wonder just what she will do to get what she wants.

However, she gets set straight by none other than Stephanie McMahon. Basically she is told she just got her break and that anything like that again and she would be gone.

So in two episodes, Eva Marie has totally gone against what she was told about dying her hair blond, and now this. Here comes an Ed opinion – I don’t care how good you are and whether you are a newbie or not, but especially because she IS a newbie, she deserves to be fired. I actually believed that over the hair issue last week, but this week totally reinforced my initial gut feeling.

With the Bellas, Cena and Bryan we get a look at their lives at Cena’s home in Tampa and Bryan’s home in Washington state. Wow, what a difference. You really have to watch the episode to appreciate how nice the mansion is that Cena lives in. At the opposite end, Bryan lives in the home he grew up in with none of the bells and whistles.

The other major issue in this episode has to do with the Funkadactyls and their costume designer.

Again, a lot more drama and “reality show” issues tonight. A good episode, but I’m hoping that we continue to get good looks at the wrestling side and not just the drama involved in personal lives.

Kurt Angle Enters Rehab After DUI Arrest

Angle MugshotKurt Angle was stopped for a DUI after the Impact tapings on Thursday night and he is now entering rehab.

According to TMZ.com, A rep for the Texas highway patrol tells TMZ, Angle was busted Thursday night in Wise County, Texas following a live taping of “Impact” for Spike TV. We’re told police received a call about a reckless driver, and caught up to Angle on the road. We’re told they pulled him over on suspicion of reckless driving, and detected an odor of alcohol emanating from Angle’s vehicle. It’s unclear if a field sobriety test was administered, but Angle was placed under arrest and taken to a nearby police station.

“The TNA family is very supportive of the steps @RealKurtAngle is taking in his recovery. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers” Dixie Carter had tweeted.

This was Angle’s fourth alcohol arrest in 6 years.

Late Friday Angle tweeted … “In light of recent events I will immediately be entering a rehabilitation center.” He added, “I am confident that in taking these steps I can begin to address necessary changes in my life.”

So Much For The Buried Hatchet

Minutes after we broke the story that our own Ed Boston and indy wrestler Aaron Anarchy had resolved issues resulting in a feud. We received this video