The airport altercation between GFW Global Champion Alberto El Patron and WWE Superstar Paige was recorded via audio by a witness — and it’s clear there was no third party involved.
TMZ released audio of Paige yelling “stay out of my life” and “leave me the f*ck alone” as she argued with El Patron in public on Sunday at Orlando International Airport.
Paige can also be heard saying, “I’m trying to get away from you. All the time.”
Alberto El Patron ripped WWE after last Sunday’s Slammiversary pay-per-view. He was seemingly ready to shoot on WWE again after last night’s Impact Wrestling tapings, however GFW reportedly turned his music up so loud that it stopped him. Here are details from Wrestling Inc. reader Lyne, who was at the show:
El Patron grabs a mic for a shoot. He says it’s “that time of the night” when he talks about “that company in Stamford.” His attorney, however, called him last night and asked him “what the f–k are you thinking” as he recently “lost enough money from his divorce.” At that point, production cut the mic and played his music. El Patron shouted over the music saying he “has enough voice to scream.” His music played louder. El Patron tried to continue before giving up.
Source: WrestlingINC
Jeff Jarrett was a guest on Wednesday’s episode of Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Larry Dallas where he discussed the rebranding of Global Force Wrestling.
“Obviously we’ve had our ups and downs and in-betweens between myself — not just professionally — but personally with Impact,” said Jarrett. “And then, you know, I launched Global Force Wrestling and it’s so ironic how things have come together.”
Jeff Jarrett co-founded Total Nonstop Action Wrestling with his father Jerry in 2002. They ended up selling the company to Panda Energy later that year, with Jeff staying on as a minority owner.
“In the early days it was TNA and the name of the television show was Impact,” Jarrett continued. “And then it got into early 2010-2011 it was called Impact Wrestling and where does TNA stand? So I’ll be the first one to say it was a bit of confusion as far as the brand. And as an older promoter once said, ‘If you confuse them, you lose them.’ That old saying goes a long way.”
Earlier this year, TNA was purchased by Anthem Sports & Entertainment and Dixie Carter resigned as Chairwoman after 14 years at the helm. Jarrett later returned and has now merged the company he founded with his 2015 upstart Global Force Wrestling.
“In one essence we’re back to the way it was originally branded,” said Jarrett. “The name of the television show that comes on Thursday nights on Pop TV and Friday nights on Spike TV in the United Kingdom, Friday nights on Sony 6 on India. The name of the television show is Impact and now the name of the brand, as you stated, is GFW. So we’re really excited. We realize it’s not going to happen overnight. You know, the confusion didn’t happen overnight so the re-brand is not going to happen overnight but we’re heading in that direction.”
Jarrett stated the buzz at this past Sunday’s Slammiversary pay-per-view was one of excitement, comparing it to the company’s glory days.
“I can’t state enough just the buzz in the building Sunday night almost felt — I hate to, I’m not one to look back in the rearview mirror — but in essence, you know, we’ll call it the glory days of TNA, it really, really felt good on Sunday night,” said Jarrett. “The Impact Zone so to speak was rocking, it was off the charts; they seemed to really enjoy the show that went down the 15th anniversary show of Slammiversary on Sunday night.”
Source: Busted Open via WrestlingINC
Matt Hardy has been continuing his “Broken” teases online, and wrote earlier this week that they “are days away from winning.” While there were reports that Anthem Media and the Hardys are getting close to a settlement that would result in the Hardys getting the gimmick back, PWInsider reports that the word backstage at the Impact tapings this week is that “it’s actually much closer to the opposite with the two sides remaining very much at odds.”
Source: WrestlingINC
Tonight on GFW Impact Wrestling on POP TV:
* Fallout from Slammiversary
* Unified Impact World & GFW Global Champion Alberto El Patron and Unified Knockouts & GFW Women’s Champion Sienna
* Gail Kim returns
* Super X Cup tournament
Former TNA Knockout, Velvet Sky, spoke with WNPR and revealed that she has stepped away from pro wrestling to focus on going back to college at Post University. About her decision, Sky said:
“Wrestling has a shelf life. College doesn’t. You can be 50 years old and go to college for your degree. You can’t be 50 years old and train to be a pro wrestler.”
Sky started her career in 2003, eventually debuting with TNA in 2007. There she spent nearly ten years with the company, winning the TNA Women’s Knockout Championship on two occasions. About her current health and wrestling career, Sky continued:
“I’m in really, really good physical condition, still, and my health is great. And I want to keep it that way. I had a really satisfying 15-year wrestling career, so I went back to school because I got to live out my wrestling dream.”
Velvet Sky is currently looking to become a personal trainer and continues to help train future wrestlers at the Team 3D Academy (owned by Bully Ray and D-Von Dudley) in Danbury, Connecticut.
Source: WrestlingINC
NFL free agent DeAngelo Williams may have impressed the wrestling world during his debut match at Slammiversary, but don’t expect him to do it again — because the football player says he’s retired.
Williams told Adam Schefter on his show that he took part in the match for free in honor of his late uncle and revealed that GFW wanted him to do more, but he’s officially hanging up his boots.
The 34-year-old explains, “It was my debut and my retirement all at the same time.”
DeAngelo also says that he went full-force with the match because he respect wrestling too much to just phone it in like other celebrities have done in the past, even though he overshot the table spot.
The audio can be HEARD HERE.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
Dave Meltzer reported on Wednesday night’s episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that the new GFW belts will be unveiled at next month’s Impact Wrestling tapings on August 17th.
Source: WrestlingINC
At last night’s Impact Wrestling tapings, Gail Kim announced her plans to retire at the end of this year. This is not a storyline, as she has thought about retirement in the past and legitimately plans to retire at the end of the year.
Source: WrestlingINC
WWE superstar Paige appears to have been in attendance to support her fiancé Alberto El Patron at Slammiversary XV… even if she had to wear a lucha mask to do it.
Paige was spotted in the front row during the Slammiversary main event last night sporting the mask of lucha libre star Dos Caras — El Patron’s dad — to avoid being seen on camera.
El Patron went on to win the unified Impact and GFW Heavyweight Championship, then reportedly cut a promo against his former employer, aka Paige’s current employer, for the live audience.
For those who aren’t convinced that’s her, another Twitter pic (which has now been deleted) showed a visitor badge appearing to say Saraya Bevis … her real name. While Paige’s contract might stop her from being seen at competing wrestling events, it looks like she may have found a loophole.
Or she just doesn’t care about the consequences.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
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