Category: TNA

TNA Impact Wrestling Preview: 7/15/15

New TNA Authority figure will be revealed.

EC3 will defend his TNA Heavyweight Title.

Taryn Terrell will defend her TNA Knockouts Title.

Tigre Uno will defend his TNA X-Division Title.

Health status update from Kurt Angle.

 

Eric Young Attacks Jeff Jarrett At GFW Grand Slam Tour Event, Steals KOTM Title

Eric Young attacked Jeff Jarrett at Thursday night’s Global Force Wrestling Grand Slam Tour event in Appleton, Wisconsin and stole the TNA King of the Mountain Title belt. Below is the video of the incident and a video of Young explaining his actions:

Plans For GFW – TNA Invasion Angle

The GFW – TNA invasion angle is expected to kick off at the July 22nd TNA Impact Wrestling episode and continue through that week’s tapings and the July 24th Global Force Wrestling TV tapings in Las Vegas, where the first GFW Champion and GFW Women’s Champion will be crowned with tournaments.

Eric Young, Bobby Roode and other TNA stars will be sent to the GFW TV tapings. Young will also be working this weekend’s GFW Grand Slam Tour events to confront Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett wanted Matt Hardy to be one of the TNA stars sent for the angle but the deal hasn’t been confirmed yet. GFW stars confirmed for the GFW tapings include PJ Black (Justin Gabriel), Nick Aldis (Magnus), Chris Mordetzky (Chris Masters), IWGP Jr. Champion KUSHIDA, Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, Sanada, Mickie James and Lei’D Tapa. It’s possible some of these GFW stars will work the TNA tapings that week.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter via WrestlingINC.com

New TNA Authority Figure To Be Revealed Next Week

Dixie Carter made her return to TV on last night’s Impact Wrestling, and now is a babyface. Dixie tweeted a message to her nephew TNA World Heavyweight Champion EC3:

A new authority figure for TNA will be revealed next week on Impact Wrestling. TNA tweeted:

 

TNA Impact Wrestling Preview: 7/8/15

The Reign of EC3 begins.

Dixie Carter Returns.

Jeff Jarrett Interview Part 2.

Street Fight: Robbie E VS Jessie Godderz

Velvet Sky VS Madison Rayne

TNA VS GFW Storyline Update, Eric Young – GFW, Young & Jeff Jarrett Twitter Feud

The TNA VS GFW storyline is scheduled to continue at this months TNA TV tapings in Orlando. A big angle may go down on the July 22 episode of Impact Wrestling, just a few days before the first Global Force Wrestling TV tapings on July 24th in Las Vegas.

It was announced that TNA’s Eric Young will be at this weekend’s GFW Grand Slam Tour events in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Eric Young and Jeff Jarrett was feuding a little bit this week on Twitter. Below are a few of their tweets:

Top TNA Executive Leaves The Company

TNA announced of Facebook that Andy Barton has left the company. Barton worked with Dixie Carter at her Trifecta Entertainment company from 1996 until 2002 and then worked with TNA from 2002 until now. He was Executive Vice President up until this week.

TNA wrote the following:

“We wish TNA executive Andy Barton all the best as he pursues a new opportunity. Glad to have CSO Eric Sherman on board as we look to build on our powerful global brand, continue our rapid international growth and expand onto emerging platforms.”

Kurt Angle Having A Tumor Removed

Kurt Angle will be having surgery to remove a benign tumor in his neck. The tumor was discovered in 2012 but there was no problem with it until now. The tumor was starting to block a nerve in Angle’s arm and he was beginning to get some atrophy in the arm. The surgery to remove the tumor is not major and he expects to be back in the ring in three weeks.

 

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins Congratulated New TNA World Heavyweight Champion EC3

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins congratulated Ethan Carter III via Twitter for his TNA World Heavyweight Championship win over Kurt Angle.

Rollins and EC3 spent some time training together in WWE’s developmental system before EC3 was released by WWE in 2013. They also tagged together on a couple of Florida Championship Wrestling shows in 2011.