We noted before that Taz missed a recent TV taping but it was a TV taping he missed but a voice-over session in Nashville to record commentary for the Impact episodes that have been taped.
PWInsider reports that there are issues between Taz and TNA. Taz has removed all references to TNA from his Twitter page. The reported TNA pay issues apparently led to Taz refusing to fly to Nashville from New York for the voice-over session.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
There was reports that TNA was behind on paying talents. PWInsider reports that talents now have started receiving their checks. F4WOnline reports that the checks started arriving this past Friday and continued arriving Saturday and Monday. One source told PWInsider that talents would be receiving their March checks earlier than scheduled to try and make up for the previous delays.
Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter says that Taz missed the recent Impact Wrestling tapings and repercussions could be coming.
Meltzer says things in TNA are a lot worse than they were at the end of the Spike TV run. While talents have started receiving paychecks, there’s still a lot of unhappiness across the company with the feeling that there is no momentum and they’re not going anywhere.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that Destination America is becoming a significant problem within TNA. The network is reportedly calling a lot of the shots in TNA these days with the idea that they are paying TNA and running so many hours of TNA programming.
Destination America reportedly doesn’t like Impact Wrestling being taped from the U.K. They don’t know the pro wrestling business at all but they didn’t like the idea of TV taped outside America airing on their Destination America channel. Destination America may not have a problem with TNA running a yearly tour overseas but they made it clear they want Impact taped in the US most of the time.
Destination America officials wanted Kurt Angle to be the World Champion because they liked the idea of the champion on their network being an American gold medalist. They are also high on Taryn Terrell as the Knockouts Champion because of her looks.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
TNA Impact Wrestling aired this promo, a Dollhouse production coming soon for Jade and Marti Bell.
TNA Knockouts Champion Taryn Terrell talks about doing stunt work for the new hit film ‘Get Hard’ starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart plus other upcoming projects.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kurt Angle VS Lashley
Falls Count Anywhere Match: Bram VS Magnus
Submission Match: Eric Young VS Bobby Roode
TNA has released The Best Of Sting DVD. Sting is a TNA Hall of Famer and spent 10 years in the company.
The DVD is of Sting’s greatest TNA matches and features Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, RVD, Mick Foley and more. The DVD also includes Sting’s TNA Hall of Fame induction.
Kurt Angle’s TNA World Heavyweight Championship celebration.
Jeff Hardy returns. Hardy’s Revenge: Six Sides of Steel: Jeff Hardy VS James Storm: the cage will have a roof locking the two men inside.
X-Division Championship: (C) Rockstar Spud VS Low Ki
Brooke VS Awesome Kong
Several wrestlers took to Twitter and Instagram to comment on the horrible tragic passing of El Hijo del Perro Aguayo in Mexico on Friday night. Below are some of the tweets:
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: (C) Lashley VS Kurt Angle
Ultimate X Match – TNA Tag Team Championship: (C) The Wolves VS The BroMans VS The Revolution (Manik & The Great Sanada)
TNA Knockouts Championship: (C) Taryn Terrell VS Awesome Kong VS Gail Kim
No DQ Match: Matt Hardy VS James Storm
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