Jake “The Snake” Roberts has been hospitalized & was in intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital since passing out on a plane Wednesday & was in a coma until Thursday afternoon. Roberts has now been transported to another hospital this afternoon where he is undergoing further test. Roberts reportedly has double pneumonia & doctors have said he has fluid in his lungs & a mass on his brain.
Jake “The Snake” Roberts was hospitalized yesterday with double pneumonia & was unconscious. It has now been confirmed that Roberts is now conscious after be unconscious for nearly 24 hours. Diamond Dallas Page noted on Twitter that he spoke to Roberts girlfriend & that Roberts is fading in & out & to please keep Jake in your thoughts & prayers.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Memphis Wild Fire Wrestling in Memphis, TN will be having a event at Minglewood Hall on September 18 at 7pm called “Long Live The King.” The event is a celebration of the career of Jerry “The King” Lawler. Of coarse Lawler will be there for this big event celebrating his career.
Memphis Wild Fire Wrestling has announced that the legendary announce team of Lance Russell & Dave Brown will be there. Also announced to be there is “The Boogie Woogie Man” “Handsome Jimmy Valiant, “Superstar” Bill Dundee, referee Jerry Calhoun, “Grand Master Sexay” Brian Christopher, PG-13 (J.C. ICE & Wolfe), The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express, Koko B. Ware, “Dangerous” Doug Gilbert (who has issued a challenge to Lawler for a match) & other past stars of Memphis area wrestling from back in the day.
Memphis Wild Fire Wrestling has announced that headlining the event will be Jerry “The King” Lawler VS “Dangerous” Doug Gilbert
Below is a message from Jerry “The King” Lawler about the big event:
Women’s wrestler Jessicka Havok will make her debut next Wednesday night in TNA on Impact Wrestling. Above is the latest teaser video.
WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts is currently hospitalized in a Las Vegas hospital. Roberts was on a plane headed to Sinn Bodhi’s show this Friday, when he passed out & was unconscious. An ambulance transported him from the plane to a nearby hospital. It was told that Roberts has double pneumonia & doctors have said his lungs are filled with fluids & there is a mass on his brain.
Bodhi tweeted that Roberts is resting at the hospital & that he’s been there with him since last night making sure he is comfortable.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
El Rey Network & Mark Burnett’s One Three Media announced production start on Lucha Underground, a hour-long weekly series which is partnered with Mexico’s AAA Lucha Libre promotion. The series will premiere Wednesday, October 8th at 8pm E on the El Rey Network.
Who’s the #1 Contender for Lashley’s TNA World Title? Is it Bobby Roode or Eric Young? Last week in the 6 Sides of Steel match to determine the #1 contender, it appeared that both Roode & EY’s feet hit the ground at the same time.
TNA World Champion Lashley will be in action. Who will face Lashley?
TNA World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Wolves VS The Hardy’s VS Team 3D:
Rhino VS EC3: Rhino gets his chance at revenge:
TNA Knockouts Championship #1 Contender Match: Taryn Terrell VS Madison Rayne:
Sanada VS Austin Aries: We will see the debut of James Storm’s creation The Great Sanada:
American War Hero Chris Melendez comes to Impact!
PWInsider Elite says Jeff Jarrett is reportedly headed to scout potential buildings for TV tapings in Los Angeles, New York & Dallas in September. People close to Jarrett & Global Force Wrestlingsay negotiations are ongoing for a GFW TV deal but they’re moving slowly. GFW had hoped to already have a deal done but they have not. The whole process of launching GFW is going a lot slower than GFW officials have wanted.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
WrestlingINC.com reported that TNA has been offered a spot on Discovery’s Velocity network, which is only available in HD & in less than 50 million homes.
F4WOnline noted that TNA moving to Velocity was described as a worst case scenario.
If TNA makes the deal to move Impact to Velocity, TNA would have to cut so far back on production & talent that the TNA as we know it would be no more.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Bully Ray & Velvet Sky did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Velvet did the challenge with help from Bully & then nominated him to take it. Bully did the challenge & they celebrated “Stone Cold” Steve Austin style with beer. Velvet then hit Bully with a Stone Cold Stunner as Austins’ theme music played. Velvet also had issued Austin to take the challenge.
