Bram Released From Jail On Bond, Details Of His Arrest

TNA star Bram (Thomas Latimer) was arrested for domestic battery and false imprisonment on Sunday in Gulfport, Florida.

Latimer was released today on $5000 bond for the domestic battery by strangulation charge, and another $1000 bond for the false imprisonment charge.

WWE Diva Charlotte who is still legally married to Latimer was not the woman involved in the incident. Charlotte and Latimer split a few months ago.

Below are details of his arrest, courtesy of the Gulfport Police Department:

Professional Wrestler Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges

Gulfport, FL – On 8/30 at approximately 6:00 AM, officers responded to a call about a disturbance in an apartment at 3205 58th Street South. There they encountered Thomas R. Latimer and a woman who identified herself as his girlfriend.

The officers observed evidence indicative of a physical altercation, and their investigation revealed that after the couple had been arguing, the woman felt threatened and sought refuge in her bedroom.

Latimer followed her into the bedroom, closed the door, and refused to allow her to leave. He then pushed the woman onto the bed and was holding her down by the neck.

Latimer, who is a wrestler with TNA Impact Wrestling, was charged with domestic battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Both are felony charges, and he is currently being held in the Pinellas County Jail.

Source: WrestlingINC.com

Mugshot Photo Courtesy of WFLA.com

A Man ‘Fixated’ With Female Wrestler Shot By Officer At WWE Performance Center

A man “fixated” with a female wrestler, believed to be WWE Hall of Famer Lita (Amy Dumas), to the extent that a court order had been obtained against him, though he hadn’t been served it yet, was shot Monday by a sheriff’s officer outside the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

Lita wasn’t at the Performance Center at the time of the shooting.

The 29 year old man identified as Armando Alejandro Montalvo underwent surgery after what sheriff Jerry Demings described as life-threatening injuries.

According to the Orange County sheriff, two plainclothes officers responded around 1:30 p.m. to a call from a manager at the Performance Center that a man had come in and created “a commotion.” At the time, WWE staff told authorities the man “had some type of knife.”

So when the two officers arrived, they drew their weapons, fearful the man might go after them, police said.

And while it wasn’t clear if he was armed the man did charge at one of the officers in the parking lot. “And so the deputy retreats,” Demings said. The officer “was running backward trying to create distance between he and the subject, and ultimately the subject closes within just a few feet of him. And he fired the shot.”

Triple H tweeted the following about the incident:

 

Montalvo had confronted Orange County sheriff deputies in the past. Montalvo was arrested back on August 4th at the Performance Center when he had a sign that said “Lita I Love You”, a chair and binoculars.

A deputy wrote that when he was taking the man away by police that day, the man “kept asking if I saw Lita while I was inside the WWE building. Armando kept stating that he loves Lita and that she is attractive. Armando also kept laughing and stating that what was happening is awesome.”

Source: CNN and WrestlingINC.com

 

RAW Preview: 8/31/15, Sting To Kick Off RAW

“The Icon” Sting is scheduled to kick off RAW.

Should Rollins be afraid of Sting?

The Dudley Boyz are back. Who will eat a table this week?

What’s next for John Cena?

Are Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns outmatched by The Wyatt Family?

Will Nikki Bella make Divas Title history? All 3 members of PCB will compete in the first ever Divas Beat The Clock Challenge to determine who will face Nikki for the title at WWE Night of Champions.

Source: WWE.com

 

Plus a SummerSlam rematch is scheduled for tonight’s RAW – Dolph Ziggler w/Lana VS Rusev w/Summer Rae

TNA Star & Husband To WWE Diva Charlotte Arrested & Suspended

TNA announced today that Bram (Thomas Latimer), who is married to WWE Diva Charlotte, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair, has been arrested and suspended indefinitely until the situation is resolved.

Bram was arrested on Sunday at condo in the Gulfport, Florida area at 8:30am and charged with one count of domestic battery by strangulation, and one count of false imprisonment.

Bram is currently in jail awaiting his court date. No word yet on bond and no word yet if Charlotte was involved. WWE was in Florida this weekend and is in Tampa, Florida tonight for RAW.

Breaking news: Rousey vs Holm moved to UFC193

   Tonight on Sports center UFC president Dana White made the announcement that Ronda Rousey will be defending her Batemweight title against Holly Holm at UFC193 from Melbourne Australia.

The fight was originally set to take place at UFC195 for the UFC’s New Years card on January 2nd in Las Vegas NV.

The original main event for UFC193 was scheduled to be Robbie Lawler vs Carlos Condit. However due to an injury Lawler will be unable to compete. Rousey and Holm are being brought in as a replacement to break what looks to be an all time attendance record.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Ronda Rousey in Carl’s JR Commercial 

 You may remember sometime last month we did a story on Ronda Rousey landing an endorsement deal with global fast food chain Carl’s Jr & Hardee’s 

The newest commercial promoting the Cinnamon Swirl French Toast Breakfast Sandwich features clips of the champ sparing in the ring, then clips of her eating the sandwich causing her to smile with glee. The tag line for the sandwich is “The knockout sandwich with a sweet side”

What makes the ad all the more awesome is that you have the voice of the octagon Bruce Buffer doing his infamous Ronda Rousey introduction.

Haven’t seen the commercial yet? Never fear because you can do so here:

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Steve Austin Doesn’t Know Why WWE Doesn’t Hire AJ Styles Right Now

WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was the guest on this week’s episode of the Ric Flair Wooooo! Nation podcast.

Austin and Flair shared stories from the road, talked about Brian Pillman, The Rock and Sting in the WWE. During the interview AJ Styles was brought up and Austin said, “I don’t know why WWE doesn’t hire AJ Styles right now.”

You can listen to the interview at this link: http://www1.play.it/audio/wooooo-nation-with-ric-flair

Jeff Jarrett Talks Finding GFW TV Deal, Streaming The Show, Working With TNA

Global Force Wrestling founder Jeff Jarrett talked to RVA MAG recently about finding a TV deal.

Finding a TV deal for GFW:

“We are making moves. It’s been a real challenge for us to line up a domestic situation as well as international deals. I’m heading over to London in a couple of weeks to further those moves. The first set of tapings were great. We got plenty of one hour episodes and we’ve got the crowning of the champions in October. With that and the Grand Slam tour as well, it’s been no rest for the weary, but it’s exciting time in the still the very early days of Global Force Wrestling.”

Possibly airing on Netflix or Hulu:

“All of the above and I don’t want to specifically say Netflix or Hulu. The world of 2015 is so interesting. You wouldn’t be asking that question even, what would you say, two or three years ago? It’s interesting just how everyone consumes their information. Not just wrestling or television. Your phone is a source of news, entertainment, games, apps. It’s just a different world. I’ve said it for a year now: my goal is if you’re a GFW fan, you’ll have access to watch it all across the globe. There’s a huge component to that. I won’t call it streaming, but there’s a big component in the online world for Global Force.”

Working with TNA again:

“You know, it’s a business. My family’s been in this business for over 70 years so I’ve seen a lot of situations where you’d say those folks would never work together again and they did. Business is business and when it’s a win-win-win-a win for our promotion, a win for their promotion, and more importantly, a win for the wrestling fan – it’s really hard not to do a deal. So we put a lot of things in the past and in our rear view mirrors on both sides and moved forward. It’s a pretty exciting time. All the positive momentum that’s coming from the working relationship between TNA and GFW is just a great thing.”

You can see the full interview at this link: http://rvamag.com/articles/full/25041/maximum-brand-awareness-a-chat-with-global-force-wrestlings-jeff-jarrett-ahead

WWE Diva Emma Gets Tricky 

I’m all for Heels and faces within the world of wrestling but sometimes breaking Kayfabe is a great thing. Especially for real moments like this one

WWE diva Emma (real name Tanille Dashwood) has a niece and that niece is non other then YouTube sensation Riley Dashwood. Emma may be known as a heel currently but there’s never a bad time to bring back the Emmalution

In the video below you can see Emma and her niece lip syncing to the song Tricky. I promise it’ll make you smile
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Ronda Rousey Draws Big Numbers 

 Ronda Rousey’s last title defense against Bethe Corriea in Rio De Jenero at the beginning of this month lasted a grand total of 34secs

The match up was highly anticipated not only because Rousey would be defending the belt for the 6th time but the opponents also shared some bad blood. Corriea had two wins over Rousey’s closest friends Jessamyn Duke and Shayna Baszler. Corriea also did her fair share of hyping the fight with her tasteless trash taking. Fans knew this bout would be interesting but the questioned remained, how would the numbers do???

Current estimates have the show doing a little more than 900,000 buys on pay-per-view, the largest number for a UFC show since UFC 168, on Dec. 28, 2013, the show headlined by the second Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva fight and the second Rousey vs. Miesha Tate fight.

It would give the company three shows so far this year that have topped 800,000 buys. The Dec. 12 show, with two title matches, Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor for the featherweight title, and Chris Weidman vs. Luke Rockhold for the middleweight title, barring a key injury, would figure to top that number as well

But the Rousey fight’s success at that level was hardly expected. While Correia did her part to hype the fight, and there were a number of storylines in place, UFC 190 had little in the way of what would be considered strong undercard support. The show was also held in Rio de Janeiro, and in the past, shows outside North America have not done big numbers on pay-per-view. When Anderson Silva was considered UFC’s top fighter, he twice headlined shows from Rio de Janeiro, and both did less than 350,000 buys.

Another key to  the company’s biggest modern pay-per-view draws is bringing in a unique fan base. Lesnar brought in the pro wrestling audience. St-Pierre was a mainstream Canadian sports superstar. Liddell was the company’s superstar fighter when it first appeared on national television. With Rousey, she brings in a female fan base as well as a casual fan audience that doesn’t even follow the sport on a regular basis.
There you have it folks not only is Rousey the most dominate female athletes but she puts asses in seats and brings in the money. Are you surprised?

One would have to wonder with Rousey and Holm not having the grudge factor will the UFC 195 card do as good as the UFC190 Card?? Only time will tell.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

source MMA fighting.com