EC3 picks Kurt Angle’s opponent.
TNA World Tag Team Championship – Best of 5 Series – Match 4 – Full Metal Mayhem: (2) The Wolves VS (1) the Dirty Heels
Angelina Love VS Velvet Sky
X-Division Championship: Grado VS Low Ki VS Tigre Uno
Eric Young VS Chris Melendez
Bram calls out anouther past Impact star.
It appears that TNA star Gunner is done with the company. He wrote on Twitter that he would like to thank all the fans, the guys he worked with in TNA and is now taking bookings.
Last night on Impact Wrestling, TNA honored the life of Dusty Rhodes with a tribute video, which you can see below. Dusty worked for TNA from 2003-2005 before returning to WWE.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship Contract Signing – (C) Kurt Angle VS EC3
TNA World Tag Team Championship – Best of 5 Series – Match 4: (2) The Wolves VS (1) the Dirty Heels
Chris Melendez to make declaration of war against Eric Young
Bram to call out another past Impact star
Magnus is coming for James Storm
Double or Nothing: Brooke & Awesome Kong VS The Dollhouse (Jade & Marti) – If Brooke & Kong win, Taryn Terrell will face them both at Slammiversary – If the Dollhouse win, Taryn never has to face Brooke or Kong again
Jessie Godderz VS DJ Z
TNA Wrestling and Dixie Carter announced the return of the King of the Mountain match for this year’s Slammiversary pay-per-view on June 28th.
The King of the Mountain match is a TNA original and one of the most innovative matches in pro wrestling. The King of the Mountain was a staple of the annual Slammiversary event through 2009.
King of the Mountain Rules:
The match consists of 5 competitors who begin ineligible to win. In order to become eligible one must score a submission or pinfall where falls count anywhere.
Once eligible the competitor must retrieve the belt from the official while the person who was pinned or submitted must spend 2 minutes in the “penalty box” cage.
Multiple competitors can be locked in the penalty box resulting in alliances or the fight continuing.
Once the belt is in play any other wrestler who is eligible may steal the belt, if at any point the belt is dropped it goes back to the official.
An eligible competitor hangs the belt on a hook suspended 15 feet above the ring via a ladder to win the match.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kurt Angle VS Rockstar Spud
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: Austin Aries VS Winner of (C) Angle VS Spud
TNA Knockouts Championship: (C) Taryn Terrell w/Dollhouse VS Awesome Kong
Three X-Division Championship 3-Way Qualifying Matches: winners advance to X-Division Championship – Ultimate X Match
(Ultimate X Qualifier) Low Ki VS Manik VS Crazzy Steve
(Ultimate X Qualifier) Cruz VS Grado VS Kenny King
(Ultimate X Qualifier) Tigre Uno VS Mandrews VS DJ Z
X-Division Championship – Ultimate X
Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that WWE officials are reportedly trying to find out when the contracts of a few top TNA stars expire. They are interested in a few TNA stars but only for the NXT brand, at least for now.
It was noted before that WWE changed their mind and now are interested in AJ Styles. Nothing is expected to happen any time soon because Styles is under contract to New Japan Pro Wrestling until the end of the year. Styles said on Inside The Ropes radio show yesterday that it’s only a matter of time before he shows up in Global Force Wrestling. Style said right now his schedule is so full that’s it’s hard to find time to fit GFW in.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
TNA Wrestling provided an update on their website about Mickie James following the controversial storyline from Wednesday night’s episode of Impact Wrestling, where James Storm pushed Mickie James onto the train tracks. Many suggested that Mickie had been killed off and it go a lot of negative attention online including Jim Ross and TAZ. Below is a video of the the angle form Wednesday’s Impact:
TNA issued the following statement:
“On Impact this past week Mickie James thought she was coming to Nashville to meet with Country Music Executives, to further her already amazing music career. The “meetings” were set up by Mickie’s friend, the leader of The Revolution, James Storm and all seemed to be on the up and up.
That is until Mickie James got to Nashville, Storm was there to greet her and told Mickie the real reason he invited her to Music City, USA and it had nothing to do with music. Storm revealed he wanted Mickie to join The Revolution, to which Mickie was not only taken aback, but wanted nothing to do with joining The Revolution.
Then Storm walked Mickie James to the train station ant that is where Storm, for whatever his reasons are, knocked Mickie James onto the tracks. While Storm’s actions are despicable and boderline criminal, we have reached out to Mickie James and have not yet gotten comment. We also reached out to security at The Nashville Star Train Station who were first on the scene after James Storm left and they were able to tell us that Mickie briefly blacked out and showed symptoms of a concussion. Mickie was tested and passed all concussion field tests. Mickie was emotionally disturbed following the events.
We will do our best to keep everyone up to date and we wish Mickie a very speedy recovery. We will be following up with Mickie James to see if she plans on filing criminal charges with Nashville PD.”
Here is what Jim Ross had to say about the storyline on his blog:
“I’m a big fan of both Mickie James, who was on our talent roster when I was in WWE, and James Storm whose work I’ve always enjoyed a great deal but the creative that they were provided Wednesday night regarding the train was undesirable and completely unrealistic and had me feeling embarrassed for two, very good talents. I do like the direction of Storm becoming a deranged character with scary tenacities but the train business did that few favors.”
The Jim Ross @JRsBBQ Twiiter account tweeted the following:
TAZ tweeted:
EC3 plans on celebrating finally being ranked #1 in The Impact Top 5.
Will Rockstar Spud exercise Option C and forfeit his X-Division Title for a TNA World Heavyweight Title shot against Kurt Angle at Destination X.
Bobby Lashley VS Eric Young
The Rising VS The BDC
TNA World Tag Team Championship – Best of 5 Series – Match 3: (2) The Wolves VS Dirty Heels
Brooke VS Jade
Madison Rayne uncensored
TNA Star Tyrus (Brodus Clay) announced on Twitter that he will not be working the upcoming Global Force Wrestling shows due to contractual obligations. There was reports that TNA didn’t want their talents working for GFW. Tyrus tweeted:
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