20 Man Gauntlet Match to determine the #1 Contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Title
EC3 to respond about what happened last week when Mr. Anderson got involved.
Matt Hardy & The Wolves VS The Revolution
Knockouts Championship: (C) Taryn Terrell VS Angelina Love
May possible see the Impact debut of Drew Galloway
Impact Top 5:
1. Kurt Angle
2. MVP
3. Low Ki
4. Samoa Joe
5. EC3
There are rumors that Triple H has interest in giving Samoa Joe a WWE tryout for a potential run in NXT.
According to the report, Vince McMahon isn’t as interested in Joe as Triple H but there could be a push within WWE over the next few weeks to give Joe at least a tryout run.
There is no word yet if Joe is even interested in coming to WWE and working NXT.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Samoa Joe announced on Twitter that he is leaving TNA Impact Wrestling.
PWInsider reports that Joe and TNA negotiated and tried to come to terms for a new deal up until the end and things remained friendly between Joe and the company. The situation was described as similar to the one that led to AJ Styles leaving TNA in 2013, where TNA was not going to be able to match what Joe had been making. TNA made a final offer and left things up to Joe.
TNA made it clear to Joe that the door would be open for a future return.
A lessor factor had to do with Joe’s departure is that TNA is looking to invest more in newer talents coming in.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Fallout From Lockdown.
Matt Hardy will give an update on Jeff Hardy’s condition.
Bobby Roode VS Austin Aries
Rockstar Spud, Jeremy Borash & Mandrews VS EC3 & Tyrus
Bram VS Crazzy Steve
Madison Rayne VS Awesome Kong
MVP & Samoa Joe VS Kurt Angle & Lashley
Discovery Communications issued the following press release praising viewership for TNA Impact Wrestling on Destination America during the month of January.
DESTINATION AMERICA SCORES BIG WITH FIRST MONTH OF PREMIERES FOR IMPACT WRESTLING
More than four million viewers tune in during first four weeks of premieres
(Silver Spring, MD) – Destination America recorded its best January ever in Prime HH delivery with premieres of Impact Wrestling. The all-new season kicked off on Wednesday, January 7th, with Impact Wrestling LIVE, ranking as Destination America’s best Wednesday evening in network history delivery of M25-54. The show also ranked as the 6th most social television program for the evening with #Destination IMPACT reaching a collective 73M impressions on Twitter.
Premieres of Impact Wrestling settled into their regular Destination America timeslot on Friday, January 16th. For the month of January, Impact Wrestling ranked as the #9 series in ad-supported cable for delivery of M25-54 on Friday nights. On Friday, January 23rd, the network garnered its highest rated and most watched Friday evening in network history for delivery of P25-54 and M25-54, ranking as the #3 sports telecast in cable (behind only NBA Basketball and the X Games on ESPN) and out-delivering networks including A&E, NGC, ESPN2, TNT and FXX among M25-54.
Throughout January, Impact Wrestling posted record-breaking numbers, delivering an average of 276K viewers among P25-54.
Continuing to build momentum, Destination America’s Impact Wrestling recorded its best premiere to date on Friday, February 6th, delivering an average of 345K P25-54, while earning a 0.85 rating among M25-54. Since premiering on the network in January 2015, 4.2M viewers have watched Impact Wrestling on Destination America.
Earlier today I posted a huge spoiler of the hardcore country knockout making her return at Impacts tapings in Glasgow Scotland this evening. However that wasn’t the only treat the UK fans got tonight.
I usually hate posting spoilers but this one is too good NOT to share.
Hometown hero and Scotland Native Drew McIntyre aka Drew Galloway made his IMPACT debut. Drew came out to prevent a beat down on fellow native Grado (from British bootcamp) given by MVP and his crew.
This episode of impact will air February 20th. Drew is a former WWE superstar and IC champ but truthfully Drew never got the proper treatment he so richly deserves. It’ll be interesting to see what IMPACT does for him. There’s not a doubt in my mind that in IMPACT he’ll be able to showcase his true talent and one day become a world champion.
So guys are you excited that “the chosen one” is now a member of the IMPACT roster? Let us know in the comments.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
It is being reported that Mickie James made a surprise return at today’s impact wrestling event in Glasgow UK.
Mickie James and Impact wrestler Magnus welcomed a healthy baby boy named Donovan Patrick Aldis into their world in September of last year. Lots of fans were unsure if they’d ever see her wrestle again.
Looks like she’s ready to return though and one has to ask what kind of IMPACT will her presence have in the knockouts division? Only time will tell.
Are you excited for Mickie’s return? Let us know in the comments.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
Source: http://www.impactwrestling.com/news/item/6334-Breaking-News-Mickie-James-Returns-to-TNA-in-Glasgow
Former WWE Diva and TNA Knockout Lisa Marie Varon (Victoria, Tara) talked about her time in TNA recently on Jim Ross’s The Ross Report podcast. Varon said TNA was so disorganized that once she learned about being booked for a pay-per-view by reading the announcement on Twitter but still had no travel information and hadn’t even been told about the booking.
Varon, who owns The Square Circle pizza restaurant in Chicago, talked about how she once spent $6,000 of her own money to promote a TNA event in Chicago. She did a lot of promotion for the show, without being asked to, and wasn’t happy when TNA sent her posters for the show that featured another Knockout instead of Varo, a local celebrity. Varon says she talked with Dixie Carter about all she did to help the company and all Dixie had to say was, “Yeah, I heard.”
Varon also talked about how two people in the TNA office sent out an e-mail to the roster telling them to promote another pizza place in Chicago as the best pizza they have ever had. Varon found out about it and blew up at TNA’s Bruce Prichard. She told Prichard, “The day I quit my job, I am going to punch that c**T in the face.” The threat was was referring to Dixie and Varon said Prichard responded, “You’ll be doing all of us a favor.”
Source: PWInsider via WrestlingINC.com
Return of Feast or Fired.
Jeremy Borash w/Spud VS EC3 w/Tyrus
Fallout from BDC (Beat Down Clan) hijacking of Lashley’s TNA World Heavyweight Title belt.
Havok VS Gail Kim
Khoya VS Tigre Uno
Last week Eric Young shocked the world when he turned on his so-called best friend Bobby Roode and cost him the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Lashley. Below is a IMPACTWrestling.com exclusive video of Roode issuing a challenge to EY.
No DQ Match: Bobby Roode VS Eric Young:
Also last week MVP and Kenny King joined forces with Samoa Joe and Low Ki to help Lashley regain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Why did they join forces and what is their mission?
TNA World Tag Team Championship #1 Contenders Match: The Hardy’s VS The Wolves:
X-Division Championship: (C) Austin Aries VS Low Ki
Brooke & Taryn Terrell VS The Beautiful People
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