TNA's roster looks like it may be in for some shaking up in the coming months....

Biggest news....
This fall's Bound for Glory may mark the end of Sting's wrestling career.
Rumor has it that The Icon may be done after that PPV.
He originally planned to leave last year, but TNA officials talked him into giving one more year.
You gotta admit, the thirteen-time world champion, (two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, two-time WCW International World Heavyweight Champion, two-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion and former WWA World Heavyweight Champion) has put in a long and colorful career since his debut in 1985.
And he has maintained his integrity over those 24 years, never working for the WWE.

The WWE has released Umaga.
Do I even need to say "I wonder if he'll show up on TNA in 90 days?"
I think Umaga would be a nice fit in TNA.

So far Raven and Shane Douglas have not signed long term contracts with TNA.
They are only in for Impact tapings and the Slammiversary PPV.
They might go forward from there, but it's not a lock.

Canadian Luchadora Sarah Stock (Dark Angel) has had her official TNA wrestling debut bumped back a bit because of Former WWE Diva Victoria (Tara) showing up.
Sarah was originally slated to fill the top TNA Knockout babyface position left open by Gail Kim, but with Tara showing up, that's been pulled for the moment.
Did TNA not know Victoria was signing?

TNA News, Samoa Joe, TNAtion, UK Tour and More

Not only does Samoa Joe have broken fingers, now it appears he also has a torn tricep.

TNA has renamed their "TNA University" program to "TNAtion".
The new slogan is "Why get lost in a Universe...when you can join a Nation."
Lost in a Universe?
Yes, thats a shot at the "WWE Universe".
Of course WWE will probably respond with "The Universe is bigger than a Nation".

And of course the rumors are floating around that Mr.Kennedy will hit TNA as soon as his 90 day no compete clause is over.
I wonder if WWE has "Mr.Kennedy" trademarked?
I hope not, because I really mark out for " MR. KENNNNNEDY!" or even the "KENNEDY!" shouts.

TNA will be in the UK for their 2010 Maximum iMPACT! Tour, starting in January 2010.
Here's the promo video package:



Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has launched TNAsearch.com, a fan-oriented search engine which rewards users with official TNA Wrestling merchandise and memorabilia.
You can get more info on it here:
http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/1487/84/

TNA News: Victoria, Raven, Kurt Angle and More

Shane Douglas and Raven are both scheduled to be on this Thursday's TNA Impact.
Former WWE Diva Victoria is also scheduled to appear.
Look for Victoria to be a face. And I think she will be using her real name, Lisa Marie Varon.

UPDATE: Tara?
They're calling her Tara?

The show will also feature Dr. Stevie Richards, AJ Styles, Amazing Red, Eric Young, Beer Money, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Angelina Love, Sojourner Bolt and Mick Foley.

TNA.com has a page of special appearances by their stars here:
http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/981/84/
See where “The Icon” Sting, Kurt Angle, Mick Foley, Angelina Love & Velvet Sky and Traci Brooks will be showing up in the coming months.

There is also a link on their homepage leading to the TNA YouTube videos.

AND there is also a countdown clock about mid screen that says " TNA Wrestling Delivers A Powerful Shot In:...."

TNA News: The Amazing Red, Team 3D and More

The Amazing Red has been working shows for TNA, but as of yet, no contract has been signed.
He will be at the upcoming TNA Sacrifice PPV as a tag team partner with Suicide going against Team 3D.

Taz will be going to TNA as the on-air "mentor" of Samoa Joe.
Now THAT will be a team.
And there is talk of maybe using Taz in the future at the announce table.

Team 3D will be going to Japan on June 20th to face Giant Bernard(Ex WWE star Albert) and "Machine Gun" Karl Anderson (Chad Allegra) in a defense of Team 3D's IWGP Tag Titles.
Bubba Ray and Devon are undefeated in Japan.

And while TNA promotion maybe going strong, TNA ticket sales and attendance are not.
I know a lot of this has to do with the economy, but I hope TNA gets their sales up, because I would hate to see the WWE standing alone as the only promotion.
Every business needs competition.
TNA is more of a spotlight for Indy wrestlers to get exposure than WWE is. Their entire Knockout division is almost all Indy wrestlers.
And for the most part, TNA seems to favor substance over style.

TNA Wrestling to Simulcast 'Lockdown Countdown,' New Live Pay-Per-View Preshow Free On Internet

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 16 /PRNewswire/

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling will simulcast the "Lockdown Countdown 2009" pay-per-view pre-show event free of charge this Sunday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT live from the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on www.tnawrestling.com and www.mycontent.com/TNA. The preshow will also air on cable and satellite systems carrying the "Lockdown 2009" pay-per-view.

The special "Lockdown Countdown 2009" pre-show will feature an exclusive live match between reality television star and Philadelphia radio personality Danny Bonaduce and TNA Superstar "Showtime" Eric Young, as well as the debut pay-per-view appearance by TNA President Dixie Carter. The show will also feature the most up-to-the minute news on the biggest and most brutal wrestling pay-per-view event of the year.

TNA Wrestling has partnered with Internet broadcasters MyContent.com to simulcast the preshow live for the first time in TNA history. The "Lockdown Countdown 2009" live preshow will also be available in Spanish.

You can get more into here:
http://www.tnawrestling.com/

The Punisher Andrew Martin

I'm sure everyone has already heard about the passing of Andrew "Test" Martin this weekend.
While a large part of Test's work was for the WWE, he is also known for the time he spent in TNA.
Of course in TNA he wasnt known as Test, but as "'The Punisher' Andrew Martin".
Test was released from TNA in 2007 due to concerns over his physical size, and TNA being investigated by the United States Congress.
Read into that what you will.
Test officially retired from wrestling that year, stating that he didnt want to be one of those guys that quit, then kept coming back.
Sadly, Test was only four days from his 34th birthday.

Besides wrestling for TNA and WWE, Test appeared in "18 Wheels of Justice","Kim Possible","Fear Factor" and "Grindhouse".

I would like to express my condolences to the fans, friends, family and loved ones of Andrew Martin in this time of distress.

TNA Wrestling’s Lockdown Info

It looks like Mick Foley is going to get his wish.
Mick wrote in his first book, Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks that he wanted to get into the wrestling ring with Sting one more time.
And at the TNA pay per view TNA Lockdown, that just might happen.

Also tentatively scheduled is Jeff Jarrett taking on Kurt Angle, Booker T facing A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe against Scott Steiner.

And TNA's professional wrestling library is now available via Apple’s iTunes store.
You can download episodes of TNA’s weekly Spike TV show “TNA iMPACT!,”select TNA home video titles and pay-per-view events.
You can purchase a single show for each week or get a year-long “season pass.”
TNA’s music releases are also available.
You can see more info in the video below.



And here is more info on the PPV from TNAwrestling.com
"TNA Wrestling’s “Lockdown” epic event will be held live at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, on Sunday, April 19, starting at 8 p.m. ET, and will air worldwide on Pay-Per-View. This is TNA’s first-ever Pay-Per-View held in Philadelphia and the company’s most dangerous event of the year, where all matches are held inside a steel cage, dubbed “The Six Sides Of Steel”.
Tickets for “Lockdown” will go on sale this Saturday, February 28, at the Liacouras Center box office and online at ComcastTix.com. Also on Feb. 28, Kurt Angle will be signing free autographs, starting at 11 a.m. ET, at the FYE (100 South Broad Street) in Philadelphia."
http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/1305/84/

Sonjay Dutt has left TNA

Sonjay Dutt has left TNA and may be headed to the WWE.
Kinda like the Gail Kim situation from what I can see, TNA and Sonjay just couldn't come to terms on a new contract.
So Sonjay left.
Some reports say that his profile has been removed from TNAwrestling.com.
But it's still here:
http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/233/37/
Now whats gonna happen to his on air manager and love interest SoCal Val?
And will the WWE really hire the former X Division wrestler?
I mean the WWE usually goes after the behemoths.
Not normally sized people that can actually wrestle.
And doesn't TNA seem to be losing a lot of talent here lately?

New TNA Knockouts, Madison Rayne and Sarah Stock

Okay, as has been reported here and everywhere else, Madison Rayne has been signed as a new TNA Knockout.
Heres some footage of Madison wrestling as Ashley Lane from YouTube:


And Canadian Luchadora Sarah Stock (aka Dark Angel) is another addition to the TNA Roster.
Here is a little taste of what you can expect from Sarah in TNA:

Tonight's TNA Impact! 2-04-09

Tonight on TNA Impact!.....

Sting will team up with Kurt Angle to take on Team 3D.
I wish they could just call them the Dudleys.

The Motor City Machineguns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) will take on Consequences Creed and "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal.

Japanese legend Keiji Mutoh (The Great Muta) will appear on tonight's show.

Taylor Wilde and Roxxi will be wrestling The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky and Angelina Love).

And making his TNA "iMPACT!" debut will be Brutus Magnus.
Brutus (Nick Aldis) is not only a pro wrestler, but he also was "Oblivion" in the UK Revival of Gladiators.

Former TNA Stars. part five

Kim Neilson debuted in TNA on December 12, 2002 as Every Man's Desire. She was the valet of Sonny Siaki and she feuded with almost every woman on the TNA roster including Trinity, TNA ring girl Athena, and with backstage interviewer Goldylocks.


Did you know that Eddie Fatu wrestled for TNA? Of course you may know him best as Umaga, but on TNA in 2003 he was known as Ekmo. He was put into a tag team with Sonny Siaki.
Did Sonny do everything back then?


Goldylocks was on the TNA roster as a backstage interviewer back in 2003 and 2004. She moved to managing for awhile and with the gimmick of using Abyss in wrestling matches to claim contracts of defeated opponents, she obtained the contracts of Alex Shelley, D-Ray 3000, Shark Boy and yes....Sonny Siaki!


Teddy Hart, a third generation member of the Hart wrestling family, wrestled for TNA in 2003. He wrestled Jonny Storm, Juventud Guerrera, Mr. Águila but amazingly, I found no account of him wrestling Sonny Siaki.
Teddy was released from TNA after getting into it with CM Punk at a restaurant. Sabu had to pull them apart.
Would YOU want Sabu to have to break up a fight you were in?


Ian Richard Hodgkinson is an unlikely name for a wrestler.
Vampiro works much better. And Vampiro had a short run in TNA in 2003.

Former TNA Stars. part four

Several Indy female wrestlers also appeared in TNA back when they were first starting out.

Elizabeth Miklosi (Cheerleader Valentina) appeared with them in 2003. She teamed up with Traci Brooks and Nurse Veronica.

And Veronica Stevens (Nurse Veronica) is better known in the Indy circles as Simply Luscious. She was offered a two year contract with TNA, but turned it down.

The famous April Hunter worked for TNA, appearing on August 28, 2002 at their weekly pay-per-view.

Leilani Kai won the NWA World Women's Championship from Madison on the March 12, 2003 pay-per-view in a dark match. She was later stripped of the title by NWA President Bill Behrens for no showing several matches.

On June 18, 2003, Malia Hosaka competed in a losing effort against Trinity.

Indy star Mercedes Martinez wrestled at least one match for TNA in 2003. Rumor has it that she recently had a tryout match for them again. They should grab her up. TNA has a good rep for using Indy wrestlers and she is one of the best.

Former TNA Stars. part three

ECW, WCW and WWF star Perry Saturn appeared with TNA in March of 2003. He was part of a stable with former ECW stars Sandman and New Jack.

Jaime Lynne, better known as Lollipop, started out as a cage dancer (shades of the WWE!) but later went on to get some wrestling training from Leilani Kai.

Before going to the WWE, Paul London competed in TNA's X-Division. London has said that he viewed his time in TNA as a "stepping stone".

Road Warrior Hawk appeared in TNA in late 2002 and early 2003, but only actually wrestled one match.

Antonio Banks wrestled for TNA in 2003. He was released and he showed up later on the WWE as MVP.

The Insane Clown Posse actually had a fun run on TNA, wrestling matches and hosting and booking TNA's first ever house show in Detroit, Michigan. During their time in TNA, Insane Clown Posse brought the company it's largest paying crowds in history.

Nelson Frazier, Jr.(also known as Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V) made two appearance in TNA back in March of 2003.

More Former TNA Stars

Michael Lee Alfonso, born on January 24, 1965 in Tampa, Florida and better known by his ring name Mike Awesome, made a few appearances in TNA Wrestling in 2003.

Bart Gunn who wrestled in the WWF for six years had a short stint in TNA Wrestling in 2003.

Disgraceland (Luther Biggs) also wrestled for TNA in 2003.

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan actually made a couple of appearances for TNA in 2003. He showed up on the March 12 and the October 29 NWA: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling PPVs.

David Flair, the son of Ric Flair, wrestled for TNA from December 2002 to early 2003.

One man that deserves the title "Extreme", New Jack, made multiple appearances in TNA in 2003.

Big Van Vader appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on February 19, 2003.

TNA: Francine Fournier

Francine Fournier, the ECW Queen of Extreme, wrestled for TNA after her stint in ECW.
Actually, she really didn't wrestle for them so much as beat people with leather straps.
On her TNA debut, she got in an argument with Elektra at the lingerie battle royal for the Miss TNA Crown.
This argument lead to Francine being eliminated by Elektra, Shannon and Miss Joni, an action that angered her so much that she began to whip Commentator Ed Ferrara with his own belt. Then Francine got into the ring and began to whip Taylor Vaughn (Cathy Dingman) with Ed Ferrera's belt after she won the match.
This lead to a match the next week between the two ladies in which Francine again produced a leather strap from her belt and began to whip and choke Taylor with it. The ref grabbed the strap from Francine, but Taylor took the strap from the ref and began to return the favor to Francine. The ref tried to stop Taylor, but then Taylor turned on him with it, causing her to be disqualified.
Before it was all over, Ed Ferrara wound up getting whipped again.
I think he liked it.
Then, two weeks later, Francine attacked Jasmine St. Claire during an interview with Goldylocks. This led to a match that night between Francine and Jasmine that saw the Blue Meanie interfere and DDT Francine.
She was taken away on a stretcher and never seen on TNA again.

TNA: The Blue Meanie

Not this guy

This guy.....

How do you even begin to explain the Blue Meanie?
Well I can't, but the Blue Meanie (Brian Heffron) did appear on TNA.
Well once at least.
The only real verified account I can find though is the July 17, 2002 appearance where he interfered in a match between Jasmin St. Claire and Francine.
The interference led to a DDT by Meanie to Francine, after which, Francine was taken away on a stretcher.

TNA: Jasmin St. Claire

Yes Jasmin St. Claire made two appearances for TNA.
Both were in July of 2002, the first of which she did little more than dance.
The second appearance was a week later.
In that one, Jasmine was being interviewed by Goldylocks when Francine attacked her. This lead to a match later that night where Jasmine and Francine squared off. As you can imagine it was pretty much a catfight rather than a wrestling match.
When the Blue Meanie (Jasmine's real life boyfriend) interfered, it caused a disqualification and Francine was taken away on a stretcher. The DQ was because the Blue Meanie gave Francine a DDT.

The Latin American Xchange, LAX

I really like LAX (even with Salinas gone).
Their gimmick reminds me a lot of the nWo and DX heydays.
And it is SO much better than the " Mexicools".
The Latin American Xchange (The Latin American Exchange, The Latin American X-Change or my favorite, The LAX) is a Hispanic professional wrestling tag team in TNA Wrestling, consisting of Homicide and Hernandez.
Their original gimmick denounced the repression of ethnic minorities by the NWA Championship Committee and TNA Management.
They were supposed to be street thugs, and they did it so well!
After they turned face, the group continued to stand as proud street Latin Americans, but dropped its militant focus.

New Hub Page:
http://hubpages.com/hub/TNA-Knockouts

TNA Knockouts: The Beautiful People

The Beautiful People is a professional wrestling female tag team consisting of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky.
They have been joined by their associate "the Fashionist" Cute Kip. (The ghost of Billy and Chuck is never far away is it?)
The Beautiful People's gimmick is that they are far more talented and beautiful than anyone else on the TNA Roster.
They actually started out in TNA as faces, coming to the aid of Gail Kim in a couple of matches.
But when Roxxi Laveaux turned down their offer for beauty tips, they attacked her and started their heel turn.
The two of them later started placing brown paper bags over their opponents' heads, and began harrassing backstage interviewer Lauren Brooke.

TNA Knockout: SoCal Val

Valerie Elizabeth Wyndham was born March 27, 1986 in Beverly Hills, California.
She is a model, professional wrestling valet, manager and sometimes wrestler better known by her ring name, SoCal Val.
Currently she is working for TNA Wrestling as a valet.

SoCal Val has been all over the wrestling industry since she debuted in 2002. She worked for Golden State Championship Wrestling and several other promotions in Southern California as a manager, WEW (Women Extreme Wrestling), Southern Championship Wrestling, NWA Florida, Ring girl for TNA in 2005, Full Impact Pro, WWE Smackdown!, MXPW, FPWA, Ring Divas and others I'm sure I've missed.

During her career, she has managed over 70 wrestlers, yes 70!

SoCal officially signed with TNA in August of 2006.

Probably the best SoCal Val site on the net:
http://www.socalval.org/