| Huge TNA Update: Titles, Gail Kim, Pierzynski, | |
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| monkeyman | Dec 23 2005, 09:13 PM Post #1 |
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MLB.com has a story on White Sox player A.J. Pierzynski signing a new three-year deal with the Chicago White Sox. The articles says there is nothing in the contract that prevents him from working TNA wrestling. This entire angle was huge publicity-wise for TNA. TNA drew a record for their iMPACT! replay rating this past Monday night with a .6 for about 636,000 viewers. The regular show on Saturday did a .7 but has been averaging a .8. This is obviously great news for TNA as their product is being seen by over one million people on a week to week basis. The PPV's have been drawing anywhere from 15,000 to 40,000 buys. When TNA was on Wednesday nights before FSN and Spike TV they had been averaging about 6,000 buys. WWE PPV's average around 250,000 buys per show. Gail Kim has posted a message on her official website. She mostly talks about recently filming her role in the independent film Princess. She says that was the reason as to why she was off TNA programming for a few weeks. Visit TheGailKim.com for more. TNA officials are thinking about creating X-Division tag team titles in 2006. They are also thinking about creating a women's title. TNAWrestling.com issued the following Press Release yesterday: Ring In the New Year with TNA, Nashville, TN (December 21, 2005) End 2005 and start 2006 by watching the most exciting, unpredictable, adrenaline rush on Spike TV -- TNA iMPACT! This double dose of TNA action starts off at 8PM ET on New Year's Eve with a primetime showing of iMPACT! NWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett will team up with "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown for some tag team action. The ruthless X-Division Champion Samoa Joe will be in action and in the main event, "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles will battle one-half of the NWA Tag Team Champions, "Cowboy" James Storm. Also, relive all the most "impactful" moments of the year with a special look back at TNA in 2005. Everything from Christian Cage's shocking TNA debut to Rhino's rise at "Bound For Glory" to "The Controversy In Canada" to the Team 3D Funeral will be covered during this year-end retrospective. Then at Midnight ET, kick off the new year with "Captain Charisma" Christian Cage and witness the official announcement that will change the face of TNA Wrestling in 2006. Then in the very first wrestling match of 2006, a championship will be decided! Make your resolution now to start your New Year right with the intense action that only TNA can deliver! TNA has attempted to contact Christy Hemme from the moment she was released. No word on how things stand now but it is likely that she has a 90 day no compete clause anyways. |
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| monkeyman | Dec 23 2005, 09:13 PM Post #2 |
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Chris Kanyon, or "Chris K" as he is referred to in TNA, was actually scheduled to wrestle Raven at the November TNA PPV instead of the December one. Kanyon asked for way more money than TNA was willing to pay and thus they brought in P.J. Polaco (Justin Credible) at the last minute instead. Soon after, Kanyon rescinded his pay demands and told TNA he would wrestle for next to nothing as he wanted the exposure. Kanyon told TNA they could use his name for TV, but he then told them that they should change the spelling of his name to "Canyon" just in case. They both decided to just go with the name "Chris K." Had Kanyon not been able to make the December pay-per-view, Billy Kidman was the alternative to wrestling Raven. Kidman was once a member of "Raven's Flock" in WCW. However, TNA officials are a bit leery of bringing him in as he is now on the "You can't trust him to show up" list after no-showing an AWE TV taping in Winnipeg two weeks ago, no-showing another independent wrestling show last month, and causing Torrie Wilson to rush home from Australia for some sort of family emergency. Samoa Joe vs. Christopher Daniels for the X title and Raven vs. A Mystery Opponent (Billy Kidman? - not confirmed) have both been announced for TNA's Final Resolution PPV. Shane Douglas' wife gave birth to a baby on 12/13. Congrats Shane! Douglas actually left the TV tapings last week and Terry Taylor subbed in so Shane could attend to family business. Credit: PWinsider and Wrestlingobserver |
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