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Awesome Kong Officially Gone from TNA, Update on Her Release

March 19th 2010 08:21

Source: Prowrestling.net

- Multiple sources report that Awesome Kong and TNA have officially agreed to part ways. Kong's profile has been removed from the TNA roster page after weeks of talk that she was leaving. Kong had been telling friends that TNA agreed to release her from her deal and she thanked Dixie Carter on Twitter for wishing her the best in her future endeavors.

Kong reportedly asked for a 15% pay increase or a release from her contact and TNA chose to release her. It's said that one of the reasons it took so long for TNA to grant her release is because they wanted to include a lengthy non-compete clause and she was asking for a normal 90 day non-compete. No word yet on the length of the non-compete in her release.

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The NXT Experiment: The NXT WWE failing or success?

March 15th 2010 06:13

NXT is still in it's infancy with the crowds, but it seems the ratings are not any better then the ECW on SyFy show that it replaced. A debut which showed some promise made some expect this concept to be a winner with the fans, but this show has started to slide, it took a massive slide last week and the week before the ratings were down, will it survive? WWE will probably persist with the show until the end of the current season. The announcers for the show seem to be confused with the way the show is meant to go.

Firstly the rules are the Mentors of the rookies are evaluating, sure that sounds fine, the mentors cannot vote for their wrestler, yeah that is very reasonable, but then came the last one, WWE mentors cannot vote against their wrestler. Wait back up, they cannot vote for or against their wrestler, but their vote is the one that makes them the winner? So how does one actually win after they are evaluated?

Not that it matters anyway, because we already know that this "reality" show is not reality anyway, the concept was interesting from the start, but we know that there is already a winner in mind, in fact, it seems that the WWE are pressing for one of them to maybe join the WWE roster earlier then most would have expected with the push for Daniel Bryan early on NXT it seems he is the firm favourite for the win on the show. Heath Slater too would be another that will be featuring on either Raw or Smackdown either at the end of this show, or towards the end both appear to be ahead of their NXT Rookies, with Otunga coming in a distant third, and Justin Gabriel being fourth, that is, how I see this.

WWE will probably remove two, and then we may see Otunga, Barrett, or Gabriel battle it out for the title. But I think the main stars so far have been the for-mentioned stars. And I think WWE also agree on this, as they have been pressing them. Skip Sheffield does have that goofy character type down pat and he has appear to have a bit of charisma, and a bit of talent, but still think he's a bit of the way away from being up there with the others.

But what does the future have in store for the show? I doubt that the WWE are going to persist with it past maybe 3 seasons, maybe 2 is the limit for the new improved Tough Enough. It just seems more and more like Velocity/HeAT then anything each week. I had hopes that the WWE would have them filming in a meeting with the road agents, and backstage staff discussing how their match should go, and how they are going to do certain aspects of the show.

A tad bit like how Beyond The Mat were filming backstage of the WWE, they had all the wrestlers there and the road agents, and the VP of Talent at the time Jim Ross and also Jim Cornette having a discussion about these young guys and how they were doing. Being that the mentors are meant to evaluate the wrestlers having a shot of them around a monitor backstage "evaluating" them and having minor criticism of the matches would be a good touch, since this is meant to be a "reality" program.

At least with Hogan's Celebrity wrestling you got to see how they trained and prepared for a match against an op[ponent. I have been a bir disappointed since the decent debut show the show has been lackluster and not that appealing, which again comes back to why the ratings took a massive nose dive. I am sure the WWE had thoughts that if they put some of these top guys on there it would draw, well I am sure vince, it won't.

Going by the current pattern the show can expect another nose dive in ratings, and I am sure people are still saying "lol zomg it's still better than Impacts ratings!" well Impact was a far better show on Monday and the ratings should have reflected that but didn't.

I hope that the next WWE NXT show is better, because since the debut I have not been that keen to watch anymore shows. I only watch now because of Slater, Gabriel and Bryan and watching them has been better then most of the show, but I am warming to Wade Barrett as well so it's not all bad I guess. Turning this show back into Velocity and adding some stars that are struggling for TV time could save the show, though they are kinda doing that with Superstars, but even that is usually unbearable to watch too.

In short it is hard to tell at the moment, show one appeared to be a success ratings wise, and then show two dipped, and show three flatlined. In the world of internet spoilers, a boring show on report makes for a person ready to not want to watch the show.

By now it seems that Raw and Smackdown are going to rate, Superstars doesn't generally and now neither does NXT. I wonder if that means WWE should come together and maybe trial a third 2 hour show, showing the past events from ECW, WCW, WCCW, AWA, etc. Since WWE has the footage and many people are interested in seeing the real ECW and some are wanting to see some old WCW, why not do that? Seems fair enough really.

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TNA & M1 Wrestling set to team up

March 15th 2010 05:16

TNA has established a working relationship with the Mach 1 Wrestling school/promotion based in Orange County, Calif. to give TNA wrestlers an official training location and also look for new talent to eventually bring to the TNA roster.

TNA is sending Knockout Lacey Von Erich to California to train with the M1 trainers, who offer three weekly courses and run weekly shows on Friday nights in Anaheim.

TNA VP of Talent Relations Terry Taylor recently visited the school, along with Orange County resident Frankie Kazarian and Brian Kendrick, to visit the M1 facility.

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Awesome Kong Update

March 12th 2010 02:00

As of today Awesome Kong remains with TNA, despite reports that she was granted her release. Awesome Kong's profile still remains on the TNA website after the recent roster updates to include Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, and Shannon Moore to the roster. Kong and Hamada were stripped of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Titles TNA used the "They have not defended the titles in 30 days" excuse to strip them of the belts, various reports have said that TNA and Kong have reached an agreement to her termination but still she remains.

It is still yet unclear if Kong will remain with TNA, perhaps TNA and Kong are trying to reach a compromise with the Bubba The Love Sponge situation.

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Monday Night Wars: Thoughts

March 10th 2010 13:49

Monday Night Impact made it's debut this week, and got a rating that was lower then anyone would have hoped at TNA. The show wasn't as bad as the rating would indicate, WWE Raw had Chriss Angel and the best moment of his tenure on the show was making us avoid hearing Julian Hall since another song. I was surprised to see Katie Lea was given some air time this week, the main event for Raw well that was modified and was as lame as expected, Impact's main event was not much better, but it did have a good intro for Jeff Hardy to make his TNA return we are probably meant to ignore the fact that he was returning to TNA after the January 4th show that had him battle Homicide and had nothing from there on.

TNA also gave the Knockouts, and X Division some time, their excuse for the title change for the Knockouts Title was lame, what now for Hamada? I hope she is given a singles push it would be a shame to see her waste away now. I have heard some rumors about Sara Del Ray maybe getting a gig in TNA, would be good, I'd prefer MsChif, but she doesn't want to work for TNA or the WWE

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TNA vs WWE...Monday Night Head To Head: Part 2

March 6th 2010 13:20

TNA are promising some "sneaky" stuff, and promising some big surprises for their big return to Monday Nights, in their first showing they managed to score their highest ever rating, which was a considerable win for them, but not enough to consider the Monday Night Wars an early win, TNA brought in Morley (departed), Orlando Jordan, Jeff Hardy, and Shannon Moore, plus The Nasty Boys in their first Monday Night and it was not a bad show, but the bullshit ending to the Steel Asylum match, and then the possible Hardy/Homicide feud start and death seemed to make it an interesting night.

Both shows have 1 confirmed match by the looks of things, on Raw you get Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes & Ted Dibiase on Impact you are going to get Abyss/hogan vs Styles/Flair oh but on Raw you have Chriss Angel, I like the guy he's good at what he does, but as far as guest hosting, who cares? Unless he can make Mark Henry disappear then I am very interested...otherwise the guest host thing has been a waste, but moving on. TNA's surprise has been leaked and then denied as such Rob Van Dam supposedly signing with the company and then denying such a signing

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Wrestling Legend Angelo Poffo Dies At 84

March 6th 2010 06:22

Wrestling legend Angelo Poffo, the father of Randy Savage and Lanny “The Genius” Poffo, died this morning at age 84.

A message on Lanny Poffo’s official website reads, “It is with heavy heart we announce the loss of wrestling legend Angelo Poffo who passed away peacefully in his sleep this(Thursday) morning age 84

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TNA release Knockout

March 5th 2010 04:57

TNA has released Traci Brooks one of the original Knockouts that has been with the company since 2003, according to PWInsider.com. No word as yet to why she was let go, but she doesn't appear to be the only Knockout gone, Awesome Kong has tweeted suggesting she too has been released from TNA, while TNA has not yet confirmed her departure, they have Traci Brooks.

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NXT Thoughts March 2, 2010

March 4th 2010 16:21

Standard show this week, we have been told that 2 people from the show are going to be promoted to the WWE, and that they are being evaluated by their mentors, the mentors will vote on who wins, they cannot vote for their rookie...but they also cannot vote against? Did I hear that correctly? Wade Bennett told a story about not caring if he entertains the fans, well if you do not entertain the fans Mr. Bennett you are going to be fired.

I still do not see this as being too revolutionary, looks more like FCW with some well established stars appearing to add ratings, it's just Velocity with rookies being mentored, and the ratings showed that this week, after a decent debut the rating came in as 1.3 the new concept appears not to be attracting many fans, yes I know what people are saying it's still going to get over TNA, well the rating might end up being better but the blandness of the show in general makes it dead. ECW at least had some storylines here and there, well I guess NXT does as well with some of the mentors giving the rookies shit, but some of them are just "Who cares

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Awesomeness down under, your chance to chat with The Miz

March 2nd 2010 05:28

Wrestling Asylum is happy to pass along to it's readers the chance to chat with WWE superstar The Miz, with a VIP Chat with the current WWE Unified Tag Team Champion and United States Champion. On the road to Wrestlemania and on that road is Australia and Australian wrestling fans will be treated to the following...

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