Today, TNA, Bellator and Spike TV, represented by Dixie Carter, Bjorn Rebney and Kevin Kay, respectively, held a joint press conference with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson talking about their plans for their big name acquisition.
Rather than inundate you with a variety of images and links to a few small news blurbs or stories of interest from WWE's facebook wall today, it seemed like the right call to share them all in one handy little FanPost. Enjoy!
Maybe WWE's love affair for their app will have died down after the Feb. 4th Monday Night Raw, when the overwhelming demand to vote in a poll crashed their system and the wrong person won, causing them to change the script for the show on the fly.
2012 was another tumultuous year in the wrestling business; full of new stars, big name returns, important business moves, firings, lawsuits, drug test failures, suspensions, sex tapes, heart attacks and even an U.S. Senate election loss.
Ric Flair has rather begrudgingly accepted that a WWE return will mean he'll never lace up his wrestling boots again, due to Jerry Lawler's recent heart attack. That is for the best, as his final year in TNA was plagued with serious injuries.
The answer to that troubling question seems to be yes, based on recent WWE storylines and backstage talks, despite the fact that Foley should never step foot in the ring again due to the permanent brain damage he's already suffered from concussions.
Jerry Jarrett, Jerry "The King" Lawler's wrestling business partner in Memphis for two decades, interestingly has been one of the few insiders to publicly criticise the CM Punk and Paul Heyman fake heart attack angle that WWE scripted for his return.
JBL's outspoken heel commentary got himself in hot water this week, for his claim on Raw that Carlos Colon, Primo's father and WWE's promoter for their house shows in Puerto Rico, owed him and a bunch of others money. Read his apology here.
Dave Meltzer broke the news that WWE had been on a tear recently removing a huge number of videos from the Internet due to them being of copyrighted material. It soon turned out though that this was a favour to Linda McMahon's senate campaign.
Jim Ross being in Boston for tonight's Night Of Champions pay-per-view may just be a coincidence. As Dave Meltzer has reported that JBL will be commentating at the PPV tonight and presumably will be taking over Lawler's commentary spot on Raw.
