TNA Announces the Location of Their January PPV

November 9, 2008

TNA posted the following announcement tonight on their website:

TNA ANNOUNCES JANUARY’S “GENESIS” PAY-PER-VIEW IS COMING TO CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

Tickets go on sale this Friday at Ticketmaster and the arena box office!

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has announced its January Pay-Per-View epic event â<80><9c>Genesisâ<80> will be held live at the Cricket Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday, January 11, 2009. The event will air live worldwide on Pay-Per-View.

After bringing several successful live events in 2008 and 2009 to the Carolinas, â<80><9c>Genesisâ<80> will be the first-ever Pay-Per-View event in the Charlotte and North Carolina in TNA history.

â<80><9c>Charlotte has one of the biggest wrestling fan bases in America, so weâ<80><99>re obviously thrilled to bring one of our biggest events, Genesis, to The Queen City,â<80> said TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter.

â<80><9c>Charlotte has never seen a live pro wrestling show like TNAâ<80><99>s, and though many legendary in-ring battles have been held at the Cricket Arena, the excitement at Genesis will bring pro wrestling to a new plateau.â<80>

The superstars of â<80><9c>TNA iMPACT!â<80> (Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET/PT, Spike TV) will headline â<80><9c>Genesis,â<80> such as Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, TNA World Heavyweight Champion â<80><9c>The Iconâ<80> Sting, Mick Foley, Booker T, â<80><9c>The Phenomenalâ<80> A.J. Styles, Kevin Nash, â<80><9c>The Instant Classicâ<80> Christian Cage, â<80><9c>The Samoan Submission Machineâ<80> Samoa Joe, Scott Steiner, Team 3D, The Latin American Xchange, the Motor City Machineguns, Robert Roode, â<80><9c>Black Machismoâ<80> Jay Lethal, TNA Women’s Champion Awesome Kong, ODB and Eric Young, among others.

Tickets for â<80><9c>Genesisâ<80> go on sale this Friday, November 14, via Ticketmaster

locations, http://www.ticketmaster.com and at the Cricket Arena box office.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.