Michael sent us word that promotion for the TNA Slammiversary PPV on DirecTV is stating that the King of the Mountain Match will feature a fifth mystery man. A fourth participant will be determined this Thursday on iMPACT! featuring Christian Cage and a returning TNA star.
News Channel 5 in Nashville has a video piece up profiling Jeff Jarrett. The piece looks at Jarrett’s early career in wrestling, starting TNA Wrestling in 2002 and the recent passing of his wife Jill. To visit the website, go to newschannel5.com and click the video link on the right side titled “True Strength.”
TNA debuts this Friday in Sheffield, Alabama with a House Show event. Scheduled to appear includes, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Christian Cage, LAX, Eric Young, Jeff Jarrett, Christoper Daniels, Jay Lethal, Alex Shelley, Robert Roode, Chris Harris, James Storm, Gail Kim, Jackie Moore, Chris Sabin, Petey Williams and more.
Mr. Kennedy and Marcus Cor Von are continuing to post blogs with the FHM website. Kennedy’s latest entry looks at his recent injury.
Steve Austin recently took part in an interview for a documentary called “Inspired: The Movie” that looks at the battle to lose weight from the point of view of other people from different walks of life.
The Boston Herald has an article up looking at World Wrestling Entertainment’s plans to turn marketing power towards acquiring big name sponsors for its television, Internet and PPV properties. There are a number of reasons for WWE wanting to do this. One example is that with WWE’s current TV deals, the company is no longer sharing in the profits from the advertising revenues of Raw, Smackdown or ECW when in the past they sold the bulk of those commercials to in-house advertisers themselves. It is safe to say that WWE is seeing the big name sponsorships that the Ultimate Fighting Championship has associated themselves with through their Spike TV and PPV events over the last year along with other major professional sports entities doing the same as well.
Lee McCallum sent word that tonight’s three-hour edition of Monday Night Raw in the UK is only being scheduled for 2 hours and 15 minutes. However, WWE Heat is scheduled to be airing before Raw and it’s expected the first hour of Raw will air in that timeslot.
