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Impact Wrestling No Longer Using GFW Name
As we noted earlier today, Impact Wrestling issued a press release on the location for Bound for Glory, which was mysteriously missing the GFW name. PWInsider reports that Anthem Media has dropped the Global Force Wrestling name and is referring to the company yet again as Impact Wrestling. The company has yet to officially comment.

It was reported earlier this month that Jeff Jarrett was taking a leave of absence from the promotion and Anthem may not own the GFW name. This was because the “merger” between the two promotions hadn’t actually finished. It’s possible the GFW name will soon be gone completely. It may be a separate name that Jeff Jarrett could use to run GFW events on his own. Anthem has been running One Night Only PPVs with the GFW Amped! TV footage that was filmed but unaired before Jarrett returned. It’s unknown if this footage will still be used, but there were two PPVs that had yet to air.

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BOUND FOR GLORY HEADED TO OTTAWA,
JIM CORNETTE DONE WITH IMPACT

Bound for Glory is headed to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Impact Wrestling announced today that the Aberdeen Pavilion would be hosting the pay-per-view on November 5th, with television tapings also set for the venue on November 6-10.

When the word got out that the tapings were being moved to Canada, a number of people in wrestling inquired about the status of Jim Cornette, who has been all over the recent television shows as the head of authority for the promotion.

Cornette hasn't been to Canada for years because he was turned away at the border in 2010 when they ran his record, which included a number of assaults, mostly stemming from incidents involving fights with fans who attacked him while he was a manager at matches in the 80s. He had been going to Canada for years, including his WWF run, with no incident, prior to 2010. When he worked for ROH, he never attended the shows in Toronto.

Because of that, Cornette won't be at the next set of tapings and is done with the promotion, which he said there is no heat over and it's just a matter of circumstances.

Cornette is expected to go into more detail on this on his podcast on Thursday.

GFW officials confirmed his being done yesterday as did Cornette today. Cornette noted that he came to GFW after being called in August by Jeff Jarrett, and the agreement was just to work one set of television tapings to facilitate a few storylines, which were the stripping of the championship from Alberto El Patron and the gauntlet match, the on-screen firing of Bruce Prichard so he could return as a heel manager, and to try and make Anthem Sports & Entertainment babyfaces to the wrestling fans.

After the tapings, he and Jarrett agreed that he would come back for Bound for Glory and for a few days at the next tapings in November. Cornette didn't know his status with Jarrett now out of the company and the company's creative, headed by Scott D'Amore and Sonjay Dutt, said to be more focused on in-ring action and less on authority figure angles.

Cornette hadn't heard from anyone in the company other than Bob Ryder, who told him not to believe what he read on the Internet, and spoke to Dutch Mantell, where he explained with the tapings being done in Canada that he wouldn't be able to appear.

Cornette agreed to come to Nashville and do whatever would be needed on camera to do a storyline exit. Right now there is nothing on the table for it.

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Atleast well get a good Cornette podcast out of this.

TNA is only around for good rants.
 
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Cornette said that BFG would be in Orlando and that he will definitely be there.

Apparently not.
 

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Have heard someone suggest that the company (will just call them that for now as I've lost track of the actual name!) should just run shows out of Canada from now on. I don't think that's a terrible idea.

What I like about Corny's position is that he is not being tied to the company, but when he does appear. BFG should be interesting this year.
 

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Horrible idea.

TNA has an almost exclusively American roster. TNA would have to compensate for their workers if they expect their workers to apply for a work permit to stay long-term. That or they would have only 6-month contracts to get around the work permit issue.
 

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Canada don't have that strict of visa protocols....unless you have a criminal record or tried bringing drugs over.

We have our own.
 

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Well their not making any money in the US:eek: Maybe a different US location is what's needed. I'm just thinking that in a different market there maybe more interest rather than a market who are used to and bored of it.

Well no Corny rant so far. We'll give it another few weeks before calling the party off:lmao