9/3/12 TNA News & Notes

[TheLordPerucho]

Kurt Angle worked the weekend shows with a pulled hamstring. TNA set up six man tags to main event the shows to help Angle work while limiting his ring time.

Some filming for the new British TV show is already underway.

The TNA TV title is expected to quietly disappear for now. The final champion, Devon, who has left the company, wasted no time posting a photo to Twitter of himself wearing a WWE Raw t-shirt.

The former Luke Gallows was on the road for TNA as an Aces & Eights masked member over the weekend, so he's signed with the company.

TNA will be running TV with a split crew this Thursday as they have a house show in Dalton, GA at the same time as their live Impact Wrestling in Orlando. Locally advertised for the Georgia house show are Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson, Mickie James, Crimson, Zema Ion, Miss Tessmacher and Mickie James.

TNA is also running 9/8 in Gainesville, GA with the same talents as well as AJ Styles, James Storm and Christopher Daniels. D'Lo Brown will be running a Gutcheck prior to the Gainesville event.

Reality star turned TNA developmental talent Jesse Godderz popped up on CBS' Big Brother last night, returning for the fifth year in a row in some capacity on the series.

SourceWInsider.

Great decision, the TV title was always Booker's toy in the viewers' eyes.

 

[Chris]

Completely fine with the TV title disappearing quietly, nothing much they can do to kayfabe it since Devon has already left anyway.

 

[Deezy]

Remember when that title was supposed to be defended everyweek?

How long did that last?

 

[Chris]

Remember when that title was supposed to be defended everyweek?

How long did that last?

3 or 4 weeks maybe, then they took a couple weeks off and started it again for like a week and then stopped.

 

[TheLordPerucho]

Plus Everytime the tv title was defended, the ratings went down.

Now TNA needs to get rid of the KO TT titles.

 

[Keith]

When you already have the X Title which is such a big part of TNA's history the TV belt was always a pointless midcard title. In the NWA/WCW the title had a idenity not so in TNA.

 

[Deezy]

X Title was just a mere cruiserweight belt, thusly didn't go to people like a Booker T or Devon.

TNA stopped that "not about weight limits, it's no limits" shit along time ago.

 

[Keith]

X Title was just a mere cruiserweight belt, thusly didn't go to people like a Booker T or Devon.

TNA stopped that "not about weight limits, it's no limits" shit along time ago.

Well I think it was a bit more than a crusierweight title also not sure that is an insult as the cruiserweight title was a big deal in WCW. When at its peak the X Belt was just as important as the TNA title.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Back in the heyday the X Division title brought us some amazing matches!

 

[Keith]

Back in the heyday the X Division title brought us some amazing matches!

And to be fair to TNA they are finally making efforts to return it to that. Lets not forget the currently TNA champion recently held the X Title.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Yeah, Aries had some great matches over the X belt over the last year. Altogether with how his competition elevated especially near the end of his reign, I think I would say it's a top 5 reign in the company's history. Of course, I hate a lot of early X-Division action because it was just so sloppy just for the sake of doing dangerous shit that was completely unnecessary.

 

[Keith]

Yeah, Aries had some great matches over the X belt over the last year. Altogether with how his competition elevated especially near the end of his reign, I think I would say it's a top 5 reign in the company's history. Of course, I hate a lot of early X-Division action because it was just so sloppy just for the sake of doing dangerous shit that was completely unnecessary.

Fair point about the early X matches also many of the guys involved were a bit green. It was just impressive how TNA promoted it and came up with interesting gimmick matches, overall it just felt like something different.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Too true, and Zema Ion isn't all that bad.

 

[Brock Lesnar]

I feel like TNA needs to drop the dead weight faster. The TV title is just the beginning, they can do a lot more with less.

 

[Keith]

Too true, and Zema Ion isn't all that bad.

Thats one of the only thing he is not a worthy champion.