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Credit: Wrestlezone (for all)

Next week's Impact will feature the following Fight for the Right matches: Kaz vs. James Storm and Christian Cage vs. Junior Fatu. Also scheduled are AJ and Tomko defending the tag team titles against LAX.

More women will be getting more regular roles in TNA. The last two weeks on Impact Robert Roode has had a fan in attendance, which is Rain of SHIMMER fame who will be paired with him down the line. Also expect Shelley Martinez (the former Ariel) to be paired with LAX. She looks to be the "mystery masked Latino" that aided LAX this week on Impact.

The following matches are being listed for the TNA-New Japan "Interpromotional War" show on November 11th in Japan. TNA's Genesis PPV is on the same day, meaning Rhino, Christopher Daniels, Senshi, and Ron Killings won't likely be on it.

- Rhino vs. Yano
- Christopher Daniels and Senshi vs. Minoru and Davitt
- Ron Killings vs. Tiger Mask

ECW Champion CM Punk’s scheduled autograph signing for today, Friday, October 26 at SunRise Mall in Massapequa, NY from 6PM to 8PM has been postponed, due to a scheduling conflict. No new date has been confirmed as of yet.

In an interview with the UK’s Sun, WWE came off looking bad. During an interview with John Morrison, The Sun asked about his recent suspension and a WWE representative interrupted John Morrison and said "No comment" and said to change the subject as it is not part of the interview. Matt Cappotelli fighting his brain cancer with radiation and chemotherapy treatment was also mentioned.

Chris Jericho started his book tour at Barnes and Nobles in Tampa yesterday. He is scheduled to be signing at the Virgin Megastore in Lake Buena Vista at 7PM today (Friday, October 26). On Saturday, October 27 he will be signing at the St. Petersburg Book Festival in St. Petersburg at 2:15PM. Jericho will be at the 18th Airborne Corps & Fort Bragg Base on Sunday, October 28 at Noon. Chris Jericho’s book is officially out everywhere.

The Liverpool Daily Post in the UK features an article on WWE RAW coming to the city on April 11th at the Echo Arena. The article said that it is the first time that WWE has done a show in Liverpool, UK.

Sandman will be headlining PWU’s Saturday night show with Too Cold Scorpio, Gangrel,, Greg Valentine, Brutus Beefcake and Larry Zbyszko. The show starts at 7.30PM at The Alhambra. Two fans will be getting married before the start of the show.

Former WWE Women’s Champion Trish Stratus, is scheduled to be a presenter at the Gemini Awards (Canada's Emmys) on Sunday. The show airs on CBC at 8PM, which will be going head-to-head with WWE Cyber Sunday.

To follow up on yesterday's report regarding Matt Hardy suffering an injury at the Smackdown tapings and requiring 35 stitches to his head after Rey Mysterio's knee brace caught him opening a 7 inch gash, Hardy is still planning on competing at Cyber Sunday this weekend against MVP as scheduled.

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that Kurt Angle suffered a neck injury at last week's TNA TV tapings in Orlando when he faced TNA World Champion Sting (which airs tonight on Spike TV). Early reports right now is that he is expected to be at next week's TV tapings in Orlando, which are the final set of tapings before the Genesis PPV on November 11.

In one weeks time (November 1st) WWE will be publicly revealing the names of any future wrestlers who violate their active Wellness Policy.

"The talent were told that from now on, if you do test negative (SIC) or you violate the wellness policy, you will be publicly identified. And we do that in the belief it will give a greater transparency to the program, and hopefully, operate as a deterrence for anybody who wishes to engage in this kind of activity."
(WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt shortly after the suspension story broke)

To act as a deterrent the names of wrestlers will be published for the world to see on their corporate website, hopefully preventing any media backlash like we saw with the signature pharmacy bust.

Many wrestlers within the company see this as WWE hanging them out to dry, Booker T naming this as one of the reasons why he left, along with their lack of support during the media bashing.

It is unsure if WWE will officially make public the names they suspended during the pharmacy scandal, but if they did it could cause even more embarrassment for those that went on record claiming they were clean.

TNA fans have the ability to vote on various aspects of the upcoming DVD Board Game. Go to tnadvdgame.com for more details.

On November 20th, TNA will be releasing a entrance music compilation called "Meltdown." The CD will feature the music for: The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez), "The Canadian Destroyer" Petey Williams, The Motor City Machineguns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley), Black Reign, Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, “Wildcat†Chris Harris, “Black Machismo†Jay Lethal, Kaz, Lance Hoyt, “Cowboy†James Storm, Adam "Pacman" Jones, Voodoo Kin Mafia (BG James and Kip James), “The Guru†Sonjay Dutt, Team 3D, Tomko, “The Fallen Angel†Christopher Daniels, the maniacal Judas Mesias and the official “iMPACT!†theme!

As announced for last night on iMPACT!, the main event will be Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash vs. Sting and a Mystery Partner. The TNA World Title will be on the line. TNA has hyped that Sting's partner is "Qualified" and has held world titles in every company he worked for. Booker T could be a possibility.

For those looking to see a nice set of Karen Angle pictures, you're in luck. She is currently doing a photo shoot for the TNA Knockouts section of the website and judging by the preview, it should be hot!

I hope to got that the mystery partner is Booker and that Angle's injury isn't too serious...

 

[Soulpower]

Ron Killings vs. Tiger Mask

That's going to be.... different. And probably not in a good way.

 

[ROHisWrestling]

Well, Angle suffered a neck injury...this could be the beginning of a looong list of injuries for Angle. I knew this would happen...

Im really looking forward to getting that "Meltdown" CD, im telling you guys right now, the best thing about TNA is definately their theme songs! (Especially The Motor City Machine Guns theme)

 

[wwe_fanatic]

I can't see Styles on that CD

 

[xtremebadass]

TNA's New CD=OWNED!

 

[JHar888]

Wow, thank God TNA vs. Jap has finally kicked off. Too bad it won't be on TV.

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

Well, the long road of agony for Kurt Angle has started. Knowing his previous condition, any neck injury can't be good.