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Source: Wrestlezone (all)

Scott Hall worked for Insane Clown Posse's Juggalo Championship Wrestling promotion in Pontiac, Michigan last night. Hall wrestled in the main event teaming with ICP's Violent J and Nosawa against The Thomasellis. This was Hall's first in-ring appearance since no-showing the TNA Turning Point PPV earlier this month. Hall also no-showed several bookings for Carlos Colon's WWC promotion in Puerto Rico. Hall was said to be in good spirits backstage and was admitting he was wrong for no-showing the TNA Turning Point PPV as well as a few recent WWC shows.

TNA's office shut down for the holidays yesterday and will be back to business as usual after New Year's.

While Senshi took up an offer from TNA to be released from the company, a decision was made for him to remain with the company to help put others over before he left.

TNA has announced an event in Austin, Texas on January 10. The company will tour the state on January 9 in Belton, January 10 in Austin, January 11 in Dallas and then January 12 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

- WWE took out a full page ad Friday in The New York Times to promote the Tribute to the Troops special on Monday night. WWE is also featuring the ad on their website.

- Chris Jericho's return to RAW on 11/19/07 is an extra on the Survivor Series 2007 DVD. Also, in the women's tag match they left Melina's slip on the apron on there but they show a different camera angle after she got in the ring which shows Victoria telling her to do it again. There's also a link to a website where fans can fill out a survey to be entered in a contest where 4 grand prize winners will receive the complete 2008 WWE DVD collection.

- Playboy.com's poll asking fans to vote on their favorite Playboy cover featuring a WWE Diva is over and surprisingly, a current TNA Knockout turned out to be the winner. The winner and the runner up were the only Divas to promote the poll as Christy and Ashley both went on their MySpace pages asking fans to vote. Below are the results:

- Christy Hemme's April 2005 cover - 119,913 votes
- Ashley Massaro's April 2007 cover - 70,378 votes
- Torrie Wilson's May 2003 cover - 41,096 votes
- Chyna's November 2000 cover - 8,002 votes
- Chyna's January 2002 cover - 2,230 votes
- Sable's April 1999 cover - 1,984 votes
- Candice Michelle's April 2006 cover - 1,870 votes
- Torrie & Sable's March 2004 cover - 1,266
- Sable's September 1999 cover - 843 votes

According to LuchaLibreOnline.com, the biggest and most reliable Puerto Rico wrestling site, WWE has signed Germán Figueroa, better known as former TNA wrestler Apolo, to a developmental contract. Apolo will be reporting to Florida Championship Wrestling at the beginning of next year.

Figueroa worked in TNA during it's beginning, and is a former NWA World Tag Team Champion with D'lo Brown. He was a part of the original incarnation of the Latin American Exchange, but no-showed a TNA pay-per-view in January 2006, shortly after the group's formation. He was replaced by the wrestler Machete at the next month's pay-per-view, who was eventually replaced by Hernandez. Apolo was released by TNA in February 2006.

Figueroa was a participant in a TNA event that took place on June 3, 2007 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Figueroa was booked to wrestle in a tag team match with Jeff Jarrett against Scott Steiner and James Storm -- Figueroa's team won the match. A sidekick applied to Steiner by Figueroa injured his trachea. After Steiner confronted respiratory problems he underwent surgery in a nearby hospital. Steiner was hospitalized for several weeks. Steiner revealed on the July 20, 2007 edition of TNA Today that he was initially given 5 hours to live by doctors, and showed off an 18-inch scar.

Figueroa has had his share of legal problems in the past year. He was arrested on May 23, 2007 for missing a child-support payment, he was released one week later after part of the alimony money was lent by his best friend. A few weeks later on June 22, 2007, Figueroa was jailed after he supposedly twisted the arm and squeezed the neck of his wife, former professional wrestler Verónica Polera, also known as Havana. The couple where traveling through a road when the incident happened. Following the incident, Polera sought refuge in the police headquarters. Polera was attended by medical personnel in the Center of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bayamón. According to the prosecutor in the case, Polera had bruises on her neck. Figueroa was subsequently arrested after a judge determined there was cause for his arrest. Figueroa was arrested and the judge established the bail amount at eight thousand dollars, which he paid later that evening.'

-- The Wrestling Elite recently conducted an interview with Chris Jericho. In the interview Jericho talked about the new WWE CD release of “Raw’s Greatest Hits: The Music.†The last time Jericho was on the show, he talked about his autobiography. The interview can be listened to on WDFN.com.

-- For those who didn’t know, the person that played Doink the Clown on RAW’s 15th anniversary episode was Matt Borne.

-- Ric Flair’s angle was changed from the original concept due to the fact that the Nature boy has his supports and detractors in the company. Many in the company don’t like the fact the Flair is going to end up beating a lot of top stars and then leaving.

After all that Ric Flair has done for the world of wrestling WWE don't like it 'cause he's gonna beat a couple of big stars but oh well. Another thing is how the hell did Chyna's playboy shoots get more votes than Candices?

 

[Travis40]

Because Chyna has a dick >_>...but yeah, that's just a little weird that her cover gets more than Candace :dunno:...I don't like the Flair Angle much either. I think it's stupid. Look, in the past 4 years look who's beaten him. Now they have him look like Superman going through the roster beating every single one of them. I don't 'like it.

 

[JHar888]

About the Playboy, probably half the people just joke around with that. And the TNA shows - when are they gonna learn to televise their events?! That would make iMPACT! look better, instead of just a crappy "iMPACT! Zone" where the fans get in for free.

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

Scott Hall can go to hell. >.>

As for Flair, it doesn't matter how much he has done for the company. He's old as sin, he looks like a rotting potato, he can't wrestle at ALL, and yet he's beating all the top young talent. It's an embarassment to WWE, to those superstars, and to professional wrestling.

 

[The Leviathan]

I think the hottest playboy issue in the list is Candice's but when it comes to cover, I think it's the Sable/Torrie one! lol...