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Darren Young has just came out as gay to TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/15/darren-young...-superstar-gay/ I would guess TMZ had heard something about him or WWE and Darren Young set it up but I can't imagine they are hanging about Airports asking about gay wrestlers.

Will be interesting to see if the WWE mentions this on screen, they seem to treat TMZ like a big deal whenever they run stories on them.

It's hilarious to see the apparent role reversal that Ben Askren and Johny Hendricks have done since their amateur wrestling days, Askren was a much loved exciting wrestler with his "funky" style, now he's considered boring and embraced his inner heel. Hendricks was someone who wouldn't mind cheating to win a match and reveled in the fans hatred, now he's well respected quiet man who likes to knock guys out.

here's an article about their college days http://win-magazine.net/Archives/v13%20arc...gmancolumn.html

It would be interesting to know what percentage of TNA's audience buy WWE PPVs it's got to be much higher than what TNA does.

Tito Ortiz just signed with Bellator for a PPV fight with Rampage Jackson, It's probably him and Viacom will pick up the tab.

It will help a little and should have them back up to the number they had before the original switch. The first hour has been doing poorly but it should only really add a 0.2 or something.

Kevin Iole & Dan Raphael are both saying that HBO will not be working with Golden Boy any longer, most of their top fighters have moved to Showtime but this means Broner, Hopkins and anyone else will be moving there as well.

HBO will still work with Top Rank, so not only are Top Rank and Golden Boy guys not fighting on the same cards, they won't be fighting on the same network as well.

Apparently the WWE want exclusive deals with some buildings now because TNA are going on the road, I don't see why they would bother, TNA wont be running WWE sized arenas for some time, if ever.

TNA have ran the Von Braun Centre Arena, the Ocean Centre, the Knoxville Coliseum, the Macon Coliseum. TNA and WWE usually run the same buildings when TNA tapes TV and does PPVs. WWE aren't the Rolling Stones. They run the same size venues. Its just WWE gets more people in. WWE has ran the Sears Centre Arena (which will be TNAs first taping) plenty of times as well.

WWE from what I see sometimes run NBA sized arenas (which are usually 20,000 + arenas) at least every few weeks and generally don't run TV tapings in anything other than something that holds 5,000+ twice a week. I doubt TNA will be booking these sized buildings every 2 weeks or whatever, outside of house shows TNA have run maybe 5 or 6 events a year (in the US) in bigger buildings and struggled to fill them even for Bound For Glory, so I doubt they will be running 5,000 + arenas very long.

The long-awaited debut of Bellator MMA's reality competition now has a timetable and a coaching staff.

 

"Fight Master: Bellator MMA" is set for a summer debut on Spike TV. Spike and Bellator officials announced the series at a Tuesday news conference led by Spike President Kevin Kay and Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney.

 

The coaches and trainers for the series, which will feature 32 welterweight fighters, will be former UFC champion and Hall of Famer Randy Couture, acclaimed coach and trainer Greg Jackson, former UFC champion Frank Shamrock and former Bellator champion Joe Warren.

 

Each of those coaches will lead four separate camps. The fighters will live and train together within the camps. According to Tuesday's announcement, the fighters will choose which camp they want to be a part of

"All Road Impact Tapings To Be LIVE

After Dixie Carter said Impact Wrestling will be going on the road permanently, alot of people on this site were wondering if it was going to be live each week or one live and one taped. I sent Dixie Carter a message on facebook asking if we would be getting Live Impacts or one Live and one taped Dixie replied to my faceook message and sent me this message today.

 

Dixie Carter

Andrae- thank you for your question- we will continue to be LIVE. Thanks for supporting IMPACT"

 

Story from TNAsylum.com.

Sounds more like she was dodging the question a little.

Apparently the WWE want exclusive deals with some buildings now because TNA are going on the road, I don't see why they would bother, TNA wont be running WWE sized arenas for some time, if ever. They did the same with WCW in the early 90's but they were much bigger and obviously had Turners backing, so they were a viable threat.

What viewing figures did UFC 100 do in the UK?

probably not much wasn't it between Setanta going bust and them signing with ESPN?

Larry Merchant will be calling his last fight on HBO this Saturday, he's getting replaced by Max Kellerman and one of the televised undercard fights was called off due to "Poonsawat Kratingdaenggymed" failing a blood test, reported to be HIV, what a way to find that shit out.

Great news on Bully, hopefully he gets a TNA title run this year.

TNA IMPACT WRESTLING

GreenwichTime.com is reporting that since Linda McMahon's first Senate run in 2010, her and husband Vince have lost over a half BILLION dollars due to the drop of the company's stock price.

In 2010, the price was $18.64 a share. At the current $7.86 a share, the value of their 46 million shares has dropped to a little over $360 million, down from almost $860 million.

 

This is opening up Linda to criticism from her opponents, who say she let down WWE shareholders by giving up her position as CEO to run for US Senate since the stock price has dropped so steeply since she left her former position

From PWInsider and here's the article http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/...00M-3742259.php

Aye but even just him sending out a few tweets (just checked and he has nearly 7 million followers) will have a lot more people knowing about a fight than they would normally (De la Hoya has just over 300,000 for a comparison)

Also I'm pretty sure Snooki (the bint from Jersey Shore) just ran a successful Boxing card which would have been greatly helped by her being a celebrity.

Rapper 50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson - recently started up The Money Team Promotions (TMT) with his close friend Floyd Mayweather, and he seems intent on shaking up the boxing industry. Like many fans of the sweet science, 50 Cent realizes the sport isn't doing too well right now, but he's confident TMT promotions will be able to take boxing into a prosperous new era.

50 Cent officially received his promoter's license in the state of New York a week ago, and he's already signed top prospects like Yuriorkis Gamboa and Andre Dirrell. The former junior Olympian says it's just the beginning, and he's confident he'll be able to sign many more big stars in the future.

"We want to change boxing," 50 Cent said during a recent interview. "The goal initially is to create a company by fighters, for the fighters, which breaks the traditional vibe of promoters taking advantage of fighters.

Going live also means they can change directions if something bombs, like the AJ/Dixie/Claire angle, last year they would have aired 3 shows or something until they realised the audience thinks it's shit, now they can change it the next week.

They also moved earlier so they wouldn't go head to head with the NFL in the autumn and winter.

I don't think the Briscoes need that long in development, they just need a decent road agent setting out their matches and getting them to tone it down, they certainly have the character from what i've seen. I could see Jay Lethal making his way back to the X Division, he's better than most of the guys they brought in the last few weeks and that Mike Mondo guy will probably go back to OVW and then a Gut Check try out in a few months.

I don't think it was Fin that wrote that, it's still a stupid idea though and would make the wrestler facing the comedy Cena impersonator look like a joke as well, they would have to get into position to "no sell" these moves and that's against someone who "should be sent back to wrestling school"

5. Davey Richards Vs Prince Devitt headline Wrestlemania

So is this the first time that Power Slam will be covering Lucha? I've not bought Power Slam in years but I might buy this, should be a laugh seeing what Fin would do to improve the WWE.

He seems quite sound on this what a fucking tit.

How did the WEC buyout go down? Did they get anyone when EliteXC crumbled I can't remember?

I think they mainly bought WEC to stop the IFL from getting a TV deal with Versus, they were exclusive to Spike for Cable TV anyway (they could have gotten on Network TV or Premium Cable like HBO)