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TNA news and notes April 12th |
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LOCKDOWN LINE-UP- Complete lineup for Sunday's Lockdown: *Christian Cage & Sting & Matt Morgan & Rhino & Kevin Nash vs. Tomko & A.J. Styles & Team 3-D & James Storm in a Lethal Lockdown match *Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe TNA title vs. Joe's retirement *Escape the Cage X division title: Jay Lethal vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Curry Man vs. Johnny Devine vs. Shark Boy vs. Consequences Creed *Gail Kim & ODB vs. Raisha Saeed & Awesome Kong *Queen of the Cage, all women start outside the cage and the first two who get in have a singles match. *B.G. vs. Kip *Booker T & Sharmell vs. Robert Roode & Payton Banks *A match where the last guy left not being handcuffed is the winner with Scott Steiner, Petey Williams, Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Eric Young, Kaz, LAX, Jimmy Rave, Lance Hoyt, Black Reign and Rellik Source: wrestlingobserver.com
HE ATTENDED! The only TNA wrestler in attendance at WWE's hall of fame ceremony was Rhaka Khan (a former WWE developmental talent). Source: gerweck.net
JOE INTERVIEW- Samoa Joe is interviewed in the Miami Herald ahead of his TNA Title match at Lockdown. Joe told Jim Varsallone, "This is an opportunity to show the world we can make a Samoa Joe championship run work in a national company." He said Angle and himself wanted to take the challenge of working a more realistic match at Lockdown. "We are a professional wrestling company and cater to wresting fans. Still, you have to try something new," he said. "Kurt wants to try it. I think I have enough crossover know-how to do it. There can be a careful balance of the two." Joe maintained that he's at an impasse with TNA on negotiating a new contract. "I'm coming close to the end of my date with TNA," he said. "The contract negotiations are a very long and involved process. We've been on the road a lot. We just have to sit down and get all the parties involved and get it settled." Joe said he's "kind of happy" with TNA as the company expands and tries new things with the current mix of talent. To read the interview, go to http://www.miamiherald.com/675/story/491716.html Sources: pwtorch.com & miamiherald.com
FOOTAGE- Brand new footage from the TNA iMPACT! Video Game will air tonight at Midnight est. on Game Trailers TV on Spike. Source: gerweck.net
SPECIAL GUEST? TNA Wrestling sent out a text message this afternoon to their TNA Mobile subscribers saying that Karen Angle will will have mystery guest at Sundady's LockDown! pay-per-view. The text message said, "No word on who she will be attending the event with". Source: lordsofpain.net
TRADEMARKED- TNA has trademarked "Cross the Line". Source: gerweck.net
AT- TNA Wrestling has announced that their "Best of 2007" DVD release will be released at Wal-Mart on April 22nd amongst other nationwide retailers. Source: rajah.com
EXPIRED! TNA has let their trademark on "Austin Starr" expire. Source: gerweck.net
ODB ARTICLE- Minnesota FOX affiliate channel 9 has a video report online on TNA Knockout and Minnesota native ODB breaking into the wrestling business. The piece features comments from ODB's mom and brother and shows early footage of her trying out for WWE's Tough Enough reality show on MTV several years ago. Go to http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=AE97CC26EC90AFBCAB8DF49DCA68F10F?contentId=6244095&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1 for the article and video. Source: rajah.com
AVAILABLE- Tickets for Saturday's TNA Lockdown Fanfest will only be available at the door from this point on. Source: gerweck.net
Credit: A1 Wrestling Newsletter
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