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mass 04 · « **Reply #925 on:** July 03, 2011, 02:52:40 PM »

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/06/27/1104520?sac=Home

CARTHAGE - Prosecutors hope to wrap up the drug case against professional wrestler Jeff Hardy this week.

A judge Monday was supposed to hear the results of a review of whether Hardy should be accepted into an inpatient substance abuse addiction program in lieu of jail time. However, the hearing was postponed because of scheduling conflicts with a civil case that needs to use the courtroom.

Assistant District Attorney Warren McSweeney said Judge James Webb put the case on stand-by, and Hardy is likely to be called back to court some time Thursday.

In April, Hardy's lawyer said his client was working with Moore County's Sentencing Services program to pursue a treatment program as an alternative to serving jail time.

Hardy, 33, is charged with trafficking in opium, two counts of possession with intent to sell or deliver a controlled substance, maintaining a dwelling to keep a controlled substance, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Lawmen found 260 Vicodin prescription painkillers, 180 Soma prescription muscle relaxants, 55 milliliters of anabolic steroids, powder cocaine residue and drug paraphernalia when they searched Hardy's house outside of Cameron on Sept. 11, 2009.

At Hardy's last court hearing, Becky Carlson, the county's sentencing services administrator, told the judge Hardy was borderline in his need for a 28-day inpatient treatment program, though she had only formed an initial opinion.

mass 04 · « **Reply #926 on:** July 09, 2011, 02:04:00 PM »

TNA KNOCKOUT out of action
Sarah "Sarita" Stock posted the following on her Facebook page last night:

"Due to a facial paralysis that I recently suffered, I was unable to wrestle yesterday in Pachuca nor today in Arena Mexico. I'm focusing on my recovery and I offer a sincere apology to everyone."

mass 04 · « **Reply #927 on:** July 09, 2011, 02:10:31 PM »

pwtorch

TNA will be taking Impact on the road to Huntsville, Ala. on Thursday, August 25. The TV taping will be held at the Von Braun Center, where TNA held its first event in 2002.

TNA will begin a regular schedule of TV tapings away from Orlando, Fla. starting with Huntsville next month. Universal Studios is listing four sets of TV tapings prior to the taping in Huntsville:

-- July 11 & 12 following Destination X PPV
-- July 25 & 26 leading to Hardcore Justice PPV
-- Aug. 8 & 9 following Hardcore Justice
-- Aug. 22-24 prior to No Surrender PPV (tentative)

mass 04 · « **Reply #928 on:** July 09, 2011, 06:52:50 PM »

According to a report by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, while making an appearance at the E3 convention to promote his new video game, Hulk Hogan was overheard blaming the quality of Impact Wrestling on Vince Russo when people or regular fans would say to him how bad the show was.
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when in doubt, blame Russo.

yates fan · « **Reply #929 on:** July 09, 2011, 06:56:44 PM »

russo does know how to take a great show and make it suck.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #930 on:** July 09, 2011, 06:58:38 PM »

Quote from: yates fan on July 09, 2011, 06:56:44 PM

russo does know how to take a great show and make it suck.

I never understood why people seem to think he's got some kind of talent... He's never really made any product "better".

Montague · « **Reply #931 on:** July 09, 2011, 07:49:36 PM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on July 09, 2011, 06:58:38 PM

I never understood why people seem to think he's got some kind of talent... He's never really made any product "better".

WCW thought they’d pulled a fast one on Vince when they “stole” Russo from the Fed.
One of the office guys was bragging to Larry Zbyszko backstage that they learned about McMahon’s “secret weapon…” a guy from Long Island.
He went on to say, “And, Larry, the best part is…he wasn’t even under contract with WWF. We stole him right out from Vince’s nose!”

Larry’s common sense reply:
"The reason this guy wasn’t under contract with the Fed is…THEY DON’T NEED HIM!!! If he was that important to the show, McMahon would have him locked down."

Bobby Heenan claimed that Russo submitted lots of ideas, and Vince took the two or three best ones. Then, he ended up modifying/tweaking them so much that they often bore little resemblance to Russo original version.

If you want to know EXACTLY what Russo is capable of, look at the last 18 months of WCW. That was pure, unfiltered Vince Russo (with the exception of the last 6 months, during which he sat out with a concussion).

tu_holmes · « **Reply #932 on:** July 09, 2011, 07:51:14 PM »

Quote from: Montague on July 09, 2011, 07:49:36 PM

WCW thought they’d pulled a fast one on Vince when they “stole” Russo from the Fed.
One of the office guys was bragging to Larry Zbyszko backstage that they learned about McMahon’s “secret weapon…” a guy from Long Island.
He went on to say, “And, Larry, the best part is…he wasn’t even under contract with WWF. We stole him right out from Vince’s nose!”

Larry’s common sense reply:
"The reason this guy wasn’t under contract with the Fed is…THEY DON’T NEED HIM!!! If he was that important to the show, McMahon would have him locked down."

Bobby Heenan claimed that Russo submitted lots of ideas, and Vince took the two or three best ones. Then, he ended up modifying/tweaking them so much that they often bore little resemblance to Russo original version.

If you want to know EXACTLY what Russo is capable of, look at the last 18 months of WCW. That was pure, unfiltered Vince Russo (with the exception of the last 6 months, during which he sat out with a concussion).

The "New Blood" group was the ONLY thing that Russo did that didn't suck.

Everything else was garbage.

Russo is horrible.

Captain Equipoise · « **Reply #933 on:** July 09, 2011, 09:26:49 PM »

Quote from: Thin Lizzy on June 27, 2011, 08:59:47 AM

Abyss has a Twitter page. Lol!

Have you seen that guy's face?!?! at 350 , 6"10 I would burst out in laughter if he threatened me, hhahahaha

funk51 · « **Reply #934 on:** July 10, 2011, 03:01:49 PM »

the tna weekly 3 man x matches are great those guys are incredible.

Evo · « **Reply #935 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:22:15 PM »

Quote from: Montague on July 09, 2011, 07:49:36 PM

WCW thought they’d pulled a fast one on Vince when they “stole” Russo from the Fed.
One of the office guys was bragging to Larry Zbyszko backstage that they learned about McMahon’s “secret weapon…” a guy from Long Island.
He went on to say, “And, Larry, the best part is…he wasn’t even under contract with WWF. We stole him right out from Vince’s nose!”

Larry’s common sense reply:
"The reason this guy wasn’t under contract with the Fed is…THEY DON’T NEED HIM!!! If he was that important to the show, McMahon would have him locked down."

Bobby Heenan claimed that Russo submitted lots of ideas, and Vince took the two or three best ones. Then, he ended up modifying/tweaking them so much that they often bore little resemblance to Russo original version.

If you want to know EXACTLY what Russo is capable of, look at the last 18 months of WCW. That was pure, unfiltered Vince Russo (with the exception of the last 6 months, during which he sat out with a concussion).

Quote from: tu_holmes on July 09, 2011, 07:51:14 PM

The "New Blood" group was the ONLY thing that Russo did that didn't suck.

Everything else was garbage.

Russo is horrible.

Agreed on both...

Tna is showing signs of getting back to how it was when I actually wanted to watch it.

The Sting/Joker gimmick is average at best, but the x-div revival is looking better every week.

mass 04 · « **Reply #936 on:** July 11, 2011, 10:04:50 AM »

TNA Destination X PPV news & notes

-- A.J. Styles defeated Christopher Daniels in a near-30-minute PPV main event playing off the long history of Styles vs. Daniels matches in TNA and other promotions.

-- Brian Kendrick captured the X Division Title from Abyss after a run-in by Immortal "crashing the X Division PPV party" and X Division wrestlers fighting off Immortal.

-- Alex Shelley became the new #1 contender to the X Division Title by winning the Ultimate X match.

-- Austin Aries "won a TNA contract" by defeating Low-Ki, Jack Evans, and Zema Ion in a four-way match.

-- In a battle of long-time rivals, Rob Van Dam beat Jerry Lynn in a 17-minute match positioned fifth out of eight matches on the card.

-- U.K. wrestler Mark Haskins was revealed as Doug Williams's mystery opponent. Haskins, who was on TNA's U.K. tour in January, lost to Williams in an eight-minute match.

-- Announcing line-up: Mike Tenay and Jeremy Borash (filling in for Taz) were on commentary, So Cal Val handled backstage interviews, and Christy Hemme was ring announcer.

pwtorch

mass 04 · « **Reply #937 on:** July 11, 2011, 03:52:09 PM »

Generation Me (Jeremy and Max Buck), requested their TNA releases yesterday and have received them. The team officially finished up at the Destination X PPV.

mass 04 · « **Reply #938 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:56:27 PM »

Another Release From TNA Wrestling
by TNAWrestlingNews.com Staff on 07/11/2011 - 05:18 PM

TNA Wrestling has released Orlando Jordan.

It is said to be a budgetary move.

We hope to have confirmation on this shortly.

http://www.tnawrestlingnews.com/headlines/312425847.shtml

mass 04 · « **Reply #939 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:58:26 PM »

Big spoiler for this weeks show

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Sting defeated Mr. Anderson to become a Five Time TNA World Champion. This was Anderson’s first title defense since winning the title at Slammiversary. Both men used each other's finishers at points during the match. Later in the match, referee Brian Hebner was knocked out. Bully Ray came out, while still wearing his tuxedo, and attacked Sting. The lights went out and one of the clowns from earlier was in the ring attacking Anderson and Ray with a baseball bat when the lights came back on. The lights went out again and when the lights came back on, the clown and Ray disappeared. Sting picked up Anderson and hit the Scorpion Death Drop to win the match. As Sting celebrated with the title, the clown was on the stage and unmasked himself to be Kurt Angle

mass 04 · « **Reply #940 on:** July 14, 2011, 08:26:23 AM »

Former TNA, WWE and ECW star, Kid Kash posted the following on his official Twitter page:

"HI Guys, ITS OFFICIAL i have just signed back with TNA @IMPACTWRESTLING"

mass 04 · « **Reply #941 on:** July 14, 2011, 10:10:40 AM »

Hulk Hogan held a meeting with TNA talent on Tuesday before the Impact Wrestling tapings. According to Jason Powell of Prowrestling.net, Hogan stressed that the wrestlers "need to step up their games when it comes to storytelling in the ring", something that has been mentioned in prior meetings.

Dixie Carter was also part of the meeting asking if anyone had any questions. We are told the wrestlers were not very receptive to the meeting and declined to ask anything when Carter gave them the opportunity to do so. It should be noted that TNA creative writers Vince Russo and Matt Conway did not attend the meeting. Various talent in TNA took that as a sign that Russo may not be on the same page as Hogan, but a lot of that was looked at as pure speculation as it hasn't been revealed why Russo didn't attend the meeting.

funk51 · « **Reply #942 on:** July 14, 2011, 10:18:02 AM »

Quote from: mass 04 on July 14, 2011, 10:10:40 AM

Hulk Hogan held a meeting with TNA talent on Tuesday before the Impact Wrestling tapings. According to Jason Powell of Prowrestling.net, Hogan stressed that the wrestlers "need to step up their games when it comes to storytelling in the ring", something that has been mentioned in prior meetings.

Dixie Carter was also part of the meeting asking if anyone had any questions. We are told the wrestlers were not very receptive to the meeting and declined to ask anything when Carter gave them the opportunity to do so. It should be noted that TNA creative writers Vince Russo and Matt Conway did not attend the meeting. Various talent in TNA took that as a sign that Russo may not be on the same page as Hogan, but a lot of that was looked at as pure speculation as it hasn't been revealed why Russo didn't attend the meeting.

more wrestling and less storytelling is needed.

mass 04 · « **Reply #943 on:** July 15, 2011, 02:52:49 PM »

prowrestling.net

Trudy Taylor, the wife of former TNA head of talent relations Terry Taylor, died on Thursday following a long bout with cancer.

mass 04 · « **Reply #944 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:02:35 PM »

pwinsider

As we noted yesterday here on the website, Matt Morgan underwent MRIs on his lower back yesterday. The TNA star has been dealing with spasms of late that have been increasingly painful.

Morgan is expected to receive the results within the next few days.

mass 04 · « **Reply #945 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:57:32 PM »

pwtorch

Jeff Hardy's next scheduled court date in Moore County Superior Court is September 8, according to the North Carolina court system's public records.

In late June, it appeared Hardy's case would be wrapped up. A judge was scheduled to rule on whether Hardy could be admitted to a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of jail time stemming from his drug possession-related arrest.

Instead, the case appears to be continued to the near-two-year anniversary of Hardy's arrest on September 11, 2009 that set in motion the ongoing legal process.

In April of this year, Hardy's case was continued after a drug counselor became involved in the case to assess whether Hardy should undergo a drug treatment program. The assessment was at the initial stages, which caused the case to be continued to June.

The list of felony and misdemeanor charges Hardy is faced with is as follows:
Count 1 - Felony drug trafficking, Two felony charges of possession of a Schedule III controlled substance or drug.

Count 2 - Felony possession of cocaine, Felony maintaining a dwelling for redistribution of controlled substances.

Count 3 - Misdemeanor Possession of drug paraphernalia.

Count 4 - Conspiracy to traffic opium (newly added January 2010).

mass 04 · « **Reply #946 on:** July 20, 2011, 05:27:12 PM »

PWInsider.com is reporting that TNA Knockout Sarita is still recovering from facial paralysis as she wore a protective face mask at this past weekend's WWC Aniversario 2011 events in Puerto Rico.

mass 04 · « **Reply #947 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:00:21 AM »

Steve Austin via Twitter:

WWE should sign Samoa Joe as soon as his TNA contract is up. One of my favorite workers in today’s game. Needs a full green light push.

mass 04 · « **Reply #948 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:01:56 AM »

In an interview with the Albanyherald.com, “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair says he is ready for another match. Next opponent? “I don’t know for sure, but it will be either Sting or Kurt Angle,” Flair said about the prospective opponent in his comeback match. “It just depends on whoever wins between them on Aug. 6. You got the scoop right there, brother.”

mass 04 · « **Reply #949 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:09:13 AM »

From TMZ.com:

The questionable “Checking the Oil” wrestling move is NOT A MYTH … so says Hulk Hogan — who tells TMZ he was once on the wrong end of the violating technique from 7’4″ Andre the Giant!!!

Hulk’s story backs up the claim made by TMZ’s Mike Walters — that wrestlers will press a finger on the bottom end of an opponent in an effort to throw them off their game … aka “Checking the Oil.”

According to Hulk, who was at LAX yesterday, Andre would oil-check people “all the time” — and the worst part about it … HIS FINGERS WERE HUGE!!!