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Former Major League Baseball player José Canseco expressed on Twitter that he is trying to get the attention of TNA President Dixie Carter, while chatting it up with Riddick Bowe on Twitter. Bowe reportedly is trying to get into professional wrestling as well.

Riddick sent the following message to Canseco and Robbie E on Twitter yesterday:

"@RobbieEImpact what's up partner. Being we have same manager. How do I become a bro and your tag team partner. U need a tough guy partner"

Canseco replied back with the following:

"@RobbieEImpact what's up bro. When u coming to Vegas. Ask @TNADixie to get me in tna. I will be your bodyguard"

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- TNA Knockouts Champion Mickie James, born August 31, 1979, is celebrating her 34th birthday today. BFG Series competitor Jeff Hardy, born August 31, 1977, is celebrating his 36th birthday today.

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Beginning with the 2013-2014 TV season that will kick off this Fall, the Nielsen company will begin counting households that don't watch TV traditionally (i.e. over the air antennas, cable, etc.) but instead stream their programming.

What this means is that the overall average number of homes that will be accounted for will be greater (an estimate at TVByTheNumbers.com suggests 1.5 million new homes) overall, so ratings are expecting to drop a little across the board, since Nielsen's system measures the percentage of homes watching specific TV programming in comparison to the amount of TVs being viewed at that time. So, WWE and TNA programming will drop a slight amount in the ratings, even though the homes don't technically receive USA Network, Spike, etc. but have been added to the base of potential homes that could be watching their programming.

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TNA X-divison champion TJ Perkins, better known as Manik born Teddy James Perkins September 3, 1984 is celebrating his 29th birthday today. Happy Birthday To TJ Perkins!

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TNA has launched the Bound For Glory mini-site at . The mini-site features up-to-date show information, ticket information, highlights from past events and more. BFG takes place on October 20 in San Diego, California.

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- TNA President Dixie Carter recently spoke with The Ministry of Slam. Here are some highlights from the interview:

Signing MMA Fighters such as Quinton Rampage Jackson and Tito Ortiz:
"I’ve gotten criticism for bringing these guys in but when you’re looking for talent and there’s only two teams, where do you go to get your star players from? You’re going to mostly look to each other and then every once in a while, you’ve got to build your own talent which takes a lot of time.

So here are two guys that are major superstars. Both come from wrestling backgrounds, and both are training their butts off right now to be in the ring. I think it’s a great way of trying to find some superstar talent and not having to take so many years to try to grow somebody’s stardom. Both of these guys are so well-known and they love professional wrestling. They're committed and they're training, and I’m excited for people to see their potential. I think it’s a great way of looking for new talent, and talent that have never been seen before in our world."

Recent releases from the company:
"Well, I think the fact that you let talent go is not any indication whatsoever of any problems. I think part of our problem is that we didn’t turn the roster often enough. We only have one show so if we don’t have people on the show all the time. we are not in the position to have them sitting at home and being paid and not working. I think we have to get some more programming.

We have to be able to do that to where we can shift and make talent appear fresh, but going to another show versus sitting people at home. I think it’s been a long time coming. I know that our competitor lets people go constantly. We had not done it in a long time, and I think because we had not done it in a long time, that it raised some eyebrows.

It’s time for us to bring in some new faces, and we've got some exciting faces that will be appearing in the next several months. It’ll freshen things up somewhat. It’ll freshen up the people who are still on the roster and it’ll give the fans new and unique matches that they’ve never seen before. Like always, I’m sure some of the people that are no longer with us will return at some point – I’m hopeful for that. I think it’s a good healthy state of where we’re going and how we need to grow."

On Bully Ray and Aces & 8s:
"Bully Ray in my opinion has really stepped up and become a formidable singles champion. He’s done outstanding work. A lot of the young guys have come along under the Aces & Eights banner very quickly. I love the reformation of the Main Event Mafia; I love the younger members in there stepping up to represent our company. I think there’s going to be some interesting TV in the coming weeks."

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- TNA Impact Wrestler Jay Bradley is now accepting independent pro wrestling bookings via Bill Behrens at SBIBookings.com.

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- Hulk Hogan recently posted the following tweet on his official Twitter account:

"Come help us bodyslam cancer through a table. Sept.14 Melbourne Fl at the Melbourne. Auditorium .bell time 7pm. HH"

Speaking of Hogan, he also tweeted the following, which contains a link to a video of a Jimmy Hart hotel rave:

"New Video: Whatever Jimmy Hart is on, he either took too much or not enough -> #Afrojack #hogansbeach HH"

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The AJ Styles promo on last week’s Impact is rumored to have been created by Styles himself according to a report by the Wrestling Observer. Styles reportedly asked for TV time to run a promo because he felt his loner character needed to explain his random babyface turn.

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- Former TNA star Brooke Hogan has officially been removed from the company website's roster page.

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- Hulk Hogan recently spoke with STLtoday.com. Here are some highlights from the interview:

Early obstacles with TNA:
"Communication was tough. The creative people were kind of a wild card. It was a situation where we all sat in a meetings and agree on creative directions. ... We would agree on stuff, then I would sit back and watch the show and it was completely different than what we talked about earlier in the production meetings. ... Those were the biggest hurdles I had in the beginning was why this perfect little unit wasn't functioning as planned. The biggest obstacle was keeping people from going into business for themselves."

His relationship with Vince McMahon:
"On a personal level we are fine. Business is business with Vince. At the end of the day, I'm not working there. Basically, Vince does what's best for business for him. ... On a personal level, Vince will give you the shirt off his back and I know that."

Comparing his babyface character to John Cena's:
"I don't think you can compare the two. Everyone has their time and their moment, and the business changes on a daily basis. What we're talking about today might not be relevant a week from now.

"The John Cena I watch on TV, and know, started out being a Hulkamaniac when he was a kid. He said he fell in love with the wrestling business and had certain favorites and at the end of the day, simply because he is such a great performer in the ring and that he has been around so long. The last time I was in the WWE, he was just starting, which was about 10 years ago. It's taken that long to develop his character — for him to be the man — for him to be one of the biggest leaders of all time of this business. And whether the fans boo him or whether the fans cheers for him, at the end of the day, they are loyal to him because he is a constant. They know he will deliver. He is going to always be there, and he is going to outperform anybody else around.

"I think there is a lot of respect involved and whether (the fans) like him or hate him, they believe in him and respect him."

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- Jeff Jarrett will be appearing at The Great Muta's Wrestle-1 event in Tokyo, Japan on October 6th. The promotion had their first show over the weekend.

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Former TNA Wrestler Christian York was recently interviewed by Chad Dukes of the chad dukes wrestling show. Below is a quick recap.

York on his release from TNA:

“It was the same time everyone else was getting released, they just called, I guess it was like July 2nd or 3rd or something, said ‘they gotta give you your release.’ I hadn’t heard back from them at all in a while, in May whenever I worked for them last, it was just, they had to let me go. They had to make budget cuts. When they have nothing that they can do for ya, they can’t fit you into the stories, you’re just sitting at home collecting a paycheck they’re gonna have to make a budget cut. That was just the way it was.”

If he feels he got a fair deal:

“I don’t know if I’d say I didn’t get a fair shake, I don’t think I got to live up to the potential that I think I have. I think maybe in the beginning they were just testing the waters with me to see if I could get over. I really have no idea because I never got any feedback. I thought I was having some good matches with people, especially with Jeff and Bobby Roode, had some good stuff. Then all of the sudden you don’t show up for TV anymore, you’re just sitting at home collecting a paycheck. I was doing house shows and stuff but that was it. I was just grateful that they gave me a shot.”

York on the current state of TNA:

“To be honest, I think the company’s just trying to get through, so you have to make changes. WWE has to make changes with what they want to do the day of the show. You can’t just say this is how it’s going to be and six months from now this is how we’re going to get there, because things change. Guys get injuries, it’s ever changing. The guys sitting at home, everybody has the answers, right? The ones that don’t do it, everybody has the answers, and everybody thinks it’s easy, but it’s not. To try and run a company, that’s trying to do something that big, that’s not an easy thing to do. You have a lot of outside things going on, it’s not just about wrestling.”

His thoughts on Bobby Roode:

“The guy I like, I like Bobby Roode. I think Bobby Roode is an awesome talent. I really do. I think he can have a good match with anybody and he gets the job done.”

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In what appears to be part of OVW's Breakfast Club themed Saturday Night Special this past Saturday, both Rob Terry and Lei'D Tapa looked to be dressed as a Gothic Outcast character (Tapa) and her muscle (Terry). They are unique characters to say the least!

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- TNA Knockout Velvet Sky is currently featured on the cover of Models Mania magazine and has been named Woman of the Year:

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- Hulk Hogan recently spoke to St. Louis Live and was asked about TNA's current product. He said:

"The majority of our time we stay consistent with storylines. I think we are really, really consistent with delivering the action and keeping the business in the ring as much as possible. There are certain times where you can watch a quarter hour and minute-by-minute and see where the girls are on there and doing certain things in the background, having a certain conversation. That works. We try not to go against the grain. But the majority of the time the people want the action in the ring and we try to be really consistent with that, and that's what we are trying to do."

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- TNA's 500th episode of Impact Wrestling will air on Spike TV on November 7th of this year.

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TNA Wrestler Bully Ray recently plugged TNA's Impact Wrestling: No Surrender stop in St. Louis Jill Moon of The Telegraph. In the interview he also dropped a hint that he may be having a "Divorce Party" for recently departed TNA star Brooke Hogan.

On his divorce party, Bully said:

“Brooke Tessmacher is hotter than Brooke Hogan; I’m gonna have a huge big divorce party, with girls, strippers, maybe a few dudes,” he said. “Who knows?”

On the differences between TNA and the WWE:

“TNA offers a more mature wrestling product, along with the hottest girls out there; we are PG-13, not PG,”

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TNA Wrestler AJ Styles was recently interviewed by DJ Brando ofU-Rock 99.1 to plug the TNA Impact Live event stop in Joplin, MO. Below is a quick recap:

On what's it like to be a wrestler for a living:

"It's having one of the coolest jobs ever. I mean, you actually get to go to work and enjoy what you are doing. Not a lot of people can say that. I'm blessed."

On being TNA's first ever grand slam champion:

"I've won every belt except for the women's title obviously. It's quite an accomplishment and it just goes to show you that hard work does pay off. It's really cool to say I'm the first guy to do that."

How he gets mentally focused for a match:

"I just focus and start to think about what is going on. There are times when you get so nervous, you start getting those butterflies. It's a good thing for me anyway, I love getting those butterflies and being excited to go out there and put on a great show. I wish i could really tell you what exactly goes through my mind."

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- Larry Nickel of CBS Sports 920 spoke with Hulk Hogan. Here are a few highlights from the interview:

Working with his daughter Brooke:
"I love working with my daughter Brooke, she doesn't work with TNA anymore. She lives in Dallas, Texas now, she's getting ready to marry a Dallas Cowboys football player, so she switched gears on all of us pretty quick."

WWE's Real Americans:
"Jack Swagger, he's a great amateur wrestler, but he's a bad guy. The other guy, he's from a foreign country, so how could you be a real American if you're a bad guy from a foreign country? I think ol' Zeb Colter's up to no good, brother."

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WWE star Chris Jericho, who is currently on tour with his band Fozzy, spoke with Live Audio Wrestling to promote an upcoming show this Sunday in Toronto.

Jericho spoke in detail about a variety of topics, but most interesting were his comments on the likes of Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and Sting still being used by TNA.

Thoughts on TNA product:
"TNA has to do something different. I think the worst move they’ve made was Hogan and Bischoff and Sting. Nothing against those guys, but we’ve seen it so many times. It’s the third go-around for those guys now in the last 15 years. There’s people out there, revolutionary people, that can take it in a different direction. They’ve gotta get some different minds and some different faces and start working from within. That’s just my opinion. I think that they’re happy doing what they’re doing. They never get any bigger, they never get any smaller. If that’s what you’re into, that’s fine, but for me, I always want to take things to the next level and take some chances. If you don’t, and you’re just doing the same thing over and over again, then it gets boring. Good luck to them. I hope they do survive."

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In an interview with 4th and Pain, Austin Aries discussed a number of topics including what would happen if AJ Styles left TNA:

"That's news to me. I wasn't aware. I don't know if there would be a huge impact. I think one thing that both companies and every successful company has is you need to have depth. And football teams are the same way. If a guy goes down, a guy's gotta step up, and if AJ Styles will leave, really the only place that he's been, his career, where he's made his name, I think there will be guys that will step up and fill that void.

That being said, anytime you lose a guy as talented as AJ, who has a passion and a dedication for what he does, it's always gonna weaken you a little bit. But I'm pretty confident that at some point everybody's replaceable. We've seen it time and time again in wrestling. We've seen some of the biggest names jump other places and... hopefully that's all hypothetical, hopefully they could channel it out and AJ continues his amazing career at a place that he helped build and that is TNA Impact Wrestling. I know everybody would like to see him stay and compete and have a successful career there, but at the end of the day, he's got to do what's best for him and his family, and support him in that decision."

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Jay Bradley just did an interview on 411Mania with former TNAsylum Writer, Justin Watry. In the interview, he discussed a number of TNA topics. Here are the highlights:

Since you were in the trenches for Gut Check, how do you respond to online criticism over the entire "judging system" used for the participants earning a contract or not?

First, I don't think the Internet wrestling community will ever be satisfied with any wrestling product or company. The online opinion isn't always the same opinion as the decision makers. There's more than just wrestling involved in this business. Looks, uniqueness, marketability, professionalism are just a few things also looked at. This business isn't like MLB or NBA where talent alone gets you a job or spot.

Around this same time, TNA began releasing many talents, going on the road full-time, and making other changes. As a wrestler, how do you keep your focus during all of this?

Being released is part of this business. Everyone has a limited shelf life with whatever company they are with, so it's often inevitable. All I can do is focus on me, focus on being the best I can be. If you're good for business, if you're marketable, professional that goes a long way coupled with strong work ethic.

Last week, you announced your availability for independent booking on Twitter. A few wrestling websites took that as you were being released from TNA. However, you made it clear you were still with the company. With that being said, is this a new change in philosophy allowing wrestlers to accept outside projects? Explain.

Per my contract with TNA, I've always been able to take outside bookings and appearances subject to TNA approval. I simply wasn't pursuing them much due to concentrating my efforts at OVW and TNA. Now I'm branching out more and taking bookings again. I have a few lined up, including some possible international appearances. If anyone is interested, feel free to contact me.

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